Check out this Diablo IV Necromancer build that sacrifices your summons to be a self-sustaining monster.

In Diablo IV, respec-ing your skills is cheap and easy, making builds incredibly flexible. You can change your builds at any point in the game

Diablo IV No Summon Necromancer Build Guide

This guide is meant for getting through the first portion of the game when your character is level 1-50. The No Summon Necromancer Build for Diablo IV focuses on a lot of Bone skills, while sacrificing all of your warriors. A lot of your damage will also be coming from Corpse Explosion, despite the nerfs it received.

Book of the Dead

For the Book of the Dead, sacrifice your Skirmisher Skeletal Warriors, Cold Skeletal Mages, and Iron Golem to gain the following effects:

  • Your Critical Strike Chance is increased by 5%, but you can no longer raise Skeletal Warriors.
  • You deal 15% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies, but you can no longer raise Skeletal Mages.
  • You deal 30% increased Critical Strike Damage, but you lose the ability to summon a Golem.

Aspects

Aspect of Disobedience

  • You gain [0.25 – 0.50%] increased Armor for 4 seconds when you deal any form of damage, stacking up to [25.00 – 50.00%].
  • Unlocked by completing Halls of the Damned in Kehjistan

Aspect of Grasping Veins

  • Gain [10 – 20%] increased Critical Strike Chance for 6 seconds when you cast Corpse Tendrils. You deal [30 – 60%] bonus Critical-Strike Damage to enemies damaged by Corpse Tendrils.
  • Unlocked by completing Corrupted Grotto in Kehjistan

Splintering Aspect

  • Bone Spears primary attack makes enemies hit beyond the first Vulnerable for [1.5 – 2.5] seconds. Bone Shards from Bone Spear deal
    [50 -100%] bonus damage to Vulnerable enemies and pierce them.
  • Progress Campaign in Dry Steppes to unlock.

Aspect of Torment

  • Critical Strikes with Bone Skills increase your Essence Regeneration by [20 – 30%] for 4 seconds.
  • Unlocked by completing Black Asylum.

Aspect of the Umbral

  • Restore [1 – 4] of your Primary Resource when you Crowd Control an enemy.
  • Unlocked by completing Champions Demise in Dry Steppes

Gems

Weapon: Emerald Gem

Armor: Ruby Gem

Jewelry: Skull Gem

Skills

Basic Skills

  • Bone Splinters (1/5)
    • Enhanced Bone Splinters
      • Acolyte's Bone Splinters

Core Skills

  • Bone Spear (5/5)
    • Enhanced Bone Spear
      • Paranormal Bone Spear
  • Unliving Energy (3/3)
    • Imperfectly Balanced (3/3)
  • Hewed Flesh (3/3)
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Corpse & Macabre Skills

  • Blood Mist (1/5)
  • Corpse Explosion (5/5)
    • Enhanced Corpse Explosion
      • Plagued Corpse Explosion
  • Grim Harvest (3/3)
    • Fueled by Death (3/3)

Curse Skills

  • Death's Embrace (3/3)

Corpse & Macabre Skills II

  • Corpse Tendrils (1/5)
    • Enhanced Corpse Tendrils
      • Plagued Corpse Tendrils
  • Necrotic Carapace (3/3)
  • Serration (3/3)
    • Compound Fracture (3/3)
      • Evulsion (3/3)

Ultimate Skill

  • Bone Storm
    • Prime Bone Storm
      • Supreme Bone Storm
  • Stand Alone (3/3)

Key Passive

  • Ossified Essence