This is a Necromancer Summoner endgame build and guide for Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred (D4). Read on to learn more about the Summoner build, including its skills, gear, gems, runes, mercenaries, and paragon boards, as well as how to play the build for Season 7!

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Summoner Build Summary

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Witchcraft			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

This Necromancer Endgame build is based on a build by P4wnyhof. The video includes details on how to gear up to get the build online. You can also check out P4wnyhof's, own Mobalytic for a much more summarized version of the build.

Build Summary
Summoner Endgame Build
	Focus: Endgame, Torment Pushing
High DPS and Crowd Control Excellent Survivability Requires Multiple Stat Build up

Summoner Build Skills and Class Mechanic

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Witchcraft			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

Summoner Build Skills and Passives

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Active Skills
Basic Skill Tree ┗ Bone Splinters (2/3)
Core Skill Tree ┗ Blight (1/5) 　┗ Enhanced Blight 　　┗ Supernatural Blight ┗ Hewed Flesh (3/3)
Corpse and Macabre Skill Tree 1 ┗ Corpse Explosion (1/5) 　┗ Enhanced Corpse Explosion 　　┗ Blighted Corpse Explosion ┗ Grim Harvest (3/3) 　┗ Fueled by Death (3/3) ┗ Necrotic Fortitude (3/3) ┗ Titan's Fall (3/3) ┗ Skeletal Warrior Mastery (3/3)
Curse Skill Tree ┗ Decrepify (1/5) 　┗ Enhanced Decrepify 　　┗ Abhorrent Decrepify ┗ Decrepify (1/5) ┗ Death's Embrace (2/3) ┗ Death's Approach (3/3) ┗ Amplify Damage (3/3) ┗ Skeletal Mage Mastery (3/3)
Corpse and Macabre Skill Tree 2 ┗ Corpse Tendrils (1/5) 　┗ Enhanced Corpse Tendrils 　　┗ Plagued Corpse Tendrils ┗ Necrotic Carapace (1/3) ┗ Reaper's Pursuit (3/3) ┗ Coalesced Blood (3/3)
Ultimate Skill Tree ┗ Army of the Dead (1/5) 　┗ Prime Army of the Dead 　　┗ Supreme Army of the Dead ┗ Inspiring Leader (1/3) 　┗ Hellbent Commander (3/3)
Key Passive ┗ Kalan's Edict (1/1)

Sever Build Book of the Dead

Skeleton Warriors	Skeleton Mages	Golem
Reaper Upgrade 1	Cold Upgrade 1	Iron Upgrade 2

For our warriors and mage, we'll want to equip the reaper's first upgrade to further lessen our Army of the Dead's cooldown. The shadow mage's first upgrade will increase our total damage output since we'll also be increasing our mage quantity.

The Golem will have the blood archetype and get its upgrade 2 and activating its effect and triggering Aspect of Fel Gluttony's effect to deal AoE damage to the surrounding enemies.

Book of the Dead Guide

Best Witchcraft Powers

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Witchcraft			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

Witchcraft	Effect Rank Up Bonus
Aura of Lament	When you first strike an enemy, it is afflicted with an Aura of Lament that Slows it and other nearby enemies by 70%. For each enemy inside Aura of Lament, you gain 3 Primary Resource each second. If the initial enemy dies, Aura of Lament is passed onto another nearby enemy retaining the duration. Lasts X seconds. Only 1 enemy may be afflicted at a time. May only occur every 30 seconds. Rank 15: You can now have 2 Aura of Laments active at one time.
Vengeful Spirit	Every 19 Seconds, a Vengeful Spirit Servant appears for X seconds. While active, all damage taken is instead taken by the spirit. Vengeful Spirit Servant deals 750% damage. Rank 5: When the Vengeful Spirit’s Life is fully depleted, it rushes towards up to 8 enemies dealing 2,000 Shadow damage.
Poison Frog Servant	Summon a Poison Frog Servant that attacks and Poisons enemies for 150% damage over 3 seconds. On death, the frog explodes violently dealing X Poison instantly damage to nearby enemies. This explosion will always Critically Strike. Rank 5: Poison Frog attacks will pull enemies towards itself and Taunt enemies for 1 second.
Soul Harvest	Feed upon the life force of nearby enemies whenever you use a skill with a cooldown, increasing your primary stat by 3% per monster for X seconds. Rank 9: Soul Harvest does not lose duration so long as enemies are nearby.
Grow	After casting an Ultimate Skill, your Servants, Minions, and Companions are empowered with dark magics. Growing larger in size and dealing X bonus damage. Lasts 15 seconds. Rank 11: Your Servants, Minions and Companions gain 100% Critical Strike Chance while enlarged.
Aura Specialization	The size of your Aura Effects are increased by X. Rank 10: Increase the Critical Strike Damage by 50% against enemies inside your Aura Effects.

Grow will allow our minions to increase their size and increase their damage which is perfect for our summoner playstyle. Aura Specialization increases our critical strike damage, Poison Frog Servant is a great aggro tool and pull enemies while dealing AoE damage.

Aura of Lament is a decent crowd control tool that also takes some resources from enemies, and Soul Harvest to increase our Intelligence. Lastly, Vengeful Spirit protects our allies by taking damage to itself.

Summoner Build Aspects and Affixes

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Witchcraft			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

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Gear	Aspect and Affixes
Head	Harlequin Crest ・Cooldown Reduction★★ ・Maximum Life★ ・Maximum Resource ・Armor
Chest	Aspect of the Cursed Aura ・Maximum Life: ・Resistance to Elements ・Golem Mastery ★★★ Temper: ・Utility - Profane Innovation 　┗ Corpse Explosion Size ・Defensive - Worldly Endurance 　┗ Total Armor
Gloves	Fists of Fate ・Lucky Hit Chance ・Critical Strike Chance ★★★ ・Attack Speed ・Lucky Hit: Up to a [X%] Chance to Apply a Random CC.
Pants	Blood Moon Breeches ・Critical Strike Chance ・Ranks to Curse Skills ・Ranks to Golem Mastery★★ ・Ranks to Hellbent Commander★
Boots	Aspect of Occult Dominion ・Resistance to Elements ★★ ・Intelligence ★★ ・Maximum Life Temper: ・Mobility - Natural Motion 　┗ Movement Speed ・Utility - Profane Innovation 　┗ Movement Speed
Amulet	Aspect of Grasping Veins ・Ranks to Hellbent Commander ★★ ・Intelligence ★ ・Attack Speed Temper: ・Offensive - Summoning Finesse 　┗ Golem Damage ・Resource - Necromancer Efficiency 　┗ Golem Active Cooldown Reduction
Ring 1	Aspect of Fel Gluttony Stats: ・Attack Speed ★★ ・Lucky Hit Chance★ ・Resistance to Elements Temper: ・Resource - Necromancer Efficiency 　┗ Ultimate Cooldown Reduction ・Offensive - Summoning Finesse 　┗ Golems Damage
Ring 2	Ring of Mendeln ・Minion Attack Speed ・Rank to Skeletal Warrior, Mage, or Golem Mastery★★★ ・Damage ・Intelligence
Weapon	Unyielding Commander's Aspect ・Maximum Life ・Critical Strike Damage ・Intelligence Temper: ・Offensive - Summoning Finesse 　┗ Golems Damage ・Weapon - Summoning Augments 　┗ Chance for Army of the Dead to deal Double Damage★★★

Summoner Build Best Gems and Occult Gems

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Witchcraft			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

Summoner Build Gems

Armor	Jewelry
Diamond	Topaz

Army of the dead is our main damage skill aside from summons so we'll want to slot in Diamonds to further increase its damage.

Topax is the perfect gem for our armor as it increases our Intelligence which can directly increase our total damage output as well.

Summoner Best Occult Gems

Amulet	Ring	Ring
Dust Stone	Pointed Finger	Toadling's Wish

Dust Stone allows us to maximize our auras and hexes from our Witchcraft Power which we stacked to multiply the damage output us and our minions can dish out.

Pointed Finger increases our elite damage to take down rares and bosses faster while Toadling's Wish can increase the effects of our Hexes more.

Summoner Build Runewords

Runeword 1	Runeword 2
Nagu Zec	Tam Gar

Nagu + Zec is a standard combo for a summoner archetype as we'll naturally get tons of value from our minion count. We than transfer that into ultimate cooldown reduction to increase our Army of the Dead's uptime.

Tam + Gar is just a DPS steroid that we can easily trigger Blight which amplifes our DPS already just allows us to hit much harder.

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Summoner Build Mercenaries

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Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

Mercenary	Reinforcement
Varyana	Raheir

The best mercenaries for the Summoner Build are Varyana and Raheir.

Varyana can increase our attack speed which also translates to minion attack speed via natural minion scaling. Raheir is a great Reinforcement to trigger Bastion and avoid lethal damage while also protecting your minions and increase their uptime.

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Summoner Build Paragon Boards

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Witchcraft			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

Paragon Boards
1. Starting Board (Eliminator)
2. Cult Leader Board (Corporeal)
3. Hulking Monstrosity (Deadraiser)
4. Frailty (Essence)
5.Flesh Eater (Golem)

Summoner Build Playstyle and Tips

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Witchcraft			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

The Summoner Build playstyle focuses on letting your minions deal damage while utilizing almost permanent uptime with Army of the Dead.

1. Cast Army of the Dead
2. Use Blight and Empower your minions with the Golem Active and Raise Skeleton

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