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Discover the best Blood Necromancer build in Diablo 4
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In this guide, we break down how to make the best Blood Necromancer build inDiablo 4, covering the Skills, Minions, Aspects, Stats, Gems, and Malignant Hearts that you’ll need. It’s updated to reflect the changes fromPatch 1.1.0, but we’ll continue to update it as future patches and hotfixes arrive.
Check out ourDiablo 4 Corpse Explosion Necromancer buildor ourBone Necromancer build, if you’d like to try some different playstyles!
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Best Diablo 4 Blood Necromancer build
Our Diablo 4 Blood Necromancer build is a perfect balance between AoE and single-target damage, offering the best of both worlds and making it incredibly versatile. This power comes from Blood Surge and Blood Lance, respectively, and both see frequent power spikes thanks to guaranteed Overpower hits.
The Blood Necromancer is also surprisingly tanky, thanks to its consistent ability to Fortify with Hemorrhage, Blood Mist, and the Drain Vitality passive. That’s on top of your Skeletal Minions, of course, which will also soak up some damage and draw enemy aggression away from you.
Best Diablo 4 Blood Necromancer build skills
Below, you’ll find a full list of all skills that you should get for our Diablo 4 Blood Necromancer build, in order:
Hemorrhage
Hemorrhageis your basic Essence Generator, but it has quite a lot of utility for a basic skill. The base skill has a 20% chance to form a Blood Orb, which you can consume to heal yourself and your Minions, and the Initiate’s Hemorrhage upgrade will also make it Fortify you for 1.6% of your base Life with each hit.
There’s also a very slim 1.5% chance per enemy hit to instantly Fortify you for 100% base Life, which is an exciting, if infrequent, boost!
Blood Lance
Blood Lanceis your first Core skill, and the one you’ll use when focusing on single-target enemies. Blood Lance deals huge damage with each hit, and the Supernatural Blood Lance upgrade also guarantees an Overpower hit after casting it eight times.
While it is best against a single target, the Enhanced upgrade also lets Blood Lance pierce enemies, making it a quick, cheap way to clear packs of enemies.
Blood Surge
Blood Surgeis your big AoE Core skill, unleashing a blood nova explosion that draws blood from enemies to deal huge damage. Even better, the more enemies that have their blood drained, the more damage it deals, up to a max of 50% extra damage!
Like Blood Lance, Blood Surge also has a way to guarantee Overpower hits with the Paranormal upgrade. This makes every 6th Blood Surge deal Overpower damage, meaning you can spam it a few times and then unleash a bomb that’ll destroy almost any enemy with ease.
On top of that huge damage potential, the Enhanced upgrade also makes Blood Surge heal you each time it drains an enemies blood, helping keep you alive while spamming it in a crowd!
Blood Mist
Blood Mistis the Necromancer’s best defensive skill, turning you into a little cloud of blood that is Immune to all damage and status effects for 3 seconds. This allows you to quickly get away from enemies so that you don’t die, and it’ll also deal some damage and slowly heal you up while active.
Corpse Tendrils
Corpse Tendrilsis a highly important utility skill, pulling enemies towards a singular corpse, Stunning them for three seconds, and dealing some damage. With upgrades, enemies will also be Slowed and become Vulnerable, allowing you to take advantage of some damage modifiers with huge potential.
If you’re unsure how to use these skills effectively, follow the attack pattern below:
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Diablo 4 Blood Necromancer build: Best Minions
The Necromancer has access to the unique Book of the Dead class mechanic in Diablo 4, which lets you raise skeletal Minions and a Golem to do your bidding. They’re powerful combat companions, and will prove essential for drawing enemy aggression in particularly tough fights.
Below, you’ll find the best Minions for our Diablo 4 Blood Necromancer build:
As you can see, we recommend sacrificing the ability to use Golems in this build, as it would otherwise take up an extra skill slot that we can’t spare. If you’re absolutely insistent on using a Golem, consider dropping Corpse Tendrils. You’ll lose some Utility, but the Golem will hopefully more than make up for that. Of course, if you do drop Corpse Tendrils, move the skill points over to the Golem Mastery passive in the sixth (Ultimate) cluster on your skill tree.
Diablo 4 Blood Necromancer build: Best Aspects
Below, you’ll find the Aspects that we’d recommend using for this Diablo 4 Blood Necromancer build:
Diablo 4 Blood Necromancer build: Best Stats
Gear will also get random stat bonuses, known as Affixes, that provide important buffs to various passive traits. Like Aspects, hunting for Gear with stats that will complement your build can drastically improve its efficacy in late-game content.
Below, you’ll find the Stats that you should hunt for with this Diablo 4 Blood Necromancer build:
Don’t forget that you can reroll Affixes on your Gear after reaching World Tier 3! To do so, you’ll need to enter Helltides and hunt for Fiend Roses, and then head to the Occultist at any of the major towns.
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Diablo 4 Blood Necromancer build: Best Gems
For even more passive bonuses, you can put Gems into Gem Sockets on your Gear. Rather than the randomly-rolled Affixes, though, Gems offer set bonuses depending on the type of Gear into which they are placed.
For Jewelry, ywe’d usually recommend usingSkullsto boost your Armor stat. However, the new Seasonal mechanic, Malignant Hearts, can only be placed in Infested Jewelry Sockets, which replace the usual Gem Sockets into which you’d place the Skulls. You can learn more about Malignant Hearts in the following section.
Diablo 4 Blood Necromancer build: Best Malignant Hearts
During Season 1, we have access to new items calledMalignant Hearts. These new items act kind of like Legendary Aspects, but they must be placed into Infested Sockets on your Jewelry items to gain their powers. Malignant Hearts offer big power boosts that’ll prove important if you want to clear the toughest endgame content during the Season of the Malignant.
Below, we’ll list the best Malignant Hearts for the Blood Necromancer:
That wraps up our Diablo 4 Blood Necromancer build guide. If you want to try out other classes, take a look at ourDiablo 4 Twisting Blades Rogue build,Whirlwind Barbarian build,Bleed Barbarian build,Pulverize Druid build,Storm Druid build,Lightning Sorcerer build, andFire Sorcerer buildguides.
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