Ultimate Bloodwave

Despite the nerfs to Overpower, Blood Wave remains as a top meta pick once again in Season 14 as the premier Tower/ Pit pushing build for the Necromancer, offering the highest DPS possible on the class thanks to the new Hematolagnia Blood Wave upgrade which turns Blood Wave into a spammable Core Skill alongside Kessime's Legacy for huge amounts of damage.

Overpower

The main mechanism behind the builds insane damage is the Overpower mechanic. By casting Blood Wave with the Overpower Blood Wave upgrade, it automatically sets our Overpower stacks to the maximum +2. We use this alongside Tidal Aspect on our 2-Hander for a massive 18 Overpower stacks while Fortified through the Blood Binder charm set.

We combine that with the Unique charm Red Blessing and Banished Lord's Talisman to gain multiplicative damage bonuses for each Overpower stack we have. The Dominate also synergizes extremely well, giving an incredible amount of additive damage for every stack of Overpower.

Essence Management

Because the Hematolagnia Blood Wave upgrade turns out Blood Wave into a Core Skill with a hefty Essence cost, things like Essence Regeneration rolls and Ring of Starless Skies are vital to the build in order to spam out our Blood Wave as much as we need to.

If players lack Ring of Starless Skies then Essence Cost Reduction rolls, a resource aspect such as Aspect of the Umbral alongside Resource Cost Reduction affixes and Essence Generation Iron Maiden can be used to help smooth out early and mid game essence issues.

2026-05-23

Optimized main build variant

2026-05-06

Updated for Season 13

2026-03-10

• Added socials to Introduction

2026-03-09

• Minor fixes to formatting

2026-03-08

• Updated for season 12

2026-03-05

• Guide ownership transferred from Ruse to kay