Only one respec needed -to get specilization mastery- and that's it ! All content can be done with one set up.It's not top tier because the coverage isn't big enough, but still perfectly strong enough to be comfortable. Death Ripple really do it's job when farming.With lot of care, sure, but definitely possible.

It's one of the point that make me believe Malice is Hardcore viable. Using Dream Eater against a small mob will regen your life instantly, and even against bosses the regen is noticable. Another Dream Eater good point : This spell come with a pretty impressive slow, as well as life leech.Teleporting bosses in general are no problem, as Dream Eater will follow them immediately. Is Astogha your worst nightmare? welcome. Meaning, many usually pesky bosses will be easy. Dream Eater is a point & clic single target skill, nothing will get in it's way.Every bosses can be cleared (Not Deimoss, but we don't count her).

Sets pieces and mid game gear improvements are very easy to find as well. TU gear alone is very strong and will easily carry to 120s ubers and farm duncraig very nicely. I had lots of fun playing it, and hope you will too. It felt terrible to use before, but now will perfectly do it's job. Malice Necromancer has been in quite a bad spot for many patches, but recently, sneakily, during 2.2.2 and 2.2.6 patchs, he was granted two things : Passive physical resistance, 1% per 4 points put in the malice tree, which mean up to 20% in late, and Death Ripple, the main clearing skill, had it's hitbox corrected and heavily improved.

Basics : Overview - Gear - Normal & Nightmare tips

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