Build Guide
GR60s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apKn3HZfBqo
10x consecutive GR70 competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B8YHPmlTkg
GR70 clears (with Shadowhook equipped): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Dop9D23SM
"You can run..." Fear+Movespeed Alternate Setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itHHe8VSzp4
This build began as an attempt to turn SpeedSplosion into a higher GR build. Then the thought occurred to me, partly as a joke and partly not - "What if instead of focusing on buffing Corpse Explosion damage, I focused on buffing all of the passive damage?" The build applies the same concept as what I refer to as "passive murdering potential" in the SpeedSplosion build but ratcheted up a notch and increasing survivability at the same time. I'm consistently getting clears of 2:30 in GR60 and 3:30 in GR70 which puts it right on par with SpeedSplosion at GR60 and better at higher GRs (because it's quite a bit tankier).
Blind Faith, Frostburn, and Bone Spirit: Possession are all applying different types of CC to enemies to maintain the full Krysbin's damage buff. With SpeedSplosion we're running around with just the first tier Krysbin's buff, which is plenty for GR60 but can hurt as you go higher. Blind Faith is really handy here - it and Frostburn are going off simply by the bone storm hitting enemies and Bone Spirit is used on Elites. The 10-second charm is kindof insane honestly. Put that on an elite and it's over. Put a charge on each champion in a 3-pack and it's over. It doesn't work on RGs (or Juggernauts of course) unfortunately, but the blind and freeze do work on RGs. Blind Faith has a 20% variance range on the chance to blind (20-40%) so this can really make a difference - you want it as high as you can get it obviously.
I really recommend going with Wisdom of Kalan as this provides both more DR and more movespeed. That said, I've done it with a Hellfire (with Overwhelming Essence on it) and it was okay - there aren't a whole lot of great options for a fifth passive currently though because Fueled by Death is currently bugged and doesn't scale properly. You could also use Spreading Malediction but it's really not necessary and we can't make very good use of it anyway because the build kills trash really quickly. Overwhelming Desire could be an interesting choice as well, but unfortunately I don't have a good one to test with currently.
You can use Dizzying Curse in place of Opportunist on Decrepify but I prefer the movespeed.
The rune on Blood Rush is totally optional - Potency, Metabolism, and Hemostasis are all good options. I usually use Potency just because I designed this to be a bit tankier for higher GRs but Metabolism is probably a better choice for GR60.
Aura of Frailty is really useful for slapping a curse on enemies to give us the Trag's Fang damage buff simply by walking by them (which we have to do anyway with this build).
Devour: Cannibalize is being numlocked! There are many videos on how to do this, so I'm not going to go into a lot of detail there, but here's a good tutorial by Quin69: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaAI8s8rft4 I'm actually not using a force move key here though, I'm just holding/tapping left-click to move. You can use this to kindof control when you absorb corpses - so long as you're holding left-click, Devour won't go off, but if you tap it it will. Any time you stop to cast Decrepify it's going to activate as well. This synergizes extremely well with Bone Spirit because every time you devour a corpse it reduce's Bone Spirit's cooldown - so much so that I find I'm actually saving it more than I need to in most cases, and I'm still trying to break that habit. It is primarily intended to be used on elites, but the cooldown gets cut down so much that you're not really hurting yourself by keeping it on 2 charges + cooldown at all times.
How does it work?
So what exactly is happening with this build? Basically, all of our damage is being applied passively via our bone storm (thus the "lazy" moniker). You walk up to an enemy with your bone storm on, it hits them which does its own damage and it applies Toxin, and when it crits it applies Pain Enhancer (this is why CHC is so important here). Blind Faith and Frostburn are being proced by the bone storm hitting. The various sources of CC are ensuring that we're getting the most out of our passive damage by maintaining the full Krysbin's buff. Between all our damage buffs and the storm+Toxin+Pain Enhancer enemies just melt. Everything else here is designed to give us more move speed, more toughness, or crowd control for more damage.
How to play:
1) Numlock Devour as soon as the rift begins
2) Use Decrepify on enemies
3) Start up your bone storm on the enemies and use it when it's off cooldown
4) Stand next to enemies for a second or two then keep moving
5) Use Bone Spirit on elites and occasionally throw it on larger trash (if you feel like it) to keep it at 2 charges+cooldown at all times - it recharges extremely fast from Devour
Teleport forward if there are gaps between groups of enemies or you hit a dead end, otherwise just run by/through enemies.
Bonus Fear+Movespeed Alternate Setup (good for GR60 content):
-Drop Blind Faith and equip full Inarius
-Swap Dayntee's for Krelm's Buff Belt
-Swap RoRG for Rechel's Ring of Larceny in the cube
-Swap Frostburn for Warzechian Armguards or Stewart's Graves in the cube
-Change Bone Spirit: Possession to Bone Spirit: Panic Attack
-Change Blood Rush: Potency for Blood Rush: Metabolism
-Swap Decrepify: Opportunist for Simulacrum: Reservoir (this can be pretty much anything but Simulacrum: Reservoir is literally "press this button and do more damage" so it's simple; you could also do something like Ice Golem)
Cast Bone Spirit at least every four seconds (Fear also counts for the triple Krysbin's buff, by the way), keep moving forward, watch stuff die behind you. I have a video of this setup in the description.
I really wouldn't recommend it anyway - Nemesis is kindof essential for a speedfarming build. More elites mean more progress in a shorter amount of time.
The video guide is now up!
Why are you using the Fang when you're not using the grim scythe skill ?
Is it just the best available dps scythe ?
Why not use the Dislocation rune on Bone Armour for Krysbin's Sentence's buff?
The other thing is Lost Time ceases to do anything here if you're using Dislocation - the element type of the bone storm is based on the element of the rune you use on Bone Armor. The bone storm is applying Lost Time to enemies when you walk by them, which slows them and increases your move speed.
So if you swap in Dislocation, two of our movespeed sources are gone in order to put in another CC source when we've got 3 already.
I really like Blind Faith a lot here, especially the higher you go. If enemies are dying in a second or less without it, it's not necessarily going to do you a whole lot of good, but the higher you go and the longer enemies are surviving it comes in more and more handy - it's giving us both mitigation by enemies not hitting us, and it's giving us that juicy triple Krysbin's damage.
There's nothing saying you have to use either Frostburn or Blind Faith - if Aquila's working better for you, go for it; but the whole idea here was to have multiple sources of CC in order to take advantage of Krysbin's as much as possible. Both Frostburn and Blind Faith are providing that.
I believe because most of the damage is coming from Bone Spirit and pain enhancer. The cold damage is really negligible, really only to proc the speed effect from the phylactery and the freeze effect from frostburn's (for krysbin triple damage).
Hello there, really appreciate your work on this build and the build itself! I got one question tho. Why is it important to go for max essence on everything? I just can't find any multiplier that'd give me dmg bonus or is there another point on getting it?
thx
Thanks for the build. I've just started seasonal Necro the other day, and finally got the gear for this. It's amazing how simple and effective it is. I do have a question though: Your Final Service passive; It says you're resurrected by any minions you have. But the build has no minions. When I first died, I was rather surprised I wasn't resurrected. Am I missing something here?
I will say that, on rare occasion, it simply doesn't work - that's not something specific to Final Service though. It's just all second-life passives will, occasionally, just decide to not work. It's part of why I'll never roll a HC character. It's fairly rare though.
Glad you're having fun with the build!
OK thanks. The very first time I died, with passive, it didn't work. So I thought it needed minions.
Thoughts on replacing CoE with a phy SOJ with max essence?
I think the Coe ring will be better than a soj, all 3 cycles buff some part of the damage this spec deals, poison gem, cold bonestorm and physical pain enhancer and bone spirit.
I would like to know what you think of something. I use Devour aura, and for the passive I use life from death and spreading maidiction in place of final service and dark reaping. Devour aura keeps your essence up, and the extra globes give more healing then dark reaping. And spreading maladiction is just great damage. With final notice having a 1 minute CD, I get more use out of all those health globes since I'm always on the move anyway with this build. Thoughts?
I would never swap out Final Service honestly. It's saved me enough times to solidify that for me. The first couple enemy encounters in a rift can be particularly troublesome before you get to 15 stacks of Bone Armor and that's when you're most vulnerable - and it's when Final Service typically sees its most use - but even outside of that scenario there will be times in a rift where something unforeseen happens and you end up getting stuck in a waller area with your Blood Rush on cooldown and death explosions are going off and it saves you. Random stuff like that can happen and I'm glad to have Final Service every time it does.
I'm not a big fan of Spreading Malediction. Spreading Malediction is great so long as enemies aren't dying quickly. And if they aren't dying quickly, you're probably trying to push this build farther than you should. If they are dying quickly, it's doing nothing for you because the cursed enemies are now dead and not buffing your damage.
Keep in mind that this build is not and was never intended to be a pushing build. It's basically a mid-range GR speedfarming build. For me that's upwards of GR75 which is right at 4:30, GR70 is right at 3:30, and GR60 is right at 2:30. When you get into the GR80 range I'd switch to something else - I have another build called NovaLancer that I can use to do GR80 in about 6 minutes and GR85 in about 9. I'd much prefer to use that over this when you're in that GR range.