Best Diablo 4 Minion Necromancer build in Season 6

The Necromancer is at the top of the meta in Season 6 of Diablo 4 with the Minion build, so here’s how to assemble it after Vessel of Hatred.

The Minion Necro build involves the Necromancer doing what they do best – summoning the dead and pitting them against the forces of Hell. As the Necromancer is a top-tier class this season, knowing how to build it and optimize the build for endgame, giving you the best skills, items, Aspects, and Glyphs to target on your journey this season.

Here’s how to craft the best Minion Necromancer in Diablo 4 – the most legendary Necromancer build in the entire franchise.

Best Minion Necromancer skills

To assemble the Minion Necromancer build, allocate this many points on these active skills:

Active Skill	Upgrades	Points allocated
Reap	–	1
Decompose	–	1
Blood Mist	Enhanced, Ghastly	2
Decrepify	Enhanced, Abhorent	5
Corpse Tendrils	Enhanced, Plagued	1
Army of the Dead	Enhanced, Supreme	1

Also, allocate this many points on these passive skills:

Passive Skill	Points
Unliving Energy	1
Hewed Flesh	3
Grim Harvest	2
Fueled by Death	3
Skeleton Warrior Mastery	3
Amplify Damage	3
Death’s Approach	3
Skeletal Mage Mastery	3
Reaper’s Pursuit	1
Gloom	1
Necrotic Carapace	3
Terror	3
Golem Mastery	3
Inspiring Leader	3
Kalan’s Edict	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

Set your Book of the Dead options to the following:

• Skeletal Warriors – Reapers
• Skeletal Mages – Shadow
• Golems – Blood

This is the best setup for a pure Minions build and the Shadow damage from your Skeletons will also buff your own Shadow damage. Your Blood Golem will also provide you with some added defense if things get hairy.

While a Minions build always makes the Necromancer using it somewhat of a glass cannon, these above options will make you more powerful, balancing our the sacrifice you make by spending so many points on Minion skills.

Best Minion Necromancer skill rotation

Use the following skill rotation when approaching mobs and elites in battle:

• Summon Minions
• Decreptify
• Army of the Dead
• Corpse Tendrils
• Blood Mist
• Reap / Decompose

The rotation of attacks involves first casting Decreptify to slow enemies, (your minions will likely already be there), then hitting a mob with your ultimate skill, Army of the Dead. This will likely kill many of them, so next you’ll cast Corpse Tendrils to stun and poison the weakened survivors – and to maximize corpse generation.

From here, your minions will engage the slow, stunned, and weak mob while you cast Blood Mist or Decompose. Alternatively, you can race into the fray and hack enemies apart with Reap until they’re all dead.

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
Reanimation	Increased minion damage	Aldurwood	Scosglen	–
Grasping Veins	Increased critical strike chance for Corpse Tendrils	Corrupted Grotto	Kehjistan	–
Unyielding Commander’s	Increased minion damage	Faceless Shrine	Hawezar	–
Blood-bathed	Duplicates Blood Surge Nova	Hoarfrost Demise	Fractured Peaks	–
Disobedience	Boosts defense based on your minion damage output	Halls of the Damned	Kehjistan	–
Frenzied Dead	Boosts minion damage and speed	–	–	Offhand
Occult Domination	Increases number of Skeleton Warriors by 2	–	–	Boots
Blood Getter’s	Skeletal Priest now empowers you by an extra 55-77%	–	–	Boots
Hardened Bones	You and your minions get damage reduction	–	–	Pants
Aphotic	Skeletal Priest empowers Skeleton Warriors by an extra 20%	–	–	Boots
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 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 Minion Necro in the ways that matter most to the build.

See below to see which Glyphs you should target first.

Level 15

• ‍Golem
• ‍Corporeal
• ‍Exploit
• ‍Essence
• ‍Deadraiser
• ‍Amplify
• ‍Control

Level 21

• ‍Golem
• ‍Essence
• ‍Exploit
• ‍Control
• ‍Deadraiser
• ‍Corporeal
• ‍Amplify

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 Minion Necro build.

Best Mercenaries

As you’ve already got a small army to fight alongside you against the forces of Hell, you’ll benefit more from support Mercs than those who run into melee alongside your minions. We’d recommend bringing Aldkin as your Primary Mercenary and set his skills to Shadow Damage.

This way, he’ll blast enemies from afar, making them vulnerable and easier for you and your minions to take down. His Shadow path also buffs your Shadow damage, making him useful in two ways.

Select Raheir as your reinforcement merc. His defensive buffs will help keep you alive should you get caught by a mob. He can also do decent damage to enemies.

Best endgame weapons, armor & socket

Here’s the best gear you should hunt down for the Minion Necromancer build, including the best socket to use:

Item	Socket	Item type	Power
Runic Skullcap of Hardened Bones	Ruby for extra life	Helm	Increased minion damage
Runic Mail of Occult Domination	Ruby for extra life	Chest Armor	Increased Skeleton Warriors by 2
Runic Gloves of Reanimation	Ruby for extra life	Gloves	Increased minion damage
Blood Getter’s Runic Leggings	Ruby for extra life	Pants	Increased Skeleton Priest damage
Aphotic Runic Cleats	Ruby for extra life	Boots	Increased Skeleton Priest damage
‍Unyielding Commander’s Sparr	Emeralds for poison damage	Main Hand	Army of the Dead increases minion damage
–	–	Offhand	–
Nazar of the Great Feast	Diamond for extra attack power	Amulet	Increased minion damage
Circle of the Grasping Veins	Diamond for extra attack power	Ring 1	Increased minion critical hit rate
Circle of Frenzied Dead	Diamond for extra attack power	Ring 2	Increased minion attack speed

Alternative to Necromancer Minion build for PvP

The Minion Necro isn’t recommended for PvP, and while it’s fantastic in PvE, we’d recommend using the Bone Spirit or Bone Spear build instead, sacrificing your minions and turning your Necromancer into a one-person army.

It’s not suited to PvP play as most players will treat your minions like normal enemies, or elites at best, and will take them down just as quickly, leaving you alone and vulnerable in battle.

If you’re set on taking this build into battle against other players, though, we’d suggest sticking to our endgame version for the best results.

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.