Trag'Oul Corpse Lance Necromancer Guide

1. Do the Challenge Rift for the materials to cube Legendary Powers. You can complete this once a week for additional resources and we always update the guide for you!

2. Gather the full Trag'Oul's Avatar set. Each piece can be gambled from Kadala for Bloodshards. Do not salvage any duplicate pieces you find! Instead convert them to another part of the set with Recipe 4 in Kanai's Cube. If you have extra materials you can use Recipe 3 to craft the remaining pieces, but this is expensive and not recommended for new players.

3. Gamble from Kadala in this order:

1. The full Trag'Oul's Avatar set
2. Corpsewhisper Pauldrons
3. Jesseth Skullshield
4. Krysbin's Sentence and Convention of Elements
5. Nemesis Bracers

4. Craft using Recipe 3 in Kanai's Cube in this order:

1. Scythes to get Jesseth Skullscythe
2. 1-Handed Scythes to get Reilena's Shadowhook
3. Amulets to get The Johnstone
4. Anything from the Gamble list in Step 3 that you haven't already acquired

5. Do Bounties to acquire several important items for this build:

• Act 1: Ring of Royal Grandeur
• Act 2: Gloves of Worship (for your follower)
• Act 3: Avarice Band
• Act 4: Can drop any bounty item from any act
• Bounty Turn In: Recipes for Captain Crimson's Trimmings, Sage's Journey and Cain's Destiny (for your follower)
• Kill Malthael to acquire the Reaper's Wraps crafting recipe

• Bane of the Trapped provides 60% increased damage and is one of the most prioritized offensive gems in the game.
• Zei's Stone of Vengeance provides up to 80% increased damage when we are 50 yards away from enemies (which is about 1/2 a screen).
• Gogok of Swiftness gives us as 15% Cooldown Reduction and Attack Speed to reach the 5 FPA Attack Speed Breakpoint for Corpse Lance.

• Corpse Lance Blood Lance is our main source of damage and gains massive buffs from Trag'Oul's (6) Bonus, Simulacrum, Corpsewhisper Pauldrons and Reilena's Shadowhook.
• Devour Cannibalize is mandatory when using Trag'Oul's Avatar as it gives us damage mitigation from our skills which cost our health to cast. This skill also synergizes with Corpsewhisper Pauldrons for the 20 stack damage boost and Land of the Dead Frozen Lands.
• Simulacrum Reservoir is used in conjunction with Reilena's Shadowhook to give us higher maximum essence for a significant damage buff.
• Decrepify Borrowed Time gives Cooldown Reduction and allows us to utilize our Spreading Malediction.
• Land of the Dead Frozen Lands lets us spam Corpse Lance while it's up. It also freezes enemies around you making them unable to attack and activating your Krysbin's Sentence. This skill has a very long cooldown but is the backbone of our build and we can do nothing without it.
• Blood Rush will have all runes thanks to Trag'Oul's (2) Bonus. Potency increases armor by 100% for 2 seconds, Transfusion restores 2% of our maximum health for every enemy passed through, Molting leaves a corpse at our previous location after use, Hemostasis removes the health cost and Metabolism allows us to build up an additional charge of the skill.
• Command Skeletons Dark Mending is used during solo pushes to get the bonus from our Jesseth Arms set.

• Blood Is Power cuts our Land of the Dead Cooldown by a 20% flat amount (after Cooldown Reduction) after spending or losing the equivalent of 100% HP.
• Final Service allows us to cheat death, which is very important on a build where timing is everything. Dying right when you activate Simulacrum or Land of the Dead can be very hard to recover from, so having this safety net is recommended.
• Overwhelming Essence feeds us 40 more essence for our Reilena's Shadowhook, giving us a significant damage increase.
• Stand Alone doubles our armor which we are in need of as an intelligence class.
• Fueled by Death can be used for increased Movement Speed.

¹ Aim for a decent HP pool (at least 800,000 in Solo Push) as Trag'oul's Avatar doubles that amount.

Patch 2.7.0 revamped the follower system giving all 3 hirelings new powers and the emanate system. The first thing you should do is read our complete follower guide and remember the key takeaways:

1. The emanation system allows followers to share certain legendary and set powers with you. The most important ones are: The Flavor of Time, Nemesis Bracers, Avarice Band, Sage’s Journey and Cain’s Destiny. Click the guide above for the full list.
2. Follower’s powers are based on their main stat (maxed at 25,000, but they have a 2.5x multiplier so you only need 10,000). This means we stack Intelligence on the Enchantress, Dexterity on the Scoundrel and Strength on the Templar.
3. Followers share 20% of their Experience, Magic and Gold Find stats with you.
4. Legendary gems do not work on followers, except Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard.
5. With Enforcer equipped on the player it's much easier to keep followers alive even without an immortality relic. The 90% damage reduction counts for them, too.
6. Cooldown Reduction does not work for any follower skill except the Templar’s Heal.
7. Followers never deal significant damage; you’re on your own to clear the content.

Select Follower

T16 Enchantress

GR Pushing Enchantress

• T16 Enchantress
• GR Pushing Enchantress

For T16 we recommend this Enchantress setup because she is the only follower that gives Cooldown Reduction, allowing you to spam your abilities more. Since this is T16 content, she’ll stay alive with Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard and use Hand of the Prophet to gain all skills. This will give us Cooldown Reduction, Elemental Damage, Reduced Damage from Ranged Attacks, Armor, Attack Speed, and a Cheat Death.

Stat Priorities:Since we do not have the immortality focus, we need to stack survivability on our Enchantress.

Intelligence > Vitality > Life % > Armor > All Resistance > Life Per Hit > Attack Speed.

Key Items:

• The Flavor of Time: For double duration on Pylons.
• Nemesis Bracers: For extra Elites, Death’s Breaths and In-geom procs.
• Avarice Band: For the insane pickup radius.
• Ring of Royal Grandeur: To complete our sets.
• Gloves of Worship: For 10 Minute Shrine Buffs.
• Sage’s Journey: For double Death’s Breaths.
• Cain’s Destiny: For 25% more Greater Rift Keystones.

GR Pushing Enchantress

For Greater Rift Pushing we recommend this Enchantress setup for the Slow from Temporal Pulse, Cooldown Reduction from Prophetic Harmony, Damage Reduction and Armor from Powered Shield, and the Attack Speed from Focused Mind.

Stat Priorities:
Since we have the immortality relic, we do not need to stack survivability on our Enchantress.

Intelligence > Attack Speed.
Key Items:

• The Flavor of Time: For double duration on Pylons.
• Nemesis Bracers: For more progression from Elites.
• Oculus Ring: For 85% increased damage.
• Unity: For 50% damage reduction if you're also wearing one.
• Ice Climbers: To make your follower immune to Freeze and Immobilize effects.
• Mempo of Twilight, Tal Rasha's Relentless Pursuit and Cain's Destiny: For more Attack Speed.

The most important thing to remember is that we can only do damage when we have our Land of the Dead going, and that this window lasts for 10 seconds at a time. So it's important to use it wisely in conjunction with your Convention of Elements Physical cycle and gather as many elites as possible before you unleash.

1. Hunt for elites and gather enemies around them.
2. Keep up Corpsewhisper Pauldrons and Gogok of Elements the best you can while dodging all incoming attacks. You spawn corpses with Blood Rush for this purpose.
3. Use Command Skeletons on a target to gain the damage buff from Jesseth Arms.
4. Between mid-Poison to mid-Cold cycle of Convention of Elements, cast Simulacrum and Land of the Dead.
5. Begin to spam Devour as fast as possible, kill a small target first to spawn an Oculus Ring then jump in and target Elites with your Corpse Lance skill.
6. Once your Land of the Dead is over go find as many elites as you can before the next cycle is ready!

Certain Elite packs can be troublesome for this build such Elites with Illusionist and Shielding or blue packs with 5 mobs. Generally try to skip packs like this and focus on the Elites that can be blasted away quickly!

If you keep up Gogok of Swiftness well and have perfect Cooldown Reduction rolls, you will be able to alternate damage rotations with either 2 and then 3 cycles of Convention of Elements.

This build is not hardcore friendly considering it literally uses it's own life to do damage. The stop and go, high-risk high-reward play style is not appealing either. One of the best ways to increase defenses for hardcore is to put more paragon points into vitality and to run the Final Service passive. Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard and Esoteric Alteration can also help to increase survivability.

Check out our dedicated Hardcore Survival Guide to learn more about how to succeed in this game mode!

• As Corpse Lance has a base animation length of only 12 FPA, its scaling with Attack Speed goes through the roof, hence why Attack Speed is very important in this build.
• The Breakpoint we're trying to reach is to be above 2.0 APS to attack every 5 frames, which is roughly a 17% damage increase. For groups we'll be able to reach the next Breakpoint at 2.4 APS for approximately 25% more damage.

• As you spend life from your skills (e.g. Blood Lances casts) or take damage from enemies, you will stack up a hidden counter towards 100% life spent.
• Each skill is counted separately. After you reach the threshold, a skill's cooldown will be cut by 20% flat of the total (after Cooldown Reduction).
• This counter is reset when the skill has fully cooled down or when you die.
• Spending life on skills doesn't scale with damage reduction, so you will still lose life in the invincible variation of the build.

• Reilena's Shadowhook provides this build with a very significant damage increase based off our Maximum Essence. Make sure your Weapon and Off-Hand both have Maximum Essence as secondary rolls and that you're using Simulacrum Reservoir and Overwhelming Essence to get it even higher.