To be the king of skeletons and destroy bosses and enemies with the Diablo IV Season 1 endgame necromancer summoner build!

This build is the endgame version of Diablo 4 Summon Necromancer. For the leveling part, refer to this previous article!

Principle of the build

What this build is based on:

• the summons
• shadow damage and debuff application for summons
• always have your max number of skeletons
• the generation of corpses

Skills and Equipment

Here are the skills with their associated legendary power:

• Raise Skeleton - our primary summoning spell
  • skeleton warrior maximum increased by 2
  • skeleton mage maximum increased by 2
  • increases skeleton damage while staying alive
  • increases the speed of summons when they damage a target
• Decay, Essence, Debuff & Generates Corpses
  • damage reduction on your character
• Army of the dead, damage and summons when you have no more skeletons
  • Summon attack speed and reduced damage taken while active
• Baneling, debuff
  • critical hits increase your attack speed (optional)
• G
• macabre explosion

In addition, take from your other items:

• increased damage while standing still
• gaining a barrier by injuring an enemy (optional)
• be immune to controls after receiving a control (optional)

Gems

For gems put:

• in the armor of rubies, for max life
• in diamond weapons for ultimate damage
• in the accessories specific element resistances or diamonds

Specialization

For the book of the dead, take:

• Reaper Warriors with corpse generation
• Shadow Mages with stun or extra shot
• Vulnerable Steel Golem

Skill tree

Find the tree diablo 4 summoner necromancer build. For the level grip part, see this article !

Paragon

For the paragon, take:

1. physical damage glyph (buffer only)
2. tray of damage according to the number of summon type - glyph increasing the damage enemies take from your summons
3. use board for corpses that increase your damage - damage glyph for skeleton warriors
4. damage tray reduced or increased depending on the number of corpses - damage glyph for skeleton mages
5. golem life and damage board - golem damage glyph

Also find directly the builder of the Diablo 4 Summoner Necromancer Paragon.

PvP version

This build is not ideal for PvP, however if you want to go into the zone, make sure of these two points:

• Always have your ultimate skill available, keep it when you come across a group. You will have the generation of skeletons and very good damage
• Remove the Golem to replace with a defensive spell, like Blood Mist

optimizations

THE RU[i]NNER very kindly offered improvements for this build, which you can find in the two builds below:

• some fixes of the proposed version
• ou reaper orientation

A big thanks to him !

Hearts Season 1

Here are the three cores to collect for this build:

• essence drain to increase summon damage
• Critical damage increased
• Aura of Decay

History

Find below the build versions and modifications:

• 1.1 : even more powerful and addition of hearts
• 1.0: creation