Best Bone Spear Build in Diablo 4

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Want to know about the best Bone Spear Necromancer build in Diablo 4? In the long history of the world of Sanctuary, Necromancers were the first since Nephalem to use magic, drawing power from death itself. By explosion corpses, absorbing the essence of the dead, and using Bone skills, Necromancers can create powerful and terrible magic. This class offers players a wide variety of builds, but Bone Spear is one of the best endgame builds, allowing players to take down hordes of enemies or powerful bosses with little effort. And we are here to help you and tell you about the best Bone Spear Necromancer build in Diablo 4.

Diablo 4 Bone Spear Necromancer Build Explained

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First of all, it’s worth talking a little about how the Bone Spear Necromancer build works. As the name suggests, your сore skill for this build is Bone Spear. With this ability, you can spawn a Bone Spear from the ground and shoot it at enemies in a straight line, dealing heavy damage. This skill is pretty good, but you can enhance it with our build.

Of course, you will greatly increase its damage by leveling up this skill, but optional upgrades will make your attacks much more deadly. First, you should get an optional Enhanced Bone Spear upgrade to shoot not one but three spears at once. This way, you will do a little less damage but get a larger area of effect.

Thanks to the second optional upgrade Paranormal Bone Spear, you will increase the chance of a critical hit. And if successful, your arrow that dealt critical damage will split into two more. However, you can choose an alternative optional upgrade Supernatural Bone Spear, effective against bosses since any first enemy hit by Bone Spear will become Vulnerable.

Now that we’ve covered the core skill, it’s time to polish your build. Next, we will cover all the active and passive skills, Book of the Dead, and aspects required for the best Bone Spear Necromancer build in Diablo 4.

Skills You Need For Bone Spear Necromancer Build

Basic Skills

Bone Splinters (1 Rank) – Enhanced Bone Splinters – Acolyte’s Bone Splinters

Core Skills

Bone Spear (5 Rank) – Enhanced Bone Spear – Paranormal Bone Spear
Unliving Energy (3 Rank) – Imperfectly Balanced (3 Rank) – Hewed Flesh (2 Rank)

Copse and Macabre Skills

Corpse Tendrils (1 Rank) – Enhanced Corpse Tendrils – Plagued Corpse Tendrils
Serration (3 Rank) – ‍Compound Fracture (3 Rank) – Evulsion (3 Rank) – Rapid Ossification (3 Rank)
Blood Mist (1 Rank) – Enhanced Blood Mist – Ghastly Blood Mist

Curse Skills

Decrepify (1 Rank) – Enhanced Decrepify – Abhorrent Decrepify
Death’s Embrace (3 Rank) – Amplify Damage (3 Rank) – Death’s Reach (3 Rank)

Ultimate Skills

Bone Storm – Prime Bone Storm – Supreme Bone Storm
Stand Alone (3 Rank) – Memento Mori (3 Rank)

Key Passives

Ossified Essence

Book of the Dead

Although the Necromancer is a class capable of controlling hordes of the undead, when creating the Bone Spear build, you should sacrifice all three types of minions. Firstly, there is no place for minions’ skills in this build. Secondly, you will get the most out of the Stand Alone passive skill by giving up minions. So here are the bonuses you get:

Iron Golem. Critical hit damage bonus.
Skirmishers. Bonus to critical strike chance.
Cold Mages. Bonus damage Vulnerable enemies.

Aspects For Bone Spear Necromancer Build

As with any build, aspects help you diversify your gameplay, compensate for weaknesses, and enhance your character’s strengths. In the case of the Bone Spear Necromancer, you must use the following aspects:

Splintering Aspect
Aspect of Torment
Aspect of Grasping Veins
Aspect of Potent Blood
Aspect of Disobedience
Wind Striker Aspect
Aspect of Shielding Storm
Eluding Aspect
Aspect of the Umbral
Aspect of Serration
Aspect of Exposed Flesh

It is worth noting that this list of aspects is only a recommendation, and you do not need to look for them all. Choose aspects according to your needs and expand the collection as you can.

Finally, it is worth adding that Necromancer is a slow class, which can become a disadvantage in the late game. So Try to find a piece of equipment that will give you a speed boost, or try to get Wind Striker Aspect as early as possible.