Necromancer is still a very popular class in Diablo 4 Season 8 due to its powerful abilities. If you want to use it at the beginning of the new season, a suitable build is essential, which can help you pass the level quickly and make full use of Boss Powers.
Finding a suitable build sounds easy, but don’t forget that Necromancer has many builds to choose from, and it is not easy to build a leveling build that has both.
If you are a new player who has just entered this season, this build guide may help you enter the endgame smoothly, because it uses a mixture of Blood Surge and minion skills, ensuring powerful damage while also having high survivability, and does not require too many unique Diablo 4 items, so it is very friendly to beginners.
Blood Surge Necromancer Leveling Build
This build mainly uses Blood Surge and Skeletal Minions as a source of damage. This skill set is a good upgrade for your AoE and single-target needs. Besides, we recommend the following skills:
- Enhanced Hemorrhage: Basic Essence Generator that’s good for all situations.
- Paranormal Blood Surge: With the upgrade, you can trigger Overpower once every 5 attacks on average.
- Raise Skeleton: After all Skeletons are summoned, Raise Skeleton will briefly summon a Skeletal Priest, which buffs your minions for 5 seconds, increasing their damage by 20% and healing them for 10% of their maximum health.
- Ghastly Bone Prison: It can weaken elites and bosses in Bone Prison, and becomes an excellent Essence generator after upgrading.
- Horrid Iron Maiden: Deals damage to enemies over time, and any enemies or minions that attack you will also be damaged. Horrid upgrade lets Iron Maiden restore Essence when it curses targets.
- Supreme Soulrift: Excellent AoE damage effect that grants your Essence and weakens enemies. Activate it to use almost unlimited Blood Surge.
This build is simple to use. Just walk up to an enemy, cast Blood Surge, and then use Essence-generating skills so that you can continue to cast Blood Surge. Then, use Soulrift when fighting a large group of elite monsters or bosses, and then use Blood Surge again until Essence is exhausted.
Please note that low-level gear only has the most basic skills. If you want to achieve more powerful skills, you need to upgrade your gear. You can buy Diablo 4 gold to realize these wishes quickly.
However, you should first upgrade Blood Surge to level 5 as soon as possible to greatly increase your damage. In addition, you can also upgrade Soulrift and spend the remaining points on Passives as you see fit.
Key Passives
- Unliving Energy (3)
- Skeletal Warrior Mastery (3)
- Skeletal Mage Mastery (3)
- Amplify Damage (3)
- Death’s Embrace (3)
- Coalesced Blood (3)
- Tides of Blood (3)
- Drain Vitality (3)
- Transfusion (3)
- Rathma’s Vigor
The synergy of Drain Vitality, Tides of Blood, Coalesced Blood, Rathma’s Vigor, and Transfusion will give you a huge damage bonus. Next, you just need to stay Healthy and Fortified, and make sure to pick up Blood Orbs spawned by Hemorrhage and Blood Surge.
Boss Powers
The core of the new seasonal mechanic is to use Boss Powers, which you will gain after defeating a World Boss, Ladder Boss, or Seasonal Event Boss.
Each Boss Power has different Main Powers and Modifiers, which will give you unique effects and powerful attribute bonuses.
Blood Surge Necromancer does not necessarily need to use Boss Powers to build, but since they will be used sooner or later, you might as well try these items:
- Ashava’s Poison Breath (Main Power): It can be dropped by the world boss Ashava. When your attack encounters an enemy with a continuous damage effect, it will emit a wave of poison.
- Beastmaster’s Training (Modifier): Dropped by Beastmaster in Incursion events. It increases the damage of your summoned minions based on your critical hits.
- Hatred Embrace’s Hate (Modifier): It can be dropped by Hatred’s Embrace during Incursion events. It can gain additional critical hit rate based on your Shadow Resistance.
Runewords
You can use this build without Runewords in this game. But if you have enough Diablo 4 Gold, equipping the right Runewords can really give your build a nice boost. Here are some wonderful combinations:
- CirLum: Regenerates Essence after casting 5 skills.
- ZanTec: When casting Soulrift, you can also call upon Barbarian’s Earthquake skill.
- CemQua: Gain movement speed when Evade.
Aspects And Gears
This build requires Blood-bathed Aspect, which allows Blood Surge to release nova effect in your Amulet. In the early game, you probably don’t have many Aspects to choose from, so it doesn’t matter if you only use one. But to get the most out of this build, here are some things to keep in mind:
- Aspect of Occult Dominion
- Aspect Of Reanimation
- Aspect Of Rathma’s Chosen
As for item stats, the most important one is Essence per second, as it makes it easier to cast Blood Surge when Soulrift is not active, saving a lot of time. Also, higher Essence per second can help you remove Hemorrhage and use Corpse Tendrils or Blood Mist instead.
For other gear stats, just focus on survivability and damage. Equipment that can improve skills and passive abilities is also good, it all depends on your choice.
The above is the best leveling build for Necromancer with Blood Surge. This build works well in both the early and late game and can help you upgrade to level 60 efficiently.