Talk:Equilibrium/@comment-67.193.7.87-20180514022214/@comment-160.2.168.178-20181211101252

Short version - you've built a nekros, with all it's innate squishiness, with no pets. As you can see from the builds above mentioned by others, nekros can get very, very tanky AND keep their pets. 10hp is a drop in the bucket, when you're running with incredible armor, surrounded by minions, and constantly picking up health orbs. So, the advantage is keeping the awesome pets, getting armor, and still keeping desecrate running with no problem, as apposed to a pure desecrate build. And, if you want, you can use shield of shadows. I would use it, but pets are too stupid to keep up with the player enough for me to rely on it.

Oh, and fun fact - dead shadows also can be desecrated. XD