The Necromancer in Diablo 4 offers excellent versatility for leveling and can be approached in various playstyles. Throughout the game, a player's build has the potential to evolve based on the gear they discover and the numerous legendary affixes that accompany them. It is crucial to carefully select skills to allocate points during the leveling process to maximize the synergies between abilities and equipment, therefore, unleashing their maximum potential.

Skills to use while leveling a Necromancer in Diablo 4

These are the essential Necromancer Skills that you should be chosen for your skill bar and should receive priority in allocating skill points within the Necromancer Skill tree.

Class Unique Feature:

Book of the Dead, Necromancers can augment and manipulate their animated minions or forego that option for buffs that boosts their spells but leaves the Necromancer susceptible to being targeted more frequently.

Pros

• Playstyle is safe
• Great Build Diversity
• Intuitive for New Players

Cons

• Longer Cooldowns
• Resource Management becomes complex late game
• Relies heavily on aspects

Diablo 4 Necromancer Leveling Build 1- 58

Characters will receive their first skill point at level 2. It's important to note that some players, may have a different amount of extra skills they have received from completing various challenges per region ( Renown rewards). This means the numbers contained in this guide represent the number of extra skills that can be obtained and not necessarily the level of your character.

The main mechanic of playing this build is going to rely very heavily on corpses being produced. For the first ten skill points of this build, you can choose a different core skill, but afterward, it will be necessary to respec and follow this for optimal results.

The main skills you are going pick up first will be decompose and bone spear this will be your bread and butter early stage and will still be utilized late stage. Remember to make use of your skeletons and monitor your minions on the battlefield at all times. This will provide a safe distance for you to deal damage without compromising yourself.

Remember you will have access to the Book of the Dead a class unique special for Necromancers Only. The UI becomes available at level 5. You will unlock various new skeleton options up to level 25.

With your skeletal minions at the forefront of each battle, allows the player to stay at a safe distance while dealing insane amounts of splash damage. Remember to use decompose to generate more and more corpses. For every encounter, you begin with a bone spear which deals heavy damage and also applies vulnerable, if that kills then you move into a corpse explosion ( which ironically generates another corpse). Rinse and repeat for every encounter.

Try to think about it like this. Bone Spear -> Corpse Explosion -> Decompose -> Corpse Explosion -> Bone Spear.

You will now begin maxing out the skills to continue to augment your damage capabilities.

At level 12 you'll want to open your book of the dead. Select the second node on " Get a 15% Better chance to create a corpse on Reaper kills

Continue to allocate points to the main sources of damage that you have. With every level, you will get big multipliers on your damage per second.

While dumping some points into some passives that do not augment your damage may seem boring, it is vital to maintain your essence at the highest levels so you can keep dishing out more and more bone spears into more corpse explosions.

You'll have the option to select Skeleton Mages, choose Cold, and choose the first node for Skeleton Mages to damage enemies and generate 2 essences for you.

Make sure you've completed the class Necromancer quest called " Necromancer: Call of The Underworld"

1. Go to the northwestern part of Menestad.
2. Find the Shrine of Rathma and have a conversation with Maltorius (a character who appears next to the Shrine).
3. Maltorius will request that you gather 12 Unbroken Bones. Defeat all the Bone Warriors in the designated area. After acquiring all 12 Unbroken Bones, return to Maltorius and speak to him once again.
4. Next, Maltorius will instruct you to retrieve a cursed artifact. You can locate it inside a cave indicated on the map.
5. Make your way to the Bitter Cave, situated south of the Shrine of Rathma and west of Menestad.
6. Explore deeper into the cave until you encounter the Jar of Souls. Activate it to open the Jar.

Engage in battle with the nearby enemies to fill up the Jar of Souls. Once you have completed this task, Maltorius will appear next to the Jar. Have a conversation with him. Congratulations! You have now unlocked the Necromancer's Summon Golem ability and can utilize it in the game.

Open up the "The Book of the Dead" and select the first node "Each time your golem takes 20% life damage it sheds a corpse"

Using Bloodwave is both great for offense and defense. It allows you to take control of the battlefield either by pushing enemies back to group them together for more corpse explosions to occur or defensively it can provide the player some much-needed reprieve when an enemy may be pressuring you too much.

The main focus of this build is going to be brought by the number of corpses that can be generated and explosions, so there will be nothing new for the Necromancer at this point other than min, maxing your stats and your minions now.

As you approach the later game, you will likely notice the enemies are dishing out much higher levels of damage. That is why it is critical to allocate points within your masteries to not only enhance your minions but amplify their damage capabilities.

To acquire the remaining Skill Points, you must complete various challenges found in the Renown Rewards for each zone. These challenges focus on enhancing your passive abilities

To access the Region progress menu in Diablo 4, open the map (<M>) and press the <W> key while hovering over the desired region on the map.

The journey of leveling 1- 58 as a Necromancer is a road best traveled with minions and many explosions. It is a truly enthralling and thrilling adventure, combining the right elements of enjoyment and enrapturing the player into the power fantasy that controls the battlefield flawlessly.

As you advance through each level, remember to consider any synergies with the gear you have acquired and experiment with different skill and gear combinations if you discover an alternative playstyle that captivates you more.