Kripp's Blood Spirit Necro - Season 6

This is likely the strongest Necromancer build in Season 6.

Blood Artisan Cuirass spawns Bone Spirits that additionally scale off of your max life (current life/base life). We scale life in order to both multiply damage and increase survivability.

Required:

• Use Blood Wave
• Spam Blood Lance or run over Blood Orbs
• Corpse Tendrils to group up monsters and activate Aspect of Grasping Veins

Optional:

• Curse target if you don't want to get close to it
• Blight tanky single target monsters/bosses

Blood Orbs spawn primarily from Blood Wave, and reset it's cooldown (Fastblood Aspect) by picking them up with Blood Lance (Aspect of Gore Quills). This results in one Bone Spirit per Blood Lance cast, as well as extras when running over leftover Blood Orbs.

Bone Spirit is the highest damage skill in the game. This build uses all the traditional multipliers, but also the life multiplier from using Blood Artisan Cuirass. This multiplier was relatively small in Season 5 and earlier as base life used to be 8k. In Season 6, the stat squish changed base life to 400, but only halved rolls on gear, resulting in a MASSIVE new multiplier!

Attack Speed

With Blood Lance resetting Blood Wave, the main limitation becomes attack speed. The game has certain frame counts for breakpoints, meaning a gain of a few % of attack speed on gear may do absolutely nothing.

Attack speed on gear and Paragon is category 1 (cap of 100%)
Blood Lance attack speed on the skill and Blood Skill attack speed on temper rolls is category 2 (separate cap of 100%)

Breakpoints using 1.15 attack speed weapons:
Frames Req Speed Req Attack Speed%
23 1.77 54
17 2.388 108
16 2.538 121
15 2.721 137
14 2.934 156
13 3.174 176

Alternate Gear

The new Heir of Perdition helmet is a strong choice over Harlequin Crest. Choosing this option means you need additional CDR for Blood Wave, armor, a few extra passives, and the Fastblood Aspect needs to be used on the Amulet instead. This option results in 10% more damage, but at a loss of 30% survivability, and cooldown reduction for all other skills