💀 Skeleton Archers Necromancer 💀 [update for 3.24]

Endurance: 6 (mediocre)
Map clear efficiency: 9 (very high)
Single Target damage: 9 (very high)
Budget: 6 (mediocre)

1. Mistress of Sacrifice.
2. Commander of Darkness.
3. Mindless Aggression.
4. Plaguebringer.

Major: the Brine King

Minor: Ryslatha

Both of them fully upgraded.

Kill them all.

Unique Jewels:


Cluster Jewels:


Other Jewels:

Make sure you choose useful mods for anti- bleed/poison/ignite.

Our Skeleton Archers do all the work and they are most efficient for up to 4 seconds after summoned. The summoning takes around 0.30s which feels great and definitely not burdening your gameplay. With the Fresh Meat support, the Skeletons have become really viable and comfortable to play with. Since this build is crit-based, the Fresh Meat support fits even better.

Damage scaling:


Defenses:


Uniques:


Rares:


The Skill:

Links explanation:


Keystones:


Masteries:


Spectres and Animate Guardian:

Leveling with Raging Spirits and/or Zombies is easy.

We aim to summon/position the Skeletons at places where the enemy monsters are more likely to engage them instead of us. The skeletons will attack almost instantly after summoned (unlike totems which need approximately 1+ second to get active). We use their 4 second invulnerability to also protect us from incoming directional harm such as projectiles. Chain support greatly helps with clear efficiency.

Weapon: A rare wand with +1 All/Minion Skills, 75%+ minion dmg, 75%+ minion crit can be around 3-4 divines depending on the rolls. Unfortunately these wands may scale prices really high if you want more;

Shield: Same as weapon - can go from 1d to 3d for something useful. Way more expensive if you want something special;

Body Armour: 1d to 10d. Depends on the keystone it provides. One with Eldritch Battery should be around 7~10d.

Belt: Around 1d for one with a useful corruption;

Boots, gloves and helm: between 2d and 6d for each piece. Make sure you have +2 to all Minion skill gems on the helmet;

Amulet: Around 1d to 3d for one like mine;

Rings: Should be between 3d and 5d for each. Try to find ones with increased minion damage and increased minion attack speed (Bone base).

Jewels:

-A good-rolled Fortress Covenant is around 4~5d. You can find one for 100-150c with just any roll;

-Grand Spectrums are generally cheap (20-30c per piece) but can get to 1~3d if you search for ones with reservation efficiency implicit;

-Forbidden Jewels: We do not use any forbidden jewels.

-Abyss jewels: 1d each by average.

-The Large cluster jewels are around 2~3 divine orbs each. The Medium cluster jewel is between 50c ~ 1d.

Skill and Support Gems: By average all gems should be around 2d~5d. Min-maxing on the gems is very effective - I recommend getting a 21/20 Summon Skeletons of Archers and Awakened Brutality + Awakened Vicious Projectiles.
Maximizing the gem efficiency will be approximately 10 additional divines.

OVERALL AVERAGE BUDGET (as of 3.22 Ancestors league): between 30 and 70 divine orbs.

Good:
-Relatively simple gameplay;
-Really good clear speed;
-Really good single target damage;
-Maps with Reflect don't matter;
-Maps with no regen don't matter;
-Unique.

Bad:

-Can get very expensive if you seek to maximize the performance.

Videos:


Screenshots:

Links: <- updated PoB

-Supporting the offerings with Enhance will increase the total damage and block but will be annoying to cast the offerings more often;

-If you use normal Summon Skeletons with Multistrike/Splash instead of Vicious Projectiles, the build will transform into a powerful Melee skeleton build. Clear speed will be worse but the single target damage is double. Apparently the skill as whole still kinda needs balancing (or PoB needs fix).