「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. So far (before Season 22 release) I am placing my bets on this build being a solid #2 pick (in Nonseason) alongside Barbarian - in Season, this is looking to be the strongest option for pure XP farming (stacked GR). I will update this statement if this changes.

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! I (Vigd) am personally very excited for this build as Necromancer has always been my favourite class, and I hope to bring that excitement to any user who tries this script suite out! For now, happy botting!

P.S. If you are looking for a Skeletal Mage script, I have already made one, you can find it here. (for now, bounties will not be supported, if you are after a bounty-capable script use the Mage Rift script in the link above OR the Spear Rift script, also above.)

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.

- 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
- a mix of Area Damage and Cooldown Reduction (this is yet to be set in stone, for now aim for >100% Area Damage and >30% CDR - this may change)
- Resource Cost Reduction on shoulders, and possibly in your helm (topaz, again, this may change, especially for Season where max Essence is important)
- Bonus Damage to Elites on your offhand (phylactery)
- for HP I have found ~300 points in Vitality worked well at around Paragon 2000....your mileage may vary.
- Aim for ~16 games per hour in GR, if you have Lost Time aim for around 17.5

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 3 rolls of attack speed, one on weapon, two elsewhere, use the 3% aura from Enchantress.

- "Is this build better than DH?"

•  DH is better than any class now in pretty much every way. This may not be the case for pushing, but for now (due to the difficulty of creating the behavior needed) DH is best for that too (Crusader might be good too.....) 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.

  • ​For Season 22, Spear looks to be stronger in GR only - Mages seems to be fast enough to keep the build in front eph-wise, so this is the strongest build for botting xp in the game inside Season 22.

- "Is this build better than Mages?"

•  Bone Spear is the strongest gr build in the game inside Season 22. It is not fast and is not better in T16 than Mages, 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.

As Season 22 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

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