Group Experience META

Gameplay
The Death Nova Necromancer build has the highest potential DPS thanks to Trag'oul's Avatar and Iron Rose. This build brings Frailty into the group which makes Conduit Pylons extremely powerful. Furthermore Leech Blood Flask can be used to reset your Health Potion Cooldown to proc for additional effects from Father.
The Necromancer can destroy Trash that is pulled and controlled by the zBarb with just one hit with the great AoE scaling of Bloodtide Blade. Even Elites can die instantly in very dense Pixelpulls. On top of that, the Necromancer has good toughness, which makes it relatively easy to survive without a zMonk. The Necromancer curses the monsters to gain the Spreading Malediction damage buff. Once every monster is grouped up (preferably on top of Elites) the Necromancer creates an Oculus Ring or a purple Triune Ring from Mother. After moving into the damage circle, he starts casting Siphon Blood into the center of the pull. Together with Iron Rose and his Simulacrum Blood and Bone to deal devastating damage with Death Nova. Ideally this is timed with the Convention of Elements Physical rotation and a Ground Stomp Wrenching Smash from the zBarb for an insane burst with Arena Damage and Krysbin's Sentence.

Concept
This is the most figured out META with 2 LoD Mage Necromancers as Damage Dealers, a zNec and a zBarb. There have been a lot of variations in the past with Bones of Rathma (which gave the name to this META) Legacy of Nightmares, Legacy of Dreams (LoD) and many more. Rats have been the top tier experience farming META since its introduction into the game in patch 2.6.0 with the Necromancer as a new class. This META is extremely fast and while it might not be the best EXP/hour it will clear way more rifts than 150 META runs, which means more loot and gem upgrades.

Gameplay
The zNec leads the group, cursing every monster with Briggs' Wrath and applying the Critical Hit Chance debuffs from Brittle Touch on the enemies. They also freeze everything with Land of the Dead Frozen Lands to proc Krysbin’s Sentence and protect the damage dealers. The zBarb adds buffs, scouts and picks up the Health and Progression Globes as soon as possible! The most important buff to keep up is the crowd control immunity from Ignore Pain Mob Rule. The damage Necromancers stay close to slain enemies to get Essence back from Devouring Aura. Finally, they summon fully powered Skeletal Mage Singularity onto the Elites by hovering the cursor over them for focused damage.

Despite what the name implies, "Rat Runs" don't always have actual "Rat Necro" (aka LoD Mage Necro) in them. It is possible to mix in some other damage dealers without un-ratting the run. The important part is that you have zNecro in the team and you just mindlessly blast through the rift in under 2 minutes while everything is frozen. If it looks like a rat run, swims like a rat run and quacks like a rat run, then it's probably a rat run.

One such option is Masquerade Bone Spear Necromancer. It can replace one of the Rat Necros and bring in some AoE damage to instantly delete big pixels created by the zNec. These runs were the best way to farm XP back in Season 22. Since then Bone Spear has been nerfed and then buffed and now it's almost back where it started.

The second option is GoD Hungering Arrow Demon Hunter. This build is basically the same as Rat Necro with insane single-target damage and auto-aim. After the latest buff to the Gears of Dreadlands set you can replace one or both Necros with Demon Hunters and have very similar results. While DH-based rat runs are a tier or two weaker than the real thing, you can spin the entire time and sometimes you have to prioritize what's really important. Remember, XP is gonna be reset in the next season!

Concept
2 Tal Rasha's Elements Meteor Wizards can crush the Rift and the Rift Guardian alike by just using Bane of the Stricken or Bane of the Powerful on lower Greater Rift tiers without a dedicated RGK. The Meteor Damage output is insanely high, especially with Nilfur's Boast extra damage vs 3 or fewer enemies and the Vigor Altar of Rites boosts for extra Arcane Power recovery.
Furthermore, Meteor stacking with The Smoldering Core provides a decent synergy between the 2 Wizards for faster damage ramp up.
We add the standard zDH and zBarb for the best combination of extra damage and toughness buffs.

Gameplay Wizards
Keeps distance from the pulls created by the zBarb to be safe and to benefit from Power Hungry and Zei's Stone of Vengeance. Follow the zBarb by using Teleport while the zDH debuffs everything and spam your Meteors to deal damage and to reset your Teleport Cooldown from the Tal Rasha's Elements (4) Piece Bonus.