Necro Summoner - does Revive and Skeletal Mage worth (out vs Uber/bosses)?

Hi

On Season 3 I played a Necro Summoner, and wanted to assemble the biggest army possible (beside de typical 20

Skeleton Mastery & 20

Raise Skeleton, I had 20

Skeletal Mage and start to spent extra points in

Revive)

As a non-ladder player now, I "ressurrected" that Necro

After admit to myself that my damage really comes from

Corpse Explosion and not from my Minions,
I decided to test playing only with the

Skeleton Warrior (without creating any

Revive or

Skeletal Mage).
(I'm playing mostly "Players 1", farming high density areas - like Cows - and I don't have Enigma)

After a few games I feel no loss on my offense power, and the game seems way faster and fluid
(I assemble my "initial army" much faster, I do not spent time creating

Revive at end of each other fight, and the better, on "closed areas" my

Skeleton/Merc never keep stuck behind a

Skeletal Mage anymore )

Mages suck. In spite of a buff before, they are just a meat shield... and without much meat on them.

Revives however depend a lot on what you

Revive : succubis are nice, but the best are urdars and their cousins for the crushing blow, which are the answer for necros to DClone or Ubers or Ancients. They are a power machine, with just 1 point.

Mages look cool and this is their main advantage, they are not worth skill investment.

Revive is fine but there's no reason to put more than 1 point in it. My nec can summon 22 revives, but I rarely use them, mostly to kill Dclone. Focus on your merc, well geared Razan makes first corpse very fast and then you just blast em all. You can make Insight IG so you can spam CE and won't have to stop to pick up mana potions.

If you

Revive some heavy hitters it's a great skill and allows someone like me (a Spirit and

Spear boner) the ability to have a small army as well and takes some of the heat off my somewhat squishy

Clay Golem. But Don't sink more than one point into

Revive as you'll get more out of synergies, equipment, and skillers while

Revive gives you no bonuses back in return.

+1 on the Revives as 1 point wonder, see my post next : just did

Uber Tristram with my Bone necro solo thanks to them