Thank you. A lot of people are asking about this so I'm gonna pin this comment. Sacrifice: - Skirmishers (5% CS Chance) - COLD Mages (15x Vulnerable) - Iron Golem (30x Critical)
@Coooley tried the build out at 51 its not to good at that level but will try it again when I have more paragon also I found the info in your description under your build I appreciate the post though
@@Coooleythe link on your video, and on your description are different, can you make an account on maxroll so we can see your updated build by just searching for the author?
Absolutely a wannabe sorc. Please blizzard make the minion build viable. If I am going to stand back and cast spells without doing anything related to minions I will just reroll as a sorc. And unfortunately that is what I ended up doing.
Hahahahah I'll give you that one i just laughed out loud randomly when i read your comment. But gotta give it to this build its how diablo 2 necros used to be just with a shield. You probably are thinking of a diablo 3 necro when you put on let the bodies hit the floor by drowning pool run through the map like a slice of ctrl alt delete butter and your just the flapjacks letting your army do the work. If you played diablo 2 you will remember the solo target boss build with the shield and bone helmet etc..... Running around looking like a 2D Viagra commercial. Oh the good ole days.
Corpse explosion with blood mist has a really quick setup. If you get the aspect that triggers corpse explosion in the mist, the aspect that speeds up mist and leaves a trail of shadow dot. The modifier that spawns corpses in the mist, shadow miasmer and the modifier that has a 12% chance to spawn a Corpse with any tick of damage. You basicslly just mist into a fight and immediately spawn a ton of corpses. Then you just spam Corpse explosion. The amount of shadow damage is nuts.
Do you see how thats so much slower than bone spearing another player off screen 3x and killing them? And then if you really want max damage with that setup, you need to cast decrepify and blight first. Thats a lot of time investment
Issue is after the hard nerf its pretty weak, one corpse explotion per sec is very slow. Lower tier is fine. Higher lvls the only thing blood mist is good for is breaking CC and being able to avoid AOE
Nice! This is the first video showcasing what i have been working towards. I never liked all the bone spear builds that relied on corpse explosion. I was really hoping that my idea would work and seeing your video just confirmed that i can take my time and continue my slow journey :) I have some other ideas that i wanna try out but its very similar to this build!
Went with this exact build, it's dominating! Definitely the right play if you want to be a solid bone spear necro. My only fear is that they will nerf bone spear necros into the ground. I REALLY hope this isn't the case but it makes me worried to invest time and effort into this.
ill tell ya that necro is a SLOG to lvl with the current maxroll meta builds out there. compared to braindead builds like whirlwind barb, i think if a build requires highly technical input for hours and hours it's gonna burn anybody out of the class. gj on simplifying a class that was FULL of nerd sweat, and highly unwieldy and impractical condition choices before.
Thank you very much for this build. I have been trying to get minions to work this entire game and finally bit the bullet and respeced to this. I just solo'd Wandering Death WT4 with this at lvl 76 he was lvl 90
Still doesnt solve the non-existent survivability of Bone Spear builds. Try this in Nightmare 60+. White mobs oneshot you with melee attacks cause apart from Bone Prison you stack literally no fortification.
@Cooley , this is cool, give this set up a try, it just needs corps which is easy to get with right build, you use reaper skills to generate corsps and of course reap to get things started with one swing, then you want to use corps explosion with the aspect to make a homing skelly, but instead of explosion have it do shadow damage on the ground, then of course anything and everything that gives you shadow damage increase, what makes this build rock is wither + shadowblight + blight + grim harvest + iron madien with + 15 crit + gloom and anything else you can find that gives + X damage over time + crit, bone storm is a nice but like you said it has a 1 minute cool down so i save that for bosses . what happens is you end up creating a wholes screen of death on the floor that does INSANE damage with no essense loss from consuming corps, your skills have a chance to create a corps, your reapers make a corps and bru, bosses die like few seconds with thsoe damage over time ticks and all of the synergies that go along with it...give this a try, i bet you can make it even better. im still hunting for more aspects that can help. oh you also NEED the uniqe gloves "howl from below" thats turns corps explosion into homing missles
when this happens with your slows and shadows causeing anything or anybody who walks in your death field will die lol. ive been trying to find "crowd control that spreads" to really BOOM!.
scratch that, ive found in high runs having army of dead is better than bone hurricane for emergency get more bodies to start the figtht off right away lol
Nice guide, although I'd rather use Essence and Imbiber than Gravekeeper and Amplify, 97% more crit damage and 107% more damage while healthy heavily outweight the bonuses you get from the ones you are recommending. And I gotta give credit where credit is due.. thanks to you I realized that Flesh-eater legendary node is rather useless for bone spear build(s), saved me 5 paragon points which in turn gave me 800 hp :D
What happened with the build? I was following the old guide that matched perfectly with your video, and when I look now there's a lot of changes with aspects and skills. Is the build from the video still the "go to", or have you swapped some things around?
4:21 Resistances don't do shit in D4. The devs are already planning to rework them. You don't want them on any piece and can just ignore the implicit resistances on rings. Sorry but telling people to try to balance them made me turn off the video.
I'm built almost like that except I use 6+6 skellys and the aspect that gives plus 5 max essence for each minion. Also the aspect that gives bone skills hitting a vulnerable target a chance to generate 45 essence. Big groups and bosses you can just spam bone spear and generate enough to keep it going.
I had played the bone necro when I started, but I found I don't have the right equipment to make it work at the low levels. I was kitting and getting spanked more then I enjoyed. I'm going to revisit this once I break 50 and get some of the legendries. It's nice these builds exist, but they are definitely not leveling builds. Farming, after 60, yes. Especially if you can get the legendries to drop.
I'm lv 60 I respect to this build last night after rocking a minion build all game and I had most of the right aspects and rolls on my gear and this build hits much harder than my minions build thanks for this informative build, I was starting to get bored with the game because of how weak my character was now I'm pumped again.
Ossified legendary aspect need to be on the weapon, as its a multiplier, even if it states its not on the leg. aspect text. I'm criting for 900k to 1,1 mill with 44% crit chance as a level 80. everything gets 1-2 shottet on tier 50
You can try to replace one of your ring by the Aspect Exposed Flesh ( on lucky hit: 10% chance to generate 50 essence when hitting a vulnerable target with bone skill). It is very nice on bone spear that already have a 50% lucky hit chance, make averything vulnerable, splinter in pieces, come back, a lot of chance to proc it. I am also running Edgemaster on ammy instead, I don't know what is better. Serration is on my other ring. I dropped Grasping Vein because I never wait for corpse tendrils, I use Aspect of Might instead for survivability.
with 5 points into tendrils and +4 tendrils on boots you can reduce the cooldown to less than 7 seconds, which gets you kind of close to ~50% uptime on tendril stun. Thats a ton of survi by itself, and potentially alot of blood orbs to heal
I unfortunately imprinted this aspect on a ring a while ago on a not so great role and havent been able to get a single one to drop since then lol. The only aspect that im still hunting down before i can try to put a full cohesive build together
Here's the thing. The Aspect of Exposed flesh is indeed best here but it doesn't drop until a certain level. At the time I met Cooley, I didn't have the ring nor the level so it wasn't an option. As far as putting points in corpse tendril, I personally don't because that's what the curse is there for. You pick the lucky hit chance to reduce cooldown and I have 16,5% on my goves, therefore just by hitting curse + basics or spear, it reduces by huge chunks on its own
@@BijouLeclerc what level does that aspect usually drop at? I got it once at like level 30 and havent gotten it again now at level 70, just really bad luck?
@@iCheckMyPulse I may be wrong on this but I have not seen this aspect until 85, as many other ones I'm finding now that I've passed this cap. I'm currently 88 and have found it a couple more times. Glad to hear it's available before that, as it will help with ressource generation. I struggled to hell to figure out a way until I used paragons and lucky hit chance.
Had been running a blood surge build thru most the game. And i can definitely tell its not as effective in some end game situations. Too much time waiting for essance and big crits. I appreciate this video! Gonna start collecting some gear for the build ! 🤘
I run a very similar build, but I actually use iron maiden for 5% heal per death, and of course, essence per enemy hit. So I don't need bone prison for essence generation. I can keep blood mist in place of bone prison (pushing any kind of higher tier nightmare dungeon you just have to have blood mist). Makes it so life and essence are always topped off and just feels much smoother and faster overall. Maybe you use decripify if you have a lot of +damage to slowed enemies, but I don't. Would highly recommend people switch to iron maiden for essence generation and crazy amounts of healing.
How many points do you put in iron maiden? And then do you go further with it with the two other skills? What’s the whole path of iron maiden you use. I’m definitely interested, I’ve heard other people talk about this
My biggest issue with bone spear is that it's kinda boring (to me). I actually leveled using sever and was having a blast but then swapped to bone spear because everyone kept saying it's better for leveling and that seemed to be completely true, my time to kill went down considerably ... but I was borderline falling asleep so I went back to sever even if the damage isn't as high.
@@Hooligoon-Hāfu they’ll nerf all the other classes first necro is last on the list for endgame characters (they already nerfed necro before launch from beta)
Hi cooley, this looks a solid build. Me like...will you be posting some pvp compilations playing this? Also I wanted to make kinda like a vampire build in d4 utilising blood lance skill. If you would have some build or tips for that...would be awesome. 💋🐾
As a old school diablo 1 veteran. Its pretty cool seeing old school diablo names again.someone call llama we got a showdown.😂😂. Even just playing diablo again. Its refreshing honestly. Friday is my hero. This is a extremely solid build. Hands down the best ive seen so far for the necro. Edit*congrats on your subscriber goal. Awesome content! Keep it coming!. It's been pretty nostalgic playing diablo again kinda i guess the equivalent of my high school reunion😂😂
if you have an aspect called Blights - Spawning a Blight pool will pull enemy's towards it and Bone Prison Spawns a pool of blight, you can use you bone prison as a pull, pulling big crowds if not everything into the prison, fortifying you for max health ect
Just a Hard no on bone spear. i hate it. I have a minion shadowblight build. my minions are my ultimate. I only use Bloodnova, corpse expolsion, and iron maiden. raise skel and golem are my other slots. but your actually stacking the SHYTE outta fortify. to make bloodnova do more damage and heal you and fortify you, fortify for corpse generation, and heals from iron maiden. then stacking shadow and DoT gear. crit and damage reduction and armor are good too. use blood skills to make your minons heal on orbs. put one into speed, and 9 into the stun, shadow damage skills. 3 for skels mages and golem. max corpse explo, and blood nova. only need 1 pt in iron maid. I AM NOT EVEN INTO PARAGON BOARD i think i hit lvl 30, i dont have much time to play...and it is super lazy sit back and let your minons and dots do the work for you. when i see my minions running to a enemy off screen i drop my curse there, and start spamming blood nova, when i get there if the fight is not already over, i then carpet bomb the room with CorpEx, and well its over then with plenty of corpses on the ground, and me fully fortified. if i even lost a minion then i raise 1 or 2 new ones..the only time i seem to lose a minion....is on bosses and not very fast.
tried the build out in pvp. Pretty cool, I one shot people who aren't paying attention. Sadly I am still get destroyed by rogues and barbarians. Can't really beat the best pvp classes when they know how to play the game. This gave me some serious pve gains though since it hits really hard.
I've found having a high roll of the umbrel aspect is really good. Every time you CC an enemy you gain 1-4 essence depending on the roll you get. Corpse tendril will slow everything in a large area and pull all enemies in and stun them. He also uses decrep which slows as well. Max roll umbrel feels great when going through large packs of mobs as you can bone spear a few to initiate, corpse tendril to slow and pull giving 4 per enemy the second you press it, and another 4 per enemy as it stuns. Bone prison will also give essence with it's first enhancement of 15 + 5 per enemy. And the bone paragon board has nodes to give more essence and essence on kill. That being said without a high roll umbrel and sufficient paragon points corpse explosion + the aspect that lets bone storm consume corpses to increase its time will likely be a must. Hope this helps, if you have any questions let me know, still leveling my Necro as well but this is what I've found most effective in the process so far
Everyone giving up on bonespear necro? Who told you this bs? there is no better build for a necro. And you even not making big numbers, mine drops 1kk+ on every regular hit.
well, I tried this build at lvl 100, and barbs/druids wont get one shotted and you will. Its squishy af, even with bloodmist, they just wait it out. great for pve though.
this is mainly the build i use, pretty damn good .... except i have penitent greaves unique boots, these are SOOOOO good for ressource regen in combo with the umbral aspect, and i use a 2h scythe (for the life on kill) in combo with the temerity unique pants (that give shield instead of HP when you heal yourself at full HP). Other than that my build is the same, what i like about my version is that you can literally not care anymore about watching your health or ressource when you fight mobs up to 15-20 lvls above yourself (i have very decent gear, and right now, i very often see crits over 600-700k without havign to set any combo, and i can get over 1 million dmg crits if i set up ideal combos)
Jeez cooley! Videos on D4 too!? I love it.! I just got it a few weeks ago, rolling with a level 80 necro right now. We should run a couple back sometime.
With the 100% Crit Damage cap in PvP, the +Crit Damage multipliers on Serration (Ossified Essence), Grasping Veins (corpse tendrils), 2h sword bonus, and Golem sacrifice literally do NOTHING in PvP. It sucks. The right move probably is to find clever ways to optimize for vulnerable damage which has no cap. And to QQ to the dev's until they adjust their arbitrary caps that affect certain builds more than others. Some class builds get straight [x]Bonus Damage multipliers (with no cap) while most necro skills get [x]Crit Damage (worthless in PvP since capped at 100%, tested and confirmed). This also does mean that the two most common aspects (serration and grasping veins) are less useful for PvP so I have been experimenting with some others.
what if u got Howl From Beneath gloves - makes Corpse Explosion summon kamikazee skellies that run towards your enemies and blow up!~ I'm level 51 & first helltide dropped gloves and Deathless Visage, so trying to work CE into this build, maybe dropping Bone Prison, wish I had more skills to put on the skill bar..... Coooley's da best!
Blizzard has zero clue what they are doing with this game. There are events that last 10 seconds with burst builds. Yet the Necro can't tank, burst or mass buff, proves they are still focused on a 4 player game. I'm so tired of playing the Rollercoaster DPS builds blizzard loves to throw out there. 5 classes and 4 of them perform some party feat far better than another. Except for the necro. It can perform early on, but the moment it hits world T4, it's like I never ground out gear to save my life. honestly just play a sorc, they have a wider range of DPS performance.
NO ONE is spec'ing away from bone spear, UNLESS they're experimenting with something else. Literally nothing touches bone spear crit/vulnerable spec. Arguably blood surge if you build it right is decent, but's still not close. The real question is what happens in a month with the patch. Will they nerf bone spear into the soil, rendering all builds garbage, or will they buff pets & boost the viability of other builds?
I don't understand why people don't like the bone spear necro... it feels like cheating where I'm at (lvl 60 currently) Am I supposed to be able to do tier 14 nightmare dungeons? The balancing feels a tad bit off when I'm fighting mobs that are 13 levels higher than me lol. Or is it how it is for every class?
currently 55 running summoner with +3 warriors +2 mages. and iron golem with decrep and corpse explostion (with a unique that causes ghosts running around exploding+40% dmg) and tendrils. tendrils and golem cause vulnerable and each hit to decrepped mobs causes cooldown reduction on them so they're pretty much infinite. +40% crit chance when using tendrils aspect on the weapon, which again has basically 0 cooldown. i pretty much destroy anything in my path in seconds on wt3, except the butcher which annoyingly ignores all the summons and goes straight for me and is way faster than me. ill see what happens in wt4 but so far its pretty awesome and I see no reason to switch to bone. pvp might be bad with this though. never tried.
Similar build as mine, got to say i love ur offensive better than def, but have to disagree. Mine is defense and atk spd is better than crits. Im rocking shield one hander with 50% to close, shadow, while fortified, and injured. Along with 100% atkspd on basic and 50% on core and 20% damage reduc from aspects. Got to have boot with evade cooldown, then hold down basic atk to slash all the time (three slash should refresh evade for unlimited evade.) While holding the basic atk down i can cast trendrils and curse while slashing. After that i can spam bone spear for 6sec after tendrils. Tendrils drops orbs to fortify me and curse reduce another 20% and refresh cooldowns.
there is several aspects that i question he doesnt add to this build. -Accelerating>critical strikes with core skills increase your attack speed by x% amount -wind striker> critical strikes grant x% amount of movement speed for 1 second up to 6 seconds. -conceited> deal increased x% dmg when a barrier is active. -archon faulds> while a barrier is active there is a x% chance to ignore incoming direct damage from a distance. and most importantly, -osseous gale> bone storm consumes up to x corpses to increase it duration by x seconds. ^this one would be perfect for your build cause you cast away the need to use your corpses anyways so why waste them? make them have your ultimate go longer so its off cooldown sooner also.
To whoever tries to build this not on 80+ level: Don't, it doesn't work unless you're end game. Also, what he doesn't show you here is that you're going to be running out of essence constantly as this build doesn't have a way of replenishing it (Bone wall does replenish some, but it's cooldown is like 16 sec long), so you'll be hitting hard, but you will spend 70% of the time kiting mobs waiting for the essence to regen or for the bone wall to become available again.
I don't keep up with the meta, and I don't frankly care to do so. However, bone spear has been the only thing I've been doing since my current lv74 and I have been doing T40-T46 nightmare dungeons and just one shot everything. People don't use bone spear??
Like how every Bone Spear guide doesnt break 500k damage but mine and others on the discord frequently break 7+ million. Is there no guide on actually doing the build or just click bait from level 77s.
Do we ignore Overpower if the skill any build focuses on doesn't have Overpower innately built in for the multiplier to kick in? What if there's a unique flavor text rare that comes with +overpower chance?...
This is a dark sorceress/wizard build. I don't see Minions which is the basis of a Necromancer. So no you didn't break the class, you just changed it. I WANT Minions....period.
😂 yo your necromancer and just learning this I been on since day one bone spear build although I did eventually remove bone prison because it's a wasted ability I found way more dos with a few more uniques... It's sad people share builds to copy past no discovery all for the sake of time like it's a compatition 😂 ...
Spear is best, doing t70 @ lvl 100 with it. Stack m up, tendrils > prison > 6m nukes > repeat. Oh and put tendrils on your weap and spear on your gloves, way more dmg.
i just respec my shadow to a bone spear build, ok i dont have the lvl 15 glyphs for this build, but it feels defensively not good, i am missing a point. I was doing lvl 45 nightmare and now i am being one shoted on a lvl 30 nightmare, ok the dammages are insane but wtf?
I have struggled with my necro and I'm tired of seeing one off builds hopes and prayers on the stars aligning to do dmg and showcasing that. I have tried several and I feel like I spend most of my time standing around waiting for things to happen all while vulnerable. I want to try this build but I wanted to know how feasible it is while leveling. I am currently level 54 and into world tier 3. What are your thoughts on using this to go higher from here?
Diablo 4 graphics are way worst than D2. Especially the spell effects, in D4 all arrows or spells look the same cheap firelight. In D2 you could understand exactly which spell was and also by the sound.
The reason I am skipping on a build like this is because I don't want to play a necro with no minions (AKA the emo sorc). Blood Surge with minions does insane damage and it makes your minions into weapons if you get the right setup. Yes, it is gear dependent in order to push the highest levels of endgame, but it's possible and a lot more fun to me.
No this isn't necro. Necromancy is focused on one aspect... undead. Any build that doesn't utilize minions is a bone mage. What a joke of a game, D4 necro is absolute trash.
I agree. I personally just go for the minimum required intel to activate the bonuses to rare paragon nodes and that's it. Other than that, I feel like intel is a waste.
I have to comment. Bone spear is the only build that most necro players went to because it's the only beside the bone spirit glitch necro that has a good shot at Lillith. I only perfected a damage over time shadow build to stay different. It will never be "A class"
Nah ill pass, this is not a necro for me, if the build is not fun to play i can't care less even if the build work really well. There's not that much fun in d4 builds to begin with, making even less fun is definitely not for me.
I’m not sure what long set ups that are so unbearable? If you are imprudent and this works for you, cool. If you are using bone storm with a near minute cooldown the set up is already long enough group to group
lol nice build but no one ever gave up bonespear. even without playing diablo 2, i knew by instinct that the bonespear was the necros strongest skill and used it since the beginning, and you wont find any other videos of necros playing without bonespear
Nice build but a Necro without Minions is no Necro and defeats the point of even playing this class. If i want just a single char with big dmg i can play any other class.
I think not using exploit is a big mistake neither of the first two glyphs in your board out preform exploit. On my board it gives 36% more vulnerable damage which is a 50% increase to my entire vulnerable damage bucket. None of the other glyphs come close to buffing enough magic nodes to match that. I guess if you managed to stack 150% vulnerable damage without it you might be ok without it.
I’ve been fallowing this build over on max roll and I noticed the “current” one has changed but doesn’t really make sense to me it has bone prison as a skill used but not in the skill tree and it’s all kinda confusing
@@mathieuvallee8283 im just stating facts, if d4 was actually a bad game id be on your side but you can go check for yourself its being review bombed with 0s and yet still most sold and viewed game atm...
@@mathieuvallee8283 idk who ninja is but, did you play the game? reviews are split between 0s and actual scores check the distribution. Game is like a 7-8 in reality maybe higher after live service goes on. Blizzard just fucked up too many times that they build bad rep and people are very upset.... fair enough lmao
hi im new to diablo, im really interest in your build, i wonder how to transfer it into leveling. what skill should i take while leveling up? is it viable if im only around lv50?
Ah yes, the very well known necromancer, defined as someone who raises the dead to fight for him, showing an absolute negative amount of dead raising and believing we wont notice.
You never mentioned what you sacrificed and what passives you took from them
Thank you. A lot of people are asking about this so I'm gonna pin this comment.
Sacrifice:
- Skirmishers (5% CS Chance)
- COLD Mages (15x Vulnerable)
- Iron Golem (30x Critical)
@Coooley tried the build out at 51 its not to good at that level but will try it again when I have more paragon also I found the info in your description under your build I appreciate the post though
@@Coooleythe link on your video, and on your description are different, can you make an account on maxroll so we can see your updated build by just searching for the author?
Absolutely a wannabe sorc. Please blizzard make the minion build viable. If I am going to stand back and cast spells without doing anything related to minions I will just reroll as a sorc. And unfortunately that is what I ended up doing.
@@Coooley glad I saw this, the d4 planner shows you sacrificing shadow mages and bone golem
I see no minions. This is not a necro, this is an emo sorc.
Yea because the sacrifices for not having minions is too good to pass up
@@kylewirtz6389 well and because minions are total trash in this game. But its still not a necro to me unless it has minions
It’s a shadow wizard from the shadow wizard money gang sponsored by the shadow government, not our fault we love casting spells
They really need to buff minions. Buff them through the skelly priest though. And add a 0.5s taunt each 20th melee skelly attack.
Hahahahah I'll give you that one i just laughed out loud randomly when i read your comment. But gotta give it to this build its how diablo 2 necros used to be just with a shield. You probably are thinking of a diablo 3 necro when you put on let the bodies hit the floor by drowning pool run through the map like a slice of ctrl alt delete butter and your just the flapjacks letting your army do the work. If you played diablo 2 you will remember the solo target boss build with the shield and bone helmet etc..... Running around looking like a 2D Viagra commercial. Oh the good ole days.
Super concise guide, well done. The meta is so unsettled, Its hard to take the time for a 30 minute video just to see whats out there. thank you!
I like playing with summons - makes it feel like I am not alone. Does feel a little weak though.
summon build indeed is weak.. we all waitin for a buff up
That is because all minion builds are weak.
@@dirtysilver2841 but are fun.
Corpse explosion with blood mist has a really quick setup.
If you get the aspect that triggers corpse explosion in the mist, the aspect that speeds up mist and leaves a trail of shadow dot. The modifier that spawns corpses in the mist, shadow miasmer and the modifier that has a 12% chance to spawn a Corpse with any tick of damage.
You basicslly just mist into a fight and immediately spawn a ton of corpses. Then you just spam Corpse explosion. The amount of shadow damage is nuts.
Glad to see another person playing it right.
Do you see how thats so much slower than bone spearing another player off screen 3x and killing them?
And then if you really want max damage with that setup, you need to cast decrepify and blight first. Thats a lot of time investment
Issue is after the hard nerf its pretty weak, one corpse explotion per sec is very slow. Lower tier is fine. Higher lvls the only thing blood mist is good for is breaking CC and being able to avoid AOE
@@TimelesssLord it spawns a Corpse every second. But it can set off way more if the corpses are there.
@@Cernunnnosnah, it only pops a few during the duration
Nice! This is the first video showcasing what i have been working towards. I never liked all the bone spear builds that relied on corpse explosion. I was really hoping that my idea would work and seeing your video just confirmed that i can take my time and continue my slow journey :) I have some other ideas that i wanna try out but its very similar to this build!
I've been running Necro Bone Spear as you said with Blood Mist etc...but i think i'm going to try this!
been rocking this build for a week. Never looked back on any other build. Hands down the best one
Watch Blizzard nerf this build now.
I am going to be working on my Necro and this kind of build is exactly what I have been looking for. Good stuff.
Went with this exact build, it's dominating! Definitely the right play if you want to be a solid bone spear necro. My only fear is that they will nerf bone spear necros into the ground. I REALLY hope this isn't the case but it makes me worried to invest time and effort into this.
You love to see it. I was really disheartened when I saw the big clunky setups required by the other builds. I'll definitely be trying this out.
Can't wait for you to give us pvp build guides for all characters
ill tell ya that necro is a SLOG to lvl with the current maxroll meta builds out there. compared to braindead builds like whirlwind barb, i think if a build requires highly technical input for hours and hours it's gonna burn anybody out of the class.
gj on simplifying a class that was FULL of nerd sweat, and highly unwieldy and impractical condition choices before.
Thank you very much for this build. I have been trying to get minions to work this entire game and finally bit the bullet and respeced to this. I just solo'd Wandering Death WT4 with this at lvl 76 he was lvl 90
My big turning point with necro was getting high rolls on movement speed with my boots and ammy.
Still doesnt solve the non-existent survivability of Bone Spear builds. Try this in Nightmare 60+. White mobs oneshot you with melee attacks cause apart from Bone Prison you stack literally no fortification.
its better to put ossified essence on 2h and splintering on amulet many build had it wrong and top necro players are playing with ossified on weapon
You don’t get 225% for splintering if you don’t put it in 2h
@@WhereToFind yes and still ossified is better
@Cooley , this is cool, give this set up a try, it just needs corps which is easy to get with right build, you use reaper skills to generate corsps and of course reap to get things started with one swing, then you want to use corps explosion with the aspect to make a homing skelly, but instead of explosion have it do shadow damage on the ground, then of course anything and everything that gives you shadow damage increase, what makes this build rock is wither + shadowblight + blight + grim harvest + iron madien with + 15 crit + gloom and anything else you can find that gives + X damage over time + crit, bone storm is a nice but like you said it has a 1 minute cool down so i save that for bosses . what happens is you end up creating a wholes screen of death on the floor that does INSANE damage with no essense loss from consuming corps, your skills have a chance to create a corps, your reapers make a corps and bru, bosses die like few seconds with thsoe damage over time ticks and all of the synergies that go along with it...give this a try, i bet you can make it even better. im still hunting for more aspects that can help. oh you also NEED the uniqe gloves "howl from below" thats turns corps explosion into homing missles
when this happens with your slows and shadows causeing anything or anybody who walks in your death field will die lol. ive been trying to find "crowd control that spreads" to really BOOM!.
scratch that, ive found in high runs having army of dead is better than bone hurricane for emergency get more bodies to start the figtht off right away lol
He literally doesnt want a build that requires setup.
Nice guide, although I'd rather use Essence and Imbiber than Gravekeeper and Amplify, 97% more crit damage and 107% more damage while healthy heavily outweight the bonuses you get from the ones you are recommending.
And I gotta give credit where credit is due.. thanks to you I realized that Flesh-eater legendary node is rather useless for bone spear build(s), saved me 5 paragon points which in turn gave me 800 hp :D
What happened with the build? I was following the old guide that matched perfectly with your video, and when I look now there's a lot of changes with aspects and skills. Is the build from the video still the "go to", or have you swapped some things around?
Another glyph to not sleep on is Corporeal. It gives you a 10%x physical damage modifier at all times as well.
4:21 Resistances don't do shit in D4. The devs are already planning to rework them. You don't want them on any piece and can just ignore the implicit resistances on rings. Sorry but telling people to try to balance them made me turn off the video.
Who is giving up on bone Necro genuinely curious.... The majority of builds are I see on RUclips are bonespear
I'm built almost like that except I use 6+6 skellys and the aspect that gives plus 5 max essence for each minion. Also the aspect that gives bone skills hitting a vulnerable target a chance to generate 45 essence. Big groups and bosses you can just spam bone spear and generate enough to keep it going.
I had played the bone necro when I started, but I found I don't have the right equipment to make it work at the low levels. I was kitting and getting spanked more then I enjoyed. I'm going to revisit this once I break 50 and get some of the legendries. It's nice these builds exist, but they are definitely not leveling builds. Farming, after 60, yes. Especially if you can get the legendries to drop.
I'm only lvl 48 and I just tried respecing to this build and now I'm getting destroyed :(
This build is garbage because you don't have unstoppable. You get cc'd one time and you just die.
I agree, I didn't make the build to be unstoppable but you are confident enough on your essence regen, you may remove bone prison for bloodmist.
necros without minions is just a scorc. i don't understand all the loner necros. I heart my gollum and skellies.
I'm lv 60 I respect to this build last night after rocking a minion build all game and I had most of the right aspects and rolls on my gear and this build hits much harder than my minions build thanks for this informative build, I was starting to get bored with the game because of how weak my character was now I'm pumped again.
Got my sub man, if you reach 666.666 dress up as Lilith on one of the vids 👹
Ossified legendary aspect need to be on the weapon, as its a multiplier, even if it states its not on the leg. aspect text.
I'm criting for 900k to 1,1 mill with 44% crit chance as a level 80. everything gets 1-2 shottet on tier 50
Can be on the neck. Isn't it the same?
Well done! I'm a big fan of the Bone Spear Necro, always looking for ways to improve! Thank you (and Friday)!
Yess Deathless Visage just dropped for me, so definitely respeccing for the last time! :D
Forget 66.6 we doing 100k hold my beer
Much love bro 😎
My hero.
Will I be able to lvl up with this build as well or is it better for endgame? :)
Can we get an update on this build. Your max roll has changed a bit
Bro, hands down best d4 content I’ve seen thus far. So glad to see it from ya
Yeah im so pumped to see Cooley on D4. He has me hyped up to try a necro sooner rather than later. (Im level 87 Rogue atm)
Mid to low d2 content though 😆
You can try to replace one of your ring by the Aspect Exposed Flesh ( on lucky hit: 10% chance to generate 50 essence when hitting a vulnerable target with bone skill). It is very nice on bone spear that already have a 50% lucky hit chance, make averything vulnerable, splinter in pieces, come back, a lot of chance to proc it. I am also running Edgemaster on ammy instead, I don't know what is better. Serration is on my other ring. I dropped Grasping Vein because I never wait for corpse tendrils, I use Aspect of Might instead for survivability.
with 5 points into tendrils and +4 tendrils on boots you can reduce the cooldown to less than 7 seconds, which gets you kind of close to ~50% uptime on tendril stun. Thats a ton of survi by itself, and potentially alot of blood orbs to heal
I unfortunately imprinted this aspect on a ring a while ago on a not so great role and havent been able to get a single one to drop since then lol. The only aspect that im still hunting down before i can try to put a full cohesive build together
Here's the thing. The Aspect of Exposed flesh is indeed best here but it doesn't drop until a certain level. At the time I met Cooley, I didn't have the ring nor the level so it wasn't an option. As far as putting points in corpse tendril, I personally don't because that's what the curse is there for. You pick the lucky hit chance to reduce cooldown and I have 16,5% on my goves, therefore just by hitting curse + basics or spear, it reduces by huge chunks on its own
@@BijouLeclerc what level does that aspect usually drop at? I got it once at like level 30 and havent gotten it again now at level 70, just really bad luck?
@@iCheckMyPulse I may be wrong on this but I have not seen this aspect until 85, as many other ones I'm finding now that I've passed this cap. I'm currently 88 and have found it a couple more times. Glad to hear it's available before that, as it will help with ressource generation. I struggled to hell to figure out a way until I used paragons and lucky hit chance.
Had been running a blood surge build thru most the game. And i can definitely tell its not as effective in some end game situations. Too much time waiting for essance and big crits. I appreciate this video! Gonna start collecting some gear for the build ! 🤘
Use Iron Maiden for resource
@@pandabubba6070 what do you use that instead of decrepfy?
@@Djbdeiker iron maiden
I run a very similar build, but I actually use iron maiden for 5% heal per death, and of course, essence per enemy hit. So I don't need bone prison for essence generation. I can keep blood mist in place of bone prison (pushing any kind of higher tier nightmare dungeon you just have to have blood mist). Makes it so life and essence are always topped off and just feels much smoother and faster overall. Maybe you use decripify if you have a lot of +damage to slowed enemies, but I don't. Would highly recommend people switch to iron maiden for essence generation and crazy amounts of healing.
How many points do you put in iron maiden? And then do you go further with it with the two other skills? What’s the whole path of iron maiden you use. I’m definitely interested, I’ve heard other people talk about this
My biggest issue with bone spear is that it's kinda boring (to me). I actually leveled using sever and was having a blast but then swapped to bone spear because everyone kept saying it's better for leveling and that seemed to be completely true, my time to kill went down considerably ... but I was borderline falling asleep so I went back to sever even if the damage isn't as high.
Bone spear will be nerfed very soon. Then everyone will cry.
@@Hooligoon-Hāfu they’ll nerf all the other classes first necro is last on the list for endgame characters (they already nerfed necro before launch from beta)
id listen to this guy if he wasnt wearing glasses indoors
This has made me change my build, I had changed twice already but as you said, you have to set it all up for devastating damage. But I thank you
this build will be starved on essence without CE
Nice, I just hit 60 and I'm definitely building towards a similar build now. Thanks!
Hi cooley, this looks a solid build. Me like...will you be posting some pvp compilations playing this?
Also I wanted to make kinda like a vampire build in d4 utilising blood lance skill. If you would have some build or tips for that...would be awesome. 💋🐾
As a old school diablo 1 veteran. Its pretty cool seeing old school diablo names again.someone call llama we got a showdown.😂😂. Even just playing diablo again. Its refreshing honestly. Friday is my hero. This is a extremely solid build. Hands down the best ive seen so far for the necro.
Edit*congrats on your subscriber goal. Awesome content! Keep it coming!. It's been pretty nostalgic playing diablo again kinda i guess the equivalent of my high school reunion😂😂
if you have an aspect called Blights - Spawning a Blight pool will pull enemy's towards it and Bone Prison Spawns a pool of blight, you can use you bone prison as a pull, pulling big crowds if not everything into the prison, fortifying you for max health ect
I have both of these on my shadow mancer and its actually really good and funny watching big enemies fly around lol
I really do be over here suffering with the blood lance/ surge kinda build. May have to Respec...
Just a Hard no on bone spear. i hate it. I have a minion shadowblight build. my minions are my ultimate. I only use Bloodnova, corpse expolsion, and iron maiden. raise skel and golem are my other slots. but your actually stacking the SHYTE outta fortify. to make bloodnova do more damage and heal you and fortify you, fortify for corpse generation, and heals from iron maiden. then stacking shadow and DoT gear. crit and damage reduction and armor are good too. use blood skills to make your minons heal on orbs. put one into speed, and 9 into the stun, shadow damage skills. 3 for skels mages and golem. max corpse explo, and blood nova. only need 1 pt in iron maid. I AM NOT EVEN INTO PARAGON BOARD i think i hit lvl 30, i dont have much time to play...and it is super lazy sit back and let your minons and dots do the work for you. when i see my minions running to a enemy off screen i drop my curse there, and start spamming blood nova, when i get there if the fight is not already over, i then carpet bomb the room with CorpEx, and well its over then with plenty of corpses on the ground, and me fully fortified. if i even lost a minion then i raise 1 or 2 new ones..the only time i seem to lose a minion....is on bosses and not very fast.
tried the build out in pvp. Pretty cool, I one shot people who aren't paying attention. Sadly I am still get destroyed by rogues and barbarians. Can't really beat the best pvp classes when they know how to play the game. This gave me some serious pve gains though since it hits really hard.
How do you keep your essence up? I find without corpse explosion it’s hard to keep it full
have the same problem
I've found having a high roll of the umbrel aspect is really good. Every time you CC an enemy you gain 1-4 essence depending on the roll you get. Corpse tendril will slow everything in a large area and pull all enemies in and stun them. He also uses decrep which slows as well. Max roll umbrel feels great when going through large packs of mobs as you can bone spear a few to initiate, corpse tendril to slow and pull giving 4 per enemy the second you press it, and another 4 per enemy as it stuns. Bone prison will also give essence with it's first enhancement of 15 + 5 per enemy. And the bone paragon board has nodes to give more essence and essence on kill.
That being said without a high roll umbrel and sufficient paragon points corpse explosion + the aspect that lets bone storm consume corpses to increase its time will likely be a must.
Hope this helps, if you have any questions let me know, still leveling my Necro as well but this is what I've found most effective in the process so far
Everyone giving up on bonespear necro? Who told you this bs? there is no better build for a necro. And you even not making big numbers, mine drops 1kk+ on every regular hit.
I have given up on bone necro, not because it's not good, but because i want to make minions viable. Bone just feel very blunt for me.
well, I tried this build at lvl 100, and barbs/druids wont get one shotted and you will. Its squishy af, even with bloodmist, they just wait it out. great for pve though.
this is mainly the build i use, pretty damn good .... except i have penitent greaves unique boots, these are SOOOOO good for ressource regen in combo with the umbral aspect, and i use a 2h scythe (for the life on kill) in combo with the temerity unique pants (that give shield instead of HP when you heal yourself at full HP). Other than that my build is the same, what i like about my version is that you can literally not care anymore about watching your health or ressource when you fight mobs up to 15-20 lvls above yourself (i have very decent gear, and right now, i very often see crits over 600-700k without havign to set any combo, and i can get over 1 million dmg crits if i set up ideal combos)
Jeez cooley! Videos on D4 too!? I love it.! I just got it a few weeks ago, rolling with a level 80 necro right now. We should run a couple back sometime.
What do you think of Bone Spirit Necro I'm currently working on a build for it.
With the 100% Crit Damage cap in PvP, the +Crit Damage multipliers on Serration (Ossified Essence), Grasping Veins (corpse tendrils), 2h sword bonus, and Golem sacrifice literally do NOTHING in PvP. It sucks. The right move probably is to find clever ways to optimize for vulnerable damage which has no cap. And to QQ to the dev's until they adjust their arbitrary caps that affect certain builds more than others.
Some class builds get straight [x]Bonus Damage multipliers (with no cap) while most necro skills get [x]Crit Damage (worthless in PvP since capped at 100%, tested and confirmed).
This also does mean that the two most common aspects (serration and grasping veins) are less useful for PvP so I have been experimenting with some others.
Me on my 49” super ultra wide. “My abilities don’t make it off screen before they disappear”
what if u got Howl From Beneath gloves - makes Corpse Explosion summon kamikazee skellies that run towards your enemies and blow up!~ I'm level 51 & first helltide dropped gloves and Deathless Visage, so trying to work CE into this build, maybe dropping Bone Prison, wish I had more skills to put on the skill bar..... Coooley's da best!
Blizzard has zero clue what they are doing with this game. There are events that last 10 seconds with burst builds. Yet the Necro can't tank, burst or mass buff, proves they are still focused on a 4 player game. I'm so tired of playing the Rollercoaster DPS builds blizzard loves to throw out there. 5 classes and 4 of them perform some party feat far better than another. Except for the necro. It can perform early on, but the moment it hits world T4, it's like I never ground out gear to save my life.
honestly just play a sorc, they have a wider range of DPS performance.
NO ONE is spec'ing away from bone spear, UNLESS they're experimenting with something else. Literally nothing touches bone spear crit/vulnerable spec. Arguably blood surge if you build it right is decent, but's still not close. The real question is what happens in a month with the patch. Will they nerf bone spear into the soil, rendering all builds garbage, or will they buff pets & boost the viability of other builds?
I don't understand why people don't like the bone spear necro... it feels like cheating where I'm at (lvl 60 currently)
Am I supposed to be able to do tier 14 nightmare dungeons? The balancing feels a tad bit off when I'm fighting mobs that are 13 levels higher than me lol. Or is it how it is for every class?
currently 55 running summoner with +3 warriors +2 mages. and iron golem with decrep and corpse explostion (with a unique that causes ghosts running around exploding+40% dmg) and tendrils. tendrils and golem cause vulnerable and each hit to decrepped mobs causes cooldown reduction on them so they're pretty much infinite. +40% crit chance when using tendrils aspect on the weapon, which again has basically 0 cooldown. i pretty much destroy anything in my path in seconds on wt3, except the butcher which annoyingly ignores all the summons and goes straight for me and is way faster than me. ill see what happens in wt4 but so far its pretty awesome and I see no reason to switch to bone. pvp might be bad with this though. never tried.
Similar build as mine, got to say i love ur offensive better than def, but have to disagree. Mine is defense and atk spd is better than crits. Im rocking shield one hander with 50% to close, shadow, while fortified, and injured. Along with 100% atkspd on basic and 50% on core and 20% damage reduc from aspects. Got to have boot with evade cooldown, then hold down basic atk to slash all the time (three slash should refresh evade for unlimited evade.) While holding the basic atk down i can cast trendrils and curse while slashing. After that i can spam bone spear for 6sec after tendrils. Tendrils drops orbs to fortify me and curse reduce another 20% and refresh cooldowns.
there is several aspects that i question he doesnt add to this build.
-Accelerating>critical strikes with core skills increase your attack speed by x% amount
-wind striker> critical strikes grant x% amount of movement speed for 1 second up to 6 seconds.
-conceited> deal increased x% dmg when a barrier is active.
-archon faulds> while a barrier is active there is a x% chance to ignore incoming direct damage from a distance.
and most importantly,
-osseous gale> bone storm consumes up to x corpses to increase it duration by x seconds.
^this one would be perfect for your build cause you cast away the need to use your corpses anyways so why waste them? make them have your ultimate go longer so its off cooldown sooner also.
To whoever tries to build this not on 80+ level: Don't, it doesn't work unless you're end game. Also, what he doesn't show you here is that you're going to be running out of essence constantly as this build doesn't have a way of replenishing it (Bone wall does replenish some, but it's cooldown is like 16 sec long), so you'll be hitting hard, but you will spend 70% of the time kiting mobs waiting for the essence to regen or for the bone wall to become available again.
I don't keep up with the meta, and I don't frankly care to do so. However, bone spear has been the only thing I've been doing since my current lv74 and I have been doing T40-T46 nightmare dungeons and just one shot everything. People don't use bone spear??
Like how every Bone Spear guide doesnt break 500k damage but mine and others on the discord frequently break 7+ million. Is there no guide on actually doing the build or just click bait from level 77s.
I feel like I took a D4 lesson from Johnny Cage from Mortal Kombat. 😅
Do we ignore Overpower if the skill any build focuses on doesn't have Overpower innately built in for the multiplier to kick in? What if there's a unique flavor text rare that comes with +overpower chance?...
This is a dark sorceress/wizard build. I don't see Minions which is the basis of a Necromancer. So no you didn't break the class, you just changed it. I WANT Minions....period.
😂 yo your necromancer and just learning this I been on since day one bone spear build although I did eventually remove bone prison because it's a wasted ability I found way more dos with a few more uniques... It's sad people share builds to copy past no discovery all for the sake of time like it's a compatition 😂 ...
Spear is best, doing t70 @ lvl 100 with it. Stack m up, tendrils > prison > 6m nukes > repeat.
Oh and put tendrils on your weap and spear on your gloves, way more dmg.
i just respec my shadow to a bone spear build, ok i dont have the lvl 15 glyphs for this build, but it feels defensively not good, i am missing a point. I was doing lvl 45 nightmare and now i am being one shoted on a lvl 30 nightmare, ok the dammages are insane but wtf?
I have struggled with my necro and I'm tired of seeing one off builds hopes and prayers on the stars aligning to do dmg and showcasing that. I have tried several and I feel like I spend most of my time standing around waiting for things to happen all while vulnerable. I want to try this build but I wanted to know how feasible it is while leveling. I am currently level 54 and into world tier 3. What are your thoughts on using this to go higher from here?
Diablo 4 graphics are way worst than D2. Especially the spell effects, in D4 all arrows or spells look the same cheap firelight. In D2 you could understand exactly which spell was and also by the sound.
Great now they are going to nerf my bone nekro, DONT USE WORDS LIKE BREAK OR BROKEN, they are just going to nerf it god damn it
The reason I am skipping on a build like this is because I don't want to play a necro with no minions (AKA the emo sorc). Blood Surge with minions does insane damage and it makes your minions into weapons if you get the right setup. Yes, it is gear dependent in order to push the highest levels of endgame, but it's possible and a lot more fun to me.
No this isn't necro. Necromancy is focused on one aspect... undead. Any build that doesn't utilize minions is a bone mage. What a joke of a game, D4 necro is absolute trash.
unless you are fully min max status, you actually want to stack willpower and dex for your paragon board requirements, not int.
I agree. I personally just go for the minimum required intel to activate the bonuses to rare paragon nodes and that's it. Other than that, I feel like intel is a waste.
I have to comment. Bone spear is the only build that most necro players went to because it's the only beside the bone spirit glitch necro that has a good shot at Lillith. I only perfected a damage over time shadow build to stay different. It will never be "A class"
Nah ill pass, this is not a necro for me, if the build is not fun to play i can't care less even if the build work really well.
There's not that much fun in d4 builds to begin with, making even less fun is definitely not for me.
Every Necro build on RUclips is Bonespear. For some reason I assumed yours was different or found something unique. No just the current Meta build
I might create a softcore necro for this. Not going to pvp on HC :P hahah
Jup I am a pussy and I will leave myself out right now ;)
I really think you underestimate the strength, speed, and consistency of a well constructed bone spirit build.
I don't think he knows about Blight aspect or the CC ring either.
@@ZennExile Also true. There's more than a few very solid options for necro
I’m not sure what long set ups that are so unbearable? If you are imprudent and this works for you, cool. If you are using bone storm with a near minute cooldown the set up is already long enough group to group
lol nice build but no one ever gave up bonespear. even without playing diablo 2, i knew by instinct that the bonespear was the necros strongest skill and used it since the beginning, and you wont find any other videos of necros playing without bonespear
I’m switching character lol. Everyone who plays necro. Are not playin necro how it should be. Which lets me know this class needs some work
This seems like a 70+ build….. leveling is taking me forever, I’m in the 50’s, I’ll probably never get to use it
Nice build but a Necro without Minions is no Necro and defeats the point of even playing this class. If i want just a single char with big dmg i can play any other class.
I think not using exploit is a big mistake neither of the first two glyphs in your board out preform exploit. On my board it gives 36% more vulnerable damage which is a 50% increase to my entire vulnerable damage bucket. None of the other glyphs come close to buffing enough magic nodes to match that. I guess if you managed to stack 150% vulnerable damage without it you might be ok without it.
We do. Check the Maxroll Guide link in the desc.
I’ve been fallowing this build over on max roll and I noticed the “current” one has changed but doesn’t really make sense to me it has bone prison as a skill used but not in the skill tree and it’s all kinda confusing
Diablo 4 is 4,5/10 on metacritics for a reason, its bad and dying.... please back to D2.
"fastest blizzard seeling game" the game is dying guys go back to d2 please
@@vids9190 you forgot most refund after WC3 reforged
@@mathieuvallee8283 im just stating facts, if d4 was actually a bad game id be on your side but you can go check for yourself its being review bombed with 0s and yet still most sold and viewed game atm...
@@vids9190 it get review bombed because its bad, ninja said it
@@mathieuvallee8283 idk who ninja is but, did you play the game? reviews are split between 0s and actual scores check the distribution. Game is like a 7-8 in reality maybe higher after live service goes on. Blizzard just fucked up too many times that they build bad rep and people are very upset.... fair enough lmao
I wish people would stop calling build aspects "broken"
Thats why they keep nerfing the shit out of everything.
hi im new to diablo, im really interest in your build, i wonder how to transfer it into leveling. what skill should i take while leveling up? is it viable if im only around lv50?
Ah yes, the very well known necromancer, defined as someone who raises the dead to fight for him, showing an absolute negative amount of dead raising and believing we wont notice.
That’s how I’ve been pushing my necro since lvl 50 haha
Iron Maiden can also help a lot with resource until we get better gear.