Theorycrafting: Death's Oak ( Death Aura) Baron Zombimancer

Hi everyone.

So, even before i start keep in mind my english is not that good.

Well, this is partialy theory partialy half done. I have allready made Necro Baron Zombies, now i need to adapt that build for chaos dmg necro.
What i have done is that i started using Deaths Oak Armor with death aura and basicly it should work like dmg you take from death aura on kill to be sustained with zombie leech life after u achive 1000 str. And even if i have only around 4k hp now ( only lvl 70 ) it is actualy working !!!

I started using dual doon cuebiyari just to sustain str but then i realised it is actualy working pretty well. Why ? Well, first description of doon cuebiyari :

Weapon stats :

+(50-70) to Strength
(15-18)% increased Cast Speed
+(20-30) to maximum Mana
Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 30 Iron Will
1% increased Damage per 8 Strength when in Main Hand
1% increased Armour per 16 Strength when in Off Hand


This one 1% increased Armour per 16 Strength when in Off Hand actualy make u really tanky with chaos golem and necro asendancy Flesh Binder ( you have many many zombies )

2.nd important fact is you can use spectres in doon cuebiyari for extreme elemental dmg boost since Baron helmet gives 50% your str to minions and iron will will do this :

Modifiers
Gems socketed in it are supported by a level 30 Iron Will Support, which grants 58% increased spell damage as well as 1% increased spell damage per 8 strength.

When wearing a Doon Cuebiyari in your main hand, any spell that is also supported by Iron Will (e.g. because it is socketed into the sceptre itself) will gain a total of 13% increased damage per 40 strength or 0.325% increased damage per 1 strength (in addition to the direct damage modifier by a leveled iron will gem).

Any spectres which deal elemental dmg even without Assendancy boost were almost one shoting everything they see even before zombies come near .


What i did after that was i used curse - aura despair and linked my zombies with support gems decay and added chaos dmg. Started as a joke, ended as boss melter. And i didnt even use blight or anything else.

Thing i need now to check is does Iron will suport gem works with death aura if socketed into armor.

Also, there are several ways to make this build work. For example starting from Withc pasive tree you can actualy go right to dexterity path ( ranger, assasin ) and use jewles to convert dex to str.

Many many diferent ways to build it. You can even use Minion Instability what will give u power of your minions exploding after reahicng tresh hold of 35 % hp, which is still good chaos dps since they leave coustic cloud on death and coz of minion instability also fire dmg to surrainding enemies.

Also maybe funniest intaraction is added chaos dmg and decay suport gems to zombies. For some reason when you combine it with despair and death aura, bosses simply disapier .

Good interaction was also with chaos golem linked into armor :D since you use armor to boost chaos dps of death aura it is increadibly good reaction with linking chaos boost spell gems with golem. ANd with 3 golems who also deal chaos dmg ( with anima stone ) it is like extra fun and extra chaos dps .

So, now i need you experts to calculate possibilites coz i am really bad at it and i simply cannot do it coz of my work. I travel a lot and have no time to do it.

All your ideas write here. It might end up like really fun and good build capable of end game content coz all ites gives a lot of str, and a lot of str and armor means a lot of HP.


Hope you dont mind many writting mistake i made.

Thanks for reading.

Liked a lot your idea, did you go ahead and tried the build ingame? The idea is cool but can you post a prof of concept video?

I don't think you need elemental spectres. Better use spectres with phys damage spells like...Kitava Heralds? And use spirit offering, give minions extra es and phys as chaos damage. Use despair curse. So both spectres and zombies can deal chaos damage. And you boost it by curse and wither.

But I would love to see someone finally do a build with chaos damage over time spectres build