Need Deeps Build

Deep groups usually take 2 necromancers out of the party of 12.

(1) The Bip's job is to keep the monks and elementalists full of energy. Pretty much any bip will do. Bips used to be able to help with conditions via extinguish and healing via heal party but really cant help in these areas anymore after the soul reaping nerf.

(2) The SS's job is to do nothing and take a copy of spinal shivers and inspired enchantment for the fight against the final boss. Inspired enchantment removes the Final Boss' 50% of spells targeting him fail enchantment, and spinal shivers interrupts his hard hitting and very fast attacks. For the rest of the Deep, the SS can help with damage, but will at the end of the day end up doing pathetically small amounts of damage if your nukers are any good. I disagree with you on only one point. SS does more damage, even after the SR nerf, than any nuker could ever hope to, particularly on the large mobs found in the deep. I can usually drop about 6 SS before my Arcane Echo runs out. These are cast at Curses 18 for 41 damage. Throw in reckless haste and that damage starts adding up quick considering it triggers on adjacent enemies as well who will also have SS on them and so on and so forth. A good SS necro can lay down about 10 SS curses into a mob before it just becomes pointless to cast it anymore. Ususally about 6 of those are cast at Curses 18 for 41 damage per trigger the others at 16 for 39 damage per trigger. I couldn't even begin to do the math properly but an example. For the sake of argument let us say you have a five member mob. SS gets cast on them. With only 5 that's a guaranteed level 18 cast so 41 damage. Let us also say , for argument's sake, that they are in optimum positioning. That is one in the middle and one at each cardinal point. Again because I suck at math we are doing this under ideal conditions so let us say their attacks are synched up and they attack once per second, a reasonable attack rate since reckless haste will be used as well. Because of positioning each SS will trigger 5 hits due to the adjacency range. So every second that's 205 damage on each monster for the duration of the spell, provided they even last that long.

Clustered enemies are not at all uncommon in the Deep, Oni's at the stairs, the groups you have to pull ot the door of the no casting area. And the number of SS curses cast will be double easily with a competent SS who is well supplied by the BiPer. Deep Nukers are generally Echo Meteor shower nukers which tops out at just under 100 damage per hit for only 9 seconds as opposed to the demonstrated 205 damage per hit for just under 20 seconds. SS is not and never has been inconsequential damage. The only exception is in caster heavy groups where spell cast times tend to limit its effectiveness.