I realize that Pestilence set isn’t used as a bone spear set, but it’s supposed to be. It might actually be now that its been buffed. But now we’ll have two bone spear sets? Seems boring. I love the Simulacrums idea. I was exciting reading about the Masquerade of Burning Carnival until I got to the 6-piece bonus and saw that the set would only work with bone spear… I was very disappointed. I really hope the 6-piece is redesigned before the season starts.
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2 Bone Spear Set!??!?!
SWK TR then theres POJ TR
Nat Strafe then theres New Set for Strafe
Blizzard creativity is poop right now. Creating a new set for a playstyle that already exist with an old set lol…
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Actually, thinking a bit about it it makes sense that theres a bonespear set now. That it is on pestilence already aside for a few seconds.
Look, alot of us speculated about a revive based set of some kind. But to be fair, the most sets that are played are either lance / CE or simply something with mages. So we have, playstyle wise, a few possible corpse based sets and already a few possible pet-based sets. -> Why add another pet based build?
now its a cast bone spears in the “good old diablo 2 fashion way” set, while also being somewhat minion based. But those minions are rather passive anyways and primarily help to add better coverage to the spears.
Im really willing to give this thing a try and hope it finally comes with no lotd+devour as hard-requirement.
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D3 Bone Spear is practically D2 Teeth (or more like Fan of Knives from other Blizz game), Bone Spear, Fireball (Shatter rune) all into one depending on which rune players decided to use. Pest Bone Spear was only used in a fringe speed farming build. I’m looking forward to how this set turns out.
Agreed. I was hoping there was a RCR affix, stat added somewhere, but oh, well.
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Yes, one of them should be Bone Spirit Set…
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I did some theory crafting the other day, and it seems to me that a CoE centered build for this set should be competitive with a LotD one. Basically, the LotD build can, at best, continuously cast Bone Spears uninterrupted, while CoE will get 3x damage 1/3 time, and should have enough essence to spam Bone Spears straight through the 4 second window. The CoE version would need to make up the extra damage the the LotD version would get from Crimson’s set, but it would have 2 equipment slots and a skill slot open to do so.
bone spear sucks in d3.
Honestly, if the intent was to recreate the Diablo 2’s bone necromancer with the new set; then it would only make sense (imo that is) to add bone spirit to the set as well.
Every skill that isn’t supported by a class set and legendary items in D3 “sucks”. The entire point of making a set around it is to fix exactly that. This set will see each cast of Bone Spear deal 21x as much damage as a similar build with the Pestilence set.
Yeah, Bone Spear for trash and Bone Spirit for bosses.
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Felt the same way. .
Would of liked a bone spirit set, as its just not used in any builds
Necro never had a Bone Spear set to begin with, have you ever actually tried it on Pestilence? Pestilence will always be a CL set, maybe now CE speeds as well.
a corpse explosion set would be amazing
increase the size of the explosion. make one chain to others like the crusader condemn “set” GET ON IT BLIZZARD
Considering how nearly every single other new set only affects 1-2 skills (Barb is Frenzy only, Wizard is Hydra only, WD is Spirit Barrage only. Monks and Saders both have 2 skills affected, BUT it may as well only be 1. DH is the ONLY class who is getting a solid 6 piece set, though it’s ruined by the fact that they mixed in Strafe).
Overall, it’s a disappointment. Blizz has been FULL of disappointments now for the past 5 years at least.
So I decided to try it out on the PTR… Pretty boring. Anyone come up with a fun build for it?
I tried, but there was so much lag it was hard to use, so I can’t really tell if it is actually decent and it was just the lag throwing off my aim or not. Also, I swear, Brigg’s Wrath is hiding from me, and what I have in mind needs it to pull targets together to maximize damage output.
I was using one and it still feels pretty messed to play.
The new set is really a work of art…
I didn’t know in this much time they could create something so lackluster and poorly designed but here we are…