「vigd & ANDY」MotBC Necromancer Bone Spear

Hi! Welcome to the MotBC Bone Spear script by Vigd (and ANDY!) If you have used our previous Demon Hunter script, you have an idea as to what is on this page; if not, you can use this page as a repository of information as the patch (and the bot/script) develops - if you have any questions about this, this page is usually the first bet (read the FAQ first) or if not, the RoS-BoT Discord is your next bet.
As always, the script is suited for the D3planners above with the MP listed - for other scripts in the script section check their D3planners too, they may be different! If you are looking for rifts or bounty builds, I suggest my own Demon Hunter script found here. 

I have also released the Push script - this is fundamentally different to this script so, if you wish to push your leaderboard rank or your gems use that one, I am not responsible for any poor behavior this script gives at high grs using that build (copied the rules into this), there is a script for it and you can find it here.

To finish, ideally, you want to use Mages in conjunction with Bone Spear (in GR) - Mages is faster and better for pool farming too! If you are looking for this then you can find my Skeletal Mage Suite here.
 

Edit: There is a new Conditional Cold script available!

- So far, the set is quite normal for the meta, so we are looking at the normal "cookie cutter" stats...
- Critical Hit Damage and Chance
- Cooldown Reduction next 
- Resource Cost Reduction on shoulders 
- Bonus Damage to Elites on your offhand (phylactery) and weapon (if you can spare it!)
- Aim for roughly ~700k HP and ~18 games per hour!

So far, what we know is fairly significant for eph: There are three major things that increase the efficiency of the build and synergise with this script: A legendary Potion, your Follower and her specific gear and skills, and some very hesistant Attack Speed breakpoints (of which I will update as I find out more). The fourth is a specific item, Lost Time. Make sure you are using this, it increases gph/eph significantly by itself.

So, the following applies and is extremely important for the build:

- Potion: Running the Bottomless Potion of Rejuvination (gain X resource below 50% health) will allow you to keep casting Bone Spear if you run out of resource (and is the only way to recover resource outside of a tiny bit of essence force casting Simulacrum for the xp build). As such, it is incredibly important to use and will stop many deaths/fails and increase your xp.

- Follower: The Enchantress is the best follower for the build bar none. There is a quirk with the Enchantress's base attack (normal attack) that is similar to the Wizard's base attack: They are both influenced by Elemental Damage. This means you can proc legendary items that rely on a certain type of damage being dealt, in this case Lost Time (cold skills increase your move speed by up to 50%). This can be increased by a few different things on the follower's gear:

• You can increase this proc rate by increasing the Attack Speed and putting one roll of Area Damage onto the follower (area damage is disabled without extra rolls on followers)
• Choose only the skills that do not cast spells - This is slots 2 and 4 on the skills list, choosing the left skills (ranged reduction, attack speed bonus). Do not choose the other skills, if you have, you need to make a new necromancer and start again. 
• You need specific gear for this: either an Azurewrath or En Jang Do (weapon) with cold damge rolled onto it. You also want an Ess of Johan for grouping monsters (very good for xp and clears), an Oculus Ring, and a Hellfire Ring (for bonus xp)

- Attack Speed: So far, I have found that running north of >1.7 attacks per second works well. Why?

• Given Scythe of the Cycle drops Bone Armor 4 seconds every cast, we can apply a rule to determining efficiency based on number of casts while in the optimum COE element window (physical). We have around 12-13 casts of Bone Spear before Bone Armor drops; which means that any attack speed that goes past this number is inefficient. Looking at D3planner shows us a linear increase in damage output with increasing Attack Speed rolls so that isn't as important as reaching a specific number of attacks per second (1.7).

  • This is reached by rolling two sources of Increased Attack Speed: on the Weapon, and one roll anywhere else. One weapon roll gives 1.53APS (38 FPA), which is 6.32 bone spear casts per rotation. Two rolls gives 1.62APS (36 FPA), and three rolls gives 1.72 (1.707, 34 FPA). Unfortunately, this division is just under the amount we need, so we take the 3% Attack Speed buff from the enchantress to bring us to 33 fpa (7.272 casts per rotation), which gives us our target! Other factors increase attack speed such as Grim Scythe but we don't use that for xp.
  • TLDR: take at least 3 rolls of attack speed, one on weapon, two elsewhere, use the 3% aura from Enchantress.

- "Is this build better than DH?"

•  Demon Hunter is better in every way. If you are looking for a Barbarian script, I would suggest my own. It has all the information you need at any paragon/gear range.​ If you are looking for a Demon Hunter script, here is one too

- "Is this build better than Mages?"

•   Bone Spear is not fast and is not better in T16 than Mages,  but is better for XP,  so use that if you are going to use the armory feature.

- "I'm getting armory problems when using Mages/other script, how do i fix this?"

• Follow the planners and make sure your skills are in the exact order as we have placed them (this goes for all builds, follow the planners)

- "The bot is getting stuck at pylon/portal/vendor! What's going wrong?"

• ​Follow the planner and make sure Frailty/Simulacrum is on LMB.

- "I'm ping-ponging on the spot! what's wrong with the script?

• Remove your pet, the bot thinks it is an enemy.

As RoS-BoT progresses, we are spending more and more time trying to perfect this script, so if you enjoyed this collaboration, show your support! give us a like on this script and, if you are feeling extra generous, donate! We both enjoy coffee so it's a win-win for all parties involved ^^
 

Vigd:                ANDY:

Devbuild 1 11.11.20
- Start of VigndANDY!​
- Started some tentative work on the script and found some funky stuff
- blip bleep clicky clacky script work

Devbuild 2 12.11.20
- Adjusted some stuff to be less random and more precise
- Changed up some rules so that Bone Spear wasnt as erratic 
- Moved around some skills on the D3planner

Devbuild 3 13.11.20
- Split RG and Density rules for attacks and some buffs
- Messed around with timings on stuff to help potential bugs
- Attempted to fix the weird RG fight mechanics

Devbuild 4 14.11.20
- Still working on RG fight mechanics
- Overhauled movement system
- Adjusted D3planners
- Adjusted Town rules
- Adjusted fight mechanics a bit
- Added in more Bone Armor rules and some resource rules for Bone Spikes

Devbuild 5 15.11.20
- Added in Rift script
- STILL working on RG fight mechanics (i want die)
- Tweaked all previous changes slightly

Devbuild 6 16.11.20
- Tweaks

Devbuild 7 17.11.20
- Minute adjustments to movement and specific fight timings
- Changes to buff densities to make it speedier
- Adjustment to the evade rule and some resource rules 
- Added resource limits on some things
- Worked on RG fight mechanics

Devbuild 8 18.11.20
- Final update before release?
- Tweaked rule positions on script
- Adjusted resource limits for stuff
- TWEAKED RG FIGHT MECHANICS
- tidied up script, added d3planners and fancy stuff (Thanks ANDY!)

Devbuild 9 21.11.20
- Reworked script, adjusting for Crimsons
- Complete overhaul of parameters (think 1.1 update)
- around +3gph and +300b from previous script, just in time for season!

Devbuild 10 24.11.20
- Updated d3planners to be more consistent
- Moved Bone Spike rules back to where they were in case anybody is still using it

Devbuild 11 25.11.20
- Updated script
- Slightly tighter timings on a host of rules
- Adjusted max and min radiuses for a few things
- Basically just starting the min/maxing process

Devbuild 12: 29.11.20
- released and updated script for push variant

Devbuild 13: 5.12.20
- Released first major update for xp script
- Overhauled most timers and weights and continued the min/max process
- Removed some skills and added new ones, split some weights into their own rules
- Adjusted page content and added mechanics section

Devbuild 14: 19.2.21
- Second major update for the script collection!
- Provided significant gains to the xp portion of the script
- Updated D3planners for other content + streamlined it for easier digestion, they will work off the bat with my Mages scripts if you follow them correctly
- Updated the MP, make sure to take the new content!
- Updated the script page with more up-to-date information as well as better phrasing and ease of reading
- Attempted to fix the town stuck bug, please be patient as I continue to work on this

Devbuild 15: 1.4.21
- Updated D3planners for Season 23 + Follower

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