Because of the addition of many new Unique Items in Diablo 4 Season 5, players love to use Blood Surge Necromancer build introduced today. Not only is it strong in the late game, but it also has very reliable damage, making it one of the best AOE Necromancer builds.
But like all other builds, Blood Surge Necromancer build has its own strengths and weaknesses. You need to amplify its strengths and weaken its weaknesses by choosing items that match it. This guide will first introduce you to the strengths and weaknesses of Blood Surge Necromancer build, and then tell you what items to choose for it. You can copy the item list in this guide exactly, but the specific play style needs to be modified according to your own normal use.
Strengths And Weaknesses
Since Diablo 4 came into the limelight, Blood Surge Necromancer build has somehow been hovering in the upper echelons of the game, untouched by players. This is because of the powerful Overpower mechanic. Overpower means that each character can perform a more powerful attack, but Overpower damage prevents you from doing so.
Blood Surge is one of the few skills in the game with a built-in Overpower guarantee, which guarantees that you will perform at least one Overpower Attack every 5 times you cast your core skill, as long as you use Paranormal Blood Surge upgrade.
Fortunately, Cruor’s Embrace was added in Season 5, allowing Blood Surge Necromancer build to be touched and tried by players. Cruor’s Embrace will cause additional explosions by consuming corpses near you, and further amplifies the damage of Blood Surge.
This brings us to the first advantage of Blood Surge Necromancer build. It relies heavily on one Unique item and one Aspect, so your build will be very powerful with just these two. In addition, Blood Surge Necromancer build is also loved by players because of its extremely high survivability.
After talking about the pros, let's talk about the cons. Because of its super high spell damage and arcane damage, the corresponding mobility is relatively weak, and there is no skill that can slow down the enemy. This will put you at a disadvantage when facing some faster enemies.
Although Blood Surge Necromancer build can cause high range damage, the damage to a single target is very small. So you can use it when facing a group of enemies and switch to other builds when facing a single enemy.
By the way, there is a variant of Blood Surge Necromancer build that will allow you to cause more damage at once, but at the same time your damage multiplier and Damage Reduction will be sacrificed.
Required Items
The Book Of The Dead
Blood Surge Necromancer build can be used with Necromancer minions and Deathspeaker’s Pendant, which can be very effective in clearing out some enemies. However, in the minions-sacrificing variant, this build is more effective against endgame bosses.
Skeletons: Sacrificing Skeleton Skrimishers can gain 10% Critical Strike Chance
While Skeleton Warrior Sacrifice Bonuses is not the best choice in Blood Surge Necromancer build, the passive skills in Necromancer Skill Tree will incentivize sacrificing all minions or sacrificing no minions, so as a dispensable follower Skeletons, I put it first.
Mage: Sacrificing Bone Mages can increase Overpower Damage by 30%
Considering the other buffs stacked in Blood Surge Necromancer build, 30% is a very impressive number. So this is also the most ideal buff.
Golem: Sacrificing a Blood Golem grants an additional 15% of max health
After gaining the extra health, you can then increase the multiplier of Overpower damage by 30%. This allows you to take a character with higher health and higher damage into some boss fights.
Gems
For choosing gems in Blood Surge Necromancer build, your best bet is Rubies, as they work well in both armor sockets and weapon sockets. If you want to choose gems based on the fight you’re going to face, then you can choose gems that correspond to Element Specific Resistances.
Key And Optional Aspects
In Blood Surge Necromancer build, you can place 7-8 Aspects, depending on whether you use a one-handed or two-handed weapon. As I just said, the most lacking thing in this build is flexibility and mobility, so you can choose the following Aspects to reduce the impact of this weakness.
- Blood-Bathed Aspect
- Sacrificial Aspect
- Wildbolt Aspect
- Cadaverous Aspect
- Cursed Aura Aspect
- Embalmer’s Aspect
If you are running low on health or Essence during a fight, you can also swap out some of these Aspects for Aspect of Disobedience or Aspect of Potent Blood. This may allow you to recover more quickly.
Unique Items
As mentioned above, the most important Unique Item in this build is Cruor’s Embrace, which you can find on any enemies in World Tier 3 and above. Besides this, you will also receive Diablo 4 Gold, which can be used to upgrade the build.
This item is essential to maximize the potential of Blood Surge Necromancer build, so make sure you have it before you start building. Another very important Unique Item is Blood Moon Breeches, which are also dropped by any enemy World Tier 3 and above.
But the best way to get Cruor’s Embrace and Blood Moon Breeches is to challenge Echo of Lord Zir or Maiden of Anguish Andariel and their Tormented variants. In addition to these two Unique Items, there will be a lot of useful loot.
The above are the advantages and disadvantages of Blood Surge Necromancer build and how to choose items for it. I hope this guide can help you in your exploration of Diablo 4 Season of the Infernal Hordes. I wish you a happy game!
