Diablo 4 Builds — Season 14

How the Necromancer plays

The Necromancer controls the battlefield through his Book of the Dead: skeletal warriors, skeletal mages, and a golem fight at his side — or get sacrificed to empower his own damage. Add blood, bone, and shadow magic plus corpses as a second resource, and you get a class that can do everything from laid-back army commander to blood mage.

The best Necromancer builds in Season 14

The Golem build is our S-tier endgame pick: instead of a whole army you scale a single golem into a boss killer that deletes even lair bosses in seconds. For leveling, the classic Minion build remains the gold standard — skeletons tank, mages shoot, and you collect XP and loot in peace. As an alternative for blood magic fans there is the Bloodwave build, which also carries solidly through the endgame with the right gear.

Leveling and endgame

The Minion build is probably the most beginner-friendly leveling build in the entire game — it works entirely without uniques. In the endgame you either switch to the Golem build for maximum single-target damage or keep scaling your army through tempering and the right glyphs. All ratings are in the tier list; build your own variants in the build planner.