One persistent gimmick I dislike about Necro is that basically every build relies on the numlock trick. I have a small laptop that requires some workarounds to do the trick, and also it just feels cheap to me.
I think Requiem Cereplate should also give devour the cannibalize rune, that way you can use devouring aura as well.
Yeah, I like legendaries like that. Picking and combining runes feels really special.
try to do it with a decent rate atack like 1.78-2.02 , u ll be dead . and the no. of lance/ mobs large dramatically . just with one lance in GR>85/90 u ll get no mob kill. not to mention u can not focus fire
back to topic I d love too see CDR working with any curse, regardless how its apply.
I suggest to combine leach and decrepify in one curse.
I suggest frailty should be increased to 20 and 25%.
How about Some skills should be upgraded with paragon points like base dmg*300% (paragon points)? - maybe this is too much but I m thinking of a 3 k necro looking at 1k DH or wiz, they are burning 100 grifts , while he has too wait cdr , and a good pack.
I would like for Revive to be, you know, fun to use. As it is, even if they did oodles of damage, they just don’t last long enough to rely on. This is a problem both mechanically and thematically. The idea of playing a powerful magic user reanimating the dead to fight for you is severely undercut when you have to spam the skill constantly because the things only last 8 seconds or whatever, let alone the idea of playing to the role and being picky about what you revive. They should several minutes, at least.
I mean, I can even lower the difficulty just to use the skill that I want to use, and it’s still tedious and un-fun. That’s no good.
I just want reliable corpse production that’s not based on LotD. 1 corpse per second or per bloodrush feels bar compared to infinite corpses on top of perma-CC.
One of the sets needs to have the same feel as 100% uptime on LotD without actually needing LotD.
Now it seems that they literally don’t give a crap.
It’s funny. They post something about necro being the weakest of them all and… and… that’s it. He’s just weak. Deal with that.
What a joke.
But well… if you manage to wait 4 months it will be surely over powered on the next patch. Sort of consolation prize… like they always do.
Well. Time for another hiatus.
A Revive build, without the need for Skeletons, could be fun
I mean, I’d love to see a set where Revive mobs and maybe even mages have HP and stay alive until they die rather than having a set duration. Either by the new set or a reworked Rathma.
I’d also like to see updated/new support items for Bone Spirit so that it could be used as an elite/RG killer.
There is one change that could be done to Rathma’s set to make it different and better than LOD mages.
Make it give the effect that all minions are permanent to the battlefield. This includes both Revive and Skeletal Mages. Contamination Mages would need to be changed to be mobile.
This would also allow you to not have to use Circle of Nailuj’s Evol and go with a different option.
I’m sure you would need to change Singularity so that it’s not always the go to option for this set.
Jesseth set could also be changed that all minions focus on the target of your skeletons.
Legacy of Dreams mages is perfect as it is now.
That is why Rathma should drop mages, and embrace Revive.
For those who are too lazy to click, my suggestion:
Season 21 - Idea - New Bones of Rathma - Skeletons + Revive
7 pieces set (7th piece being : belt, ring, amulet, bracer…)
2 pieces Bonus
4 pieces Bonus
6 pieces Bonus
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Objectives
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Can be used in conjunction with:
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Bloodsong Mail
While in the Land of the Dead, Command Skeletons deals 110% additional damage and gains the effect of the Enforcer, Frenzy, Dark Mending and Freezing Grasp runes. In addition, Revive deals 110% additional damage and gains the effect of all its runes.
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Mask of Scarlet Death
Revive and Devour now consumes all corpses to raise a minion that deals 135% more damage per corpse
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Fate’s vow
Army of the Dead deals an additional 4000% damage and gains the effect of all its runes
Army of the Dead with identical CDR to LotD need raising to the identical damage level or in a manner where it is an alternative. It is potentially great but under-performs. At least raised so it is a more preferable item for the Rathma’s set and out-performs LotD in the Rathma’s set. something like that.
Your 2000% on the 2 piece and 4000% on the 6 piece add up to a pretty darn high number. WAY more than every other set bonus in the game. It might need to be scaled back a bit.
The idea with:
Was to be able to cumulate N times this bonus. Like a recursive loop, limited in time. Like Corpsewhisper Pauldrons does, but based on cooldown. 6 pieces bonus means Army of the dead cooldown is reduced by 20%, plus 30 minions attacking 50% faster having 50% to reduce cooldown of Army of the Dead and Land of the Dead by 1 second each time they deal damage. Paired with other cooldowns game has to offer (obsidian ring, Lerouge, …etc.), that should do the job.
Unlike mages, nova or bone spear, Revived Creatures are not directly boosted by any 1 handed or 2 handed Scythes. Revived Creatures surely can be boosted, with Skeletons, as a side effect of the Jesseth set. But you cannot use any phylactery (damage) while equiped with Jesseth. Also, you cannot really use Nayr’s Black Death Poison boost while equiped with Jesseth, because poison skeletons tend to make themselves explode. So this is balanced.
If you compare to a 1 piece item, Bloodtide Blade, making 400% per enemy, let’s say 10 enemies x 400% = 4000% damage, it appears that (2000% + 4000%) for a 6 pieces set is not a lot.
If you compare to Legacy of Dreams, 9750% damage, (2000% + 4000%) is not a lot.
The real damage comes from Army of the dead as explained higher.
These new mechanics require to maximize cooldown in order to trigger N cumulative damage layers of Army of the Dead. The result on the screen is a constant flow of Army of Dead, doing more and more damage over time, each wave also boosting your Revived Creatures and Skeletons damage, at least while you are able to sustain your cooldown. #CooldownAsResource
With or without Thorns, it should be fun to play.
In all other instances, set bonuses are different multipliers so 2000% and 4000% are equivalent to a 21x multiplier and a 41x multiplier which is 861x damage. Compare that to LoD which is 98.5x to damage. Your proposed set bonus is 8.7x stronger than LoD.
I indeed mean addition, not multiplication.
Don’t know what is the best wording.
Or maybe 8.7x is OK, if you consider how weak are the skeletons / revived creatures now.
Bump…heres for hoping again with next PTR
Seriously, you’re bumping a thread from almost three years ago, that hasn’t been posted into in over two years? The Necro is strong with this one…
Apparently the Necro class reveal for D4 brought out all of that in people.
I have counted around half a dozen super aged threads being Necro’d up just in the past few mins.