Necromancer Rathma Set Dungeon

[positiv2 953]

This thread is for comments about our Necromancer Rathma Set Dungeon guide.

[Guest Delphinium]

Just wondering why you have the same item (weapon) in the cube as equipped as bonuses don't stack.

[positiv2 953]

On 7/8/2018 at 3:20 PM, Guest Delphinium said:

Just wondering why you have the same item (weapon) in the cube as equipped as bonuses don't stack.

Thanks for pointing this out! I passed it on, so it should be fixed soon.

[Guest whopperz]

Why do you have a Blood Rush boots cubed, but not using the Blood Rush skill?

[adelphiaUK 0]

On 7/16/2018 at 8:08 PM, Guest whopperz said:

Why do you have a Blood Rush boots cubed, but not using the Blood Rush skill?

I was just wondering that myself! Also no Simulacrum but Haunted Visions. Seems there are a few mishaps on this build.

Edited November 2, 2018 by adelphiaUK
Added info

[Guest Dina]

Substituting obsidian ring of the zodiac makes this significantly easier. 

[Guest Invisible Prince]

I know this is an older game I am curious how I get the 6 piece set I  did happen to get the shoulders  through a drop somewhere. Is there specific areas or bounties that drop them or is is just luckand grinding? Also would it be better to farm bountiesor greater rifts? If GR what level/ torment  rifts? Sorry forr all the inquiries I am somewhat new to the game. Thanks in advance if anyone wishes to help me out and respond.

 

 

[Guest Vaxl]

whats the deal with going for the blood path boots and then not skilling blood path ?

[Droidiphile 0]

A few key improvements FTW with focus on Attack Speed and CDR:

Tasker and Theo for Cube armor slot : Steuart's is a mismatch.

Use Rank 0 (zero) Gogok - Zei's is a mismatch

Max Diamond in Leoric's helm, Pain Enhancer (mine was Rank 62) in ammie - no other gems - my DPS was still 1M+.

Strategy FTW: First move is Army of the Dead into a corner, start spamming Mages and roll along until Mage goal met, Command Skellies + cast Mages on elites as needed, continues to use Army of the dead (causing no deaths) as soon after cooldown as possible, after Mage and AofD goals are met accelerate using max DPS options and wipe out all remaining monsters. 

Notes: Mages are needed for elites as skellie DPS is way too low thus burning the clock.  If you tune this, you'll see the cooldown on AotD rapidly clock down like magic!  There are other changes you can make, but these are the critical ones FTW!!!

Edited June 27, 2019 by Droidiphile
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[Guest Peasant]

A lot of folks are asking about ways to improve this, and I'm sure it could be further optimized. But I've never used this set and just got mastery with this exact build on my first try. So thanks for putting this guide together. 

[Guest dn.]

In the section talking about nerfing your build, it says to "drop Dexterity" - that should be Intelligence for a Necro build?

[Deadset 108]

On 11/26/2020 at 9:46 PM, Guest dn. said:

In the section talking about nerfing your build, it says to "drop Dexterity" - that should be Intelligence for a Necro build?

Heya - you are correct and it should indeed say Intelligence. Sent out a fix and thanks for the catch!

[singularity6 0]

Messerschmidt's Reaver is also a nice choice for CDR in this.  

[Vampyrr 0]

Used Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac and Meshersmidts cubed and it was a joke. Was done with the CDR part before I hit 200 remaining mobs.

[Guest Lillers]

A note for the dungeon objectives: In-Geom and Messerschmidt's Reaver's cooldown reduction both count toward the Army of the Dead cooldown reduction (noticed the text doesn't specify the cooldown reduction has to come from Rathma's 2-set, and it's very unreliable with "a chance to reduce.." so I tested it and it works). Guessing Zodiac works too looking at previous comments.

[Guest Czela_mancer]

Any suggestions on what belt to use in Rathma's set dungeon? It's missing from the list of recommended items. Thanks!

[Bubble181 14]

On 4/6/2021 at 4:50 PM, Guest Czela_mancer said:

Any suggestions on what belt to use in Rathma's set dungeon? It's missing from the list of recommended items. Thanks!

Anything that'll hold your pants up.

 

Really, this set dungeon isn't exactly hard - you can do it with Dayntee's or a Witching Hour or whatever. 

(I just finished it seasonal, got all objectives but missed mastery by a few seconds/a few mobs, and that was Paragon23 with no speed boosting items. The new version of the Rathma set has trivialized the set dungeon even further)

[Guest Needs update]

New season changed teh objectives. No longer possible with this build.

[Guest Debonair#11445]

This is outdated with the recent changes to Rathma set. You can use the updated Rathma build that's on this site to complete this set dungeon with ease. 

[Guest Cormahn]

just did this useing the build that is listed and its not possible to do the second objective as its no longer
summon 100 mages it is now reive 100 corpses the standard rathma build worked fine to complete this

[Awesomeposum 0]

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Avoid making direct attacks on the enemy with your generator altogether.

I feel like I might be missing something, or they made more changes. Nothing in the suggested build is a generator.

 

Edited January 27, 2024 by Awesomeposum