News Tag: Diablo 4 Necromancer

Diablo 4 Season 10 will be released on September 23rd, in less than a week, and you should already be choosing your class. Both Druid and Spiritborn are very powerful this season, but for Season 10, I'm choosing Necromancer.

There are many reasons for this. Necromancer is a great choice for lazy players, as it's easy to automate farming with summons while leveling. Secondly, with October and Halloween coming up, Necromancer is a perfect fit for the season. Also, characters like Bone Storm Necromancer are uniquely available this season, so missing out would be a real shame.

I'm sure many players are used to playing Necromancer every season. How does Necromancer look this season? What builds have performed best? Is Bone Storm Necromancer still a strong build? Let's talk about the adjustments Necromancer received before the official release.

Season 10 Changes

First and foremost, Alter the Balance has the biggest impact on Necromancers. This Chaos Perk is the core of Bone Storm Necromancer, allowing you to swap your ultimate ability with a core ability. This perk adjusts two abilities:

Bone Storm

• Decreased its duration from 4 seconds to 2 seconds.
• Bone Storms can now have a maximum of 10 active at a time.

Undead Army

• Increased its damage from 80% to 100%.

Bone Storm Necromancer could create infinite Bone Storms on PTR, which put a strain on the server. The developers capped their ability and reduced its duration. Combined with the changes to the unique item, Lidless Wall, which capped critical damage, this build's damage has dropped by approximately 90% roughly. However, it's still sufficient for leveling and farming Diablo 4 gold and materials on Torment 4 difficulty.

The ultimate abilities, Blood Wave and Soulrift, were unaffected, so builds utilizing them actually received a significant buff, allowing you to cast Blood Wave and Soulrift at incredible speeds.

Next up is Crazy Brew. After the change, the cooldown of potion usage is now affected by cooldown reduction. Since this is a universal Chaos Perk, it's a buff for all classes. Once you have enough cooldown reduction, it will consistently provide significant attack and movement speed.

Finally, basic abilities like Blood Surge and Blood Lance received buffs, making them more likely to trigger Overpower damage, making them less vulnerable and worth using.

Necromancer Build Rankings

The following builds are ranked by the number of tiers in The Pit. However, having the strongest tiers in The Pit doesn't necessarily mean the fastest farming or the best boss kills.

Tier S: Shadow Blight Necromancer

Also affected by Alter the Balance, you can cast Soulrift and Blight at an infinite rate, causing insane damage, but you need to be mindful of your resources.

Tier A: Bone Spirit Necromancer And Bone Splinters Necromancer

Bone Spirit Necromancer has very high burst damage and is the fastest boss killer in Season 10. Combined with Bone Storm, it also offers very efficient farming in The Pit.

Since Season 10 has seen significant buffs to Bone Splinters, this build does not lack for Essence and offers high damage. However, its downside is its heavy reliance on Diablo 4 items. Without Shattered Spirit's Aspect and Gospel of the Devotee, its damage is significantly lower.

Tier B: Bloodwave Necromancer And Blood Spear Necromancer

Because of Overpower nerf, Bloodwave has also been affected. While its damage in The Pit may not be as high as Shadow Blight Necromancer's, it has strong survivability.

Blood Spear has received some buffs, but not as good as Bone Splinters. This build may reach The Pit tiers 100 and above.

Potential Builds

Army Of The Dead Necromancer Build

If the bug with Unyielding Commander's Aspect (repeatedly casting it loses the bonus damage) is fixed, and the conflict with the core Sanguivor, Blade of Zir is resolved, it may have potential.

Blood Lance Necromancer Build

If the bug in calculating the number of targets in Blood Seekers node is fixed, its farming ability could be greatly improved, making it a potential dark horse.

Shadow Minion Necromancer Build

If the bugs in Aphotic Aspect and Grim Reapers (Chaos Perk) are fixed, this build might perform better during leveling, but its end-game power might be average.

Necromancer Flaws

While Necromancer is already very powerful in Season 10, it's not perfect. For example, Necromancer still can't manually target its minions, a problem that's been unresolved for a long time.

Wither (Paragon node) has been changed from "allowing DOT to crit" to "20% chance to deal 300% damage." This change makes it overly reliant on luck, especially when farming quickly.

Paragon board still has many unused nodes that haven't been reworked, leaving many builds struggling with Paragon choices and lacking effective damage or utility nodes.

Necromancer severely lacks a way to gain Unstoppable. There is a Chaos perk, Defile the Dead, which consumes 10 corpses to gain crowd control immunity. The major flaw is that it cannot be activated while you are already crowd controlled, severely limiting its usefulness. Necromancer still relies heavily on Blood Mist, but using it while leveling reduces damage, resulting in a poor gameplay experience.

Overall, Necromancer in Season 10 isn't weak in terms of damage, but there aren't many standout minion builds. Players who prefer minion builds can use them while leveling, then use Diablo 4 gold to reset their skills and Paragons after reaching the endgame, transitioning to a meta build.

The five classes in Diablo 4 have different playstyles. Although the ranking of active skills is important when choosing a class, Passive Skills are also important. Perhaps in Diablo 4, Necromancer is not the most chosen class by players, but there are still many players who are fans of Necromancer, especially for solo players. Necromancer is a very good choice. Below you'll find the 8 best Passive Skills for the Necromancer:

8. Stand Alone

While many players want to rely on their summons in Diablo 4, some players also want to further improve their stats by forgoing raising the dead. While these stats are vital for every player, by using the Passive Skill of Stand Alone, you can also improve your chances of survival. So how does it do it?

First, Stand Alone reduces enemy damage to the player by 6%, and when three perk points are reached, Stand Alone's damage reduction becomes 18%. But in this process, if the player uses summoning, the damage reduction value will be reduced by 2%. So when players are using this skill, you'd better not have any undead companions.

7. Spiked Armor

Class of Necromancer can not only achieve long-range attacks, but also fight against enemies at close range. Its combat forms are changeable. When players use Spiked Armor during the battle, it can improve your ability to damage the enemy.

The reason is because the player will have 24 Thorns when using Spiked Armor. Thorns here means that when the player is attacked by the enemy, they will counterattack and cause certain damage to the enemy. But it should be noted that although Thorns can counterattack, the amount of damage you receive from the enemy will not be reduced at all, so you need to pay attention to your own defense during this process. If you don't have enough gear, you can use Diablo 4 Gold to buy it.

6. Evulsion

Players can use Evulsion skills during the game to improve the damage effect of some active skills. For example, Bone skill is very important for Necromancer players. It can bring huge physical damage, and the damage value of the opponent is increased by 6%.

5. Hellbent Commander

Above we mentioned Stand Alone Passive Skill, which benefits players who don't need minions. But Hellbent Commander is the opposite. It is very suitable for those players who need minions, which can increase the damage value of minions to surrounding enemies. By fighting with your minions, players can use this Passive Skill to continuously increase the damage of minions up to 30%.

4. Crippling Darkness

Crippling Darkness is also a Passive Skill. This skill will not increase the damage caused by the player, but there is a chance to stun the opponent for a second when using this skill. This stun time is very beneficial to the player, you can attack the enemy again, and if you are lucky, you can stun the opponent again.

3. Tides Of Blood

Tides Of Blood is a Passive Skill that many players want to acquire. After you use this skill, you can increase your Overpower Damage by 5% by casting Blood Skills, which is also very important for players.

2. Amplify Damage

Curses is an active skill that many Necromancer players will use, which can slow down the damage caused by the enemy to themselves, but this effect can also be enhanced by Passive Skill Amplify Damage.

1. Death's Embrace

Death's Embrace is a passive ability that every player should consider when using any active ability. In Passive Skill of Death's Embrace, it can reduce the damage value of the enemy to itself by 3%, and at the same time it can cause 2% damage to the enemy. Although this percentage is insignificant, when you encounter a lot of enemies, you can realize the importance.

Hope the above introduction can help you.