Diablo Immortal: The Best Raid Necromancer

Summoner Necromancer Skills and Equipment:

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Skills

1. Soulfire (Primary Attack)

2. Skeletal Mage

3. Command Golem

4. Grim Scythe (PvM) or Borrowed Time (PvP)

5. Bone Wall​​

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Main Hand

Rotted Harvest - Summons a Devouring Golem with a large area of effect slow aura that consumes corpses to increase its damage, life, and size (which also increases its movement speed).

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Off-Hand

Black Wall - Skeletal Mages are now mobile and channel beams at enemies that increase in damage over time.​

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Main Hand 2

Cravings-Bay (Raid) - Grim Scythe now empowers you making primary attacks deal additional damage for a duration.

Defiling Swarm (AoE) - Grim Scythe now creates two scythes that orbit you that deal damage to nearby enemies.

Cycle's Wear (PvP) - Borrowed Time now makes summons immune to damage, heals them, and increases their damage.

Note: Summoner Necromancers are meant for PvM and aren't recommended for PvP but a PvP option is still shown.

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Off-Hand 2

Pyre's Allure - Bone Wall can now also be ignited with Soulfire which deals damage to nearby enemies every second.

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Helmet

Decrepit Visage - Your golem roars increasing the duration of your Skeletal Mages by two seconds every two seconds.

Note: This essence allows you to maintain six Skeletal Mages at all times as long as they're kept alive.

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Shoulders

Executive Discontent - Your damage is now also increased for each Skeletal Mage you have out.

Note: This essence works well with Decrepit Visage and provides a huge damage increase with six active Skeletal Mages.

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Chest

Gyreplate - Bone Wall now creates a tombstone that summons zombies from corpses that damage and slow enemies.

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Legs

Molderol Beacon - Bone Wall now also creates four corpses which can be used to raise your Gyreplate essence zombies.​

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Recommended Sets

1. Shepherd's Call to Wolves (6 Set) - Increases your minions' damage, increases your critical hit chance for each minion you have out, and increases your minions' attack speed for a long duration on cooldown.​​

2. Vithu's Urges (2 Set) - Increases the duration of your beneficial effects by 30%.​

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Recommended Attribute Priority (PvM/PvP)

1. Fortitude (Armor/Armor Penetration)

2. Strength (Primary/Skill Damage)

3. Vitality (Maximum Life)

4. Willpower (Potency/Resistances)

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Best 5 Star Legendary Gems

1. Roiling Consequence - Increases your critical hit chance and causes critical hits to burn enemies.

2. Blood-Soaked Jade - Gives increased damage, reduces damage taken below 50% life, and increases movement speed.

3. Colossus Engine - Gives increased skill damage, increased area of effect, knockback immunity, and increased size (which increases your movement speed) for a medium duration with a 20 second cooldown.

4. Hellbound Desire - Increases damage and movement speed with bonus damage for a six second duration.

5. Blood Floe - Increases damage, increases critical hit chance, increases critical hit damage, and makes enemies bleed.

6. Wulfheort - After damaging an enemy 5 times you slash the enemy and increase you and your allies' attack speed.

7. Leviathan Tomb - Increases your damage for a duration and makes critical hits increase the damage bonus.

8. Void Spark (PvM) - Deals massive AoE damage that's effective for challenge dungeons, terror rifts, and speed farming.

9. Seeping Bile (PvP) - Gives a chance to deal damage over time and slows enemies' movement speed.

Note: Wulfheort is a major damage multiplier for this build because it increases the attack speed of you and your summons. Colossus Engine works to increase your Skeletal Mages' skill damage when using the Black Wall offhand essence.

 

Best 2 Star Legendary Gems

1. Pain Clasp - Gives high increased damage against enemies that have a continuous damage effect on them.

2. Fervent Fang - Increases your damage each time you or your minions hit an enemy stacking up to ten times.

3. Specter Glass - Increases enemies' damage taken after critical hits and increases your critical hit chance.

4. Bloody Reach - Deals increased damage based on the distance to your summon and then the distance to the enemy.

5. Mother's Lament - Increases your critical hit chance and releases a damaging spike that causes enemies to bleed.

​6. Mourneskull - This legacy gem is drop disabled but it can be used to increase your damage and it also deals damage.

7. Crimson Behelit - Strong legacy PvP gem with increased damage and reduced damage taken that's drop disabled.

8. Viper's Bite - A nice gem for early on that deals damage over time if you have low legendary gems and resonance.

​Note: The Black Wall essence makes your mages deal continuous damage which triggers the Pain Clasp two star gem. Also, the Follower's Burden two star gem may seem tempting but its damage doesn't scale well at higher ranks.

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Best Starter 1 Star Legendary Gems

1. Berserker's Eye - Increases all of your damage and critical hit chance but also increases your damage taken.

2. Everlasting Torment - This budget gem deals damage over time which triggers the damage increase on Pain Clasp.

3. Entropic Well - A great budget one star legendary gem that increases your skill damage and attack speed.

4. Surging Sea - A lower priority one star legendary gem that has a skill damage increase that stacks up to 10 times.

Note: Berserker's Eye is a powerful one star gem that requires a high ranked up five star gem to match its damage.

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Best Familiars

1. Savior Duskprowler - Look for a 170+ Resilience Duskprowler with the Savior passive skill which provides a cheat death and temporary damage immunity. The 170+ Resilience on the familiar lowers the cooldown of Savior. The Tenacity passive is important because it lowers the Duskprowler's shield cooldown. The Lingering Wounds passive can be used for increased damage but it only works on a Duskprowler if you also have the Ignition passive for a familiar status ailment.

2. Broodtalon/Skitterwight - Look for Savior which provides a cheat death and Lingering Wounds for increased damage.

3. Ash Sweeper - Ash Sweepers are strong, especially in PvP, because they damage nearby enemies and mark an enemy reducing their damage by 20% for 3 seconds. They can also have 170+ Resilience which reduces the cooldown of Savior.

4. Any Savior Familiar - You can use any familiar with Savior for a cheat death and great passive skills as an alternative.

5. Rare Duskprowler - Guardian is the next best familiar passive because it heals you when you drop below 50% life. Innervate can reset one of the player's cooldowns, Phalanx increases your damage and defenses, Precision gives critical hit chance to the familiar, and Tenacity lowers the cooldown of the Duskprowler shield which are also desirable passives.

Note: Broodtalons and Skitterwights have status effects over a duration which increases the duration of Lingering Wounds.

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Normal Gems

Prioritize Tourmalines for added damage in red sockets and a combination of Citrines and Topazes for potency and resistances in yellow sockets for the highest refinement. Potency increases harmful effects durations on enemies and resistances decrease harmful effects durations on you. Citrines for potency is preferred if you only care about PvM damage but resistances come into play more with PvP. You should use your highest refinement Aquamarines and Sapphires for armor and armor penetration in blue sockets. You can also optionally combine all of your bound Rubies which give life into one or two Rubies and socket them into your equipment if they give higher refinement. Gems give refinement based on their quality and refinement increases the attributes on the equipment the gems are socketed in.

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Gem Notes

The Hellbound Desire and Blood-Soaked Jade five star gems are important for this build for increased movement speed. The fairly new Leviathan's Tomb five star gem deals more damage than the Fated Trail five star gem but it doesn't have the added benefit of an immobilize effect. The Blood Floe five star gem is an excellent option when it's combined with multiple sources of increased critical hit chance and critical hit damage. The Viper's Bite and Seeping Bile gems aren't necessary for continuous damage to trigger the Pain Clasp two star gem (which is the best two star gem for damage that increases your damage when there's continuous damage on the target) because the Black Wall essence already deals continuous damage. Seeping Bile is however still a great gem in PvP for killing opponents after they use a cheat death.​

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That's all for the Summoner Necromancer Guide. You can view the menu at the top of this page for more builds. Good luck!

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