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Necromancer Exploding Minion Endgame Build (Season 8)

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This is a Exploding Minion Necromancer endgame build and guide for Season 8 of Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred (D4). Read on to learn more about the Exploding Minion endgame build in the Season of Belial's Return!

Attention!	This build is a Legacy Build that was created from Season 8 (Belial's Return) and is not updated for the current season.

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Necromancer Exploding Minion Endgame Build

Exploding Minion Build Summary

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Boss Powers			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

This Spiritborn Endgame build is based on a build by Slaydra over at Slaydra (Youtube). The video includes details on how to gear up to get the build online. You can check Slaydra's Twitch Channel for more Diablo 4 content and ask questions about the build!

Build Summary
Exploding Minion Endgame Build
Exploding Minion Endgame Build	Focus: Bossing, Mobbing, Summons
High Single Target Decent DPS Immobile

This is an Exploding Minion endgame build that focuses on ranged damage coupled by huge burst damage from skeletal minion explosions. Try to keep your minions active at all times as this build relies heavily on them to help take on endgame content.

Exploding Minion Build Skills and Passives

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Boss Powers			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

※ More skills can be seen by scrolling vertically.

Active Skills
Basic Skill Tree ┗ Reap (1/3) ┗ Decompose (1/3)
Core Skill Tree ┗ Blight (1/3) 　┗ Enhanced Blight 　　┗ Supernatural Blight
Corpse and Macabre 1 Skill Tree ┗ Blood Mist (1/5) ┗ Necrotic Fortitude (3/3) ┗ Titan's Fall (3/3) ┗ Spiked Armor (3/3) ┗ Skeletal Warrior Mastery (3/3) ┗ Grim Harvest (1/3) ┗ Fueled by Death (3/3)
Curse Skill Tree ┗ Death's Embrace (3/3) ┗ Death's Approach (3/3) ┗ Skeletal Mage Mastery (3/3) ┗ Amplify Damage (3/3) ┗ Decrepify (1/5) 　┗ Enhanced Decrepify (1/5) 　　┗ Abhorrent Decrepify (1/5)
Corpse and Macabre 2 Skill Tree ┗ Coalesced Blood (3/3) ┗ Necrotic Carapace (3/3) ┗ Reaper's Pursuit (1/3) 　┗ Gloom (3/3) ┗ Terror (3/3)
Ultimate Skill Tree ┗ Soulrift (5/5) 　┗ Prime Soulrift 　　┗ Supreme Soulrift ┗ Golem Mastery (3/3) 　┗ Finality (3/3) ┗ Inspiring Leader (1/3) 　┗ Hellbent Commander (3/3)
Key Passive ┗ Kalan's Edict (1/1)

Exploding Minion Necromancer Class Specialization

Skeleton Warriors	Skeleton Mages	Golem
Reaper Upgrade 1	Shadow Upgrade 2	Blood Upgrade 1

Reapers will be our main skeletal warrior. They will reduce your cooldown when they engage and then die which makes them an excellent resource controlling tool.

Shadow's upgrade 1 increases its DPS and with our Service and Sacrifice aspect, it will synergize with our skeletal mage damage output. Lastly, Golem Blood will allow us to have a tanky minion in front of us to compensate for the lack of warriors we have on our build due to their sacrificial nature.

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Exploding Minion Build Best Boss Powers

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Boss Powers			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

Boss Power	Effect/Modifiers
Urivar's Lobbed Bombs	Effect: After you Cast an Ultimate Skill, lob 4 bombs that deal XX Fire damage. Gain 15% Cooldown Reduction.
Beastmaster's Training	Modifier: Your Summons deal XX more damage, increased by XX for each 1% Bonus Critical Strike Damage you have from items and Paragon, up to a maximum of XX.
Hatred's Embrace's Haste	Modifier: Gain XX Critical Strike Chance, increased by XX for each 1% Shadow Resistance from bonuses you have, up to a maximum of XX.
Torusk's Rage	Modifier: Gain XX Attack Speed, increased by XX for each 1% Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies you have, up to a maximum of XX.

These are the best Boss Powers you'll want to have for the exploding minion build. Urivar allows us to reduce Soulrift's cooldown while dishing out huge damage while our modifiers focus on increasing our stat to also scale our minions.

Best Boss Powers and Modifiers Guide

Exploding Minion Build Best Aspects and Affixes

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Boss Powers			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

※ More gear Aspects can be seen by scrolling vertically.

Gear	Aspect and Affixes
Head	Harlequin Crest ・Cooldown Reduction ★★★ ・Maximum Life ・Maximum Resource ・Armor
Chest	Shroud of False Death ・All Stat ★★★ ・Damage after Entering Stealth ・Maximum Life ・Movement Speed After not damaging enemies
Gloves	Vehement Brawler’s Aspect ・Maximum Life ・Skeletal Mage Mastery ★★★ ・Intelligence Temper: ・Utility - Eagle Innovation 　┗ Vortex Size ・Offensive - Worldly Finesse 　┗ Critical Strike Damage
Pants	Blood Moon Breeches ・Critical Strike Chance ・Ranks to Curse Skills ・Ranks to Golem Mastery ・Ranks to Hellbent Commander
Boots	Aspect of Occult Dominion ・Movement Speed ★★★ ・Ranks to Skeleton Warrior Mastery ・Intelligence Temper: ・Mobility - Natural Motion 　┗ + Movement Speed ・Utility - Decay Innovation 　┗ +Soulrift Duration
Amulet	Aspect of Service and Sacrifice ・Intelligence ・Rank to Death's Embrace ・Ranks to Hellbent Commander ★★★ Temper: ・Offensive - Worldly Finesse 　┗ Critical Strike Damage ・Resource - Necromancer Efficiency 　┗ Ultimate Cooldown Reduction
Ring	Ring of the Sacrilegious Soul ・Minion Attack Speed ・Ranks to Summon Mastery ・Damage ・Intelligence
Ring	Ring of Mendeln ・Ranks to Grim Harvest ・Ranks to Corpse Skills ・Lucky Hit Chance ・Movement Speed
Weapon	Aspect of Frenzied Dead ・Intelligence ・Maximum Life ★★★ ・Critical Strike Damage Temper: ・Weapon - Worldly Finesse 　┗ Critical Strike Damage ・Offensive - Summoning Augments 　┗ + Chance for Skeletal Mage to Attack Twice
Off-hand	Aspect of Reanimation ・Intelligence ・Maximum Life ★★★ ・Cooldown Reduction Temper: ・Offensive - Worldly Finesse 　┗ + Critical Strike Damage ・Weapons - Summoning Augments 　┗ + Chance for Skeletal Mage to Attack Twice

Exploding Minion Build Best Gems

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Boss Powers			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

Exploding Minion Build Gems

Weapon	Armor
Emerald	Topaz

The best Gems to slot in for the Exploding Minion build are Emerald for extra burst damage and Topaz to scale our intelligence stat.

List of All Gems

Exploding Minion Best Runewords

Runeword 1	Runeword 2
Igni Ohm	Nagu Qax

The best Runewords for the Exploding Minion build are Igni + Ohm which allows us to use War Cry to empower our minions with aura, while Nagu + Qax allows our Soulrift to deal huge AoE damage.

List of All Runewords

Exploding Minion Best Mercenaries

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Boss Powers			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

Mercenary	Reinforcement
Varyana	Raheir

Use Varyana as Your Main Mercenary

Varyana will be your main Mercenary to maximize the use of Bloodthirst and getting the movement speed bonus.

Varyana Mercenary Guide and Best Skills

Use Raheir For Reinforcement

Raheir will be your Reinforcement to enable better survivability thanks to Bastion. Use this to grant passive Unstoppable for 1 second and redirect 90% of damage taken to Raheir to help you mitigate most of the damage.

Raheir Mercenary Guide and Best Skills

Exploding Minion Build Paragon Boards

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Boss Powers			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

Paragon Boards
1. Starting Board (Exploit)

2. Frailty (Essence)

3. Cult Leader (Deadraiser)

4. Flesh-Eater (Amplify)

5. Hulking Monstrosity (Eliminator)

Exploding Minion Build Playstyle and Rotation

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Boss Powers			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

This will mainly be your gameplay as your minions will handle most of your needs. The rotation is as follows:

Use Soulrift.
Let Minions dish out damage.

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Necromancer Exploding Minion Endgame Build (Season 8)

Necromancer Exploding Minion Endgame Build

Exploding Minion Build Summary

Exploding Minion Build Skills and Passives

Exploding Minion Necromancer Class Specialization

Exploding Minion Build Best Boss Powers

Exploding Minion Build Best Aspects and Affixes

Exploding Minion Build Best Gems

Exploding Minion Build Gems

Exploding Minion Best Runewords

Exploding Minion Best Mercenaries

Use Varyana as Your Main Mercenary

Use Raheir For Reinforcement

Exploding Minion Build Paragon Boards

Exploding Minion Build Playstyle and Rotation

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