LoD Mages (rats) tanky variant for everything

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by easyy last updated Nov 27, 2020 ( Season 22 )

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Skills

Skeletal Mage Life Support
- Skeletal Mage
Cost: 40 Essence

Raise a skeleton from the ground to attack your foes dealing 400% weapon damage as Physical over two attacks. Lasts 0 seconds.
Life Support

Risen mages cost 10% health to cast but last an additional 2 seconds.
Bone Armor Harvest of Anguish
- Bone Armor
Cooldown: 10 seconds

Rip bones from nearby enemies, dealing 125% weapon damage as Physical, and create armor that reduces damage taken by 3% per enemy hit up to a maximum of 10 enemies. Lasts for 60 secs.
Harvest of Anguish

Bone Armor also increases your movement speed by 1% for each enemy hit.

Bone Armor's damage is turned into Cold.
Blood Rush Metabolism
- Blood Rush
Cost: 5% Health
Cooldown: 5 seconds

Shed your mortal flesh and reappear up to 50 yards away.
Metabolism

Provides an additional charge but doubles the health cost.
Frailty Aura of Frailty
- Frailty
Cost: 10 Essence

A crippling curse that kills enemies with less than 15% health. Lasts 30 seconds.
Aura of Frailty

Becomes an aura that curses all enemies within 15 yards.

The range of this effect is increased by 50% of your gold pickup radius.
Devour Devouring Aura
- Devour
Consume corpses within 60 yards to restore 10 Essence per corpse.
Devouring Aura

Becomes an aura that consumes all corpses within 15 yards to restore 11 Essence per corpse.

The range of this effect is increased by 50% of your gold pickup radius.
Simulacrum Reservoir
- Simulacrum
Cost: 25% Health
Cooldown: 120 seconds

Create a Simulacrum made of blood that will duplicate your Secondary skills for 15 seconds.
Reservoir

Your maximum essence is increased by 100% while your Simulacrum is active.

Overwhelming Essence
- Overwhelming Essence
Increase your maximum Essence by 40.
Final Service
- Final Service
When you take lethal damage, you are sustained preventing all damage for 4 seconds. In addition, you heal for 10% of your Life per minion. This effect cannot occur more than once every 60 seconds.
Dark Reaping
- Dark Reaping
While using a scythe, gain 2% Essence and Life per kill.
Extended Servitude
- Extended Servitude
Increase the duration of your Skeletal Mage and Revive minions by 25%.

Items

Razeth's Volition

Legendary Shoulders

59 - 68 Armor

Secondary Stats

Skeletal Mage gains the effect of the Gift of Death and Singularity runes. You gain 35 - 50% damage reduction if your Essence is not full.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Haunted Visions

Legendary Amulet

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Secondary Stats

Simulacrum now drains 1% of your maximum life every second and lasts forever. They can now duplicate Grim Scythe instead of Skeletal Mage.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Requiem Cereplate

Legendary Chest Armor

51 - 68 Armor

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Secondary Stats

Devour restores an additional 75 - 100% Essence and Life. In addition, when Devour restores Essence or Life above your maximum, the excess is granted over 3 seconds.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Reaper's Wraps

Legendary Bracers

367 - 422 Armor

+ 5 Random Magic Properties
Tasker and Theo

Legendary Gloves

Primary Stats

Attack Speed Increased by 5.0–6.0%
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Increase attack speed of your pets by 40–50%.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+330–524 Dexterity

+330–524 Strength

+330–524 Intelligence
Dayntee's Binding

Legendary Belt

6 - 7 Armor

Secondary Stats

You gain an additional 40 - 50% damage reduction when there is an enemy afflicted by any of your curses.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Hexing Pants of Mr. Yan

Legendary Pants

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Your resource generation and damage is increased by 25% while moving and decreased by 20–25% while standing still.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+85–108 Dexterity

+85–108 Strength

+85–108 Intelligence
Steuart's Greaves

Legendary Boots

30 - 35 Armor

Primary Stats

+8 - 9% Movement Speed

Secondary Stats

You gain 75 - 100% increased movement speed for 10 seconds after using Blood Rush.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Krysbin's Sentence

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Attack Speed Increased by 5 - 6%

Secondary Stats

You deal 75 - 100% increased damage against slowed enemies or triple this bonus against enemies afflicted by any other type of control-impairing effect.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Circle of Nailuj's Evol

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Damage Increased by 26 - 28%

Secondary Stats

You now raise an additional Skeletal Mage with each cast and they last an additional 2 - 4 seconds.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Scythe of the Cycle

Legendary Scythe

461.5 Damage Per Second

Secondary Stats

Your Secondary skills deal 350 - 400% additional damage while Bone Armor is active but reduce the remaining duration of Bone Armor by 4 seconds.
One of 2 Magic Properties (varies)
+66 - 132 Minimum Damage
+88 - 176 Maximum Damage

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Lost Time

Legendary Phylactery

Primary Stats

+1.471363E-43 Maximum Damage

Secondary Stats

Your cold skills reduce the movement speed of enemies by 30%. In addition, your movement speed is increased by 8 - 10% for 5 seconds. Maximum 5 stacks.
One of 1 Magic Properties (varies)
+1.443337E-43 Minimum Damage

+ 4 Random Magic Properties

More Details

Head
- Stat Priority: Skill: Skeletal Mage Physical %
Shoulders
- Razeth's Volition
- Stat Priority: AD
Amulet
- Haunted Visions
- Stat Priority: Physical %
Torso
- Requiem Cereplate
- Stat Priority: None
Wrists
- Reaper's Wraps
- Stat Priority: Physical %
Hands
- Tasker and Theo
- Stat Priority: Int AD
Waist
- Dayntee's Binding
- Stat Priority: None
Legs
- Hexing Pants of Mr. Yan
- Stat Priority: None
Feet
- Steuart's Greaves
- Stat Priority: Skill: Skeletal Mage
Rings
- Krysbin's Sentence
- Circle of Nailuj's Evol
- Stat Priority: None
Weapon
- Scythe of the Cycle
- Stat Priority: Dmg % AD
Offhand
- Lost Time
- Stat Priority: Skill: Skeletal Mage AD

Legendary Gems
- Legacy of Dreams
  Legacy of Dreams
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  While you have no set bonuses equipped every legendary item you have equipped increases your damage dealt by 3.75% and reduces your damage taken by 2%.
- Enforcer
  Enforcer
  
  Gem
  
  Primary Stats
  
  Increase the damage of your pets by 15.00%.
  Your pets take 90% less damage. (Requires Rank 25)
- Bane of the Trapped
  Bane of the Trapped
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats

Kanai's Cube

Trag'Oul's Corroded Fang

Legendary Scythe

461.5 Damage Per Second

Secondary Stats

The Cursed Scythe rune for Grim Scythe now has a 100% chance to apply a curse and you deal 150 - 200% increased damage to cursed enemies.
One of 2 Magic Properties (varies)
+66 - 132 Minimum Damage
+88 - 176 Maximum Damage

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Trag'Oul's Corroded Fang
Strongarm Bracers

Legendary Bracers

200 - 220 Armor

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 1%
+201 - 230 Vitality

Secondary Stats

Enemies hit by knockbacks suffer 20 - 30% increased damage for 6 seconds.

+ 2 Random Magic Properties
Strongarm Bracers
Briggs' Wrath

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 3.5%

Secondary Stats

Uncursed enemies are pulled to the target location when a curse is applied to them.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Briggs' Wrath

all gear must be ancient

Weapon and offhand MUST have essence rolled on them. max is 20

helmet is andariels rolled physical,

4th cube is reilanas shadow hook

he t16 variant is goldwrap belt, nemis in cube and boon of hoarder in one piece of jewelry

I've been able to run duos on this setup up to 105 with like 800 paragon so.

its great.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Primary Stat
Vitality
Movement Speed
Maximum Resource

Offense

Attack Speed
Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage

Defense

Life
Armor
Resist All
Life Regeneration

Utility

Area Damage
Resource Cost Reduction
Life on Hit
Gold Find

Build Guide

pretty straight forward. I pop sim when rift starts, I tele into a pack and cast bone armor then I cast a set of mages.

I enjoy this build, much faster than running bonespear for everything.

I made this build to be able to run and carry people or to run rats dps outside of a 4man group. works really well. dmg is insane.

very fast

I'm also on the fence about reapers wraps. I think they can Easily be replaced with something else full time. that nerf is just kinda mediocre now.

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