Diablo 4 Season 7 Necromancer Builds Summoner Endgame Tier List – Mobalytics Maxroll

Diablo 4 Season 7 resurrects the Necromancer with corpse-fueled power spikes that shatter endgame barriers.

Necromancers are able to summon Skeletons and Golems. But they’re also able to cast Sorcerer-like spells dealing in the creepier sides of magic. They can sling bones and drain blood from foes. They can even project poison blight on the ground. And, yes, they can sacrifice minions for incredible bonuses with the Book of the Dead. Not to your taste? We also have builds for the Sorcerer, Rogue, Druid, Spiritborn, and Barbarian classes.

In this Diablo 4 guide, we’ve gathered and simplified the best Diablo 4 Necromancer builds for season 7. If you need even more information on item affixes or other more complex ideas, we’ve been sure to link out to the more detailed versions of these builds, as well as where to find their original creators.

Best Necromancer build for leveling in Diablo 4 season 7

For fast leveling as a Necromancer in Diablo 4 season 7, run Bone Spear with minion support. Pair Decrepify for crowd control, Corpse Tendrils to group enemies, and Bone Prison for defense. Use Blood Mist for mobility and survival bursts. Gear prioritizes Vulnerable chance, critical strike damage, and Intelligence. Summon Skeletal Warriors and Mages early, then scale with Bone Splinters for Essence. This setup clears packs quickly from level 1 to 60, blending ranged poke and army swarm.

This build is based off Seroc Ifkre‘s Necromancer leveling guide at maxroll.gg, and is purely for leveling (i.e., allocating your 71 skill points between levels 1 and 60) and early stages of the Torment I difficulty. If you want more detailed information about the item affixes you want to look for on your gear, or which other Legendary powers are great for your build, check out the original maxroll.gg guide.

Best skills for leveling

This Necromancer leveling guides focuses on Raise Skeleton. In this build, you’ll also use Blight, Soulrift, Blood Mist, Corpse Tendrils, and Reap.

Here are the best skills for a Necromancer leveling build, organized by the exact order you should purchase them in – bearing in mind that some skills require you to allocate a number of skill points in the tree in order to unlock them. As such, you’ll need to unlock new skills before enhancing existing ones.

1. Reap / Enhanced Reap
2. Sever (rank 1-3) / Enhanced Sever / Supernatural Sever
3. Necrotic Fortitude
4. Titan’s Fall
5. Spiked Armor
6. Fueled By Death
7. Grim Harvest
8. Skeletal Warrior Mastery
9. Decrepify / Enhanced Decrepify / Abhorrent Decrepify
10. Amplify Damage
11. Death’s Embrace (rank 1-3)
12. Corpse Tendrils / Enhanced Corpse Tendrils / Blighted Corpse Tendrils
13. Soulrift (rank 1-5) / Supreme Soulrift / Prime Soulrift
14. Finality (rank 1-3) / Inspiring Leader
15. Kalan’s Edict
16. Skeletal Warrior Mastery (rank 2-3)
17. Skeletal Mage Master (rank 1-3)
18. Hellbent Commander (rank 1-3)
19. Blight / Enhanced Blight / Supernatural Blight
20. Hewed Flesh
21. Necrotic Fortitude (rank 2-3)
22. Titan’s Fall (rank 2-3)
23. Fueled By Death (rank 2-3)
24. Spiked Armor (rank 2-3)
25. Death’s Approach (rank 1-3)
26. Amplify Damage (rank 1-3)
27. Reaper’s Pursuit (rank 1-3)
28. Terror (rank 1-3)
29. Gloom (rank 1-3)
30. Necrotic Carapace (rank 1-3)
31. Golem Master (rank 1-3)
32. Inspiring Leader (rank 2)

Best Book of the Dead setup for leveling

Here are the minions you should use for this build:

• Skeletal Warriors – Reapers
• Skeletal Mages – Shadow
• Golem – Iron (Sacrifice)

Best Legendary Aspect for Necromancer leveling build

When you first start your new character, complete these five dungeons first in order to collect their Aspects. Then place them on a piece of gear (ideally jewelry and never weapons). The random drop Aspects are all nice to add to your Codex and your gear if you’re lucky enough to find them on your leveling journey.

• Reanimation (Aldurwood, Scosglen)
• Damned (Uldur’s Cave, Kehjistan)
• Disobedience (Halls of the Damned, Kehjistan)

Best Necromancer build for endgame

For endgame dominance, equip the Shadow Blight Minion Necromancer with Blood Mist for survival, paired with Decrepify and Corpse Tendrils for crowd control. Prioritize Shadowblight stacking via Gloom, Infectious Ghouls, and Blighted for massive damage ramps against bosses. Gear focuses on Intelligence, +Ranks to core skills, and minion damage on amulet and gloves, using Lucky Hit chance on rings to trigger explosions. Use the Shadow Moppet Spirit to boost minion speed and attack rate, while the Hellbelt adds more explosions for clearing high-tier pits and ubers. This setup shreds tier 100+ content with layered DoT pressure and unbreakable defense.

Note: The following build was the one of best Necromancer endgame builds for season 6. While you might not get the most bang for your buck from it in season 7, it’s still effective as of this writing..

This build is based off of Seroc Ifkre‘s Spirit Wave Necromancer endgame guide at MaxRoll.gg, and is a general endgame guide capable of finding success in all activities. This guide assumes that you’re over level 60, have access to all 71 skill points, and are making progress on your Paragon Boards. If you want more detailed information about the item affixes you want to look for on your gear, or why these Legendary powers are great for your build, check out the original MaxRoll guide.

Best skill points for Spirit Wave build for endgame

This build utilizes Blood Wave as its core skill. It also uses Blight, Blood Lance, Corpse Tendrils, Corpse Explosion, and Blood Mist.

Since you need all 71 points for this build, the order you select these skills in doesn’t matter as long as you have the pre-requisite points in the earlier skill tree tiers. Here is how you should spend your skill points for this build:

• Hemorrhage (rank 1-2)
• Blood Lance / Enhanced Blood Lance / Paranormal Blood Lance
• Blight / Enhanced Blight / Supernatural Blight
• Imperfectly Balanced (rank 1-3)
• Hewed Flesh (rank 1-3)
• Blood Mist
• Corpse Explosion
• Necrotic Fortitude (rank 1-2)
• Titan’s Fall (rank 1-3)
• Fueled by Death (rank 1-3)
• Decrepify / Enhanced Decrepify / Abhorrent Decrepify
• Death’s Embrace (rank 1-3)
• Amplify Damage (rank 1-3)
• Corpse Tendrils / Enhanced Corpse Tendrils / Plagued Corpse Tendrils
• Bone Spirit (rank 1-5) / Enhanced Bone Spirit / Ghastly Bone Spirit
• Necrotic Carapace (rank 1-3)
• Compound Fracture (rank 1-3)
• Evulsion (rank 1-3)
• Blood Wave (rank 1-5) / Prime Blood Wave / Supreme Blood Wave
• Finality (rank 1-3)
• Memento Mori (rank 1-3)
• Stand Alone (rank 1-3)
• Inspiring Leader (rank 1-2)
• Ossified Essence

Necromancer Book of the Dead setup for Spirit Wave build

This is a full sacrifice build, so here’s how you need to setup your Book of the Dead:

• Skeletal Warriors – Skirmishers (Sacrifice)
• Skeletal Mages – Cold (Sacrifice)
• Golems – Iron (Sacrifice)

Legendary Powers and Uniques for Spirit Wave build

To make this build work, you’re going to need powerful Legendary Powers and Unique items to augment your build.

Seroc Ifkre recommends these Aspects:

• Helm: Harlequin Crest (Mythic) or Cursed Aura
• Chest: Blood Artisan’s Cuirass (Unique)
• Gloves: Tidal
• Pants: Hardened Bones
• Boots: Concussive Strikes
• Sword: Serration
• Shield: Gore Quills
• Amulet: Great Feast
• Ring 1: Fastblood (dungeon)
• Ring 2: Ring of Starless Skies (Mythic) or Serration

If you want to get into the nitty gritty of stat priorities, refer to Seroc Ifkre’s original guide.

Paragon Boards for Necromancer Spirit Wave build

The Paragon Board system is very complex, and you’ll want to carefully pair your Glyphs with specific boards for your class:

1. Starter Board / Sacrificial
2. Bone Graft / Essence
3. Blood Begets Blood / Exploit
4. Frailty / Corporeal
5. Flesh-eater / Amplify

You should level your Glyphs to 15 in this specific order:

1. Essence
2. Sacrificial
3. Corporeal
4. Exploit
5. Amplify

You can path your own way through the Paragon Boards following these basic guidelines. However, for the best results, followSeroc Ifkre’s path exactly.

How to make a great Necromancer build

Craft a strong Necromancer by stacking Intelligence on gear with +minion damage affixes and corpse skill boosts. Prioritize Blood Mist or Decrepify for survival while your minions tank and deal damage. Use Corpse Tendrils to group enemies, then explode them with Corpse Explosion for area clears. Slot in Shadowblight from skills like Sever to amplify DoT pressure. Balance your Book of the Dead choices-sacrifice skeletons for more power or keep mages for ranged support-to match your playstyle against Season 7 bosses.

Necromancer’s are Diablo 4‘s main summoning class – although Druids, ironically, had better summons during the game’s launch window. But aside from their army of minions, Necromancers also act as a darker caster, sharing a lot of playstyle DNA with the Sorcerer.

Like all classes, most Necromancer builds boil down to a few Key Passives:

• Bone
• Blood/Health
• Shadow
• Minion

Bone skills – like Bone Spear – hit extremely hard for Necromancers, and are great for chunking down enemies. The Ossified Essence Key Passive modifies that damage even further for players that successfully pool their Essence. Blood builds utilize Blood skills to both keep the Necromancer healthy while dealing big damage. These builds typically end with the Rathma’s Vigor Key Passive.

Shadow builds use Shadow skills to poison enemies with dark essence. Interestingly, the Shadowblight Key Passive not only benefits the Necromancer, but also their minions, making it a more diverse build path. Minion builds are Necromancer’s main bread and butter, but are entirely dependent on how good minions are in the current meta. When they’re useful, these builds end with the Kalan’s Edict Key Passive.

Like all classes, Necromancer builds have other identities to them – like Thorns – but most will converge on one of the four identities highlighted above. What really determines build viability on Necromancer is how you use your minions and the Book of the Dead. If you want to make your own build, decide early on if you want to sacrifice your minions or use them in battle. This will not only determine which skills you’ll want to use, but which of the four Key Passives you want to angle toward.

Detailed gear and stat priorities for Bloody Bone Spear build

Bloody Bone Spear is a top Necromancer endgame build for Diablo 4 Season 7, blending bone and blood skills for massive Pit clears and bossing via uniques like Indira’s Memory.

Core Gear Setup

This setup prioritizes uniques for Blood Spear transformation, essence sustain, and crit scaling. Focus on Intelligence, Max Life (40k+ goal), Attack Speed (2.0+ APS), and 50%+ Crit Chance.

Stat Priorities

• Offense: Int (primary scaling), Crit Chance/Damage (cap 50%+ via Serration), Vuln Chance, Bone/Blood Skill Ranks, Lucky Hit: Restore Primary Resource (2x on weapon/ring).

• Defense: Max Life (stack heavily), Armor (to 1k cap), All Resist (cap via elixirs), DR from Close/Distant/Fortify.

• Utility: Attack Speed, Essence above 50, Movement Speed. Avoid overstacking Crit Damage early-prioritize sustain.​

Gems and Runewords

• Weapons: Royal Emerald (Vuln Damage) or Topaz (Basic Skill DMG).

• Armor: Royal Topaz (Int) or Ruby (Max Life).

• Jewelry: Tam + Wat Runeword on Helm for crit echo.​

Gems and tempering amplify Overpower via Bone Duster and Bloodbath Paragon nodes; pair with Bone Graft board for essence stacking.​

Best paragon boards and glyphs for Bloody Bone Spear

Bloody Bone Spear Necromancer in Diablo 4 Season 7 relies on a tight paragon setup emphasizing Bone Graft for essence stacking, Bloodbath for Overpower procs, and defensive boards for Pit viability. Prioritize these boards in order, aiming for 200+ paragon points with glyphs leveled to 15+ (ideally 46 for radius).

Recommended Paragon Boards

Start with the board attached to your class and rotate clockwise, grabbing rare nodes for Int, Essence, and Overpower damage. Legendary nodes are key multipliers.

Top Glyphs and Priorities

Socket these in the center of each board; upgrade via Nightmare Dungeons. Level Essence and Exploit first for DPS ramp.

• Essence (Bone Graft): +Core Crit DMG per Dex; +22% Crit to unhealthy foes (25 Dex req). Essential for spear crit scaling.

• Exploit (Bloodbath): +Vulnerable DMG; boosts spear vuln piercing.​

• Corporeal (Blood Begets): +Physical/Bone DMG; pairs with Blood skills via Indira’s Memory. Alternate: Control for CC synergy.

• Imbiber/Gravekeeper (Scent/Flesh-Eater): Sustain glyphs; +DR from potions/corpses.​

• Amplify (optional): Corpse Explosion scaling for clear speed.​

Pathing prioritizes radius nodes around glyphs for max bonuses (e.g., Dex/Int in range). Use Maxroll planner imports for exact nodes like Bone Duster for Overpower.