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Necromancer

Diablo 4 Necromancer BuildShadow Minions Necro

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Shadow Minions NecroNecromancer build
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Assigned skills

Primary
Secondary

Book of the dead

Skeletal Warriors
Skeletal Mages
Skeletal Golems

Equipment

HelmAspect of Shielding Storm
Chest ArmorAspect of Disobedience
GlovesAspect of Ultimate Shadow
PantsProtecting Aspect
BootsBlood Getter's Aspect
AmuletViscous Aspect
Ring 1Aspect of Reanimation
Ring 2Conceited Aspect
WeaponAspect of Frenzied Dead
OffhandEmpty

Gems

WeaponSkull
ArmorTopaz
JewelryEmpty

Skills

Basic

Reap
1
Enhanced Reap
Acolyte's Reap

Core

Hewed Flesh
3

Macabre

Corpse Explosion
1
Enhanced Corpse Explosion
Blighted Corpse Explosion
Grim Harvest
1
Fueled by Death
3
Skeletal Warrior Mastery
3
Spiked Armor
1

Corruption

Decrepify
1
Enhanced Decrepify
Abhorrent Decrepify
Skeletal Mage Mastery
3
Amplify Damage
3
Death's Embrace
3

Summoning

Corpse Tendrils
1
Enhanced Corpse Tendrils
Plagued Corpse Tendrils
Reaper's Pursuit
3
Gloom
3
Terror
3

Ultimate

Bone Storm
1
Prime Bone Storm
Supreme Bone Storm
Inspiring Leader
3
Bonded in Essence
3
Death's Defense
3
Hellbent Commander
1
Golem Mastery
3

Passive

Shadowblight
1
2
Reap
3
Enhanced Reap
4
Acolyte's Reap
5
Hewed Flesh
6
Hewed Flesh
7
Hewed Flesh
8
Corpse Explosion
9
Enhanced Corpse Explosion
10
Blighted Corpse Explosion
11
Grim Harvest
12
Fueled by Death
13
Fueled by Death
14
Fueled by Death
15
Skeletal Warrior Mastery
16
Skeletal Warrior Mastery
17
Skeletal Warrior Mastery
18
Spiked Armor
19
Decrepify
20
Enhanced Decrepify
21
Abhorrent Decrepify
22
Skeletal Mage Mastery
23
Skeletal Mage Mastery
24
Skeletal Mage Mastery
25
Amplify Damage
26
Amplify Damage
27
Amplify Damage
28
Death's Embrace
29
Death's Embrace
30
Death's Embrace
31
Corpse Tendrils
32
Enhanced Corpse Tendrils
33
Plagued Corpse Tendrils
34
Reaper's Pursuit
35
Reaper's Pursuit
36
Reaper's Pursuit
37
Gloom
38
Gloom
39
Gloom
40
Terror
41
Terror
42
Terror
43
Bone Storm
44
Prime Bone Storm
45
Supreme Bone Storm
46
Inspiring Leader
47
Inspiring Leader
48
Inspiring Leader
49
Bonded in Essence
50
Death's Defense
51
Death's Defense
52
Death's Defense
53
Golem Mastery
54
Golem Mastery
55
Golem Mastery
56
Hellbent Commander
57
Shadowblight
58
Bonded in Essence
59
Bonded in Essence

Build Details

How It Works
Summary

This Necro build is all about your shadow minions, letting them do insane amounts of damage, while you support them. You will share your survivability stats including life on kill to heal constantly with your minions, making them basically live forever.

This is a Shadow Necro build (which was inspired by my Hardcore Golem-Mancer) with almost immortal minions as your accompany and main source of damage.

With the addition of Malignant Hearts in Season 1 you will now also use a combination of Corpse Explosion as it synergizes way too good with the Sacrilegious Heart, your Blighted Aspect and your Shadowblight key passive, increasing not only your overall damage but ALSO your minion damage by a ton!

Gameplay Loop
  1. Get near to enemies, as the Decrepify aura will trigger your minions to attack.
  2. Pull large packs together with Golem taunt.
  3. Use Reap to generate a corpse for the first auto cast of Corpse Tendrils
  4. Wait a second and manually cast a second Corpse Tendrils.
  5. Keep up skeletal priest buff on shadow
  6. Rinse and repeat.
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