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S19 Rat Mage DPS

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Skills

  • Blood Rush Metabolism
  • Bone Armor Harvest of Anguish
  • Land of the Dead Frozen Lands
  • Devour Satiated
  • Skeletal Mage Singularity
  • Simulacrum Reservoir
  • Blood is Power
  • Extended Servitude
  • Final Service
  • Overwhelming Essence

Items

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  • Legendary Gems

    • Bane of the Trapped
    • Enforcer
    • Legacy of Dreams

Kanai's Cube

  • Reilena's Shadowhook
  • Leoric's Crown
  • Squirt's Necklace

Key Gearing Points:

  1. We are an intelligence class, we do not require all resist.
  2. This is a LoD/LoN build, it requires as many ancients as possible.
  3. Critical Hit Chance is a non-desired stat, our support necro debuffs everything so that it's near 100% crit chance with minimal crit on our gear.
  4. Cooldown Reduction is very important for this build. I will include pertinent math in a pastebin later.
  5. Maximum Essence is king due to Reliana's Shadowhook.

Acronyms:

CHC = Critical Hit Chance

CHD = Critical Hit Damage

CDR = Cooldown Reduction

AD = Area Damage

AS = Attack Speed

Int = Intelligence

Vit = Vitality

S:SM = Skill: Skeletal Mage


Gearing:

Helm: Socket > Physical Damage = S:SM > AS > CHC1 > Intellect

Shoulders: CDR > Int > Vit > Armor > All Resistance = AD

Neck2: Socket > CHD > Physical Damage > CHC > CDR > Damage > Int

Chest: Socket > Int > Vit > Armor > Elite Damage Reduction > All Resist

Bracers: Physical Damage > Legendary Affix%> Int > Vit > CHC > Armor

Gloves3: CDR > CHD > AS > CHC > Int > AD

Belt: CHD > AS > Int > Vit > Armor

Legs4: Physical Damage > Sockets (not joking) > Int > Vit > Armor

Boots: S:SM > Int > Vit > Armor

Ring 1 (Circle of Nailuj's Evol): 4 second affix >>>>>>> CDR > CHD > Damage > CHC

Ring 2 (Kryshbin's): Legendary Affix >>>>>>>>>>>>>> CDR > CHD > Damage > CHC

Weapon: Maximum Essence >> CDR > Damage% > AS > Max Damage

Phylactery: Maximum Essence >> CDR > S:SM > Elite Dmg > Max Damage > Elite Damage > CHC > Int


1.) Critical Chance on helm is slightly undesirable, but completely worthwhile if you can't get everything else.

2.) Take either Squirt's or Haunted Visions. Haunted Visions is much easier to roll well.

3.) Quads are OBSCENELY hard to roll, across ~15 seasons I have gotten them twice and neither were ancient.

4.) Read guide in Discord on how to obtain these.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Maximum Resource
Movement Speed
Primary Stat
Vitality

Offense

Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Damage
Critical Hit Chance
Attack Speed

Defense

Armor
Life
Resist All
Life Regeneration

Utility

Resource Cost Reduction
Life on Hit
Area Damage
Gold Find

I'm not really sold on Max Resource > Movement Speed. You should be well over Paragon 400 running this anyways.

Build Guide

Lots of credit to Raxx. Mostly used for people in my Discord.