Ride the tide (LOH necro) 2.6.1

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by Daulphas last updated Feb 28, 2018 ( Patch 2.6.1 )

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Skills

Siphon Blood Power Shift
- Siphon Blood
Generate: 15 Essence each time damage is dealt

Siphon the blood from the targeted enemy dealing 300% weapon damage as Physical.

Siphon Blood heals you for 2% of your total health every second while channeled.
Power Shift

Damage is increased by 10% each time damage is dealt. Max 10 stacks.

Siphon Blood's damage turns into Poison.
Bone Armor Dislocation
- Bone Armor
Cooldown: 10 seconds

Rip bones from nearby enemies, dealing 125% weapon damage as Physical, and create armor that reduces damage taken by 3% per enemy hit up to a maximum of 10 enemies. Lasts for 60 secs.
Dislocation

Enemies hit are also stunned for 2 seconds.

Bone Armor's damage is turned into Poison.
Command Golem Bone 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.
Bone Golem

Active: The Golem becomes a tornado of bone carrying all nearby enemies to the targeted location, stuns them for 3 seconds and deals 2000% weapon damage as Physical over the duration.
Frailty Aura of Frailty
- Frailty
Cost: 10 Essence

A crippling curse that kills enemies with less than 15% health. Lasts 30 seconds.
Aura of Frailty

Becomes an aura that curses all enemies within 15 yards.

The range of this effect is increased by 50% of your gold pickup radius.
Blood Rush Potency
- Blood Rush
Cost: 5% Health
Cooldown: 5 seconds

Shed your mortal flesh and reappear up to 50 yards away.
Potency

Increases your armor by 100% for 2 seconds after casting.
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.

Stand Alone
- Stand Alone
Increase armor by 100%, reduced by 10% for each active minion.
Swift Harvesting
- Swift Harvesting
Increase the attack speed of Bone Spikes, Siphon Blood, and Grim Scythe by 15%.
Life from Death
- Life from Death
Consuming a corpse has a chance to spawn a health globe.
Final Service
- Final Service
When you take lethal damage, you are sustained preventing all damage for 4 seconds. In addition, you consume minions to heal for 10% of your Life per minion. This effect cannot occur more than once every 60 seconds.

Items

Leoric's Crown

Legendary Helm

72 - 89 Armor

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Secondary Stats

Increase the effect of any gem socketed into your helm by 100%. This effect does not apply to Legendary Gems.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Corruption

Legendary Shoulders

587 - 675 Armor
Wisdom of Kalan

Legendary Amulet

Primary Stats

+626 - 750 Strength
+626 - 750 Dexterity
+626 - 750 Intelligence
Attack Speed Increased by 5 - 6%

Secondary Stats

Increases the maximum stacks of Bone Armor by 5.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Requiem Cereplate

Legendary Chest Armor

51 - 68 Armor

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Secondary Stats

Devour restores an additional 75 - 100% Essence and Life. In addition, when Devour restores Essence or Life above your maximum, the excess is granted over 3 seconds.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Nemesis Bracers

Legendary Bracers

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Shrines and Pylons will spawn an enemy champion.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+85–108 Dexterity

+85–108 Strength

+85–108 Intelligence
Moribund Gauntlets

Legendary Gloves

42 - 55 Armor

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 1%

Secondary Stats

Your Golem sheds a corpse every second.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Dayntee's Binding

Legendary Belt

6 - 7 Armor

Secondary Stats

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

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Golemskin Breeches

Legendary Pants

33 - 38 Armor

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Secondary Stats

The cooldown on Command Golem is reduced by 20 - 25 seconds and you take 30% less damage while your golem is alive.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Steuart's Greaves

Legendary Boots

30 - 35 Armor

Primary Stats

+8 - 9% Movement Speed

Secondary Stats

You gain 75 - 100% increased movement speed for 10 seconds after using Blood Rush.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Litany of the Undaunted

Set Ring

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Legacy of Nightmares
The Wailing Host
Litany of the Undaunted
(2) Set: While this is your only Item Set bonus every Ancient item you have equipped increases your damage dealt by 100% and reduces your damage taken by 4%.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
The Wailing Host

Set Ring

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Legacy of Nightmares
The Wailing Host
Litany of the Undaunted
(2) Set: While this is your only Item Set bonus every Ancient item you have equipped increases your damage dealt by 100% and reduces your damage taken by 4%.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Funerary Pick

Legendary Scythe

461.5 Damage Per Second

Secondary Stats

Siphon Blood drains blood from 2 additional targets.
One of 2 Magic Properties (varies)
+66 - 132 Minimum Damage
+88 - 176 Maximum Damage

+ 2 Random Magic Properties
Iron Rose

Legendary Phylactery

Primary Stats

+1.471363E-43 Maximum Damage
+130 - 149 Vitality

Secondary Stats

Attacking with Siphon Blood has a 40 - 50% chance to cast a free Blood Nova.
One of 1 Magic Properties (varies)
+1.443337E-43 Minimum Damage

+ 3 Random Magic Properties

More Details

Head
- Leoric's Crown
- Stat Priority: None
Shoulders
- Corruption
- Pauldrons of the Skeleton King
- Stat Priority: None
Amulet
- Wisdom of Kalan
- Stat Priority: None
Torso
- Requiem Cereplate
- Stat Priority: None
Wrists
- Nemesis Bracers
- Stat Priority: None
Hands
- Moribund Gauntlets
- Stat Priority: None
Waist
- Dayntee's Binding
- Stat Priority: None
Legs
- Golemskin Breeches
- Stat Priority: None
Feet
- Steuart's Greaves
- Stat Priority: None
Rings
- Litany of the Undaunted
- The Wailing Host
- Stat Priority: None
Weapon
- Funerary Pick
- Stat Priority: None
Offhand
- Iron Rose
- Stat Priority: None

Legendary Gems
- Bane of the Stricken
  Bane of the Stricken
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Each attack you make against an enemy increases the damage it takes from your attacks by 0.8%.
- Moratorium
  Moratorium
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  35% of all damage taken is instead staggered and dealt to you over 3 seconds.
- Mirinae, Teardrop of the Starweaver
  Mirinae, Teardrop of the Starweaver
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  15% chance on hit to smite a nearby enemy for 3000% weapon damage as Holy and heal yourself for 3% of your maximum Life.

Kanai's Cube

Bloodtide Blade

Legendary Two-Handed Scythe

1687.4 Damage Per Second

Secondary Stats

Death Nova deals 80 - 100% increased damage for every enemy within 25 yards.
One of 2 Magic Properties (varies)
+66 - 132 Minimum Damage
+88 - 176 Maximum Damage

+ 2 Random Magic Properties
Bloodtide Blade
Aquila Cuirass

Legendary Chest Armor

51 - 68 Armor

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Secondary Stats

While above 90 - 95% primary resource, all damage taken is reduced by 50%.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Aquila Cuirass
The Ess of Johan

Legendary Amulet

Secondary Stats

Chance on hit to pull in enemies toward your target and Slow them by 60%.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
The Ess of Johan

Trial attempt at an LOH Necromancer.

Funerary Pick + Iron Rose for mass aoe potential. The ess of johan pulls enemies together with 3 possible targets from the combo mentioned before, feeding the passive from Bloodtide Blade,

Everything else is for survival and feeding other skills.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Movement Speed
Primary Stat
Vitality
Maximum Resource

Offense

Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage
Attack Speed
Cooldown Reduction

Defense

Armor
Resist All
Life
Life Regeneration

Utility

Area Damage
Resource Cost Reduction
Life on Hit
Gold Find

Paragons are a personal choice here, though the setup I have is my default.

Build Guide

Lets ride a wave of destruction.

This is an attempt at an LOH(Legacy of Nightmares set) buildfor necromancers. ::Disclaimer:: I am by no means a top tier player so please leave constructive feedback if you notice something that could be better. Link to the build = https://www.d3planner.com/419518545 the stats should be at 50% ratio there.

Premise behind the build is Funerary Pick + Iron Rose to hit 3 monsters at a time, trigger Ess of Johan to pull them together and feed Bloodtide Blades passive for massive aoe damage.

Supplemented with many many passive survival mechanics, tested the survivability without the LoH buff and at T8 I could stand toe to toe with Belial eating all his abilities without going under half health.

Gear Choices:

(primary)

Litany of the Undaunted + Wailing Host: the core of the build kinda straight forward

Funerary Pick: The source of our damage, hits 3 enemies healing yourself and restores essence, also triggers Iron rose

Iron Rose: Everyone loves free, this gives a high chance to cast a powerful aoe and with Funerary Pick there is 3 chances to do so

(secondary)

Leorics Crown: Amethyst in socket, CDR or Extra life both are quite beneficial in this helm

Corruption: The pickup radius enchances Aura of Frailty, and works with Life From Death (alternately Pauldrons of the Skeleton King: An extra life in any video game is totally worth getting, also the fear is nice to help re-establish area control)

Wisdom of Kalan: More bone armor = more survivability simple enough

Requiem Cereplate: Using this in conjunction with Moratorium can counter the staggered damage till you can clear it with a kill.

Moribund Gauntlets: Golem gives a corpse, combos with Devour and Requiem Cereplate

Dayntee's Binding: Survivability combos with Aura of frailty

Nemesis Bracers: Faster clear time in the rifts

Golemskin Breeches: Survivability combos with Bone Golem active, Bone armor and passively with Bone Golem.

Steuart's Greaves: Speed boosts are always nice, faster clears in those rifts

(Cube and Gems)

Aquila Curiass: Easily a staple in many LOH builds this one is no different, and with Requiem Cereplate, Funerary Pick, and the fact most of the abilities in this build have no cost its simple to keep the Damage reduction active

Bloodtide Blade: Triggering from Blood nova from Iron rose will benefit from this passive and it combos with Ess of Johan to take full advantage of the huge damage bursts possible.

The Ess of Johan: Siphon, Bone golem, free Blood novas, and Bone Armor all can trigger this passive. The more enemies drawn in the better to feed the passive from Bloodtide Blade.

Bane of the Striken: staple gem for rift clears

Moratorium: Survivability, and with Requiem Cereplate you can offset the staggered damage while you rampage on

Mirinae, Teardrop of the Starweaver: More healing, more damage. Though honestly right now this slot is open for debate another good choice is Esoteric Alteration.

Skills:

Siphon Blood(Power Shift): Bread and butter spell of the build heals and restores essence. Triggers Weapon, Off-hand, Cube, Chest, and many passives

Bone Armor(Dislocation): Survivability, buffed by neck, and triggers wrist and cube.

Command Golem(Bone Golem): CC, a decent amont of damage and triggeres legs, cube, wrist, and hands.

Frailty(Aura of Frailty): Faster monster deaths means faster clears, triggers belt.

Blood Rush(Potency): Escape mechanic, helps clear speed. Triggers boots.

Devour(Satiated): More essence restoring, but also increases health pool on use. Triggers chest and cube.

(passives)

Stand Alone: Only Command Golem is active giving 90% armor buff for survival

Swift Harvesting: Siphon Blood is cast more often thus triggering all of its effects more often.

Life From Death: Party and solo survivability

Final Service: Another extra life

Once I have everything ancient for this build I will post some screenshots and a video(hopefully) to show how it works. If anyone feels like trying this and posting their results I would be interested in the feedback.

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