You want more testing? I’ve got more testing!
Testing Chaos Skeletons vs Chaos Conjurer:
Witching Hour Cabalist - 6:45 Crucible, 13:28 SR 75-76
Chaos Pets Conjurer (modeled from Skelemental’s Chaos + Fire Conjurer) - 6:55 Crucible, 14:07 SR 75-76
Vitality Skeletons vs Vitality Conjurer:
Guardian of Death’s Gate Cabalist (taken from AlkamosHater’s Cabalist with slight devotion changes) - 5:49 Crucible, 11:35 SR 75-76
Vitality Pets Conjurer (Skelemental’s Deep SR Character but with Mogdrogen devotion route cause gotta go fast) - 7:00 Crucible, 11:57 SR 75-76
Mind you, these are just my Crucible times and they can go faster with better hands, but at what cost to survivability and intense piloting to squeeze out every last bit of DPS? The Conjurer definitely feels safer even without using Wendigo Totem because of the double Briarthorn + sheer number of item granted pets the Skeleton players don’t have access to, but comparatively speaking, it looks like Skeletons are in a good spot.
I must be too used to meme concepts like Skeleton Death Knight + Defiler and haven’t had the opportunity to see what an optimized Skeleton build would look like until I did the testing. The above post is correct about Skeletons needing Base Bleeding resist, but other than that, there’s not much I see recommending without going into the mind of an elite Crucible player and seeing how to make things faster.
But also, to the deepest bowels of Chthon with Calla for making me go through that with Skeletons.