Build Guide
Full pet build using the Rathma Set. (Work in Progress) - Check back for updates!
Tested at P800, GR 80 Cleared with ease, also a great beginner build for S11. Also unlike most rathma builds this one super tanky and huge pet dps!
Huge 200K + Life regen per second! So you regain all your health pool super quick in like 3-4 secs!
Get essence rolls on weapon and paragon for more dps from Shadow hook in cube. 0.5 damage boost per 1 point , the cap is 310 essence.
Essence is generated super quick from Shadow Hook in cube and ofc bone spikes.
On this build you can push forward through mobs and hunt down the elites for faster progression, rather just hanging back killing all trash, be in the thick of combat, so your stuns from bonespikes, dizzing curse proc your ancient APD Bracers for massive toughness boost in 20 yards!
Rotation is, Bone Armour! get those 10 stacks up asap for defence (30%) and the HUGE healing regen!, command skeletons to get the 400% damage bonus!, Decrepify to debuff (80% DR 30s) MAGES! Alternate between bonespikes and mages and get 10 out asap for full damage , once at 10 mages spam bone spikes to ramp your essence to 100% to recast mages that will be super charged lich lords! and BOOM!
Changed Simulacrum to Frailty scent of blood for better overall dps , just better overall clears this method , and no waiting for 120s cooldown on Simulacrum, also SM passive can be changed for Draw Life passive, was hitting 500k Life regen per 1s !
Capable of going GR100+ once geared correctly.
For even more tactics and gameplay please refer the video!
Have fun in sanctuary !
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Original credit for this build goes to Mmeee, build posted by myself here http://www.diablofans.com/builds/91419-rathma-gr-90-solo-mage-simulacrum
5 days before Bigdaddyden updated his PTR broken build.
New Hotfix for rathma = Adjusted the Bones of Rathma six-piece set bonus based on player feedsback (7/7)
"ramp your essence to 100% to proc shadowhook", I'm not sure about Shadowhook mechanic, but it says "every point of MAXIMUM essence", it means if you have 200/200 it increases damage by 100%, if you have 0/200 your MAXIMUM essence is still 200. If it were like UE, it would say "per point of Essence the Necromancer currently has"
I don't understand how you don't run out of essence. By the time I got my 10th mage up there's nothing left to use Bone Spike's on. And then after they start despawning it's a constant struggle to get essence just to recast them.
Update 08/07/17, Changed Simulacrum to Frailty Scent of blood, much more constant dps and no 120s cooldown timer, changed amulet to hellfire amulet to add Spreading Malediction Passive for massive dps boost, also SM can be changed to Draw life for insane 500k+ Life Per second in density for hardcore players.
Cleared GR85 simulated at 800k Paragon on twitch today with just 1 CD aug on belt.
Glad to see you picked up us adding Skeletal Mages as a spell for items - that was bugging me!!
No room for it, nor room for a movement skill. Can't have everything. If either skill is a must for you, I'd recommend ditching frailty.
Since you are using Bone Armor, why aren't you using Scythe of the Cycle (instead of Reilena's Shadowhook) for more damage?
Updated 11/07/17, Changed hellfire / unity back to Endless walk set , the toughness was over capped for softcore, but for hardcore deffo stick with unity / Hellfire amulet.
Smashed gr 95 today at 2k paragon and just 2 augments on gear, also use enchantress instead of templar, you dont need the heals since we regen like 200k+ life per sec.
Also seeing 1.5 trillion crits at current gear score.
Ok, Just going to ask i may have missed it but would not max essence be good or dose the mage cap at what ever the "non increased" max essence is at
Great build having fun with this Pet build, I myself am a pet user too, been following your builds since Witch Doctor days awesome stuff.
Anyways I found that Freezing Grasp from the Skeleton provided more damage since it triggers the freeze meaning the triple damage from Krysbin's, since we are inflicting Freeze instead of the slowed we get the triple bonus, well it's been working for me anyways I managed to push through GR88 using that instead of the Frenzy.
Dam I love it pushed through GR97, do we have a new contender for Meta build other than Vlad Corpse Impaler build?
bigdaddyden, I really enjoy your builds and your videos. I don't have a lot of time to play D3 to make every variation of every character class. So my question to you is with limited time, if you only had to pick from a single necro solo PET build to climb the GR, which build would it be and with which set? I want to focus on a single build/set and try to optimize gear to push as high as I can go solo. Thanks!
New gameplay video coming soon for all the new changes.
Update 13/07/17, Changed swift harvest passive to Spreading Malediction for more dps, once you have all the correct attack speed rolls in gear SH passive not needed! with this change im seeing 1.5 to 2 Trillion crits
I am playing on PS4, so I have access to save scum re-rolls on gear, this has taken a while for some the gear to roll but yea that's pretty much what's on my gear as of right now still trying to re-forge the helm, shield and bracers hopefully they to Primal Ancient.