Soul of Evil took no damage from Necro

General Discussion
1

At T10, I expected the realm of fright to be difficult, but not impossible. I put up land of the dead and hit corpse explosion and his health didn’t even budge. This is with the Grace of Inarus set. My bone spears did nothing…most of the time. Occasionally I’d get his health to budge a smidge just before he one-shot me.

Is this a bug? Is he immune to corpse explosions? Anyone else run into this?

2

Inarius Bone Storm radius is 15 yard, the wording isnt very clear, 6pc bonus only proc at targets HIT by your bone storm. Were you too far since it appears bone spear is your main damage?

3

Corpse explosion was SUPPOSED to be my main damage, used with Land of the Dead. I stunned him with bone armor, hit LotD and CE but his health just didn’t budge. I was within range then but the bone storm wasn’t up yet because it was just at one tic. So CE won’t be any good unless you have a full 10 on your bone armor?

4

Inarius dont requires 10 stacks of bone armor as long as its not down. The problem is when you proc scythe of cycle:

Secondary skills deal 350–400% additional damage while [Bone Armor] is active but reduce the remaining duration of Bone Armor by 4 seconds

Note that each cast of bone spear reduces Bone Armor remaining duration by 4 seconds.

If you can, I d suggest you take off scythe of cycle for inarius builds since it does NOT buff corpse explosion as its not a secondary skill (by category) and replace with other multipliers which buffs both CE and a corpse generating damage skill since land isnt always up.

Such as:

  • Jesseth Arms - up to 400% while skelelon is commanded (doesnt need to command on your target, just need any mob commanded)
  • Tragoul’s Corrded Fang - up to 200% for cursed mobs (can cheese curse with eternal torment)
  • Reilena Shadowhook - up to 165% based on maximum (not current) essence. up to 330% if combo with simulacrum reservoir (can cheese with haunted vision so sim is permanent)

These multipliers buff bone storm damages as well.

If you can not, then need to pay close attention to bone armor stacks. Make sure its up and the bone storm affects your target before you cast CE.

5

That’s sound advice, but it wasn’t the problem at hand, which was the Soul of Evil not taking any damage whatsoever from Corpse Explosion when LotD was up. I hadn’t cast bone spear at all at first. Just sent my skellies on it, dazed him with bone armor, hit LotD, and CE … nada. Nothing. No damage. It was well after that that I attempted to get him down with bone spear, but he would one-shot me before I could do much damage. But bone spear isn’t my question at the moment, though you’ve given me useful info on it and it’s appreciated.

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From my end, I don’t experience him not taking damage by CE since my necro team mate has killed him by CE. I am not sure what is the problem hence started with damage multipliers first.