Shadow Bone Splinters

Bone Splinters with Shattered Spirit's Aspect is still one of the most fun and versatile builds, making great use of under utilized Uniques and offering a unique playstyle found nowhere else in the game with incredible damage by abusing hidden mechanics that are specific to Bone Splinter builds. If you're looking for something new to play that's unlike anything else this game has to offer and want to watch even the tankiest enemies melt right in front of you then Bone Splinters is the build for you.

1. Always keep up Soulrift to maintain Unhindered using Aspect of Distilled Anima
2. Walk inside the enemies hitbox using the unhindered from Aspect of Distilled Anima
3. Cast Bone Spirit until a corpse forms from Hued Flesh
4. Cast Corpse Tendrils using the corpse to group enemies together
5. Cast Bone Prison to apply Vulnerable
6. Spam Bone Spirit to trigger Shattered Spirit's Aspect repeatedly

The entire goal of the build is to be able to spam Bone Spirit inside the enemies hitbox to fully abuse the Shattered Spirit's Aspect aspect. Below are the steps needed to do that.

1. The first goal is getting your Bone Spirit cooldown lower than 7 seconds so you can machine gun cast it through the use of the Enhanced Bone Spirit upgrade passive in the skill tree. This requires having high amounts of Cooldown reduction as well as 100% critical strike chance.
2. The second goal is to get yourself inside the enemies hitbox. We use the Unhindered effect from Aspect of Distilled Anima to do this.
3. After that, Spam Shattered Spirit's Aspect using Bone Spirit. If done correctly all 18 Bone Splinters from the Shattered Spirit's Aspect will hit the enemy, doing incredible amounts of damage. This step is called Shotgunning.

So to recap, these are the key things you need to have:

• Bone Spirit under 7 second cooldown.
• 100% Critical Strike Chance.
• An unhindered ability such as Aspect of Distilled Anima.

Uniques:

Shard of Verathiel: This unique is the core of any basic attack build, and this one is no exception thanks to all the Bone Splinters fired from Shattered Spirit's Aspect counting as basic attacks. A good Shard of Verathiel is vital to the builds success.

Gospel of the Devotee: This overlooked unique is the other core unique to the build, allowing our Bone Splinters from Shattered Spirit's Aspect to pierce through enemies for more AOE clear.

Crown of Lucion: This unique gives the build an incredible amount of damage and cooldown reduction, without any of the downsides of the increased essence cost. This unique is a must have.

Shroud of False Death: +1 to all passives as well as a high HP and all stat roll makes this item give way too much tankiness and damage to pass up. Its by far the best Mythic unique for the Necromancer class

Blood Moon Breeches: A 50% damage multiplier in the pants slot makes these a must have despite the other stats it gives not being very desirable.

Penitent Greaves: A higher damage alternative to Aspect of Distilled Anima, offering a free [x]25% multiplier to the enemy you're Shotgunning. It comes at the cost of less consistent Unhindered access, making it a higher risk higher reward option.

Elixirs and Incenses

With the abundance of herbs now in the game it is now very easy to grab some consumables to either shore up big weakness with your character or to massively increase your strengths. I highly recommend you regularly keep Elixirs and Incenses running. Below I laid out the best consumables to use for every situation.

Elixirs

If you need more of any specific resistance or armor, use those elixirs first. Once your armor capped and resistance capped, look to use the Elixir of Precision for the extra crit chance, and if you're already crit capped look to instead use Elixir of Advantage for the extra attack speed. If you're having trouble staying alive and your armor capped and resistance capped, you can use the Elixir of Fortitude to gain a 20% hp multiplier.
 

Core Stat

• Sage's Whisper: Generally the best option as it gives the most amount of damage.
• Spiral Morning: Not a bad alternative, as the all stat gives some armor and also helps hit breakpoints in paragon tree. Only use if there's specific paragon nodes you're trying to reach.
   

Resistance

• Soothing Spices: Best all around option as it gives +10% all resistances and +2% max resistance to everything. Only use another option if needed to hit resistance caps.
   

Defensive

• Song of the Mountain: Great early game option for the +300 Armor
• Reddamine Buzz: Gives +750hp, best option if you are already armor capped.

11th of December 2025

• Updated for Season 11 - Patch 2.5.0

10th of February 2026

• Small updates and cleaned up wording to prepare for Season 12. Icons added