Bone Spirit Necromancer Build

This is a very satisfying Build focused on gathering up enemies and doing extreme levels of burst damage to them.

Skills

This Build mainly revolves around the use of Bone Spirit. With a combination of Skills and Equipment, this Skill can potentially kill just about anything in a single hit!

Additional Core Skills:

• Raise Skeleton – needed to use your Skeletal Warriors.
• Decrepify – this will keep enemies Stunned, as well as keep your Cooldowns low.
• Blood Mist – On top of making you Immune, it will make Corpses and increase your movement speed.
• Corpse Tendrils – pulls enemies in while also making them Vulnerable.
• Bone Prison – a second form of Vulnerable, that also keeps enemies from getting close to you.

Passives

The Key Passive for this Build is Ossified Essence, as it will greatly boost the damage of Bone Spirit.

Additional Passives:

• Spiked Armor and Necrotic Carapace will increase your survivability.
• Imperfectly Balanced, Fueled by Death, Death’s Embrace, Amplify Damage, Serration, Compound Fracture, Evulsion, and Inspiring Leader will boost your damage.
• Unliving Energy, Hewed Flesh, Grim Harvest, and Rapid Ossification will help your utility.

Book of the Dead

You will want to take Reaper Skeletal Warriors with the 2nd Upgrade. You will want to sacrifice the Bone Skeletal Mage and the Iron Golem.

Paragon Boards

• Board 1 (Start):
  • Use Corporeal Glyph
  • Connect at the top end
• Board 2 (Bone Graft):
  • Don’t rotate
  • Take Legendary Node
  • Use Essence Glyph
  • Connect at the left end (board 3) and the top end (board 4)
• Board 3 (Scent of Death):
  • Rotate three times
  • Take Legendary Node
  • Use Dominate Glyph
  • Connect at the left end
• Board 4 (Flesh-eater):
  • Rotate once
  • Take Legendary Node
  • Use Gravekeeper Glyph
• Board 5 (Cult Leader):
  • Rotate twice
  • Don’t take Legendary Node
  • Use Deadraiser Glyph
  • Connect at the left end
• Board 6 (Bloodbath):
  • Rotate 3 times
  • Take Legendary Node
  • Use Exploit Glyph
  • Connect at the top end
• Board 7 (Blood Begets Blood):
  • Rotate three times
  • Don’t take Legendary Node

Glyph Leveling Priorities

Level 15	Level 21
1. Gravekeeper	1. Essence
2. Corporeal	2. Dominate
3. Essence	3. Exploit
4. Deadraiser	4. Gravekeeper
5. Amplify/Dominate (if building for Overpower)	5. Corporeal
6. Control/Exploit (if building for Overpower)	6. Deadraiser

Equipment

Blood Moon Breeches will give your Minions the chance the curse enemies, while also boosting your Overpower damage to enemies with a curse. Banished Lord’s Talisman will give Bone Spirit a massive boost in damage when it Overpowers. Harlequin Crest will enhance all of your Skills and give you Damage Reduction, while Path of Trag’oul gives your Bone Prison some extra damage.

On top of these pieces, you will want these Legendary Aspects:

• Imprisoned Spirit – allows Bone Spirit and Bone Prison to combo with each other to deal much more damage.
• Serration and Torment will enhance your Bone Skills.
• Requiem – increases your Maximum Essence for each active Minion you have.
• Hardened Bones – increases your survivability.
• Grasping Veins – gives you a boost in damage when using Corpse Tendrils.

You will want to use a Ruby Gem on your weapon, Ruby Gems on your armor, and Diamond Gems on your jewelry.

Equipment Stat Priorities

Slot	Stat Priorities	Tempering
Main Hand	1. Intelligence 2. Maximum Life 3. Attack Speed 4. Critical Strike / Overpower Damage 5. Essence on Kill	– Bone Splinters Projectiles Cast Twice – Bone Spirit Damage
Off-Hand	1. Cooldown Reduction 2. Maximum Resource 3. Critical Strike Chance 4. Essence on Kill	– Bone Splinters Projectiles Cast Twice – Bone Spirit Damage
Helm	1. Maximum Resource 2. Cooldown Reduction 3. Essence per Second 4. Maximum Life 5. Intelligence	– Maximum Life – Crowd Control Duration
Chest Armor	1. Essence per Second 2. Ranks to Macabre Skills 3. Armor 4. Intelligence 5. Maximum Life	– Total Armor – Decrepify / Corpse Tendrils Size
Gloves	1. Ranks to Core Skills 2. Critical Strike Chance 3. Intelligence 4. Attack Speed 5. Maximum Life	– Bone Spirit Damage – Decrepify / Corpse Tendrils Size
Pants	1. Armor 2. Maximum Life 3. Intelligence 4. Dodge Chance	– Maximum Life – Decrepify / Corpse Tendrils Size
Boots	1. Movement Speed 2. Ranks to Bone Spirit 3. Essence Per Second 4. Intelligence 5. Maximum Life	– Movement Speed – Crowd Control Duration
Amulet	1. Ranks to ‍Imperfectly Balanced 2. Ranks to ‍Evulsion 3. Maximum Resource 4. Cooldown Reduction 5. Movement Speed	– Casting Macabre Skills Restores Primary Resource – Bone Spirit Damage
Rings	1. Critical Strike Chance 2. Intelligence 3. Attack Speed 4. Maximum Life 5. Essence on Kill 6. Critical Strike Damage	– Casting Macabre Skills Restores Primary Resource – Bone Spirit Damage

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