Diablo IV Season 5 - Pit Tier 124 Blood Surge Necromancer (build in description)

[@RIFLETHEORY]

Hey dude! Can you explain attack speed breakpoints, whether I should be focusing on max life or crit chance or attack speed? Also have you considered metamorph for the dash spam combined with attacks give evade cooldown passive on boots to collect blood orbs faster ?

[@whateverthemeta]

For attack speed breakpoints - maxroll.gg/d4/resources/attack-speed-mechanics Its written by one of the lead game mechanics specialists Ava from Sanctuary/Maxtroll. You should approach cap as close as possible, and balance w/e stats you have left. I'd say attack speed is important, but considering breakpoints - should not be overzealous stacking it. Unfortunately, as long as you obtain mythic gear, you won't have aspect slots to have metamorth, since curse aura and eventuallly embalmer (build will update soon) always will take priority.

[@armagedoc66]

Can you help me understand why blood attack speed is more important then blood damage? I am having fun with the build and trying to push it to pit 100.

[@whateverthemeta]

All damage comes from overpower proc, it is every 6th cast + rathma vigor timer. You want to rotate 5 "empty" casts as much as possible. Also the faster you attack, more drains happen per second, leeching health for you - it is part of tank aswell. I cooked even better setup that with really good mythic setup clears T8 council in 2 minutes, my gear was unbalanced due to experimenting, so possibly even faster. Will add build today after having some sleep.

[@RIFLETHEORY]

Hey dude, I have been testing the build and I have a ton of gear and I’m still having resource issues against single target; any ideas?

[@whateverthemeta]

I assume you use mythic setup. It is very greedy and in previous version we lost 2 essence/sec affixes to mythic pieces. This could be resolved by multiple ways - better masterworking / obtaining better cruors, to increase drain count, which result in better corpse gen. You could weave in hemo, thats why it remains on the bar - you hold hemmorage on single target, while spamming surge button. It results in surges being casts non stop with instant hemmorage uses when its out of essence or sometimes inbetween, keeping essence levels. But, regardless I updated the build for embalmer use instead of shako, increasing its damage output significantly. it will allow you to have another essence/sec affix back and make it easy again even without measures i meant, but now you want to stutterstep/move while casting surge, to pick blood orbs rougly one in 5 seconds - there will be abundance of them and if target is close, it will be spawning under your feet, so pretty much you always will be buffed by Blood Begets Blood.

[@RIFLETHEORY]

@@whateverthemeta so if I have cruors embrace with a Ga rides of blood, I still want to masterwork into surges from elites?

[@cursefiery8490]

Hello! How fast could this build kill uber lilith and tormented bosses? Didnt manage to find any video of a blood necro doing them this season :/ Really like the concept of the build only concerned about the singletarget potenial. Thank you! :D

[@whateverthemeta]

Hi, T8 clear and Uber Lilith clears are uploaded to this channel. T8 clear: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqu1mZWgrsmpeZI Lilith: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGWloYWHm8mCZ7M Even with close to best gear, Lilith - up to few minutes with all transitions, T8 council takes a time, depending on grouping - takes 3-6 minutes; T7 council - 1-2 minutes; Solo tormented bosses - from few seconds to a minute; Scaled for party tormented bosses - minute or two for mid size party, few minutes for full carrying; Pit 120+ boss ~7-8 minutes. Surge is known for excellent density clearing and tank, but poor single target. But this season, for general gameplay, recommended at least core setup won't have any issues, except long fights at T8 council and 100+ pit bosses.

[@cursefiery8490]

@@whateverthemeta Sounds amazing! Thank you for the clarification. All i do in the game pretty much is carry NMD 100s, carry tormented bosses or run rotas, run helltides for fun and doing hordes. Considering what you just wrote, this build is completely good for the things iam doing. :D If you could make some comparisons on how quickly you can solo and kill tormenteds if you carry 3 people per say that would be awesome! Looking forward to running the 4 ubers version.

[@whateverthemeta]

@@cursefiery8490 If you want mostly to carry, bone spirit by Seroc, would be most optimal choice. You sure can easy carry party on surge, but it takes at least few minutes even for tormented for full party, and too long to carry more than single person in T8.