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Best Diablo 4 Bone Spirit Necromancer build in Season 5

Best Diablo 4 Bone Spirit Necromancer build in Season 5

The Necromancer is at the top of the meta in Diablo 4 Season 5, and the Bone Spirit build is one of the best setups to use. Here’s how to put the build together for leveling and endgame, and whether we’d recommend it for PvP play.

The Bone Spirit Necro build sees the Necromancer use this tried-and-true move as their primary attack skill, while also utilizing other spells and equipment that amplify its effects. This Necromancer build is considered S-tier in the current meta, making it a great choice for Priests of Rathma who want to do more than just command minions.

From there, we’ll explain in detail how to optimize the build for the endgame and give you the best skills, items, aspects, and glyphs to target on your journey. For the PvP players out there, we’ll also let you know whether we think the Bone Spirit Necro is effective this season.

A screenshot of a necromancer in Diablo 4

The necromancer is a master of bone magic and death.

Best Bone Spirit leveling build in Diablo 4 Season 5

As you level up while playing through the campaign or the new Season 5 content, make sure to select your skills in the following order:

These skills will help you create the ideal Bone Spirit. Of course, you must have unlocked the Renown Points. If not, skip the last ten upgrades until you have them.

The above selection of skills will help you focus your abilities on the Bone Spirit, making it your most powerful skill while reducing its cooldown. Of course, you can use bone fragments if you run out of essence, but this becomes less likely as you level up.

Bone Spirit

The bone spirit can specifically target its victim.

Best Book of the Dead Setup for Leveling

If you want to use the unique abilities of the Necromancer’s Book of the Dead to build a Bone Spirit, we recommend choosing the following options:

  • Skeleton Warrior – Skirmisher
  • Skeleton Mage – Bone
  • Golems – iron

This Book of the Dead setup is the best for this build so that your Skirmisher Skeleton Warrior Focus on close combat while your Mages support them from a distance with bone magicThis allows you to generally do more damage with bone skills from a distance.

We have selected the Iron Golem for this Book of the Dead setup, as it Allow your golem, Protect your mages and yourself from mobs and elites as you fire volleys into battle.

Best leveling rotation

  • Summon Servants – If not already active
  • Decreptify
  • Corpse tendrils
  • Bone Prison
  • Bonestorm
  • Bone Spirit – Main Skill

For this build you will probably have already got your minions with you, so your first attack should be to hit a mob with Decreptify curse them, making them likely to take more damage when the fight begins.

Next, cast corpse tendrils to stun enemies and increase the chance of producing additional corpses to replenish your subordinate army.

Now you can use your two most effective skills, Bone Prison And Bone Spirit. Once you’ve cast Bone Storm, fire a barrage of Bone Spirit into the fray. You can use Bone Shards if needed.

Bone Spirit

Bone Spirit can be improved by 5 points and two upgrades.

Best Bone Spirit endgame build in Diablo 4 Season 5

Once you have reached the endgame in Season 5 by completing the story, reaching level 50, and unlocking the Paragon Board, you can Respec on the endgame version of the Bone Spirit Necro Build. In this build, the endgame version is identical to the leveling build, but there are a few new factors to consider.

There is no need to redistribute your skills, but you will need the following:

You should choose the following passive skills:

Best Endgame Setup for Book of the Dead

The setup of Book of the Dead in the endgame remains the same as in the level build:

  • Skeleton Warrior – Skirmisher
  • Skeleton Mage – Bone
  • Golems – iron

Of course, if you prefer not to use servants, you can sacrifice them and give yourself power.

Best endgame rotation

For endgame, use the following skill rotation when approaching mobs in combat:

  • Summon Servants – If not already active
  • Decreptify
  • Corpse tendrils
  • Blood Prison
  • Bonestorm
  • Bone Spirit – Main Skill

The endgame attack rotation remains the same as when leveling with this build.

Best Legendary Aspects

Now that you’ve reached the endgame, you have access to many more legendary aspects that you can use to improve your build and add special powers to enhance your main skills. Some are the same as in the leveling build, but now there are even more. Here’s where and how to find them:

Remember that you can also remove these aspects from their original item and apply them to an item of your choice.

Necromancer with servants

The Necromancer can raise a small army of servants to fight for him.

Paragon Board

Once you reach level 50, you will no longer receive skill points, but will instead receive Paragon Points. This leveling system works very differently and involves you selecting updates from different 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 can begin to buff your Bone Spirit Necro in the ways that matter most to the build.

Below you can see which glyphs you should focus on first.

Best Glyphs

Level 15

  • Grave Guardian
  • Physically
  • control
  • Being
  • Death blow
  • strengthen
  • control

Level 21

  • Being
  • Grave Guardian
  • Physically
  • Strengthen
  • Deathbringer

Once you reach Paragon level 15, work your way up to the glyphs mentioned above. You’ll also unlock more on the Paragon board as you earn more points, but choosing these specific glyphs in this order will keep you on the best possible path for the Necro Bone Spirit build.

Best Bone Spirit Endgame Item

It will take some time to track down this exact set, but once you do, this is your endgame gear. Of course, it’s up to you what gear you equip, and you can mix it up, but this build will give you a distinct advantage.

Alternative to the Necromancer Bone Spirit build for PvP

The good news about using the Necromancer Bone Spirit build for PvP is that it’s the exact same build we outlined above in our endgame (and even leveling) section. The build is rated A-tier for PvP this season, so while it’s not at the top, it’s still deadly and a great choice for taking out other players.

Now that you know how to create this top-notch Necromancer build, be sure to check out our guides for Druids, Wizards, Rogues, and Barbarians.

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