Several Questions About Minion Master

1. Are there any tanking minions for Nightfall minion masters? Factions have Flesh Golems, but I don't really want to buy Factions just for one skill.

2. Will there ever be skill updates with new skills for Necromancers in the future, or do you usually just get the skills that come with the game?

3. Should I get Prophecies? I heard that most people preferred it over Factions and it provides many skills AND quests. The only problem is that I don't know how the population is now. Will it be hard to find groups to do quests with?

I would suggest not making a minion master. because a minion master is not a viable build to base a character around. half of the time in PvE you wont be able to summon anything anyways.

I wouldn't start a new char just to run 1 build only. I'd get bored fast. The later areas in Prophecies and Nightfall are nearly impossible to MM in. Factions is very MM-friendly pretty much throughout the entire game with all the corpse-spam.....just another reason I don't like Factions PvE, you can run the same mindless MM build in almost every mission. Prophecies/Nightfall will make sure you're not doing near the end - you'll have to change your build. On another note, Flesh Golem + Ghial's staff are not required to MM, nor will it make you any better. They're just overrated things that all newer Necros flock to cause they don't bother to try other elites such as Aura of the Lich (Prophecies) Jagged Bones (Nightfall), etc. You don't need a minion to tank for the party, the entire minion group will do that.

Prophecies is much more populated than Factions, but still has many dead spots. Nightfall is still the chapter everyone is interested in. As for skills, Prophecies is also much better than Factions.

if you have NF then prophicies and factions wouldnt be too hard for you since you have your heros

I agree somewhat with both above posters.

1) Shambling Horrors and Jagged Bones (e) are the best things to a tank you'll ever see in MMing builds that has Nightfall Only. I myself have not ventured very far in Nightfall, but in some mission in Prophecies, corpses are very hard to come by. Flesh Golem is a nice skill, but by no means the only elite that can be used for a MM. You are probably better off with Jagged Bones or Order of Undeath for MMing or Aura of the Lich (from Prophecies).

2) There will be no skills (so far there have been none at all) without a new campaign.

3) I think Prophecies has the most quests out of all three, but Nightfall seems to be a very close 2nd. The popluation isn't too bad, many people do play in Prophecies (I do from time to time). There are plenty of end-game quests after you beat Prophecies' original story. Not sure if Nightfall has or not. Factions, as I recall, does not have new quests afterwards. From time to time a new patch will bring out new quests, so keep an eye out for that.

Jagged bones may be getting hit with the nerf bat, so that's kind of like getting a new skill.

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