i believe DH was faster to fix due our huge feedback on it, the set was praticly garbage before and now it is real fun to use, thank blizz staff for hearing us.
Necro demands more complex changes:
-the essence cost on the new set is way to high;
-no way to recover essence to make the gameplay more fluid;
-the damage isnt enough for the essence gain/costs;
the main idea on the set is cool it just requires more essence recovery somehow, another mechanic on it would not hurt.
Personally I have tested the Gears Set and apart (from someone having a Al-Bed fetish from FFX at Blizzard), it does not measure up to other Sets and and after 1200 Paragon levels I see that the Knife Set with Holy Point Shot seems to be the way to go in S21.If you are going to try and make a Meta Set to higher GRās, do something better.
This PTR they could have scripted in something for Primal Ancient items as well as I asked for ages ago, a 3 chance upgrade (costing 100 FS per roll) without altering the PA class of the item so that useless stat PA could get what you want possibly taking out the useless grinding and time wasting to find another disappointment ! Oh and what about the possibility of pushing the GR limit to 200 and the inclusion of Blue PA items that I wrote about years ago to Blizzard (A well crafted character story) ? Seriously do Blizzard even read posts sent to them with such suggestions?
Iāve been testing Necromancer changes, and I wanted to stop by to say:
Thank you!
More than many classes, I feel itās great that Necro has many different class mechanics. Multiplier and toughness items arenāt always tied to specific skills, but rather certain parameters revolving around the class mechanics:
This allows for some amazingly interesting interactions within builds that are fun to play around, and even manage at times.
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Iāve always avoided playing Necro because it was so defenseless. Necro was always so glassy, paper thin on survival.
The big issues with toughness on LoD builds have been largely solved with Razethās Volition. I love that the design of this item is not only for mage builds, but any build that has lower than max essence.
I feel more toughness items could be added, in particular for the Bracer and Phylactery slots. Could go blood themed with some sort of VIT and Recovery interaction, or give shields based on VIT and convert LPS into shielding recovery, or provide some other form of DR based on one of the class mechanics (Globes in particular is under-represented, but thereās a lot of room for new items here).
Preference for LoTD (and therefore max CDR) with this class was another issue that has been largely solved with the Haunted Visions changes.
Of the nephalem rifting and speed builds Iāve prepared thus far, only one has had to use LoTD, and thatās Corpse Explosion.
I do agree that further changes to corpse generation and generating items / abilities may need to get looked at to allow for more non-LoTD builds on these more heavily corpse dependent skills. However, simulacrums lasting forever has helped greatly.
Speaking of, at least for solo speeds, iām fairly impressed with the wide array of options currently falling within limits balance wise (Scythe, CE, Mages, Spear). The builds that clear higher tend to only be able to clear rifts slower, so it sort of evens out in this way somewhat. Note: Havenāt retested Pestilence yet.
Outlier: Masquerade Bone Spear could still use more damage, at least 3 GRās worth increase. I feel that itād be great if your own spears did the same amount of damage as the simulacrums (9/7=28% increase in dps), and an increase to the base of 10k% to 13k% (30% increase) would give enough damage for this set to better compete (1.3*1.28 = 1.664 = 3.24GRs).
That said, most of these are LoD builds, so if thereās any area that could be looked at retuning, itās definitely the other necromancer sets. Inarius definitely needs a larger bone storm area. At LEAST 30 yards to match monk, wiz, etc. Tragāoul could use more defense and multiplier. Rathma just needs major work.
Those aside, I feel the LoD builds are generally very interesting, dynamic, engaging and fun to play!
While Reaperās wraps is still usable solo for mages build, it feels bad to have to wait to pick up globes, and double globe pickup feels wasteful.
Perhaps tuning the amount of resources restored per globe would be a better approach. Combined with with making other speed metas for 4 man more competitive might work out.
I can see a 15-20% Reaperās restore still being viable without feeling too punishing. Picking up globes but only getting benefit sometimes kind of feels wonky, especially for solo.
From what Iāve heard, the change didnāt even serve itās purpose to deter 4 man LoD Mage speeds.
To start, simulacrums tend to die rather quick in pushes, from what Iāve seen. I donāt want to have to take enforcer to keep them alive in this setting, even if they were fully treated as pets, iād prefer some other means to let them live a bit longer, or give us the tools to recast them more often with Haunted Visions equipped (keeping in mind the Rathmaās shield passive).
Second:
We wonāt ever be able to Hybrid Scythe and Mage if this is the case. Itās so sad because Necromancer has so much potential for Hybrids in this area.
Bone Prison not getting procād from simulacrum casts?
Additional procs would really help Bone spear break free from dependence on other stuns when it comes to procācing Krysbin. Retuning of the chance for stun could help greatly here.
As an aside, I actually quite enjoy that Scythe build sims scale damage regardless of essence of the player. In dense rifts the essence pool always filled up so quickly. It gets laborious with so much essence gen to continually cast mage to dump essence, so this is a good middle ground I feel.
Andā¦ I went off again on a ramble.
TLDR: Thank you. Iām enjoying the changes for Necro thus far! Itās as if Iām truly playing the class for the first time. Despite a few issues, builds feel fluid, slightly more defensible, and enjoyable. Iām looking forward to playing Necromancer in S21. 
Any blue news about the ending of ptr? ^-^
Well guess thats it GG TY
Hello everyone -
2.6.9 PTR has ended and been taken offline. We will be moving PTR forums to read only. We appreciate the feedback over the last couple of weeks. We will have a Season 21 preview blog coming up in the near future. We appreciate your feedback!
See you in 2.6.9!