Pestilence set reworked -- won't happen but one can dream.

08/20/2017 01:33 PMPosted by HELLBOUNDMAN.. Yeah.. I tried to make it work on the PTR.Its definitely better than it is on live, but it's still clunky.You're basically forced to LotD or Golem corpse at the start of the rift, if you want to get anywhere.If you get into High GR, you need consistent corpse generation, so you're having to make wonky builds, or sit and wait on golem or LotD CD.Just seems to me that someone wanted a set that used corpses for something, and they just slapped some unused skills together.The whole set seems like a piece of work, New bonuses an afterthought. I want to en…

They'll never be permanent because they already said this lots of times. They won't last until they die either. A buff from 6 to 12 seconds base and have the ring be 6-8 seconds would be superb.

08/17/2017 11:51 PMPosted by NotGeorge08/17/2017 08:56 PMPosted by HokGnavCan anyone explain to me how Pestilence is doing so well in 4mans on PTR?; rank 1 four man with LON WD. I tried pestilence and it seems weak AF in solo, so im incredibly puzzled at how people are making it work.It launches a corpse lance every time a corpse is consumed, sure it is half as powerful, but with cold they don't really need crit hit chance at all and corpse lance fires every time they devour or corpse lance because of this. Survivability is also less of an issue when you have zDPS. If nothing changes, I forese…

Feels weak to me still. Best DPS I could get was using Trag set which means Blood Nova. Bone Nova was disappointing even with Inarius and it felt too much like playing a FB Witch Doctor.RG on T13 takes too long regardless. Don't get me wrong -- it is better than live but still not good enough for me to want to enjoy the nova I once did in D2.

Essence cost can be mitigated quite easily with reapers wraps, RCR and the rune on devour that they fixed this patch to grant you more RCR. I find that the bone spears just stink until you get it empowered. Ironically, not only does the damage suck until empowered so does your DR!I don't enjoy the gameplay of having to start off a rift by turning on LoTD, activating a flesh golem or waiting for the gauntlets to shed enough corpses. Alas I think we're stuck with it.Seriously though, essence issues can be mitigated. That said it would have made more sense to make Maltorius’ Petrified Spike r…

Still feels a bit weak to me. I'd like to see it come up another 200-300% but I'm probably dreaming.

Maybe just me and my short testing of it, but it still has real weaknesses when you don't have any empowered bone spear ala. entering a rift or from dying. Not only do you not have your DR up from the set but you can't really kill much efficiently. Once you get a couple of stacks, the set feels real nice compared to how it is in LIVE. For what it's worth, I went with the following setup:https://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/necromancer#WZSTjU!aZbf!aaZZccNew SotC MH, offhand stat stickCorpse shoulders5 piece of pestilenceDanytee's Binding beltKrysbin/CR/TpledgeCube: Maltorius' Petrified Sp…

It's okay. Better before you reach end game which is a rigid grindfest.

07/31/2017 02:19 PMPosted by ssgfroggAwe... :(I was hoping you were going to say that you found "the build". You know, the one that makes it worthwhile.Go to Haedreg and break all Pestilence pieces down for materials. Voila, it works better for other sets and upgrades! ;)