Necromancer
The Necromancer commands the dead while spending Essence on bone, blood and shadow magic. In Season 14 it holds a steady A-tier, headlined by the Blood Wave build — "fast, flashy and maybe the most fun Necro has ever felt" — which delivers the class's highest DPS and cleanest Pit/Tower pushing. Bone Spear is also back on the menu after reworks to Deathless Visage and Bone Graft.
Role
Minion-summoning caster
Core Mechanic
Essence as the resource plus the Book of the Dead, which lets you customize (or sacrifice) each minion type — Skeletal Warriors, Mages and the Golem — to reshape the army.
PvE Tier
PvEAPlaystyle
Commands skeletons and golems while spending Essence on bone, blood and darkness magic; the Book of the Dead lets you tune the army. A steady A-tier endgame class in Season 14 that can also go minion-light for pure spellcasting.
Recommended Builds
Blood Wave
Full guide →Best Necro build in S14 — Hematolagnia turns Blood Wave into a cooldown-free Core skill and Kessime's Legacy splits every cast into two colliding waves.
Bone Spear
Full guide →The classic crit-piercing caster, back in force thanks to reworked Deathless Visage and Bone Graft.
Bone Spirit
Full guide →Cooldown-free spirit spam for massive burst damage — a strong multi-target and bossing alternative.
Key Aspects & Uniques
- Hematolagnia — Converts Blood Wave from an ultimate into a cooldown-free Core skill — the one-button engine of the S14 build.
- Kessime's Legacy — Pants unique that doubles Blood Wave into two waves cast from both sides, pulling enemies together.
- Banished Lord's Talisman — Critical Overpower-scaling talisman that stacks with the Blood Wave package.
- Blood-Mad Idol — Push-variant mythic that significantly boosts damage for higher-difficulty Pit pushing.
- Ring of Starless Skies — Top mythic priority — solves the class's Essence-management bottleneck.
Strengths
- +Blood Wave gives the class its highest DPS with the cleanest push profile — and it is a genuinely fun, low-effort rotation.
- +Army of minions absorbs damage and adds passive DPS; the Book of the Dead makes the class highly customizable.
- +Reliable, consistent clear across every endgame activity.
Weaknesses
- −Even the best build sits in A-tier — the broken pre-nerf scaling is gone.
- −Essence management is a real bottleneck without Ring of Starless Skies, and minion durability lags in the hardest tiers.
- −Can feel like repetitive "button-holding" gameplay.
Why This Tier
A-tier: dependable and well-rounded across all content with Blood Wave leading class damage, but its top-end push and minion durability sit just under the S-tier classes.
Skills