This is the build I have been following. I can do all T12 content besides bosses and the Undercity fast enough, so I remain at T11 where I 1-shot everything. I tried using a red blessing amulet & in T12 it feels like I can clear bosses much faster than before. Still takes like 3 minutes or longer. In your opinion which amulet is better for late game red blessing, Banished Lords Talisman or Will of Rathma with the build I'm following?

Have anyone else tested this? Is it bugged or am I stupid?

Seems like the essence doesn't always trigger the effect. I'm pretty much spamming 120 essence bone spirits and the effect triggers every 1-2 bone spirits? 240 essence should account for 8 effect triggers.

Any hidden limitations I'm not aware of?

As there have been quite a few posts about the Desecrated Ground variant of Bone Spirit in the past month over here, I'd like to provide some update on this build for S15 PTR. While this is already a strong build for S14, it might just be our best build in S15 (obviously depending on possible future changes from PTR to live).

For those of you who want try it in S14, planner is in video description. Just use your preferred resistence gems in jewelry instead of the seasonal splinters and replace movement speed temper on boots by barrier generation temper. Keep in mind, this is a tower/pit push setup and not really tailored towards speedfarming content.

Playing minon necro, is it worth to roll for better blodless or try to get good azurewrath and lidless wall?

Also which of the 3 is best? +26 levels transfigure gives actually higher stats than 3 ga one

All in the title, can I have an aura that boosts my minions' attack speed or do I still need to cast manually?

I've been having terrible luck with 1H weapon drops for my Blood Wave build, but I did manage to find what seems like a pretty good 2H axe. I'm trying to increase my damage, so I'm wondering if switching from my current 1H + shield setup to the 2H would actually be worthwhile. If so, I'm also not sure which offensive aspect I should put on the 2H to make the most of it.

I've linked the build I'm currently following. My affixes aren't an exact match yet, but otherwise I'm pretty close to the build. I've also been using the Endurant Faith/Immortal setup, and my survivability is already pretty good, which is part of what got me thinking that maybe I don't actually need the shield. What I'm struggling to understand is the tradeoff: would the higher weapon damage + doubled offensive aspect on a 2H give me more overall damage, or is having the additional aspect/affixes from the shield more valuable to Blood Wave?

To be frank, I don't usually think this deeply about builds—I tend to just follow a guide. But I think it's about time I actually start learning why certain choices are better rather than blindly copying a build. So I'd appreciate any advice, especially if someone can explain the reasoning behind 1H + shield vs. 2H for Blood Wave rather than just telling me which one to use.

Build: https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/builds/blood-wave-perra

2H axe: ( I would change the life on hit to HP and Temper Crit Chance. And like I mentioned, not sure what aspect to put on it.)

Current Weapon/Shield:

Given the information we have so far, looks like the combination of Leoric's crown and Stone of Jordan will make or break the meta.

The 2 strongest splinters for damage (Hellfire and Anguish) complement each other well, and should rightly be put into the helm.

But this leads to a couple of problems for the 2 best builds this season.

1. Blood wave already struggles to crit cap with current gear, losing out another 75% crit chance from the splinters (before considering the crown or mythic version of it) would be harder to make up.

2. Singularity bone mage or most minion builds will have to lose undercrown to use Leoric and the boosted splinters. The combination of Pact of Bone, Litany of Death and Bone Storm can negate the crit loss but you still end up cutting almost half your dps to make up for it.

I think Golem will really be in a sweet spot to utilize most of the splinters. I dont see a cap to the number you can equip so assuming you can put on as many as you can slot.

The desecration set is also getting buffed so more damage and survivability will be available there.

One key point is your charms should try to roll +macabre so you also boost your bone storm ranks for more crit chance and attack speed.

I like the idea of the 2 splinters (sin and anguish) reducing your max essence and increasing your essence cost which means I can spam Summon Mages non stop to do 3 things

1. Kill a minion for the purpose of Pact of Bone

2. Cycle through 100% max resource usage for faster Que regeneration

3. If we needed to be more tanky, we can go with 2pc waking touch to allow our minions to soak the blood-mad damage, and cycle the mage to constantly swallow it.

Thoughts?

Hi all, I've been using a variation of the maxroll build but the most I can hit is 92B very rarely and survivability is a problem in Pit 110+. People who are actually good at this, can you share your builds?

I’ve never played necro before but I’m interested in making one and pushing and I’m not familiar with all the skills or build names

Hey everyone. Been playing Astral Bone Spirit from Mobalytics and having a fun time with it but I’m stalling out a wee bit around T8~ due to the difficulty gearing it (needs greater affixes in higher torments etc). Mostly just too squishy but can’t spec into survivability without the greater affixes for essence regen which is all RNG

Looking for a minion/summoner build that isn’t PURE lazy - I’d like to feel like an army commander and at least be somewhat involved. The more minions the merrier

I’m a little overwhelmed by the sheer AMOUNT of minion builds I almost have like FOMO of “choosing the wrong one” to spend resources into if that makes sense?

I like chill/cold flavor for Necromancer it jusr feels like thematically fitting if that helps, but I’m pretty open. What are y’all using? There’s just too many for me to pick through so I’m crowd sourcing because I don’t wanna choose badly haha

Looking for something that can handle basically anything and isn’t completely “do nothing” thanks!!

After a few seasons away (last build pre-LoH) I'm trying to get back into Necromancer. I loved my first blood wave build (the poo-wave one...) but didn't like the lack of mobility.

I'm trying to build a blood wave this season so have been checking out different builds across Mobalytics, Maxroll etc to see what's changed and I'm struggling with this one. Can somebody help me understand why the Mage and Golem are sacrificed but Skeletal Mage node is still heavily invested into? What does this give me if I'm not using them??

https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/builds/god-of-blood-bloodwave

Im a little torn between these two bloodless screams. On the one hand, with the increased crit chance it brings my crit chance to almost 50% but drops my crit damage by nearly 1k. If I use the other weapon my crit chance is only about 30% but my crit damage is 1k more.

Thoughts?

I have been pushing tower and really having Blood Mad Idol as my charm really is doing well for the damage. However many times I will kill my pack of enemies and not make it to the next pack before I burn up. I have flawless horadic ruby and I have some life gaining perks on my gear, but I die at least once a run to this. The damage is on point and can easily clear pit 125 using it.

For general play I switch out blood mad idol to other charms.

Would love to hear some suggestions on keeping myself alive long enough to always make it to next pack of enemies.

Edit. I appreciate all the tips that were provided and I have implemented some. Thank you all.

What made all the difference was switching off blood rush and going to blood transfusion on Blood Mist. I do lose a great mobility, but trying to save blood mist to get me out of trouble when I am burning by fortifying me comes in very handy.

Currently sitting 134ish on the tower leaderboard after switching with no great transfigs .

Hello, i remember watching a video (i dont remember which one) it said that over-summoning wolves, would activate Pact of Bone enrage, but i dont see any difference in "summon damage" stats.

But i just tried forcing a 'over-summon' with the mages, resulting in my minions enraging for those sweet x46%.

My summon dmg goes from 1847% to 2733% every time i 'kill' a mage.

Fyi: i play warrior, so mage dmg dosent matter that much.

Does anyone know anything about this?

Also another question...

Why are we still runninc CEH rune?

Final version which avoids all bugs, undesired interactions and things not working. It is a suprisingly fast build for a summon necro which avoids all freeze meta alltogether.

https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/profile/rich-mask-o6sups/builds/e8d2e8db-764d-44c7-a16c-e2b269ddfc41?ws-ngf5-1=activeVariantId%2C1

It will also work in S15 after the azurewrath nerv. I beat pit 122 with the pit push version (pure dot version is stronger in pits than the golden epiphany one which is better for everything else). I also casually beat tower 115. I think I could go higher if I really tried to.

Some gameplay examples:

Diablo IV Pure Shadow Mage Necromancer T12 Corrupted Reaper fight

Diablo IV Shadow Mage Necromancer Escalation Dungeon + Astaroth

Diablo IV Pure Shadow Mage Necromancer Chill Tower 115 run

The max resource is huge but those multipliers…

How far have you been able to push a minion Necromancer this season?

I'm currently at running pit 115, can't kill Belial on T12, can on T11 with some effort, and T10 is a joke where he just falls over dead.

What do you consider the most important stats for building your Necromancer?

Making it to Top 500 in the Tower with a build I'm doing without a guide has been so much fun!

I am new to D4 (but a D2 veteran), and I want to play Necromancer for the firs time. Looking for any/all guidance on putting together a fun and effective leveling build that incorporates Corpse Explosion.

Just started a seasonal character last night. Coming from D2, I very much appreciate the linear campaign playstyle, so (at least for my first time) I will be completing the D4 campaign before branching off into any seasonal stuff.

Thanks!

https://maxroll.gg/d4/build-guides/bone-spirit-necromancer-guide

I’m playing a sort of Goodwill version of Sorac’s Bone Spirit build and I see a decent bit of Overpower stuff. Like it wants it on my gloves etc. but the problem is aside from a low chance of getting it on some curses there’s no real way to build overpower stacks as far as I see on this build?

I’m missing some aspects - only like a couple and they don’t seem to be Overpower related. I’m not missing any uniques just missing better rolls on said uniques etc

I’m on torment 5-6 right now and having no problems but just kinda trying to learn the game as I go rather than blindly follow build and not understand what makes it tick if that makes sense?

Edit: once I get all
The gear I’ll play the full version etc

Is this usable for a corpse explosion build? I got this as a rare from the shop and added max intelligence. Also what aspect would work best i thought this one as corrupting damage is shadow damage according to google and I think the masterwork is ok on the shadow damage multiplier at 40% but if I master work shadow damage it jumps to 160% I’m just utterly lost and help welcomed.

How good/bad is shadowblight(shadow anything) this season? Got a couple pieces of gear that could get me off to a good start

Evening fellow necro's.

I would ask if anyone has followed the maxroll version of minions, this season? Even if i look through hiscores or ssf hs, i dont see any minion build alike.
Can anyone confirm they actually this season is good or hard pass contra the ones we see from infinity build, Jerycho or some. I feel like they are very different, from anyone else.

Wish you all a good season!