
Diablo 4 Necromancer Skills List
Tier List of the Best Skills to use for the Necromancer Class in Diablo 4. This includes each Basic, Core, Macabre, Curse, Summoning, Ultimate, Key Passive Skill and Passives.
Best Necromancer Skills To Use
Tier | Skill | Description |
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A Tier
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Fire 3 bone splinters, dealing 22.5% damage each. Each subsequent time an enemy is hit by the same cast of Bone Splinters, you gain 1 Essence.
Damage Type: ![]() Physical Lucky Hit Chance: 17% Generate Essence: 5
Upgrades
Enhanced Bone Splinters
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Acolyte's Bone Splinters
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Initiate's Bone Splinters
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A Tier
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Sweep an ethereal scythe in front of you, dealing 12% damage. Hitting an enemy with Reap increases your Damage Reduction by 15% for 2 seconds.
Damage Type: ![]() Shadow Lucky Hit Chance: 17% Generate Essence: 4 per hit
Upgrades
Enhanced Reap
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Acolyte's Reap
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Initiate's Reap
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B Tier
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Tear the flesh from an enemy, dealing 30% damage per second and forming a usable Corpse with the flesh every 2.5 seconds.
Damage Type: ![]() Shadow Lucky Hit Chance: 40% Generate Essence: 6
Upgrades
Enhanced Decompose
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Acolyte's Decompose
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Initiate's Decompose
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B Tier
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Burst an enemy's blood, dealing 25% damage. Hemorrhage has a 20% chance to form a Blood Orb.
Damage Type: ![]() Physical Lucky Hit Chance: 40% Generate Essence: 7
Upgrades
Enhanced Hemorrhage
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Acolyte's Hemorrhage
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Initiate's Hemorrhage
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Tier | Skill | Description |
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A Tier
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Conjure a bone spear from the ground, dealing 85% damage and piercing through enemies.
Damage Type: ![]() Physical Lucky Hit Chance: 50% Essence Cost: 25
Upgrades
Enhanced Bone Spear
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Paranormal Bone Spear
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Supernatural Bone Spear
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B Tier
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Unleash concentrated blight that deals 30% damage and leaves behind a defiled area, dealing 80% damage over 6 seconds.
Damage Type: ![]() Shadow Lucky Hit Chance: 40% Essence Cost: 25
Upgrades
Enhanced Blight
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Paranormal Blight
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Supernatural Blight
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B Tier
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Draw blood from enemies, dealing 20% damage, and expel a blood nova, dealing 50% damage. Blood Surge's nova damage is increased by x10% per enemy drained, up to x50%.
Damage Type: ![]() Physical Lucky Hit Chance: 20%
Upgrades
Enhanced Blood Surge
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Paranormal Blood Surge
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Supernatural Blood Surge
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B Tier
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A specter of you charges forward and attacks with its scythe for 42 damage then returns to you and attacks again for X damage.
Damage Type: ![]() Shadow Lucky Hit Chance: 20% Essence Cost: 20
Upgrades
Enhanced Sever
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Paranormal Sever
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Supernatural Sever
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C Tier
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Throw a blood lance that lingers in an enemy for 3 seconds, dealing 45% damage to the enemy and all other lanced enemies.
Damage Type: ![]() Physical Lucky Hit Chance: 40% Essence Cost: 10
Upgrades
Enhanced Blood Lance
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Paranormal Blood Lance
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Supernatural Blood Lance
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B Tier
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Lucky Hit: Your damage has up to a 4% chance to create a Corpse at the target's location. This chance is doubled against Bosses.
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C Tier
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Your Core Skills cost 5% more Essence, but deal 10% increased damage.
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D Tier
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Your maximum Essence is increased by 3
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Tier | Skill | Description |
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S Tier
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Detonate a Corpse, dealing 75% damage to surrounding enemies
Damage Type: ![]() Physical Lucky Hit Chance: 40%
Upgrades
Enhanced Corpse Explosion
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Blighted Corpse Explosion
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Plagued Corpse Explosion
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A Tier
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Disperse into a bloody mist, becoming Immune for 3 seconds. Your Movement Speed is reduced by 20% and you periodically deal X damage to enemies and Healing for 0.5% of your Maximum Life.
Damage Type:
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Enhanced Blood Mist
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Dreadful Blood Mist
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Ghastly Blood Mist
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C Tier
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Unearth a prison of bone with X Life that surrounds the target area for 6 seconds.
Cooldown: 20 Seconds
Upgrades
Enhanced Bone Prison
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Dreadful Bone Prison
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Ghastly Bone Prison
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A Tier
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You deal 4% increased damage for 4 seconds after consuming a Corpse.
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A Tier
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Consuming a corpse generates 3 Essence.
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B Tier
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Increase the damage and Life of your Skeletal Warriors by 15%.
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C Tier
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Gain 3 Thorns
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Tier | Skill | Description |
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A Tier
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Curse the target area. Enemies afflicted by Iron Maiden take X damage each time they deal direct damage. Lasts 10 seconds
Damage Type: ![]() Physical Essence Cost: 10
Upgrades
Enhanced Iron Maiden
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Abhorrent Iron Maiden
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Horrid Iron Maiden
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B Tier
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Curse the target area. Enemies afflicted by Decrepify are Slowed by 50% and deal 25% less damage for 10 seconds.
Damage Type: ![]() Physical Essence Cost: 10
Upgrades
Enhanced Decrepify
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Abhorrent Decrepify
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Horrid Decrepify
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B Tier
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You deal 3% increased damage to Cursed enemies.
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B Tier
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Close enemies take 2% more damage from you and deal 3% less damage to you.
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B Tier
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You deal 4% increased damage to Distant enemies.
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B Tier
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Increase the damage and life of your Skeletal Mages by 15%
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Tier | Skill | Description |
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A Tier
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Consume all of your Essence to conjure a spirit of bone that seeks enemies. Upon reaching an enemy, the spirit explodes, dealing 80% damage to the target and all surrounding enemies. Damage is increased by x3% for each point of Essence spent casting Bone Spirit.
Damage Type: ![]() Physical Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Cooldown: 12 Seconds Essence Cost: All remaining Essence
Upgrades
Enhanced Bone Spirit
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Dreadful Bone Spirit
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Ghastly Bone Spirit
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B Tier
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Veins burst out of a Corpse, Pulling in enemies, Stunning them for 3 seconds, and dealing 20% damage to them. Does not consume the Corpse.
Damage Type: ![]() Physical Lucky Hit Chance: 20% Cooldown: 11 seconds
Upgrades
Enhanced Corpse Tendrils
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Blighted Corpse Tendrils
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Plagued Corpse Tendrils
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A Tier
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Lucky Hit: Darkness Skills have up to a 15% chance to Stun for 1 seconds.
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A Tier
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Lucky Hit: Hitting enemies with Blood Skills has up to a 25% chance to Fortify you for 2% Base Life.
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A Tier
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When a Corpse is formed from your Skills or your Minions, Fortify for 2% Base Life.
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B Tier
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While Healthy your Blood Skills deal 6% increased damage.
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B Tier
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After Critically Striking 10 times with Bone Skills, your Bone Skills deal 5% increased damage per 5 seconds.
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B Tier
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Your Bone Skills deal 6% increased Critical Strike Damage to Vulnerable enemies.
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B Tier
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When you damage enemies with Darkness Skills, they take 2% increased Shadow Damage from you and your Minions for 2 seconds, stacking up to 3 times.
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B Tier
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Damaging enemies with Darkness Skills increases your movement speed by 5% for 3 Seconds.
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B Tier
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Your Bone skills have a 0.5% increased Critical Strike Chance for each 10 Essence you have upon cast.
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B Tier
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Darkness Skills deal 3% bonus damage to enemies who are slowed, and 3% bonus damage to enemies who are stunned or immobilized. These bonuses stack and apply to shadow damage dealt by your Minions.
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B Tier
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Blood Orbs also Heal your Minions for 15% of the amount.
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C Tier
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While below 50% Life, you receive 10% more Healing from all sources.
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C Tier
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Every 100 Essence you spend reduces the cooldowns of your Bone skills by 0.5 seconds.
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C Tier
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Your Blood Skills deal 5% increased Overpower damage. This bonus is doubled while you are Healthy.
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Tier | Skill | Description |
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S Tier
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A swirling storm of bones appears around you and your Golem, dealing 180% to surrounding enemies over 10 seconds.
Damage Type: ![]() Physical Lucky Hit Chance: 40% Cooldown: 60 Seconds
Upgrades
Prime Bone Storm
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Supreme Bone Storm
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A Tier
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Call forth the deep buried dead. Volatile Skeletons emerge over the next 7 seconds that explode when around enemies, dealing 30% damage.
Damage Type: ![]() Physical Lucky Hit Chance: 54% Cooldown: 90 seconds
Upgrades
Prime Army of the Dead
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Supreme Army of the Dead
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B Tier
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Conjure a tidal wave of blood that deals 90% damage and Knocks Back enemies.
Damage Type: ![]() Physical Lucky Hit Chance: 30% Cooldown: 50 seconds
Upgrades
Prime Blood Wave
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Supreme Blood Wave
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S Tier
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Every 5 seconds, your Skeletal Priest's Healing will Heal your Skeletons for 20% of their Maximum Life
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S Tier
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Increases Damage Reduction by 6% reduced by 2% for each active Minion
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A Tier
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Your Minions cannot lose more than 75% of their Maximum Life from a single damage instance.
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A Tier
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After you have been Healthy for at least 4 second, you and your Minions gain 4% Attack Speed.
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B Tier
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Increase the damage and Life of your Golem by 15%
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B Tier
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Your Minions deal 10% increased damage while you are Close to them.
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B Tier
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Sacrificing both Skeletal Warriors and Skeletal Mages increases their Sacrifice bonuses by 20%
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Tier | Skill | Description |
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S Tier
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Your Bone Skills deal 1% increased damage for each point of Essence you have above 50 upon cast.
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A Tier
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After you have not taken damage in the last 3 seconds, your Minions gain 15% Attack Speed. While you have at least 7 Minions, this bonus is doubled.
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A Tier
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Shadow Damage infects enemies with Shadowblight for 2 seconds. You and your minions deal 10% bonus damage to enemies with Shadowblight.
Every 10th time an enemy receives Shadow damage from you or your Minions while they are affected by Shadowblight, they take additional 20% Shadow Damage.
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B Tier
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Increase your Maximum Life by 10%. After being Healthy for 15 seconds, your next Blood skill Overpowers.
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