Diablo 4‘s Necromancer class is back to raise the undead and take down minions from afar. We’ve put together the best Necromancer builds for leveling, endgame, and PvP in Season 4 to maximize your undead damage output.
The Necromancer has always been the most macabre class in Diablo, and that’s no different in Diablo 4. Like all the character classes in the game, such as the Barbarians and Sorcerers, the Necromancer is one that many long-time players already know and love. They can inflict damage from long-range and from up close with a range of bone and spirit spells, but the main draw of the best Necromancer builds in Diablo 4 is utilizing a horde of undead minions to deal death in their stead.
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The best Necromancer builds in Diablo 4 emphasize the careful management of a troop of Skeletal Warriors, Mages, and the Golem. The Skeletons and Golem do melee damage to enemies, while the Skeletal mages pelt demons with magic from afar. The Necromancers themselves have a lot of options when it comes to how they deal damage, relying on a mixture of spells and curses, as well as some nasty melee attacks.
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If you’re looking to become a custodian of the balance between life and death, here are some of the best Necromancer builds for leveling, endgame, and PvP to survive the legions of Hell in Diablo 4 Season 4.
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Basic skills are always available to use.Best Necromancer leveling build in Diablo 4
Currently, the best Necromancer build in the current Diablo 4 Season 4 meta is the Minion Necromancer, a build that makes use of the Sever skill to inflict most of its damage while also blowing up the many demon corpses you create to deal death upon death!
Here’s how to create the Sever Necro from scratch:
Book of the Dead
When it comes to using the Necromancer’s unique Book of the Dead skills, we recommend doing the following:
- Skeletal Warriors – Reapers
- Skeletal Mages – Cold
- Golems – Blood
This Book of the Dead setup is the best way to support your minion build, making it a minion-heavy style that also lets the Necromancer deal damage up close and from afar.
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Best Diablo 4 Druid builds for leveling, endgame & PvP in Season 4
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However, it relies less on the minions as you approach endgame, choosing to sacrifice some – this is entirely optional though. If you want to keep your minions around then go for it!
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Legendary Aspects
While there are many great Legendary Aspects in the Codex of Power that will help this build, there are three in particular that you need to prioritize. Here’s what they are and where to find them:
- Reanimation – (Aldurwood, Scosglen)
- Grasping Veins – (Corrupted Grotto, Kehjistan)
- Unyielding Commander’s – (Faceless Shrine, Hawezar)
- Blood-bathed – (Hoarfrost Demise, Fractured Peaks)
- Fastblood – (Iron Hold, Hawezar)
- Disobedience – (Halls of the Damned, Kehjistan)
Each one will essentially buff your damage in various ways and make your Necromancer build even more deadly.
We’d recommend not imprinting these Aspects on your weapons, as you’re likely to replace these many times on your Leveling journey. Instead, add offensive Aspects to your jewelry, this way, it can continue to serve you well into endgame.
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Best Necromancer endgame build in Diablo 4
Once you get past level 50 and have seen the ending of Diablo 4, things change as you’re launched into the endgame. This means the build you used to reach this point may no longer be sufficient. To really make the most of the endgame content, you’ll need an endgame build.
Remember, if you want to switch from the above leveling build to the below endgame build, you’ll need to respec your skill points. Luckily, you’ll have all your points ready to go, but below is our recommended order of assignment to craft the build.
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Here’s the best endgame Necromancer build in Diablo 4 currently – the Bone Spirit Necromancer.
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Book of the Dead
As this build has little need for minions and makes use of passives that buff solo Necromancers, we’d recommend sacrificing each minion for the various bonuses that it provides. Of course, if you don’t want to roll solo, then the Leveling Build also works in endgame.
Paragon Board
At level 50 you’ll gain access to the Paragon Board to continue building your character to level 100. Here are the boards you need to focus on to maximize the potential of the best endgame Necromancer build:
- Starting board
- Bone Graft board
- Scent of Death board
- Flesh Eater board
Glyphs
Here are the Glyphs we’d recommend activating as your work through the Paragon board:
At Level 15:
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- Amplify
- Essence
- Sacrificial
- Corporeal
- Control
- Territorial
- Scourge
Level 21
- Essence
- Control
- Territorial
- Corporeal
- Sacrificial
- Amplify
- Scourge
Legendary Aspects
As this is an endgame build, it pays to unlock as many Legendary Aspects for the class as possible. Try to unlock the following Aspects as soon as possible in Season 3 to take advantage of their buffs, as each will have its own use within an endgame build:
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- Swelling Curse – (Hive, Scosglen)
- Grasping Veins – (Corrupted Grotto, Kehjistan)
- Torment – (Black Asylum, Fractured Peaks)
- Umbral – (Champion’s Demise, Dry Steppes)
- Might – (Dark Ravine, Dry Steppes)
- Disobedience – (Halls of the Damned, Kehjistan)
- Edgemaster’s – (Oldstones, Scosglen)
- Ghostwalker – (Broken Bulwark, Scosglen)
- Plunging Darkness – (Rimescar Cavern, Fractured Peaks)
The following Legendary Aspects can be located by farming Dungeons, Helltides, Tree of Whispers, or gambling Obols:
- Serration
- Hardened Bones
- Shielding Storm
- Void – Gamble Helm
- Shattered Spirit’s
- Slaughter
Best Necromancer Endgame item build
Here are the items you should aim to equip for your endgame Necromancer build in Diablo 4:
Best Necromancer PvP build
Interestingly, the best PvP Necromancer build in Diablo 4 Season 4 (in the current meta) is also the Bone Spirit Necromancer. To make the best possible Necromancer for player-on-player battles in Diablo 4, craft the Endgame build above, complete with items and Paragon information.
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That wraps up everything we know about the best Necromancer build in Diablo 4. If anything changes, we’ll be sure to update our build. So, do check back regularly.
Don’t forget, Diablo 4 currently has five classes, including the Barbarian, Necromancer, Druid, Rogue, Sorcerer as well as our Diablo 4 tier list ranking all the builds this season.
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