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SnowRhex wrote:

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kayella wrote:

I feel like I want to cry.

Cheer up Kay! I can't describe how much you've done for this build and the community, but do remember you always have our support.
The nerf is mainly targeting low life% spectres and support spectres. I believe a majority of spectres are still playable. It's not the end of the world.

Edit:
I was checking PoB and thought that taking Bone Barrier instead of Mistress of Sacrifice will improve the current situation.

Bone Barrier

Grants Level 20 Bone Armour Skill
1% additional Physical Damage Reduction per Minion, up to 10%
2% increased Recovery Rate of Life and Energy Shield per Minion, up to 20%
Minions have 20% more Maximum Life

Reworked Mistress of Sacrifice

40% increased Skill Effect Duration
Your Offering Skills also affect you
Your Offerings have 50% reduced Effect on you

Mistress of Sacrifice has received two major nerfs in a row. I personally see less reason to take it. RS necro does not rely on skill duration that much like ED+C and some other builds. It's true that Mistress grants Bone/Flesh offering buffs, but Bone Barrier also gives both you and your minions defensive benefits.

Take Slave Driver for example. The nerf from lv.76 to lv.72 is 20.83% less max life, while Bone Barrier gives 20% more max life ;)

Also, the granted lv.20 Bone Armour skill saves you a whole gem slot. I see your current setup is using steelskin, but Bone Armour is simply a better steelskin (both takes 70% dmg, total 2209 dmg, 3s cd, but bone armour applies to you and all of your minions).

With Steelskin gone, I think a new setup can be:
Trigger Wand: Desecrate - Offering - Tempest Shield (take away spell cascade)
Shield: CWDT - Immortal Call - Withering Step (or inc duration)

What do you think?

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6_din_49 wrote:

For minion survivability, until we get decent gear, I think we can use Skullhead and bone offering, with Victario's Charity + Necromantic Aegis.

This would provide for our minions:
> Minion block chance: 59%-69%+ --> 24% (shield) + 10% (helmet) + 25-35%+ (bone offering)
> Frenzy charges (shield)
> 2% life regen per second (helmet)
> Life on Block (bone offering)
> some resistances from shield

If we take Decay Ward cluster (3 passives), we get our minions to 75%/55% block chance with bone offering, plus 20% minion life and extra 2% life on block. This should cover all minion survivability needs.

We lose Flesh Offering, unless we use "Leash of Oblation", but I think we can live with it.

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hidden_gobsek wrote:

What are the options to replace spell echo for SO? Empower?
Minion damage seems giving more damage but the overall lvl increase gives life/damage/accuracy which seems better?
Thoughts?

It is ridiculous but I think that SO are really the least nerfed in this patch.
That once again shows the true skills of GGG game design team...

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SnowRhex wrote:

I really want to know what you think on this. Even if it's me lacking some understanding of the ascendancy, please correct me.
Plus it's not your post's problem, this game has too many necro haters. I watche the post grew from 800 likes, I say it got more dislikes than you think. Most people saw the world spectre and click thumbs down without even thinking.