Necro PTR Patch Note Thoughts

[Lughor-2984]

@Wukong-1593

Reliable source of barrier without an aspect. Remember we have Bone Storm as the strongest barrier there is, perhaps in the whole game.

Keep in mind, that for the maximum effect, you have to use Ultimate Shadow aspect as well, otherwise you only get 50 % of the barrier generation.

Now we have as an defensive Ultimate:

• Blood Wave for 20 % damage reduction.
• Army of the Dead with High Lucky Hit chance for more Necrotic Fortitude procs to get barrier.
• Soulrift to get enough Essence to spam Blight to proc Necrotic Fortitude.
• Bone Storm with additional one or two aspects to get barrier.
• Or test decompose with high lucky hit chance or Corpse Explosion with a faster cast time but lower lucky hit chance to trigger Necrotic Fortitude.

It’s possible that the best Ultimate for Minion Necros in Season 9 is not using one at all.

But what I like are the Minion changes with the Hand of Naza and the changes to Shadowblight.

@Lughor-2984

Shadowblight

• Base damage increased from 60% to 200%.
• Damage scaling reduced from 100% to 20%.
• Damage bonus capped at 300%.
• Now also scales with Shadow damage.

combined with
Blighted

• Previously: You deal 35-55% increased damage for 6 seconds after the Shadowblight Key Passive damages enemies 10 times.
• Now: Consecutive hits with the Shadowblight Key Passive deal 15-25%[ x] increased damage for each hit, resetting 6 seconds after the first.

Keep in mind, Aspect of Decay still works, giving you bonus up to 500 %[ x] on a two-handed weapon.

You don’t need Shadow dot (corrupting) damage any longer, just stack enough Shadow damage.

• You start with 200 % weapon base damage.
• 300 % bonus will bring you to 800 % weapon damage.
• Aspect of decay will bring you to 4800 % weapon damage.
• Blighted is a bit of a mystery. Is that bonus global or per mob?
  If it’s global, this could get really high, I think about 15 procs of Shadowblight per second and per mob are possible.
  Ebonpiercer doing 4 projectile dots over 3 seconds, that’s 24 procs (4 projectiles, 3 simultaneous dots, 2 ticks per second) per second, 13 for Blight - that’s 37.
  100 % attack speed, than it’s 74.
  Cast twice, that’s 148.
  Devided by 8, because Shadowblight only proc’s every 8th damage instance. In total 18.5 Shadowblight procs.
  Over 6 seconds that’s 111 procs per mob, which would be up to a multiplicative bonus of 2775%x.
• With a 27755 %x damage boost we get up to 29 times the damage, that’s 139,200 % weapon damage, not including other additive and multiplicative damage boosts.