Diablo 4 Necro Army Of The Dead

[Lutgarda Briseno]

Incombat, there are occasionally pickups not too dissimilar to the health globes that grant temporary perks for the character. These certainly encouraged me to keep moving around a little in order to pick up these power-ups and give the Necromancer a unique twist in the core gameplay that all the other previously released character classes share.

From there, things fall into place for the Necromancer, focusing on blood and curse magic as well as raising an army of the undead to do my bidding. Runes are also a huge factor in how the spells worked, with certain combinations being ridiculously fun to use.

As an example, my current build has skeletons that go into a frenzy upon activating the ability, two mages that spring up for a short time that deplete all of my essence, accumulated by attacking foes with primary skills, and a spell that raises the defeated enemies to turn them on their allies. Best of all, that last spell turns them back into corpses when it runs out, but they can be re-reanimated should I so wish.

Liking this so far. Needed a reason to revisit and a new character along with new trophies was the incentive I was after. Calling up bone spikes that send body parts flying and exploding the corpses left behind just creates a satisfying screen of bloody carnage

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The chosen few have had their time, but now it's time for the full release of Diablo 4, which means everyone and anyone is jumping in and trying out the game in its entirety. However if you're keen on experiencing the game at its most horrific, you need to check out our best Diablo 4 Necromancer build.

Below you'll be able to find our recommendations on the best necromancer skills to use, as well as where to invest your skill points and Book of the Dead options if you want to perform at your peak. We've also included which legendary aspects you should be using!

Whether its bone focused with high crit, corpse focused with a devestating AOE clear, or even a summoner focused on raising a personal army of undead minions. No matter which direction you go, the Necromancer is brilliant.

For this Necromancer build, we're taking you to the bone zone. That means bone spells, high damage, high crit, and an undead army that will both protect you and add even more calcified projectiles to your volley or projectiles. It's a ranged build, and one that will be able to mow through anything you run into in the game.

We've listed out each skill upgrade you should take for your Necromancer in order as you power towards the level 50. You can gain additional skill points as you progress through the game from Altars of Lilith, but we'll list out where you can invest these below:

For this Diablo 4 Necromancer build to excel, you'll want to head out and hunt down the following legendary aspects. You can use them to craft and use legendary gear, that'll provide some incredibly useful bonuses:

No one remembers his real name. Most do not even know where he hails from. What little we do know are stories of a simple family man who lived a simple life. Farmer, trader, and not one for venturing away from his home. But who would venture out when you have everything you need? A warm house, a strong, growing son, and a loving wife.

The stories tell of his complete devotion to his wife. She was his meaning for living and his meaning to work hard, to provide for his family. But some stories do not end well at all... Both his wife and son were stricken with disease. An unknown ailment that proved to be fatal... One could not imagine the grief of losing his one meaning for living and his own son. So a journey began to search for the secret to life. He began searching for magics he had heard rumors of, magics that could maybe, just maybe bring his wife and son back to him.

The journey brought the man to Skyrim, a land of ancient knowledge and power that had potential to bring his family back to the land of the living. Anger, grief, and a righteous greed to regain what he had lost. He had made his way to a mysterious stone. It was said that once touched, the stone granted the person with "dark" gifts. A gift that was rumored to raise the dead to once again walk among the living. A darkness was said to fall over the man, which made him forget. Forgetting his family, forgetting his wife, and forgetting his purpose, the man had but been taken by the darkness ... he had been taken by The Ritual Stone ...

Sure, we have all seen masters of the undead. Different character builds that dabble in necromancy and raising corpses to destroy enemies. I even took a crack at trying my own version of an evil, undead monster The Fearmonger. This is more of a traditional look at what a necromancer is all about: raising the dead as well as decaying the mind and body. Using a "trick" I have experimented with before, I have created a character concept that can adapt his undead army to his liking, always changing the powerful possibilities of combat using undead minions ... and extremely strong minions, too!

This character class and concept is probably one of my favorites. Raising and controlling the undead is a very satisfying aspect of any game that includes it, and Skyrim is no different. The one limiting aspect of a Skyrim necromancer is that you cannot raise permanent undead minions until you reach 100 in Conjuration. Until then, you can raise humanoids and animals alike for a limited amount of time (60 and 120s). Another downside is that when these minions "time out" they will turn to ash, rendering that corpse useless. That is where a certain item and certain standing stone come into play.

The Aetherial Crown. Unmatched in it's power when applied to a necromancer! The Aetherial Crown allows the wearer to have TWO standing stones active at once: one stone that is applied to the player and one stone that is applied to the crown itself. With this in mind, the player is able to store The Ritual Stone in the crown itself which can be manipulated for immense amounts of power. The crown can be un-equipped and re-equipped (nothing new as it is a known trick) in order for the Ritual Stone's power to be usable again and again and again ... a proper way to play a necromancer!

Before getting into the choice of perk trees, I want to let you know that is not some destruction-spell slinging, totally evil lord of darkness. Destruction and ice spells have been linked with necromancers for a long time and I just don't understand it. As a necromancer, you instead are the master of the mind and decay, capable of infecting your enemies thoughts as well as dishing out slow acting poisons through spells and powerful potions.

Every necromancer I have seen is this all powerful, unbeatable dark force of death. Necromancy is normally frowned upon, yes, but this is not some invincible devil build. I will admit, once things get going, you will be trucking through just about every fight and it is AWESOME, but I have not added one stat point into health. In gaining dark gifts, you are weak and feeble. You have your magic and your mind to do the muscle work!

Conjuration: The mainstay of any necromancer build, so this choice goes without saying. This skill tree allows for cutting down on conjuration costs, longer undead summon durations, a big +100 health boost to raised undead, and the ability to raise two undead minions at once.

Illusion: The necromancer is a master of the mind. Along with the obvious choice of conjuration, illusion is quite possibly even more important as you will read in the gameplay section. This skill allows the necromancer to frenzy your enemies to provide corpses for his needs, creating chaos and keeping enemy weapons away from your feeble frame and low health. Illusion also allows for insane amount of health boosts to your minions.

Alchemy: Necromancer's are agents of decay. You take from the world of the living, plucking living things from the earth and gather ingredients to mix into powerful, debilitating poisons. Strong poisons combined with the concentrated poison perk allows for two, quick dagger strikes as a last resort when in a tough battle. Paralyze and weakness to poison potions are invaluable when a strong-armed bandit is charging you without minions to help in your defense.

Restoration: The magic school of restoration has many uses: healing oneself, regenerating magicka and stamina, as well as the all power perk Necromage, which allows our undead selves to have boosted spell effects! This magic school also has the new fun Poison Rune spell which enhances the necromancer's power to eat away at living flesh from afar.

Enchanting: Necromancer's are masters of enchanting. Using the trapped souls of slain enemies, you can imbue your apparel and weapons with powerful enchantments. Some notable enchantments:

Sneak: Having never really needed to sneak passed many enemies, this skill is great with only one perk investment. Since you are wearing clothes for the most part, enemies will have a hard time hearing you, especially with a silent casted muffle spell. Sneaking proves beneficial early on when your illusion spells cannot meddle with the undead yet and you need to be away from danger.

(Destruction:) This school is only useful for one perk: Rune Master. The Poison Rune spell is extremely helpful from afar, as the poison damage stacks each time, so having the rune master perk allows for casting it 5x further away keeping you at a safe distance. I only used trainers to level destruction enough to attain this perk.

Illusion spells: Courage, Rally, and Call to Arms stack. Yes, their effects stack. I am sure many people knew this, but this opens up extreme potential for an undead army.

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