DoT Necromancer

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by NanotechNorseman last updated Jun 21, 2022 ( Launch )

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Bone Spear
- Bone Spear
Shoot a piercing Bone Spear forward to inflict 682 damage, and pierce up to 2 additional enemies. Damage reduced 50% for each additional enemy pierced.
Dark Curse
- Dark Curse
Curse all enemies in the area, dealing 918 damage to them over 6 seconds and greatly reducing their vision.
Corpse Lance
- Corpse Lance
Summon projectiles from nearby corpses that impale the target and other random nearby enemies. Each corpse summons 3 lances that each deal 568 damage. Multiple hits on the same target deal 20% cumulatively reduced damage.
Bone Spikes
- Bone Spikes
Summon bone spikes that erupt from the ground, Stunning enemies for 2 seconds and dealing 1300 damage. Charging longer increases range, and damage up to 1639.
Bone Armor
- Bone Armor
Protect yourself and nearby allies with a shield of bones that absorbs 2191 damage for 12 seconds.

Items

Hideous Dawning

Legendary Helm

Bone Spikes now also causes enemies to bleed for additional damage, and no longer charges up. Increases Bone Spikes' maximum charges to 3.
Linger-Mantle

Legendary Shoulders

Dark Curse duration increased by 30%.
Covet Nothing

Legendary Chest Armor

Bone Armor now also damages nearby enemies when activated and increases their damage taken for a short time, but no longer shields party members.
Bloody Hand

Set Bracers

All continual damage, Channeled damage, and persistent ground damage increased by 15%.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you damage an individual enemy 5 times, you will do 287 additional damage to that enemy.(4 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you deal damage, you have a 4% chance to unleash a lightning strike, dealing 1724 damage to all nearby enemies and Stunning them for 1 seconds. Cannot occur more often than once every 40 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)
Open Gut

Set Belt

All continual damage, Channeled damage, and persistent ground damage increased by 15%.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you damage an individual enemy 5 times, you will do 287 additional damage to that enemy.(4 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you deal damage, you have a 4% chance to unleash a lightning strike, dealing 1724 damage to all nearby enemies and Stunning them for 1 seconds. Cannot occur more often than once every 40 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)
Mournful Destroyer

Legendary Pants

Dark Curse now curses the ground in an area, causing enemies within it to take continual damage.
Blight Maw

Legendary Main Hand

Bone Spear also poisons enemies hit for 212 damage over 3 seconds.
Ten-Thorn

Legendary Off Hand

Corpse Lance now collects the summoned projectiles around you, until you activate Corpse Lance again to fire them all in a direction.
Torn Sole

Set Boots

All continual damage, Channeled damage, and persistent ground damage increased by 15%.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you damage an individual enemy 5 times, you will do 287 additional damage to that enemy.(4 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you deal damage, you have a 4% chance to unleash a lightning strike, dealing 1724 damage to all nearby enemies and Stunning them for 1 seconds. Cannot occur more often than once every 40 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)
Slit Throat

Set Necklace

All continual damage, Channeled damage, and persistent ground damage increased by 15%.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you damage an individual enemy 5 times, you will do 287 additional damage to that enemy.(4 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you deal damage, you have a 4% chance to unleash a lightning strike, dealing 1724 damage to all nearby enemies and Stunning them for 1 seconds. Cannot occur more often than once every 40 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)
Braided Serpent of Shal'baas

Set Ring

Primary Attack damage increased by 15%.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Your Primary Attacks gradually increase your Primary Attack Speed, up to a maximum of 25%.(4 Set Items Equipped)
Your Primary Attacks have a 5% chance to increase your Primary Attack Speed for 12 seconds. Cannot occur more often than once every 40 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)
Resting Fangs of Shal'baas

Set Ring

Primary Attack damage increased by 15%.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Your Primary Attacks gradually increase your Primary Attack Speed, up to a maximum of 25%.(4 Set Items Equipped)
Your Primary Attacks have a 5% chance to increase your Primary Attack Speed for 12 seconds. Cannot occur more often than once every 40 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)

More Details

Head
- Hideous Dawning
- Stat Priority: None
Shoulders
- Linger-Mantle
- Rotspur
- Stat Priority: None
Torso
- Covet Nothing
- They Rest Everywhere
- Stat Priority: None
Wrists
- Bloody Hand
- Dozen Strikes of Shal'baas
- Stat Priority: None
Waist
- Open Gut
- Storm-Tack of Shal'baas
- Stat Priority: None
Legs
- Mournful Destroyer
- Stat Priority: None
Weapon
- Blight Maw
- Stat Priority: None
Offhand
- Ten-Thorn
- Stat Priority: None
Feet
- Torn Sole
- Stat Priority: None
Amulet
- Slit Throat
- Stat Priority: None
Rings
- Braided Serpent of Shal'baas
- Resting Fangs of Shal'baas
- Stat Priority: None

Legendary Gems
- Blood-Soaked Jade
  Blood-Soaked Jade
  
  Legendary Gem
  
  Increases all damage you deal by up to 24% while at full Life, with a minimum bonus of 12% while at low Life. Increases your Movement Speed by 10%. Additionally, take 8% decreased damage while below 50% Life.
- Zwenson's Haunting
  Zwenson's Haunting
  
  Legendary Gem
  
  When you defeat an enemy, a dark beast attacks nearby enemies, dealing 120% base damage + 486. Cannot occur more often than once every 6 seconds. You now have a 28% chance for an additional dark beast.
- Echoing Shade
  Echoing Shade
  
  Legendary Gem
  
  Your attacks have a 15% chance to summon a shadow clone that lasts 20.00 seconds and gains some of your attributes. You can now have up to 3 shadow clones at one time and their Life is increased by 100%.
- Seeping Bile
  Seeping Bile
  
  Legendary Gem
  
  Your attacks have a 4% chance to poison enemies, inflicting 65% base damage + 263 every second over 6 seconds and decreasing Movement Speed by 24%. This poison spreads to nearby enemies if the victim dies. Cannot affect the same target more often than once every 20 seconds.
- Ca'arsen's Invigoration
  Ca'arsen's Invigoration
  
  Legendary Gem
  
  Increases the speed of your Primary Attack by 16.00%, and the damage of your Primary Attack by 2%.
- Everlasting Torment
  Everlasting Torment
  
  Legendary Gem
  
  Your critical hits inflict agony, dealing 30% base damage + 122 every second for 6 seconds. Each nearby enemy afflicted with agony increases your Attack Speed by 6%. Each enemy cannot be affected by this more often than once every 20 seconds.

For Legendary gems, Zwenson's Haunting for AoE burndown, Echoing Shade for the mirrors (mirror bone spears will stack bleed hits, making it insanely efficient), Everlasting Torment as another DoT source, and the usual BSJ and Seeping Bile.

Sets run 4/6 Flagellant for continuous damage, and 2/6 whatever (I'm not in Hell IV, so it's harder to test). I put Shal'baas for the extra damage to the DoT from Bone Spear, but I think 6/6 Flagellant would work just as well.

Build Guide

Lots of numbers in every way possible. This build is based around constant, continuous damage. The main bread and butter of the build is Dark Curse and Bone Spear -- both providing substantial direct and DoT Damage. Bone Armor is used in this case to give a burst of damage through debuffing the enemies, and Corpse Lance comes more into play when fighting bosses.

I've been playing around with a poison Corpse Explosion variant, but the dot ticks are slow and don't stack with other corpses, which would be OP as hell, but still a detriment to the build with the goal being more ticks, not less.

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