The Best Class? Necromancer Changes in Season 4

Skills

Enhanced Blight

• The Tooltip now correctly references the defiled area for the Slow effect.

Blood Mist

• Removed the movement speed reduction.

Golem

• This ability can now be activated while crowd controlled. Activating this ability makes the player Unstoppable.

Decompose

• Reworded description to be more consistent with the use of Corpses.
• Interval reduced from 1.5 seconds to 1 second.
• Increased channeling Essence generation from 8 to 10 per second.
• Upgrades now activate when spawning corpses instead of channeling for 1 second.
• Enhanced Decompose
  • Decompose now causes an explosion [40% weapon damage] when creating a corpse or when the target dies.
  • Now also generates 10 Essence when creating a corpse.
• Acolyte’s Decompose
  • Previous – Every 1.5 seconds, Decompose makes Enemies Vulnerable for 4 seconds.
  • Now – Decompose explosions make enemies vulnerable.
• Initiate’s Decompose
  • Movement Speed bonus is now on Decompose explosions instead of channeling.
  • Bonus Movement Speed duration increased from 5 to 8 seconds.

Army of the Dead

• Increased spawn rate of Volatile Skeletons by 50%.
• Supreme Army of the Dead spawn rate adjusted to match Volatile Skeletons.
• Is now categorized as a Summoning skill.

Passive

Inspiring Leader

• Previous – After you have been Healthy for at least 2 seconds, you and your Minions gain 4/8/12%[+] Attack Speed.
• Now – While you are Healthy, you gain 4/8/12%[+] increased critical chance and your Minions gain 6/12/18%[+] increased Critical Strike Chance.

Kalan’s Edict

• Previous – After you have not taken damage in the last 2 seconds, your Minions gain 15% Attack Speed. This bonus is doubled while you have at least 7 Minions.
• Now – Your Minions gain 3% Attack Speed for each active Minion.

Book of the Dead

• Skeletal Warriors will now run ahead of the Necromancer more often, and can initiate combat.
• Skirmishers – Removed 3 second limit from the second upgrade.
• Reapers
  • First Upgrade
    • Previous – Reaper attacks against enemies who are Immobilized, Slowed, Stunned, or Vulnerable reduce the cooldown of their powerful wind-up attack by 2 seconds.
    • Now – Wind-up attacks now reduce one of your active Cooldowns by 3 seconds.
• Defenders
  • Now Taunts in an area around them, instead of negating damage every 6 seconds from the first upgrade.
  • Second upgrade changed from increasing Thorns inherited from the player to Defenders reduce damage taken by 99%.
• Shadow Mages
  • Attacks now pierce.
  • First upgrade
    • Previous – Shadow Mage attacks have a 10% chance to Stun for 2 seconds. This cannot happen toon the same enemy more than once every 5 seconds.
    • Now – You deal 3%[x] increased damage for each active Shadow Mage.
  • The second upgrade now has an additional Shadow Bolt fired every 3 attacks, down from 4.
• Cold Mages
  • Attacks now gain 3 Essence from the first upgrade.
  • Attacks now apply Vulnerable without condition.
• Bone Mages
  • First Upgrade
    • Previous – Reduce the Life cost of your Bone Mages’ Attack from 15% to 10%. After being alive for 5 seconds, Bone mages deal 40%[x] increased damage.
    • Now – Bone Mages now cast Bone Splinters or Bone Spear every 6th attack if it is on your Action bar.
  • Second Upgrade
    • Previous – Each time a Bone Mage dies from its own attack they leave behind a corpse and Fortify you for 20% of your Maximum Life.
    • Now – Bone Mages drop a corpse when they die. Bone Mage attacks will grant 3% of Maximum Life Fortify.
• Blood Golem
  • Golem now absorbs 30%, up from 15%, from the first upgrade.
  • The second upgrade active ability from Golem also heals the player for 5% of Maximum Life for each enemy drained.
• Bone Golem
  • First Upgrade
    • Previous – Each time your Bone Golem takes up to 20% of its Maximum Life as damage, it sheds a corpse.
    • Now – Spawn 5 corpses around the Golem where its ability is used.
  • Second Upgrade
    • Previous – Your Bone golem gains 10% Maximum Life and the amount of Thorns it inherits from you is increased from 30% to 50%.
    • Now – Your Bone Golem unleashes Bone Spikes when taking damage.
• Iron Golem
  • First upgrade
    • Now casts the Shockwave every 2 attacks instead of 4.
    • Shockwave damage increased from 40% to 154%.
  • Second upgrade
    • Now also pulls enemies in instead of applying Vulnerable.

Legendary Aspects

Blood-soaked Aspect

• Previous – Your movement speed is no longer reduced while Blood Mist is active.
• Now – While in Blood Mist form, increases movement speed by 20%.

Unyielding Commander Aspect

• Previous – While Army of the Dead is active, your Minions gain 70-84% Attack Speed and take 90% reduced damage.
• Now – While Army of the Dead is active, your Minions deal 70-100% increased damage and take 90% reduced damage.

Occult Dominion

• Also increases the max number of Skeletal Warriors by 2.

Blood Getter’s

• Previous – Your Maximum number of Skeletal Warriors is increased by 2.
• Now – Your Skeletal Priests also empower you at 55-70% effectiveness.

Flesh-Rending

• Previous – When Decompose spawns a Corpse, gain 25-40 Essence.
• After: When Decompose explodes, gain 25-40 Essence.

Rotting

• Previous – Decompose can chain and burst up to 2 additional targets. When Decompose spawns a Corpse, it has a 50-100% chance to spawn a Corpse under all afflicted targets.
• After: Decompose can chain and burst up to 2 additional targets. Explosions from Decompose deals 15-30%[x] increased damage.

of the Damned

• Previous – You deal 40-50%[x] increased Shadow damage to enemies afflicted by both Decrepify and Iron Maiden.
• After: You deal 40-50%[x] increased Shadow damage to enemies afflicted by any Curse.

of Untimely Death

• Previous – Each percent of your Maximum Life you Heal beyond 100% grants you 0.5%[x] bonus Overpower damage on your next Overpowering attack, up to a 30-60%[x] bonus.
• After: Each percent of your Maximum Life you Heal beyond 100% grants you 0.5%[x] bonus Critical Strike Damage on your next Critical Strike, up to a 30-60%[x] bonus.

of Potent Blood

• Previous – While Healthy, Blood Orbs grant 10-25 Essence.
• After: Blood Orbs grant 10-25 Essence.

Unique Items

Ring of Mendeln

• Previous – Lucky Hit: Up to a 10% chance to empower all of your Minions, causing the next attack from each to explode for X Physical damage.
• Now – Every 6th attack from each Minion is empowered, exploding for X Physical damage.

Lidless Wall

• Lucky Hit Chance increased from 5-25% to 15-30%.

Bloodless Scream

• Essence gain increased from 7-10 to 15-20.

Paragon

Control Glyph

• Previous – Additional Bonus: You and your Minions deal 10%[X] increased damage to Slowed or Chilled enemies or, instead, 20%[X] increased damage to Stunned or Frozen enemies.
• Now – Additional Bonus: You and your Minions deal 20%[X] increased damage to Crowd Controlled targets.

Deadraiser Glyph

• Additional Bonus maximum bonus buffed to 15%[X].

Dominate Glyph

• Bonus Overpower Damage per 5 Willpower reduced from 39.9% to 14.9% at Glyph level 21.

Cult Leader Paragon Node

• Previous – Your Minions deal 15%[X] increased damage for each 20%[X] of Attack Speed Bonus they have.
• Now – Your Minions deal 30%[X] increased damage for each 20%[X] of Attack Speed Bonus they have, up to a maximum of 100% Attack Speed Bonus.