I would also like to know more about summoner/necro type builds!

Right now it appears they only scale from Skill level and the single node on the tree in my testing.

Which is very underwhelming. I get the impression they didnt want them to be passively strong and instead chose to use an active ability method when at max summons for each spell. Unfortunately they just dont complete. Why would I use minions which die almost instantly, Deal way less then 20% of the damage im seeing from cyclone/bleed builds which also happen to have way more survivability.

Summoning needs to be buffed badly. that is all.

Summons is usless in this game.

yea its a shame really. Hopefully we get buff at some point.

Livor Mortis at least is extremely useful, he's far tankier than the player and has an on-demand taunt.

Their AI is weird as well, for the most part i have to get right next to something for them to want to attack or they even just stand there doing nothing.

I tried summoner also but man they die so quickly (not the big guy).

Apart from Livor Mortis, the smaller ones are pretty much useless. They lack decent amount of health or survivability in general. They only seem to progress in damage and health via the nodes in the build tree and are not subject to stat changes via items. The game has just been released, the whole "summoner" bit is new - we just need to have patience, things will get better!

After 2 moths i can only said, got break because of game being useless and boring even i like it..., got max levels all summons and with good equipment i can do shit on 181+, always some summoners just staying near mob and doing nothing and cant push them to fight, 2 mortis +3 archers doing nothing, i put next 3 spells to make some progress and boss fight looks like boss always try catching me and summons in this time watching me, really funny. I dont know what they try resolve in 2 months , but after 2 maps i can say I;ll take next few moths break, this game atm is big fail.