The Necromancer is at the top of the meta in Season 6 of Diablo 4 and the Bone Spear build remains the best setup. Here’s how to assemble the build.
The Bone Spear Necro build involves the Necromancer using this classic move as their primary offensive weapon while utilizing other skills and gear that boost its power. This Necromancer build is ranked as A-tier in the current meta, so it’s a great choice for those fond of the Priests of Rathma.
From there, we’ll detail how to optimize the build, giving you the best skills, items, Aspects, and Glyphs to target on your journey. For the PvP players out there, we’ll also inform you if we think the Bone Spear Necro is effective this season.
Best Bone Spear Necromancer skills
To assemble the Blood Lance Necromancer build, allocate this many points on these active skills:
| Active Skill | Upgrades | Points allocated |
|---|---|---|
| Reap | – | 1 |
| Decompose | – | 1 |
| Bone Spear | Enhanced, Paranormal | 5 |
| Blood Mist | Enhanced, Ghastly | 2 |
| Decrepify | Enhanced, Abhorent | 5 |
| Corpse Explosion | – | 1 |
| Corpse Tendrils | Enhanced, Plagued | 1 |
| Bone Storm | Enhanced, Supreme | 1 |
Here’s which Passive Skills you should choose:
| Passive Skill | Points |
|---|---|
| Unliving Energy | 3 |
| Hewed Flesh | 3 |
| Grim Harvest | 1 |
| Fueled by Death | 3 |
| Imperfectly Balanced | 3 |
| Amplify Damage | 3 |
| Death’s Approach | 3 |
| Memento Mori | 3 |
| Serration | 1 |
| Compound Fracture | 3 |
| Necrotic Carapace | 2 |
| Evulsion | 3 |
| Stand Alone | 3 |
| Rapid Ossification | 3 |
| Ossified Essence | 1 |
When you start a new character, if you’re a returning player, you’ll likely have lots of skill points ready to assign from your Renown or by being boosted to level 60 from the start.
But if you’re a new player, you’ll need to start from scratch. The good news is you’ll be able to hit level 60 very quickly in the post-Season 6 version of Diablo 4.
Below, we’ve detailed how many skill points you’ll need to assign to each passive and active skill using your leveling and Renown points.
You may find yourself needing to select other skills to progress across the skill tree. That’s okay, just respec to the ones included in the build once you’re able. Who knows, you may create a custom build that suits your needs better.
Best Book of the Dead setup
In the Bone Spear Necromancer build, you have three types of minions to summon or sacrifice through the Book of the Dead. For this build, you sacrifice them all in this order:
- Skeletal Warriors – Sacrifice
- Skeletal Mages – Sacrifice
- Golems – Sacrifice
This sacrifice strategy ensures you maximize your damage output, making your Overpower hits and crits even deadlier.
Of course, it means you won’t be able to use your minions as allies, but you’ll be buffed from their death, making you a one-Necromancer army.
Best Bone Spear Necromancer skill rotation
Use the following skill rotation when approaching mobs and elites in battle:
- Decreptify
- Blood Mist
- Corpse Tendrils
- Bone Storm
- Bone Spear
- Corpse Explosion
The rotation of attacks in endgame involves first casting Decreptify to slow enemies, then hitting a mob with Blood Mist, Corpse Tendrils, then Bone Storm. This will likely weaken many of them, so then hit them with volleys of Bone Spear.
Now cast Corpse Explosion to turn the dead bodies of your enemies into bombs that kill even more of them. Repeat this simple rotation and feel free to miss stages against smaller mobs. Blood Mist for example works whenever you like.
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Best Legendary Aspects
Legendary Aspects can boost your build and add special powers to buff your primary skills. Here are the ones you need and where to find them:
| Aspect | Power | Dungeon | Region | Gamble Obols |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grasping Veins | Increased critical strike chance for Corpse Tendrils | Corrupted Grotto | Kehjistan | – |
| Splintering | Bone Spear makes enemies vulnerable | Guulrahn Slums | Dry Steppes | – |
| Disobedience | Boosts defense based on your minion damage output | Halls of the Damned | Kehjistan | – |
| Torment | Critical Strikes with Bone Skills increases your Essence regeneration | Black Asylum | Fractured Peaks | – |
| Great Feast | Increased minion damage | – | – | Focus |
| Serration | Ossified Essence increases critical strikes | – | – | Focus |
| Concussive Strikes | Attacks have 20% chance to Daze enemies | – | – | Focus |
| Shielding Storm | Bone Storm generates Barrier | – | – | Pants |
| Hardened Bones | You and your minions get damage reduction | – | – | Pants |
| Metamorphosis | Evade triggers Unstoppable for 2.5 seconds | – | – | Boots |
Remember, you can also strip these Aspects from their original item and apply them to an item of your choosing.
Best Mercenaries
Select Raheir as your Primary merc. His defensive buffs will help keep you alive should you get caught by a mob. He can also do decent damage to enemies and support you on the front line.
We’d recommend bringing Varyana as your support merc. As you don’t have minions, she will lend some much-needed melee support and will complement Raheir nicely. Together, they’ll defend you and do lots of damage to mobs or elites.
Best Paragon Glyphs
Once you reach level 60 you’ll stop earning skills points and start earning Paragon points instead. This leveling system works very differently and involves you selecting updates from various boards with different themes and buffs.
Every path is different, but the good news is that by targeting different Glyphs as you move around the Paragon Board, you’ll start buffing your Necro in the ways that matter most to the build.
See below to see which Glyphs you should target first.
Level 15
- Gravekeeper
- Corporeal
- Control
- Essence
- Sacrificial
- Exploit
- Amplify
Level 21
- Essence
- Control
- Exploit
- Amplify
- Corporeal
- Sacrificial
- Gravekeeper
Once you reach Paragon Level 15, work your way towards the above Glyphs. You’ll also unlock more across the Paragon Board as you earn more points, but selecting these particular Glyphs in this order will keep you on the best possible path for the Necro Bone Spear build.
Best endgame weapons, armor & socket
Here’s the best gear you should hunt down for the Bone Spear Necromancer build, including the best socket to use:
| Item | Socket | Item type | Power |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deathless Visage | Ruby for extra life | Helm | Bone Spear leaves behind exploring echoes |
| Runic Mail of Shielding Storm | Ruby for extra life | Chest Armor | Bone Storm has chance to trigger Barrier |
| Splintering Runic Gloves | Ruby for extra life | Gloves | Bone Spear makes enemies vulnerable |
| Runic Leggings of Hardened Bones | Ruby for extra life | Pants | Increased Minion damage |
| Runic Cleats of Metamorphosis | Ruby for extra life | Boots | Increased Skeleton Priest damage |
| Spinal of the Great Feast | 2x Emeralds for poison damage | Main Hand | Chance to cast Bone Spear twice |
| – | – | Offhand | – |
| Choker of Serration | Diamond for extra attack power | Amulet | Boosts Evulsion and Compound Fracture |
| Ring of Torment | Diamond for extra attack power | Ring 1 | Boosts Torment |
| Loop of Grasping Veins | Diamond for extra attack power | Ring 2 | Boosts Grasping Veins |
It’ll take time to track down this exact set, but once you do this will make up your endgame gear. Of course, it’s up to you which gear you equip and you may want to mix it up, but this setup will give you a decided advantage.
Bone Spear build for PvP
The good news about using the Necromancer Bone Spear build for PvP is it’s the same exact build we’ve described above in our endgame section. The build is rated A-tier for PvP this season, so while it’s not at the very top, it’s still deadly and a great choice for taking down other players.
Now that you know how to craft this top-tier Necromancer build, make sure to check out our guides for the Druid, Sorcerer, Rogue, Barbarian, and Spirtiborn.
