Omega Blood Surge

This build is design to go insanely fast while dealing loads of damage with Blood Surge. This build got some buffs this season which makes it a bit better, though in raw DPS its still behind the higher tier builds.

1. Keep up Soulrift
2. Cast Blood Surge

Make sure you don't use any of the other skills on your bar! They are only there to proc Reaper's Pursuit.

Blood Surge was massively buffed going into season 11, and now the build is actually fairly strong again. Its my favorite Necromancer build and its super to play. It has great AOE farming potential, relatively decent single target damage, and a very fun progression through the torments that will be challenging but rewarding. Once you get it fully online, you'll be cruising through Torment 4 with one of Necromancer's fastest farming builds.

Blood Surge also features one of the coolest engines in any build, relying on rapidly spawning and consuming corpses to massively increase its damage and essence generation.

Leveling and Early Game

For leveling and Early Game, check out [this build]
(https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/profile/294d6a05-33c1-4191-be52-75f1a5f2c639/builds/6c7833ba-fe5e-4bf3-b1c4-84398b3269ce)

Move While Casting

There's currently a "feature" if you use keyboard movement where you can cast while moving. You need to lead your character spam click to cast, all while making sure your cursor doesn't hover over an enemy. If done correctly, you will be able to spam Blood Surge while running. For a full breakdown, check out this video guide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCDJyYXl2MM

Resource issues

If you are having any resource issue you can add Iron Maiden to the build. This will allow your Aspect of the Cursed Aura to automatically apply Iron Maiden and proc the resource generation.

Corpse Loop

This build utilizes the synergy between Cruor's Embrace and Hewed Flesh to generate and consume an inane amount of corpses. Thanks to Aspect of the Embalmer when we consume corpses we also spawn Blood Orbs, and by picking those up we both reset the cooldown on Rathma's Vigor and proc Blood Begets Blood.

Bossing

Blood Surge has become a very weak bossing skill with the new Season 11 changes, and there's not much you can do anymore to fix this. In general, I would just recommend using the armory and having another build setup that you can easily swap to for killing bosses.

Uniques

Cruor's Embrace: Though steeply nerfed with the masterwork changes in Season 11 they are still so much damage while also being a key piece of our Corpse Consumption Combo.

Heir of Perdition: This Mythic Unique gives a 60% damage multiplier as well as some good stats in the form of Crit Chance, Movement Speed, and Lucky Hit Chance.

Shroud of False Death 1 to all passives as well as a high HP and all stat roll makes this item give way too much tankiness and damage to pass up.

Ring of Starless Skies: This Mythic gives more damage than any other available option while also giving 50% resource cost reduction and a nice lucky hit roll. Cannot pass this up.

Mythic Priority Order

Ring of Starless Skies > Heir of Perdition > Shroud of False Death

Elixirs and Incenses

With the abundance of herbs now in the game it is now very easy to grab some consumables to either shore up big weakness with your character or to massively increase your strengths. I highly recommend you regularly keep Elixirs and Incenses running. Below I laid out the best consumables to use for every situation.

Elixirs

If you need more of any specific resistance or armor, use those elixirs first. Once your armor capped and resistance capped, look to use the Elixir of Advantage for the extra attack speed. If you're having trouble staying alive and your armor capped and resistance capped, you can use the Elixir of Fortitude to gain a 20% hp multiplier.

Incenses

For incense you have a couple of options, depending on what your character needs.

Core Stat

• Sage's Whisper: Generally the best option as it gives the most amount of damage.
• Spiral Morning: Not a bad alternative, as the all stat gives some armor and also helps hit breakpoints in paragon tree. Only use if there's specific paragon nodes you're trying to reach.

Resistance

• Soothing Spices: Best all around option as it gives +10% all resistances and +2% max resistance to everything. Only use another option if needed to hit resistance caps.

Defensive

• Song of the Mountain: Great early game option for the +300 Armor
• Reddamine Buzz: Gives +750hp, best option if you are already armor capped.

Defensive Layers

Always make sure you have 1000 armor and 75% all resistances as your number one defensive priority!

Our defense is highly reliant on our skill tree and paragon board. Stand Alone from our passive tree is the single strongest defensive passive in the entire game. We also generate lots of barrier from Necrotic Fortitude due to dealing so many instances of damage, leading to high amounts of Lucky Hit procs. In this vein, we are also able to generate all of our Fortify from a combination of Necrotic Carapace and Hewed Flesh.

From the paragon board we get lots of maximum life percentage, making it very important to get Maximum Life rolls on gear as these two things scale well together. We are also getting lots of damage reduction from Scent of Death and the other damage reduction nodes on that board. Finally, we get access to Damage Reduction While Fortified nodes from the Bloodbath board.

All in all this build is wildy tanky, and can clear the hardest content with ease.

FAQ

12/8: Updated for Season 11