Good 2hd melee Necromancer build?

[MaximB]

What is a good melee necromancer build, and with what class to use him?

Currently I'm thinking about:
reaping strike (up to lvl6)
necrotic edge (up to lvl7)
bone harvest + dread + soul harvest
harvester of death worth it?
spectral binding + spectral wrath
harbinger of souls

Is siphon of souls good for a melee build?
what about ravenous earth?

what will be the main damage? vitality or aether?

And what other class and skills are good for main melee Necromancer build?
Occultist with curse of frailty? or something else?

[Azunai]

i've been playing a reaper (nightblade + necro) for a while after AoM was released.

2H weapon, focussed on cold damage (bone harvest has a transmuter that requires 2H weapon and converts phys damage to cold)

worked like a charm. kinda lacks endgame itemization, though. there is a handful of useful mythical items for that build, but not a full set. still one of the better builds i've played. insane AoE clearing power between bone harvest, blade burst and ring of frost.

[Befuddled Honey Badger]

Vitality/Bleed Death Knight (Soldier/Necro) with the Blood Knight set. It's innately tanky, lifesteal is easy to come by, plenty of -Vitality RR, high armour etc. Plus you get player-scaled pets with the Blood Knight set; 1 one summoned and up to 6 proc summons. Mine is using a really nice Spectral Warmaul monster infrequent as the weapon.

[RodHull]

Yeah blood knight set death knight using a wildblood crusher is difficult to see past for a 2H necro build, it does insane damage and is tanky as f***.

Also for death knights if you dont have blood knight the krieg set is great for new players to farm as it can be farmed from set mobs and any decent 2h aether weapon would work with that, you could then respec into vitality later if you got the other set.

[MaximB]

What skills I use as 2hd death knight?

[Azunai]

i wouldn't call the blood knight set a death knight set at all. i mean, yeah sure it buffs both a skill from the necro and from the soldier skill tree, but counterstrike is easily the most useless skill in the soldier mastery and the whole vitality & bleed theme has basically 0 overlap with soldier.

occultist or shaman are both much better 2nd masteries to complement that set.

[RodHull]

Originally posted by Azunai:

i wouldn't call the blood knight set a death knight set at all. i mean, yeah sure it buffs both a skill from the necro and from the soldier skill tree, but counterstrike is easily the most useless skill in the soldier mastery and the whole vitality & bleed theme has basically 0 overlap with soldier.

occultist or shaman are both much better 2nd masteries to complement that set.

Counterstrike with the set buffs is strong... it fires off more than once per second and does free attacks that lifesteal, its far from useless. Soldier has great bleed support, blade arc, deadly momentum. If anything Id drop the necromancer and go warder, my blood knight build is a warder, but the op wanted a 2h necro build. Personally i think necro/shaman lacks a good source of OA, lacks movement abilities which is important for slow 2 handers, and has an overkill of health. But for sure any combination of those 3 classes could work with that set as its insanely strong. Occultist, not so much (imo)