[3.14] Gryph's Thirsty Archmage Cremation Necromancer

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Essence Glutton
Now causes you to Regenerate 4% of Mana over 2 seconds when you Consume a corpse (previously 8%).

Big oof! Espececially for the crit based variants that really relied on the raw power of this node to keep good regen. Overall a balanced nerf that we'll feel but considering the non-crit version of this build could reach upwards of 10k mana regen per second, I don't see it as big deal in the end.

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Trigger a Socketed Spell when you Use a Skill, with a 8 second Cooldown (previously 4 seconds).

Well, for us the trigger craft is to maintain Bone offering primarily. And that has a base duration of 6-10 seconds depending on corpses consumed. So with our inherent 50% skill effect duration it's always going to last longer that the 8s cooldown. Tempest shield is the same--lasts longer than the cooldown.

IF you opt to NOT use Kitava's helmet and used trigger for wave of conviction and/or curse it's a bit annoying. Makes Kitava's a much more appealing option for true endgame. :D

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Wave of Conviction
Exposure now applies -15% to Elemental Resistance matching highest Damage taken (previously -25%).

It's a damage nerf that affects everyone. No biggie. Could even drop it entirely for a different source of exposure to save a socket.

Build still looks rock solid for the new league and especially for the new mechanic. Arena style battles with increasing rewards and difficulty? Yeah sign me up for that.

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Interacting with the Divine Font will now display a window with the available enchantments. For example, after completing the Eternal Labyrinth, a window will be displayed where you will have the option to pick one of three Helmet enchantments, or an enchantment for your Boots or Gloves.

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This change makes running Labs on this build(very easy to do btw) potentially insanely profitable and makes getting our own singular best lab enchant soooo much easier. This a massive buff to this build for the availability it provides for the +1 Cremation Geyser enchant. Massive.

Uber Elder Deathless. Easy Mode
Minotaur Run. Build Game Play Demo
A game play video of Minotaur but with the end game setup.

Awakener Level 8 Sirus
Died once because I didn't have corrupted blood immunity on a jewel yet. (lol whoops)

Shaper Run

T10 Redeemer. Low tier gear.

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Below are some of the mechanics/keystones/interactions that we'll be taking advantage of. I don't feel like explaining it too much at the moment (I will as I evolve the guide) but BASICALLY:

This+Massive Mana Regen=massive life sustain. Like almost 2k per second life recovery. Makes Lab Traps pretty trivial. Also allows for sustaining Righteous Fire.

Big mana? Make it work FOR YOU! MoM is not hard to explain.

8% over 2 seconds amounts to 4% per second. This counts as REGENERATION. For mana regen, 4% is HUGE. Cloak of Defiance gives 1%. Let that sink in. This is just one way the Necro outperforms Mr. Heiro.

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A really nice boost. We get to take advantage of our massive mana pool for offense AND defense here AND we get the added benefit of recovering 20% of our max mana after we consume most of it to Cloak. Excellent synergy.

The simple explanation is that we use Desecrate to spawn corpses. We cast Cremation on a corpse--which triggers our helmet, let it kill everything in sight and move on. It feels a lot like Vortex/Coldsnap in a lot of ways.


I like to use this helmet to spam debuffing spells.

In particular:
Wave of Conviction
Blade Blast (Unnerves)
Elemental Weakness
Increased Critical Strikes Support (for consistent Elemental Overload up-time)
OR Chaos Golem for extra Phys Mitigation

And that's it, as we cast Cremation we'll trigger the spells in our helmet for maximum convenience.

6L in chest:

If you don't like the intensity mechanic you can use Lightning Penetration and Controlled Destruction instead of Pinpoint and Intensify
4 triggered gems in helmet:

Chaos Golem is the flex slot. You can use whatever you like there

3L Trigger Weapon:

Void Sphere is very strong with cremation and looks especially good in Ultimatum League to suck in all the enemies onto our Cremation Geysers. This is the flex slot.

4L


4L Movement:


2L Desecrate


Random Sockets, good for Unsets or empty slots.



Also if you do not have a Clarity Watcher's Eye, it's not even needed as it doesn't provide a substantial amount of regen.

Leveling with this build is fairly simple.

Leveling 1-28:
DO WHAT YOU WANT :D

Stormblast Mines+Orb of Storms is pretty good.

At level 28 you can start using Cremation. This skill is powerful enough in its own right to carry you the rest of the way. Start using archmage after normal lab (Essence Glutton) and it should be pretty smooth sailing from there.

You may also choose to use Uleash+Archmage+Detonate Dead+Spell Cascade 4L to help with clearing faster. Up to you though.

Bandits:
Kill All.

Pantheon:
Soul of the Brine King to help with stuns if you do not have Skyforth's yet.

Soul of Arakaali for extra resistance to dots/chaos and reduced effect of shock

For small pantheon, I use Shakari for chaos/poison mitigation.

Ascendancies:
Essence Glutton -> Plaguebringer -> Corpse Pact -> Mistress of Sacrifice

In that order.

There are a few map mods to avoid or be careful about. The obvious ones to avoid are: No Life/Mana Regen and Elemental Reflect.

The less obvious ones that you want to pay attention to are:

Physical Reflect. We cast leveled Wave of Conviction and Blade Blast that do decent damage. You can definitely one-shot yourself with this. Easy fix is to swap it for a level 1 gem for these maps.

Reduced Block Chance. Mostly just a bit of a nuisance as it guts one of our primary defense mechanics. You can still run them of course, just try not to tank mobs while doing so. :P

Yes, you can go crit with this build. Very doable, but also very expensive. Generally speaking you will need a rare chest with spell crit, a bottled faith, and rare wand/shield with crit stats on them. Can add more to this if there is interest.