Crowd Control Reduction is an incredibly valuable secondary Affix to roll on both Rings, Amulet and Helmet as we are very sensitive to Hard Crowd Control effects and mitigating these will ease up our gameplay significantly. Cooldown Reduction is useless for this build as you only cast Simulacrum at the beginning of a Greater Rift and if they die along the way.įor defensive rolls always take Armor > All Resistance, since we get All Resistance by default from Intelligence in our Paragon points. Attack Speed is helpful, especially for faster Bane of the Stricken stacking in solo, but you don't need to aim for any specific Attack Speed Breakpoint. Our offensive priorities are: Poison Damage > Critical Hit Chance & Critical Hit Damage > Area Damage, along with as much Grim Scythe damage as possible. Check out the Passives section down below to see which ones you're looking for. You're better off hunting for the things above. This is just icing on the cake because a fifth passive is not going to make or break your build. This means the difference between good and bad rolls is significant and something you should look for. While some have a static value, many have a wide stat range.
This build requires Trag'Oul's Corroded Fang and Nayr's Black Death to be functional. What you should prioritize on them is the following:
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Pair that with its ability to perform at the top of the solo leaderboards and you have one of the best Necromancer builds. With the ability to flatten an entire room of monsters in Greater Rift 150 while being relatively tanky and providing Curses, it is a very potent Trash Killer in group play. The gameplay of the build is pretty straightforward and easy to engage with at first glance, it turns out that mastering the playstyle of perfectly positioning your Simulacrum s to maximize their damage with the small AoE of Grim Scythe is actually challenging and requires some practice.
Yet, in conjunction with Leger's Disdain and its special interaction with Simulacrum s (see Mechanics), the Grim Scythe Necromancer still scales its damage a lot with density and stays an absolute beast when surrounded by hordes of monsters! Season 23 allows this build to pick up Krelm's Buff Bracers without having to lose the benefits of using Nemesis Bracers since your follower now emanates the power! The build however took quite a hit in Season 22 as a bug allowing Simulacrum s to benefit twice from Trag'Oul's Corroded Fang got fixed. This change paved the way for the LoD Grim Scythe Necromancer to shred everything in sight with the amazing power of Grim Scythe Cursed Scythe, which you'll regularly hear referred to as "Poison Scythe" as this build is all about stacking Poison Skills and Nayr's Black Death. When Season 21 introduced the new Masquerade of the Burning Carnival Set, based on both Simulacrum s and Bone Spear, Haunted Visions witnessed a rework that allowed Simulacrum to last indefinitely as well as enabling Grim Scythe as a duplicated skill.