Archmage Minion Necromancer Build Guide - Season 11 Diablo 4

By Medievaldragon Updated: 2025/12/10

Archmage Minion Necromancer Build - Season 11

Strengths

Weaknesses

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leaves a defiled area beneath enemies and applies a damage multiplier that increases Skill damage and Skeletal Mages' damage against enemies standing on the defiled area.

applies Vulnerable and a damage multiplier to enemies, and it reduces your Cooldowns based on the number of enemies trapped within. It is recommended to cast this on enemies pulled by .

- This Ultimate Skill summons Volatile Skeletons that run at enemies and explode, stunning them. It also adds a damage multiplier based on your Skeletal Mages' damage bonuses.

is an Essence generator that provides Lucky Hit Chance, applies Corrupting damage per second, and forms Corpses that trigger the 's damage multiplier.

- Apply to a Corpse to summon a Skeletal Priest that heals your Skeletal Mages and buffs their damage with a damage multiplier.

- Cast on a Corpse to pull nearby enemies, stunning/slowing them and dealing damage to them. Its Lucky Hit Chance provides a high chance to drop Blood Orbs when damaging enemies. The Legendary Paragon node causes those Blood Orbs to grant a damage multiplier for 5 seconds.

- This Key Passive increases the Attack Speed and damage of your Skeletal Mages for each active Minion.

- This Passive has a lucky hit chance to create a Corpse. This build uses the Glyph to stack damage multipliers per nearby Corpse.

- A damage multiplier that buffs you for 6 seconds when you cast on a Corpse.

-The Mythic Item adds +1 Skill Point to all Passives, enhancing the Barrier of this passive.

- Add 3 Skill Points to increase your damage versus Elites while you are fortified. Whenever you see an Elite, cast or channel for 1 second. This generates Corpses, which triggers to grant Fortitude, and then the Titan's Fall damage multiplier buff versus Elites becomes active.

is crucial for the Skeletal Mages' damage and Life, as it enables a damage multiplier.

, , and are the Shadow damage trifecta for this Minion build. Terror provides Shadow damage multipliers against enemies affected by Crowd Control Skills, such as , or . The Subo Mercenary's Stuns, and his Slows enemies. The Igni-Thul Runeword casts , which Freezes enemies. Gloom applies a damage multiplier to the Necromancer and Skeletal Mages' attacks for 2 seconds whenever you cast and/or . Reaper's Pursuit provides increased Movement Speed, but the fine print also states that you get a damage multiplier per Darkness Skill equipped in your Skill bar. In this case, and being in your Skill bar double the damage multiplier. Once you equip the Mythic item, you gain +1 to all Passives, for extra Shadow damage.

You deal 20% increased Shadow damage, but you can no longer raise Skeletal Warriors.

You deal 3% increased damage for each active Shadow Mage.

You deal 35% increased Critical Strike Damage, but you lose the ability to Summon a Golem.

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Comment by LousyChameleon

Why did you put a point into Reap? You don't use it, it's not on the bar, and you get no passive bonus from it.

Archmage Minion Necromancer Build Guide - Season 11 Diablo 4

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