IntroductionUsing the adaptable and versatile Legacy of Dreams bonus as well as a slewof items that empower summoner builds, the LoD Singularity Necromancer emergesas a powerful Skeletal Mage variant. This resource intensive, bursty playstyleis mostly aimed at solo Greater Rift progression. Quick Reference 2.1.
Skill SetupThe basic skill setup of the LoD Singularity Necromancer is displayed below.Read the dedicated for detailedinformation on choices, alternatives and build customization. Active SkillsReservoir Singularity 1 Molting 2 Frozen Lands 3 Dislocation 4 SatiatedPassive Skills. Gear SetupThe required gear setup for the LoD Singularity Necromancer is listed below.Check the for detailed information onchoices, alternatives, gemming, Kanai's Cube and Paragon distribution. Helm:. Shoulders:. Gloves:. Chest:.
Dec 22, 2017 Bonemancer: It’s one of the most famous Necromancer builds in Diablo 2. It mainly focuses on Bone Spells such as Bone Spear and Bone Spirit. Thus, its summoning capabilities are limited. The Bonemancer is much more effective at higher levels and in PvP fights. This build isn't the best, but it is simple enough to get players into the swing of Necromancer. Probably the best non-HoT build in my opinion. If you have HoT, most likely best to run a reaper build.
Belt:. Pants:. Boots:. Bracers:. Amulet:. Ring 1: (or in early progression). Ring 2: (or in early progression).
Weapon:. Offhand:2.3. Legendary Gems. Legendary Gem 1:. Legendary Gem 2:.
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Legendary Gem 3:2.4. Kanai's Cube. Weapon Slot:. Armor Slot:. Jewelry Slot:3. 2019 : Item recommendations have been revised for Season 18. 23 Aug.
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I've referred to this for my source on necromancer skills:Lower Resist decreases an enemies elemental resistances and Decrepify decreases their physical resistance. Unfortunately, bone spells do magic damage, so I don't think either curse improves your bone spell damage (as Grace Note pointed out).
They are only useful for your minions; Lower Resist helps your skeletal mages and Decrepify helps your skeletons. Also, if you are using Revive then those minions will do more damage when you use those curses (most monsters don't do magic damage).Unless you totally focus on them and skills that synergize (see my sidenote), Bone Spear and Bone Spirit are ineffective because they do not scale up in Hell difficulty. However, Bone Prison and Bone Wall do. Also curses and revives scale up because they are based on the strength of monsters in Hell.For a summoner, playing heavily to revive is a good plan. Look at some revive necromancer guides, this being a short example:. I recommend maxing Revive and Iron Golem, so that you have plenty of summons to work with and a golem for killing monsters to get that first revive. I also think you're better off replacing Bone Spear with Bone Prison and Iron Maiden.
Then you can lock monsters in with your minions and have them damaged by both their own attacks and your minions, while boosting with other curses you have. Iron Maiden has the nice property that an increase in skill level increases the damage taken, not the spell radius like many other curses. Bone Spirit is appropriate to some extent for helping your Iron Golem take down monsters, but certainly not worth focus.Sidenote:To get an idea of how much damage a pure bone necromancer does, I'm in Hell difficulty with my necromancer right now using an all bone build, around level 76, roughly these skills (I can update values tonight when I check):. Teeth: 10 (about +6 with items). Bone Spear: 20. Bone Spirit: 20 (about +4 with items).
Bone Wall: 10. Bone Prison: 20. Some other misc.
SkillsAnd I only do over 3000 damage per spirit. That's very little in Hell difficulty.
The most efficient build for the Necromancer (maybe even for the entire game), is the '. It allows you to go through Hell and back without much/basic gear, perfect for first characters with the intent of magic finding better items for future characters. You could even go through the game naked.In summary, the skill build:. Raise Skeleton (20+). Skeletal Mastery (20+). Corpse Explosion (20+). Amplify Damage (1+).
Clay Golem (1+). Deceprify (1+)(Clay Golem + Deceprify to help with bosses)Merc: Act II with Might auraIdeal items: +resistance, +skills, +mana per kill, magic find, +runspeed, +life/vitalityThose are all the skills you need. That leaves for a lot of skill points to put in any skill you want, and it wouldn't really matter since the above skills synergize perfectly.And Corpse Explosion doesn't have a lot of immune monsters.