Endgame Minion Necromancer is CRACKED! In Season 4 | D4 Planner Build Guide 

Oh cool the description is just... Gone? I'll fix this when I get home. My d4 planner link: maxroll.gg/d4/planner/qqvi0wdb#1

Bro the new crafting,loot table, ammount of monsters in helltides, xp boost, damage boost (all classes) are just crazy good, people are enjoying the season even without accual season theme.. a real reborn for d4. Thanks for the video

ASPECTS Helm-of the void Armor- juggernaut Gloves-hulking Pants-occult dominion Boots- of slaughter 2 hand scythe-frenzied dead(or reanimation) Amulet-hardened bones Ring1-unyielding commander Ring2- reanimation

Awesome update Mac! Looking forward to trying this build out on the weekend!

Thanks for keeping us up to date yet again

This season is the best this game has been. I got to lvl 34 and already have two uniques.

Great video ! Love the Rhykker cap ! (especially with the R logo being mirrored, well played haha)

Thanks for putting out the content! I'm having fun making a big old mess on the screen with pools of darkness and all the minions - though truth be told, half the time I don't really know what's happening, especially in the helltide swarms 😂

hey macro i just switched over to blight from bone prison and the builds feels even better now thanks man

Great looking build! Subbed

my favorite d4 content creator. keep up the good work man

Its so strong. Did first cap dungeng at 30 with no legos. It was so easy. Love it

Cool stuff! I’d love to see a Thorns version of this build

Thanks for the video. I've been waiting on this one. Everyone has been saying that Necro Minions is going to be the meta this season but i needed to wait till you put out your take. Necro it is.👌

Season 4 is very nice so far. At level 50 i was already blasting in WT4 without too much min maxing as Necro playing a similar build as yours.

Necromancer season! Great time to play the class for the first time

New to necro. So 6:29 def need that minion video.

@MacroBioBoi, I have to be honest; I really like your intros, and your enthusiasm shines through, which motivates me. Things like following our findings should help you level up quickly and your focus on fun, not just efficiency is super important. Finally, I like the context you provide regarding choices like whether or not to include the Army of the Dead. I suggest adding planners, etc., to the details section of your videos, but I'd imagine you wanted to post this quickly.

Great vid and you walking away from science a bit is awesome kekw :D

Yup, did the capstone at lvl 26 on hardcore with the necro. Very easy. I love that you can mix and match your build with minions. I'm having fun just messing with different minion builds.

Yeah I did the first capstone at 30, leveled up to 32 by the end. It was shockingly easy. Loving minions so far.

This is a great guide! Thank you :) (Just so you know, the title says season 2)

Been loving the minion necro so far. Ended up WT4 at level 46. Sacrilegious Soul has been super handy as a utility item (got a 901 ilvl version from Varshan at level 60) I also ended up getting a level 903 bloodmoon breeches and the minion curse chance/damage buff was a huge increase. It made me able to hit ubers before 70 and proccing decrepify really consistent.

I'm now sold on D4 after the changes, hella fun and the Necro whoa boi amazing!

Just did the capstone dungeon this morning at level 30. Died a couple times but wasn't very difficult at all. I'm loving the season so far

Good stuff. I got ring of Medeln at level 21, and it's still on me at level 69 (nice). I have no idea how good it actually is at this stage vs ancestral rings, but everything dies so fast at the moment that I'm not too bothered with swapping things around. Something I have noticed is that the damage stats of the unique scales somehow. I don't know if it's via level, or my gear, but it started out at 2k damage every 6 attacks, and now is up to 25k. Which is a HUGE bonus from previous seasons. Without that, my ring would have been long gone 20 levels ago.

Got a beautiful two-handed sword last night, 925 ip x3 greater affix for max health, int and hp on hit, swapped hp on hit to crit dmg, then tempered with golem dmg and minion atk speed. Thing is a beast and huge increase to golem dmg

Good build.. I have to say that necromancer is so good that any build is a good one. Cheers and thank you..

I just posted this comment on Raxx's recent video "Minion Necromancer Build Guide". Wanted to bring it here to see if maybe some thoughts from Macro: So. I'm a fairly casual player and not sure if I'll push far enough to see if this scales. But on the lazy build (with corpse explosion), the thing I've been doing is using Howl from Below. I'm at level 75 right now. With the most difficult content I encounter: I walk into a room and decrepify everthing. Set my Golem to attack and take a step back as much out of danger as I can get. And then spam my corpse explosion as fast as I can hit it as by this point there are just piles of corpses everywhere and with Howl, they all turn into dozens of heat sinking missles that melt everything. Even against bosses, with the reapers I get tons of corpses.

Had bloodless scream drop twice out of the caches you get from iron wolves... i was like what is this sorcery!

did the capstone at lvl 24 with random yellow gear and 2hander with the minion damage increase after 10 seconds. really loving minions

This season is amazing. I’ve taken Druid Rabies to new heights I didn’t think possible. It’s actually insane.

I cant express how much im enjoying this game. This is truly a game reborn

Got razorplate and thorns minions is slapping for me too now

I got a Sacrilegious ring from my first unique Iron Wolf cache, my minion Necro is a legit AFK build lol. Also you mentioned you only need to hit 100% attack speed for cult leader, does that mean 2 separate attack speed buckets are no longer a thing?

Been using this, clapping everything

I've been leveling with the bone spear mages setup and after about 5 hrs I'm almost 51. Been having a blast so far!

Made it to WT3 before 30 and WT4 by 45. Even first unique dropped was a 1 sec Sacrilegious soul. Nuts!

I've been using the leveling minion necro build with Blood Surge and yea, it owns so far.

Using minions and absolutely crushing the capstone at level 35-36 had me cackling. This is 100% season of the necro.

Great info as usual. S4 is def the quickest i have ever leveled, averaging around 11 levels an hour so far

Hey Macro, thank you for the video. I noticed the build planner is updated, now it has Bone Prison. I was playing with the Maxroll build guide End Game Minion Necro by Chronikz, which is more similar to the one you showed in the video with some changes. I feel like the Maxroll Minion Necro build was faster in mid tier NM dungeons for me (around 40s). I am still 78 level. Could it be because this version you have in build planner, with Bone Prison gets stronger with paragon board develops further on higher levels? Bosses and elites were melting much earlier before with the previous build. Not sure if I am missing Blood Getter aspect, directly applying blight or the paragon board on that version?

I am confused. What part of your build over the Maxroll minion shadow / pure minion should we use? Neither use the same skill build out. I know you say to just use the paragon board from there but what else should we look into using from there? Especially if their paragon boards are focused on their builds. I am pretty casual but would like to mow through content.

Hey Macro! Saw you in-game sitting at your stash. My friends and I were ecstatic to see my fav diablo 4 creator. Also, quick question: Is addictive %Dmg affix beneficial at all? I know it raises attack power, but that doesn't necessarily matter, right?

I have a question 🙂 I saw you also posted Shadow minion build. Between those two, which one has stronger survivability? Cause maybe that's direction, for now, I'll try to go. I'm not "sweaty" Diablo player (playing it casually and not every day) so I saw myself dying sometimes/many times - depends on 😁 Of course, that's also because I still don't have fully optimized build, still building up. So, about that survivability, what build you suggest for me to go? If that's even easy to answer. Or, is the method "best defense is good offense" the best? Thank you, appreciate the answer 😊

I'm so happy that Necromancer finally feels like a Necromancer! This season is easily the most fun I've ever had with this game. Kinda nervous, though- Feel like the devs may nerf this into the ground soon.

I used minion shadow and did capstone at 33. Using sever for now.

Perra's build is hella fun and no need to worry about curses either. The Iron Wolves seasonal gear just makes this build go through the roof.

I played Mion most of season 3, and got bored using it yesterday when i got to level 50. Decided to go to Bone Spear build, no mions and having more fun. Only issue is essence regeneration.

Is there a thorns necro build or is it just barbarian that utilizes it well currently?

How is the season feeling overall though? Not trying to be a downer on the minion guide video (I will be playing this build in some form for sure) but just kinda curious. I wasn't super excited about all of the changes and kinda shifting things away from the D2 side into the D3 side of things. Pushing the leveling experience out of existence and having end game systems is cool and all but... I dunno. Feels like in prior seasons I had a journey to level 100 but now that journey is over in like 24 hours-ish just going off of how fast you said you've been leveling. Guess I'll have to try it for myself.

Hey awesome stuff and thank you for the explanations in super detail. I feel like I "missed it somewhere" but can someone confirm this basic rotation as you enter a fight? Is it 1. Decrep on a bunch of monsters 2. (What is making enough corpses to cast Corpse Tendrils? Is Hewed Flesh making them once you Decrep and it starts ticking damage?) 3. Corpse Tendrils to pull pack to the center 4. Raise Skeleton to buff all minions 5. Bone Prison (if you're Chroniks with Plunging darkness) or Blight (if you're MacroBio) to weaken the pack further 6. Golem to head in and kill the pack in the middle of the tendrils/prison/blight pool? 7. Sometimes Army of the Dead where you need it, also adds more corpses 8. Run around and collect blood orbs from Embalmer aspect, and decrease AOTD cooldown 9. Evade out of bad stuff sometimes, dont stand in fire, etc. Just not sure how I would get those corpses all the time... Mostly from Hewed and... if you have Hulking? Oh and you use Reapers for carving, but Chroniks uses defenders to taunt... Otherwise, sometimes I am OOM, or sometimes things are in cooldown so I get out of order or can't drop things correctly. So if you're waiting on a Corpse Tendril cooldown, do you just spam Raise Skeleton? Thxxxxxxxxxxxxx

So world tier 4 level 50 with this build and the cap stone was a breeze - I completed it whilst in a work teams meeting :D

Great video, thanks a lot! But can i ask for the glyph leveling priority? Like step by step which one to level up first then second and so on.

Got Mendel from the rep cache at level 28, this season looks promising 💀

Yep no description lol its good I like your build.

Been playing bone spear minion. Season of the Minion!!!!

Hi just want to put it out there, I have tested some things and Summoning Damage is SIGNIFICANTLY better in terms of damage compared to raw Golem damage. For comparison we had weapon that had 90% extra damage GA vs 50% summoning damage and it was IP below 900 yet still there was damage difference by about 30k TL;DR golem damage trash/ summoning 10X better

Is this a good build to get through the story with?

Minion Necro is absolutely busted thus season. Hit WT3 at 35 and WT4 @ 50. Elias melted in under 5s

Hey Macro, nice update to the build from MaxRoll, I’ve updated my aspects and skills (will do Paragon soon) I seem to be suffering from resources - how are you getting around that? I’ve more or less the same affixes, stats on my gear as you, thanks

Most classes can do it atm imo, but necro usually dont need any special aspects to do it

Golem is running everyone’s pockets. We just don’t know how.😂

Hi, before I quit I really enjoyed minions golem with bone spirit, corpe explosion, tendiles build. after buff instead of going just golem or minion all in, can I combine with bone spirits and corspe explosion with minons? thanks

I kinda forsaw my experience. I don't even like how strong minions are, I feel bored leveling. Im hoping they shift the power from minions themselves, to your skills that could synergize with them. Like Sever has potential, imagine a "reapers cast sever when you do" aspect or item, and strengthening the minion nova and spear ones.

Why the build guides never are the same what you are playing?... So confusing XD

You mentioned cult leader capping at 100% now. Does that mean there is no longer two separate attack speed buckets? Or will we still need 100% from gear and another 100% from paragon and whatever other sources benefit bucket two?

Just a heads up the sapphire gem on max roll shows different then what the game does

Thanks! What the rotation summary?

Physical Corpse Explosion is funking nasty as well now I blew through all 100 levels of the pit my corpse explosion is smacking for 20 million each on average sometimes even more

I wish that we could save builds that would be a lot cooler

is endgame any better this season?

about dam time

What happened to the build link in your description?

So i got ring of mendelin at lvl 21 and I noticed its damage has been scaling up with my damage. Does this mean it will stay relevant or will I need to find a better one later on?

I cleared capstone going in at 32 (leved up once inside). All minions, decompose, corpse explosion, corpse tendrals, AotD.

Maxroll has both the golem and shadow mage build at S tier. Obviously I won't have the 1 shot potential on mages, but do you think the shadow mage build is worthy of its S tier ranking? I kinda want to play that build, but not it endgame bosses and the pit are gonna be significantly harder.

Why can’t we upgrade gear? I’m in WT3. I see the tab at the blacksmith but it’s greyed out.

Capstone to tier 4 done with 3 lvl 52 barb, sorc and necro

Thank you as always duderama

is this build viable in non season game play?

How much efficiency do you think im losing by using Ring of Sacraligious soul to automate my skellies and double my corpse tendrils over using a temperable legendary with an affix?

Is this the 2 billion crit build ? ❤, I also thought blighted was best on 2 handed weapon, I was following Robs minion build for 1 shot but ir felt squishy and hard to do on t100 atm

I'm trying thorn minions. minions feels great.

Do attack speed and minion attack speed affixes do the same thing for the cult leader node?

If u get a chance, can you explain the tempering. Or is there a video on it?

Season 3 summoner was a let down. Finally blizzard heard me cry about my necro summoner 😂

How do you add 2 tempered perks ? It’ says mine will be removed if I do another ?

Is Mendeln just not worth it at all? Seems like a big chunk of damage.

I have a question? Why is it I see most ppl start with tier 1 world not 2? I’ve always started on 2 and wondering if I’m doing the wrong thing? Thanks 🙏🏻

Would be nice if you did a level by level on the skill tree

Am I understanding correctly that raise corpse is the only method for consuming corpses to get the chance of blood orb spawn? Never played this type of build before so I'm probably missing something.

How is the infinimist for the Season? I don't like minions playstyle and I'm thinking maybe play Infinimist on HC

I solod cap at 32 super easy with a minion sever set up

I've been playing Bone Summoner, i don't think it's the best version of the build tbh, but i never played bone spear and it destroys so much of the content. I went into The Pit at level 80 with no issues.

Any reason why the maxroll build is using bone prison with the blight aspect ? It feels like you waste an aspect slot and puts blight on a cooldown.

Capstone at 30 also. Minions did all the work.

It's crazy how many Necros I've seen so far this season. 😂

my ver. of pure summoner still the best

i hope you update the shadow endgame soon macro🙏🏻