Diablo 4 PTR Patch 1.4.0 Necromancer Class Changes - Massive Minion Buffs, Bug Fixes

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Minions are back on the table for Necromancers in the upcoming Diablo 4 PTR and Patch 1.4.0, with huge incoming buffs and various bugfixes being implemented.

Diablo 4 PTR Patch Notes: Patch 1.4.0 Necromancer Class Overview

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Balance Updates

• Necromancer, Barbarian, Druid, and Sorcerer Companions now receive 100% of the player's attributes.
• Skill tags have been updated everywhere to allow more Aspects and other effects to affect more skills and abilities. Examples:
  
  Applicable «Shout» skills for Druid and Barbarian are now tagged as Shouts.
• New Chain tag for abilities like and.
• New Mobility tag for abilities that move and or teleport the player, such as or.
• More skills are now tagged as Core skills, such as Sorcerer Mastery Skills and other skills which use resources like.
• Additionally, various Aspects have been updated to account for these changes.

• The Tooltip now correctly references the defiled area for the Slow effect.

• Removed the movement speed reduction.

• This ability can now be activated while crowd controlled. Activating this ability makes the player Unstoppable.

• Reworded description to be more consistent with the use of Corpses.
• Interval reduced from 1.5 seconds to 1 second.
• Increased channeling Essence generation from 8 to 10 per second.
• Upgrades now activate when spawning corpses instead of channeling for 1 second.
• 
  
  now causes an explosion when creating a corpse or when the target dies.
• Now also generates 10 Essence when creating a corpse.

• Previous — Every 1.5 seconds, makes Enemies Vulnerable for 4 seconds.
• Now — explosions make enemies vulnerable.

• Movement Speed bonus is now on explosions instead of channeling.

• Increased spawn rate of Volatile Skeletons by 50%.
• spawn rate adjusted to match Volatile Skeletons.
• Is now categorized as a Summoning skill.

• Previous — After you have been Healthy for at least 2 seconds, you and your Minions gain 4/8/12%