Diablo 4 Essence

Wrathful (Super) • Necromancer

Best Builds

Best Malignant Hearts To Use With Essence

The best malignant heart to use with Essence in D4 is Caged Heart of The Great Feast, which is a Wrathful Type Socket.

The Great Feast

World Tier IV

Each Minion drains [1.0 - 2.0] Essence per second but deals [50 - 75%] increased damage. With no Minions, this bonus applies to you and drains 5 Essence per second.

Greaves of the Empty Tomb

Best Unique Weapons and Armor That have Essence

The best unique equipment to use with the Essence stat in D4 is Bloodless Scream, which is a Unique Scythe.

Necromancer • Unique Boots

Create desecrated ground beneath your Sever spectres as the travel, damaging enemies for [X] Shadow damage over 2 seconds.

Max Evade Charges

Bonus Movement Speed
Essence Cost Reduction
Lucky Hit: Apply Shadow DoT
Damage Reduction From Enemies That Are Shadow DoT

Necromancer • Unique Helm

Deathless Visage

Bone Spear leaves behind echoes as it travels that explode, dealing [.28-.38] damage.

Armor
Physical Damage
Critical Strike Damage for Bone Skills
Maximum Essence

Necromancer • Unique Scythe

Bloodless Scream

Your Darkness Skills Chill enemies for up to 40% . Lucky Hit: Your Darkness Skills have up to a 100% chance to generate [7 - 10] additional Essence against Frozen targets.

Life On Kill

Darkness Skill Damage,Damage to Chilled Enemies
Damage to Frozen Enemies
Cold Resistance

Necromancer • Unique Shield

Lidless Wall

New

Lucky Hit: While you have an active Bone Storm, hitting an enemy outside of a Bone Storm has up to a [5 - 25%] chance to spawn an additional Bone Storm at their location. Each of your active Sacrifice bonuses increases the chance by 25% and the total number of additional Bone Storms you can have by 1.

Block Chance
Blocked Damage Reduction
Main Hand Weapon Damage
Thorns

Attack Speed
Damage to Distant Enemies
Lucky Hit: Up to a 5% Chance to Restore [X]% Primary Resource
Maximum Essence

Best Uniques

Best Aspects To Use with Essence

The best aspects to use with the Essence Stat in D4 is Aspect of Serration, which is a Offensive Aspect and can only be used on Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%) Equipment Slots.

Aspect of Serration

Necromancer • Offensive

The Ossified Essence Key Passive also increases the Critical Strike Damage of your Bone Skills by 1% per Essence, up to [30-40%] .

Aspect of Torment

Critical Strikes with Bone Skills increase your Essence Regeneration by [90-170%] for 4 seconds.

Aspect of Exposed Flesh

Lucky Hit: Up to a 10% chance to generate [30-50] Essence when hitting a Vulnerable enemy.

Aspect of Potent Blood

While at full Life, Blood Orbs grant [10-20] Essence.

Requiem Aspect

You gain [3.0-5.0] Maximum Essence per active Minion.

Flesh-Rending Aspect

After Decompose spawns a Corpse, gain [20-40] Essence.

Necromancer • Legendary Board

Best Aspects

Best Paragons To Use with Essence

The best paragon to use with the Essence stat in D4 is Bone Graft, which is a Legendary Board Node.

Bone Graft

Hitting enemies with Bone Skills increases your damage by 1% and your Maximum Essence by 3 for 8 seconds, stacks up to 7.5% increased damage and 22.5 Maximum Essence.