Not-so-lazylancer: TXIII speed rifts/bounties

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by user-100036105 last updated Sep 24, 2018 ( Patch 2.6.1 )

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Skills

Corpse Lance Visceral Impact
- Corpse Lance
Target an enemy to summon projectiles from nearby corpses that cause 1750% weapon damage as Physical to the target.
Visceral Impact

Stuns the target for 3 seconds.
Skeletal Mage Gift of Death
- 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 6 seconds.
Gift of Death

Risen mages leave a corpse behind when they die or expire.
Devour Ruthless
- Devour
Consume corpses within 60 yards to restore 10 Essence per corpse.
Ruthless

Additionally consumes your minions for 10 Essence per minion killed.
Blood Rush Molting
- Blood Rush
Cost: 5% Health
Cooldown: 5 seconds

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

Leaves a corpse at your original location when used.
Land of the Dead Shallow Graves
- Land of the Dead
Cooldown: 120 seconds

All corpse skills can be used at will for 10 seconds.
Shallow Graves

Every 10 enemies killed extends the duration by 1 second up to a maximum of 2 seconds.
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.

Blood is Power
- Blood is Power
After cumulatively losing 100% of your maximum Life, all ability cooldowns are reduced by 20%. This effect cannot reduce an ability's cooldown more than once for each time that ability is used.
Final Service
- Final Service
When you take lethal damage, you are sustained preventing all damage for 4 seconds. In addition, you consume minions to heal for 10% of your Life per minion. This effect cannot occur more than once every 60 seconds.
Overwhelming Essence
- Overwhelming Essence
Increase your maximum Essence by 40.
Stand Alone
- Stand Alone
Increase armor by 100%, reduced by 10% for each active minion.

Items

Pestilence Mask

Set Helm

21 - 24 Armor

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Pestilence Master's Shroud
Pestilence Mask
Pestilence Defense
Pestilence Robe
Pestilence Incantations
Pestilence Battle Boots
Pestilence Gloves
(2) Set: Each corpse you consume fires a Corpse Lance at a nearby enemy.
(4) Set: Each enemy you hit with Bone Spear, Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion reduces your damage taken by 2%, up to a maximum of 50%. Lasts 15 seconds.
(6) Set: Each corpse you consume grants you an Empowered Bone Spear charge that increases the damage of your next Bone Spear by 3300%. In addition, Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion damage is increased by 33*100/2 %.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Pestilence Defense

Set Shoulders

59 - 68 Armor

Pestilence Master's Shroud
Pestilence Mask
Pestilence Defense
Pestilence Robe
Pestilence Incantations
Pestilence Battle Boots
Pestilence Gloves
(2) Set: Each corpse you consume fires a Corpse Lance at a nearby enemy.
(4) Set: Each enemy you hit with Bone Spear, Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion reduces your damage taken by 2%, up to a maximum of 50%. Lasts 15 seconds.
(6) Set: Each corpse you consume grants you an Empowered Bone Spear charge that increases the damage of your next Bone Spear by 3300%. In addition, Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion damage is increased by 33*100/2 %.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Haunted Visions

Legendary Amulet

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Secondary Stats

Simulacrum now drains 5% of your maximum life every second and lasts twice as long.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Pestilence Robe

Set Chest Armor

51 - 68 Armor

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Pestilence Master's Shroud
Pestilence Mask
Pestilence Defense
Pestilence Robe
Pestilence Incantations
Pestilence Battle Boots
Pestilence Gloves
(2) Set: Each corpse you consume fires a Corpse Lance at a nearby enemy.
(4) Set: Each enemy you hit with Bone Spear, Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion reduces your damage taken by 2%, up to a maximum of 50%. Lasts 15 seconds.
(6) Set: Each corpse you consume grants you an Empowered Bone Spear charge that increases the damage of your next Bone Spear by 3300%. In addition, Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion damage is increased by 33*100/2 %.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Nemesis Bracers

Legendary Bracers

8 - 10 Armor

Primary Stats

+416 - 500 Strength
+416 - 500 Dexterity
+416 - 500 Intelligence

Secondary Stats

Shrines and Pylons will spawn an enemy champion. {c:FF40E0D0}(Emanates)

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Pestilence Gloves

Set Gloves

42 - 55 Armor

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 6 - 6.5%

Pestilence Master's Shroud
Pestilence Mask
Pestilence Defense
Pestilence Robe
Pestilence Incantations
Pestilence Battle Boots
Pestilence Gloves
(2) Set: Each corpse you consume fires a Corpse Lance at a nearby enemy.
(4) Set: Each enemy you hit with Bone Spear, Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion reduces your damage taken by 2%, up to a maximum of 50%. Lasts 15 seconds.
(6) Set: Each corpse you consume grants you an Empowered Bone Spear charge that increases the damage of your next Bone Spear by 3300%. In addition, Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion damage is increased by 33*100/2 %.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Goldwrap

Legendary Belt

88 - 107 Armor

Primary Stats

+15 - 16% Extra Gold from Monsters

Secondary Stats

On gold pickup: Gain armor for 5 seconds equal to the amount picked up.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Pestilence Incantations

Set Pants

33 - 38 Armor

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Pestilence Master's Shroud
Pestilence Mask
Pestilence Defense
Pestilence Robe
Pestilence Incantations
Pestilence Battle Boots
Pestilence Gloves
(2) Set: Each corpse you consume fires a Corpse Lance at a nearby enemy.
(4) Set: Each enemy you hit with Bone Spear, Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion reduces your damage taken by 2%, up to a maximum of 50%. Lasts 15 seconds.
(6) Set: Each corpse you consume grants you an Empowered Bone Spear charge that increases the damage of your next Bone Spear by 3300%. In addition, Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion damage is increased by 33*100/2 %.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Pestilence Battle Boots

Set Boots

30 - 35 Armor

Primary Stats

+78 - 83 Vitality

Pestilence Master's Shroud
Pestilence Mask
Pestilence Defense
Pestilence Robe
Pestilence Incantations
Pestilence Battle Boots
Pestilence Gloves
(2) Set: Each corpse you consume fires a Corpse Lance at a nearby enemy.
(4) Set: Each enemy you hit with Bone Spear, Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion reduces your damage taken by 2%, up to a maximum of 50%. Lasts 15 seconds.
(6) Set: Each corpse you consume grants you an Empowered Bone Spear charge that increases the damage of your next Bone Spear by 3300%. In addition, Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion damage is increased by 33*100/2 %.

+ 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
Avarice Band

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 1.5–2.0%
+2 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

+11–12% Extra Gold from Monsters
Each time you pick up gold, increase your Gold and Health Pickup radius by 1 yard for 10 seconds, stacking up to 30 times.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+24–29 Dexterity

+24–29 Strength

+24–29 Intelligence
In-geom

Legendary Sword

4.2 Damage Per Second

Secondary Stats

Your skill cooldowns are reduced by 8 - 10 seconds for 15 seconds after killing an elite pack.
One of 8 Magic Properties (varies)
+10 - 15% Damage

+(132 - 308) Physical Damage

+(132 - 308) Fire Damage

+(132 - 308) Lightning Damage

+(132 - 308) Cold Damage

+(132 - 308) Poison Damage

+(132 - 308) Arcane Damage

+(132 - 308) Holy Damage

+ 2 Random Magic Properties
Bone Ringer

Legendary Phylactery

Primary Stats

+1.471363E-43 Maximum Damage
Critical Hit Chance Increased by 1%

Secondary Stats

The damage bonus of Command Skeletons increases by 25 - 30% per second they spend attacking the same target.
One of 1 Magic Properties (varies)
+1.443337E-43 Minimum Damage

+ 3 Random Magic Properties

More Details

Head
- Pestilence Mask
- Stat Priority: Socket Int CHC Vit
Shoulders
- Pestilence Defense
- Corpsewhisper Pauldrons
- Stat Priority: Dex Skill: Leap Vit
Amulet
- Haunted Visions
- The Johnstone
- Stat Priority: Socket CDR Physical % CHD
Torso
- Pestilence Robe
- Stat Priority: Socket Int Skill: Corpse Lance Vit
Wrists
- Nemesis Bracers
- Stat Priority: Int Physical % CHC Vit
Hands
- Pestilence Gloves
- Stat Priority: CDR Int CHD CHC
Waist
- Goldwrap
- Vigilante Belt
- Stat Priority: Int Vit Armor + Life
Legs
- Pestilence Incantations
- Stat Priority: Socket Int Vit Armor +
Feet
- Pestilence Battle Boots
- Steuart's Greaves
- Stat Priority: Int Vit Armor + Life
Rings
- Krysbin's Sentence
- Avarice Band
- Circle of Nailuj's Evol
- Stat Priority: Socket Socket CDR CHD CHC
Weapon
- In-geom
- Stat Priority: Socket CDR Dmg range Dmg %
Offhand
- Bone Ringer
- Stat Priority: CDR CHD Int Skill: Corpse Lance

Legendary Gems
- Boon of the Hoarder
  Boon of the Hoarder
  
  Gem
  
  Primary Stats
  
  25.0% chance on killing an enemy to cause an explosion of gold.
  Gain 30% increased movement speed for 2 seconds after picking up gold. (Requires Rank 25)
- Bane of the Trapped
  Bane of the Trapped
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Increase damage against enemies under the effects of control-impairing effects by 15%.
- Gogok of Swiftness
  Gogok of Swiftness
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Gain Swiftness with every attack, increasing your Attack Speed by 1% and Dodge by 0.5% for 4 seconds. This effect stacks up to 15 times.

Kanai's Cube

Reilena's Shadowhook

Legendary Two-Handed Scythe

1687.4 Damage Per Second

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 2 Magic Properties (varies)
+66 - 132 Minimum Damage
+88 - 176 Maximum Damage

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Reilena's Shadowhook
Corpsewhisper Pauldrons

Legendary Shoulders

59 - 68 Armor

Secondary Stats

Corpse Lance damage is increased by 25 - 30% for 3 seconds when you consume a corpse. Max 20 stacks.

+ 5 Random Magic Properties
Corpsewhisper Pauldrons
Ring of Royal Grandeur

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Attack Speed Increased by 5 - 6%
+152 - 224 Life per Hit

Secondary Stats

Reduces the number of items needed for set bonuses by 1 (to a minimum of 2).

+ 2 Random Magic Properties
Ring of Royal Grandeur

Paragon Priorities

Core

Movement Speed
Maximum Resource
Primary Stat
Vitality

Offense

Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Damage
Critical Hit Chance
Attack Speed

Defense

Armor
Life
Resist All
Life Regeneration

Utility

Area Damage
Life on Hit
Gold Find
Resource Cost Reduction

Build Guide

Summary:

This build is an extremely fast build for doing both TXIII rifts and bounties (solo or 4man split). Additionally it is flexible in terms of gearing in that there is a variation of the build you can use while gearing up to the most optimal version (see below for more details on variations.)

Description:

This build is something I have been slowly working on while leveling my Necro this season (14). I originally used to run the lazylancer build for doing bounties and normal rifts:

https://www.diablofans.com/builds/99056-nailujs-ruthlance

This build is an easy way to play a pestilence necro with no reliance on big cooldowns such as LotD or Simulacrum. I've noticed the build struggles in 4man split bounties so I developed the not-so-lazy lancer build described here to reintroduce LotD and Simulacrum to the build while retaining the core mechanic of being able to generate corpses for corpse lance using sacrificed skeletal mages as a backup when you have downtime on your major cooldowns.

Since developing this build I have found a lot of simularities with lord_fluffy's pestilance speed build:

https://www.diablofans.com/builds/96210-pesti-lance-txiii-speedfarm

The main difference being that lord_fluffy's build uses blood golem for supplying corpses outside of cooldowns whereas this build uses the lazylancer mechanic for generating corpses. The pestilance speed build is extremely fast and very good but has a high gear requirement (CDR on everything) to become effective. This not-so-lazylancer build is more forgiving in that you can gear around your pure lazylancer part of the build if you do not have enough CDR to reliably have LotD up. Additionally, the not-so-lazylancer build is better at dealing with really crappy maps/bounties as you always have a reliable tool for destroying all enemies (be it LotD spamming corpse lances or lazylancing demons to death). Note that in a good map set/bounty these builds will feel exactly the same.

Abilities and Runes:

Corpse Lance - Visceral Impact: The stuns from visceral impact will help proc damage from your Krysbin's Sentence and bane of the trapped.

Skeletal Mage - Gift of Death: Required for the lazylancer corpse generation.

Devour - Ruthless: The other half of the lazylancer corpse generation. Ruthless devours your mages which gift of death then supplies you with corpses which you can devour again for more corpse lances from the pestilence set bonus.

Blood rush - Molting: More corpses always welcome. Not necessary though, any rune works here really (maybe except the no health cost since you'll struggle to proc blood is power). Metabolism can be good but may put too much of a strain on your health pool if you are using Haunted Visions as your amulet due to the increased health cost.

Land of the Dead - Shallow Graves: Amazing cooldown to mess shit up. Try get as much uptime on this as possible. Shallow graves rune helps this by adding more time to the buff.

Simulacrum - Reservoir: Rune doubles your essence which adds power due to your cubed Reilena's Shadowhook. Unlike other pestilence builds, we also get the base benefit of simulacrum in that you can stagger this buff with LotD to buff the lazylancer phases since the simulacrum clone will cast additional skeletal mages for you to devour for extra corpses. This can be a really good way to cover your LotD downtime if you don't have sufficiently high CDR or are on an extremely bad map.

Passives:

Blood is Power: More CDR!! Most important thing in this build.

Final Service: Just in case, Dying sucks.

Overwhelming Essence: More essence = More damage from Reilena's Shadowhook + Reservoir.

Stand Alone: Some survivability when you aren't able to stack armor from gold with your goldwrap.

Items:

The pestilence set speaks for itself. I will only mention the notable items here:

Helm - Leoric's Crown: Stick a diamond in here for massive CDR. This will help keep LotD up as much as possible since this is significantly more powerful than your lazylancing phases.

Shoulders - Corpsewhiper Pauldrons: Bread and butter of corpse lance builds. Wear whichever of your Leoric's Crown or Corpsewhiper Pauldrons is better and cube the other.

Amulet - Haunted Visions: Basically will give you 100% uptime on Simulacrum even on bad maps which can really boost your lazylancing damage with the extra mages being cast by your clone (let alone the increased damage coming from resevoir + Reilena's shadowhook). Alternatively, if you find you are able to keep Simulacrum up all the time anyway then you can use the Johnstone for increased corpse lance damage.

Bracers - Nemesis Bracers: The ideal partner to In-geom for getting more CDR. More elites = More CDR.

Waist - Goldwrap: This is where all your toughness comes from. Pick up craploads of gold and live forever. Alternatively, if you aren't a pussy like me you could go with Vigilante Belt for the CDR.

Rings - Krysbins Sentence + Avarice Band: Krysbins Sentence is a no brainer. Avarice Band will save you so much time picking up gold and globes and helps fuel the goldwrap + boon of the hoarder machine.

Weapon - In-geom: MORE CDR.

Off-hand - Anything: It's a stat-stick. I only listed bone ringer here because it guaranteed rolls CHC. Any good offhand will do.

Legendary Gems:

Boon of the Hoarder: Fuels goldwrap, gives you speed and also gives you gold for you know, spending??

Bane of the Trapped: More damage!

Gogok of Swiftness: More CDR!!

Stat Priorities:

Stat priorities are as described above. Ideally you really want to get CDR on everything. 60%+ CDR is what you need to aim for. But if you aren't able to make it with the gear you have there are variations to help you along until you can make it:

Variations:

Low CDR - If you have low CDR you can still run this build but you might want to look to buff the lazylancing aspect of the build more since you will be more reliant on this. One way is to drop Avarice Band for Circle of Naijul's Evol. This will allow you to create more skeletal mages for sacrificing = more corpses. Together with having simulacrum up during your lazylancing time (due to Haunted Visions) this can boost you to sacrificing 4 mages at a time which will really help you fly until LotD comes back again.

Speed - You can drop Leoric's Crown for Steuart's Greaves for extra speed which can definitely help on poor maps and certain bounties.

HC/Survivability: If you want to play this build in hardcore or just fancy extra survivability then you can drop Overwhelming Essence for Life From Death. Life From Death will make the life drain from simulacrum with Haunting Visions and your blood rush spam less of a worry and the extra damage from Overwhelming Essence shouldn't be necessary to tear through T13 already.

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