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Got enough gear on necro to speed through T13's (even while still missing a set ring/neck that would make it go even faster). Still doing a few rifts a day but definitely slowed down playing already. Still got my $15 worth no doubt.
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I feel 100% the same way. Can now "comfortably" do T13 on a couple of builds (Bonestorm, Trag/Mages) and I had a decent enough time to buy the Necro for my PS4 copy as well. So now that I have a good sense of what the necro is about, it's decent, not any more OP than any other class. I do dislike the "active" play-style of the skele builds which to me seems counter-intuitive. Not sure if I'll run the next season, unless they add another bag slot and even if they do, I'll probably run a DH Impale just to get it done quick.
 
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Zindan

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Being an uber casual D3 player, I love how the Inarius set allows for a really relaxed playstyle. All I have to do to clear t13 is keep bone armor up and run through packs of mobs, then pop LoD for the RG or if something goes wrong. Couple comments by Travis Day make me worried this particular build might be slightly nerfed in the future (comment was that the Teardrop gem proc might be too high). Though he also said that the +Run speed passive rune will get fixed, and that Dayntee's Belt should be working with ALL curses, rather than just Decrepify.
 
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Yeah definitely gonna be another round of polishing / balancing. Even though the proc rate thing is a bug, I wouldn't be overly concerned because one of his comments somewhere was that they purposefully erred on the side of under-tuning multipliers because it's more desirable to move things up later than to nerf something.

I like the vision of the Pestilence set being the speed farming set, even though they admit the missed the mark. Consume 1 screen of corpses, corpse lance annihilates the next screen, lather, rinse, repeat.

I wonder if / when another round of changes would happen. They have a longer window before S11, could they get it in? Or would they do a full round of PTR testing and move it to S12?
 
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Zindan said:
Try running 2 piece Pestilence and whatever else, buff up Corpse Lance dmg and use Devour as an aura; at my shit-tier lvl I just usually follow the trail of corpses ahead of me, then just pop LoD when stuff gets overwhelming. Going to try a mix of 2-piece Pestilence and 4-piece Inarius, though I'll dislike looking like a hulked up skeleton.
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It has been 1.5 years since I played this game. I came back to try out the necromancer and like the idea of this build. I have the two piece set but I am sure I am missing a lot of other things. What is a good weapon to use? I have Nayr's Black Death but not sure if that is the ideal weapon. I have no clue about all the new features like ancient and such having been added. I only even have one of the new super gems. Any help would be great as all I have been running are T-2 Rifts as I had enough legends to do that one. I saw the skills you mentioned but what secondary runes are you adding to devour and does the secondary also effect the proc from the two piece? If so which one are you using?

Sorry for all the questions. It has been a long time since I played the game.
 
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Mahes said:
It has been 1.5 years since I played this game. I came back to try out the necromancer and like the idea of this build. I have the two piece set but I am sure I am missing a lot of other things. What is a good weapon to use? I have Nayr's Black Death but not sure if that is the ideal weapon. I have no clue about all the new features like ancient and such having been added. I only even have one of the new super gems. Any help would be great as all I have been running are T-2 Rifts as I had enough legends to do that one. I saw the skills you mentioned but what secondary runes are you adding to devour and does the secondary also effect the proc from the two piece? If so which one are you using?

Sorry for all the questions. It has been a long time since I played the game.
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Not sure what gear you have access too at the moment, but you do have the 2-piece Pest at least. The Black Death is a good weapon, but to get the most out of it you'll need to fire off Poison skills so you can get 4 stacks, I wasn't able to do that consistently so I went with Reilana's Shadowhook which will give you a dmg buff based on your max essence pool, at 330 essence you'll get a flat 165% dmg increase. To make the corpse lances fire off automagically you'll want to apply the Aura rune to Devour. You don't need to equip the Corpse Lance skill to make it work, but if you do, whichever rune you apply to it will be used by the auto-firing lances, the Brittle Touch rune is a good choice.

You have lots of options for Jewelry, the Endless Walk set and Unity (if you have 2) are a good combo for survivability, but you could also go for a Goldwrap / Avarice Band / Hoarder gem.

Ideally you'll want to work towards getting the Inarius Set to run Bone Storm, it is so good:
Necromancer Bone Storm Build With Inarius Set

That is what I am using now and can easily clear T13 Rifts and lvl61 GR's (haven't tried going higher yet). I have all the gear recommended by that guide, but I don't like Decrepify, so I'll wait til they fix Dayntee's Belt to work with Frailty. What I use right now is:
https://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Zindan-1920/hero/90467305

Gear isn't optimal, and my character is really squishy if I stay still for too long I'll get killed easily, so I just run around and let Bone Armor / Mirinae / Pain Enhancer and all the dmg stacking kill stuff, and use Land of the Dead for multiple packs of elites/champs or the RG.
 
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Malinatar said:
I feel 100% the same way. Can now "comfortably" do T13 on a couple of builds (Bonestorm, Trag/Mages) and I had a decent enough time to buy the Necro for my PS4 copy as well. So now that I have a good sense of what the necro is about, it's decent, not any more OP than any other class. I do dislike the "active" play-style of the skele builds which to me seems counter-intuitive. Not sure if I'll run the next season, unless they add another bag slot and even if they do, I'll probably run a DH Impale just to get it done quick.
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I don't know, it certainly feels more OP than most of the other classes without having a complete build/ancients/etc - may revise my opinion once i hit GR90+ but I easily got to GR74 in about 6 hours played with Bonestorm (had about 5 minutes left so could have gone higher) without having Wisdom of Kalan or Krysbin's Sentence.
 
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Zindan said:
Not sure what gear you have access too at the moment, but you do have the 2-piece Pest at least. The Black Death is a good weapon, but to get the most out of it you'll need to fire off Poison skills so you can get 4 stacks, I wasn't able to do that consistently so I went with Reilana's Shadowhook which will give you a dmg buff based on your max essence pool, at 330 essence you'll get a flat 165% dmg increase. To make the corpse lances fire off automagically you'll want to apply the Aura rune to Devour. You don't need to equip the Corpse Lance skill to make it work, but if you do, whichever rune you apply to it will be used by the auto-firing lances, the Brittle Touch rune is a good choice.

You have lots of options for Jewelry, the Endless Walk set and Unity (if you have 2) are a good combo for survivability, but you could also go for a Goldwrap / Avarice Band / Hoarder gem.

Ideally you'll want to work towards getting the Inarius Set to run Bone Storm, it is so good:
Necromancer Bone Storm Build With Inarius Set

That is what I am using now and can easily clear T13 Rifts and lvl61 GR's (haven't tried going higher yet). I have all the gear recommended by that guide, but I don't like Decrepify, so I'll wait til they fix Dayntee's Belt to work with Frailty. What I use right now is:
https://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Zindan-1920/hero/90467305

Gear isn't optimal, and my character is really squishy if I stay still for too long I'll get killed easily, so I just run around and let Bone Armor / Mirinae / Pain Enhancer and all the dmg stacking kill stuff, and use Land of the Dead for multiple packs of elites/champs or the RG.
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The Cursed Scythe rune will put up Decripify reliably.

The Aura of Fraility seems redundant with Cursed Scythe, seems like there would be a better option for that skill slot.
 
Mahes

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That looks great. Is a Shame I am no where close to that kind of gear. In fact I am missing legendary gems and the cube. Clearly a lot has happened in my absence. Thanks to the 2 set bonus, I do plow through T2 at the moment and am slowly getting stronger.
 
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Deathwing said:
The Cursed Scythe rune will put up Decripify reliably.

The Aura of Fraility seems redundant with Cursed Scythe, seems like there would be a better option for that skill slot.
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Frailty seems to be the best Curse we have, since it kills everything at 15% health, plus it can be an Aura...which means a lazy casual like me can stay running around like Benny Hill without needing to manually fire off a skill. =)
 
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Zindan

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Mahes said:
That looks great. Is a Shame I am no where close to that kind of gear. In fact I am missing legendary gems and the cube. Clearly a lot has happened in my absence. Thanks to the 2 set bonus, I do plow through T2 at the moment and am slowly getting stronger.
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Yea, I came back to the game to play Necro as well, but prior to leaving I had played a Monk and gotten a lot of the legendary gems / gear, so that made my progress a bit easier. Using the 2-piece Pest bonus let me plow through the lower rifts as well, while slowly getting gear. Look for the Corpsewhisper Pauldrons, those will provide a nice boost in dmg whether you wear them or cube them. Once you -do- get the full set of Inarius, you'll get a significant increase in dmg output due to the 6-piece bonus that gives a flat 2750% increase to ALL dmg from the Necro.
 
Reht

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i routinely run T10-13 for mats, will be happy to carry folks for some loot runs, just look me up on bnet.
 
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Mahes said:
That looks great. Is a Shame I am no where close to that kind of gear. In fact I am missing legendary gems and the cube. Clearly a lot has happened in my absence. Thanks to the 2 set bonus, I do plow through T2 at the moment and am slowly getting stronger.
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I came back at the beginning of the year and it was kind of a steep re-learning curve at first but it wasn't bad. The Cube does wonders for making it easier to target upgrades and legendary gems represent a big boost in power once you get the ones appropriate for your build.
 
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Zindan said:
Frailty seems to be the best Curse we have, since it kills everything at 15% health, plus it can be an Aura...which means a lazy casual like me can stay running around like Benny Hill without needing to manually fire off a skill. =)
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Frailty should be up from Cursed Scythe too. But I guess if you're speed running and not using, then that would probably work best.

For GRs, I would go with the Decrepify stun rune.
 
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So... am I the last one to learn about the autocast numlock stuff?

Actual useful information starts 1 minute in.

 
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sole

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Yeah it comes in handy. Mapping movement to a free scroll mouse wheel is pretty awesome too.
 
Mahes

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Reht said:
i routinely run T10-13 for mats, will be happy to carry folks for some loot runs, just look me up on bnet.
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I tried doing the look up thing. I failed at it. Could I add you to friends? Would like to have a few names of players that play just so I could get easy groups.
 
Reht

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absolutely, my clan is inactive right now so i am pretty much just doing the solo thing, which isn't quite as much fun.
 
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Thanks to Brice for pl'ing my necro. I'm having a lot of fun with this guy. Necro was my main class in D2, as well. I wish the mages were permanent, though.

Some rando jumped in my game this morning and ran me through a bunch of lvl150 grifts. Got about 500 paragon levels and a full set of pestilence. Loving the auto corpse lance thing.

I almost have a set of the bone armor, too. Was planning to try that out when I get get to the full set bonus.

The other sets don't really appeal to me very much. I looked up some builds online and saw most people running land of the dead. With the golem, skeletons and devouring aura, I don't really want to give up a spell slot to a long cool down burst skill. Can someone explain to a noon why LOTD is so popular?
 
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