The best build for the Necromancer is the Bone Spirit in Diablo 4. The skill has an explosive character, and we will show you a strong build that will allow you to handle the content well.
What kind of build is this? The Bone Spirit build for the Necromancer can, when applied correctly, gather opponents and then blast them into the air with a disastrous explosion. Usually, one explosion is enough to annihilate your enemies. This build is especially suitable for solo players who want to farm in the open world of Sanctuary. In Season 6, the Bone Spirit build is one of the strongest builds for the endgame in Diablo 4.
Necromancer Bone Spirit Build: Skills and Book of the Dead
These are the skills you need:
- Basic Skills:
- Bone Shard 2/2
- Core Skills:
- Tormented Flesh 1/3
- Undead Energy 3/3
- Out of Balance 3/3
- Corpse Skills/ Macabre Skills 1:
- Gruesome Blood Mist 1/5
- Corpse Explosion 1/5
- Gruesome Bone Prison 1/5
- Powerful Death 3/3
- Fall of the Titan 3/3
- Curse Skills
- Abominable Aging 1/5
- Enhanced Damage 3/3
- Embrace of Death 3/3
- Proximity of Death 2/3
- Precision Decay 3/3
- Corpse Skills/ Macabre Skills 2:
- Infected Corpse Vines 1/5
- Frightening Bone Spirit 5/5
- Necrotic Armor 3/3
- Tooth-Encrusted 2/3
- Open Fracture 3/3
- Rapid Ossification 3/3
- Ripping 3/3
- Ultimate Skills:
- Supreme Soul Tear 5/5
- Standing Alone 1/3
- Memento Mori 3/3
- Inspiring Leader 3/3
- Central Passive Skill:
- Bone Essence
Skill Bar: Blood Mist, Soul Tear, Corpse Vines, Corpse Explosion, Bone Spirit, Bone Prison
Book of the Dead:
- Skeleton Warrior: Sacrifice Skirmishers
- Skeleton Mage: Sacrifice Bones
- Golem: Sacrifice Iron
Necromancer Bone Spirit Build: Gameplay
How to play the build: With Bone Prison, you trap enemy groups in an area, and each captured enemy regenerates essence for you. The unique boots Path of Trag’Oul ensure that Bone Shards are shot at the trapped monsters.
Additionally, you unleash your Bone Spirit on the prison to eliminate the opponents. This way, you gain essence again and reduce your cooldown for the skill when you hit critically.
Against groups and bosses, you use your ultimate skill, Soul Tear, to deal enormous damage. You also gain essence here and an additional barrier. You render opponents vulnerable and increase your damage – even after the Soul Tear ends.
Use your Corpse Vines to pull enemies together. Always use Corpse Explosions whenever you can to maintain the corpse-related buffs. If too much damage is coming your way or if you’re affected by a control effect, use your Blood Mist. If you generate corpses through Blood Mist, immediately use Corpse Explosion at that position.
To increase your armor or your resistances against certain damage types, elixirs can help you. If you forget to use them, here is a trick:
Necromancer Bone Spirit: Paragon and Glyphs
The following Paragon boards and glyphs you need:
- Starting Board, Glyph: Physical
- 2nd Board: Bone Transplant, Glyph: Essence
- 3rd Board: Flesh Eater, Glyph: Reviver
- 4th Board: Bloodbath, Glyph: Enhance
- 5th Board: Infirmity, Glyph: Eraser
Bone Spirit Build: Legendaries, Uniques, and Gems
These Legendaries & Uniques you need:
- Helmet: Aspect of Hardened Bones (Loot Drop) – when you find a Harlequin’s Crown, swap your helmet for it
- Chest: Aspect of Cursed Aura (Loot Drop)
- Gloves: Aspect of Grasping Veins (Corrupted Grotto, Kehjistan / Loot Drop)
- Pants: Blood Moon Leggings (Unique)
- Boots: Path of Trag’Oul (Unique)
- Staff: Ghost-Caught Aspect (Loot Drop)
- Focus: Sacrificial Aspect (Ruins of Eridu, Hawezar / Loot Drop)
- Amulet: Talisman of the Banished Prince (Unique)
- Ring: Soul-Crushing Aspect (Loot Drop)
- Ring: Phase Poltergeist Aspect (Loot Drop)
You can find the entrances to the dungeons on our interactive map for Diablo 4.
The best affixes:
- Intelligence
- Maximum Life
- Maximum Resource
- Ranks on macabre skills
- Ranks on core skills
- Attack Speed
- Overwhelm Damage
The best toughness affixes:
- Armor (make sure you are always at the cap of 1,000, despite reduction from torment levels)
- Duration of Soul Tear
- Overwhelm Damage
- Duration of Curse
- Movement Speed
- Cooldown reduction for Bone Prison
- Chance for Bone Spirit to deal double damage
- Casting macabre skills generates resources
- Ranks for Bone Essence
These gems you should socket:
- Armor: Topaz
- Weapons: Ruby
- Jewelry: Diamond
Bone Spirit Build: Mercenaries and Runes
These mercenaries are suitable for the build: The mercenaries who came with Vessel of Hatred support you with healing and attacks in battles. There are a total of four different mercenaries that you will meet and unlock during the campaign.
For the build, we recommend Raheir as a mercenary and Varyana for combat support:
Raheir:
- Ground Smash: Deals damage, slows down enemies, and heals you
- Fire Provocation: Taunts enemies when you use a healing potion
- Bastion: Takes damage that you would receive
- Inspiration: Buffs your damage
Varyana:
- Ancestral Harpoons: Deals massive damage, pulls enemies closer, and stuns them
- Triggered when you cast Bone Prison
These runes are suitable for the build: You can apply runes in gear with two sockets, best in the helmet and chest. The best options are:
- PocOhm: You summon the barbarian’s Battle Cry, increasing your damage
- YulXal: You gain maximum life
Good alternatives:
- Yom (instead of Ohm): You use the Druid’s “Petrify”, stunning enemies and regenerating resources
- Mot: You gain Dark Veil from the Hunter
- Zec: Reduces the cooldown of your ultimate skill
- Qua: Increases your movement speed
For the build, various Uniques are important to utilize specific affixes and enhance skills. You can receive the Uniques in various endgame activities in Diablo 4, but you can also farm them specifically from bosses on torment levels. Where to summon the bosses and what items they drop can be found here: Diablo 4 Boss Loot Table: List of all bosses and their drops in Season 6
