I made it to WT4 last night, at like lvl 66. Managed to get super lucky during my hell rides and got a ring with the 10% on lucky hit to restore 30% essence when killing a vulnerable enemy. Was super stoked to dine tune my necromancer but when I hopped on after the patch I was getting absolutely slaughtered. Now I know there’s a decent level gap between me and the enemies currently but I didn’t think I would be getting killed this quickly. Then I saw the patch notes and now I’m curious if it’s even worth it to run this.
Lvl 88 bone spec necro here… having zero issues. More blood orbs, bone prison, tendrls fix = less essence down time.
havent tried out blood lance yet, but after patch with no changes to my bone spec, I’m cool with play overall, tbh.
There still are squish issues with, like the Butcher, that annoy me, but overall i think necro’s are in bit of a better place.
just my 2c…
I have a 93 bone spear necro and the numbers are definitly way down, but they are probably still bigger than others. I was easily doing 750k+ initial hits or more now they are down a bit and I had max aspect for the bounce back and that got nerfed from 225% to I think 135% so yeah. It still oneshots MOST level 100 mobs in tier 45+ dungeons.
I noticed next to no changes to any thing when i ran a NM 53 after patch.
You can read my thoughts here
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d4/t/changes-i%E2%80%99ve-noticed-after-running-a-nm-53-after-patch-bone-spear/90078
Haven’t logged on yet, but I entered WT4 at level 63 pre-patch and it was a slaughter at first. You’ll be fine once you get some ancestral gear.
I’m concerned about survivability. As a bone spear tendril build, the gameplan is to wait for a mob to get clustered for corpse tendrils and then use the grasping veins and ossified essence buffs on bonespear to inflict pain. The disobedient aspect let me wait until the last possible moment because I’d get a 50% armor buff once I started casting. Then the 400 life on kill would replenish any health I lost. This strategy took a huge hit with the patch. Might not be viable moving forward.