Minions - Pure Golem

This build scales Golem as the solo damage dealer for insane amounts of damage thanks to Hulking Monstrosity and the newly released Gravebloom which lets you summon 3 extra Golems, which alongside the new bugfix to Aspect of Fel Gluttony, allows you to destroy all the content in the game. This build is the premiere build for Necromancer in Season 12.

1. Keep up Soulrift
2. Use Golems Blood active ability to deal damage and proc Hewed Flesh
3. Cast Corpse Tendrils on the Corpse to group up enemies and activate Aspect of Grasping Veins
4. Cast Bone Prison / Blight on the grouped enemies for the damage multiplier
5. Spam the Golems Blood active ability to deal massive damage and proc Aspect of Fel Gluttony

This build relies repeatedly spamming your Golems Blood active ability with 4 Golem by utilizing Gravebloom to deal massive AOE damage in combination with Aspect of Fel Gluttony.

Because Hulking Monstrosity requires us to Sacrifice our Skeletal Warriors and Skeletal Mages for our Golem, this allows us to gain powerful effects such as Stand Alone, Memento Mori, and Sacrificial Aspect. This makes Golem based builds incredibly tanky compared to normal minion builds.

While Ring of Mendeln isn't best in slot for End Game Pit / Tower pushing, it still takes its place as king of Midgame by instantly increasing your power enough to push to Torment 4 with no issues thanks to its incredible power spike.
Ring of Mendeln along with the Skeletal Warriors Defenders sacrifice in combination with Sacrificial Aspect makes Golem one of the best Mid Game builds you can play thanks to its easy to gain power spikes and incredible amount of Resistances you get for free.

Leveling

Follow this build for your 1-60, and swap to the pure Golem setup once you get Gravebloom alongside the Hulking Monstrosity Paragon Node.

Soul Rift

Traditionally minions builds have played Army of the Dead to get access to the Unyielding Commander's Aspect. However, there are big issues with uptime on Army of the Dead due to its longer cooldown and the lack of Increased Duration temperings for Army of the Dead. Soulrift ends up having much more consistent damage while also giving a massive amount of survivability.

Minions have the ability to hit Lucky hits, which in combination of Abhorrent Decrepify, allows us to easily get great uptime on Soulrift especially in Pits / Tower.

Why Only Buff Golem?

Unfortunately because Hulking Monstrosity is such a strong paragon node, it makes it much stronger to specialize around your Golem with Gravebloom than it is to try and run a Hybrid build. That being said, for speed farming hybrid builds are actually okay because mobs have a lot less health in lower content, and the extra damage you gain from focusing on scaling one minion isn't needed. This only works End Game though as through majority of the game you will need this damage to push into higher Torment Tiers.

Uniques

Shroud of False Death: Because Golem based builds get to run powerful passives such as Memento Mori and Stand Alone, this build gets even more use out of this unique than normal minion builds. Out of all the Mythic Uniques, this one is the highest priority.

Heir of Perdition: Best in slot helmet that provides incredible stats like Critical Hit Chance and Movement Speed. While not as important as Shroud of False Death, it's still a must have for any serious End Game minion build.

Blood Moon Breeches: The crit chance, Golem Mastery, and Hellbent Commander make this irreplaceable.

Gravebloom: Core unique that adds loads of damage while also giving additional Golems for better AOE damage.

Ring of Mendeln: One of the biggest Mid Game power spikes of any Unique in the game. This gives minions their signature Mid Game strength. Its also still useful for speed farming in End Game.

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 you have enough armor and resistances, look to use the Elixir of Advantage for the extra attack speed. If you're having trouble staying alive and you have enough armor and resistances, 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.

2026-03-09

• Minor fixes to formatting

2026-03-08

• Updated for season 12

2026-03-05

• Guide ownership transferred from Ruse to kay