Best Diablo 4 Bone Spear Necromancer build in Season 5 Blizzard Entertainment \/ DexertoThe Necromancer is at the top of the meta in Season 5 of Diablo 4 and the Bone Spear build remains the best setup. Here\u2019s how to assemble the build for leveling and endgame and if we\u2019d recommend it for PvP play. The Bone Spear Necro build involves the Necromancer using this classic move as their primary offensive weapon while utilizing other skills and gear that boost its power. This Necromancer build is ranked as A-tier in the current meta, so it\u2019s a great choice for those fond of the Priests of Rathma. From there, we\u2019ll detail how to optimize the build for endgame, giving you the best skills, items, Aspects, and Glyphs to target on your journey. For the PvP players out there, we\u2019ll also inform you if we think the Bone Spear Necro is effective this season. Best Bone Spear leveling build in Diablo 4 Season 5 As you level while playing through either the campaign or the new Season 5 content, you\u2019ll want to make sure that you\u2019re selecting your skills in the following order: These skills will help you to craft the ideal Bone Spear build. Of course, you\u2019ll need to have unlocked the Renown points to use the extra ten, so if you find it more convenient, level Evulsion, Compound Fracture, and Serration before the minion Mastery skills. The above skill selection will help focus your abilities around Bone Spear, making this your most powerful skill while reducing its cooldown time. Of course, you\u2019ll be able to fall back on Reap and Decompose if you run out of Essence, but this will become increasingly unlikely as you level up. Best Book of the Dead setup for leveling When it comes to using the Necromancer\u2019s unique Book of the Dead skills for a Bone Spear build, we recommend selecting the following: Skeletal Warriors \u2013 Skirmishers – Skeletal Mages \u2013 Cold – Golems \u2013 Iron – This Book of the Dead setup is the best for this build, letting your Skirmisher Skeletal Warriors focus on melee combat while your Mages support them from a distance with Cold Magic. This will slow enemies down while your Skeletons, Golem, and yourself strike at them while they\u2019re vulnerable. We\u2019ve selected the Iron Golem for this Book of the Dead setup as it\u2019ll allow your Golem to protect your Mages and yourself from mobs and elites while you fire volleys into the fray. Your minions are effective allies while leveling, but as you reach endgame, you\u2019ll soon outgrow the need for them and will be able to do more damage by Sacrificing them \u2013 at least with this build. Best leveling rotation Summon Minions \u2013 If not already active – Iron Maiden – Corpse Tendrils – Blood Mist – Bone Storm – Bone Spear \u2013 Main Skill – Reap \u2013 Close Combat – For this build, you\u2019ll likely already have your minions with you, so your first attack should be to strike a mob with Iron Maiden so that they\u2019re likely to take more damage when the battle starts. Next, cast Corpse Tendrils to stun enemies and increase the likelihood of producing extra corpses to re-supply your minion army. From here, hit them with your main attacks, using Blood Mist to do devastating damage from a distance once your minions engage the mob. Now you can use your two most effective skills, Bone Storm and Bone Spear. Once you\u2019ve cast Bone Storm, fire a volley of Bone Spears into the fray. You can fall back on Reap and Decompose if the need arises. By now, Corpse Tendrils will have worn off, so hit them with another round of it, maximizing your corpse generation, stunning the survivors, and even topping up their poison levels. Of course, whichever rotation works for you will be the best to use, but the above is a logical, tried, and tested method to combine skills into one powerful set of attacks. Best Legendary Aspects While Legendary Aspects will become more useful in the endgame version of the Bone Spear build, there are some you can hunt down while progressing to level 50 or while playing through the story. Here\u2019s where you can find them: Best Bone Spear endgame build in Diablo 4 Season 5 Once you reach endgame in Season 5 by beating the story, hitting level 50, and unlocking the Paragon Board, you can then respec to the endgame version of the Bone Spear Necro build. This is very similar to the leveling build, but there are some key differences in terms of point allocation that we\u2019ll go into below. First, you\u2019ll need to switch your active and passive skills. As you\u2019ll already have your 50 skill points to use, along with any Renown points you\u2019ve unlocked, allocate them to the following active and passive skills: Here\u2019s which Passive Skills you should choose: This build still primarily focuses on Bone Spear as a primary skill, but now no longer uses minions and instead doubles down on support spells and attacks. We\u2019ve also switched curses, replacing Iron Maiden with Decrepify. This will slow enemies down and give you time to pepper them with attacks that trap them in a kill box. Best endgame Book of the Dead setup The key difference between the Book of the Dead skills in endgame is that you\u2019ll be Sacrificing all your minions to really buff yourself. This build has little need of them, so take the sacrificial buff to make your Bone Spear damage even more deadly. Skeletal Warriors \u2013 Sacrifice – Skeletal Mages \u2013 Sacrifice – Golems \u2013 Sacrifice – Of course, if you\u2019d prefer to use minions, feel free, just know you\u2019ll be less powerful as an individual Necromancer. Best endgame rotation For endgame, use the following skill rotation when approaching mobs in battle: Decreptify – Blood Mist – Corpse Tendrils – Bone Storm – Bone Spear – Corpse Explosion – The rotation of attacks in endgame involves first casting Decreptify to slow enemies, then hitting a mob with Blood Mist, Corpse Tendrils, then Bone Storm. This will likely weaken many of them, so then hit them with volleys of Bone Spear. Now cast Corpse Explosion to turn the dead bodies of your enemies into bombs that kill even more of them. Repeat this simple rotation and feel free to miss stages against smaller mobs. Blood Mist for example works whenever you like. Remember, while you do have access to Reap and Decompose, it\u2019s mostly to ensure other skill chains remain unbroken when leveling up. You\u2019ll not have room for them as active skills while you\u2019re already using six others. Best Legendary Aspects Now that you\u2019ve reached endgame, you\u2019ll have access to many more Legendary Aspects to boost your build and add special powers to buff your primary skills. Some are the same as in the leveling build, but now there\u2019s even more. Here\u2019s where and how you can find them: Remember, you can also strip these Aspects from their original item and apply them to an item of your choosing. Paragon Board Once you reach level 50 you\u2019ll 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\u2019ll start buffing your Bone Spear Necro in the ways that matter most to the build. See below to see which Glyphs you should target first. Best Glyphs Level 15 Gravekeeper – Corporeal – Control – Essence – Sacrificial – Exploit – Amplify – Level 21 Essence – Control – Exploit – Amplify – Corporeal – Sacrificial – Gravekeeper – Once you reach Paragon Level 15, work your way towards the above Glyphs. You\u2019ll 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 Necro Bone Spear build. Best Bone Spear endgame item build It\u2019ll take time to track down this exact set, but once you do this will make up your endgame gear. Of course, it\u2019s up to you which gear you equip and you may want to mix it up, but this setup will give you a decided advantage. Alternative to Necromancer Bone Spear build for PvP The good news about using the Necromancer Bone Spear build for PvP is it\u2019s the same exact build we\u2019ve described above in our endgame section. The build is rated A-tier for PvP this season, so while it\u2019s not at the very top, it\u2019s still deadly and a great choice for taking down other players. Now that you know how to craft this top-tier Necromancer build, make sure to check out our guides for the Druid, Sorcerer, Rogue, and Barbarian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Best Diablo 4 Bone Spear Necromancer build in Season 5 Blizzard Entertainment \/ DexertoThe Necromancer is at the top of the meta in Season 5 of Diablo 4 and the Bone Spear build remains the best setup. Here\u2019s how to assemble the build for leveling and endgame and if we\u2019d recommend it for PvP play. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}