Diablo 4 Build

Minion Leveling

Necromancer

Leveling

Verified

Minions

Season 12

Kay

By Kay

Updated on Mar 11, 2026

Mar 11, 2026

Build Overview

Minions are an incredible leveling build that can transition into its late game faster than any other build in the game. Minions are by far the fastest build to come online.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Extremely Powerful
Amazing Boss Damage
Can AFK while your minions clear
Transitions very easily into late game

Damage Dealt in a small area
Can't Control where damage goes

Build Variants

Leveling 1-60

Mid Game

This setup invests into both Skeletal Mages and the Golem to level as fast as possible.

Aspect & Uniques

Leveling 1-60

Mid Game

HelmAspect of Hardened Bones

Chest armorAphotic Aspect

GlovesAspect of Grasping Veins

PantsBlood Getter's Aspect

BootsAspect of Occult Dominion

AmuletAspect of Frenzied Dead

Ring 1Aspect of the Damned

Ring 2Aspect of Fel Gluttony

WeaponAspect of Reanimation

OffhandEmpty

Focus on getting as much damage as possible prioritizing stats like Attack Speed and Ranks of Minion Mastery. Don't clear dungeons for the codex, just focus on Helltides so you can get as much xp/hr as possible.

The main Bloodied Affixes you'll want to look for are the following:

Increased Experience per Kill Streak tier
increased Movement Speed per Kill Streak tier
Increased Resource per 15 Kills
3% Increased Core Stats per Skill Streak tier

Skill Tree

Leveling 1-60

Mid Game

Available

0 (0)

Spent59 (12)

Leveling Path

Paragon Board

Leveling 1-60

Mid Game

How it Plays

Keep up Decrepify for the Debuff
Cast Raise Skeleton on corpses from your Skeletal Warriors Reapers to gain the Skeletal Priest buff
Cast Corpse Tendrils on the Corpses to group
Use Soulrift as needed for big damage

How it Works

Minions are probably the strongest starter build in the entire game due to their absurd damage that is generally not reliant on uniques. Ring of Mendeln is a huge damage scaler once you unlock it, but were able to still do loads of damage without it. Minions come online faster than any other build in the game.

Tips:

Wear any good legendaries you can find, but the ones recommended here are your best options from the Codex of Power
Spend all of your Helltides, Tree of Whispers, and Obals rolling rings trying to get a Ring of Mendeln
If you get any strong Shadow Damage Aspects you can use them to buff up your Skeletal Mages damage.

As you push into end game swap to this build: (linked after its updated)

Defense

The most important defensive tool in your kit is Soulrift. You need to get as much uptime as possible by tempering on Soulrift duration and rolling as much Cooldown Reduction as possible. It's also very important to cap your resistances and armor as quickly as you can.

Offensive Power

This build relies heavily on the incredible base damage of minions to carry it. As you get into the mid game though you will start investing heavily into the Golem with Aspect of Fel Gluttony aspect allowing him to do immense amounts of damage.