Rathma Cold/AS Build GR70+

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by IceD34ler last updated Oct 25, 2017 ( Patch 2.6.1 )

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Skills

Bone Spikes Frost Spikes
- Bone Spikes
Generate: 24 Essence

Summon bone spikes from the ground dealing 150% weapon damage as Physical per second.
Frost Spikes

Leaves a frost patch that reduces the movement speed of enemies by 60% for 2 secs.

Bone Spikes' damage turns into Cold.
Skeletal Mage Skeleton Archer
- Skeletal Mage
Cost: 40 Essence

Raise a skeleton from the ground to attack your foes dealing 400% weapon damage as Physical over two attacks. Lasts 6 seconds.
Skeleton Archer

Raise a Skeleton Archer that deals 400% weapon damage as Cold.

Skeleton Archers increase your attack speed by 3% for 5 seconds each time they deal damage. Max 10 stacks.
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.
Command Skeletons Freezing Grasp
- Command Skeletons
Cost: 50 Essence

Active: Command your skeletal minions to attack the target and increase their damage against it by 50%.

Passive: Raise skeletons from the ground every 2 seconds to a max of 7 skeletons. Skeletal minions deal 50% weapon damage as Physical per attack.
Freezing Grasp

The target of your command is frozen for 3 seconds.

Command Skeletons' damage is turned to Cold.
Army of the Dead Frozen Army
- Army of the Dead
Cooldown: 120 seconds

Raise a massive skeletal army to pummel the targeted location dealing 12000% weapon damage as Physical in a 15 yard radius.
Frozen Army

The army tramples enemies in a line. Damage turns into Cold.
Devour Satiated
- Devour
Consume corpses within 60 yards to restore 10 Essence per corpse.
Satiated

Increases maximum life by 2% for 2 seconds for each corpse devoured.

Final Service
- Final Service
When you take lethal damage, you are sustained preventing all damage for 4 seconds. In addition, all minions are consumed to heal you for 10% of your Life. This effect cannot occur more than once every 60 seconds.
Commander of the Risen Dead
- Commander of the Risen Dead
The Essence cost of Command Skeletons and the cooldown of Command Golem are reduced by 30%.
Overwhelming Essence
- Overwhelming Essence
Increase your maximum Essence by 40.
Rathma's Shield
- Rathma's Shield
You cannot lose Life for 4 seconds after using Land of the Dead, Army of the Dead, or Simulacrum.

Items

Rathma's Skull Helm

Set Helm

21 - 24 Armor

Primary Stats

+626 - 750 Strength
+626 - 750 Dexterity
+626 - 750 Intelligence
Sockets (1)

Bones of Rathma
Rathma's Skull Helm
Rathma's Spikes
Rathma's Ribcage Plate
Rathma's Skeletal Legplates
Rathma's Ossified Sabatons
Rathma's Macabre Vambraces
(2) Set: Your minions have a chance to reduce the cooldown of Army of the Dead by 1 second each time they deal damage.
(4) Set: You gain 1% damage reduction for 15 seconds each time one of your minions deal damage. Max 50 stacks.
(6) Set: Each active Skeletal Mage increases the damage of your minions and Army of the Dead by 1000% up to a max of 10*4*100 %.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Rathma's Spikes

Set Shoulders

59 - 68 Armor

Primary Stats

+416 - 500 Strength
+416 - 500 Dexterity
+416 - 500 Intelligence
Reduces cooldown of all skills by 4 - 7%.

Bones of Rathma
Rathma's Skull Helm
Rathma's Spikes
Rathma's Ribcage Plate
Rathma's Skeletal Legplates
Rathma's Ossified Sabatons
Rathma's Macabre Vambraces
(2) Set: Your minions have a chance to reduce the cooldown of Army of the Dead by 1 second each time they deal damage.
(4) Set: You gain 1% damage reduction for 15 seconds each time one of your minions deal damage. Max 50 stacks.
(6) Set: Each active Skeletal Mage increases the damage of your minions and Army of the Dead by 1000% up to a max of 10*4*100 %.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Hellfire Amulet

Legendary Amulet

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+626–750 Intelligence

+626–750 Dexterity

+626–750 Strength
Rathma's Ribcage Plate

Set Chest Armor

51 - 68 Armor

Primary Stats

+416 - 500 Strength
+416 - 500 Dexterity
+416 - 500 Intelligence
Sockets (1)

Bones of Rathma
Rathma's Skull Helm
Rathma's Spikes
Rathma's Ribcage Plate
Rathma's Skeletal Legplates
Rathma's Ossified Sabatons
Rathma's Macabre Vambraces
(2) Set: Your minions have a chance to reduce the cooldown of Army of the Dead by 1 second each time they deal damage.
(4) Set: You gain 1% damage reduction for 15 seconds each time one of your minions deal damage. Max 50 stacks.
(6) Set: Each active Skeletal Mage increases the damage of your minions and Army of the Dead by 1000% up to a max of 10*4*100 %.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Lacuni Prowlers

Legendary Bracers

Primary Stats

Attack Speed Increased by 5.0–6.0%
+10–12% Movement Speed
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

+316–1160 Thorns Damage
Rathma's Macabre Vambraces

Set Gloves

42 - 55 Armor

Primary Stats

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

Bones of Rathma
Rathma's Skull Helm
Rathma's Spikes
Rathma's Ribcage Plate
Rathma's Skeletal Legplates
Rathma's Ossified Sabatons
Rathma's Macabre Vambraces
(2) Set: Your minions have a chance to reduce the cooldown of Army of the Dead by 1 second each time they deal damage.
(4) Set: You gain 1% damage reduction for 15 seconds each time one of your minions deal damage. Max 50 stacks.
(6) Set: Each active Skeletal Mage increases the damage of your minions and Army of the Dead by 250%.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
The Witching Hour

Legendary Belt

Primary Stats

Attack Speed Increased by 5.0–6.0%
Critical Hit Damage Increased by 26.0–50.0%
+4 Random Magic Properties
Rathma's Skeletal Legplates

Set Pants

33 - 38 Armor

Primary Stats

+416 - 500 Strength
+416 - 500 Dexterity
+416 - 500 Intelligence
Sockets (1)

Bones of Rathma
Rathma's Skull Helm
Rathma's Spikes
Rathma's Ribcage Plate
Rathma's Skeletal Legplates
Rathma's Ossified Sabatons
Rathma's Macabre Vambraces
(2) Set: Your minions have a chance to reduce the cooldown of Army of the Dead by 1 second each time they deal damage.
(4) Set: You gain 1% damage reduction for 15 seconds each time one of your minions deal damage. Max 50 stacks.
(6) Set: Each active Skeletal Mage increases the damage of your minions and Army of the Dead by 1000% up to a max of 10*4*100 %.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Rathma's Ossified Sabatons

Set Boots

30 - 35 Armor

Primary Stats

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

Bones of Rathma
Rathma's Skull Helm
Rathma's Spikes
Rathma's Ribcage Plate
Rathma's Skeletal Legplates
Rathma's Ossified Sabatons
Rathma's Macabre Vambraces
(2) Set: Your minions have a chance to reduce the cooldown of Army of the Dead by 1 second each time they deal damage.
(4) Set: You gain 1% damage reduction for 15 seconds each time one of your minions deal damage. Max 50 stacks.
(6) Set: Each active Skeletal Mage increases the damage of your minions and Army of the Dead by 1000% up to a max of 10*4*100 %.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Circle of Nailuj's Evol

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

+416 - 500 Strength
+416 - 500 Dexterity
+416 - 500 Intelligence
Critical Hit Damage Increased by 26 - 50%

Secondary Stats

You now raise an additional Skeletal Mage with each cast and they last an additional 2 - 4 seconds.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Stone of Jordan

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Increases damage against elites by 25.0–30.0%
+2 Random Magic Properties
One of 6 Magic Properties (varies)

+8–10 Maximum Discipline (Demon Hunter Only)

+7–8 Maximum Fury (Barbarian Only)

+7–9 Maximum Arcane Power (Wizard Only)

+105–119 Maximum Mana (Witch Doctor Only)

+13–14 Maximum Spirit (Monk Only)

+7–8 Maximum Wrath

One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+220–349 Dexterity

+220–349 Strength

+220–349 Intelligence

One of 7 Magic Properties (varies)

Physical skills deal 15–20% more damage.

Lightning skills deal 15–20% more damage.

Cold skills deal 15–20% more damage.

Fire skills deal 15–20% more damage.

Arcane skills deal 15–20% more damage.

Poison skills deal 15–20% more damage.

Holy skills deal 15–20% more damage.
Jesseth Skullscythe

Set Scythe

461.5 Damage Per Second

Primary Stats

Increases Attack Speed by 6 - 7%

Secondary Stats

One of 2 Magic Properties (varies)
+66 - 132 Minimum Damage
+88 - 176 Maximum Damage

Jesseth Arms
Jesseth Skullscythe
Jesseth Skullshield
(2) Set: When the target of your Command Skeletons dies, your skeletons are automatically commanded to attack a nearby target.
While your skeletons are commanded to attack a target, all of your minions deal 400% increased damage.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Jesseth Skullshield

Set Shield

8 - 9 Armor

Primary Stats

+10 - 20% Chance to Block
0 - 0 Block Amount

Jesseth Arms
Jesseth Skullscythe
Jesseth Skullshield
(2) Set: When the target of your Command Skeletons dies, your skeletons are automatically commanded to attack a nearby target.
While your skeletons are commanded to attack a target, all of your minions deal 400% increased damage.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties

More Details

Head
- Rathma's Skull Helm
- Stat Priority: CHC Int Skill: Skeletal Mage
Shoulders
- Rathma's Spikes
- Stat Priority: AD Skill: Command Skeletons
Amulet
- Hellfire Amulet
- Stat Priority: CHC Cold % CHD
Torso
- Rathma's Ribcage Plate
- Stat Priority: Int Vit Skill: Command Skeletons
Wrists
- Lacuni Prowlers
- Nemesis Bracers
- Stat Priority: Cold % CHC AS
Hands
- Rathma's Macabre Vambraces
- Stat Priority: AS CHC CHD
Waist
- The Witching Hour
- Stat Priority: AS CHC CHD
Legs
- Rathma's Skeletal Legplates
- Stat Priority: Int Vit Armor +
Feet
- Rathma's Ossified Sabatons
- Stat Priority: Int Vit Skill: Skeletal Mage
Rings
- Circle of Nailuj's Evol
- Stone of Jordan
- Stat Priority: CHC Cold %
Weapon
- Jesseth Skullscythe
- Stat Priority: AS Dmg %
Offhand
- Jesseth Skullshield
- Stat Priority: CHC Life

Legendary Gems
- 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.
- Enforcer
  Enforcer
  
  Gem
  
  Primary Stats
  
  Increase the damage of your pets by 15.00%.
  Your pets take 90% less damage. (Requires Rank 25)
- Iceblink
  Iceblink
  
  Gem
  
  Primary Stats
  
  Your Cold skills now apply Chill effects and your Chill effects now Slow enemy movement by an additional 5.0%.
  Enemies you Chill have a 10% increased chance to be Critically Hit. (Requires Rank 25)

Kanai's Cube

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
Reilena's Shadowhook
Frostburn

Legendary Gloves

280 - 308 Armor

Primary Stats

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

Secondary Stats

Cold skills deal 15 - 20% increased damage and have a 50% chance to Freeze enemies.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Frostburn
Krysbin's Sentence

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

+416 - 500 Strength
+416 - 500 Dexterity
+416 - 500 Intelligence
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
Krysbin's Sentence

Paragon Priorities

Core

Maximum Resource
Movement Speed
Vitality
Primary Stat

Offense

Attack Speed
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage
Cooldown Reduction

Defense

Life
Armor
Resist All
Life Regeneration

Utility

Area Damage
Resource Cost Reduction
Life on Hit
Gold Find

Build Guide

This build is my first high GR pet build and works quite well for me. It's very consistent if you stick to 2-3 rules while rifting.

There are a few things to mention to make this build work:

- Attack Speed. Attack Speed is your primary damage increase for all of your pets, try to get this stat on every piece you can!

More Attack Speed means more Base Pet Damage -> Higher Crits -> Higher Crit Damage

- When starting a rift you should first Num-lock your Devour Skill (Look up Numlock Trick D3 on youtube). Then summon your Skeletal Mages. Each Skeletal Archer increases the Attack Speed of your Skeletal Warriors tremendously. This really shines when your start commanding your skeletons with the Jesseth Set. Your Skeletal Warriors will melt through the enemies like butter and jump around like crazy!

- Since you are rather squishy try to stay away from the enemies as far as possible. Cast Bone Spikes at max range at the Skeletal Warriors Location to help proc the Krysbin's Sentence bonus and also try to keep the 10 Archers up all the time since they buff your Warriors. With Iceblink you also apply 10% more Crit Chance to enemies when you cast Bone Spikes, keep that in mind too!

- Sometimes in the heat of a fight you can't tell if the skeletons are still commanded. Always check the Skeletal Warriors Icon. If the border of the icon glows golden they are still active. Immediately start commanding again if it cancels (mostly when there are no more enemies on the screen they tend to become inactive)

- Army of the Dead deals more damage than usual with the Cold Rune and does the most damage with all 17 pets out. So try to cast it only with at least 4 mages out. Also it makes you invulnerable with the passive so keep that in mind as well. You can basically go in melee range savely or react to an elite effect by casting this to save your *ss

- for a faster version you can swap Army of the Dead with Blood Rush to farm lower tier rifts.

- once your Final Service procs and your skellies are dead it's time to be very cautious. Most of the time you will have a hard time with various ranged elite effects (Mortar and Frozen are really annoying). Always try to command your skellies and take down the main elite asap to stop these effects.

- you can also cheat death by casting Army of the Dead. Your passive will give you some time to recover.

- the squishyness of this build shouldn't be a problem most of the time because of the crazy damage of your pets and various cc freeze & Invulnerability effects.

Summary: Always have 10 Mages up and look at the Skellies so that they are commanded the whole time. Use your Command Golem Skill at Elites as often as you can to increase the Critical Hit Chance on them. Use Army of the Dead on Trash to improve your Survivability with your Passive Rathma's Shield. You basically have 2 skills that make you invulnerable, use them!

Let me hear your feedback in the comments below!

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