Starter Golem Necromancer
Viability / Purpose of the Build
Pretty much the easiest and best necromancer travincal farmer with little to no gear requirements.
If you add Revives or desecrate you can probably do Uber Tristram.
Watch it in action here
Skills
See picture for skills, basically go for 20 Golem Mastery and 20 Clay Golem. That is enough for Travincal.
Suggestions to add are 10 Curse Mastery and 1pt in Amplify Damage and Decrypify. For speed you max Bloodwarp. Good additions are Revives or max Amplify Damage.
Attributes
Get as much str/dex as you need for gear, the rest into vitality. For instance get 95str for War Traveller boots and 38dex for Wizspike.
Gear
For summons its basically all about the +skills so get as many as you can.
Early Game Gear
Shop for +3 summon wand, gamble for +3 summon amulet, find a +3 clay golem. Can also make a splendor in necro head with +3 Golem.
Make a Lore helmet for another +1 and start gambling circlets for +3.
Travincal Farm Gear
To speed things up you can wear the Hustle runeword armor with a Kalans off hand and a wizardspike to top off those resist.
Use those in your main hand weapon and shield slots, use the +3 summons wand and off hand in your secondary weapon and shield slot.
Make sure to swap to these before exiting the game.
Mercenary
For merc get an A3 cold merc with a spirit paladin shield, some fcr weapon(can be spirit sword/neophyte sceptre), Stealth runeword armor and random 10fcr belt/gloves to at least hit 86fcr on him.
Leveling
Get a dagger with poison strike and stab things until level 12 while putting points into Amplify Damage until level 12, start maxing Clay Golems after that and let them do the work. As soon as you can get Golem Mastery max this.
This build works for SC and HC, for HC it's also possible going the Blood Golem route for the life returned on hit.
Farming
Even thought you can probably farm other areas with them, Travincal is where they shine.
Make sure to use the command to set Act 4 as home. Take the waypoint, run to the Temple, teleport inside, watch the council die and pick up the loot.
Patch Notes/Changelog
Created for Season 10, updated for Season 11.
Acknowledgments
TDL (and lots of other people from the Discord)