Innoruuk - SK / NEC / SHM - d4 solo

Innoruuk at difficulty four on Shadowknight, Shaman and Necromancer, with no cleric and no heal cast all fight. The opening order, the over channel and Arcane Mastery swap, and a parser breakdown showing why most build optimisation does not matter.

June 28, 2026
Episode23

Innoruuk at difficulty four on Shadowknight, Shaman and Necromancer, and the answer to a question I get constantly: no, you do not need a cleric for D4. I never cast Superior Healing once and never touched the Promise Renewal clicky. Drain Soul carried the entire fight. The parser afterwards makes a case that most of what people optimise does not matter.

Innoruuk Plane of Hate SK / SHM / NEC Difficulty 4 No cleric
Fight length410 seconds
Total damage88,000
Pet contribution24,000, or 27 percent
My melee11 percent, less than the pet
Heals castZero. Drain Soul only

He Is Immune to Poison

Which decides the spell list before you start.

  • One hundred percent poison immune, so Envenomed Bolt does not go on the bar at all.
  • That costs the shaman its biggest single dot, and everything else still lands.
  • What I bring instead: Drain Soul, Stoicism, Ignite Blood, Plague, Bonded Death, Odium, Turgur's Insects, Chloroplast, Alacrity and Spirit of the Puma.
  • Three debuffs do the heavy lifting: Malo and Scent of Darkness for resists, Incapacitate for his melee.

Version note: this is him as of late June, after several rounds of nerfs, so he hits softer here than he used to.

The Opening, In Order

The sequence matters more than the gear.

  • Pet on hold first, parked out of range while you set up.
  • Puma the pet before anything else. This turns out to be the single highest value action in the fight.
  • Run in, open Malo, send the pet, and turn attack on.
  • Survive until slow lands. Nothing else matters until it does.
  • Then Incapacitate, then Scent of Darkness, in that order.
  • Heal with Drain Soul into Stoicism, then Puma yourself and start the dots: Ignite Blood, Odium, Bonded Death.

Over Channel to Land It, Arcane Mastery to Cast It

The rule the whole fight runs on.

  • Nothing lands outside over channel. Debuffs, dots and re-slows all need it, and I demonstrate this by accident when a re-slow fails in Arcane Mastery and lands immediately after switching.
  • But do not cast Drain Soul in over channel. Always switch back to Arcane Mastery for it.
  • Arcane Mastery casts life taps faster at roughly 15 percent mana reduction, which beats sitting in recovery for the same purpose.
  • Recovery only to rebuild mana, as a separate step rather than a place to fight from.
  • Defensive for the entire fight.
  • Cannibalize between life taps to keep the mana moving.
  • Watch the slow timer. It falls off mid-fight while I am talking, and reapplying it is what keeps his damage down.

You Do Not Need a Cleric

Stated directly, with the receipts.

  • Superior Healing was never cast. Not once, across the whole fight.
  • The Promise Renewal clicky was never used, and Leech Touch was still spare at the end.
  • Drain Soul is the healing. Crits at 1,200, which is exactly what you want it doing.
  • He wastes mana shielding himself, and the fight eases considerably once he is dry.
  • People say you need a cleric for anything at D4. That is absolutely wrong, and this is the demonstration.

What the Parser Actually Shows

Three numbers that should change how you build.

  • The pet is 27 percent of my damage, 24,000 of 88,000, and I am not doing anything to earn that.
  • Thirty-one percent of the pet's damage is Puma. Getting that buff onto the pet is the most valuable thing in the fight: free damage that needs no attention afterwards.
  • My own melee is 11 percent. Less than the pet contributes. This is the number that settles most build arguments.
  • Reave as melee is worthless. Reave as an auto-attack magic spell is 14 percent of my damage, which is a very different thing from how it reads.
  • The weapon proc is 6 percent.
  • I cast fewer dots than I expected to, which surprised me looking at the breakdown.
  • Healing was Drain Soul first, Stoicism third, with Bonded Death contributing less than I assumed.
  • His damage is mostly melee, so keeping him slowed negates most of it. His spells hit big but do not add up.

Why this matters: Stoicism slows you, and people treat that as disqualifying. My melee is 11 percent of my damage. It does not matter.

Stop Micro-Optimising

The argument the parser sets up.

  • No clicky slows, no life tap earrings, no potions. None of it was needed and none of it would have changed the outcome.
  • I have no Sky items on this character at all.
  • I quick buffed rather than using the single target Vampiric Embrace, which is technically wrong and made no difference.
  • I do not have the Improved Damage III item because levelling jewelcrafting costs 30,000 platinum and I cannot be bothered.
  • The game is tuned easily enough right now that a lot of the questions I get are about things that will not decide anything.

Would Another Tank Be Better

Asked often, so answered here.

  • Paladin, yes. When people ask whether a paladin would be better, the answer is always yes. Paladin is overtuned at the moment.
  • You give up Drain Soul and gain Lay Hands alongside Harm Touch, which is a different engine for the same job.
  • Warrior could do this too, slightly harder, with a weaker Arcane Mastery to work around.
  • The necromancer half is doing the work regardless, which is why the tank slot is more flexible than it looks.

The Loot

Everything at plus four, and two of the good one.

  • Two Cloaks of Scales, which merged out to a plus five and a plus six.
  • I realise on camera I should have been wearing one already, swap it in, and pick up a large chunk of hit points for nothing.
  • An ice belt to merge, and a Brewer's Mash.
  • The haste belt is still the gap, and it comes from Sky.

Why This Is Nearly the Last One

End of the beta talking.

  • No Cazic Thule at D4 with this build. That means an hour clearing Fear, with a day or two left before the server goes down.
  • Levelling something that gets deleted has stopped appealing, and I say so plainly.
  • Fiery Avenger is the intended last video of the run.
  • Expect a lull through July while waiting for release, possibly filled with something other than Legends.
YouTube Generated Transcript

Hello and welcome to Everquest Legends beta. Today we are doing Innoruuk again. We’re doing this one on D4 with Shadow Knight Shaman Necromancer. Now, I’ve done this once before and I didn’t record it for some stupid reason. So, hopefully I can recreate that magic there. Now, Innoruuk is 100% immune to poison, so we’re not running or not running inven bolt at all. I got put up incapacitate, so you can see here my full spell list drain soul superior healing stoicism ignite blood plague incapacitate incapacitate. Oh my god, incapacitate. I cannot talk today. Odium, bond of death, chloroplast alacrity, Turgor’s insects, malo, spirit of the puma, and sent to darkness. Now, sent to darkness is a resist debuff. Malo resist debuff. And incapacitate jeez, I cannot talk. Is a melee debuff, right? So, this is this is like the current version of him on June 27th. So, he’s been nerfed a few times, so I should be a little better. My pet is on hold on guard right here. We’re going to puma him and then we’re going to run in and start our malo and send the pet in. Right? So, he’s going to get puma’d. I’m going to go like this. I’m going to turn around and attack. I’m going to turn attack on. We’re going to malo. We’re just going to stay alive till we get slow on, right? Uh then we’re going to get slow on here. And it’s like it’s landing. Let’s get him incapacitate. And let’s get sent to darkness. All right, now we need to heal ourselves. So, I’m going to drain soul into a stoicism. All right. We’re going to stoicism our drain soul again cuz that’s what I pushed. Oh, then I’m going to target myself. I’m going to puma. And then I’m going to ignite blood. I’m going to odium now. None of these are landing cuz I this really didn’t change. Well, I didn’t need over channel. I like I I totally forget. I’m like talking and yapping and it’s not going right. Okay, what What didn’t we get on here? Um sent to darkness is the only one that didn’t land. Let’s get another heal going. There we go. He’s at 82%. We got 75% mana left. We both have We have harm touch up, so let’s go ahead and do that. Let’s Let’s get harm touch. There we go. Just to burn that because we are doing reeves, which are going to lower the cool down on that as we go. Uh let’s get bonded death for some heal over time since we’re in uh over channel right now. All right, and then we’ll do this. Now, we need to heal. No joke now. Uh we’re going to go with arcane mastery. And I’m going to start using arcane mastery to cast my life taps faster to get my health up. Right? This is a little bit It’s like So, this is like what? Like 15% mana reduction. So, it’s a little bit better than casting them in recovery. Uh but the problem is is we can’t land anything outside of over channel, so Uh you see, you got to do a little swapping around there. Now, let’s see if we can get odium on there. All right, odium’s on. And perfect. Now, let’s do a drain soul. It’s not worth doing drain souls in over channel. It’s You got to always switch back to arcane mastery if you can. Now, I think at this point the pet has lost his Puma, so let’s re-Puma him. Switch back. Uh I’m in Arcane Mastery. I’m in Arcane Mastery. Life tap, right? We’re full, right? I’m going to do a cannibalize. And then I’m going to Arcane Mastery life tap again, right? Now we’re going to do another stoicism. He’s at 54%. So, we’re doing okay. Slow is wearing off cuz I’m I’m literally not paying attention. He’s re-slowed. Let’s re uh Jeez. Uh let’s get that fixed. All right, let’s go into overchannel. Let’s get our dots back on, namely bonded death. Cuz that’s going to give us some heal over time. And then uh that. So, he’s wasting his mana casting superior shield on himself, so that’s not too bad, right? Let’s do this. There we go. Let’s go into recovery. Let’s try to get some mana back real quick. So, he’s got bonded death and that on there. Odium didn’t land. Let’s go back into that. Let’s get Odium on. And then back into Arcane Mastery. He’s at 44% because he’s he’s wasted his mana healing. Uh this will get a little easier once he runs out of mana. Uh cuz you know, he’s taking our mana, right? To do this. So, let’s do one more drain soul. Just to kind of keep ourselves going. Let’s go back into stoicism. Uh super heal. Got one minute on incapacitate. Uh let’s go back into overchannel. Let’s refresh incapacitate. See if we can land plague on him. I wasn’t sure if that one landed at all. It doesn’t. Bond to death. All right, let’s see here. Let’s go into arcane mastery. Going to do drain soul. Which is perfect drain soul. It’s a crit. All right, 1200 heal. Perfect, right? That’s exactly what we wanted. Now we have 46 seconds left on slow. We’re going to reslow him. What are we in? We’re in arcane mastery. And that failed. So we’re going to do it again in overchannel. All right, arcane mastery into stoicism. Go. And then I think the pet re-needs puma. I I like I need the trigger things, you know, that show up when you tell them what it is, but I just don’t care. This game’s too easy to like even think about that kind of stuff all the time. All right, bond to death. We’re going to go back into overchannel. Bond to death. There we go. Podium. And let’s do ignite fire 21%. Now we’re going to go back into arcane mastery. We’re going to do a life tap. Hopefully it’s a crit. It’s not. Now, I have not used my promise renewal clicky yet, so keep that in mind. We might use that here uh in a moment, actually. Let’s do it to right now. So I’m going to click promise. Let’s see if we can do it without it, right? We don’t need it yet. Let’s do one more drain soul. That didn’t He’s at 10%. I don’t even I didn’t even need it. Uh I still have leech touch if I need that. Like it’s it’s going pretty well, right? We’re going to go back into overchannel. We’re going to do bond to death. And then once we land this bond to death once it lands, we’re going to go into arcane mastery, stoicism. And then we’re going to life tap again. And he’s at 1%. And come on. There we go. All right, you can see all plus four loot. It is a plus four Anorak. Uh no cleric. No. Didn’t cast super heal once. Only drain soul. Uh easy game, right? Like Like Like some some people say you have to have a cleric to do anything in D4. And it is absolutely wrong. Let’s uh let’s pull up our uh parsing here. And All right, you can see 88,000 hit points. Uh let us uh let us assign this to our pet. Uh da da no more guard. Uh there we go. Come on. Come on. There we go. All right. So you can see 88,000 damage. The pet did 24,000 damage. The pet did 27% of my damage. Let’s pop into this. And you can really see all the numbers and where everything is coming from, right? Now, the dots are surprisingly I I I cast less dots than I was expecting, right? Like I was expecting cast more dots, but you know what we got going on here is a lot of uh actual work uh this. And it was 410 seconds for the entirety of the fight, right? So drain soul, obviously our biggest cast there. Um you know, we got a few crits in that. Our max hit was 1,200. So, definitely a nice little surprise there. We did one harm touch. We didn’t do the leech touch. We didn’t need it. Didn’t need the promise renewed. Didn’t need it. Didn’t need some clicky slow items, you know, we don’t need clicky. Um, our life tap earrings, we don’t need potions, we don’t need any of that junk. It’s all for people that really want to try hard and just don’t need it, right? Like I’m talking smack, but it’s just just how it is. Right? It’s just you don’t need any of that stuff, right? This game is very easily tuned right now and um, you know, you can throw in a a shadow knight shaman necro all together and with, you know, not even great gear. I don’t have a single sky item on my necro on my character, right? Uh, so you can see here the proc percent, you know, 31% of the pets damage was literally Puma. Getting Puma on the pet is the most important thing I would say. You know, it’s it is free damage that I don’t have to worry about while I’m doing everything else, right? So, you can see bashes and Reeves. Like Reeves right here, like Reeves as a melee is terrible. Doesn’t do anything. Reeves as a auto attack magic spell is 14% of my damage. So, that is a very big thing. Now, would a paladin be better? Yes, the answer is always yes. When people ask this question to me, is would it be better to put a paladin? The answer is yes. Like, I mean, you get rid of drain soul, but then your life you’re lay hands in every, you know, harm harm touch, right? It’s you know, it’s a different thing. You know, it’s just it is just what it is. Like, like right now paladins overtuned it’s going to be better. Warrior could do this too, most likely. I would say would be a little bit harder, right? Like, obviously 90% of my damage is me doing life tapping, but that 19% is solely from um the Necromancer. So, the the warrior should be able to do the exact same thing. The we’re going to have a weaker arcane mastery though. Uh so, that’s something to consider there. Uh the proc on my weapon 6%, you know, pretty good stuff, right? If we look at healing and we click on myself here as selected and we look. Did I Did I super heal myself? No. I use stoicism. Now, you’re you’re probably like, “Oh, man, stoicism it slows you and stuff. It Oh, it makes you terrible.” Well, you know what? It doesn’t really matter cuz my melee DPS does not matter, right? Like if we go back here where is my melee DPS in the DPS breakdown? All right, so that’s that’s that’s that’s slash is right there. 11% of my damage, right? 11% of my damage. That is less than my pet. 11% less than my pet. Like think about it, right? Like it doesn’t matter. It truly does not matter. So, I know a lot of people are like trying to macro macro optimize all these builds. You don’t have to do any of that stuff, man. It does not matter. Uh drain soul obviously the majority of my healing because that is uh what it is for. Uh stoicism coming in third. Bonded death did a little bit, but not as much as I was expecting. And then scream at death. Now, arguably I should have been done in vampiric embrace for the single target version, but I quick buffed and I didn’t care cuz it doesn’t matter. Again, I’m trying to I’m trying to instill this in to be Well, I get a lot of questions and a lot of them are you know, just like really concerned about things that really don’t matter. Uh and I feel like this this is universal throughout the entirety of game. Uh like it just it’s how it is, right? Now, if we look at tanking, uh you know, obviously most of my damage came in his melee hits, right? Uh that’s where the damage is. So, keeping him slowed is going to negate a lot of his damage. Uh his spells, you know, obviously they’re big hits, but it’s not as bad. And we were in defensive the whole time. So, uh there you go. Uh that is that is it, pretty much. Uh if you look at that, you can see everything over there. All right. So, that is Anub’Rekan difficulty four. I I don’t even think I want to bother trying to kill uh Kaz’rogal difficulty four with this build, just because I don’t want to spend an hour of my life clearing fear. Uh especially with like one or two days before the server goes down. Uh it just it just I I I’m kind of I’m kind of done. I’m ready for uh the live version. Uh I really don’t really want to level up anymore and have it go be deleted, right? So, uh like I think the last video I’m going to do is finishing my fire Avenger and calling it there. But, uh definitely something to think about. Look at this, two cloaks of scale. This is this is some sexual loot right here. So, we got a plus five and a plus six cloak of scale. Look at that. Oh my gosh, if I had the haste belt, oof, I would be happy little clam. Uh and then we got another ice belt. We’ll go ahead and merge that, and then a brewer’s mash, which is it’s it’s a nice belt. Uh look too. Uh now, the cool thing is you can put these I’m I’m kind of dumb, cuz I didn’t even do it, but what you can do uh and I should have done it, right? Which I didn’t do it, right? I take my cloak of scales, and I get rid of this stupid cloak this stupid thing. Look at that. Now, I gained a bunch of health points. You know, I don’t know why I wasn’t doing that. I just thought about it like literally right now. Uh but, there we go. Anub’Rekan D4 shadow knight necromancer shaman. If you got any questions or comments, let me know. We didn’t even need promise renewal. So, if it got if it got dirty, we would have needed it, right? Let’s take a look at my gear just to make sure, right? AA of like literally maxed AA out for what I want. Um I’m wearing an Obeline earring. That is from uh Unrest. Uh hate or no, uh oh Planar Planar are chest, arms Um belt from uh Fear Uh Planar, Planar, uh Efreeti Innoruuk Uh Planar, Planar, Innoruuk Nagafen, Innoruuk, Innoruuk, Innoruuk Innoruuk, Kazak’Thul or the minis. I was one of the two. And then same thing, Kazak’Thul or the minis, uh mini in Hate And what is this? This is I think Nagafen and then mini in Hate, right? So Uh definitely that. And I I don’t even have the improved damage damage three item cuz I am too lazy to spend the 30,000 platinum to go and level up jewelcrafting. To level like the leveling of it is is just like a why bother? I don’t need it. So, there we go. Uh that’s that. So, if you have any questions or comments, like I said, post them down below. If you like my content I do plan on continuing to make Legends content into release. There might be a like a lull coming up during July while we’re waiting for the the full release, but uh you know, I might do something else during that because I just don’t feel like leveling up a character that that’s going to get deleted, right? Like I just don’t feel like that is that is a pleasant experience in any possible way. But uh you know, we’ll see what happens uh when it gets to it. But if you have you know, if you like my content, subscribe and all that stuff. Thank Thank much for watching and please have a fantastic day.