Diablo 4 Season 7 Necromancer Tier List - New Best Necro Builds in D4 S7

Diablo 4 Season 7 brings significant changes to the Necromancer class, these changes pave the way for new and powerful Necromancer builds, with the Blood Wave Necromancer taking the top spot as the best build in the new season. In this article, we'll delve into the details of these changes and explore the top Necromancer builds in Diablo 4 Season 7.

Necromancer Changes in Diablo 4 Season 7

• Blood Wave Enhancement: Blood Wave receives a major rework with Kessime's Legacy unique item, enabling triple-casting from left and right sides with multiplicative damage stacking up to 300%, plus fortification benefits and cooldown reduction.

• Bone Spear Revival: Bone Spear becomes a hybrid blood-bone skill through Indira's Memory, guaranteeing critical strikes against bone-prisoned enemies while benefiting from both blood and bone damage multipliers. However, it costs 10% max life per cast.

• Minion System Overhaul: The summoning system sees a fundamental change where all minions now inherit the player's stats, lucky hit chances, and damage modifiers - allowing them to trigger various effects like cooldown reduction and healing.

• New Unique Items: Two powerful unique items are introduced in D4 S7: Indira's Memory (converting skills between blood/bone) and Kessime's Legacy (enhancing Blood Wave's casting pattern).

• Rathma's Vigor Update: Rathma's Vigor is modified to provide 120% increased Overpower damage, replacing the previous Blood Moon Breeches mechanic for more build flexibility.

• New Runes: The new rune system introduces Nagu (offering generation based on maintained summons) and Igni (offering generation through non-basic skill usage) runes.

• Witchcraft Powers: New Witch powers enhance minions after ultimate skill usage, granting size increase and 100% critical strike chance at rank 11, complemented by new gems providing 25% more direct damage for summons.

Diablo 4 Season 7 Necromancer Best Build Tier List

Diablo 4 Season 7 Patch 2.1 bolsters the Necromancer's role as a versatile damage dealer, focusing on both direct damage and area-of-effect capabilities through improved bone and blood manipulation techniques. The introduction of new unique items and enhancements to existing skills will provide players with more options and strategies for building their Necromancer characters effectively.

1. Blood Wave Necromancer - S Tier

Blood Wave Necromancer is expected to be the best build in D4 Season 7, capable of effortlessly clearing Pit 150 even without Masterwork gear and at relatively low Paragon levels. The build's extraordinary power comes from the new Kessime's Legacy pant, which creates a devastating triple-wave effect that can stack multiplicative damage up to 300%, combined with a chance for Blood Wave to deal double damage. This synergizes exceptionally well with Overpower mechanics and various damage multipliers from Witch Powers and Aspects. The Blood Wave build demonstrates incredible survivability while dealing consistent damage in the trillions, it is particularly effective for both solo and group play. What sets this build apart is its ability to maintain high damage output while offering strong crowd control through its wave mechanics, it is one of the strongest Necromancer builds in the new season - all without requiring the previously dominant Spirit Build mechanics or extensive gear optimization.

2. Bone Spear Necromancer - A Tier

Bone Spear Necro has the potential to make a huge comeback in Season 7 with massive buffs and the addition of the new unique item - Indira's Memory. The Bone Spear's base damage is increased, and it becomes empowered with new effects, making it a blood skill. The new legendary Paragon, Bloodbath, further improves the damage output by providing 100% Overpower damage and increasing blood skill damage. However, the loss of blood moon breaches' Overpower damage may negatively affect this build. Rathma's Vigor, with its 120% guaranteed overpowers, is expected to be the key passive for this build.

3. Bone Spirit Necromancer - A Tier

Bone Spirit is a powerful Necro build in S7 with a combination of indirect buffs and system changes, despite losing some power from the Blood Moon Breeches rework. The build benefits from several new damage multipliers, including Soul Rift's 75% max damage bonus, Bone Prison's 15% increased damage taken effect, and the generalized Coalesced Blood damage bonus that now applies to all skills instead of just blood skills. The new Rathma's Vigor key passive offering 120% overpower damage can be particularly powerful, potentially outperforming the Amplify Essence passive for players with less than 270 Essence. While the removal of Blood Moon Breeches' 150% overpower damage is a significant nerf, the build compensates through other improvements like the Bloodbath Paragon overpower buff increase from 70% to 100%. This balance of gains and losses keeps Bone Spirit as a solid, if not meta-defining, choice for Necromancers in D4 2.1.

4. Mendeln Summoner Necromancer - B Tier

Mendeln Summoner Necromancer receives significant enhancements through the reworked Blood Moon Breeches, which now provide ranks in Golem Mastery and Hellbent Commander, directly boosting summon damage and Mendeln explosions. Additional improvements come from Soul Rift's new fear property and increased damage ceiling (from 30% to 75%), along with the generalized Coalesced Blood passive that now provides an 18% damage boost to all skills. The build's mechanics of using Iron Golem sacrifice and skeleton-based explosions remain unchanged, and it benefits from new Critical Strike chance affixes that scale with Mendeln damage. While these changes make the build more powerful than its Season 6 version and capable of clearing Pit 110-115 content, it still lacks the necessary power to reach Pit 130 clears.

5. Blight Corpse Explosion Necromancer - B Tier

Blight Corpse Explosion Necro shows renewed potential that is primarily driven by the increased Wither Paragon cap, which has been raised from 1,200 to 2,000, potentially providing a substantial damage increase. Additional power comes from the Soul Rift bonus and the Coalesced Blood passive. The build's potential is further enhanced by changes to skill rank scaling for blight corpse explosion, though the exact impact needs testing for confirmation. While these improvements make Pit 110 clearing achievable, the build still requires significant buffs to reach Pit 130 content, particularly regarding Black River and Mortacrux weapon options.