Bone Spear is arguably the most iconic of Diablo 4’s Necromancer skills, and it’s been given a new lease of life in Season 7 with some new tricks. Now it can deal high damage to single targets and ranges, making it perfect for conquering the endgame phase of the game.
But like most builds, maximizing the exploration capabilities of the Bone Spear Necromancer build can be an arduous task, as you can spend a lot of time and effort choosing the best skills and gear for it.
To lighten your load, this guide will provide you with some of the best skills and gear choices for Bone Spear Necromancer build, so that you can farm for some of these items or attributes during exploration. Next, let’s get started on the journey to making this best build!
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Active Skills
Necromancer’s multiple Bone skills place a heavy emphasis on critical damage, which means you should stack as much critical chance as possible in your Bone Spear Necromancer build. While you may not feel the effect in early game content, stacking vulnerable enemies with skills like Plagued Corpse Tendrils is enough. But once you enter the endgame, you will find that your damage ability is insufficient without a critical chance.
Given the above requirements, you can use three Shadow skills in your Bone Spear Necromancer build to help you complete Reaper’s Pursuit, namely Reap, Blight, and Soulrift, which can provide movement speed and damage buffs for each Shadow skill on your skill bar. Below are some specific active skills and points recommended for you, and you can also allocate points according to your needs.
- Reap (5/5)
- Bone Spear (5/5)
- Blight (1/5)
- Bone Prison (5/5)
- Corpse Tendrils (1/5)
- Soulrift
In this Bone Spear Necromancer build, you can use Reap to defeat the enemy and create a Corpse, then use Corpse Tendrils to gather the remaining enemies and cage them with Bone Prison, and finally use Bone Spear to blow them up for maximum damage.
This skill rotation can be devastating with the help of the new Indira’s Memory Unique Pants, because it can turn Bone Spear skill into a Blood skill, causing another Bone Spear to be fired from a nearby Corpse, making this skill more unpredictable and powerful.
Generally, use Soulrift before a large group of elite enemies or a boss fight, and if you are strong, you can also spend some Diablo 4 gold for sale to make this skill’s cooldown permanent uptime.
Passive Skills
For the passives used in Bone Spear Necromancer build, the first one you should definitely choose is Hewed Flesh, especially if you have Corpse skills selected before. It can greatly help your character’s area damage output, and will allow your Corpse Tendrils skills to be used frequently in some boss battles to deal with a lot of damage. For the other passives, focus on those that increase your damage and survivability.
Below are the passive skills that can be recommended for you. I won’t recommend skill points for them like I do for the active skills, as this depends entirely on your play style and the difficulty of the game content you are facing, but one thing to note is that you should spend as much Diablo 4 Gold as possible to max them all, except Titan’s Fall.
- Hewed Flesh
- Imperfectly Balanced
- Titan’s Fall (1/3)
- Coalesced Blood
- Tides of Blood
- Drain Vitality
- Reaper’s Pursuit
- Serration
- Compound Fracture
- Evulsion
- Finality
- Memento Mori
- Stand Alone
- Inspiring Leader
- Ossified Essence
Also note that even though this build is focused on Bone Spear, you still need to equip it with three Blood skill passives so that Indira’s Memory and Bone Duster Aspect can synergize within it and make Bone Spear extremely suppressive.
Witchcraft Powers & Occult Gems
Since your Bone Spear Necromancer build needs to be used in the new Season 7, the new Witchcraft Powers and Occult Gems added this season also needs to have a place in your build. Here are the new powers and new gems we can recommend for you, as well as their specific effectiveness.
- Soul Harvest: Increases your Core Stats based on the number of enemies near you when using the cooldown.
- Force of Will: Greatly increases Overpower damage.
- Aura of Lament: When an enemy is affected, they will receive a continuous supply of Essence.
- Aura of Siphoning: Poison all nearby enemies and heal whenever you deal damage.
- Vengeful Spirit: Periodically, spirits will appear and take all the damage you would have otherwise received.
- Dust Stone: Enemies will take more damage depending on how many Hexes and Auras they are affected by.
- Phantom String: Increased Overpower damage dealt to Hexed enemies.
Gear
Once you’ve chosen your skills and 2H Weapon new Witchcraft Powers and Occult Gems, you can start looking at which gear will have a greater benefit to your Bone Spear Necromancer build. For example, with Runewords, you can use Igni/Ohm combo to get some free damage buffs, and summon Barbarian’s War Cry skill at the same time as casting Bone Spear to get more Offerings.
Apart from this, Serration and Grasping Veins are also very important to keep the whole build stable. Grasping Veins can give you a large critical chance bonus, and also provide additional critical damage. The critical damage bonus of Serration itself can act as a separate multiplier, so you can expect a larger damage increase from this combination.
Once your build in Diablo 4 Season 7 is powerful enough to farm Diablo 4 Uniques in bosses multiple times, you can unleash the maximum power of Indira’s Memory. But if you haven’t reached that point yet, just use any pants with Defensive Aspect. These are some gear recommendations for you based on the current attributes and statistics in the game, and you can farm them accordingly.
- Deathless Visage – Helmet
- Aspect of Disobedience – Chest
- Bone Duster’s Aspect – Gloves
- Indira’s Memory – Pants
- Aspect of Metamorphosis – Boots
- Aspect of Grasping Veins – Amulet
- Splintering Aspect – Ring 1
- Aspect of Torment – Ring 2
- Aspect of Serration – 2H Weapon
Although you can choose other gear based on your needs, you must not forget the ultimate goal, which is to stack Critical Attributes on gear, followed by stacking Vulnerability Damage, Core Skill Damage, Cooldown Reduction, and Essence Cost Reduction.
These are some skills and gear you can choose for Bone Spear Necromancer build in Diablo 4 Season 7. Again, your specific skill points and equipment choices will depend entirely on your playstyle and usage habits, but hopefully this guide will provide you with some options that will make your seasonal exploration journey easier and smoother. Have fun!
