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Diablo 4 Build

Blood Lance - Levelling

Necromancer

Leveling

Verified

Season 12

By imortilize

Updated on Mar 23, 2026

Mar 23, 2026

Build Overview

This Necromancer Levelling Build focuses on optimising the the Damage from Blood Lance whilst staying tanky enough to easily get to Level 60.

Check the How It Works Section and FAQ below to learn how the Pulverize Druid smashes Levelling.

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Endgame Guide: Blood Lance / Others: Tier List

Strengths and Weaknesses

Surprisingly Decent Levelling Build
Excellent Damage
Very Fun To Play

Requires Aspects To Pop
Movement Speed Is Slow Until Level 15+
Resource Management Is Tricky To Start

Build Variants

30 - 60

15 - 29

1 - 14

At this point you will have up to 71 Skill Points at Level 60.

Equipment

30 - 60

15 - 29

1 - 14

HelmAspect of the Cursed Aura

Chest armorAspect of Hardened Bones

GlovesAccelerating Aspect

PantsTorturous Aspect

BootsAspect of Creeping Cadaver

AmuletSacrificial Aspect

Ring 1Blood Seeker's Aspect

Ring 2Aspect of the Umbral

WeaponAspect of Hungry Blood

OffhandBlood Boiling Aspect

The above Aspects are all great for boosting the build but are not neccesary for the build to function.

Later on once we hit Level 60 and start building into the Endgame Build we will swap out some of these Aspects but for Levelling these will give us the following boosts:

Incredible Movement Speed
Incredible Attack Speed
Extra AOE Damage
Extra clearance ability
Very Tanky
More Blood Lance!

Bloodied Affixes

These are the new Seasonal Mechanic which you may or may not come across during levelling but here are a list of useful Bloodied Affixes worth looking for:

Feast (per X kills)

Savagely bite 4 times for X damage and apply vulnerable
Reset 2 random Cooldowns
Gain Berserking for Y seconds
Release a Bloodspolsion for Y damage
Chain hooks Y nearby enemies

Rampage (per kill streak tier)

Attack Speed
Movement Speed
Cooldown Reduction
Life on Hit
Maximum Life
Critical Chance

Hunger (during kill streaks)

Increased Experience
Increased Reputation
Increased Chance for Runes

Elixirs and Incenses

30 - 60

15 - 29

1 - 14

ElixirElixir of Advantage

Core IncenseEmpty

Defensive IncenseEmpty

Resistance IncenseEmpty

Skill Tree

30 - 60

15 - 29

1 - 14

Available

0 (0)

Spent59 (12)

Leveling Path

Divine Gifts

30 - 60

15 - 29

1 - 14

Andariel

CorruptedEmpty

PurifiedEssence of Anguish

Azmodan

CorruptedEmpty

PurifiedEssence of Sin

Belial

CorruptedEmpty

PurifiedEssence of Lies

Duriel

CorruptedEmpty

PurifiedEssence of Pain

Divine Gifts

Purified

The best in slot Divine Perks for most Spiritborn Builds as follows:

Essence of Anguish

- +30% Movement Speed
- Double Chance for an Extra Obols in the Undercity

Essence of Sin

- 20% Increased Armour
- Double Chance for Activity Keys from World Bosses

Essence of Lies

- Fortify for 1% of your Maximum Life per Second
- Double Chance for an Extra Upgrade in the Pit

Essence of Pain

- Briefly Gain Maximum Barrier after becoming Injured, every 20 Seconds.
- Double Chance for an Extra Socketables in the Helltide

Mercenary

30 - 60

15 - 29

1 - 14

Varyana (Primary)

We take Varyana as our Primary for the Attack Speed and Movement Speed she grants which are both mandatory and exceptional for this build whilst levelling.

Raheir (Secondary)

We take Raheir as our Secondary as a get out of Jail Free Card if he activates in time when you Become Injured.

How it Plays

The main focus here is to make sure your Resource Management, Attack Speed and Movement Speed are all sufficiently decent so that you aren't being slowed down by any one of them. This is essentially a 2/3 button build at this stage depending on how you want to play it.

The following steps are the recommended rotation for skill usage:

Cast Soulrift to start Stacking Damage, Gain Resource and apply Vulnerable to enemies.
Cast Blood Lance freely.

Repeat each step as necessary

How it Works

Build Overview

This Blood Lance build focuses on optimising the Attack Speed, Critical Damage and Overpower Damage across the build whilst staying tanky enough to beat all end game content. It does this through the following:

Stacking Overpower Activations.
Stacking Resource Generation.
Scaling Overpower Damage.
Capping Attack Speed in both Attack Speed Bucket 1 and Attack Speed Bucket 2.
Permanent Uptime of Soulrift.
Damage Multipliers across the build.

Check out the In-Depth Explanations below for further details on the build.

Start Tips

Equip a Pet
Equip Mercenary
Claim Season Journey Skill Points
Start Seasonal Questline
Unlock Seasonal Reputation Board
Start Levelling Strategy

Levelling Strategies

All of these levelling strategies will get you from Level 1 - 60 in a matter of Hours. Below are the levelling strategies you can use in order of Fastest to Slowest:

Vessel of Hatred Campaign + Strongholds

Fastest Strategy Historically
Run Vessel of Hatred Campaign until Level 48 - 50
Once you hit Level 48 - 50
- Run Strongholds until Level 60

Helltides + Strongholds

Fastest Non-Campaign Strategy
Run Helltides until Level 48 - 50
Hand in Whispers along the way
Once you hit Level 48 - 50
- Run Strongholds until Level 60

Note: The Strongholds grant the same reward XP in all Difficulties so run them in a difficulty where you can blast through them at a good speed.

PvP Zone (Season 12 Only)

Not Recommended for Hardcore
Head to either of the PvP Zones
Circle around killing All Enemies in your path
Aim to get to the 500+ Kill Streak Bonus
Let the Killstreak Bonus end
Repeat process

Nightmare Dungeons

Requires Nightmare Dungeon Sigils (Experience Mote Affix)
Not the fastest
Provides other materials

Masterworking

Check out the Masterworking Guide for full information on how Masterworking functions.

Boss Drops

Check out the Boss Loot Table for full information on where to farm Uniques for your builds.

FAQ

If you have any questions about this guide feel free to reach out to me whilst live on Twitch, YouTube, Kick or X or contact me offline via my Discord.