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NecromancerThe Minion Necromancer is a very powerful endgame build in Diablo 4. Combining the power of Darkness Minions and 
Bloodless Scream allows you to sit back and watch your Army hit for insane amounts of damage while they await their demise in a frozen state. This build performs very well even without Bloodless Scream but reaches it's true power once you acquire this unique weapon.
If you enjoy a very tanky passive playstyle that can decimate all content in the game, this is the build for you.
Once you hit 70 the priority is to get as many of these powerful Aspects on your character and switch up your Skills and Book of the Dead a bit. Once you have most of this build filled out you're well prepared for a transition to the Unique Items for a massive power spike.
Skeletal Warriors Take the 2nd node in Reaper for 50% increased Damage.
Skeletal Mages Take the 2nd node in Shadow for the Barrier.
Golem Take the 3rd Node in the Iron Tree for the 15% X Critical Strike Damage.
Later on when you have around 50% Critical Strike Chance on your gear Critical Hit Damage becomes the preferred Temper. For now on your early gear it's unlikely you'll have even remotely close to enough Critical Hit to make this valuable. Temper your offensive items with Summon Damage, Darkness, Shadow or just All Damage, whichever Temper Manual lets you get the most.
Bac + 
Gar gives you a consistent 10% increased Critical Hit Chance. You can also use the much cheaper Cir until you have a truly godly helm to use a Bac rune in.
Nagu + Que grants you an 
Earthen Bulwark. Using the Nagu makes it cast almost instantly the moment it falls off.
Get the full 
Berú of the Black Shroud Set, remember you can re-roll Set Charms you have duplicates of in the Horadric Cube.
If you find a Seal with +1 Charm Slot make sure to use it if you have a good Unique Charm to put in there.
Endurant Faith is great to make you practically immortal.The Undercrown can be put in here to keep another Defensive Aspect on your character, or when you want to put on a 
Harlequin Crest or 
Heir of Perdition.Azurewrath is godly for speed clearing.Omen of Pain is nice until you find 
Blood Moon Breeches. Once you obtain either of these Charms or Items you'll want to pull up the Skill Tree in the Unique Tab and pick up Both Curses and their Passives.
0 (0)Use Decrepify to get the damage bonus from 
Aspect of Amplified Damage and 
Movement Speed Decrepify.
You're putting points into 
Blood Mist for pushing higher into the Pit or for Lair Bosses. Before getting 
Ferocity and Overpower Iron Maiden Blood Mist will be your only source of Overpower to get the bonus from your 
Dominate Glyph. If you're not using Blood Mist at all early on Level up the 
Mage Glyph instead and put it in your 
Wither Paragon Board until you switch to the Unique Setup.
You can just drop Blood Mist and put more points into Decrepify or Army of the Dead but additional points in these skills has very minimal return on investment. Eventually when you get an Omen of Pain Charm or the Blood Moon Breeches you'll drop the Curse from you Skill bar and use Blood Mist anyway, since your Curses will be applied automatically. You can see more about this in the Unique Tab.
Starting out you're not going to have much Critical Hit Chance or Crowd Control compared to the Unique Version of this build. Level up the Glyphs that directly buff your Minion Damage first: Dominate, 
Deadraiser & 
Warrior. Once you do have Uniques and high Critical Hit Chance 
Essence & 
Control become much more valuable, and take priority for leveling up past 50 before Deadraiser & Warrior.
Raheir dives in to save you from a huge hit, provides 15% All Resist, makes enemies take 15% more Damage and makes you deal 25% more Damage.
Aldkin provides you with 20% damage reduction when standing in his Field of languish. You need to level him up a bit to unlock this skill. Start off with Haunt until it's available.
Spam Decrepify on every pack of enemies you see to constantly boost your Movement Speed. (starter build only)
Cast Blight to group up packs of enemies and apply a Chill Effect to them.
Command your Skeleton Warrior & Golem on to Elites and dense packs.
Use Army of the Dead whenever you encounter an Elite or Boss for a huge damage boost to your Minions.
Blood Mist is your get out of trouble button as well as your best way to maintain 4 stacks of Overpower for the Dominate Glyph. If you're taking big damage or need to traverse a dangerous area this is your get out way to survive.
Iron Maiden with Ferocity and Overpower Iron Maiden is only going to consistently generate Ferocity and Overpower stacks when your minions need to take multiple swings to kill enemies. Don't be confused when speedfarming easy content and don't see these stacks forming. This is where you'll want to use Blood Mist when you encounter Elites and Bosses to generate those Stacks "manually." But in reality when doing easy speedfarm content you wont need this bonus anyway cause everything is going to die instantly. If you're going to do a long session of "easy speedfarm content" you can even swap your Dominate Glyph back to Mage in your Wither Board for a consistent damage boost.
5/05/26 - Guide created for Lord of Hatred Launch.
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