[Icy-Veins] All Necromancer Changes Coming in Diablo 4 Season 9 (Patch 2.3.0)

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Next up, we are looking at the Necromancer class changes that will go live with the launch of Season 9 and Patch 2.3.0 that’s currently playtested on Public Test Realms! Necromancer Skill Changes

• Reap: Damage increased from 20% to 50%.
• Hemorrhage: Damage increased from 40% to 80%.
• Decompose: Base damage increased from 60% to 150%.
• Enhanced Decompose damage increased from 40% to 100%.

[*]Bone Splinters: Damage increased from 15% to 30%. [*]Soulrift:

• Removed Barrier effect.
• Prime Soul Rift bonus damage reduced from 75% to 15%.

Necromancer Passive Changes

• Affliction: Damage bonus now capped at 400%.
• Ossified Essence: Essence generation increased by 50%.
• Bone Skills now scale with current Essence, up to a 100% bonus.

[*]Shadowblight:

• Base damage increased from 60% to 200%.
• Scaling reduced from 100% to 20%.
• Now scales with Shadow Damage.
• Bonus capped at 300%.

[*]Rathma’s Vigor: Overpower bonus reduced from 120% to 100%. Necromancer Legendary Aspect Changes

• Aspect of Swelling Curse renamed to Aspect of Decaying Humerus: Bone Skills deal Shadow damage.
• Enemies hit by Bone Skills take 15–25% increased Shadow damage.

[*]Of Plunging Darkness:

• Bone Prison is now a Darkness Skill.
• Spawns Blight pool for 6 seconds.
• Blight damage increased by 40–60% while active.

[*]Blighted:

• Now stacks damage per hit from Shadowblight (15–25% per hit).
• Resets 6 seconds after first hit.

[*]Blood Soaked:

• Trail duration increased from 4 to 8 seconds.
• Damage per second slightly reduced.
• Movement speed bonus increased to 30% while active or standing in trail.
• Reclassified as a Mobility Aspect.

[*]Of Creeping Mist renamed to Creeping Cadaver:

• Now grants 20–40% Movement Speed for 8 seconds after consuming a Corpse.

[*]Coldbringer’s: Time between Blizzard casts reduced from 6 to 4 seconds. Necromancer Unique Item Changes

• The Hand of Naz (New Unique Gloves): +77.5–100% Skeletal Mage Damage
• +2–4 to Skeletal Mage Mastery
• Grants an additional Skeletal Mage for each Minion sacrificed (Warrior/Golem).
• Skeletal Mages evolve into Arch-Mages after 25 hits without dying.
• Arch-Mages teleport and deal 50–100% bonus shatter damage.

[*]Deathless Visage: Echo damage reduced from 40–80% to 20–40%. [*]Indira’s Memory: Damage bonus reduced from 40–80% to 20–40%. [*]Bloodless Scream:

• Now affects bosses.
• After 800 hits with Darkness Skills, fears and freezes nearby enemies.

Necromancer Paragon Changes

• Bloodbath: Overpower damage bonus reduced from 100%[x] to 40%[x].

Necromancer Bug Fixes

• Fixed Bone Mages generating echoes from Deathless Visage.
• Fixed mastery bonuses from Ring of Mendeln and Sanguivor not working if passives weren’t unlocked.
• Shadowblight now correctly scales with multiplicative Corrupting damage bonuses.
• Howl from Below now correctly applies the Summon tag to Corpse Explosion.
• Resolved issues with Book of the Dead upgrades occasionally stopping.
• Decompose now properly spawns corpses against all enemy types.

Other Class Changes If you’re looking for other class changes, please, visit one of the links below.

• Barbarian Changes in Season 9
• Druid Changes in Season 9
• Rogue Changes in Season 9
• Sorcerer Changes in Season 9

Source: https://icy-veins.com/d4/news/all-necro ... tch-2-3-0/