Pestilence GR infinite spear spam

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by Hindrigan last updated Aug 28, 2017 ( Patch 2.6.1 )

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Skills

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.
Decrepify Dizzying Curse
- Decrepify
Cost: 10 Essence

A crippling curse that reduces the enemy units' movement speed by 75% and reduces damage of affected enemies by 30% for 30 seconds.
Dizzying Curse

Cursed enemies have a 10% chance to be stunned for 2 seconds when hit.
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.
Devour Cannibalize
- Devour
Consume corpses within 60 yards to restore 10 Essence per corpse.
Cannibalize

Each corpse consumed also restores 3% health.
Command Golem Ice Golem
- Command Golem
Cooldown: 45 seconds

Active: Command the Golem to the targeted location where it collapses into a pile of 5 corpses.

Passive: Raise a Flesh Golem to fight for you. Flesh Golem deals 450% weapon damage as Physical per attack.
Ice Golem

Active: Command the Golem to launch an icy blast at the targeted location, freezing enemies for 3 seconds and increasing their chance to be critically struck by 10% for 10 seconds.

Command Golem's damage turns into Cold.
Bone Spear Blighted Marrow
- Bone Spear
Cost: 20 Essence

Summon a piercing projectile that causes 500% weapon damage as Physical to all enemies it passes through.
Blighted Marrow

Damage is increased by 15% for each enemy Bone Spear passes through.

Bone Spear's damage turns into Poison.

Stand Alone
- Stand Alone
Increase armor by 100%, reduced by 10% for each active minion.
Life from Death
- Life from Death
Consuming a corpse has a 20% chance to spawn a health globe.
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.
Overwhelming Essence
- Overwhelming Essence
Increase your maximum Essence by 40.

Items

Pestilence Mask

Set Helm

21 - 24 Armor

Primary Stats

+626 - 750 Strength
+626 - 750 Dexterity
+626 - 750 Intelligence
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 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 3000%.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Pestilence Defense

Set Shoulders

59 - 68 Armor

Primary Stats

+416 - 500 Strength
+416 - 500 Dexterity
+416 - 500 Intelligence
Reduces all resource costs by 5 - 7%.

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 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 3000%.

+ 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

+416 - 500 Strength
+416 - 500 Dexterity
+416 - 500 Intelligence
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 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 3000%.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Reaper's Wraps

Legendary Bracers

Primary Stats

+8 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Health globes restore 25–30% of your primary resource.
Pestilence Gloves

Set Gloves

42 - 55 Armor

Primary Stats

+626 - 750 Strength
+626 - 750 Dexterity
+626 - 750 Intelligence
Critical Hit Chance Increased by 7 - 10%

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 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 3000%.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Dayntee's Binding

Legendary Belt

6 - 7 Armor

Primary Stats

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

Secondary Stats

You gain an additional 40 - 50% damage reduction when there is an enemy afflicted by your Decrepify.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Pestilence Incantations

Set Pants

33 - 38 Armor

Primary Stats

+416 - 500 Strength
+416 - 500 Dexterity
+416 - 500 Intelligence
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 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 3000%.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Pestilence Battle Boots

Set Boots

30 - 35 Armor

Primary Stats

+416 - 500 Strength
+416 - 500 Dexterity
+416 - 500 Intelligence
+416 - 500 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 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 3000%.

+ 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
Convention of Elements

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 3.5%
Sockets (1)

Secondary Stats

Gain 150 - 200% increased damage to a single element for 4 seconds. This effect rotates through the elements available to your class in the following order: Arcane, Cold, Fire, Holy, Lightning, Physical, Poison.

+ 2 Random Magic Properties
Reilena's Shadowhook

Legendary Two-Handed Scythe

1687.4 Damage Per Second

Primary Stats

+946 - 1125 Intelligence

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 7 Magic Properties (varies)

+(1439 - 1788) Physical Damage

+(1439 - 1788) Fire Damage

+(1439 - 1788) Lightning Damage

+(1439 - 1788) Cold Damage

+(1439 - 1788) Poison Damage

+(1439 - 1788) Arcane Damage

+(1439 - 1788) Holy Damage

+ 3 Random Magic Properties

More Details

Head
- Pestilence Mask
- Stat Priority: None
Shoulders
- Pestilence Defense
- Stat Priority: None
Amulet
- Haunted Visions
- Stat Priority: None
Torso
- Pestilence Robe
- Stat Priority: None
Wrists
- Reaper's Wraps
- Stat Priority: None
Hands
- Pestilence Gloves
- Stat Priority: None
Waist
- Dayntee's Binding
- Stat Priority: None
Legs
- Pestilence Incantations
- Stat Priority: None
Feet
- Pestilence Battle Boots
- Stat Priority: None
Rings
- Krysbin's Sentence
- Convention of Elements
- Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac
- Stat Priority: None
Weapon
- Reilena's Shadowhook
- Stat Priority: None
Offhand
- Stat Priority: None

Legendary Gems
- Esoteric Alteration
  Esoteric Alteration
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Gain +10% non-Physical damage reduction.
- Bane of the Trapped
  Bane of the Trapped
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Increase damage against enemies under the effects of control-impairing effects by 15%.
- Zei's Stone of Vengeance
  Zei's Stone of Vengeance
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Damage you deal is increased by 4% for every 10 yards between you and the enemy hit. Maximum 20% increase at 50 yards.

Kanai's Cube

Maltorius' Petrified Spike

Legendary Two-Handed Scythe

1687.4 Damage Per Second

Primary Stats

+946 - 1125 Intelligence

Secondary Stats

Bone Spear now costs 40 Essence and deals 375 - 450% increased damage.
One of 8 Magic Properties (varies)
+5 - 8% Damage

+(1439 - 1788) Physical Damage

+(1439 - 1788) Fire Damage

+(1439 - 1788) Lightning Damage

+(1439 - 1788) Cold Damage

+(1439 - 1788) Poison Damage

+(1439 - 1788) Arcane Damage

+(1439 - 1788) Holy Damage

+ 2 Random Magic Properties
Maltorius' Petrified Spike
Moribund Gauntlets

Legendary Gloves

42 - 55 Armor

Primary Stats

+626 - 750 Strength
+626 - 750 Dexterity
+626 - 750 Intelligence
Critical Hit Chance Increased by 7 - 10%

Secondary Stats

Your Golem sheds a corpse every second.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Moribund Gauntlets
Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Ignores Durability Loss
Reduces cooldown of all skills by 4 - 7%.
Attack Speed Increased by 5 - 6%
Critical Hit Chance Increased by 4.5 - 6%
Reduces all resource costs by 5 - 7%.

Secondary Stats

Reduce the remaining cooldown of one of your skills by 1 second when you hit with a resource-spending attack.

+ 1 Random Magic Properties
Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac

Items for this build: most are pretty self explanatory. Set is all about bone spear and we are using the weapon that increases its damage. We are using simulacrum to double our damage and the amulet doubles the length of this ability. The cost of life for the amulet to work is almost completely negated by the golem and the gloves in the cube combo. This is also where we are getting all of our bone spear buff stacks from as well. Higher GRs you cannot rely on corpses from kills because you will simply run out. You cannot simply 1 or 2 shot things higher up so it needs to come from this set up. Bone spear is a essence spender so every use procs obsician ring of the zodiac. this will lower the cooldown on simulacrum or golem.

**NOTE: Bone spear can travel 2 full screen lengths !!! This is why this build can be so powerful. you will literally kill entire packs before they even see you. You are a sniper holding a infinite number of nukes. Just keep firing! You'll hit something

Paragon Priorities

Core

Movement Speed
Maximum Resource
Primary Stat
Vitality

Offense

Cooldown Reduction
Attack Speed
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage

Defense

Armor
Resist All
Life
Life Regeneration

Utility

Area Damage
Resource Cost Reduction
Life on Hit
Gold Find

Build Guide

** you can choose whichever spear rune you wish. If you are with a zmonk and you are standing with them I suggest the "shatter" rune for the aoe. If you have a lot of cdr and are close to keeping simulacrum up all the time try "crystallization" for the increased attack speed. Poison is default though.

- keep your distance. you can take a hit but not several. When deemed necessary or when CoE is about to be on the same element as your bone spear use your golem to freeze your targets in order to get full damage out of your krysbins ring. Use the num lock trick for devour that way life and essence are constantly filling.

- So far I have gone with blood rush with the "molting" rune for 1 purpose. If and when you die from the RG you will be back to zero stacks. Your attacks can out pace the 1 corpse per second from the golem/gloves combo. You don't want to constantly be waiting on stacks or throwing spears with no buff.

- If your golem dies its not the end of the world. you should have plenty of spear stacks. just play it a little more safe for the few seconds it takes for him to get back up.

- We are using the overwhelming essence passive over serration because we are using Reilena's shadowhook weapon and will get more out of this because it is not distance based. And we are not using scythe of the cycle because we are not using bone armor. Bone armor is another CD that will take time away from obsidian ring of the zodiac getting golem and simulacrum back up. As well as the spell radius of bone armor makes you get too close for comfort.

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