Diablo 4 Necromancer BuildInfinimist

There are two important things to know about Corpse Explosion. The first is that when you turn it into a Damage Over Time effect it can no longer Crit, which significantly reduces the value of Crit in this build. Keep in mind that Crit still has a small amount of value in this build because the Key Passive Shadowblight can Crit.

The second thing you need to know is that each Corpse Explosion Area of Effect stacks into one massive tick of damage. So stacking Corpse Explosions won't increase the frequency of damage, but it will still give you the correct amount of damage increase. This is particularly important for the Key Passive as multiple instances of Corpse Explosion won't stack Shadowblight faster.

A huge amount of our tankiness is coming from the Aspect of Shielding Storm and the Aspect of Ultimate Shadow. This combination allows for huge damage from Shadowblight while also generating massive amounts of shielding. The shield generation from this setup is absurd, allowing you to easily tank nightmare 100 dungeons.

There are a lot of multiplier that affect Shadowblight damage but not Corpse Explosion damage. This creates a difficult position because we need Shadowblight to kill bosses and we need Corpse Explosion to clear AOE quickly. A good example of this is that Shadowblight can crit but Corpse Explosion can't crit. This creates a weird situation where we need to balance out our damage profiles to be able to kill bosses but also clear AOE easily. In the end we end up shifting very heavily to pure Corpse Explosion

Anticipation: Gives us better uptime on our ult, specifically important for bossing Flowing Veins: Large damage multiplier that's easy to keep up. Prey on The Weak: Just a solid damage multiplier with 100% uptime. Domination: A multiplier with decent uptime. Because our shadow damage constantly stuns as well as our Corpse Tendrils Prey on the Weak: A solid 16% damage multiplier and when combined with Metamorphosis this will give 100% uptime on Vulnerable. Metamorphosis: Allows evade to give unstoppable and when paired with Prey on the Weak gives full up-time on Vulnerable.

Replace Godslayer with Aspect of Might, Howl From Below with Grasping Veins, and Black River with Aspect of Decay.

Both of these Aspects are great in their own right, but they do not scale with Corpse Explosion damage. Because of the power of Black River, it is actually much better to fully invest into Corpse Explosion itself, rather than these other damage modifiers.

10/25: Updated Skill Tree, Aspects, and Paragon Board.