u/chickenlittle1024

Hi peeps, I managed to create a working version fo the Balazan pants build. Rocksplitter seems to be the best skill for the poison delivery this time around. I am open to critic/improvements. Feel free to ask questions if something is unclear.

The guide:

https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/profile/rich-mask-o6sups/builds/b21cfb81-ca49-4d2d-952d-94841bd52ccc?ws-ngf5-1=activeVariantId%2C3

Gameplay in Pit 110:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UzZ7Sjv8oc

Another minion necro guide for whoever is interested but up to date with the changes in season 15:

Guide:

https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/profile/rich-mask-o6sups/builds/d08d8ae2-015f-4239-8a78-45d5ab8c2a5f

Demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEwOiX39eIk

EDIT:

There seems to be a bug where you can't craft Henri's as talisman and only find it. Echo of Baal is the best source to get the talisman as of now.

Gloom ward version is comparable and only 62.6%[x] weaker than the Henri version. Feel free to use that one until Henri's talisman drops.

Finally had time to try and see how minion necro fares against Echo of big D. As you see no problem. I think necro is one of the fastet classes with sever mobility this season.

I found a mythic version. Has anybody made a working build with this item? I was thinking about freezing everything then making everything explode with frost bolt's shatter upgrade.

I've started a sorc, went with the Blizzard spec and arrived in T12. I plan to keep playing frost sorcs this season, can't be bothered with lightning or aspect of immobile plains power sorc firewall edition.

My question would be, which other frost skills are worthwhile and can be played in T12?

Are frostball, ice shard and frozen orb able to T12 at all? I'd like to know before investing time and equipmemt in those specs.

I've been away from playing sorc for 4 seasons. My favourite has always been a pure frost blizzard sorc.

After the LoH rework, do ice spikes count as frost skills now?

Final version which avoids all bugs, undesired interactions and things not working. It is a suprisingly fast build for a summon necro which avoids all freeze meta alltogether.

https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/profile/rich-mask-o6sups/builds/e8d2e8db-764d-44c7-a16c-e2b269ddfc41?ws-ngf5-1=activeVariantId%2C1

It will also work in S15 after the azurewrath nerv. I beat pit 122 with the pit push version (pure dot version is stronger in pits than the golden epiphany one which is better for everything else). I also casually beat tower 115. I think I could go higher if I really tried to.

Some gameplay examples:

Diablo IV Pure Shadow Mage Necromancer T12 Corrupted Reaper fight

Diablo IV Shadow Mage Necromancer Escalation Dungeon + Astaroth

Diablo IV Pure Shadow Mage Necromancer Chill Tower 115 run

1. When you think your bone storm is running with lidless wall and you are getting all 3 bonuses ( cast speed, crit chance and crit damage), you are wrong. Bone storm grants the bonus for 10 seconds and extends to 18 seconds with corpse consumption but afterwards you instantly lose extra cast speed and crit chance. The sign which shows it is still running along with many storms around is a lying screen. I noticed that because I had unusual huge bumps of damage whenever starting bone storm.
2. Golem aura sometimes bugs out ( gargantuan upgrade). Your skeletons attack slower than expected.
3. Warrior glyph offers more damage to skeleton mages than any other glyph for ... reasons even if you don't use warriors at all..
4. Rustbitten dirk is coded in a weird way and works at all times. Mythic one is way superior to any aspect, azurewrath etc. for reasons. I don't know how "isolated" was coded. Just try and you'll see.

The state of the game is an experimental mess. Spiritborn is even more bugged than necro btw. I'd rather like for the devs to take their time and to fix bugs for a season instead of trial and error bugs bunny adventure every season.

Guide:

Update:

Pelghain's wording was changed this season and only cold damage scales with it endlessly, as such azurewrath was dropped alltogether. We do shadow damage. We introduce cadaverous aspect for the juicy x65% multiplier which always works:

https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/profile/rich-mask-o6sups/builds/e8d2e8db-764d-44c7-a16c-e2b269ddfc41?ws-ngf5-1=activeVariantId%2C2

Instead of redirected force + interdiction, we go with plain locran's talisman, Kullean transfigured with the Exploiter's Aspect. This is a big damage increase in all scenarios(50% longer freeze time and x75% damage when they break free). Mythic locran offers even more critical strike damage than redirected force, always comes with critical strike damage as affix, does not require to block at all. All those resolve tempers can be changed to ga maximum life for better survivability. You want crowd control duration temper on the amulet only.

What do you do with -50% crit chance? We use pact of bone talisman! Pact of bone increases the rate at which the skeletons attack, you get more than x35% damage from the aspect alone. To accomodate pact of bone, we drop corpse tendrils for sacrificed skirmishers who are autosummoned and explode by themselves (bombers) keeping pact of bone up at all times.

I've tested pact of bone with the service and sacrifice upgrade, it works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_w7eSItZbY

This is now very fun!

Update => Exquisite Version added

https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/profile/rich-mask-o6sups/builds/e8d2e8db-764d-44c7-a16c-e2b269ddfc41?ws-ngf5-1=activeVariantId%2C2

I found a seal of golden epiphany and was looking for ways to strengthen my speed farming build which does undercity, infernal hordes etc. As you know I hate freeze tech's situational use and wanted a pure shadow build but I found out a cool mechanic in this one.

No freeze tech necro uses shadowblight which is x100% damage in average. Now, you can add freeze tech with azurewrath and bloodless scream to the mix with the downside that azure absolutely sucks vs bosses or single elites. But we have a unique which always excels vs stragglers, rustbitten dirk! Rustbitten dirk completely offsets the disadvantages of azurewrath vs bosses.

So vs bosses you have x100% from gloom ward + x125% from bloodless + 120% from dirk + x60% from waking touch => x405%! but the same thing is true vs regular monsters and even more because azurewrath can be mythic.

The downside is no reapers and no exploiter's aspect, the upside is you can use corpse tendrils for better grouping before nuking with azurewrath. We don't use ceh by the way and go directly with the Thul rune.

I couldn't be bothered with the damage on tuesdays manner of pact of bone.

Guide:

https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/profile/rich-mask-o6sups/builds/9e472bdd-8624-4ef6-abb2-1f31d58a148b

Demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5fYAkl6m-w

The only unique/mythic requirement is harmony of ebewaka, surprisingly strong in pits as well.

The guide:

https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/profile/rich-mask-o6sups/builds/8f7e01d8-5590-4ab2-9895-e82761e43cec

Demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdWCMbpHnbI&time_continue=0&source_ve_path=NzY3NTg&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fmobalytics.gg%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fmobalytics.gg

I beat pit 115 with it. Jaguar Rake and Fist of Thorns (withering fist + balazan + widow's web) fill follow.

Hi peeps, I am creating my one punch man alias fist of thorns guide for spiritborn and wanted to use Balazan's Maxlatl as extra source of damage on top of other buckets. I noticed some things. Best way to scale the damage with the pants is through vulnerable damage and all damage multipliers. Damage over time multiplier is buggy, physical as well. Poison damage from certain sources like the Balazan set and bane glyph work. Blocking also counts as retaliation. Attack speed seems to be the most important part of utilizing balazan and the general aspect multipliers like supremacy, conceited, vehement brawler's aspect etc.

People who you use rocksplitter should take a look at the aspect of expectant. That one increases all damage, not just basic. All percentual thorns increases don't work, so is spiny skin. Biggest amount of flat thorns can be attained by maxing rocksplitter, choosing its upgrade where it auto retaliates with its 3rd attack after blocking 5x. You choose then the 3rd upgrade which adds percentual thorns and flat amount of thorns. You should have close to 100% block chance and max it with 15 hard points + points from charms to profit from that one. The other one is hubris glyph. You only want around 40-50% dodge chance, not more, so you can block as well for the rocksplitter bonus. Needle and bristleback aspects don't count as retaliation, don't work with balazan.

I updated my thrash spiritborn guide from the previous season to the current one. My spiritborn is still a work in progress and thrash spiritborn is my controller friendly version of farming stuff for other builds. I beat pit 112 with this version, no mythics, glyphs still in 90s. Extremely tanky build by the way, no temerity required. You get barrier generation from all possible sources.

https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/profile/rich-mask-o6sups/builds/f759d559-8c04-4d4c-a9fa-598f2d5541b6?ws-ngf5-1=activeVariantId%2C3

Pit 100 Demo:

Diablo IV S14 Wumba Thrash Spiritborn Pit 100

Update:

Butcher Hunt Pit 110:

Diablo IV S14 Wumba Thrash Spiritborn Butcher Pit 110

Removed Spiny Skin board

Speedfarming shadow mage summon necro build.

Guide:

https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/profile/rich-mask-o6sups/builds/e8d2e8db-764d-44c7-a16c-e2b269ddfc41

Demo:

Diablo IV S14 Pure Shadow Mage Necro Pit 110 - YouTube

Update:

https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/profile/rich-mask-o6sups/builds/de20ce60-587e-413e-adb3-7a91184cda4d?ws-ngf5-1=activeVariantId%2C3

Shadow Bone Spear Necro updated with the Shadowblight tech.

I usually play bone or bloodmancers. This season, you can go pure cold summonmancer. I gave it a try and it is working. Let me know whether you have suggestions to improve the build or where I might have misconceptions because I am really new to the summon necro continium.

The guide or the current state:

https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/profile/rich-mask-o6sups/builds/aa2fd840-003d-44d4-b056-d8b2da8506af

Pit 110:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3tjjH8z1lc

Edit:

Reaper fight with the lair boss setup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5-bvwS4JUY

Hi, has anyone tried to make a pure corruption necro with unmaker and soulrift work?

I am thinking and about bloodless as main weapon, azure as charm, enough cooldown to have soulrift up at all times, flickerstep to reduce the cooldown further and bone spirit as utility essense spender to reach 16s soulrift and to activate its unique perk.