Build Guide
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If you don't pay attention to how this build is played by reading this, you may end up running out of essence and or dealing no damage.
Take a moment and read below, thanks
You start by leaving a corpse with Blood Rush, when devour gets your first stack of 6 piece set (4000% damage on your next bone spear) you tp on top of some trash mobs and you proc Bone Armor active and burst them.. With the equipped weapon passive, you start one shotting trash until you have some spears and then you can proceed to one shot everything, careful not to run out of one shotting bone spears stacks (6 piece set + equipped weapon legendary bonus) or you will probably run out of essence. In no time you will have enough Empowered spears (maybe 10 stacks or less) and be careless about running out of stacks, you have to be a little careful to rotate your spells how I stated before the first moments of starting the rift or whatever it is you are farming. Always cast bone armor when it runs out with at least 1 monster in range of its damage to get the extra damage from your weapon pasive.
Important: If you do run out of stacks or die, back off a little and use your tp skill, blood rush, and if you use the correct rune, you will automatically consume a corpse, get your first stack of an empowered spear and have essence again, and restart killing trash.
Dying withthis build is VERY punishing, since it's pretty much stack based, so be careful or invest your pasives into defense if needed
This build doesn't need a spender because all the essence you get from the devour aura when it consumes corpses automatically, making this build really easy. For me, it is really fun to one shot things with 1 click.
You can swap bone spirit with anything you like, really. Maybe land of the dead and use johnstone as your amulet(explained in item build description) You can also swap the passives to your liking, maybe more tanky or whatever it is you see you are lacking.
This build was first based on MrDoD0S ''plague lancer'', go check it out if you want.
Disclaimer: This is how I started my necro. I don't know if this is optimal for speedfarming but it's working great on day 1 of the necro patch and I'm having fun. Haven't tried other builds, feel free to tell me in the comments if there are better builds for TX speed farming or if this one could use a tweak.
What is the purpose of the Lost Time? I've been trying to figure out its usefulness and I'm not sure. I see that Bone Spikes has a rune for cold. Do you spam Bone Spikes ever? Any insight into the usefulness of Bone Spikes and when to use it would be great. Thank you.
Not a bad build at all. Sadly i am only able to clear GR 55 with it, I tried GR 70+ and GT 60+ and had zero luck. I used your exact loadout and it's very fun to run with on normal stuff. Plus there needs to be more Poison build imo in this game!.
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You can also use a lidless wall with good stats in its place
Yes, it was very implied in my post that you can't push with this sadly, this set may need a buff or for someone to discover a really solid build. I've seen a build around there using nayr's black death with poison skills. I will post it here if I see it again
looks like it is good for tx and t11, but still weak for t13.
and Endless walk for nefalems? really?))
You need GOLDEN COMBO: goldwrap + boon of hoarder(replace BoP) + avarice band
Avarice is must have QoL tool for progress spheres, for health globes - you use Reapers, and to buff Devouring Aura radius as well(personally think that Devouring aura is too weak dew to 15radius compared to active runes with 60) - no reason not to run it.
with tripple legendary rings you'll have a slot for amulet. Mb hellfire? But I don't think 5th passive is needed, necro's passives looks very weak, you also don't need Stand Alone with goldwrap. Mb Dark Reaping will be good for additional essence regen.
Kymbo's gold or mb Rondal's locket are OK choice.
Also for gems - topaz in helmet looks decent, RCR is good stat for 40 essence spear) you basically need RCR everywhere. Change recomended stats - you have no % skill on armor pieces, and there is no AS roll on offhand)
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There is a way to squeeze more damage but the defense just suffers, you always miss one component to balance everything, it is T13 set if they don't do some changes to it.
cool build can't wait to try it
Why is Spreading Malediction in this build? There are no curses to gain any benefits from this passive.
6thjuly/17 update: I apologize for the lack of updates. The reason the build was using krysbin with no curses was because I started using frailty with this build and then changed it to a generator, forgetting to move around other things
If you're using a Scythe of the Cycle, the off-hand is purely based on stats.
"You can swap Lidless Wall with an Lost Time, if you get that gives you better stats at the moment."