D3 - Necro trash killer questions

Put together a poison scythe Necro for trash clearing and have a few questions. Some necros are using siphon blood/power shift and equipping the Mantle of Channeling shoulders. Are the shoulders purely for damage reduction, since you can’t channel and grim scythe at the same time? When should I siphon blood? Just before poison on CoE?

Did some practice runs and had a hard time. The enemies were CC immune for the Barbarian to stomp… So should I only grim scythe in poison? I am using stone gauntlets, which can’t help with pulling. Should I still cast bone armor/dislocation in the middle of the pixel-pull or do it outside of the mobs and rely on the barbs stomp to stun for me (to benefit from Kyrsbin’s Sentence).

I’m using the ahoulders that gives skeletal mage the corose drop rune and the singularity rune, and it reduces my dmg taken while my easence isnt capped. Using the archer rune to go with that. It feels like god mode with all of my skele mage dmg from my wePon and ring power.

Bone armor should be casted same time as barb stomp

MoC buff last up to 1sec after you stopped channeling. After you cursed the mobs, you shouldn’t scythe constantly outside poison except spawn occy during phy. This is when siphon blood kicks in.

Sit in town, open your detailed panel info, mouse over any resistance. Channel siphon with MoC equipped and watch / get a feel when the buff drops off. Remember siphon blood stacks doesn’t buff scythe dmg, it’s purely for health regen.

Edit: you should take out bone spear if ur nayrs buff is maintained manually. Projectile reflect will kill your sim from BS. Hence you see bone spike on most LB snapshots or else need to skip/fish non projectile reflects(spinner/sand dweller)

Also bear in mind, corroded fang provided curse lasts 10 secs w/o eternal torment, not 30s. Item proc is different from hard cast skill this time.

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Awesome, just the answers I needed. I was using bone spike before spear, but I didn’t like not visually seeing it at times. I will go back to the spike. Noted on siphon blood; so the damage bonus from power shift doesn’t buff grim scythe? Means I won’t need to worry about the stack counter.
I was thinking of using eternal torment and just dropping final service anyway. My gear is still lacking in some areas.

No it doesn’t power shift boost siphon damage only.

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