Astral Bone Spirit

The new Astral Projection Bone Spirit has taken Season 13 by storm, quickly becoming the best speed farm build that the Necromancer class has ever seen. Its fast, its tanky, and it melts every boss in seconds.

This build utilizes all the best options available for the class such as Overpower stacking with Red Blessing and Banished Lord's Talisman, as well as Resolve stacking with Aspect of Shielding Bones and Aspect of Glynn's Anvil to deal massive amounts of damage while being completely unkillable.

Make sure to check the How it Works section for all the most important information!

1. Spam Bone Spirit to stack Overpower using Banished Lord's Talisman and Resolve using Aspect of Shielding Bones
2. Press Bone Storm to generate 10 corpses using our Desecrated Charm set, generating both Barrier and Fortify from Necrotic Carapace
3. Cast Inexorable Reaper Sever to dash to enemies and form a corpse to trigger Godslayer Crown
4. Continue casting Bone Spirit while killing packs to maintain the circle of damage
5. Cast Bone Storm again as needed to maintain Barrier, Attack Speed, and Critical Strike Chance.

How To Scale Damage

Overpower Stacks:

One of the main ways every Necromancer build is scaling their damage in Season 13 is through the use of the Over Power mechanic in combination with Red Blessing as a unique charm and Dominate.

This build takes it one step further by using Banished Lord's Talisman as well for even more incentive to stacking Overpower, as well as being the main way we stack Overpower.

Tidal Aspect becomes an incredibly strong aspect in combination with these 3, granting an additional 8 stacks when fortified from Necrotic Carapace.

Damage Multiplier Affixes:

Season 13 has completely reworked the damage formula, with multiplicative damage bonuses now being added to gear slots. However these multiplicative bonuses are different than normal as they are additive when stacked. What this means is you want to spread out into every type of Multiplicative bonus a build has access to rather than stacking the biggest one.

In this build, we are looking for the following multiplicative stats without over stacking:
Critical Strike Damage multiplier, Vulnerable Damage multiplier, Physical Damage multiplier, and All Damage multiplier.

How The Mobility Works

Inexorable Reaper Sever has become the strongest tool in the Necromancers arsenal for incredible mobility.
Unlike in previous seasons when it was an aspect, Inexorable Reaper Sever now has its mobility scale with Attack Speed - the faster you cast Sever the faster you move.

And because this build is already stacking Essence Regeneration for Bone Spirit it means we can spam this as much as we want for unlimited mobility.

This pairs perfectly with Astral Projection Bone Spirit to create a playstyle similar to that of Ball Lightning Sorcerers and Hammerdin Paladin builds.

How To Generate Essence

This build heavily relies on Essence Regeneration affixes for its Essence gain, making greater affixes in wherever you can roll the stat a must have priority.

Gift of Death Skeleton Mage offers a rare multiplicative bonus to our Essence Generation, making every stat of it we can get in our gear extremely powerful.

Greater Affix Essence Generation in our rings also plays a massive part in our ability to reach enough Essence Regeneration to be able to spam Astral Projection Bone Spirit.

a single Lucky Hit Primary Resource temper also makes into the build to help gain extra Essence when fighting bosses.

How The Grouping Works

This build utilizes an amazing combo between Godslayer Crown, Dizzying Curse Decrepify, and the Desecrated Charm set to instantly pull rooms of mobs instantly into your death blender Astral Projection Bone Spirit.

The way the combo works is as following:

1. Crowd Control and Corpse Generation Sever will serve as our mobility as well as generate a corpse when it hits something.
2. The Desecrated Charm set will then apply to everything around the corpse.
3. Dizzying Curse Decrepify will apply a daze when applied which will then trigger Godslayer Crown.
4. If that fails, we have Wat and Moni to help keep the CC combo continuous and seamless.

Why Desecration Charm Set Over Bone Weaver

While the Bone Weaver set is an amazing set in its own right, the Desecration Charm Set just solves so many issues for the build.

One of the main issues that Bone Weaver builds face is their lack of options when it comes to getting Fortified to turn on Tidal Aspect.
Desecration solves this issue through the corpses spawned with the 2 set effect in combination with Necrotic Carapace.

The Desecration set also makes the build play faster, giving players a zero button Godslayer Crown pull through the combination of Dizzying Curse Decrepify and the 3 set effect.

And lastly, the Desecration set offers more damage.
The Bone Weaver set grants 50%[x] Crit Damage bonus and another 175%[x] from the 5 set.
The Desecration set on the other hand offers 225%[x] just off its 5 set effect, with an additional 30%[x] off the 2 piece effect.

This does come at a cost of less Essence Generation. But with proper gearing the build is easily able to overcome that issue to enjoy higher damage, smoother gameplay, and fixing one of the core problems the build used to face.

2026-03-16

• Updated for Season 13

2026-03-16

• New breakpoints added

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