Masquerade of the Burning Carnival Bone Spear — Necromancer

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Masquerade of the Burning Carnival Bone Spear for the Necromancer: tier A, Season 39, with gear, cube powers, gems and 3 variants.

At a glance

Class: Necromancer
Tier: A
Season: S39
Main skill: Grim Scythe
Items: 13
Cube powers: 4
Updated: 25.08.2026

Equipment

Helm Guardian's Gaze
Shoulders Glamorous Gigot
Amulet Haunted Visions
Chest Sophisticated Vest
Gloves Lavishing Gloves
Bracers Guardian's Aversion
Belt Dayntee's Binding
Pants Elegant Pants
Boots Extravagant Shoes
Ring 1 Convention of Elements
Ring 2 Krysbin's Sentence
Main Hand Scythe of the Cycle
Off Hand Lost Time

Active Skills

Grim Scythe Cursed Scythe

Bone Spear Crystallization

Bone Armor Limited Immunity

Decrepify Wither

Blood Rush Molting

Simulacrum Cursed Form

Passive Skills

Stand Alone

Serration

Spreading Malediction

Bone Prison

Kanai's Cube

Weapon Maltorius' Petrified Spike

Armor Gelmindor's Marrow Guards

Jewelry Ring of Royal Grandeur

4th slot (Season 39) Reilena's Shadowhook

Stat Priority

Intelligence
Critical Hit Chance
Vitality
Area Damage
Critical Hit Damage
Armor

Legendary Gems

Bane of the Stricken Rank 150

Bane of the Trapped Rank 150

Zei's Stone of Vengeance Rank 150

Regular Gems

Armor Topaz

Weapon Emerald

✦ Intelligence

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Bone Spear Damage

✦ Vitality

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ Area Damage

✦ Cooldown Reduction

Sophisticated Vest

Chest Armor

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ Armor

✦ Socket

✦ Intelligence

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Area Damage

✦ Poison Damage

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ Life %

✦ Armor

✦ Pickup Radius

Elegant Pants

Pants

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ Armor

✦ Socket

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ Armor

✦ Bone Spear Damage

Haunted Visions

Amulet

✦ Poison Damage

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Socket

Convention of Elements

Ring 1

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Area Damage

✦ Socket

Krysbin's Sentence

Ring 2

✦ Attack Speed

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Socket

Scythe of the Cycle

Main Hand

✦ Physical Damage (Weapon)

✦ Damage %

✦ Intelligence

✦ Attack Speed

✦ Maximum Essence

✦ Socket

✦ Physical Damage (Weapon)

✦ Intelligence

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Area Damage

✦ Bone Spear Damage

✦ Maximum Essence

Gameplay

The configuration

This setup is stored as a complete build — gear, skills, runes and all four cube slots work together and are not assembled from individual statistics.

Set: Masquerade of the Burning Carnival
Rating: tier A across all classes
Kanai's Cube: Maltorius' Petrified Spike, Gelmindor's Marrow Guards, Ring of Royal Grandeur, Reilena's Shadowhook
Skills: Grim Scythe (Cursed Scythe), Bone Spear (Crystallization), Bone Armor (Limited Immunity), Decrepify (Wither), Blood Rush (Molting), Simulacrum (Cursed Form)
Passives: Stand Alone, Serration, Spreading Malediction, Bone Prison
Variants available: GR push, Speed farming, Torment 16 / Nephalem rifts

Use the variant switcher above to move between the versions. What changes between them is spelled out below — read it before you rebuild.

What the set does

This build wears Masquerade of the Burning Carnival. These bonuses apply once the matching number of set pieces is equipped — the damage multiplier hangs on them, not on the individual stats of the pieces:

2 pieces: Simulacrums no longer take damage, gains all runes, and its cooldown is refreshed when you die.
4 pieces: While you have a Simulacrum, damage is reduced by 50%. Damage you take is split with your Simulacrums as well.
6 pieces: Bone Spear cast by you and your Simulacrums deals 9000% increased damage. Simulacrums gain triple this bonus.

How the variants differ

Measured against the push version. Anything not listed here stays the same:

Speed farming: swaps in skills Land of the Dead (Plaguelands), Bone Spear (Teeth), Bone Armor (Thy Flesh Sustained), Devour (Devouring Aura); cube Steuart's Greaves, Squirt's Necklace; gems Bane of the Powerful.
Torment 16 / Nephalem rifts: swaps in skills Bone Spear (Blood Spear), Bone Armor (Thy Flesh Sustained), Devour (Voracious); cube Steuart's Greaves; gems Bane of the Powerful, Boon of the Hoarder.

Sockets and gems

The 3 legendary gems (Bane of the Stricken, Bane of the Trapped, Zei's Stone of Vengeance) belong in the jewellery slots — that is the only place their rank counts, and the only place they keep growing when you upgrade after a Greater Rift.

The remaining 6 sockets are filled with Topaz: the multiplier already comes from the set and the legendary powers, so one more base stat does more there than another effect would.

On the season theme

Shades of the Nephalem spawns a shadow clone of your class at every shrine and pylon that fights along for one minute. Activate shrines inside the pull, not on the way there. The fourth cube slot is already filled in every variant above.