If I had to give one quick route from experience: go farm undead zones (crypts/catacombs), clear elite/champion packs and then do repeated boss runs. Those areas frequently drop the life, resist and damage reduction stats necros crave. Use crafting systems and vendor recipes to reroll bad prefixes, and keep an eye on seasonal or event rewards that hand out rare defensive uniques.
When I’m tired of soloing, I join a small group to tag packs — it raises drop quality and keeps my minions as meatshields while I kite. Picking up a single well-rolled chest or helm can raise your survival more than dozens of mediocre drops, so be ready to buy or craft if the RNG hates you. I tend to rotate spots every hour to avoid diminishing returns, and that usually keeps my gear steadily improving.
I usually tell people to split their farming into three tracks: early, mid, and endgame. Early on, clear lower-level crypts and elite packs until you have solid resistances and some regeneration or life steal. Midgame, focus on named dungeons and world events where uniques and set pieces drop more reliably. Endgame is where you run high-tier maps, rifts, or delve nodes to find items with rare survivability mods.
Don’t forget to target specific affixes — life, max resistance, damage reduction, block, and minion health if you rely on summons. Use vendor recipes and crafting stones to reroll unwanted stats. If a game has a trading economy, sometimes buying one or two key pieces is faster than farming for months. I’ve done that in 'Diablo III' and it saved so much time.
I get this question a lot when I’m theorycrafting builds on a late-night forum, so here’s my condensed route for farming survival gear for a necromancer.
Start with high-density undead zones — crypts, catacombs, graveyards and any named dungeon that spawns skeletons, ghouls, or wights. Those areas drop both armor with life/resist rolls and bone/totem/curse affixes that matter to the class. After that, rotate boss runs: world bosses and act bosses tend to have higher chances for legendary or unique defensive pieces. If the game has rifts, shards, or maps, push the tiers where enemy damage scales but kill speed stays comfortable; the higher tiers often unlock better defensive affixes and socketable gear.
Also don’t ignore crafting, vendors, and currency systems — rerolling prefixes, using essences or similar materials, and vendor recipes can net you perfect resistance or life-on-hit. In games like 'Path of Exile' and 'Grim Dawn' you’ll often get far better survivability by combining crafted rares with a single unique that boosts minion health or damage soak. Play around with grouping: tagging enemies in a party increases effective drops and lets you take riskier high-density spots, which are great for survival-centric items.
On a more methodical note, I like to think in terms of efficiency curves: drop rate per hour, time-to-kill, and survivability delta per item slot. So I prioritize farming locations that maximize kills per minute with decent loot tables. High spawn density crypts or horde events give more elite pack chances, which statistically produce better defensive drops. Then I switch into targeted runs on bosses and miniboss chains that are known to drop specific uniques or helm/body armors with life/resist caps.
I also monitor the game’s modifiers: magic-find equivalents, map or rift modifiers that increase rarity or item quantity, and seasonal buffs. In 'Path of Exile' it’s all about mapping efficiently and using currency to craft, while in 'Grim Dawn' the blueprint/crafting bench and faction rewards can give you perfectly-rolled pieces for survival. Finally, balance your risk: pushing too high without proper mitigation wastes time if you die often. Sometimes a little paragon or skill investment in life leech or a minion-taunt tree makes farming viable at higher tiers, which is where the best defensive gear lives.
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Minion durability often decides whether you live. Gear that boosts minion health, resistances, and block chance turns your skeletons and undead into meat shields. Look for +minion levels, +minion HP, reduced damage taken by minions, and any taunt or threat-boosting affixes so enemies focus summons instead of you. Offhands or trinkets that grant a revive-on-death or passive aura (damage reduction around you that scales with minion count) are huge.
I also slot cooldown reduction or faster cast to get my defensive cooldowns more often, and mobility—blink, short teleport, dash—so I can reposition when adds spawn or when the boss casts big AOEs. Consumables, a couple of resistance-flasks, and a final “panic” item (instant invisibility or huge heal) are the little comforts that save runs. Gear matters, but learning to kite and use summons to peel will keep me alive longer than any single legendary ever could.