S25 Idea - Better Trag'oul's Avatar - Bleeding Heart

[Isend-2850]

Trag’Oul’s Avatar is expected to be Necromancer’s Haedrig’s Gift for Season 25. Let’s improve it.

Trag’Oul’s Avatar

2p : Now drains 1% Max Life / sec. Foreach % Max Life missing, you get 10% increased defense
4p : Now drains 2% Max Life / sec. Foreach % Max Life missing, you do 75% increased damage
6p : Now drains 3% Max Life / sec. Foreach % Max Life missing, you cooldown 1-7 of your skills by 1s
7th piece : New Set Phylactery : Trag’Oul’s Bleeding Heart (3d model based on current heart phylactery, but with more blood)

Explainer

• Mechanic switched from Blood skills to Life lost
• Blood pact : Trade Life for defense, damage, cooldown
• Big risks. Big rewards. You are always on the verge of death
• Shi Mizu’s Haori is a great item synergy to get 100% Critical Hit Chance under 25% Life
• Corpse Lance / Blood Lance or Corpse Explosion / Final Embrace are great active skill synergies to drain Life (2% Life per Lance or Corpse)
• Rathma’s Shield is a great passive skill synergy to avoid premature death (w max cooldown)
• 7 pieces Set + Ring of Royal Grandeur means you can mix Trag’Oul’s Avatar 6p bonus w one 3p bonus (Pestilence, Aughild’s Authority, Demon’s Hide, Captain Crimson’s Trim, Blackthorne)
• 4p Damage increase + Ring of Royal Grandeur means you can mix Trag’Oul’s Avatar 4p bonus w lots of microsets, at the cost of losing cooldown bonus (Skeletons, Revive, Thorns do not need cooldown)
• 2p Defense increase means great defense for zNecro builds
• 6p is excellent at buffing cooldown builds (Blood Rush, Command Golem, Bone Armor / Limited Immunity, Land of the Dead, Simulacrum, Bone Spirit Army, of the Dead)

Examples with 4p bonus

• 80% Life = 1500% damage increase and 40% defense increase
• 50% Life = 3750% damage increase and 100% defense increase
• 20% Life = 6000% damage increase and 160% defense increase
• 0% Life = 7500% damage increase and 200% defense increase
• 0% Life = 9750% damage increase and 300% defense increase (with Aughild’s Authority)

Life regen considerations

• With 6 Pieces, your Life is drained in 100 / 3 = 33 seconds.
• Plenty of regen Life options (between 2 cooldowns) against long fights like Rift Guardians :
  • Land of the Dead + Devour / Cannibalize
  • Bone Armor / Thy Flesh Sustain + Siphon Blood / Drain Life
  • Molten Wildebeest’s Gizzard + Invigorating Gemstone
• Improve Simulacrum / Blood Debt : Life costs for skills and Life drains for items are reduced by 75% while Simulacrum is active

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See also : Lornelle’s Sunstone x 5

S25 Idea : Lornelle's Sunstone -> Band of Might

Lornelle’s Sunstone Your damage reduction is increased by 0.75 - 0.95%f or every 1% Life you are missing After loosing 20% Life, take 60-80% reduced damage for 8 seconds, up to 80 seconds. Explainer Boost a currently underused item Offer more options to mitigate damage for the Necromancer Helps during Land of the Dead and its cooldown, or when you Blood rush in corridors Pairs well with Blood Rush / Metabolism, Corpse Lance / Blood Lance, Corpse Explosion / Final Embrace Pairs well with Trag…

See also : Rogar’s Huge Stone x 5

S25 Idea : Rogar's Huge Stone x 5

Rogar’s Huge Stone Increase your Life per Second by up to 75 - 100% 100 - 500% based on your missing Life. Explainer Boost a currently underused item Offer more options to mitigate damage Pairs well with Trag’Oul’s Avatar – See also

See also : Rakoff’s Glass of Life - 5% chance health globe on hit

S25 - Rakoff's Glass of Life - 5% chance health globe on hit

Rakoff’s Glass of Life Enemies you kill hit have a 3-4% 5% additional chance to drop a health globe. Explainer Boost a currently underused item Offer more options to mitigate damage Offer more options to regen mana, from Reaper’s Wraps (30% mana regen on health globe) Pairs well with Trag’Oul’s Avatar – See also

See also : New Gem : Bleeding Shield : Trade Life for Shield

S25 Idea : New Gem - Bleeding Shield - Trade Life for Shield

Bleeding Shield (Legendary Gem) Drains 10000 Life per Second (+1000 additional Life per Second). Gain an absorb shield for 500% of your total missing Life (Requires Rank 25) Explainer Trade Life for Shield Pairs well with Trag’Oul’s Avatar – See also

See also : Eye of Etlich

S25 Idea : Eye of Etlich - 500% increased damage on missing Life

Eye of Etlich Increase your Damage by up to 100 - 500% based on your missing Life and damage taken is increased by up to 100%. Can be bet at level 31 11. Explainer Boost a currently underused item by giving it a legendary power Trade Damage input for Damage output Damage input can be mititaged by items Pairs well with Trag’Oul’s Avatar – See also

See also : New bracers for Necromancer generate corpses based on Life missing

S25 Idea : New bracers to generate corpses

Trag’Oul’s Flesh (Bracers) Each second, generate 1 corpse per 10% Max Life missing Explainer Big risks, big rewards Helps a lot with corpse generation Corpse skills can be used more often, especially when you need to kill ennemies quickly, rather than dying because no corpse is available Not Free since you cannot equip other bracers (Nemesis, Ancient Parthan Defenders, Sanguinary Vambraces…) Synergizes with : Trag’Oul’s Avatar now apply damage based on Life lost

Death’s Bargain - Lose 10% Max Life per Second

Better Death's Bargain - Lose 10% Max Life per Second

Death’s Bargain Gain an aura of death that deals 750 - 1000% of your Life per Second as Physical damage to enemies within 16 yards. You no longer regenerate Life. You lose 10% of your Max Life per Second Explainer: Synergy with Blood is Power to trigger CDR Synergy with the Better Trag’oul’s Avatar proposal for S25 See also :

See also : Army of the Dead / Dead Storm now costs 100% Life and does damage on par with Corpse Lance

S25 Idea - Better Army of the Dead / Dead Storm

Army of the Dead / Dead Storm Cooldown: 120 seconds Cost: 20% 100% health Raise a storm of the dead that surround you in a 25 yards radius damaging enemies for 15,500% 300,000% weapon damage per second as Physical over 5 30 seconds. Explainer Dead Storm means you must be dead to cast the storm, so it costs 100% health 300,000% is the damage output per second of 2250% (Blood Lance) x 20 Lances (Pestilence) x 600% (Corpsewhisper pauldrons) 30 seconds duration (3x the duration of Land Of the D…

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FAQ

Q : Can I still fight while being at 0% Life ?
A : Yes : https://youtu.be/qICl2PwYBO0 - In addition, Rathma’s Shield can help

Q : Can I use 6p bonus (CDR) + another set 3p bonus + Jesseth Arms ?
A : No. Using 6p bonus (CDR) + another set 3p bonus needs you to use the new Phylactery
A : Jesseth Arms is fine with only the 4p bonus (Damage)

Q: Is this similar to the Marrow Shard / Low Life Build from Last Epoch ? https://youtu.be/laV3hUpB_Js
A : Yes, looks similar but not intended ! It’s more like a convergent evolution.

[Zurtle-6510]

S25 is nine months away. Whyyyyyyyy?

Also, this seems like Necromancer stuff rather than “General Discussion” things. You can move the threads if you wish.