Best Necromancer build in Diablo 4 Season 5 for levelling & endgame

If you want to know how to build a Necromancer in Diablo 4 Season 5, make sure to keep reading as we explain everything you need to do in order to become powerful.

Harry Boulton

08th Aug 2024 14:32

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The Necromancer is arguably the strongest solo class in Diablo 4, and was one of the strongest overall in Loot Reborn, but is it still strong going into the Season of the Infernal Hordes?

If commanding an army of the undead or wielding bone and blood magic sounds like your ideas of a good time, this is the class for you - and the best builds listed below are the perfect way to go ahead!

Best Necromancer build in Diablo 4

Image of two Necromancers in Diablo 4

This particular build that has come out on top is called the Minion build. This is a very passive way to approach the game and is perfect as you climb the levels - especially if you're new to the game and class.

As the name suggests the class involves using an army of your own creation, which essentially does all of the work for you. You'll be protected with ease and carried by your skeletal friends in any dungeon or boss fight, making the game a cakewalk.

Minion Necromancer build skills & abilities

Minion Necromancer Active Skills list

Ability Type	Active Ability
Summoning	Raise Skeleton Golem
Core	Blood Surge (5/5 Paranormal)
Corpse & Macabre	Blood Mist (1/5 Ghastly) Corpse Tendrils (1/5 Plagued)
Curse	Iron Maiden (1/5 Enhanced)
Ultimate	Army of the Dead

As you can see, these Active Skills focus very much on creating an incredibly effective army and clustering enemies to deal with them effectively.

It has very few weaknesses overall, outside of not quite matching the damage numbers of some more focused and active builds.

Infinimist Necromancer Passive Skills list


Ability Type	Passive Ability
Core	Unliving Energy (1/3)
Core	Imperfectly Balanced (3/3)
Core	Hewed Flesh (3/3)
Corpse & Macabre	Spiked Armour (2/3)
Corpse & Macabre	Skeletal Warrior Mastery (3/3)
Corpse & Macabre	Grim Harvest (1/3)
Corpse & Macabre	Fueled by Death (3/3)
Curse	Death's Embrace (3/3)
Curse	Amplify Damage (3/3)
Curse	Death's Approach (3/3)
Curse	Skeletal Mage Mastery (3/3)
Corpse & Macabre	Necrotic Carapace (3/3)
Ultimate	Golem Mastery (3/3)
Ultimate	Inspiring Leader (3/3)
Ultimate	Hellbent Commander (3/3)
Key Passive	Kalan's Edict

As you can probably imagine, the most important passives here are those that boost your summoned Minions, as they'll essentially be doing the job for you.

Kalan's Edict as the Key Passive is also super strong, as you'll ideally have as many Minions active at any one time, and as such their attack speed will be greatly enhanced.

Book of the Dead

Minion Type	Category
Skeletal Warriors	Reapers
Skeletal Mages	Cold
Golems	Blood

Minion Necromancer item stats list

Image of two Necromancers holding a book in Diablo 4

When working towards the best Necromancer class build in Diablo 4 Season 5, you're going to want to be looking out for various item stat boosts to enhance your character further, whether you are playing in the Eternal realm or in one of the new seasons.

Thankfully, we've listed all of the key ones to keep your eyes on below to avoid any confusion, so make sure to prioritise those when you get any new weapons, armour, or jewellery:

Weapons

Critical Strike Damage
Damage
Maximum Life
Vulnerable Damage
Intelligence

Armor

Cooldown Reduction
Golem/Skeletal Mage Mastery Ranks
Maximum Life
Critical Strike Chance
Attack Speed
Movement Speed
Intelligence

Jewellery

Ranks to Golem Mastery / Skeletal Mage Mastery / Hellbent Commander
Critical Strike Chance
Maximum Life
Intelligence
Cooldown Reduction

Recommended Legendary Aspects

Here are all of the Legendary Aspects that work well with the Minion Necromancer build:

Legendary Aspect	Location
Blood-bathed	Hoarfrost Demise (Fractured Peaks)
Disobedience	Halls of the Damned (Kehjistan)
Grasping Veins	Corrupted Grotto (Kehjistan)
Reanimation	Aldurwood (Scosglen)
Unyielding Commander's	Faceless Shrine (Hawezar)

Reanimation is arguably the strongest one that you can equip for this build, as it increases your Minions' damage by 25-40% after they've been alive for at least 10 seconds. As you'll have a whole army of Minions it's likely that most will stay afloat, making them even stronger across the board.

Unyielding Commander's Aspect is also essential as we're using Army of the Dead, as your Minions' damage is increased by 70-100% while their incoming damage taken is reduced by 90% - yes, you read that right! This only further incentivises using the skill, so it's definitely one to consider.

How good is the Necromancer?

Looking at our tier list, the Necromancer has scaled back up to an S tier in solo content, and a B tier in group content, meaning they are an incredibly viable class still going into Season 5.

They continue to be incredibly strong class which can do a lot of damage and also have great survivability. I found a lot of joy when using the Necromancer in the Helltide, as the sheer number of enemies was easy to take down by using the abilities at my disposal.

If the Necromancer isn't quite your thing though, you should definitely check out all of our other build guides instead:

About The Author

Harry Boulton

Harry is a Guides Writer at GGRecon, having completed a Masters of Research degree in Film Studies. Previously a freelance writer for PCGamesN, The Loadout, and Red Bull Gaming, he loves playing a wide variety of games from the Souls series to JRPGs, Counter-Strike, and EA FC. When not playing or writing about games and hardware, you're likely to find him watching football or listening to Madonna and Kate Bush.

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