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Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred (D4)
Necromancer Shadow Bone Storm Build (Season 10)
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★ Season 10 Best Builds & Best Chaos Perks
★ Check out our Vessel of Hatred expansion guide
This is the Shadow Bone Storm endgame build and guide for Season 10 of Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred (D4). Read on to learn more about the Shadow Bone Storm build as well as its playstyle in the Season of Infernal Chaos!
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Necromancer Shadow Bone Storm Build
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 Skills and Passives |
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 Aspects and Affixes |
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 Gems |
 Mercenary |
 Paragon |
 Playstyle |
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Slaydra's Shadow Bone Storm Build Summary
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| Shadow Bone Storm Endgame Build |
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| Focus: AoE, Endgame Dungeons, Helltides | |
 Great Damage in Wide AoE High Mobility  Requires Frequent Skill Usage Below Average Survivability |
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The build focuses on the skill Bone Storm, which is modified by Alter the Balance to turn it into a core skill that allows for continuous casting. To that end, the build will prioritize increasing Bone Storm's damage and acquiring the necessary essence to maintain continual usage.
Season 10 Guide (Infernal Chaos)
Shadow Bone Storm Build Skills and Passives
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Skills and Passives |
Chaos Perks |
Aspects and Affixes |
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| Gems |
Mercenary |
Paragon |
Playstyle |
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※ More skills can be seen by scrolling vertically.
| Active Skills | |
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 Basic Skill Tree┗
Reap
(1/5) ┗
Decompose
(1/5) |
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 Core Skill Tree┗
Blight
(1/5) ┗
 Enhanced Blight
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Supernatural Blight
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 Hewed Flesh
(3/3) ┗
 Unliving Energy
(3/3) ┗
 Imperfectly Balanced
(3/3) |
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 Corpse and Macabre Skill Tree 1┗
Corpse Explosion
(1/5) ┗
 Enhanced Corpse Explosion
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Blighted Corpse Explosion
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 Titan's Fall
(3/3) ┗
 Spiked Armor
(3/3) | |
 Curse Skill Tree┗
 Death's Embrace
(3/3) ┗
 Precision Decay
(3/3) | |
 Corpse and Macabre Skill Tree 2┗
 Coalesced Blood
(3/3) ┗
 Necrotic Carapace
(1/3) ┗
 Reaper's Pursuit
(3/3) ┗
 Gloom
(3/3) ┗
 Crippling Darkness
(1/3) ┗
 Terror
(3/3) ┗
 Serration
(3/3) ┗
 Compound Fracture
(3/3) ┗
 Evulsion
(3/3) |
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 Ultimate Skill Tree┗
Bone Storm
(5/5) ┗
 Prime Bone Storm
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Supreme Bone Storm
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 Finality
(3/3) ┗
 Inspiring Leader
(3/3) ┗
 Stand Alone
(3/3) ┗
 Memento Mori
(3/3) |
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 Key Passive |
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Shadow Bone Storm Build Specialization
| Skeleton Warriors | Skeleton Mages | Golem |
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 Reaper Sacrifice |
 BoneSacrifice |
 BloodSacrifice |
We will sacrifice all three minions to increase our shadow, overpower, and critical damage. While the loss of minions wouldn't affect us much, the sacrifice bonuses are substantial and fit nicely with our build.
Shadow Bone Storm Build Chaos Perks
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| Chaos Perks Setup | |||||
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Alter the Balance Alter the Balance Your base Core Skills are now empowered as Ultimate Skills, cost no Essence, but have a 30-20 second Cooldown. Your base Ultimate Skills are now altered to also be Core Skills and have no Cooldown, but cost 70-50 Essence. |
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 Decimating Desecration Decimating Desecration Your damage over time effects have a chance equal to your Critical Strike Chance to deal 50-100% increased damage. |
 Alternating Alterations Alternating Alterations Casting a Core Skill empowers your next non-Channeled Cast of a different Core Skill, refunding 50% of its Resource cost and dealing 10-30% increased damage. |
 Crazy Brew Crazy Brew Your Healing Potion is infused with the power of Chaos, granting you 100% Resource Cost Reduction, 40-80% increased Attack Speed and 40-80 increased Movement Speed for 4 seconds. Your Healing Potion has a 10 second Cooldown and you can drink it at full Life. |
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Focus on acquiring the Alter the Balance chaos perk, as it is necessary for this build to function. This effectively turns Bone Storm into a spammable skill that can be used for every encounter.
You should go for Decimating Desecration next, as it increases your damage based on the percentage of your critical hit. This is why we continue to stack critical hit on our gear, even though our runes provide almost guaranteed critical hits on skills.
The last two Chaos Powers are used to fuel the resources needed. Therefore, you may use Crazy Brew and Alter the Balance last, as they are better suited for prolonged endgame encounters, such as Pit pushing.
Shadow Bone Storm Build Aspects and Affixes
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 Equipment Notes! |
Affixes marked with ★ are ones you should aim to upgrade when Masterworking. Chaos Armor does not have to be used on a specific slot and can be interchangeable with other equipment slots. |
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※ More gear Aspects can be seen by scrolling vertically.
| Gear | Aspect and Affixes |
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| Head (Chaos Armor) |
Stats: ・Bone Storm Duration ・Chance for Bone Storm to Deal Double Damage ★★★ ・Ranks to Bone Skills ・Cooldown Reduction |
| Chest (Chaos Armor) |
Stats: ・Lucky HIt Chance ・Critical Strike Chance★ ・Attack Speed ★ |
| Gloves (Chaos Armor) |
Stats: ・Maximum Life ・Overpower Damage ★ ・Attack Speed ・Ranks to Core Skills ★★★ |
| Pants (Chaos Armor) |
Stats: ・Ranks to Blight ・Resistance to Gloom ・Ranks to Reaper's Pursuit ★★★ ・Chance for Blight Projectiles To Cast Twice |
| Boots (Chaos Armor) |
Stats: ・Lucky Hit: Up to a 40% chance to deal X Shadow Damage ・Intelligence ・Ranks to Darkness Skills ★★★ ・Lucky Hit: Up to a 15% Chance to Restore X Primary Resource |
| Amulet | Stats: ・Ranks to Coalesced Blood ・Intelligence ★★★ ・Maximum Life Temper: ・Resource - Necromancer Invigoration ┗ Casting Ultimate Skills Restores X Primary Resource
・Offensive - Worldly Finesse
┗ Overpower Damage |
| Ring | Stats: ・Attack Speed ★ ・Intelligence ・Critical Strike Chance ★★★ Temper: ・Resource - Necromancer Invigoration ┗ Casting Macabre Skills Restores X Primary Resource
・Offensive - Worldly Finesse
┗ Overpower Damage |
| Ring | Stats: ・Attack Speed ★ ・Critical Strike Chance ★ ・Lucky Hit Chance ・Levels to Core Skills |
| Weapon (Scythe) |
Stats: ・Critical Strike Damage ・Intelligence ・Maximum Life ・Overpower Damage Temper: ・Offensive - Worldly Finesse ┗ Overpower Damage
・Weapon - Dreadful Augments ┗ Bonus to Finality |
| Offhand (Focus) |
Stats: ・Lucky Hit Chance ★ ・Critical Strike Chance ★ ・Maximum Life ★ ・Maximum Resource Temper: ・Offensive - Worldly Finesse ┗ Overpower Damage
・Weapon - Dreadful Augments
┗ Bonus to Finality |
For this build, we will fully utilize Chaos Armor pieces to boost Bone Storms' capabilities. Thanks to the Banished Lord's Talisman, Bone Storm will consistently overpower, so we will use pieces of gear that empower it. We will also use the Aspect of Ultimate Shadow to convert Bone Storm into shadow damage and Bloodless Scream to take full advantage of it.
Shadow Bone Storm Build Gems and Runewords
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| Weapon | Armor | Accessories |
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 Ruby
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 Topaz
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 Skull
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For Gems, we will slot a Ruby into our weapon for increased Overpower damage and Topaz into our armor pieces for increased Intelligence.
We will use Skulls on our accessories to increase our healing and sustain.
List of All Gems
Shadow Bone Storm Build Runewords
| Runeword 1 | Runeword 2 |
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 Tam
 Zan
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 Qax
 Xan
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Zan + Xan guarantees critical hits as you spam Bone Storm. Tam + Qax is used to grant resources when using our other skills, providing the essence needed to spam Bone Storm.
Shadow Bone Storm Build Mercenaries
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| Mercenary | Reinforcement |
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 Subo |
 Raheir |
Use Subo as the Main Mercenary
While a Main Mercenary isn't required for this build to function, we recommend taking Subo because he can provide more Critical Strike Damage, which fits well with this build.
Equip Raheir as a Reinforcement
This build doesn't require a reinforcement either, but we recommend Raheir for his increased survivability. Bastion is still a valuable skill, as it allows you to mitigate crowd-controlling effects.
Shadow Bone Storm Build Paragon Boards
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| Paragon Boards |
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| 1. Starting Board (Abyssal) |
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| 2. Scent of Death (Dominate) |
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| 3. Bloodbath (Essence) |
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| 4. Bone Graft (Sacrificial) |
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| 5. Wither (Control) |
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We will be getting nodes that boost our DPS, so we will be getting glyphs and nodes that increase critical, overpower, and non-physical damage.
The Paragon Boards and Glyphs for the build focus on enhancing the damage scaling of Flurry as well as Critical Damage. The Paragon setup can be achieved under Paragon 270, with extra nodes you can put into maximum life or armor and resistances.
Shadow Bone Storm Build Playstyle and Rotation
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The build consists of casting Bone Storm as much as possible while maintaining its uptime. Since Bone Storm has a maximum cap of ten and a maximum duration of two seconds, you will need to recast it often to maintain optimal damage output.
- Cast Bone Storm Until You Reach Ten Stacks.
- Rinse and repeat.
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