Blood Surge Minions Necromancer Endgame Build Guide - Diablo 4

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Best Blood Surge Minions Necromancer Skills and Rotation

Blood Surge Minions Necromancer Primary Skills and Rotation

(1/5)
Decrepify should always be our first ability cast, and something we want to make certain is constantly applied to our enemies. It activates multiple different multipliers from things such as passives and other boosts within our Paragon. It gives us both defensive and offensive bonuses, applies Crowd Control, and is our main source of Cooldown reduction outside of gearing.

It also acts as a way to somewhat "control" our Minions since casting on an enemy not currently in combat will send our Minions towards them... if they're in the mood to listen to us that is.

(1/1)
Our Golem active is often our second skill used, although it can also be used before just to get the party started and get enemies distracted so we can begin our setup. The damage it provides isn't really the reason we have our Golem in the first place. Mainly, it is our source of Unstoppable since stops us from casting and using would require us to remove important other Aspects. It also acts as another Minion so we get another nova from , resulting in more damage.

(1/5)
Tendrils is one of our easiest ways to apply the Vulnerable status, yet arguably more importantly it pulls everything it touches into a tight bundle allowing us to burst everything down at once, which is quite important for a burst-focused build. To add to this, it also helps fill a Bosses stagger bar quicker. Typically we can eliminate whatever we grab with Tendrils by the time the stun it applies wears off.

1/1)
Since we focus on our own damage, instead of our Minions, the bonus damage here isn't important, but the healing it offers them is incredibly useful since if they die, we're in trouble. Along with providing our Minions survivability, it also allows us to quickly activate since Raise Skeletons has such a quick casting animation, along with for another damage boost.

Ideally, this is used to consume 5 corpses before we begin bursting so is activated.

(5/5)
Finally, we've arrived at the button we will be pressing the most. Once we're able to reach the Attack Speed cap we're able to constantly be Overpowering this ability since every 5 casts will guarantee an Overpower, not only for our own but for the mini novas from since they replicate what we're doing, resulting in a huge number of Overpowers at once.

It is worth noting the mini novas from do not count towards the 5 Overwhelming Blood stacks listed in the description of our modifier. Only our own personal casts of count, however once we do Overpower, their mini novas will too.

As a side tip - if a pull is particularly nasty and being Close might result in death, then we're able to simply cast from a distance despite hitting nothing on our own since our Minions will be in range, and those novas deal a ton of our damage all on their own.

(1/1)
We get both defensive and offensive bonuses from running Bone Storm with the defensive component being perhaps a bit more valuable since we lack sources of Damage Reduction. Typically, we want to use this cooldown right before engaging Elite packs.

The best Blood is Shadow. It's all Shadow. Blood simply lacks things that mesh well together in a positive manner as by using Shadowblight we're able to benefit from multipliers we had no access to before such as .

Blood Surge Minions Necromancer Passive Skills

(1/3) - We need a single point here to reach the next passive.

(3/3) - We can negate the increased Essence cost through gearing to gain another multiplier from this passive.

(3/3) - This is our main source of Corpse generation.

(1/3) - The Essence generation helps early when we're still gearing, but one point here to go next.

(3/3) - A simple multiplier we can activate through using .

(3/3) - We're always Close when dealing damage, so more damage and tankiness when doing so is very welcomed.

(3/3) - Movement Speed is always valuable, so if we can fit maxing this passive then we shall.

(3/3) - Another multiplier activated from meaning it should always be rolling.

(3/3) - Healing is one of our main defensive components, this adds a bit more to that aspect.

(3/3) - With such high healing, we're able to consistently benefit from this boost.

(3/3) - Our main way to Fortify for a damage boost and damage reduction.

(3/3) - Generally this is our largest multiplier from a passive baseline, without bonuses from gear.

(3/3) - The damage isn't why we're here, rather we want the Life so our Golem hardly ever falls.

(3/3) - Critical Strike Chance is very valuable, so gaining this affix from mere points is wonderful.

(1/3) - This is a flexible point, it can be moved elsewhere if wanted, although it helps ensure our Minions will not die. Their death, means our damage plummets and our distractions are gone, making things dangerous for us.

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Blood Surge Minions Necromancer Endgame Build Guide - Diablo 4

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