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Kanai's Cube

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  • Reilena's Shadowhook

  

  Legendary Two-Handed Scythe

  • 1687.4 Damage Per Second
  • Primary Stats
  • • +946 - 1125 Intelligence
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Every point of Maximum Essence increases your damage by 0.5% and Bone Spikes generates 2 - 5 additional Essence for each enemy hit.
    • One of 7 Magic Properties (varies)

    • +(1439 - 1788) Physical Damage

    • +(1439 - 1788) Fire Damage

    • +(1439 - 1788) Lightning Damage

    • +(1439 - 1788) Cold Damage

    • +(1439 - 1788) Poison Damage

    • +(1439 - 1788) Arcane Damage

    • +(1439 - 1788) Holy Damage

  • + 3 Random Magic Properties
  Reilena's Shadowhook
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  • Tasker and Theo

  

  Legendary Gloves

  • 309 - 366 Armor
  • Primary Stats
  • • +626 - 750 Strength
    • +626 - 750 Dexterity
    • +626 - 750 Intelligence
    • Attack Speed Increased by 5 - 6%
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Increase attack speed of your pets by 40 - 50%.
  • + 3 Random Magic Properties
  Tasker and Theo
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  • Circle of Nailuj's Evol

  

  Legendary Ring

  • Primary Stats
  • • +416 - 500 Strength
    • +416 - 500 Dexterity
    • +416 - 500 Intelligence
    • Critical Hit Damage Increased by 26 - 50%
  • Secondary Stats
  • • You now raise an additional Skeletal Mage with each cast and they last an additional 2 - 4 seconds.
  • + 3 Random Magic Properties
  Circle of Nailuj's Evol

Skills:

Bone Spikes/Sudden Impact: Amazing generator due to Reilena's in the cube plus a stun for defense and to activate Krysbin's.

Simulacrum/Reservoir: Burst DPS on demand for tough fights and restarting after deaths. Reservoir takes advantage of Reilena's.

Command Skeletons/Freezing Grasp: Required for Jesseth bonus and the stun activates Krysbin's.

Decrepify/Dizzying Curse: Activates Dayntee's Binding damage reduction plus the stun activates Krysbin's.

Skeletal Mage/Singularity: Deeps!

Devour/Satiated: Offers more survivability than cannibalize. The idea is to not get 1-2 shot by everything. Healing will come from globes/potions. This should be put on autocast via the "num-lock trick". There are many videos out there explaining how to do this. Here's one: https://youtu.be/JaAI8s8rft4

Passives:

Final Service: You're going to screw up or just face unavoidable death sometimes. This will save your bacon and often times your mages will survive. I find it typically gets the skeletons first. Death = Time. Time is precious.

Extended Servitude: Automatic for any pet build

Overwhelming Essence: Automatic for any Reilena's build

Life from Death: Great synergy with Devour and Reapers Wraps. This will be your primary source of healing and provide a big essence generation boost.

Gear:

Bones of Rathma: Can't have a Rathma build without the set itself. There's no room for RoRG in this build so you'll need to wear all 6 pieces. Stat priorities should be CHC, CHD, IAS, and INT. Grab Skeletal Mage Damage where you can (boots, helm) and some CDR for Simulacrum where you can (not required but it helps.

Endless Walk vs. Haunted Visions/CoE: Both are viable options. Use whichever you have the best rolls on. I personally find that Endless Walk bonus DR is better as long as you can still kill fast enough to beat the timer. If you find yourself surviving but a little slow, swap to HV/CoE....much more DPS but less survivability.

Krysbin's Sentence/Circle of Nailuj's Evol: Both of these are core items in the build. We're set up to take max advantage of Krysbin's bonus and we obviously want mages up as long as possible. Wear whichever you have rolled better and toss the other one in the cube.

Dayntee's Binding: This item was the key to my success with Rathma. I found that LotD was too clunky and I really had no survivability outside of the CD. This allows us to run Decrepify which gives us the DR from the belt and the curse itself. It's also proccing BotT for those mobs far away...which we want to take advantage of Zei's. I think this more than makes up for the DPS lost not using Witching Hour.

Reaper's Wraps: We're going with a health globe strategy so these make the most sense. More essence, stronger mages, MOAR DEEPS. It really hurts losing Nemesis in this slot but having a consistent source of healing and more/stronger mages makes up for it IMO.

Cube:

Reilena's Shadowhook: Big multiplier with maximum essence. Ideally we'll have that rolled on both our weapon and shield and when we pop Simulacrum this choice really shines.

Tasker and Theo: The only way to actually make mages attack faster. (Normal IAS provides a linear DPS increase but they do not attack faster).

Circle/Krysbin's: Wear the better rolled one and cube the other.

Gems:

Bane of the Trapped: This should be in every build. It's flat out amazing.

Enforcer: A must for pet builds.

Zei's Stone of Vengence: This is really the only slot I see up for debate across most Rathma builds. I've seen Esoteric Alteration, Molten Wildebeast Gizzard, and even Bane of the Powerful used here. Personally I think Zei's suits the strategy the best. We want to be in the back while our mages clean up. Since Zei's calculates distance from the player to the monster, not the pet, we can take full advantage of the gem. I suppose Esoteric would be my second choice if you're really having trouble with elemental packs but you'll be sacrificing huge deeps.

Gameplay:

Gameplay should be pretty straight forward Jesseth Rathma's:

1. Num-lock Devour

2. Command Skellies

3. Decrepify

4. Start Mage Summoning

5. Once 8-10 mages are up start casting more powerful mages

6. Use Simulacrum for tough fights or to restart from a death.

Track down health globes when they are safely in reach to fuel more powerful mages. Stand in power circles generated from your follower whenever possible. I personally use the Templar, but the Enchantress is also a good choice. You're going to want to kill everything you see in this build. The idea is to stand behind your pets while they mop up so you don't want to be fighting on more than one front if at all possible.

Paragon Priorities

Standard paragon distribution. Max everything, leave Vitality blank, and push INT. I suppose you could toss some points into VIT if you really wanted to but I prefer the added damage and resists.