Among the many playstyles in Diablo 4, Necromancer summoner build has always held a place. Today, we're showcasing a build that pushes summoning to its limits - a single golem can deal hundreds of billions, even trillions, of damage with basic attacks. Even more impressively, this build successfully cleared Pit 115 in Season 14 without a single piece of Mythic gear.

Core Gameplay Strategy

First, many might ask why not use triple golems?

The first reason is cooldown. While each triple golem deals considerable damage, their active skill cooldowns don't reset quickly, preventing frequent use of burst skills.

The second reason is the synergy with Bone Storm. When you activate Bone Storm, it simultaneously surrounds you and all your golems. If you only have one golem on the field, that's two Bone Storms; but if you have a triple golem, there will be four Bone Storms on the field simultaneously.

The maximum number of Bone Storms in Diablo 4 is four, so once your Bone Storm's duration ends, it disappears. Therefore, the advantage of a single golem is that you can achieve infinite Bone Storms, allowing it to persist anywhere on the map.

Why are infinite Bone Storms so important? Because they continuously provide a 120% critical hit damage bonus, an independent multiplicative bonus with terrifying benefits. Furthermore, a single golem helps you maintain an Unstoppable state.

The practical combo is very simple: first, activate Bone Storm to ensure survival, then use Blight to gather enemies together, and finally press the golem's active burst skill - you'll see the golem leap into the enemy group, instantly dealing 2 trillion or 3 trillion damage. When traveling, use Sever to increase movement speed; the golem will automatically fly in from behind and detonate everything again. The only thing you need to be mindful of is maintaining the 6-stack damage buff from Crown of Lucian - this requires regular use of your core abilities to sustain.

Skill Setup

Golem

Golem is the absolute core of this build. We chose Iron Golem, which adds a shockwave with each attack, providing considerable AoE damage.

Aspect of Fel Gluttonyis is one of the offensive aspects for the Necromancer in Diablo 4. It causes Golem's active ability to explode, dealing damage to surrounding enemies. Golem also consumes Corpse to reduce the cooldown of its active ability. This means that as long as you continuously generate Corpse, you can frequently use Golem to create explosions.

Support Skills

• Skeleton Mages and Skeleton Warriors: Although we sacrificed them in Book of the Dead for passive bonuses, we will still retain a small number of Mages and Warriors as support. Mages provide Critical Strike Chance and Ferocity stacks, while Warriors provide healing and Resolve.
• Sever: Primarily increases movement speed, while also reducing mana cost and generating an additional Corpse effect.
• Blight: Gathers monsters and has a higher chance of a Lucky Hit.
• Curses: Carries both Iron Maiden and Decrepify. Decrepify provides cooldown reduction and Resolve, and also generates Blood Orb for healing; Iron Maiden executes enemies and provides Fortify, while also inflicting the Vulnerable status. Note that these two curses do not need to be placed in the Diablo 4 skill bar - they are automatically cast via Blood Moon Breaches.
• Bone Storm: Provides a barrier, and its duration is extended by consuming corpses.

Charm Set

This build's damage output heavily relies on Peace of the Black Shroud Set, which converts 75% of the damage from our Darkness Skills into additional Corrupting or Frostbite damage over time (DOT) for 30 seconds. This means that if a golem deals 5 trillion damage in a single hit, 75% (3.75 trillion) will become DOT, stacking on the boss. This is why this build can deal hundreds of billions of DOT per second when fighting bosses.

Core Gear

Helm: Crown of Lucion

Its effect is to grant a 10-15% damage increase each time a resource-consuming skill is used, stacking up to 5 times, but also increasing resource consumption by 30%.

Weapon: Mace of King Leoric

You can obtain the Mace of King Leoric by summoning and defeating The Butcher. Its effect is that every 8 seconds, the golem consumes a Skeleton Mages or Skeleton Warriors, restoring full health and gaining a 70-80% damage increase for 10 seconds.

Pants: Blood Moon Breeches

Dropped from Asteroth in the escalating nightmare dungeon of Diablo 4, these provide 60% increased fire damage and auto-cast curses, along with a critical strike damage affix.

Rings: Attack Speed First

Both rings are recommended to stack attack speed, aiming to maximize the attack speed of the golem. Since the summoner class usually selects the Cult Leader node, and because it provides a 40% damage increase for every 20% attack speed, 100% attack speed is equivalent to 200% increased damage. However, this may require some time and Diablo 4 gold to roll the desired attack speed affix.

Advanced Improvement Directions

While this build can already clear Pit 115, there is still considerable room for improvement:

• Mythic Gear: Although the previously accepted gear only includes one Unique piece, Mythic gear such as the Crown of Lucion and Mace of King Leoric can provide an additional 100% damage bonus, theoretically pushing the potential to Pit 120 or 130.
• Affix Optimization: To better prepare for Endgame, the Intelligence affix on the gloves can be replaced with Vulnerable Damage; the All Damage affix on the rings can also be replaced with Vulnerable Damage; and Greater Affix should be upgraded to the max-roll version.
• Rune Level: Runes can be upgraded to level 100 or higher to further amplify damage.

This one golem Necromancer build doesn't require complex controls or a full set of Mythic gear. With just one Charm Set and a unique weapon, it can deal astonishing damage. If you're tired of the passive, stand-and-watch playstyle of traditional Diablo 4 summoners, it's definitely worth a try in the new season.

The allure of Mythic Uniques in Diablo 4 Season 14 is strong, yet the farming process can be nauseating. No one wants to take an entire day in boss rooms only to end up with a pile of useless gear.

In Season 14, every player desperately needs an efficient Mythic farming strategy. One of the most effective methods from Season 13 was Kurast Undercity Mythic Tribute runs.

Kurast Undercity Mythic Uniques Farming

In Diablo 4 Season 13, Kurast Undercity was once the most effective method for farming Mythic items. At higher difficulties, such as Torment 12, using Mythic Tribute of Armaments almost guaranteed a Mythic drop.

In Season 14, the developers have stated that the situation in Season 13 was an error and has now been fixed; it simply gives you a higher chance of obtaining Mythic Unique items.

Its rewards have indeed been significantly reduced, but even so, it still offers a decent drop rate for Mythic items. As long as you use Mythic Tribute of Armaments, you can expect a Mythic item roughly every two or three runs.

Another advantage of Kurast Undercity is that after placing the tribute, you can expend additional materials to further refine the reward pool. This ensures that the dropped items will match your class, narrowing the range and making it highly likely that any Mythic item that drops will be useful to you.

However, Mythic Tribute of Armaments is not a common drop, so players find it difficult to farm Kurast Undercity continuously. It is therefore best to stockpile regular tributes first and only use them when you team up with other players who also have Mythic Tributes.

How to Obtain Mythic Tribute of Armaments?

Mythic Tribute of Armaments has a very low drop chance from world bosses. Additionally, there is a tiny probability when opening Greater Dungeon Key Caches, but these are clearly not reliable sources. The most stable way is through Horadric Cube crafting.

Horadric Cube Crafting

Kurast Undercity offers rewards based on the tribute you place, such as runes, masterworking materials, and so on. To craft Diablo 4 Mythic Tribute of Armaments, you will need to prepare Tribute of Armaments and Greater Tribute of Armaments as materials.

You can use Amalgamate recipe in Horadric Cube to combine 5 tributes of the same type into one higher-quality version. By doing so, you can gradually upgrade Tribute of Armaments all the way to a Mythic Tribute of Armaments. In other words, 25 Tribute of Armaments can be combined into one Mythic Tribute.

Tribute of Armaments

Unfortunately, there is no way to craft the base Tribute of Armaments; you can only obtain it through farming. Also, before you start farming, make sure you have completed the prerequisite quest line for Kurast Undercity in Vessel of Hatred; otherwise, no tributes will appear in the world.

Tribute of Armaments drops from many sources, including Tree of Whispers Caches, World Boss rewards, Helltide chests, dungeons, lair bosses, and others, all of which have a chance to drop them.

In War Plans skill tree, unlocking Idols of War node increases the drop rate of Ancestral Tributes of Armaments. While this specifically targets the higher-tier version, it effectively boosts the total number of Tributes you acquire.

Since drops are random, the most effective strategy is to participate in the aforementioned activities as much as possible. Stay active, and your Tributes will naturally accumulate.

How to Run Undercity Mythic Tribute Runs?

The Undercity Tree

Before consuming your precious Mythic Tribute, be sure to complete War Plans for Kurast Undercity and level The Undercity Tree to tier four. Then select the left path and activate the following nodes:

• Endless Swarm
• Unfortunate Souls
• Gutter Filth
• Trials and Tributes

Among these, Gutter Filth is the most important, as it causes Portal Pranksters to occasionally appear when you activate beacons. Trials and Tributes, in turn, grants an extra tributeopened chest for each Portal Prankster you kill, thereby bringing more opportunities to obtain Mythic items.

Team Up

It is advisable to farm together with friends. Pool everyone's tributes together, form a four-player group, and run repeatedly at the highest torment difficulty you can manage.

Once inside the dungeon, the difficulty Increased effect adds +4 levels to monsters, and the initial time limit is only 45 seconds. Make sure your character is strong enough and do not underestimate the enemy's power.

A duo team is more efficient, since one player can handle clearing Portal Pranksters while the other focuses on extending the timer; solo challenges carry greater risk.

You can bring Mercenaries along, though be aware they might aggro enemies before you are ready. If the time limit feels too tight at the current difficulty, lowering the setting may actually result in better efficiency.

That covers all the information for Undercity Mythic Tribute runs in Diablo 4 Season of Death Awakening. Check how many Tribute of Armaments you have collected, combine them, and then team up with your friends to start farming.

Since Diablo 4 Season 14 has just kicked off, players are racing to upgrade their gear, and the biggest talking point is undoubtedly Unique items and the process of transforming them into Mythic Unique variants.

Yet before chasing that final perfect setup, the first priority is getting a working build off the ground. You need to secure the core Uniques for your chosen playstyle - preferably in their Ancestral quality - and then reroll their affixes repeatedly until the stats line up just right. Below are all the reliable ways to obtain Uniques during Season of Death Awakening.

Lair Bosses

For targeted farming of a specific Unique, Lair Bosses are your best bet. Unless you are after a generic Unique that drops from multiple sources, most class-specific Uniques are tied to a particular Lair Boss. The routine is straightforward: kill the boss, open the reward chest, reset the instance, and repeat until the item you need finally appears.

Belial

Belial has seen a major overhaul in Season 14.Betrayer's Husk has been removed and replaced by Superior Lair Keys. These keys now open not only Belial's chest but also the chest of Corrupted Reaper.

Corrupted Reaper

Although Corrupted Reaper boasts the highest drop rate for Mythic items in Season 14, its loot pool is extremely cluttered, containing gear from various different bosses.

Consequently, if you are hunting for one specific Unique, Corrupted Reaper proves very inefficient; Belial's rewards, on the other hand, let you pick a focused pool, giving you far better target control.

How to Obtain Lair Boss Keys?

To claim boss rewards after a successful encounter, you will need Initiate, Greater, and Superior Lair Keys.

Initiate Lair Keys

Initiate Lair Boss Keys have numerous steady sources in Season 14:

• Completing War Plans
• Helltide chests
• Tree of Whispers caches
• Kurast Undercity runs
• World Boss kills
• Legion Events

Greater Lair Keys

Aside from War Plans rewards, the primary source of Greater Lair Keys is defeating Initiate Lair Bosses, such as Lord Zir, Beast in the Ice, etc.

Superior Lair Keys

Season 14 reward track includes some Superior Lair Keys, which you receive upon reaching certain ranks, but that method is not sustainable.

A more repeatable source is farming Lair Bosses until you trigger Belial's Apparition Incursions I event; defeating that encounter drops Superior Lair Keys. Additionally, Season 14 Deathtoll Chamber offers another way to acquire these keys.

War Plans

Within War Plans system, certain nodes let you trigger extra boss fights during your Lair Boss runs without consuming additional Lair Boss Keys - essentially multiplying your loot.

The nodes Two by Two, Great Nemesis, and Ultimate Nemesis each introduce sequential boss battles when activated; completing all three will bury you in rewards.

However, Ultimate Nemesis requires Superior Lair Keys, so you may want to enable it only when you are focused on Mythic Unique farming. Later, consider unlocking Lair of Runes and Lair of Plenty, which increase monster difficulty but also boost the value of drops.

Other optional nodes like Grigoire's Gambit allow you to trigger that boss's encounter within Helltide and obtain its specific loot, and similar choices exist for other bosses.

Horadric Cube

Enhanced Primordial Dust

Aside from boss farming, you can also craft Diablo 4 Unique items directly through Horadric Cube. Using Enhanced Primordial Dust, you can convert a normal-quality item into a random Unique of the same item type. This dust is obtainable from War Plans, Tree of Whispers rewards, regular monsters, higher Torment tiers, and dungeons.

Rerolling via Recycling

Suppose you have three copies of the same Unique, but each has terrible affixes and a poor special effect. Instead of salvaging or discarding them, you can combine all three in Cube to produce a brand-new copy of that same item with rerolled stats.

World Sources

Beyond targeted boss runs and Cube crafting, the following open-world activities are also solid sources of Uniques:

• World Bosses: They spawn on a timer and have a decent chance to drop Ancestral, Legendary, and Unique items.
• Treasure Goblins: With good fortune - especially when you encounter a pack of them - the payoff can be substantial.
• Tree of Whispers Caches: Turning in bounties yields caches with a respectable Unique drop rate; the chance increases as you climb higher Torment difficulties.

Kurast Undercity

Tributes of Armaments come in three qualities. In the official Season 14 patch notes, the guaranteed Mythic drop from Mythic Tribute of Armaments has been fixed, meaning it is no longer a reliable source for Mythic items. Nevertheless, for Uniques themselves, Kurast Undercity remains an excellent farming ground.

Reputation Rewards

Reputation Rewards offer another outstanding source of Uniques. Beyond the regular progression rewards, Mystery Greater Archetype Cache consistently yields Ancestral items, Legendaries, and a fair number of Uniques. Remember to claim these caches at the highest Torment level available to maximize the reward quality.

Infernal Hordes

Infernal Hordes have seen an increased Unique drop rate in Season 14. Moreover, the equipment chest at the final reward stage guarantees Ancestral gear when you are running sufficiently high Torment levels, and it also features a dedicated Unique pool from Bartuc.

Escalating Nightmares

Escalating Nightmares receive significantly boosted drop rates for Ancestral items, gems, and all other loot in Season 14. Acquiring Escalation Sigils is also quite simple: just convert five Nightmare Dungeon sigils in Cube, and you will consistently obtain one Escalation Sigil.

There are numerous ways to obtain Uniques in Diablo 4, but securing the specific item you need with the right affixes still takes a fair amount of luck. You can combine multiple methods - for instance, take the surplus Uniques from Lair Boss runs and feed them into Horadric Cube for recycling and rerolling, thereby increasing your chances of landing your target piece.

Since the release of Diablo 4 Season 14, observant players may have noticed that Betrayer's Husk from Season 13, while still present, has been transformed into Superior Lair Key.

Whether considering the difficulty of obtaining it or its value, Superior Lair Key is a highly sought-after item that players want to acquire as quickly as possible. Especially now that we are in the early stages of Season 14, if you can farm Superior Lair Key early on, you may be able to obtain rewards in Diablo 4 that other players do not have.

What is Superior Lair Key now?

Diablo 4 Patch 3.1 details that Superior Lair Key is a renamed version of Betrayer's Husk, as Season 14 introduces new Seasonal Lair Bosses besides Belial.

This means Superior Lair Key can now be used to open the chests of all high-level Lair Bosses, making it even more strategically valuable in Diablo 4 than Betrayer's Husk.

However, we don't need to worry about the previous method of farming Betrayer's Husk being obsolete in Season 14. All previous methods of obtaining Betrayer's Husk will be replaced by the new Superior Lair Key in Season 14.

How to farm Superior Lair Key?

Although the name has changed, the farming rules for Superior Lair Key still inherit the old drop logic, and Season 14's mechanics provide a more stable source for this tempting key.

Belial Encounters

If you're a veteran Diablo 4 player, you'll know that Belial encounters are the classic way to obtain Superior Lair Keys, although this method always involves an element of luck.

Belial still has a chance to ambush us after we open a regular Lair Boss's Hoard chest, but whether this acquisition method will trigger Belial is still unknown; we won't encounter Belial every time we open a chest.

Second, if you're playing in a group, even if you're lucky enough to encounter Belial, Superior Lair Key it drops will only belong to the person who opens the chest; other teammates cannot share it.

Furthermore, to obtain Superior Lair Key from a Belial encounter, you must go to Palace of the Deceiver in Amber Sands, and there are specific Torment difficulties and a level 78 requirement - some very rigid restrictions.

However, before Diablo 4 Season 14, this was the only way to obtain Betrayer's Husk, now Superior Lair Key, forcing players to repeatedly farm low-tier Lair Bosses to increase their chances of encountering Belial.

Now in Season 14, this method still works, but it can only be considered an extra bonus during your daily dungeon runs and cannot support the high-intensity farming needs of endgame content.

Deathtoll Chamber

Deathtoll Chamber, introduced in Season 14, is widely considered the best way to farm Superior Lair Keys because it completely eliminates randomness, emphasizing player actions to determine the final loot.

Unlocking Deathtoll Chamber

To unlock Deathtoll Chamber, we must allow Pandemonium Ruptures to generate opportunities to challenge Realmwalkers, thus obtaining a portal to Deathtoll Chamber.

Surging Ruptures are medium-sized; completing them and achieving Mastery gives a chance to encounter a Realmwalker.

Especially during Helltide, intentionally farming Surging Ruptures and ensuring Mastery is the most efficient way to encounter Realmwalkers.

Colossal Ruptures, on the other hand, are the most cost-effective of the three types of Pandemonium Ruptures. They only appear in Fields of Desecration, the same location as World Boss Arena.

Once we complete Colossal Ruptures, we'll have a 100% chance to challenge Realmwalkers.

Then, it's time to work your way up and defeat Realmwalkers, which is nothing compared to obtaining the portal to Deathtoll Chamber.

Farming inside Deathtoll Chamber

Deathtoll Chamber is a single-room mini-dungeon that requires strategic gameplay, not a place where you can just stand and attack.

A new monster family, The Risen, will roam Deathtoll Chamber, and Gravehounds within will drop floating energy orbs when defeated.

If you ignore these energy orbs, they will be slowly absorbed by the elite monster Exarch, making the fight more difficult and significantly reducing the loot.

Therefore, someone on your team must be specifically tasked with intercepting the energy orbs in their flight.

The more times you successfully intercept them, the more Superior Lair Keys you'll obtain.

A well-managed team might yield the equivalent of ten Belial encounters in a single Deathtoll Chamber run, while a careless team might get nothing.

Useful Tips

First, it's best to progress to Torment difficulty in Diablo 4 Season 14 as early as possible to meet the requirements for obtaining Superior Lair Keys.

Of course, reaching Torment difficulty, especially for beginners, requires a lot of effort and planning. If you can't reach this threshold, you can buy Diablo 4 Superior Lair Key from D4GOLD.com, which can be used directly to open chests from high-level Lair Bosses.

Additionally, while you can stack your keys in your inventory, as you farm larger quantities, it's recommended to create a separate storage for Superior Lair Keys. The one-time consumption is significant, so don't wait until you only have two or three left before farming more.

In short, Superior Lair Key is one of the key items that can help you progress quickly through Diablo 4 Season 14. Instead of relying on the random rewards of the old Belial, focus your efforts on Deathtoll Chamber. At the start of the season, whoever masters Superior Lair Key will be the first to unlock Mythic gear!