Master Yael - WAR / CLR / NEC - d0,d1,d2,d3,d4 solo

A viewer build request tested cold on Master Yael at difficulty four: Warrior, Cleric and Necromancer, no practice run. It wins comfortably, and I fought most of it without noticing I had no main hand weapon equipped.

June 24, 2026
Episode28

A build request from Bumbleweeeeee on Discord, tested cold on Master Yael at difficulty four with no practice run. It works comfortably, which is the finding. It is also the run where I discover partway through that I am not wearing a main hand weapon, having handed it to my pet while playing something else, so most of the fight is fought without one and the parse should be read accordingly.

Master Yael WAR / CLR / NEC Difficulty 4 Viewer build request No weapon
Total damage72,000
Dots31 percent
Pet27 percent
Banshee Aura damage shield5 percent
My AAs521

The Request, and the Constraint

Warrior, Cleric, Necromancer, tested blind.

  • Bumbleweeeeee asked for this one on Discord, and this is the first time I have run it.
  • The primary slot is the limit. Warrior or shadowknight only, which narrows what a request can even be.
  • The idea is swapping bard out for necromancer, so the job becomes getting every dot onto the target rather than running a melody.
  • Already locked out, so I expected no loot, and got some anyway, which surprised me on camera.
  • Verdict: it is a good build. It took Yael at four without much trouble.

Parser note: I updated my log parser for this, to a version that finally handles cleaves and the other special attacks this server uses.

The Add Is the Long Part

Because both of them are healers.

  • Yael rolled cleric, shaman and wizard this time, and the single add came up cleric and paladin. The multiclasses are not fixed, so expect a different set on another pull.
  • They heal each other, which is what drags the opening out.
  • Yael wasting mana healing the add is fine by me, and healing my pet is funnier still.
  • It is stun heavy. I call it stun town, though I am not actually taking much damage through it.
  • Drop the anti-heal dot so the healing stops mattering.

How It Is Played

Arcane Mastery does the work.

  • Arcane Mastery is the home stance, which the necromancer brings, and it had been buffed shortly before this.
  • Over channel only briefly, to land Scent of Darkness and open the dots. After that things land on Yael without it.
  • Recovery gives about 90 mana regen, which is enough to fight from rather than a pause.
  • Defensive to cut the incoming, and it is comfortable enough to go offensive later.
  • Dispel his Alacrity when he puts it up.
  • Empower for the burst, using the newer version.

What I miss: the shaman's cannibalize. I sit on far more health than I can convert to mana, and there is no way to spend it.

I Was Not Wearing a Weapon

Discovered mid-fight, fixed mid-fight.

  • No main hand at all, and no shoulders either. I had given the weapon to my pet while playing something else and never took it back.
  • I fix it live during the fight, handing the yaks back to the pet and equipping a Serpent's Tooth with no augments in it, plus Earthshaker and my proc.
  • So read the parse with that in mind. Most of the damage was done without a main hand.
  • One way to read it is how strong the build is. The other, which I think is nearer the truth, is how strong a cleric is.
  • This is also during the weapon nerf, so the melee numbers are doubly understated.

What the Parser Shows

72,000 damage, and one number worth stealing.

  • Dots are 31 percent, unsurprisingly, given the weapon situation.
  • The pet is 27 percent. It is a shadowknight and gets on with its own kit.
  • Banshee Aura's damage shield is 5 percent, and I flag it as quietly important for a lot of builds going forward.
  • Kicks 5 percent, ripostes about 2 percent, and cleave almost nothing again.
  • Off-hand slashing and piercing are near zero, for the obvious reason.

Two Things Working Against the Build

One by design, one a bug.

  • Cleric instead of shaman costs dot damage. Necromancer supplies crit chance and shaman supplies crit damage, so you get one half of the pairing.
  • The warrior crit AA is broken. It should be giving 30 percent extra critical damage.
  • I can see it doing nothing, and I have been told it may be applying negatively rather than positively.

Why I Skip the Dragons

Asked enough to be worth stating.

  • There is no challenge in them. You heal through it and that is the fight.
  • With a cleric you can bring any two other classes and out-heal anything a dragon does.
  • The cost is the clear. Forty-five minutes of giants before you get to the interesting part, which is not interesting either.

Next for this build: Cazic Thule at difficulty two, and probably not three, because I do not want to spend 45 minutes on Terror.

YouTube Generated Transcript

Hello and welcome to EverQuest Legends beta. Today we are going to be doing a build and we’re going to test it here on Yale 4 first. This is a build that came in as a request from Bumbleweeeeee on Discord and this is warrior cleric necromancer. You know the constraints that I can only be a warrior or shadow knight you know kind of limit some of the builds but I have no idea. I have not done a pre-run of this. I am already locked out so I won’t get any loot. But I can see my spell set here. I’m drain soul, promise renewals, scarred echo sacred echo I mean celestial healing disease dot fire dot magic dot poison dot anti-healing dot if he’s a healer bond of death scent of darkness just in case we need to try to lower his resists feigned death ward of the divine. And uh guard of vie right? So let’s refresh guard of vie. And ward of the divine. Now you’ll see I’m fully buffed with all the buffs that we can get it’s quite a bit but it’s all the cleric buffs plus vampiric embrace grim aura lich and banshee aura so I don’t know what to expect. We’re going to find out together. Whoa. All right let’s bring this guy right up here. Thank you very much my friend. See where I right I don’t even know where my buttons are right now. All right I do have a pet out he is buffed with normal pet buffs that uh I have available to me as this class. And we’ll see how this goes. Um I am currently at 521 AAs right? I’ve put a lot of effort in my character. Um So that means I pretty much have everything. I’m I’m I’m I’m like I don’t have life burning dumb stuff like that I’m not going to get but for the most part I got a lot of things and uh I don’t know why I’m in recovery right now. Arcane mastery is going to be what we’re going to be trying to use here. We get this from the necromancer. You’ll remember this from the shadow knight shaman necro build we use this but it got a buff I think recently. I don’t even know if it it’s fully functional but uh let’s try this out. So you can see his difficult four solar raid. We’ll see how this goes. Now it looks like we’re going to have one ad and that’s about it. Fantastic. And he’s poisoned that so I don’t know how this is going to go. Let me get my log parser up before we even EQ log parser before we even do anything here. Just in case. Now I’ve updated my log parser to the latest version which now includes include support for parsing uh um cleaves and all the other special attacks here from this server so uh buckle up. >> [laughter] >> Let’s dot the ad first. And there we go. All right, let’s get Yale. I’m going to switch in over channel for like one moment and then we’re going to try to sent to darkness him. Uh which worked so fantastic. Uh let’s see if we can over channel a little dot on him and we did. Now I I just threw all my dots down here so I don’t even know exactly what we got going on here but uh the goal since we’re we’re we’re we’re replacing bard with necromancer right? That’s that’s kind of the the concept behind this build here is that everything is switched from uh you know bard to necromancer so we need to be able to get all these dots on here. He’s a cleric shaman wizard you know what, we’re doing or going to Celest his life. Teach him a lesson there. Now, I’m at half life. I’m going to promise renewal. Cuz uh that’s Oh, I’m stunned. Oh my gosh, is he going to kill me with stuns? There we go. You’re You’re You’re screwed, buddy. We’re going to go into empower. And then uh We’re going to drop some empowered here. You can see that we’re uh we’re using the new uh empower. Which uh should be doing more more damage, I believe. I don’t know. That’s what I saw in the patch notes, so uh should be fine. All right, let’s get rid of this guy. He’s like He’s a cleric paladin, too. So, he’s even more annoying. Let’s go back into arcane mastery. And uh let’s drop uh I didn’t want that one, but we need to cool it on our mana for a second here. Uh let’s uh see here. Let’s kill this guy uh go into recovery. This is This is working out fine. I’m yapping more than I should be. Uh but yeah, our health is 71%. We just got to get rid of this guy. Now, they’re all They’re all like all healers, so that’s even worse. >> [screaming] >> But in recovery, we got like 90 hit points uh or 90 mana regen, so that’s pretty nice. Now, you’ll notice I’m an iksar now. This is going to be the race I actually play the game with. I was expecting to make several characters when I when I made No Mergar. And uh one of those was uh was going to be the iksar that I planned on playing. Um but uh they just added the unlock for uh Jeez, this is like This guy This is just like stun town, you know? Like I’m not really taking a lot of damage, so it’s not that big a deal, but just killing this ad is more work than I thought it would be. I think they’re both healing, which is which is actually pretty fun. Like if you think about it. Y’all wasting his mana healing me. And I mean healing the pet is like hilarious. But yeah, we’re in recovery. We’re in defensive also just to like lower the damage here, but it’s working out pretty well. I This guy just needs to die. >> [laughter] >> He just needs to die. Now I don’t have I don’t have haste potions. I don’t have I didn’t do any of that stuff. So I am kind of at a little disadvantage there. I should have made haste potions, but uh I didn’t know I’m going to turn so that the pet’s on the back, right? And let’s take a look at where we’re at here. He’s got alacrity. All right, let’s get rid of alacrity. >> [laughter] >> There we go. All right, so he’s just got armor of the faithful and mighty. So I’m going to go ahead and promise renewal and then I’m going to waste some mana on some dots. There we go. So we don’t even need over channel to land uh land on him. We’re going to drop oscillation of life just in case he starts healing or some nonsense like that, right? Uh let’s see here. I I’m kind of missing the uh the shaman aspect I had where I could cannibalize and get my like I have so much health I’m just wasting here. I can’t cannibalize it fast enough, right? Like I can’t convert it. So let’s It feels like the shaman felt a lot better in that regard. Let’s drop tracking off my bar. I literally just made this this this loadout like a few minutes ago. All right, let’s reinvent him both him. Uh let’s see here. I think it was dark souls the other one worked, right? No, he’s like not not accepting that one. Is he accepting fire? There we go. I landed fire. Perfect. So, I guess we’ll stay on recovery. Let’s go actually go Yeah, let’s stay in recovery for now. Doesn’t feel too bad. Like we’re not even losing any endurance. Let’s go offensive though. We might We should be able to handle going offensive. This is difficulty four. Um I’m using my current stats, 6200 hit points, uh 528 AC. Uh attacks Oh, I’m I’m not even have a main hand weapon on. Oh my god, how dumb am I? Oh my gosh. All right. I was I was playing my druid. Oh my gosh. Oh, I don’t even have a weapon in my hand. Uh I am I am borderline a noob. Where I think I put it on the pet too cuz I was like, “Oh yeah, let’s let’s give the pet that weapon.” All right. Got that one. Hold on. Hold on. I can fix this live while we do this. All right, I’m going to give the yak back to the pet. Switch those around. All right, the pet has yaks. I have a serpent’s tooth without any augs or anything in it. Uh we want earth shaker. And my proc. And my off hand we want want this one. All right, so now the parse is going to look funny cuz like I didn’t even have a weapon on. But let’s just say this is this is telling you how strong I actually am. >> [laughter] >> Because I didn’t even have a weapon on and um I didn’t have that I don’t even have my shoulders on either. I don’t even know what I’m doing. Truly don’t know what I’m doing. There we go. All right, let’s promise renewal. Or or another way to look at it is to tell you how strong a cleric actually is. Now now let’s dot him. And uh go. So yeah, at this point it’s ridiculous. Uh Now, what we’re going to do is we’re going to try Kazzakthul, I think, tier three. I think uh maybe tier two, tier three. I think I got to tier two with the other uh necro build. Maybe that’s a probably like tier two is probably the the way to go. So we’ll do that one in the next video uh with this build, I think, and it will should uh should go better since I’ll actually have real real weapons on, but uh uh as you can see here, this is this is child’s play. And this is currently during the nerf of the weapons. Uh the weapons are are not what they were before when I made my previous videos. Uh you can see here. So after that nerf gets reverted, you’ll see I I’m I would be doing even more damage. Um but uh definitely uh There you go. So uh bumble bumble wee, I think you can say I got loot. How did I get loot? Oh my god, that’s hilarious. All right, so uh um um What was I going to say? Um the um The weapons will get stronger. Uh and bumble wee, your uh your build idea of warrior cleric necro is actually pretty good. Uh I mean, it took this one out pretty easy. We’ll see what else we can do. Now, I typically skip the dragons cuz there there there’s no challenge to any of the dragons, right? All you have to do is heal it. And if you have a cleric, you can literally take two any other classes because you’ll be able to out heal anything that the dragon is doing. And I just don’t waste my time cuz it takes me like 45 minutes to clear all the giants and stuff. But, there we go. That is Yale uh difficulty four uh with no >> [laughter] >> with no primary weapon for most of the fight. Uh definitely uh that’s that’s where we are. Uh that’s during the nerf of weapons. So, uh hopefully uh in the next week uh where weapons will be unnerfed and you’ll see the full potential of some of these builds. But, uh oh yeah, you know, I might as well show it. Uh so, he had 72,000 damage, right? Uh my main hand was a slashing, so it’s not going to really show very well. Um See here, set him as my pet and then look in here. We can look at this real quick. Uh at the very end. All right. So, dot damage 31%. Obviously, that’s most of my damage because I literally did not have >> [laughter] >> Yeah, you can see here slashes. So, my off hand slashes was like almost nothing. Same with my piercing, right? And the damage shield. Now, this this is low key very important for a lot of these builds you’re going to be seeing from me in the future is damage shield. 5% from banshee aura, which uh is crazy. 27% from the pet, which is actually pretty good, right? Like the pet is a is a shadow knight, so he’s doing all his shadow knight stuff and all that. And then we got a little bit of almost no damage from cleave. And our reposts, I guess we’re doing uh 2% of our damage. I think that’s what the punches are. Um kicks 5%. So, you can see here that the dot damage is where it’s it’s all at. Now, the thing is is since we are using a cleric instead of the Shaman, we do use lose a lot of that that dot damage because I believe uh necro is crit chance and Shaman is crit damage. So, that is something to also think about. Uh and also there is a issue with the warrior crit AA, so it’s not actually giving me extra crit damage. Um uh right now, I think it’s giving me negative damage from what somebody said. Uh this one right here. I’m supposed to get an extra 30% crit damage. Um but uh as you can see, uh it’s not really doing anything at all. All right, but uh that’s that and uh that is uh another another build tried. So, we’re going to go try this exact same build in uh Fear. Uh we’ll do Fear two, I think. I am I’m not sure I can do Fear three and I don’t really want to sit there and kill Terror for 45 minutes uh because that fight takes forever. But uh uh thank you very much for watching and please have a fantastic day.