More top-tier Necromancer builds in Diablo 4: Leveling & endgame in Season 3

Not warming to our main best Necromancer build in Diablo 4? Then here are some alternative best Necromancer builds for you to sink your undead teeth into, including both leveling and endgame in Season 3.

Diablo 4 has lots of macabre and sadistic builds that can be created for Sanctuary’s Priests of Rathma, and many will see you safely through the game and into the vast endgame content. While we’ve already covered what we believe to be the best Necromancer build in Diablo 4 for both leveling and endgame, below we’ve included some alternative builds that are also worth your time in Season 3.

This way, you’ll have the best possible choice when it comes to picking the best builds for the Necromancer in Diablo 4, especially when it comes to choosing a leveling build, or a build to tackle the endgame – which is where the game gets really spicey. Here’s our alternative best Necromancer builds in Diablo 4 Season 3.

Contents

• Best Alternative Necromancer leveling build
• Best Alternative Necromancer endgame build

Best Diablo 4 Necromancer build for leveling

Diablo 4’s Necromancer has lots of boney builds to use in the current meta, but we found the Blight Corpse Explosion Necromancer to be among the best when it comes to leveling in Season 3.

Here are the skills you’ll need to select to craft this rather gross but powerful build:

Level	Skill
2	Bone Splinters (then Reap when able)
3	Enhanced Bone Splinters (then Enhanced Reap when able)
4	Blight (then Acolytes Reap)
5	Enhanced Blight
6	Supernatural Blight
7	Initiates Bone Splinters
8	Blight
9	Blight
10	Blight
11	Blight
12	Skeletal Warrior Mastery
13	Skeletal Warrior Mastery
14	Skeletal Warrior Mastery
15	Corpse Explosion
16	Enhanced Corpse Explosion
17	Plagued Corpse Explosion (Then Blighted CE when able)
18	Corpse Tendrils
19	Enhanced Corpse Tendrils
20	Plagued Corpse Tendrils
21	Unliving Energy
22	Imperfectly
23	Imperfectly
24	Imperfectly
25	Army of the Dead
26	Prime Army of the Dead
27	Supreme Army of the Dead
28	Corpse Explosion
29	Corpse Explosion
30	Corpse Explosion
31	Corpse Explosion
32	Grim Harvest
33	Fueled by Death
34	Hewed Flesh
35	Shadowblight
36	Grim Harvest
37	Grim Harvest
38	Hewed Flesh
39	Hewed Flesh
40	Fueled by Death
41	Fueled by Death
42	Reapers Pursuit
43	Gloom
44	Gloom
45	Gloom
46	Terror
47	Terror
48	Terror
49	Crippling Darkness
50	First Paragon point
Renown 1	Skeletal Mage
Renown 2	Skeletal Mage
Renown 3	Skeletal Mage
Renown 4	Necrotic Carapace
Renown 5	Necrotic Carapace
Renown 6	Necrotic Carapace
Renown 7	Inspiring Leader
Renown 8	Death’s Defense
Renown 9	Death’s Defense
Rebown 10	Death’s Defense

Book of the Dead

When it comes to using the Necromancer’s unique Book of the Dead skills, we recommend doing the following:

• Level 1: ‍Raise Skeleton
• Level 5: ‍Skeletal Warriors – Skirmishers
• Level 15: ‍Skeletal Mages – Shadow
• Level 18: ‍Skeletal Mages – Cold
• Level 25: ‍Golems – Bone (After the quest that unlocks this skill)

This Book of the Dead setup is the best way to support your build, making it a minion-heavy style that also lets the Necromancer deal damage up close and from afar.

Legendary Aspects

While there are many great Legendary Aspects in the Codex of Power that will help this build, there are three in particular that you need to prioritize for this build. Here’s what they are and where to find them:

• Blighted Offensive Aspect – (Akkhans’s Grasp, Hawezar)
• Offensive Aspect of the Umbral – (Champion’s Demise – Dry Steppes)
• Aspect of Grasping Veins – (Corrupted Grotto – Kehjistan)

Each one will essentially buff your damage in various ways and make your build even more deadly.

We’d recommend not imprinting these Aspects on your weapons, as you’re likely to replace these many times on your Leveling journey. Instead, add offensive Aspects to your jewelry, this way, it can continue to serve you well into endgame.

Seneschal Companion stones

To get the best out of the Seneschal Companion for this build, try to find and equip the following Governing and Turning Stones:

• Tempest (Governing)
• Registered Damage Support (Turning)
• Arching Support (Turning)
• Tactical Support (Turning)
  
• Gyrate (Governing)
• Resource Support (Turning)
• Initiative Support (Turning)
• Safeguard Support (Turning)

Best Necromancer endgame build

Once you get past level 50 and have seen the ending of Diablo 4, you’ll enter the endgame content. This means the build you used to reach this point may no longer be suitable, and to really make the most of the endgame content, you’ll need an endgame build.

You can stick with your current build, but if you want to be at the top of the meta pile, then this below endgame build for the Necromancer will be exactly what you need.

Remember, this is an endgame build, so it assumes you’ve already unlocked all your stat and Renown points, for example, in this case, you can ignore any repecs within the build – because you already have the points. If not, then follow it like a leveling build until you have and make the necessary respecs to get all the below skills.

Here’s one of the best endgame Necromancer builds in Diablo 4 Season 3 currently, the Blood Surge Necromancer:

Active Skills	Passive Skills
Hemorrhage	Rathma’s Vigor
Blood Surge	Drain Vitality
Blood Mist	Transfusion
Decreptify	Hewed Flesh
Corpse Tendrils	–
Bone Storm	–

Book of the Dead

When it comes to using the Necromancer’s unique Book of the Dead skills, we recommend doing the following:

• Level 1: ‍Raise Skeleton
• Level 5: ‍Skeletal Warriors – Skirmishers
• Level 12: ‍Skeletal Warriors – Reapers
• Level 15: ‍Skeletal Mages – Cold
• Level 25: Select ‍Golems – Bone
• Level 31: Sacrifice ‍Golems – Bone

This Book of the Dead setup is the best way to support this build, making it a minion-heavy style that also lets the Necromancer deal damage up close and from afar.

Legendary Aspects

While there are many great Legendary Aspects in the Codex of Power that will help this build, there are three in particular that you need to prioritize for this build. Here’s what they are and where to find them:

• Blighted Offensive Aspect – (Akkhans’s Grasp, Hawezar)
• Offensive Aspect of the Umbral – (Champion’s Demise – Dry Steppes)
• Aspect of Grasping Veins – (Corrupted Grotto – Kehjistan)

Each one will essentially buff your damage in various ways and make your build even more deadly.

We’d recommend not imprinting these Aspects on your weapons, as you’re likely to replace these many times on your Leveling journey. Instead, add offensive Aspects on armor and gear you can always upgrade and make use of.

Paragon Board

At level 50 you’ll gain access to the Paragon Board to continue building your character to level 100. Here are the boards you need to focus on to maximize the potential of the best endgame Sorcerer build:

• Starting board
• Bone Graft board
• Scent of Death board
• Flesh Eater board

Glyphs

Here are the Glyphs we’d recommend activating as your work through the Paragon board:

• Blood-drinker
• Sacrificial
• Essence
• Control

Seneschal Companion stones

To get the best out of the Seneschal Companion for this build, try to find and equip the following Governing and Turning Stones:

• Tempest (Governing)
• Arching Support (Turning)
• Breaking Support (Turning)
• Resource Support (Turning)
  
• Flash of Adrenaline (Governing)
• Duration Support (Turning)
• Tactical Support (Turning)
• Safeguard Support (Turning)

Endgame item build

Here are the items you should aim to equip for your endgame Necromancer build in Diablo 4 Season 3:

Item name	Item type
‍Deathless Visage	Helm
Boneweave Armor of Disobedience	Chest Armor
Splintering Boneweave Gauntlets	Gloves
Temerity	Pants
Penitent Greaves	Boots
‍Two-Handed Sword of Grasping Veins	Main Hand
Storm Swell Runic Orb	Offhand
Chain of Serration	Amulet
Ring of Umbral	Ring 1
Band of Exposed Flesh	Ring 2

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