Best Necromancer build in Diablo 4 Season 5

With the right build in Diablo 4 Season 5, the Necromancer can obliterate the enemy on the battlefield. Although the class has slipped a few spots because of the buffs that the Rogues and the Sorcerers have received this season, it’s still a formidable class.

Just like the other classes in the game, the Necromancer also offers multiple playstyles that you can build into. So, here’s the best Necromancer build for both leveling and endgame stages in Diablo 4 Season 5.

Best Diablo 4 Minion Necromancer leveling build

Minion Necromancer Book of the Dead leveling setup

• Skeleton Warriors: Reapers. These minions have a 15% chance of cleaving the flesh off an enemy and converting
• Mage Skeletons: Use Skeletal Mages-Cold, and upgrade them so each time they deal damage with their primary attack, you gain Essence.
• Golem: For your Golems, choose Blood Golems for constant passive healing.

How to play Minions Necromancer

Although Blood Surge will be your primary source of damage here, your minions will do most of the fighting for you. This way, you’ll be able to stay behind the protection of your Skeleton Warriors and your Golems and safely deal with the enemy.

However, the only downside to this build is the minion AI, because it can be slightly unpredictable at times. Other than that, it’s a strong build that you should consider if you’re looking to play as a Necromancer.

The gameplay loop for this build is as follows:

Iron Maiden – Blood Surge – Raise Skeleton – Corpse Tendrils – Golem – Iron Maiden

You start off with the Iron Maiden where you curse an area, and enemies in the area take 30% of your overall damage every 2 seconds, and whenever they deal any direct damage. Use Blood Surge to deal damage to them and create corpses.

Now, Raise Skeletons and then use Corpse Tendrils to draw enemies is an area. Raise Golems and then cast Iron Maiden again to repeat the loop.

This build lacks an Ultimate skill, but since your minions will be doing most of the fighting for you, you won’t need an Ultimate. Your emergency skill here is Blood Mist because it grants you immunity and heals you, allowing you to get out of sticky situations.

Best Legendary Aspects for Minion Necromancer in Diablo 4 Season 5

This build should carry you till level 60-65 in World Tier 3. Here you should start considering switching up your build to get into the endgame stages.

Best Diablo 4 Bone Spirit Necromancer build in Season 5

• Bone Splinter (2/5)
• Unliving Energy (3/3)
• Imperfectly Balanced (3/3)
• Hewed Flesh (3/3)
• Blood Mist (1/5)
  • Enhanced Blood Mist
    • Ghastly Blood Mist
• Bone Prison (1/5)
  • Enhanced Bone Prison
    • Ghastly Bone Prison
• Spiked Armor (1/3)
• Grim Harvest (1/3)
• Fueled by Death (3/3)
• Decrepify (1/5)
  • Enhanced Decrepify
    • Abhorrent Decrepify
• Death’s Embrace (3/3)
• Amplify Damage (3/3)
• Corpse Tendrils (1/5)
  • Enhanced Corpse Tendrils
    • Plagued Corpse Tendrils
• Bone Spirit (5/5)
  • Enhanced Bone Spirit
    • Dreadful Bone Spirit
• Necrotic Carapace (3/3)
• Serration (1/3)
• Compound Fracture (3/3)
• Evulsion (3/3)
• Rapid Ossification (3/3)
• Inspiring Leader (3/3)
• Ossified Essence (Key Passive)

This build will only come into play after you’ve crossed level 50, so there’s no specific skill unlock order. 

Book of the Dead setup for Bone Spirit Necromancer

• Skeletal Warrior: Reaper. Choose the upgrade where they have a 15% chance to carve the flesh of enemies, forming a corpse.
• Skeletal Mages: Bone. Sacrifice them to increase your Overpower Damage by 30%.
• Golem: Iron. Sacrifice them to get increased Critical Strike damage.

How to play the Bone Spirit Necromancer

The Bone Spirit build is an all-around damage dealer. Not only does it have a high single-target damage, you can also use it to wipe out groups of enemies instantly.

The gameplay loop for this build is as follows:

Blood Surge – Raise Skeleton – Corpse Tendrils – Decrepify – Bone Prison – Bone Spirit

Blood Surge is your key skill and will help you create corpses to raise skeletons. From the corpses that your skeletons create, use Corpse Tendrils pull enemies together. Then hit them with Decrepify to proc the Lucky Hit crowd control bonus and use Bone Prison to make them vulnerable. Finally, trigger Bone Spirit to explode everything in one shot.

Although this gameplay loop is slightly hard to master, it’s one of the hardest hitters in the game. You can sacrifice your Skeletal Warriors to get more damage output but that’s a riskier choice.

Best Legendary Aspects

The following Uniques are also important for this build to work: 

• Harlequin Crest: It’s the best in slot helmet for this build because it gives damage reduction and +4 to all skills.
• Banished Lord’s Talisman: The Bone Spirit Necromancer build is crafted around this Unique because it’ll ensure that all your skills will overpower once you’ve spent 275 Essence.
• Blood Moon Breaches: This works in tandem with the Banished Lord’s Talisman and gives you damage multipliers when you overpower the enemy.

Best Paragon Boards

When creating this build, make sure you build into the Willpower and Intelligence stat. Furthermore, when considering the Gems, use Amethyst on your weapons for additional Critical Strike Chance, Diamond on your Jewellery for increased Elemental Resistance, and Ruby on your Armor for increased Maximum Health.