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Excited! The much-anticipated Season 9 Sins of the Horadrim is expected to enter Diablo 4 at 10:00 AM PST on July 1, bringing some new game mechanics, a significantly improved Nightmare Dungeons, and some changes to existing classes. Among the six classes at this stage, Necromancer has always been recognized as the top class by players with its super strong damage ability, both in leveling content and endgame content. Although S9 has weakened its Overpower, Soul Rift and Blood Wave to some extent, it is relatively stable overall. Therefore, choosing a stronger class from the beginning and picking some suitable build options for it will make your exploration in the new season more efficient. With that in mind, this guide will recommend some of the best Necromancer builds you can try, based on previous PTRs and recent developer updates and patch notes, as well as some things to keep in mind when using them. 1. Necromancer Builds Focused On Summon Minions The most popular Necromancer builds have always relied on summoned minions to perform dual attacks, and with the help of the exclusive Unique added to Diablo 4 Season 9, the effectiveness of this type of build will be greatly improved. What needs to be paid attention to here is that you need to change your minions from Skeletal Warriors and Golems to Skeletal Mages, so that they can be converted into Skeletal Arch-Mages with more powerful damage capabilities in subsequent difficult battles with Diablo 4 Gold. In this type of build, you can choose Ring of Mendeln and Blood Moon Breeches to match Skeletal Mages accordingly, such as increasing the attack speed, skill level and damage capabilities of the minions. But since Necromancer class itself has some poor survival attributes, you may need to put some Mythic Uniques in it to increase your character’s tankiness. Or use Horadric Spell combos added in Season 9 to improve this situation. Here are the ones I can recommend to you: Smoldering Ember+Bloody Charm+Fractured Core+Invigorating Helix and Cosmic Anomaly+Corpse Explosion, they will make your minions more and more, and the combat ability will become stronger and stronger. But the specific attributes and statistics may have to wait for the official release of the new season to be determined. 2. Blood Wave Necromancer Build Yes, you read that right. Although Blood Wave has been weakened a bit in this new season, it is still very stable and can be the focus of your attention. However, what I can recommend here is to try to use Blood Wave with Cosmic Anomaly. In this combination, the combination of Alien that can perform continuous explosions and Blood Wave skill that can deal extremely high bleed damage, making it extremely efficient at clearing out groups of enemies in Nightmare Dungeons, Helltide, and Infernal Horde. Additionally, choosing some Horadric spells that can increase your bleeding damage and attack speed will help your character smoothly and easily kill all low to mid-level monsters and bosses within a safe ranged attack area, allowing you to earn more loot. For the gear you can put in it, Kessime’s Legacy is a recommended option. Similarly, this Blood Wave Necromancer build will also need some Mythic Uniques to complete safe exploration objectives. 3. Blood Spear Necromancer Build Of course, Blood Spear with the same damage type is also an important skill you should pay attention to in Diablo 4 Season 9. However, to deal the most damage, you’ll need the help of Uniques like Memory of Indira, Path of Trag’Oul, and Face of the Undying. So it will cost a little more than Blood Wave in terms of the amount of D4 Gold invested. But this is not without a way out. You only need to use Smoldering Ember, Fractured Core, Bloody Charm, and Tranquil Stone to form your Horadric Spell to create a perfect combination of Bone Prison with strong control ability and Bone Spear with strong penetration ability. Thanks to this combination, you can see those enemies trapped in the solid Bone Prison in the battle, and then defeat them directly with those projectiles that are enough to disintegrate the enemy instantly. This process basically does not exceed 10 minutes, so you can use it as the most important rotation in the leveling stage where efficiency is more valued. 4. Necromancer Builds Focused On Damage Over Time This type of Necromancer Build seemed to be very popular before Season 5, but gradually faded out of the spotlight due to the changes in various skills and item attributes. However, the addition of Horadric Spells has brought this type of build back to life. For example, use Corpse Explosion skill with Decompose and Blight to cause a lot of continuous shadow damage, and then use a Horadric Jewel called Tyrant Bane to cause more continuous damage until the enemy disappears. This is very useful for kiting strategies when dealing with enemies or bosses with vigorous defenses and high health: you just need to watch the enemy’s attack moves at every step and dodge in time, and wait for them to slowly die. These are Necromancer builds worth trying in Diablo 4 Season 9 Sins of the Horadrim, which is expected to be released on July 1. And after the new season starts, here will continue to provide you with quest guides or build guides in S9 so that you can easily create a powerful build that suits you best. I wish you a happy game!

As players explore the latest Diablo 4 Season 8, a lot of new vitality has been injected into Sanctuary, mainly manifested in more novel builds gradually entering the player’s field of vision. Whether you want to quickly reach World Tier 4 or want a powerful character in the endgame content, you can find it in the current many build options. This guide will list the most suitable builds for players to use in the current season to get through the boring and difficult leveling and grinding stages, as well as their advantages and disadvantages during the exploration process. Most importantly, it will also introduce you to the most ideal gear combinations that are most suitable for these builds, so that you can reach your leveling goals faster and more efficiently and enter the endgame content. Leveling Builds List In S8 - S Tier Upheaval Barbarian Chain Lightning Sorcerer Twisting Blades Rogue Minion Summoner Necromancer Since these builds are only useful when you have the right gear, here are the specific effects and optional parts of top 3 builds in S Tier, as well as the corresponding play style, so that you can choose. 1. Upheaval Barbarian Barbarian’s super brute force and crowd control ability make it a successful initial choice for players who like to take damage from enemies in combat, and Upheaval can maximize the range burst damage ability of this class. This build can quickly clear any groups of enemies you face with large-scale slam attacks, allowing you to effectively farm some Diablo 4 Gold and experience points to complete leveling faster. Not only that, Upheaval works perfectly with generative Fury and Warcry, giving you even more clearing power. But this also brings up the most important problem with this build: Fury consumption is too high. So you may want to place some gear that can continuously generate Fury in your build. In addition, its single target (elite enemies or bosses) hit efficiency is poor, so you may want to improve your defense as much as possible before entering such encounters. Recommended Gear Undying Aspect - Using a skill restores 2.5% life. If your life is below 50%, this bonus is doubled. Aspect of Might - The base skill provides 20% damage reduction for 10 seconds. Aspect of Sundered Ground - Every 20 seconds, the next use of Upheaval guarantees that you will become Overpowered, dealing 70% increased damage. Scoring a critical hit against an Elite with Upheaval reduces this timer by 1 second. Edgemaster’s Aspect - This skill deals up to 25% increased damage based on the primary resources available at the time of activation and has its greatest effect when the primary resources are full. Bold Chieftain’s Aspect - Each time you activate a Warcry skill, the active cooldown is reduced by 30.0% per nearby enemy, up to a maximum of 70%. Aspect of Inner Calm - Increases damage dealt by 20%. Standing still for 3 seconds triples this bonus. Vehement Brawler’s Aspect - When you activate your ultimate skill, your damage will increase by 60% for 8 seconds and your ultimate skill rank will increase by 2. 2. Chain Lightning Sorcerer In D4 Season 8, Chain Lightning Sorcerer still uses its best ricocheting lightning damage to effectively clear large groups of enemies in dungeons and seasonal activities. Not only that, the super simple skill rotation and gorgeous visual effects are very suitable for early exploration when it is not very intense. In addition, most of the skills with lightning damage in this build can be perfectly coordinated with the very useful vulnerability effect, so that those enemies will die in a very short time. But it is worth noting that the mana consumption of these skills is very large, so it may be very suitable for you to use when the challenge content level is low. Once you reach the mid-game content, you are likely to suffer a very high risk when you are short of mana. And it is still not suitable for single-target enemy battles. Recommended Gear Aspect of Concentration - When you cast a summon skill, you gain 30.0% damage reduction for 5 seconds. Recharging Aspect - Each time Chain Lightning bounces, you gain 5 mana. Lightning Rod Aspect - Chain Lightning has a 25% chance to deal 90% increased damage, with this chance doubled against bosses and crowd-controlled enemies, who are prioritized targets. Snowveiled Aspect - Activating Ice Armor makes you unstoppable and grants you 25% damage reduction for 5.5 seconds. Aspect of Orange Herald - Lucky hits have a maximum chance of 13% and reduce the cooldown of your ultimate skill by 2 seconds. This can only be activated once per skill activation. Aspect of Shredding Blades - Ice Blades now have a 20% increased chance of inflicting Vulnerable status effect, extend Vulnerable status effect duration by 4 seconds, and increase Vulnerable damage by 35%. Storm Swell Aspect - While Ice Armor is active, your damage is increased by 53%, and by an additional 15% against frozen enemies. 3. Twisting Blades Rogue The first two builds for leveling focus on group damage, while Twisting Blades Rogue build complements their lack of single target damage and also has a good range attack. In this build, you will directly pierce the enemy and quickly pull the blade back to yourself to cause difficult-to-execute burst damage. Similarly, this high-mobility build is also very suitable for you to bring it into endgame content, because it will double your survival probability. But some of the disadvantages of this high mobility are that you need to accurately find your landing point in the battle, because once you enter the enemy’s damage range, poor defense will not be able to protect you from these risks. Recommended Gear Bladedancer’s Aspect - Twisting Blades will return to the player and then orbit for a while, dealing 80% of Twisting Blades’ counterattack damage with each hit. Vehement Brawler’s Aspect - When you activate your ultimate skill, your damage will increase by 60% for 8 seconds and your ultimate skill rank will increase by 2. Aspect of Corruption - Increases the effectiveness of your Imbuement Skill by 60%. Starlight Aspect - When at full health, your Primary Resource increases by 45.0 for every 20% of your life you heal or 120% of your life you Overheal. Slice and Dice Aspect - Twisting Blade’s first hit is a slash, and its counterattack speed is increased by 45%. Edgemaster’s Aspect - This skill deals up to 25% increased damage based on the primary resources available at the time of activation and has its greatest effect when the primary resources are full. Aspect of the Expectant - After hitting an enemy with a Basic Skill, within 5 seconds the damage of the next Core Skill you use will be increased by 18% up to a maximum of 30%. The above is an overview of the most suitable builds and optional gear for you to use in the leveling stage in Diablo 4 Season 8. Hope that with the help of these powerful builds you will be able to complete the difficult early and mid-stage exploration stages as quickly as possible, allowing you to access and explore the improved end-game content. I wish you a happy game!

In the current Diablo 4 Season 8 Belial’s Return, Necromancer has become the most chosen class by players with its powerful clearing efficiency and super high damage ability. But it is worth noting that Necromancer builds really have a lot of options to choose from, so it is very challenging to find some that can help you level quickly while being able to make full use of the latest season mechanism Boss Power. In order to reduce the time and effort you spend on choosing the best Necromancer leveling build, this guide will introduce you to some specific options for Blood Surge Necromancer builds, which can help you smoothly pass the leveling stage that requires you to grind and cultivate for a long time. Most importantly, this Blood Surge Necromancer build combines the two most powerful skills (Blood and Minion) of this class at once, and does not require too much gear to stack the effectiveness, so it is very suitable for players who are just getting started with this powerful character of Necromancer. Active Skills Blood Surge Necromancer build which just introduced mainly uses Blood Surge skill, and the summoned Skeletal Minions as the main source of damage, because this combination can meet the range attacks (for clearing or farming) and single-target attacks (for defeating a single boss) you need at this stage. But I need to remind you that Blood Surge requires a lot of Essence to be consumed in your build, so you may need to choose some skills that can automatically generate more Essence in your build, and spend Diablo 4 Gold to upgrade their levels to obtain a steady stream of Essence. In addition, there are some skills that can trigger additional attack effects that are also very suitable for placement in this Blood Surge Necromancer build. The following are some active skills recommended for you based on the changes made to the attributes and statistics of each skill in the current season. Enhanced Hemorrhage: Each time you pick up a Blood Orb, your next Hemorrhage will be strengthened, and each time you hit an enemy, you will generate two additional Essences. Paranormal Blood Surge: While you are healthy, you gain Overwhelming Blood whenever you are attacked by Blood Surge Nova. At 5 stacks, Blood Surge Overpowers are activated. Raise Skeleton: It raises a Skeleton from the corpse of the enemy you just defeated, and once you have summoned all Skeletal Priests, it buffs your minions for 5 seconds, increasing their damage by 20% and restoring 10% of their maximum health. Ghastly Bone Prison: When elite enemies and bosses are trapped in Bone Prison, you gain 25 Essence, and each trapped enemy grants you an additional 5 Essence. Horrid Iron Maiden: Casting Iron Maiden on 3 or more enemies in combat increases damage by 30% and curses the enemies. You can regain some Essence during this casting. Supreme Soulrift: Increases your damage by 1% for each Soul absorbed, up to 30%. Since your combat speed and clearing speed are both important during the leveling phase, the recommended skill rotation is very simple: cast Blood Surge at the beginning of the fight, and then use skills that can generate Essence as much as possible to cast Blood Surge again. When fighting elite enemies and bosses, add Soulrift to them and continue to cast Blood Surge until they are defeated. In view of this, you should spend more D4 Gold as soon as possible to upgrade Blood Surge to level 5 to cause more bleeding damage to the enemy. Passive Skills In this Blood Surge Necromancer build, you’ll want to activate passive skills that, when combined, will increase the damage of your gear, so here are the names of the recommended passive skills and how many points you can put into them. Unliving Energy (3) Skeletal Warrior Mastery (3) Skeletal Mage Mastery (3) Amplify Damage (3) Death’s Embrace (3) Coalesced Blood (3) Tides of Blood (3) Drain Vitality (3) Transfusion (3) Rathma’s Vigor With this passive skills tree of high damage bonuses, all you need to do is keep your health and build strong during leveling to ensure that blood orbs released by Hemorrhage and Blood Surge can be easily collected and can do higher damage. Boss Powers After introducing the regular active and passive skill options, the seasonal mechanism Boss Powers exclusive to Diablo 4 Season 8 Belial’s Return is also about to appear. It is a buff mechanism obtained when you defeat the world boss, ladder bosses, or the boss in the seasonal event. In this buff, the main power you choose will give you the damage effect unique to this boss, and Modifiers will provide you with powerful stat buffs. Although the space for Boss Powers is not very large for Blood Surge Necromancer build, which focuses on leveling, you can use the following to speed up the process. Ashava’s Poison Breath - It dropped by World Boss Ashava. When attacking an enemy under a DoT effect, including Soulrift, it will create a poison wave. Beastmaster’s Training - It dropped by Beastmaster during Incursion Events. Increases the damage your summoned minions deal based on your critical strike damage. Hatred Embrace’s Hate - It dropped during Hatred’s Embrace in Incursion events. Critical chance increases with Shadow Resistance. Runewords Similarly, Runewords, which are only of great use in Diablo 4 endgame stage, can also be placed in Blood Surge Necromancer build. Here are the recommended combinations for you and their effectiveness. Cir+Lum: Allows you to generate additional Essence after casting five skills. Zan+Tec: When you cast Soulrift, you will gain additional Barbarian’s Earthquake skill. Cem+Qua: Gain additional movement speed when you cast the dodge skill. The above are the specific build options and precautions for Blood Surge Necromancer build in Diablo 4 Season 8, which is very worthwhile for novice players to try in the leveling stage. I hope that with the help of this guide, you can quickly have an optimal build that can make your leveling process easier and earn enough loot from it to complete the challenges in the endgame. I wish you a happy game!  

Diablo 4’s Vessel of Hatred expansion has been released for a while, and many players have completed the storyline in DLC and experienced the fun of Spiritborn. However, the game did not stop because of a successful update. Instead, it is making final preparations for the upcoming Halloween event. According to official news, Diablo 4 will officially launch the “macabre celebration” Halloween event at 10 am Pacific Time on October 29, and it will last until the same time on November 5. During this period, all participating players will receive a series of limited-time free store items as rewards. In addition, a particularly noteworthy highlight is Butcher-exclusive “Meat or Treat” Dungeon Shrine modifier, which will also be available during this period. This means that players can explore more different game content through this interesting mechanism. For players who like Diablo 4 series and want to spend a Halloween holiday full of surprises and fun in the game, it is definitely worth logging in to the game during this period. Whether you want to collect rare items, accumulate Diablo 4 Gold, or just feel the festive atmosphere, the “macabre celebration” can meet your needs. Free Goodies Diablo 4’s Halloween event brings a series of exciting benefits to players, the most notable of which is that during the event, players can get free store items by simply logging into the game. This generous move can make every participant feel the sincerity of the development team and the importance of the player community. Specifically, starting from October 29, a new cosmetic item will be available in the store every day for players to receive for free. Each cosmetic item has a unique design. It should be noted that although Halloween event itself will last until November 5, the free cosmetic items will end on November 1. Besides the free cosmetics, Diablo 4’s Halloween event also includes the following free items: October 29: Recluse’s Host Mount October 30: Ichorflame Torch Mount Trophy October 31: Recluse’s Flask Mount Trophy November 1: Reclusive Trappings Mount Armor In Diablo 4’s Halloween event, October 29 marks the start of a series of unique and seasonal free mounts and loot for players to claim in the in-game store. First up is Recluse’s Host Mount, a uniquely designed zombie horse with a decayed flesh and empty eye sockets that perfectly fit the horror theme of Halloween, adding a festive touch to players’ rides through the vast world of Sanctuary. Then, on the next day, October 30, players can claim Ichorflame Torch Mount Trophy, a creative item featuring a large recluse spider with one side clasping a burning flame, adding a mysterious and powerful aura to the player’s character. On the last day of the event, November 1, the store will offer Reclusive Trappings Mount Armor, a piece of armor designed specifically for the aforementioned zombie horse, which is covered in dense spider webs to make its entire body more terrifying and also strengthen the mount’s defense capabilities. During this Halloween event, players do not need to log in to the game every day to claim the free items. Each date marks the time when the item is available in the store, and players can claim it after the item is available until November 5 at 12 noon Pacific Time. Therefore, as long as players log in once between November 1 and November 5, they can claim all the free decorative items offered by the event. If you want some other game items, you can pay attention to Diablo 4 Season 6 giveaway event that iGMeet discord has been doing. Just leave your favorite emoji to participate in the draw. Also Read: Long-Term Diablo 4 Promotions & Giveaways - Real And Valid A Dungeon Modifier Diablo 4 also launched Butcher’s ‘Meat or Treat’ event during Halloween event. The essence of this event lies in its influence mechanism on Dungeon Shrines. When players activate any Dungeon Shrines during the event, they may trigger this special effect. Once activated, Shrines will show different “surprise” effects from the usual, which may include additional loot, enhanced attributes or other unexpected gains. However, although these surprise effects are tempting, they may also be accompanied by certain risks and challenges, which will have unpredictable negative effects on the operation of the dungeon. Therefore, for players who are eager to explore and experience this event, how to wisely choose when and where to activate the dungeon shrine during the event from October 29 to November 5 has become an important strategic consideration. Although Diablo 4’s Halloween event may not include a lot of substantial game content updates, it is worth being able to receive a few new cosmetic items for free during the holiday. In addition, regarding Butcher’s game of “Meat or Treat,” Diablo 4 development team has maintained a mysterious silence and has not clearly informed players of the specific advantages and disadvantages they will face after activating a Dungeon Shrine. Players need to explore and experience the event content in person after the event starts in order to discover the secrets and surprises. This may mean that activating a Dungeon Shrine after the event is officially launched may bring some unexpected benefits.