I just want to thank you for all your Diablo II videos, I love binge-watching them on my secondary monitor while farming cows. I learn so much! I would love more content like the one where you ran for 2 hours with your necro, MFing. Keep on going with the good work!

Another thing to note when choosing what to revive, is their size! Some monsters have a larger model and can BLOCK your other summons from spreading out when you teleport around. Which forces you to move/walk after teleporting to let your army spread out. Thanks again for this wonderful informative video, keep it up!

Sirens are excellent minions if you wanna take a really hands-off approach: if you have about 10 of them the projectiles alone are just devastating and they curse for you. Snakes are another good choice where they're aggressive and hit hard with Bash.

I believe revive is a 1 point wonder

Glad I found this video. Revive was a skill I did not really know much about. Now i cannot wait to try it out,

Easy enough fix: just have the revive duration scale based on the skill level at about 20 seconds per level on the skill. With decent gear a 1 point revive would be about the same duration ~200 seconds from plus skills, but fully invested revive would be closer to 600 seconds (10m) or more. I think that would encourage players to go out, find good candidates (Ghosts) and then use them as a part of their army not just the only active part of a summoner outside of amp and CE.

Great series. Thanks! Thoughts from a long time Summon Necro 1. The Demon Bats (Dark Familiars, etc) are fantastic. In numbers (8+) they swarm faster than ghosts but also can cluster on one opponent to effectively telestomp, going from one enemy to the next in rapid succession. Nothing better than having something approaching 20 of them just murdering everything on the screen allowing corpse explosion at greater distances. 2. Cows are great for mini-Ubers, bosses and tough super uniques (and I use a combo of cows and Urdars/Maulers to take out the Ubers). I'll sometimes just open the cow portal for a source of revives when I'm early end-game (summoning skills in the high-20s and low-30s). 3. Blood Lords (frenzy minotaurs) are great telestomp (I've used them against Baal since they are usually in the Ancients Way and Worldstone Keep). And they are good for keeping you safe when you are just roaming around as they are also hyper-aggressive engaging opponents before they can get to you. They do take up quite a bit of space. 4. Most flying revives, on teleport, will fan out in a circle around your core army which is very helpful. So while hell temptressess and ilk are best, even some of the lame flying crow things can offer temporary teleport protection so your merc can engage behind them to get that first kill. 5. I have noticed that one advantage of elemental beings that are immune to the thing they shoot (like gloams) in that in many cases they seem to block/stop aimed attacks of that element. I noticed this on a theory build seeing if my Skeleton Mages could kill Baal if I teleported away from him. The cold attack kept killing the mages, but if I grabbed some cold immune revives, they seemed to form a outer ring and none of us (me or skeletons) appeared to be harmed by the cold wave, so I could hang in much longer, until Baal came close enough for physical attack. Same for the gloams. If I keep up a dozen or more doom casters around I get hit way less often, they seem to stop the lightning. I haven't done a ton of research here, doesn't seem to work with poison clouds, etc.

I find 3-5 Revives are a good number to have. I just wish that Skeleton Mastery or a Skeleton skill (regular and/or magi) synergized to increase Revive duration. By the way Flayer/Stygian enemies are absolutely terrifying to fight but are hilarious to watch as a Revive. I think I had an "Extra Fast" one at some point and it just took off into the sunset to go fight something. I'd add a cartoon dust trail to them if I could. Never did find the little blighter again for the rest of that floor.

Thanks for telling us what revives are recommended GGM! Much appreciated.

Mm, I still think gloams arent bad revives. You still have to fight other skeletal mages and snakes who will get fried by the gloams. Other good revives include the thorned hulks (especially act 5 guest monsters), snakes, corrupted rogue archers. Balrogs (or venom lords) are pretty good too. You can't revive oblivion knights, but their fighing equivalents i.e. doom and abyss knights can be revived and are pretty good. Also because they come in a multiple of elements you dont have the same issue as you mention with the gloams

Thx for the video I learn a lot. As a kid I love playing Necro and Revive was like the coolest skill of them all to revive any monster it was playing a real RP in Diablo where you can use normal monster and not just skeletons. I wish Revive could be a level 5 skill coz would be fun to start a game with just falinks then u revive better monster like Mishapen. And imagine u kill the Smith u can now revive him and u have a powerful Ox on ur side. I remember when I was watching my bro playing, he was able to have bosses like Andariel as a revived but I guessing it was just a mod. And wish there was a super rare item that could lock the duration on Revive so u can actually have monsters forever till they die. And the saddest part with Revive u wont keep the monster from other acts. I was thinking army of Beetles would be useful coz of how powerful Lightnings are and they can be massive defensive. But yeah at least Revive is a fun skill to use anytime. o3o

Your a head above the competition

Love your vids man keep up the great work I always find your vids fun and very informative 👍

Bro, you're a necromancer. Where's your body? You're the opposite of the headless horseman. Whom clearly knows alot about d2. Respect to you and this black magic on display

My suggestion for revive skill is this. Nerf hp scaling to 40% at all levels. damage the same # of revives the same Duration is now permanent.

I'm pretty sure revive charges don't cost mana. And there was an easter egg of sorts that the paladin took damage when casting revive. Not sure if that made it to D2R though

Its fun to use a summoner for cows with amp damage and corpse explosion. I can summon 17 skeletons, 11 mages, and 23 revives. It's funny to bring them back to the rogue encampment and they all start dying and there's just cow corpses all in the camp lol

Revives are great for mini-boss fights. It would be great to lengthen their duration. My clvl ~70 Necro is 20/20/20/9 when it comes to mastery/warrior/mage/revive.

Just noting here; Revive on the Harmony runeword is currently the fastest way to solo ubers from a fresh start. Current uber speedrun record utilizes it for Mephisto

on PD2 the army carries over to the next gamee, so definitely possible to code in to D2R

Revives are great for no summoning builds, for 7 points you can revive enemies that in higher difficulties can be very tanky. Level 1 revive can give you quite a number of revives as well with + necro skills gear

I personnally try to revive only flying mobs. preferance for the spectral bats like in the kalim sewer for their mobility / reaction time. Maybe you should talk about the body blocking. When you telestomp with only merc + golem + squeletons, it's ok, they instantly move to the target they wanna hit. If you add just one non flying revive, it's finished, they are body blocked til the revive decide to move from the pack. With only flyiing revive there is not this pbl / bug? But carefull it's a little bit epileptic visually to see all your revive pack expand between each teleport! >

I was looking for such guide for like 2 days and it's finally there. I like the minions which you mention and AI mechanics behind about it, the only thing what do I miss, are like explanation of perfect setup of "revived army". I am not experianced player, player d2r for 10h [as necro only, but this video helps a lot!. The "perfect setup" with like 10-20-30-40 minions would be intresing i think.

Eagerly waiting for your video on lower resist.

As someone who has connection issues I feel that revive despawn issue I lost an army of udars going for ubers and my friends had to wait another 5 minutes for me to get more revives

the leapers had a back before very early in the original d2. forgot what it was but it's like getting stuck or not dying.

Revive should be OP - keeping all monster abilities, even reviving player bodies with last skills used and items. But times ticking.

Gloams fighting gloams... reminded me of humans being human.

It would make the skill more interesting if after investing enough points you can revive a unique monster and that would take the place of like 5 normal mosters

Would 10 seconds a level really hurt I think it would be a good starting point

Since i understood iron golem stay with you game after game until it dies, i made one out of a Beast :) fanatisme aura from golem. might merc act2 with infinity for more dmg or insight for lazy ass runs. 15 skeletons are enough to zerk everything even in p3 games.

Would still like to see dolls revived. They are super fast and do nasty damage

AI-altering abilities. And then you mention stun. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the Urdar-monster type uses crushing blow AND stun…? And another thing to do to help make the revives last longer, is make the travel you did, with 2 open town portals, possible.. Make it so a town portal in one “city” doesn’t close the one in the other city. Or you’d have to run from the summoning stones to baals throne room. That’s your 3 minutes right there.. As it is now, you can only revive what’s within 30 second run-time from the stones, if you want around 1m30s usage of your revives against a boss…

How about an army of Beetles? :D Charge bolts everywhere!

On a completely different note, but related to all the summoning skills… Does magic find work with your skeleton army/revives, wolves/bear/vine/Valkyrie.. It’s not you killing the monsters..

Neato, was just about to put a point into revive.

I think they should at least decrease the mana cost and add more time as you level it.

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If I'm not mistaken there is a ring that can hold the Duration

Ok. Next skill tree druid elemental please.

Is resurrect as better than revive? What about revive on kill?

First!

Sometimes i resurrect like 18 lighting ghosts then go instakill baal.

PoE raise specter made the concept so much more spicy.

can you revive cows?

can i pla y diablo with u

I think blizzard should spice up this spell like JESUS TRICK