New Necromancer changes in latest Diablo 3 beta patch notes

PTR PATCH 2.6.0 – v2.6.0.45704

CLASSES

• Necromancer Skills
  • Bone Prison
    • Bone Spear, Bone Spikes and Bone Spirit have a 10% 30% chance to trap enemies in a Bone Prison for 3 seconds
  • Bone Spear
    • This skill should now more reliably hit targets, especially moving targets
  • Command Skeletons
    • Kill Command
      • Now commands your skeletons to explode, dealing 80% 215% weapon damage to enemies within 15 yards
  • Corpse Explosion
    • Base Rune
      • Target an area exploding all corpses within 11 yards dealing 150%250% 350% weapon damage to enemies within 20 yards
  • Corpse Lance
    • Base Rune
      • Target an enemy to summon projectiles from nearby corpses that cause 750% 900% 1750% weapon damage to the target
    • The attack rate for all runes has been increased
  • Skeletal Mage
    • Contamination
      • Raise a contaminated mage that channels an aura of decay for 175% 100% weapon damage for its duration.
• Necromancer Passives
  • Blood for Blood
    • Picking up a health globe removes the health cost of the next Blood spell. This effect can stack up to 3 10 times.
    • Dark Reaping
      • While using a scythe gain 1% 2% Essence and Life per kill
  • Serration
    • Bone Spikes, Bone Spear and Bone Spirit deal 1% increased damage for every 2 yards between you, up to a maximum of 15% 20%
• Bug Fixes
  • Decay Golem
    • Fixed an issue where Decay golem was not benefiting from the unlimited corpses granted by Land of the Dead
    • Fixed a bug where the visuals for Army of the Dead: Unconventional Warfare were not being played
    • Fixed an issue where damage bonuses from the player’s attack speed were not being applied to the Skeletal Archer and Contamination runes on Skeletal Mage
    • Fixed an issue that caused Siphon Blood to continue to deal damage to enemies when they were invisible or untargetable
    • Fixed a bug where Devour – Ruthless did not correctly restore 10 Essence per pet consumed

ITEMS

• Legendary Items
  • Trag’oul’s Corroded Fang
    • The Cursed Scythe rune for Grim Scythe now has a 100% chance to apply a curse and increases your damage against cursed enemies by 175-200%
  • Dreadgolem Spike Maltorius’ Petrified Spike
    • Bone Spear now costs 40 Essence and deals 125-150% 375-450% additional damage
  • Bloodtide Blade
    • Death Nova deals 15-20% 20-30% increased damage for every enemy within 10 15 yards
      • Note: The previous damage range listed (125-150%) was incorrect
  • Reilena’s Shadowhook
    • Bone Spikes generates an additional 2-4 2-5 Essence for each enemy hit and grants 0.5% increased damage for every point of maximum Essence you have
  • Death’s Scythe Nayr’s Black Death
    • Each different Poison skill you use increases the damage of your Poison skills by 75-100% 50-65% for 15 seconds
  • Spear of Jesseth Jairo
    • Your Thorns is increased by 10-15% for every enemy afflicted by one of your curses
  • Iron Rose
    • Attacking with Siphon Blood while at full life has a 15-25% 40-50% chance to cast a free Blood Nova
  • The Johnstone
    • Each corpse consumed in Land of the Dead increases your damage by 10% for 8-10 seconds after it ends
    • Each corpse consumed in Land of the Dead grants a stack of Macabre Knowledge. Macabre Knowledge increases the damage of Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion by 150-200% while outside Land of the Dead.
  • Requiem Cereplate
    • Devour restores an additional 75-100% Essence and Life. In addition, when Devour restores Essence or Life above your maximum, the excess is granted over 3 seconds
  • Fate’s Vow
    • After consuming 15-20 corpses you unleash a free Death Nova
    • Army of the Dead gains the effect of the Unconventional Warfare rune
  • Moribund Gauntlets
    • Your Golem has a 10-15% chance to shed a corpse when it is hit by an enemy
    • Your Golem sheds a corpse every second
  • Golemskin Breaches
    • Your Golem’s damage is increased by 100-125% and you take 25% 30% less damage while you are within 18 yards of it it is alive
  • Bryner’s Journey
    • Bone Spikes has a 10-15% 20-30% chance to cast a Bone Nova at the target location
  • Dayntee’s Binding
    • Decrepify gains an additional 20-30% damage reduction for attacks against you
    • You gain an additional 40-50% damage reduction when there is an enemy afflicted by your Decrepify
  • Circle of Nailuj’s Evol
    • You now raise an additional Skeletal Mage with each cast and they last an additional 2-4 seconds
  • Krysbin’s Sentence
    • Bone Spikes, Bone Spear and Bone Spirit deal 125-150% increased damage against enemies that are stunned, frozen, charmed, feared or blinded
    • You deal 75-100% increased damage against slowed enemies or triple this bonus against enemies afflicted by any other type of control-impairing effect
  • Corpsewhisper Pauldrons
    • Corpse Lance damage is increased by 15-20% 25-30% for 3 seconds each time you consume a corpse. Max 15 80 20 stacks
• Class Sets
  • Bones of Rathma
    • (6) Set Bonus
      • Each active Skeleton Mage increases the damage of your minions and Army of the Dead by 200% 250%
  • Trag’Oul’s Avatar
    • (6) Set Bonus
      • Spending 10% life grants you a stack of Blood Cascade up to 50 times. Each stack of Blood Cascade increases the damage of life-spending attacks by 200% and also increases the life you lose by 10%. Using a skill to heal will consume a stack and heal for an additional 300%.
        • • Healing from skills consumes one stack regardless of how many targets are hit
            • Command Skeletons: Dark Mending and Land of the Dead: Land of Plenty no longer consume stacks or receive increased healing

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      • Your Life-spending attacks deal 3300% increased damage but cost twice as much Life. Your healing from skills is increased by 100%
  • Grace of Inarius
    • (6) Set Bonus
      • Bone Armor also activates a Bone Tornado damaging nearby enemies by 375% 750% weapon damage per second as Physical. Enemies hit by the tornado take 850% 2750% additional damage from the Necromancer’s abilities and minions
    • Pestilence Master’s Shroud
      • (6) Set Bonus
        • Each corpse you consume grants you an Empowered Bone Spear charge that increases the damage of your next Bone Spear by 1000% 3000%
        • This effect stacks up to 30 100 times
    • Jairoan Jesseth Arms
      • (2) Set Bonus
        • Army of the Dead gains the effect of the Unconventional Warfare rune
        • When the target of your Command Skeletons dies, your skeletons are automatically commanded to attack a nearby target
        • While your skeletons are commanded to attack a target, all of your minions deal 400% increased damage
  • Legendary Gems
    • Zei’s Stone of Vengeance
      • When a pet deals damage with this gem equipped, bonuses are now always granted from the player to the enemy hit instead of from the pet to the enemy
        • Note: This change went into effect in a previous beta patch
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed an issue which prevented damage stacks on Bone Ringer from being preserved if Command Skeletons was used again on the same target

ADVENTURE MODE

• Bounties
  • (PTR Only) Several bounties in the Realms of Fate have had changes to their objectives, along with changes to the order of objective completion and bounty text

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Terror In The Blood
  • Now requires the player’s health to be at 10% or below instead of 9% or below
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a bug causing the Stay Classy, Upper Class and Classic Collection achievements to not be awarded correctly for the four Necromancer sets
  • Fixed a bug preventing the Terror in the Blood achievement from triggering once the criteria were met and Diablo was defeated
  • Fixed an issue that was preventing the use of Command Skeletons from properly giving credit to the Skeleton Crew achievement when elites and champion packs were killed

MONSTERS

• Skeleton Mage
  • Has had its fire damage reduced slightly