Whether you’re creating a character in the Seasonal or Eternal realm, the Necromancer is extremely destructive and a wonderfully grotesque character to develop. As you command the forces of the undead, you will bend death to your will, summoning corpses, monstrosities, and evil weapons.
Here we have three very simple and common Necromancer builds for you to work through or use elements of as a framework for a more experimental build.
Exploding Corpse Summoner build
What’s better than manipulating corpses to your will? Why would you naturally detonate them to trigger excellent AoE damage? The Exploding Corpse Necromancer build optimizes a self-destructing army of the dead at your command.
Exploding Corpse Necromancer: Levels 1-15
- Bone Shards > Improved Bone Shards > Initiate’s Bone Shards
- Plague > Enhanced Plague > Supernatural Plague
- Skeleton Warrior Mastery
- Corpse Blast > Improved Corpse Blast > Infested Corpse Blast
- Corpse Vines > Improved Corpse Vines > Plagued Corpse Vines
For your last two skill points on the way to level 15, max out Skeletal Warrior Mastery to 3/3 ranks.
Exploding Corpse Necromancer: Levels 16-50
- Inanimate Energy > Imperfectly Balanced > Mauled Flesh
- Harvest > Improved Harvest > Acolyte’s Harvest
- Army of the Dead > First Army of the Dead > Supreme Army of the Dead
- Reaper’s Pursuit > Crippling Darkness > Terror > Darkness
- Necrotic Shell
- Grim Harvest > Driven by Death
- Inspirational Leader > Defense of Death
- shadow rot
- Skeleton Mage Championship
As you approach level 50, consider the following list of skills that will help you maximize your ranks.
- rot
- Imperfectly balanced and trimmed flesh
- Corpse Blast: Skeleton Warrior Championship, Grim Harvest, and Fueled By Death
- Terror, darkness and necrotic armor
- defense of death
Summoner Necromancer Build
What if you love summoning undead but want to keep them close to you? You know, as friends. Friends who can help you on your way to absolute devastation. The Summoner Necromancer build focuses on getting the most out of your summoned skeletons and keeping them on the battlefield with you and your party as you rampage through hordes of demons.
Summoner Necromancer: Levels 1-15
- Improved Bone Shards > Improved Bone Shards > Initiate’s Bone Shards
- Sever > Advanced Sever > Supernatural Sever
- Inanimate Energy > Imperfectly Balanced > Mauled Flesh
- Corpse Blast > Improved Corpse Blast > Infested Corpse Blast
- Skeleton Warrior Mastery > Grim Harvest > Driven by Death
Summoner Necromancer: Levels 16-50
- Harvest > Improved Harvest > Acolyte’s Harvest
- Corpse Vines > Improved Corpse Vines > Plagued Corpse Vines
- Reaper’s Pursuit > Crippling Darkness > Terror > Darkness
- shadow rot
- Golem Mastery > Inspirational Leader
- Skeleton Mage Championship
On your way to level 50, consider increasing your ranks in the following skills:
- Separate
- corpse explosion
- Imperfectly balanced and trimmed flesh
- Skeleton Warriors Championship, Grim Harvest, Fueled by Death
- terror and darkness
Bone Spear Necromancer Build
If your calling to the cursed arts of necromancy is to summon weapons made from the remains of the dead, the Bone Spear Necromancer build is for you. This is where you tweak a build to get the most out of the Bone Spear skill, with both Puncture and Shrapnel damage.
Bone Spear Necromancer: Levels 1-15
- Bone Shards > Improved Bone Shards > Acolyte’s Bone Shards
- Bone Spear > Improved Bone Spear > Supernatural Bone Spear
- blood mist
- Hewn Flesh
- Corpse Blast > Improved Corpse Blast > Infested Corpse Blast
- Grim Harvest
- Corpse Vines > Improved Corpse Vines > Plagued Corpse Vines
Bone Spear Necromancer: Levels 16-50
- Driven by death
- Serration > Compound Fracture > Evulsion
- Inanimate Energy > Imperfectly Balanced > Mauled Flesh
- Bone Storm > Prime Bone Storm > Ultimate Bone Storm
- Stand alone > memento mori
- Ossified Essence
On your way to level 50, consider these skills to maximize ranks.
- bone spear
- Lifeless energy, imperfectly balanced, chopped flesh
- corpse explosion
- Grim Harvest and Fueled by Death
- reach of death
- Serration, compound fracture and evulsion
- Stand alone, memento mori
The necromancer stood out early on Diablo IVLife is a special kind of lethality to be controlled. While The latest Season 1 patch has complicated some of the game’s metasthe Necromancer remains a great class, and these builds lay the groundwork for a solid character that can take on endgame challenges.
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