In Diablo IV, the Necromancer class is a master of the undead, capable of conjuring and controlling legions of skeletons, magicians, and even a formidable golem.
In this article, we’ll focus on a build that optimizes the Necromancer’s bone spells, high damage, and high critical hit chance, while utilising the undead army to both shield and augment your barrage of calcified missiles. This is a ranged build that is capable of doing tremendous damage and annihilating all enemies encountered in the beta.
Diablo IV – Necromancer Class:
Here’s everything you need to know about the best Necromancer build:
SKILLS
Bone Splinter: This is your primary offensive spell. It launches a cone of many bone fragments, causing significant damage to any foes caught in its path. Improve as follows:
Enhanced Bone Splinters – Initiate’s Bone Splinters – Bone Spear: This spell fires a bone spear that inflicts significant damage on any foes it strikes. Improve as follows:
Enhanced Bone Spear – Paranormal Bone Spear – Bone Prison: This spell forms a bone cage around a single foe, immobilizing and causing damage over time. Improve as follows:
Enhanced Bone Prison – Ghastly Bone Prison – Unliving Energy: This passive skill increases your maximum energy and energy regeneration.
Imperfect Balanced: This passive ability decreases the mana cost of your spells.
Decrepify: This spell slows and weakens nearby foes, making them easier to kill. Improve as follows:
Death’s Reach – Skeletal Mage Mastery:
This passive ability increases the damage and health of your skeleton mages.
Bone Spirit: This spell throws a bone projectile that explodes upon hit, causing significant damage to nearby foes. Improve as follows:
Enhanced Bone Spirit – Ghastly Bone Spirit – Serration: This passive skill raises your chance to score a critical strike.
Compound Fracture: This passive ability boosts the damage of your critical hits.
Army of the Dead: This is your ultimate spell, conjuring a formidable army of undead soldiers to fight on your behalf. Improve as follows:
Skeletal Warriors — Skeletal Skirmishers | Sacrifice
Sacrifice Skeletal Mages — Bone Mages | Damage increased after being alive for 5 seconds
Golem – Iron Golem | Apply Vulnerable to opponents that are stunned
BOOK OF THE DEAD UPGRADES:
Skeletal Warriors: Upgrade Skeletal Warriors to Skeletal Skirmishers, which sacrifice themselves to inflict huge damage on adjacent foes.
Skeletal Mages: Enhance this ability to create Bone Mages, which deliver enhanced damage after 5 seconds of being alive.
Golem: Improve this skill to Iron Golem to apply the Vulnerable debuff to stunned enemies, increasing their damage taken.
STRATEGY
Your major strategy with this build is to remain at a distance and deal high damage with your bone spells. Your army of the undead will protect you from foes who approach too closely. Employ Bone Splinters to eliminate groups of weaker enemies, and Bone Spear and Bone Spirit to inflict significant damage on more formidable foes. Decrepify can be used to slow down and weaken adversaries that get too close, while Army of the Dead can be employed to quickly eliminate any troublesome foes.
Always remember to upgrade your talents as you gain levels, and invest in passive skills that enhance your critical hit probability and damage. Your army of the undead will be a valuable asset throughout the game, so be sure to upgrade them with the Book of the Dead. Using this build, you should be able to overcome any hurdle presented by the Diablo IV beta.
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