Master the diablo iv Bone Spear Necromancer build for Season 1. Learn about Paragon, Malignant Hearts, and the best skills like Bone Spear and Corpse Tendrils.
Walkthrough
- 1Bone Splinters: Use for additional area-of-effect (AOE) damage and crit chance ramping when hitting the same target multiple times, especially effective against champions, elites, or bosses. The cleave potential is active while above 50% Essence.
- 2Bone Spear: This is your primary damage-dealing skill. It offers built-in crit chance and a splintering effect for additional mob clearing.
- 3Corpse Tendrils: This skill bunches enemies together, deals damage, and runs off a cooldown. It requires a corpse but does not consume it. The final node can be set to Plagues for early Vulnerable application, or Blighted for Blood Orbs, which are useful for survivability in Nightmare dungeons.
- 4Blood Wave: An incredibly effective skill for survival in challenging content like Nightmare dungeons and capstone dungeons. It grants invulnerability, allowing you to cheat death and skip difficult mechanics, such as in the Echo of Lilith.
- 5Bone Prison: Use this skill for utility to clump enemies together, especially after using Corpse Tendrils. It provides Essence bonuses and Fortify for each enemy pulled in, making you tankier and preventing enemies from attacking you.
- 6Bone Storm: This is your ultimate skill. It grants an additional 20% crit chance and boosts defensiveness when activated. Pairing it with the Aspect of Shielding Storm makes you very tanky. It also provides a strong damage window due to increased critical strikes.
Passive Skills:
- Core Skill Passives: Unliving Energy (x3) increases Max Essence by 9. Imperfectly Balanced (x3) increases Core Skill cost by 9% but deals 15% increased damage. Hewed Flesh (x3) has a 12% chance to create a Corpse on target kill (doubled against bosses).
- Cure Skill Passives: Death’s Embrace (x3) increases damage to close enemies by 6% and reduces damage taken from them by 9%. Death’s Reach increases damage to distant enemies by 8%.
- Macabre Passives: Necrotic Carapace (x3) grants Fortify for 6% Base Life when a Corpse is formed. Serration (x3) increases Bone Skill Crit Strike Chance by 0.9% per 10 Essence. Compound Fracture increases Bone Skill damage by 15% for 5 seconds after 10 critical strikes. Evulsion (x3) increases Bone Skill Critical Strike Damage to Vulnerable enemies by 18%. Rapid Ossification reduces Bone Skill cooldown by 1.5 seconds for every 100 Essence spent.
- Ultimate Passives: Stand Alone (x3) provides 18% increased Damage Reduction (reduced by 2% per active minion; since you don't use minions, it's a flat 18%). Memento Mori (x3) increases sacrifice bonuses by 60% when sacrificing both Skeletal Warriors and Mages.
Book of the Dead:
For this Bone Spear build, you do not want any minions. Instead, you will use sacrifices for bonuses:
- Skeleton Sacrifice: Grants 15% Non-Physical Damage Resistance.
- Mage Sacrifice: [Details not fully provided in source text].
Tips
- Bone Spear is ideal for both creating corpses and dealing damage to bosses.
- Corpse Tendrils is a powerful defensive tool, especially when paired with the Blighted enhancement for Blood Orbs in Nightmare dungeons.
- Bone Storm, combined with the Aspect of Shielding Storm, makes you exceptionally tanky and provides significant critical strike opportunities.
- Sacrificing minions provides substantial bonuses that are crucial for this build's effectiveness.
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