Diablo Immortal Necromancer Build: Best Skills, Gems, Weapons, Armor Sets

This Diablo Immortal guide covers the best Necromancer builds. We have covered 5 Necromancer builds below that target different playstyles.

This Diablo Immortal guide will cover some of the best Necromancer builds. We have covered 5 Necromancer builds below, and each one of them offers a distinct playstyle. So, you are bound to find a build that suits your playing habits and preferences.

Diablo Immortal Best Necromancer Builds

If you want an army of the dead to fight your battles while you stand at a distance and launch powerful AoE attacks, then Necromancer is your class. With devastating attacks that can rain hellfire on enemies, Necromancers are a force to be reckoned with.

With average movements and strategic attacks, this is not a class for people who prefer brawn over brain. It doesn’t matter what playstyle you have because we have got the build to suit every style.

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Diablo Immortal Necromancer Build: Solo

Off-hand Weapon: Welcome End

Main-hand Weapon: Desolatoria

Head: Mirrorictus

Shoulder: Ziroco

Stats / Attributes Priority: Intelligence, Vitality, Fortitude, Willpower, Strength

Skills: Command Skeletons, Skeleton Mage, Command Golem

Legendary Gems: Echoing Shade, Blood-Soaked Jade, Fervent Fang, Chained Death

Command Golem, which you will get at level 50, is a command spell that deals massive damage. It is also your main core skill. WIth the help of Command Skeletons, the Necromancer will raise skeletons around him and select an area for players to attack.

The Skeletal Mage skill will summon a mage that will throw bolts of Soulfire in the direction of the enemies, which will deal 267 damage.

Intelligence will affect the damage output while Vitality will help you increase the health pool, so it is very important.

The Desolatoria main hand weapon will modify the command golem skill of Necromancer when equipped while Welcome End will further enhance the Skeletal Mage skill of this class. Equipping Ziroco shoulders will boost your skills like Skeleton Mage and Command Mage by 10%.

With a legendary gem like Echoing Shade, you can summon a shadow clone that will deal damage to the enemies. Blood-Socked Jade will give you a +18 combat rating buff.

The Fervent Fang legendary gem will deal 0.8% more damage which can be stacked up to 10 times and Chained Death will increase the damage dealt by 1.5% for every hit landed and can be stacked by 3.

Diablo Immortal Necromancer Build: Group Rifts

Off-hand Weapon: Life in Balance

Main-hand Weapon: Simulacrator

Chest: Parting Gift

Stats / Attributes Priority: Intelligence, Fortitude, Vitality, Willpower, Strength

Skills: Soul Fire, Wraith Form

Legendary Gems: Battleguard, Blessing of Worthy, Defiant Soul

The Simulacrator works very well with your Wraith Form skill. It will increase its damage by 10%, and Life in Balance transfer 10% of your damage to your Skeletal Champion.

The Soulfire skill will help you control the crowd as it will also damage the nearby enemies. You can combine this skill with Wraith Form, which will speed up your character and make it invulnerable for a couple of seconds.

The Intelligence will affect the damage output, and Fortitude will boost your armor. Vitality will help you increase the health pool, so it is very important.

The Parting Gift chest armor will grant 5 charges of damage immunity to you and your nearby team.

The Battleguard gem will reduce the melee damage taken by 24%, and Defiant Soul will increase the base damage by 192% after each attack you block.

Blessing of the Worthy gem that we are using in this build will increase the chance of retribution on all close-by enemies by 20%

Diablo Immortal Necromancer Build: Hybrid

Off-hand Weapon: The Prong

Main-hand Weapon: Clotbrust

Chest: They Rest Everywhere

Set: Issatar Imbued

  • Neck: Issatar at Rest
  • Ring: Issatar Enraged
  • Ring:  Issatar Undone
  • Waist: Issatar Contained

Stats / Attributes Priority: Intelligence, Vitality, Willpower, Fortitude, Strength

Paragon Priority: Vanquisher > Survivor

Skills: Soul Fire, Grim Scythe

Legendary Gems: Power & Command, Blood-Soaked Jade, and Chained Death

In Soulfire skill, you can throw a magical ball towards the enemies that will deal 25% base damage. The Grim Scythe is used for summoning a huge spectral scythe in a wide arc to deal some great damage.

Intelligence will affect the damage output, and Vitality will help you increase the health pool, so it is very important.

Clotbrust is used for modifying the Corpse Explosion skill of the Necromancer class. Other than that, you can use the Prong, which will modify the command skeletal.

The other weapons and gems like Power & Command, Blood-Soaked Jade, and Chained Death will buff your abilities. Together these will make it a great Hybrid build that can deal with the various situations.

Issatar Imbued Armor set will give you a 30% movement speed buff every time you kill an enemy and if you have all 6 items equipped you will have a 10% chance of receiving a soul orb for 10 seconds dealing 577 damage on passing through an enemy.

As far as Paragons are concerned, we will be investing more into Survivor and Vanquisher. The Survivor can increase your life and defense and give you more speed while the Vanquisher will increase the damage as it can buff your primary fire.

Diablo Immortal Necromancer Build: PvP

Off-hand Weapon: Pyre’s Allure

Chest: Exhumant’s Backbone

Legs: Sacral Chausses

Shoulder: Chasm-Crosser

Stats / Attributes Priority: Intelligence, Vitality, Willpower, Fortitude, Strength

Skills: Bone Armor, Bone Wall, Bone Spikes

Legendary Gems: Chip of Stoned Flesh, Battleguard, The Black Rose, Respite Stone

Skills like the Bone Armor can be used to protect your allies, and the Bone Wall will block enemy attacks. You can use the Bone Spikes to stun the enemies with them.

The Intelligence will affect the damage output, and Vitality will help you increase the health pool, so it is very important.

For the armor set, we will go with Exhumant’s Backbone, a chest piece that will buff the Bone Wall skill. The other skill Sacral Chausses will increase the Bone Wall duration by 25%, and Chasm-Crosser will increase Bone Spikes range by 20%.

The weapon Pyre’s Allure is really important as it allows Bone Wall to ignite with Soulfire, which will deal 4112 damage in 8 seconds.

The Gems we will be using, like Chip of Stoned Flesh, will boost the chances of petrifying your target by 5%. The Battleguard will decrease the damage you take from enemies by 6%.

The Blackrose will give you a +8 buff in the combat rating and every hit you take will increase your chances of summoning the vine by 10%. The Respite Stone legendary gem will also give you a +8 buff in combat as well as decrease damage taken by 0.55% for every 10% less than maximum health

Diablo Immortal Necromancer Build: Leveling

Off-hand Weapon: Beacon of the Led

Main-hand Weapon: Pierce Hammer

Head: Crown of Gilded Leash

Shoulder: Ziroco

Legs: Guided by Maggots

Stats / Attributes Priority: Intelligence, Vitality

Skills: Wraith Form, Bone Armor, Skeleton Mage, Command Golem, Dark Curse

In this Necromancer leveling build, first, you should go with Wraith Form at level 15 because it can add extra speed. Along with that, you also become invulnerable for some time.

At level 20, you will get the Skeleton Mage skill, a core skill in Diablo Immortal. Once you get this skill, you can remove Wraith Form.

After that, you will get Bone Armor at level 41which will give you additional defense. At level 44, you will get the Dark Curse skill which is useful when you get to your legendary.

The last recommended skill is Command Golem which you will get at level 50. It has command spells that deal massive damage and are also your main core skill.

The Pierce Hammer will increase the damage of Command Skeleton by 10%, and the Beacon of the Led will increase the Golem Life by 10%.

The armor piece like Crown of Gilded Leash, Guided by Maggots, and Ziroco will boost your skills like Skeleton Mage and Command Mage by 10%.

Intelligence will affect the damage output, and Vitality will help you increase the health pool, so it is very important.

Best Weapons for Necromancer

  • Baleful Trinity
  • Pyre’s Allure
  • Simulacrator
  • Pierce Hammer

Baleful Trinity

Baleful Trinity is one of the best weapons for the Necromancer class because it will make Soulfire bounce to another target after hitting the first one. However, the damage dealt with the other target is less.

Pyre’s Allure

After that, we have Pyre’s Allure which is important as it allows Bone Wall to ignite with Soulfire, which will deal 4112 damage in 8 seconds.

Simulacrator

The Simulacrator works very well with your Wraith Form skill. It will increase its damage by 10%, and Life in Balance transfer 10% of your damage to your Skeletal Champion.

Pierce Hammer

At last, we have Pierce Hammer that will increase the damage output of Command Skeletons by 10%

Best Skills for Necromancer

  • Soulfire
  • Command Skeletons
  • Skeleton Mage
  • Dark Curse
  • Command Golem

Soulfire

The best skills for necromancers include Soulfire, in which a ball of Soulfire is thrown on the target, which deals 25% damage.

Command Skeleton

Command Skeletons is another skill in which minions charge to a specific location, and your attack speed increases.

Skeleton Mage

Skeleton Mage is also one of the best skills for Necromancer as it will summon an immobile skeletal mage that will fire Soulfire in the direction of the enemies.

Dark Curse

Dark Curse is again an amazing skill of Necromancer, which will damage enemies in a specific area by the curse and lower their vision.

Command Golem

The Command Golem is a skill that will stun nearby enemies and deal damage by summoning a bone golem in Diablo Immortal.

Best Armor for Necromancer

  • Parting Gift
  • Exhumant’s Backbone
  • Crown of Gilded Leash
  • Guided by Maggot
  • Ziroco

Parting Gift

The Parting Gift chest armor will grant 5 charges of damage immunity to you and your nearby team.

Exhumant’s Backbone

Exhumant’s Backbone is a chest piece that will buff the Bone Wall skill.

Crown of Gilded Leash

Crown of Gilded Leash will boost your skills like Skeleton Mage and Command Mage by 10%

Guided by Maggots

Guided by Maggots will boost your skills like Skeleton Mage and Command Mage by 10%

Ziroco

Ziroco will boost your skills like Skeleton Mage and Command Mage by 10%

Best Paragons for Necromancer

  • Survivor
  • Vanquisher
  • Zeal
  • Armor
  • Escape Artist

Survivor

Survivor trees offer good bonuses to armor penetration and damage.

Vanquisher

Vanquisher trees offer good bonuses to armor penetration and damage.

Zeal

Your attack power will be increased if you invest in Zeal under the Vanquisher tree. You can also pair it with the Baleful Trinity, and you will become a Soulfire minigun.

Armor

Armor will boost your combat time and help you get out of tough situations.

Escape Artist

Escape Artist will boost your combat time and help you get out of tough situations.

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