NickTew - Bone Spear (Lidless Wall Tanky) - Diablo 4 Necromancer Build Guide

Build Notes

Gameplay Loop

Reap every 6 seconds for damage reduction, as well as a guaranteed corpse spawn
Apply Iron Maiden for a damage increase, and the heal on enemy death
Use Corpse Tendrils or let your Ring of the Sacrilegious Soul auto cast, for a crit chance buff and to massively increase your damage against enemies stunned by Corpse Tendrils
Spam *Bone Spear until everything is dead
Evade every 4 seconds for the *Tibault's Will 40x% damage increase
Use Bone Storm whenever there's a dense elite pack, or you're in danger. Try to save it for bosses. Make sure to manually cast Corpse Tendrils to maintain the crit chance buff with near 100% uptime, in tandem with your unique ring auto casting.

Seems complicated but the build is pretty straight forward, check out the gameplay from my video below to see how the build plays in practice.

How It Works

Bone Spear is one of the highest damaging builds in the game. Taking heavy advantage of multiple different crit damage modifiers, near 100% crit chance, Ossified Essence key passive scaling, legendary powers, and just the inherent strength of Bone Spear even after tons of nerfs it still remains as the best Necromancer endgame build.

In-Depth Explanation

FAQ

Why no Deathless Visage? The damage benefit is rather low, and you lose a significant amount of survivability by opting to use it.

Are Uber Uniques good with this build? Harlequins Crest is a straight up upgrade over a normal legendary helmet, and is significantly better than a Deathless Visage if you're able to compensate properly for the loss of armor, which you should have more than enough of if you copy paste the build correctly. Grandfather is simply too much damage to pass up, quite literally giving you double damage via the 100x crit damage multiplier. You do lose Intelligence, and a damage aspect, so it doesn't result in exactly a 100% damage increase, but close enough. It also gives you a massive amount of Max HP which is super nice for survivability. In order to fit in all your legendaries, you will have to lose the Aspect of Exposed Flesh but when you're 1 shotting everything essence isn't even remotely an issue. With lucky hit chance to restore resource on gloves, essence on kill, Tibaults Will essence generation, and the essence from Iron Maiden, you can easily make the argument it's redundant to have on anyways. TL;DR : Yes, check out the Uber Unique variation of the build.

My Resistances aren't capped, why not? To have capped resistances with the way I set it up, you need to have a level 21 corporeal glyph, and 1 diamond in your jewelry, as well as high item power jewelry, and lots of Intelligence on your gear. I'm not using Skeletal Warriors: Defenders sacrifice that gives you a ton of resistance because it over-caps you, and you need the crit chance sacrifice for more damage & consistency with the build. Until you have all of the aforementioned things perfected, I'd recommend supplementing your resistances by either using all diamonds in your jewelry, or just taking the damage loss and using the Skeletal Warriors: Defenders sacrifice

Will this work for the Abattoir of Zir? Yes, it should. I plan on specifically making an Abattoir variant of the build when it comes out. Currently it's hard to know what will be necessary for a build to be sufficient for the Abattoir. You may need to build more heavily into defense, in which case I'd either swap Tibault's Will for defensive legendary pants, or I'd swap to the Lidless Wall variation of the build. If the survivability requirement ends up being very high, using the Melted Heart of Selig may end up being mandatory. Only time will tell.

If you have a question I didn't answer here, check out the video guide as I am typically diligent in my videos. Alternatively, leave it in the comment section of the build video, and I'll answer you there, or update the FAQ here if I get asked the same question frequently.

Diablo 4 Necromancer BuildNickTew - Bone Spear (Lidless Wall Tanky)

Build Notes

In-Depth Explanation