Dear GGG: Zombies are lame. Simple reason as to why.

Zombies that take a corpse to consume hit like basic skeletons. Zombies that consume power charges are ok, but sustaining 10 empowered zombies takes way too much casting.

My first suggestion to fix this is simple. Double the power of zombies and lower the maximum to 5. This would make each individual zombie more impactful and lower the amount of effort it takes to maintain the maximum amount alive at once.

Giving the zombies a slam attack like they had in PoE1 would also be nice.

unfortunately

something that helps players, isn't on GGG's book.

The vision says we must progress slower, we must "invest more" to make things work

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LVSviral#3689 написал:

Zombies that take a corpse to consume hit like basic skeletons. Zombies that consume power charges are ok, but sustaining 10 empowered zombies takes way too much casting.

My first suggestion to fix this is simple. Double the power of zombies and lower the maximum to 5. This would make each individual zombie more impactful and lower the amount of effort it takes to maintain the maximum amount alive at once.

No.
I like having a small army of undead by my side. Right now the only good thing the PoE2 necro has going for it is that compared to other games we can have a very large number of active minions.

Especially after the disaster that are the specters...

Actually if you lack corpses just get the tick from the swamp in act 3 or the dread servant from the act 1 tomb. They spawn corpses pretty frequently.

GGG doesn't give a flying fuck about minion builds, so much is clear at this point. When a multi-mirror tier minion build is still outperformed by mid-high tier non-minion builds, something needs a fix.

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No.
I like having a small army of undead by my side. Right now the only good thing the PoE2 necro has going for it is that compared to other games we can have a very large number of active minions.

Especially after the disaster that are the specters...

Actually if you lack corpses just get the tick from the swamp in act 3 or the dread servant from the act 1 tomb. They spawn corpses pretty frequently.

While specters that create minions/corpses is very handy advice, the need for corpses isn't really what I'm critiquing.

Zombies from corpses have about the same power as Unearth Bone Constructs. Unearth has 20 maximum minions compared to the 10 zombies. If you empower your zombies by sacrificing corpses for power charges then you can get twice as powerful zombies to make up the total maximum power difference between the two. The issue with that is that it takes a massive amount of spell casts to maintain 10 empowered zombies. Unearth on the other hand can immediately summon as many Bone Constructs as you have corpses. The Bone Constructs also move way faster so they don't get left behind and auto die like zombies do.

Basically, Unearth is by far a better and more practical "swarm" minion skill compared to zombies. Zombies don't have much identity compared to other minions and take way too much casting management for what you get out of them. If zombies were bigger more elite units, but lower in maximum numbers then they would have their own role to shine in.