From an aesthetic point of view, Necromancer may be the most in line with the game style of all Diablo 4 classes: gloom, death and decay. In fact, this class also brings wonderful combat performance based on fully reflecting this style.
In the previous seasons, several blood-dominated Necromancer builds became popular and became mainstream, such as Blood Bone Spear, Blood Lance and more. Of course, they are still viable in Season 8, but I don’t know if you still remember Minion Endgame Build.
In addition to the available skills, Necromancer can also summon the army of the undead or golems to clear enemies through the class-exclusive mechanism Book of the Dead, and you can even further upgrade them. Minion Necromancer Endgame Build was born based on this.
Next, we will introduce to you how to make this build easier to utilize and increase the speed of clearing enemies after entering Season 8. Let’s take a look!
Build Overview - Pros & Cons
This build provides you with multiple damage multipliers and sources of sustained damage in combat, allowing you to farm Diablo 4 gold or other more valuable items in difficult endgame dungeons such as The Pit or Kurast Undercity.
This is primarily because the build can deal more damage to enemies through Blight, Skeletal Warrior Mastery, and Skeletal Mage Mastery, and then continue to increase the damage by upgrading Hellbent Commander and matching the right gear.
In terms of survivability, different skills can be used in different ways, such as:
- Blood Mist: Provides immunity and healing effects.
- Necrotic Carapace: Provides Fortify when you or your minions deal damage.
- Soulrift: Provides a short barrier effect by reducing the cooldown of the ultimate skill.
- Corpse Tendrils: Enemies affected by this skill are stunned and cannot damage you for the duration of the stun.
As for weaknesses, the main one is that since this build is an endgame build, it may only work in the late game and will not help you level up your character much. Other shortcomings include:
- No Golem: May weaken your tankiness, healing, and control effects.
- Some available items do not include maximum health or armor.
- Lack of Cursed Aura or Curse skill (can be compensated by Blood Moon Breeches)
Best Skills And Rotation
In addition to the available skills that have been introduced to you, this build needs to further combine more Necromancer skills and rotate them in a fixed order to maximize the effect of all skills. The best rotation order is as follows:
- 1. Attack the enemy with Blight while commanding your minions to continue attacking.
- 2. After the enemy corpse appears, activate Corpse Tendrils to pull multiple enemies to the corpse to stun other enemies. After that, the minions will randomly spread curses for you, slowing down and stunning the enemy.
- 3. Activate the ultimate skill Soulrift to damage the enemy and gain a temporary barrier.
- 4. When more corpses appear in the arena, release Raise Skeleton 5 times to summon a Skeletal Priest to enhance the attack power of you and your minions.
- 5. Get a temporary damage multiplier bonus through Flesh-eater.
- 6. Cast Reap once every 4 seconds to maintain the damage reduction effect, while also applying vulnerability to the enemy.
It is worth noting that when attacking an enemy through Reap, if the enemy dies, you will continue to gain the attack speed bonus, and even your minions can inherit the bonus from your attributes, causing more damage in combat.
How To Utilize Book Of The Dead?
This mechanic allows you to summon 3 types of minions, namely Skeletal Warriors, Skeletal Mages, and Golems, and each has 3 specializations, namely:
- Skeletal Warriors: Skirmishers, Defenders, or Reapers.
- Skeletal Mages: Shadow Mages, Cold Mages or Bone Mages.
- Golem: Bone Golems, Blood Golems or Iron Golems.
The best Book of the Dead utilize plan for Minion Necromancer Endgame Build is:
- Add an additional Skirmisher
- Each additional Shadow Mage can get 3% damage bonus
- Sacrifice Golem to gain critical damage multiplier
Skirmisher can be combined with Ring of Mendeln to provide more damage, and Skeletal Priests and Blood Orbs can not only heal your minions, but also prolong the survival time of Shadow Mages.
Best Gear
The main purpose of all the gear you need to add to this build involves maximizing the damage of your minions, as well as all sources of sustained damage, including:
- Helm: Heir of Perdition (+ Lucky Hit Chance & Critical Strike Chance)
- Chest: Shroud of False Death (+ All Stats & Maximum Health)
- Gloves: Aspect of Reanimation (+ Skeletal Mage Mastery & Intelligence & Armor)
- Pants: Blood Moon Breeches (+ Hellbent Commander & Critical Strike Chance)
- Boots: Blood Getter’s Aspect (+ Skeletal Warrior Mastery & Intelligence & Soulrift Duration)
- Amulet: Aspect of Occult Dominion (+ Hellbent Commander & Coalesced Blood & Intelligence)
- Ring 1: Aspect of the Great Feast (+ Intelligence & Attack Speed & Summon Damage)
- Ring 2: Ring of Mendeln (+ Skeletal Mastery & Intelligence & Summon Attack Speed)
- Main Hand: The Grandfather (+ All Stats & Maximum Life & Maximum Resource)
Best Boss Powers
As a feature of this season, boss power is worth adding to all builds. You can carry one main power and three modifier powers for each battle. For Minion Endgame, the most suitable boss power is:
- Main: Lord Zir’s Blood Pool
- Modifier: Beastmaster’s Training
- Modifier: Wandering Death’s Chest Beam
- Modifier: Harbinger of Hatred’s Volley
The above is the combination and utilization method to make Minion Necromancer Endgame Build more powerful in Diablo 4 Season 8. If you need it, you can log in to the game to try it. Thank you for reading.
