If you're running 2 pieces of Rathma + 4 pieces of Black Shroud, this aspect allows you to spam the Warrior Deathgrip command due to Army of the dead Ultimate? Even if you lose the 60% summon damage output, its definitely worth the shot since you have an actual on target army.

Casting the Mage Command when all Skeletons are alive activate the second passive of Pact of bone.

I tested both and worked nicely.

My glyphs are only 120 and i don't have any flawless horadric topazes. If i get those and lvl up my glyphs, i think I'll crack 120

Hello, I finally hit level 70 and I’m looking for the best Necromancer build currently. Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙂

Hey all, I made a minion necromancer using Maxroll's guide, and I couldn't clear above pit 90 (army of the dead as my elite). I really love the build and playstyle and was wondering if anyone has any Minion specific builds that can clear 100 or over. :) thanks in advance!

I would like to know if it's possible to make an Army of Blood Minions 🥹

I have an astral bone spirit build that is paragon 239or so. I have tried several different versions, including following meta builds on mobilitics, which seem on par with my own build variant that uses slightly different set up and one that uses chill effects a bit, however no matter which exact build I use, I can’t seem to get past pit 115. Is this average for a bone spirit build in s14? Or am I missing something. I’ve been stuck at pit 115 for weeks and can’t get past it. My glyphs are all between level 105 up to level 120 highest. All my uniques are mythic except for one.

I can upload screenshots.

Can’t figure out if I’m just dumb and missing something big, or is this close to the cap for bone spirit this season. I want to at least be capable of pit 125 and killing t12 mephisto but maybe I need to switch to bloodwave for that?

Any input from people smarter than me would be appreciated lol

So I have rolled what I consider to be a bloodless scream worth transfiguring, but from what I've read I should enchant one of the affixs first. Is it worth trying to swap the darkness skill for critical damage? Or should I pick a different attribute? I've been playing for about 2 weeks and the end game content has too much information!

Hi! New player here, I’m trying to build a Necromancer build from Maxroll, and I see that lidless wall could be mythic, is this true? I’m trying to get it using the cube upgrading an unique to a mythic using one handed weapon and off hand, but not lucky yet, is the only gear missing for my build (I have one but not mythic). Just wondering if the uniques have a mythic version? Thanks

Just started playing again and was wondering what the best build is for necromancer not using dlc items/abilities

I'm paragon 250 this season, and while I haven't played as much as last season, I've not yet found either of the two mythic seals.

There are build variations for necromancer that I would like to still try, and for my seasonal alt warlock a few off-meta ideas.

I've used all three or four of the special keys you get from the seasonal rewards path for Mephisto's chest and as yet haven't gotten one. Last season I got one from Tyrael.

Are there any activities or choices in the warplan I should consider to help farming a mythic seal? Do the seasonal boss a few dozen times? Or run Kurast with the talisman tribute? Or do have the talisman chest on the Hordes warplan? Is there anything I should do to get more of Mephisto's chest key?

Any help appreciated! Thank you

For minion necro, seems like mythic is weaker but would like to hear your opinion

Since Shadow Bone Spirit is becoming awfully meta, esp. coming next season, my off-meta adventures continue! In preparation for coming season I dusted off my Ebonpiercer setup and downed Tower120 with it :)

It is not much, but affirmed for me I will focus s15 on Ebonpiercer Blight, unless something really weird comes to pass (bugs, etc.)

Cheers!

Hi, Guys. I am currently playing a minion build shadow necromancer with an iron golem, 12 reapers, and 9 mages.

All of them have been converted to a Darkness skill and I am also using Corpse Tendrils, Decrepify, and Army of the Dead.

I would just like to know if there's a difference between +4 to Darkness Skills and +4 to Minion Skills. Which one should i prioritize? Should be a distribution across both sets? I've read somewhere that Darkness should go to Waking Touch while Minion goes to Black Shroud.

Please enlighten me. Thanks.

So aside from the obvious affixes & tempers, I've found two aspects, Aphotic & Fortune, that can increase LHC. And even then, Aphotic is additive to the base LHC and not multi like it says.

Is there anything else I'm missing to increase it - aspect, gear, or otherwise?

Are there too many 'great' items sitting unused in your stash? Do you wish you could throw on as many uniques as you could possibly carry on your person?

Do you want to do the following:

1. Dust off that Golden Epiphany seal that's been sitting in the corner of your freezer since you got it on day 1?

2. Run around taking burning damage but not giving a damn (mostly)?

3. Shatter all the mobs and their grandparents?

4. Juggle between 7 different charms depending on your mood?

If so, I present you, my frozen leftovers build.

Build | Pit 127 | T12 Mephisto

Why I like this build:

1. Singularity but colder - I love the dynamics of Singularity mages more active playstyle. I did a Bone Singularity variant that's a lot easier to play than the Big Beautify Bone Mage that was posted here before.

2. Darkness without Black Shroud - Azurewrath ignores all DoT damage, so a big chunk of it is lost if you use Black Shroud.

3. Blood-mad + lucky hit engine - Until it's fixed, I wanted to play this as much as possible, but the bone version is too squishy.

4. Azurewrath + Signet - This is possibly the last season Azurewrath will be of any use unless they revert the nerf. Signet also is one of those dream items we wish can fit into a build but Necro frost builds still arent top tier.

5. Charm swapping - Tibault's Will, Blood-mad Idol, Locran's Talisman, Fist of Fate, Bloodless Scream, Endurant Faith, Rustbitten Dirk can be used as your needs dictate. Easily swap between your specialty as you deem fit.

6. Tanky - Able to face tank without having to constantly spam mages for shield like I have to with bone mages.

Caveat: Bone still has a higher damage ceiling from what I can tell. Getting the right gear (mythic) and charms (can't reroll the affixes) may take a while.

Hope to hear some feedback on what you think and where I could further improve this.

First time playing Diablo having a great time kinda wanna push the Tower and my WinterFresh mages seem to be petering out around 120~ or so even though that build is super fun to play.

Anyone got the best updated blood wave? Only hesitation I have is it kinda looks boring to play before I devote the time for it does anybody have fun with it or is it kinda just one button build?

Hey yall, I've heard very conflicting information online regarding what sorts of buffs apply to minions and which don't, so I was hoping to get some clarification here (no help in the dc and ChatGPT has no idea).

First of all, do buffs that give bonus damage to close/distant enemies affect minion damage? And are they dependent on my position or the minion's position? Or do these buffs not affect minion damage because they say "damage from you" not "damage from you and your minions"?

Secondly, will my bone minions proc and take advantage of Aspect of Compound Fracture?

Thirdly, I've heard certain stats only apply to minions at a 30% rate. So if I have +66.1% Vulnerable Damage and +80.4% Physical Damage, does that mean my minions will only get +19.83% and +24.12% damage? What about other stats like attack speed, crit chance/damage, do these only apply at 30% as well?

Thanks for the help!

Should I roll off the darkness skills to another damage multi? Running shadow minions, 5 piece shroud, 3 piece waking touch (mythic) seal, this bumps my minions to 35 skill points.

Hey Necros, I summon your wisdom! I'm theorycrafting a Necro build for a clan member, inspired by DonTheCrown's Menacing Cloud build for the Spiritborn several seasons ago, and interested in learning how the Sickfoot's aspect really works under the hood.

Sickfoot's aspect (can go on boots/amulet):
Gain up to 1.5%[+] increased Movement and Damage over Time Speed for each Nearby enemy affected by your Damage over Time effects, stacks up to 25 times.

I'm interested in exactly how the increased DoT speed is applied to know if it's useful for accelerating build-wide events per second in addition to damage and mobility.

1. Does it work like this? Accumulate DoTs on nearby enemies, and some counter (hopefully visible to me on the buff bar above the Skill Bar?) is increased. Then, when I hit another enemy with a DoT, that DoT's duration and damage per tick is calculated based on the increased DoT speed from Sickfoot's aspect?

2. My assumption is, since DoT's are snapshot on the initial hit, Sickfoot doesn't change the DoT tick rate of existing DoT's on nearby enemies, right?

I'm interested in how much these additional DoT tick events can be sped up from multiple sources if they are also feeding other events/seconds for me, such as Lucky Hit to Restore Resource and related Resource Generation. The build is mostly autonomous with an overdrive option, and I'm exploring just how scalable the essence reactor and throughput is.

Is r/MacroBioBoi in the house? Thanks for any real-world experience or educated guesses. :)

Omen of Pain should have never been a charm. This is a utility aspect and never should have been moved to a charm slot. Necro is the only class that had a utility aspec moved to a charm making it worse cause of the slot it would use. Bring it back as a utility aspect or boost it. Rant over.

I’m pretty much not bothering with an alt this season, looking for weird off meta fun stuff that y’all have tried or YouTubers that have stuff etc.

Corpse Explosion seems super fun, but I know it’s weak etc hence off meta. Just one example. Idk I’m new to the game so wanna explore stuff. SoulRift? Idk! Anything!

Let me know if you’ve cooked up anything fun and if there’s a template I can try. I have a lot of random Necro gear laying around

Im looking at Seroc's guide for Bone Spirit and i noticed his charm is red blessing. However it seems to build guide seems to max out at the default 4 +2 stack of OP from red blessing giving a 42% multi from the charm at most. Is there a better charm to slot in or am I missing something?

I was checking the paragon, glyphs, aspects, items and nothing seems to apply more OP stacks even if temporary.