Necromancer can play something other than minions after all – 3.29 Ball Lightning of Orbiting, Dual Offerings + 75/75 Block[3.29]

Been messing around with a non-minion Necro and this is where the build ended up.

The main idea is to use Archmage Support to push the mana cost high enough to consistently trigger Kitava's Thirst.

Kitava then triggers Desecrate + Spell Cascade, which gives me 10 corpses.

Each Offering can consume up to 5 corpses, so running two Offerings works out perfectly:

10 corpses → 5 for one Offering + 5 for the other

That also feeds Corpse Pact, so the same setup is doing several things at once instead of just being there to automate Offerings.

For relatively little investment, I end up getting a lot of cast speed, very high attack/spell block, plus a good amount of crit chance and crit multi.

The nice part is that the whole thing basically runs itself while I'm casting the main skill.

I tried Flesh Offering earlier, but mana sustain was already something I had to balance with Archmage. Adding even more cast speed just made the mana consumption worse, so I ended up dropping it.

Attack block shows 70% in hideout, but the last 5% comes from a conditional passive, so it's 75% while actually fighting.

The PoB is a slightly more finished version than the character shown in the video. The video character was still missing some chaos res and a few pieces weren't completely finished yet.

Mostly wanted to see if I could make Necro feel good without playing minions. Pretty happy with how it turned out. https://pobb.in/vmuomkfzQjee