Ultimate Raise Spectre Necromancer Ascendancy, Bandits, and Pantheon Powers
Ascendancy
- Mindless Aggression
- Unnatural Strength
- Commander of Darkness
- Plaguebringer
Additional Information
Ascendancy points are very important for Summoner builds. In Patch 3.8.0 Blight League, the Necromancer Ascendancy was altered considerably. While each Labyrinth completed still carries considerable weight, Summoners are no longer as reliant on the Ascendancy for Minion Survivability and viability. Consequently, leveling is easier across the board and multiple types of minions can be incorporated into the same build should you desire.
- Mindless Aggression is the natural first choice for most Summoner builds. It gives a nice helping of everything we need to level smoothly; Minion Life, Damage, Movement Speed, and Attack/Cast Speed.
- Unnatural Strength is one of the most powerful nodes available in the end-game, yet it also provides a nice increase to your potency while leveling up. With the new
Raise Spectre changes in 3.8.0 Blight League, the level of your gem now sets the level of the raised spectre directly, making gem levels one of the most important stats for damage and accuracy. This node is also quite valuable when considering the 
Animate Guardian‘s mortality. - Commander of Darkness is an overall improvement to your Minions’ Damage and Elemental Resistances. You must be running an Aura for the Minions’ to receive the benefit, however, by the time you acquire this node you should be running at least
Zealotry. The Elemental Resistances do quite a lot for minion survivability, and is a major step towards ensuring that you never need to resummon your Raise Spectres. With some of the new minion nodes on the tree introduced in 3.8.0 Blight League, your minions should be extremely durable in the end-game. - Plaguebringer is the icing on the proverbial cake, granting additional damage, clear, and damage reduction whenever at least one corpse is nearby or consumed. While this node is not exceptional by itself, the alternatives — Essence Glutton, Bone Barrier, and Mistress of Sacrifice — provide very little to this build, and we have a hard time utilizing them to their utmost. Plaguebringer provides the most for our final point and rounds out the build quite nicely indeed.
Deal with the Bandits Reward
The best option for this build is to kill all the Bandits for the 2 Passive Points.
Pantheon Powers
Major Gods
- Soul of Lunaris is the best option in most situations and should be upgraded to prevent chains amongst you and your minions.
- Soul of Solaris can be a potent choice when fully upgraded for bosses such as the Uber Elder.
Minor Gods
- Soul of Gruthkul should be used for reducing incoming physical damage.
- Soul of Yugul is the best choice for Uber Elder.
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