Ghost Maker Fire Wraiths Necromancer Build Guide

Consistent Boss damage

Satisfying AOE Proliferation

Good for Grinding

Can be a bit squishy at times depending on Modifiers to echoes

Uses several Unique items

This builds damage Ramps up over time

Lots of Summoning Wraiths gets tedious to keep up in a pinch

For gameplay we will be using our main skill Summon Wraith, converting them to fire via the node Flame Wraith 2/2. We will summon up to a maximum of eight Wraith's.

Our supporting skills will be Infernal Shade and Dread Shade, giving us some AOE to throw out as well as a buff to our Summon Wraith. In our skill loop we will want to be using Infernal Shade on large mob packs as they approach because of a node called Combustion 1/1 this will usually obliterate most packs that don't have massive HP pools once our Summon Wraith start attacking.

(Quick note for people unaware you can order minions to target locations/enemies by using the bound key "A". I was unaware of this up until Empowered Monolith's)

Dread Shade being our main and most consistent "buff" skill. We can grant our Summon Wraith Haste through the node Scorching Brand 1/1, and frenzy for a short duration via the node Frenzied Phantom 4/5 as well as bonus cast speed through the node Dying Coven 3/3. These nodes in combo provide us a lot of help with single target or large group clear when mana is too low to throw out Infernal Shade.

Mana seems to be an issue sometimes depending on how quickly your gameplay is going, I tend to run my echoes fairly fast and that keeps my mana pool fairly low having to re-cast Summon Wraith. We are recouping a large amount of our mana pool through our movement skill Transplant and the nodes Azure Veins 2/2 and Pale Blood 3/3. This really helps us to keep mana at a level to where we can keep casting our abilities.

Bossing is where I believe this build shines brightly. Empowered Bosses Or Non Empowered Bosses, it feels very smooth.

Our gameplay loop for bossing will be summoning our eight Summon Wraith. Approaching the boss casting our Infernal Shade to get the damage going. At this point I recommend casting Transplant for a large recoup of mana, followed by a cast of Dread Shade to get our Summon Wraith ramping. Seems tedious in writing but the overall result is a nice smooth gameplay feel for almost all the bosses.

Leveling with Summon Wraith can be done, but it felt really slow until I got to like level 30.

I'd recommend playing a different build until you hit level 50ish such as Bone Golems or Skeleton Mages for an idea.

Endgame will be a lot of grinding out bosses for unique drops with LP. You will be looking for all of the unique items with the maximum LP you can find them with.

We are hitting Empowered Mono's hard as soon as they unlock for you!