Corpse Lance Necromancer Support Help

[Tsukoyomi 0]

I am going the corpselance support build for Necromancer and the build has me taking Corpselance with Brittle and the pestilence set on top of that, if I were to take off the ability Corpselance and change it to another ability say for example Bone Spikes with Frost spikes, would the damage decrease an amount that it would not be worth it?

[Bubble181 14]

The Corpse Lance support build does not do any damage itself (well, nothing worth noting, anyway). It's a pure support build, and Brittle Touch's crit multiplier is one of the strongest support skills you have. Because of the skill combinations, you should realistically CL practically every enemy that ever appears on screen at least a few times. There's a cap (75%? 80%? I don't remember) Crit Chance, and Brittle Touch is pretty much the only way to get there. A properly built DPSer will see their damage easily triple based (since if you're palying together regularly, they can roll off all their CHC and focus purely on CHD) on that one skill alone. So, no, don't take it off! Frost Spikes' very temporary and local movement debuff is nice, but completely uncomparable.

The build is meant to:

1. Consume as much corpses as possible to generate Health Globes
2. Hit as many enemies as possible with Corpse lance to raise crit chance to the cap
3. Slow/freeze/stun as many enemies as possible

That's it. That's all you're supposed to do. Number 1 is Devour + LOTD, number 2 is CL + Pestilence, number 3 is LOTD and....anything else you happen to have left over.All your other skills and item choices are supporting those two main primary objectives,

[mspector 1]

Since the biggest issue with CL is corpses, I combine it with Command Skeletons/Frenzy. Let them do the killing while I hit CL from outside the melee.