Best Necromancer Build (Stats, Skills, & Abilities)

Book of the Dead

Raise Skeleton

Raise a Skeleton from a Corpse to fight for you. Once all of your Skeletons have been summoned, Raise Skeleton briefly summons a Skeletal Priest to empower your Minions for 5 seconds, increasing their damage by 20% and healing them for 10% of their Maximum Life.

• Skeletal Skirmishers – You can raise one additional Skirmisher Warrior.
• Skeletal Shadow Mages – Shadow Mage attacks have a 10% chance to Stun for 2 seconds. This cannot happen on the same enemy more than once every 5 seconds.

Raise Golem

• Passive: You are protected by a Golem with 165 Life that attacks for 23% damage. The Golem absorbs 15% of damage you would take and recovers Life when attacking.
• Active: Your Golem becomes Unstoppable and drains the blood of enemies in the area, dealing 90% damage and healing 5% of its Life for each enemy drained. Damage and healing received are tripled if only one enemy is drained.

• Iron Golem – Your Iron Golem’s slam attack also makes enemies Vulnerable for 3 seconds.

Basic Skills

(4/5) Decompose

Tear the flesh from an enemy, dealing 30% damage per second and forming a usable Corpse with the flesh every 2.5 seconds.

• Enhanced Decompose – If an enemy dies while being Decomposed, you gain Essence.
• Acolyte’s Decompose – You and your Minions deal 10% increased damage to enemies who are being Decomposed.

Core Skills

(4/5) Blight

Unleash concentrated blight that deals 30% damage and leaves behind a defiled area, dealing 13% damage over 6 seconds.

• Enhanced Blight – Blight Slows enemies by 25%.
• Supernatural Blight – You and your Minions deal 15% increased damage to enemies within Blight.

(3/3) Unliving Energy

Your maximum Essence is increased by 9.

(3/3) Imperfectly Balanced – Your Core Skills cost 9% more Essence but deal 15% increased damage.

(3/3) Hewed Flesh

Your damage has up to a 12% chance of creating a Corpse at the target’s location. This chance is doubled against Bosses.

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Corpse & Macabre Skills

(1/5) Blood Mist

Disperse into a bloody mist, becoming Immune for 3 seconds. Your Movement Speed is reduced by 20%, and you periodically deal 1% damage to enemies and Heal for 0.5% of your Maximum Life (8).

• Enhanced Blood Mist – Casting a Skill that Overpowers reduces the cooldown of Blood Mist by 2 seconds.
• Ghastly Blood Mist – Blood Mist leaves behind a Corpse every 0.95 seconds.

(3/3) Skeletal Warrior Mastery

Increase the damage and Life of your Skeletal Warriors by 45%.

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(1/3) Reaper’s Pursuit

Damaging enemies with Darkness Skills increases your Movement Speed by 5% for 3 seconds.

• (2/3) Gloom – When you damage enemies with Darkness skills, they take 4% increased Shadow damage from you and your Minions for 2 seconds, stacking up to 3 times.
• (2/3) Terror – Darkness Skills deal 6% bonus damage to enemies who are Slowed and 6% bonus damage to enemies who are Stunned or Immobilized. These bonuses stack and apply to Shadow Damage dealt by your Minions.

Curse Skills

(1/5) Decrepify

Curse the target area. Enemies afflicted by Decrepify are Slowed by 40.0% and deal 20.0% less damage for 10 seconds.

• Enhanced Decrepify – Enemies hit while afflicted with Decrepify have a 10% chance of being Stunned for 2 seconds.

(3/3) Skeletal Mage Mastery

Increases the damage and Life of your Skeletal Mages by 60%.

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Ultimate Skills

(3/3) Golem Mastery

Increases the damage and Life of your Golem by 75%.

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(3/3) Bonded in Essence

Every 5 seconds, your Skeletal Priest’s Healing will Heal your Skeletons for an additional 60% of their Life.

(3/3) Death’s Defense – your minions cannot lose more than 30% of their Maximum Life from a single damage instance.

Key Passives

Shadowblight

Shadow damage infects enemies with Shadowblight for 2 seconds. You and your Minions deal 10% bonus damage to enemies with Shadowblight. Every 10th time an enemy receives Shadow damage from you or your Minions while they are affected by Shadowblight, they take an additional 22% Shadow damage.

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Book of the Dead

Raise Skeleton

Raise a Skeleton from a Corpse to fight for you. Once all of your Skeletons have been summoned, Raise Skeleton briefly summons a Skeletal Priest to empower your Minions for 5 seconds, increasing their damage by 20% and healing them for 10% of their Maximum Life.

• Skeletal Reapers – 15% chance to create a corpse via their attacks.
• Skeletal Shadow Mages – Fire an additional shadow bolt every 5th attack.

Basic Skills

(5/5) Hemorrhage

Burst an enemy’s blood, dealing 25% damage. Hemorrhage has a 20% chance of forming a Blood Orb.

• Enhanced Hemorrhage – After picking up a Blood Orb, your next Hemorrage also deals damage to enemies around your target and grants 2 additional Essence per enemy hit.
• Initiate’s Hemorrhage – Hemorrhage grants 1.6% Base Life (26) as Fortify each time it hits an enemy and has a 1.5% chance per enemy hit to Fortify you for 100% Base Life.

Core Skills

(4/5) Blood Surge

Draw blood from enemies, dealing 20% damage, and expel a blood nova, dealing 50% damage. Blood Surge’s Nova damage is increased by 10% per enemy drained, up to 50%.

• Enhanced Blood Surge – Blood Surge Heals you for 2.5% of your Maximum Life when drawing blood from enemies. If 4 or more enemies are drawn from, then Heal for an additional 2.5% of your Maximum Life.
• Paranormal Blood Surge – If Blood Surge’s nova damages an enemy while you are Healthy, then you gain 1 stack of Overwhelming Blood. When you have 5 stacks of Overwhelming Blood, your next Blood Surge Overpowers.

(3/5) Blood Lance

Throw a blood lance that lingers in an enemy for 3 seconds, dealing 80% damage to the enemy and all other lanced enemies.

• Enhanced Blood Lance – Blood Lance pierces through enemies who are currently lanced, dealing 15% reduced damage to subsequent enemies after the first.
• Supernatural Blood Lance – After casting Blood Lance 8 times, your next cast of Blood Lance is guaranteed to Overpower and spawns a Blood Orb under the first enemy hit.

(3/3) Hewed Flesh

Your damage has up to a 12% chance of creating a Corpse at the target’s location. This chance is doubled against Bosses.

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Corpse & Macabre Skills

(5/5) Blood Mist

Disperse into a bloody mist, becoming Immune for 3 seconds. Your Movement Speed is reduced by 20%, and you periodically deal 1% damage to enemies and Heal for 0.7% of your Maximum Life (11).

• Enhanced Blood Mist – Casting a Skill that Overpowers reduces the cooldown of Blood Mist by 2 seconds.
• Ghastly Blood Mist – Blood Mist leaves behind a Corpse every 0.95 seconds.

(5/5) Corpse Explosion

Detonate a Corpse, dealing 50% damage to surrounding enemies.

• Enhanced Corpse Explosion – Corpse Explosion’s radius is increased by 15%.
• Blighted Corpse Explosion – Corpse Explosion becomes a Darkness Skill and, instead of exploding, releases a vile miasma dealing 18% Shadow damage over 6 seconds.

(2/3) Gruesome Mending

While below 50% Life, you receive 20% more Healing from all sources.

(3/3) Transfusion – Blood Orbs also Heal your Minions for 45% of the amount.

(3/3) Skeletal Warrior Mastery

Increase the damage and Life of your Skeletal Warriors by 45%.

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Curse Skills

(3/3) Skeletal Mage Mastery

Increases the damage and Life of your Skeletal Mages by 60%.

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Ultimate Skills

(1/1) Blood Wave

Conjure a tidal wave of blood that deals 120% damage and Knocks Back enemies.

• Prime Blood Wave – Blood Wave Slows enemies by 50% for 4 seconds.
• Supreme Blood Wave – Blood Wave leaves behind 3 Blood Orbs as it travels.

Key Passives

Rathma’s Vigor

Increase your Maximum Life by 10%. After being Healthy for 15 seconds, your next Blood Skills Overpowers.

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