More top-tier Necromancer builds in Diablo 4: Leveling & endgame

Not warming to our main best Necromancer build in Diablo 4? Then here are some alternative best Necromancer builds for you to sink your undead teeth into, including both leveling and endgame in Season 4.

Diablo 4 has lots of macabre and sadistic builds that can be created for Sanctuary’s Priests of Rathma, and many will see you safely through the game and into the vast endgame content. While we’ve already covered what we believe to be the best Necromancer build in Diablo 4 for both leveling and endgame, below we’ve included some alternative builds that are also worth your time in Season 4.

This way, you’ll have the best possible choice when it comes to picking the best builds for the Necromancer in Diablo 4, especially when it comes to choosing a leveling build, or a build to tackle the endgame. Here’s our alternative best Necromancer builds in Diablo 4 Season 4.

Contents

• Best Alternative Necromancer leveling build
• Best Alternative Necromancer endgame build

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The Necromancer has been a favorite since Diablo 2.

Best Diablo 4 Necromancer build for leveling

Diablo 4’s Necromancer has lots of builds to use in the current meta, but we found the Blight Corpse Explosion Necromancer to be among the best when it comes to leveling in Season 4.

Here are the skills you’ll need to select to craft this rather gross but powerful build:

Book of the Dead

When it comes to using the Necromancer’s unique Book of the Dead skills, we recommend doing the following:

• Level 1: ‍Raise Skeleton
• Level 5: ‍Skeletal Warriors – Skirmishers
• Level 15: ‍Skeletal Mages – Shadow
• Level 18: ‍Skeletal Mages – Cold
• Level 25: ‍Golems – Bone (After the quest that unlocks this skill)

This Book of the Dead setup is the best way to support your build, making it a minion-heavy style that also lets the Necromancer deal damage up close and from afar.

Legendary Aspects

While there are many great Legendary Aspects in the Codex of Power that will help this build, there are three in particular that you need to prioritize for this build. Here’s what they are and where to find them:

• Blighted Offensive Aspect – (Akkhans’s Grasp, Hawezar)
• Offensive Aspect of the Umbral – (Champion’s Demise – Dry Steppes)
• Aspect of Grasping Veins – (Corrupted Grotto – Kehjistan)

Each one will essentially buff your damage in various ways and make your build even more deadly.

We’d recommend not imprinting these Aspects on your weapons, as you’re likely to replace these many times on your Leveling journey. Instead, add offensive Aspects to your jewelry, this way, it can continue to serve you well into endgame.

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Blight is a very useful skill for the Necromancer.

Best Necromancer endgame build

Once you get past level 50 and have seen the ending of Diablo 4, you’ll enter the endgame content. This means the build you used to reach this point may no longer be suitable, and to really make the most of the endgame content, you’ll need an endgame build.

You can stick with your current build, but if you want to be at the top of the meta pile, then this below endgame build for the Necromancer will be exactly what you need.

Remember, this is an endgame build, so it assumes you’ve already unlocked all your stat and Renown points, for example, in this case, you can ignore any repecs within the build – because you already have the points. If not, then follow it like a leveling build until you have and make the necessary respecs to get all the below skills.

Here’s one of the best endgame Necromancer builds in Diablo 4 Season 4 currently, the Blood Surge Necromancer:

Book of the Dead

When it comes to using the Necromancer’s unique Book of the Dead skills, we recommend doing the following:

• Level 1: ‍Raise Skeleton
• Level 5: ‍Skeletal Warriors – Skirmishers
• Level 12: ‍Skeletal Warriors – Reapers
• Level 15: ‍Skeletal Mages – Cold
• Level 25: Select ‍Golems – Bone
• Level 31: Sacrifice ‍Golems – Bone

This Book of the Dead setup is the best way to support this build, making it a minion-heavy style that also lets the Necromancer deal damage up close and from afar.

Legendary Aspects

While there are many great Legendary Aspects in the Codex of Power that will help this build, there are three in particular that you need to prioritize for this build. Here’s what they are and where to find them:

• Blighted Offensive Aspect – (Akkhans’s Grasp, Hawezar)
• Offensive Aspect of the Umbral – (Champion’s Demise – Dry Steppes)
• Aspect of Grasping Veins – (Corrupted Grotto – Kehjistan)

Each one will essentially buff your damage in various ways and make your build even more deadly.

We’d recommend not imprinting these Aspects on your weapons, as you’re likely to replace these many times on your Leveling journey. Instead, add offensive Aspects on armor and gear you can always upgrade and make use of.

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The Necromancer’s main draw is their minions, but other skills are just as devastating.

Paragon Board

At level 50 you’ll gain access to the Paragon Board to continue building your character to level 100. Here are the boards you need to focus on to maximize the potential of the best endgame Sorcerer build:

• Starting board
• Bone Graft board
• Scent of Death board
• Flesh Eater board

Glyphs

Here are the Glyphs we’d recommend activating as your work through the Paragon board:

• Blood-drinker
• Sacrificial
• Essence
• Control

Endgame item build

Here are the items you should aim to equip for your endgame Necromancer build in Diablo 4 Season 4:

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