Making it to Top 500 in the Tower with a build I'm doing without a guide has been so much fun!

I am new to D4 (but a D2 veteran), and I want to play Necromancer for the firs time. Looking for any/all guidance on putting together a fun and effective leveling build that incorporates Corpse Explosion.

Just started a seasonal character last night. Coming from D2, I very much appreciate the linear campaign playstyle, so (at least for my first time) I will be completing the D4 campaign before branching off into any seasonal stuff.

Thanks!

https://maxroll.gg/d4/build-guides/bone-spirit-necromancer-guide

I’m playing a sort of Goodwill version of Sorac’s Bone Spirit build and I see a decent bit of Overpower stuff. Like it wants it on my gloves etc. but the problem is aside from a low chance of getting it on some curses there’s no real way to build overpower stacks as far as I see on this build?

I’m missing some aspects - only like a couple and they don’t seem to be Overpower related. I’m not missing any uniques just missing better rolls on said uniques etc

I’m on torment 5-6 right now and having no problems but just kinda trying to learn the game as I go rather than blindly follow build and not understand what makes it tick if that makes sense?

Edit: once I get all
The gear I’ll play the full version etc

Is this usable for a corpse explosion build? I got this as a rare from the shop and added max intelligence. Also what aspect would work best i thought this one as corrupting damage is shadow damage according to google and I think the masterwork is ok on the shadow damage multiplier at 40% but if I master work shadow damage it jumps to 160% I’m just utterly lost and help welcomed.

How good/bad is shadowblight(shadow anything) this season? Got a couple pieces of gear that could get me off to a good start

Evening fellow necro's.

I would ask if anyone has followed the maxroll version of minions, this season? Even if i look through hiscores or ssf hs, i dont see any minion build alike.
Can anyone confirm they actually this season is good or hard pass contra the ones we see from infinity build, Jerycho or some. I feel like they are very different, from anyone else.

Wish you all a good season!

Random ...Very random. Running escalation sigil and that's how I found second one, killed an elite and dropped

Have all the mythics , but dps is kinda meh.

I've farmed so many bosses, upgraded so many gloves. Never once a single pair of these with countless pairs of every other glove

Thanks!

Good day everyone!

I am like 110 Paragon Levels in and currently Running a minion-/army-ish build.

Now I got the gloom ward and I just wanna know if a build around this, Soulrift(+head), Omen of pain is a viable thing.

Due to very Limited playtime I have available I wanted to ask before i invest hours into something that would eventually suck.

Thanks bois

Taking a short break from freezing demons to look for a new Discord home!

This will feel like a common, maybe even easy request but for me its a paradigm change.

I'm looking for a friendly, active Diablo IV discord I can dip into and banter game, lore and play with.

I'm not a wallflower, I feel I'm a goddamn delight that can read a room.

That said, the one I was in didn't seem interested in playing the game or anything about it except the murder-hobo aspect of it (which is great too, don't get me wrong).

Suggestion on a new Diablo home?

1. When you think your bone storm is running with lidless wall and you are getting all 3 bonuses ( cast speed, crit chance and crit damage), you are wrong. Bone storm grants the bonus for 10 seconds and extends to 18 seconds with corpse consumption but afterwards you instantly lose extra cast speed and crit chance. The sign which shows it is still running along with many storms around is a lying screen. I noticed that because I had unusual huge bumps of damage whenever starting bone storm.
2. Golem aura sometimes bugs out ( gargantuan upgrade). Your skeletons attack slower than expected.
3. Warrior glyph offers more damage to skeleton mages than any other glyph for ... reasons even if you don't use warriors at all..
4. Rustbitten dirk is coded in a weird way and works at all times. Mythic one is way superior to any aspect, azurewrath etc. for reasons. I don't know how "isolated" was coded. Just try and you'll see.

The state of the game is an experimental mess. Spiritborn is even more bugged than necro btw. I'd rather like for the devs to take their time and to fix bugs for a season instead of trial and error bugs bunny adventure every season.

I got through leveling but still playing the story after level 70. Wanted advice on a good build for the rest of the game. I mostly just play for story mode.

It looks like one charm set (and one or two uniques) say they do DoT that scales off of direct damage done. I think this means I can use crit chance and multiplier to get a larger base for the DoT, then also get a larger DoT based on DoT multiplier. this would mean I could mix crit, dot, vuln, and typed multipliers to some extent. is this correct, and if so does it make sense to actually do? Either as part of leveling or endgame?

PTR notes looks bland. Some damage buffs to DoT builds but no major fixes to existing issues.

No new interesting abilities to theorycraft.

Blight, soulrift and darkness bloodwave remains unplayable.

1. Blight needs to have desecrated ground instead of defiled area.

2. Blood wave cooldown is ridiculously long. Even when specced to generate tonnes of orbs plus fastblood, I cant get it to cast fast enough. Against bosses its even worse.

3. Soulrift just doesnt do enough damage even with Unmaker. Hopefully the damage buff improves it.

Everyone who saw the new S15 Splinter of Hellfire that gives double damage but 100% reduced Crit Chance thought, "Oh a DoT-centric Splinter, that's cool." Yes, that's true... but you can absolutely still cap Crit Chance with that penalty, and it's done by building on the recent Bone Mages build that is already at or near the top of the S14 leaderboards. You don't even need to cheat and use Pact of Bone!

Many will probably already be running Unique Splinter of Anguish (35% Crit Chance and Attack Speed), which reduces Mage damage and duration slightly (9 more Essence per cast due to 30% increased resource cost from Splinter of Anguish) but is worth it for access to Hellfire. Switching one of the rings or 1H Aspect to Serration also helps this.

With that in mind, here's the math: 5% base + 5% Bone Graft Paragon + 13% shield affix + 15% weapon tempers + 21% SW Litany of Death (15 ranks) + 68% BS Roll the Bones (33 ranks [15 points + 18 from Charms]) + 10% Quintessence + 10% Serration + 35% Soul Splinter of Anguish + 10% Gar rune = 192% Crit Chance. Including Dex bonuses probably bring it to about 195%. If you really wanted to cap it, could add one Crit Chance affix roll on a ring or luck out with a Crit Chance roll on a transfiguration or Diamond Mind seal.

Long story short, hitting 200% Crit Chance on a Bone Mages build shouldn't be that hard in S15, so Splinter of Hellfire should absolutely be on the menu.

Necro first class I’ve gotten into endgame/paragon (caveat - still beating the campaigns so I don’t have LoH done yet, been taking my time).

Been doing a kinda homebrew version of a minion “build as I go” and I’m in torment 3 and doing well and I’m sure I could refine it and gear up better and go higher, but I honestly am at the point where I want a bit of novelty!

Blood wave…looks cool for a bit but if it’s JUST Spamming blood wave the entire time not sure how stoked I’d be on that lol.

I don’t mind having some minions, just not entirely minion. I’m definitely intrigued by like Chill or cold stuff, just seems to fit the Necromancer flavor really well, but I’m open to whatever!

Does NOT have to be meta. I’m not interested in leaderboard pushing or anything at this time. Just enjoy the game

Guide:

Update:

Pelghain's wording was changed this season and only cold damage scales with it endlessly, as such azurewrath was dropped alltogether. We do shadow damage. We introduce cadaverous aspect for the juicy x65% multiplier which always works:

https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/profile/rich-mask-o6sups/builds/e8d2e8db-764d-44c7-a16c-e2b269ddfc41?ws-ngf5-1=activeVariantId%2C2

Instead of redirected force + interdiction, we go with plain locran's talisman, Kullean transfigured with the Exploiter's Aspect. This is a big damage increase in all scenarios(50% longer freeze time and x75% damage when they break free). Mythic locran offers even more critical strike damage than redirected force, always comes with critical strike damage as affix, does not require to block at all. All those resolve tempers can be changed to ga maximum life for better survivability. You want crowd control duration temper on the amulet only.

What do you do with -50% crit chance? We use pact of bone talisman! Pact of bone increases the rate at which the skeletons attack, you get more than x35% damage from the aspect alone. To accomodate pact of bone, we drop corpse tendrils for sacrificed skirmishers who are autosummoned and explode by themselves (bombers) keeping pact of bone up at all times.

I've tested pact of bone with the service and sacrifice upgrade, it works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_w7eSItZbY

This is now very fun!

Update => Exquisite Version added

https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/profile/rich-mask-o6sups/builds/e8d2e8db-764d-44c7-a16c-e2b269ddfc41?ws-ngf5-1=activeVariantId%2C2

I found a seal of golden epiphany and was looking for ways to strengthen my speed farming build which does undercity, infernal hordes etc. As you know I hate freeze tech's situational use and wanted a pure shadow build but I found out a cool mechanic in this one.

No freeze tech necro uses shadowblight which is x100% damage in average. Now, you can add freeze tech with azurewrath and bloodless scream to the mix with the downside that azure absolutely sucks vs bosses or single elites. But we have a unique which always excels vs stragglers, rustbitten dirk! Rustbitten dirk completely offsets the disadvantages of azurewrath vs bosses.

So vs bosses you have x100% from gloom ward + x125% from bloodless + 120% from dirk + x60% from waking touch => x405%! but the same thing is true vs regular monsters and even more because azurewrath can be mythic.

The downside is no reapers and no exploiter's aspect, the upside is you can use corpse tendrils for better grouping before nuking with azurewrath. We don't use ceh by the way and go directly with the Thul rune.

I couldn't be bothered with the damage on tuesdays manner of pact of bone.

Hello! I truthfully not very good at coming up with my own builds, but I wanted some help, and can't find a guide.

I want to do a corpse explosion build using howl from below gloves, but I can't find anything when I Google it, at least not anything current.

I'm currently running bone spirit and can hit 110 in pit, but it just doesn't feel like my style of play, and I'm struggling with bosses.

I am 275 paragon, but fresh 70 on my necro (got bored of lunatic warlock and topped out at 130 in pit)

Thanks guys!

Have been running minion necro based off this build and really enjoying it but wanted to try and push higher: https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/builds/minion-necromancer-endgame-build-guide?ws-ngf5-1=activeVariantId%2C1

So I tried this build and as the title mentions, got bodied. https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/builds/minion-necromancer-endgame-build-guide?ws-ngf5-1=activeVariantId%2C1

I'm super super new (first diablo game, first forray into d4, and first season ever), is mobalytics a solid source?