Corpse explosion is for essence generation. In my experience the damage is quite poor. Tendrils is often just used for cc and to apply vulnerability.
They are most useful as support abilities rather than your main skill.
Corpse tendril with aspect of grasping veins gives you an additional multiplier. Itâs the reason bone spear and spirit go from dealing hundreds of thousands to millions. Itâs hard to give up having more multipliers than the other classes. Donât worry though I am willing to bet it gets nerfed this week in the patch.
There arenât enough buttons to use moves because of Blizzard catering to console players. 1-2 more would feel way better. Itâs frustrating to make cuts like an Ultimate or Golem; it just doesnât feel good.
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Minions shouldnât need to be on the frigginâ bar to begin with. They should more or less take care of themselves so that necromancers can take a more active role in combat, as they used to. Well, not the skeletons. I can kinda see the golems since they do have an impactful active ability.
Or, if they absolutely must be on the bar, then add an active ability to the skeleton summon button to command them to attack the same target so you can make effective use of them. Replace the current skeleton priest effect with an actual priest that appears on the battlefield, healing and buffing of its own accord.
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You can remove the penalty
I always spam it until I hear âI need more timeâ
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Blood Soaked and Ghost Walker Aspect make us go zoooooom!
Blighted Corpse Explosionâs damage is definitely not poor.
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Yeah I realized that after I decided to try it. I canât see anything, but itâs effective. 
Iâm still trying to determine if I should completely drop Blight for it, but I think Blight is too important against bosses for me. What I should have said is that CE and CT are likely overrepresented in builds not due to them being op but because they provide utility most necros will want to take advantage of.
Yes there is. Controllers can easily handle 12 skills or more. D2R has no problem. For a much bigger example, look at FFXIV. This isnât a console restriction, itâs a dev decision to provide them a huge shortcut when it comes to balancing and interactions.
I specifically tried to make some builds that do not utilize either one or both of them to see if it can be done. It can to some degree but I donât know how well they will hold up to late game.
Made a minion build that utilizes neither of them with Decompose and Blight as my offensive skills. Works well up to low NM dungeons. Only time I had an issue was where I accidentally tried to do a NM dungeon that was way higher than my level (I think 13 levels over my level. I was doing ok but then hit a wall and got wrecked).
Tried to make a Bone Spear build that uses neither as well to see if I could regen enough essence just with Iron Maiden and Bone Cage and not relying on spamming minions or corpse explosion for essence regen with Grim Harvest. Doing ok up to about level 25 but then added corpse tendrils because it works really well to gather minions up and then pop bone cage on them.
Iâm struggling to push to W3. I have to change my entire character around to get rid of the shadow dot focus and switch to a crit/vuln build which basically every class and build needs to do at this point.
Blight is doesnât do much with that build. Your main damage is Corpse Explosion. With Tendrils, you can group up all the mobs together, apply Vulnerability and start Corpse Exploding. Lot more powerful than any +damage% from Blight. Also at higher tiers when you need to kite, itâs a life saver. Try it out!
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Agreed on the Priest. It should be its own minion (not necessarily its own button) that follows you around for the buffâs duration, periodically healing your army and refreshing when you consume new corpses with the ability. At the very least, it would make the Summon Skeletons ability feel more impactful long-term. Iâd love for the ability to target multiple corpses at once to raise multiple skeletons and generate bigger heals, too.
The problem with Corpse Tendrils is that itâs overtooled. It does too much for one button and for only three talent points plus an aspect or two: Hard CC (two instances of CC in the slow and the stun, in fact, which means it double dips on Umbral Aspect), clumps mobs, applies vulnerable, grants crit buffs with an aspect. Itâs a crucial component of Necroâs kit because itâs a bandaid enabler for almost all of its builds, and it gives the class a unique niche in a game where most classes canât vacuum enemies into clumps. Itâs the same problem Witch Doctor had in D3, where Piranhado did way too much for a single button and was too good to leave out of any build.
Necro has another vacuum effect in the Void Aspect and Blight, which synergizes with Plunging Darkness and Bone Prison. But that combo take significantly more investment to pull off for a weaker version of the same effect as Corpse Tendrils. Itâd be great if Bone Golem had a talent to make its taunt vacuum mobs as well, but thatâs wishful thinking on my part.
Corpse tendrils, and blight with the âgain 4 essence every time you cc a monster â affix.
I went minions (I just cant be bothered redoing my entire paragon tree) but I just lob bombs in perpetuity once the corpse tendril can proc on the first corpse.
With black river and bloodmist corpse explosion aspect you can potentially have blood mist up 95% of the time which is the only CC breaker we have and the only way to survive nm dungeons. IMO anyways.
Iâm not so sure that it is a problem. In order to even take Corpse Tendrils, youâre sacrificing something on your bar. In my build, that means sacrificing both the Skeletons and the Golem. I also have to take Corpse Explosion and Blood Mist for it to all come together. So yeah. Corpse Tendrils does a lot but it should because youâre giving up a lot to have it.
Most other classes can teleport and dash around. Necromancers canât. Itâs fine that we have it.
I run the Blight aspect in combination with Bloodless Scream (Bloodless Scream - Item - Diablo 4)
as well as another aspect that has a 50% chance to spread crowd control effects to nearby enemies who donât have it. I wouldnât exact call it âweakerâ lmao!
I donât even have Black River. I just have like 36% cooldown reduction which means bonestorm and bloodmist both have very short cooldowns and are both lifesavers. Made my build so much more fun once I started stacking CD reduction.
When Iâm running Corpse Tendrils, I also run Blight. So that means that I get +15% increased damage to enemies within Blight, +20% increased damage due to Vulnerability, 12% increased Shadow damage due to Gloom and Terror, and 10% from Shadowblight passive. Yes, Corpse Explosion is the main source of damage but youâre not maximizing your damage if you donât run these.
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