ULTIMATE NECROMANCER Build Guide for Baldur's Gate 3 

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Staff of cherished necromancy is amazing, each kill gives a stack of a free necromancy spell slot of any level. So get everyone mage hand and kill them with bone chill to get 4 level 6 spell slots every short rest.

One thing that this build and almost any caster build should have is the dual wielding feat. You can dual wield staffs getting the benefit of both AND a +1 AC. It’s an insanely good value.

dude, i lovee that you just give the barebone info in the beginging for the people who just wanna go quick.

you can also use freecast from the illithid powers. it’s essentially just another arcane battery so you can use that to spawn even more undead

Yo that pause at 24:20 when you said “you’re a wizard….Harry” sent me 😂😂😂

You're the real MVP for BG3 tutorials, my dude! Straightforward with no BS filler 👏👏👏

Bro, I love your videos. You explain the builds well. I appreciate it.

Perfect timing as I'm just about to start my Evil/dark urge playthrough and was planning on playing a necromancer 👌🏻

One of the things about wizards is all you really need is magic missile and shield and everything else is basically just flavour, but summons are extremely strong for action economy so hey, it's a really strong and viable path to persue. Personally i made Gale a Necromancer in my first playthrough and it was excellent.

using a character with upcasted aid for your entire party while having all undead/ghouls/mummies summoned adds for some crazy value!

To be honest, I recommend getting the Shadow Lantern in Act 2 as well, and grabbing the dual-wielding feat. Dual Wielding is actually pretty good on casters, because it allows you to equip 2 staves, which means you get the benefits of each. This is also very good, because it means that you can equip the Staff of Cherished Necromancy and the Shadow Lantern, which gives you all the benefits of the SoCN while still being able to cast Conjure Shadow Lantern Wraith, which adds an extra undead to your army. Also, I definitely recommend having Shadowheart in your party as a Necromancer, bc some of the spells she gets are *SUPER* good when combined with your summons. Specifically, she gets the spells Aid and Heroes' Feast. When you upcast Aid with a 5th lvl spell slot, your entire party, *including summons*, get their max hp increased by 25, which ends up being hundreds of health increased in total as a late game Necromancer. Combine that with Heroes' Feast, which gives a multitude of good buffs and an extra 12 max hp, and you just have very strong summons that have 32 more hp than they'd normally have, in combination with being immune to some things like being poisoned, AND having resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage types because of Circle of Bones' Undead Ward ability, and you have a quite exceptional build.

Necromancer is by far one of the best class to use, it's also my favorite class in any DAND and Diablo games. It's awesome. I'm about to start my BG3 journey and this guide was super helpful since I will be going Necromancer.

Thank you, this is great inspiration for my Gale. Right now on my current Playthrough I'm a Spore Druid with the Dark Urge, I am using Gale as a Necromancer, Wyll is an Oathbreaker/Warlock, and Shadowheart is a Life Cleric. I'm at level 6, I plan on making my Gale go down the path shown here. My only issue is that I had Wyll go down Path of the Blade, which seemed good since I could dump strength, in order to boost my Charisma & Dexterity, while also getting access to some heavy armor, two handed weapons, and some self-healing. However by doing this he's not strong enough to be the body carrier I need him to be. So I plan on swapping him with Minthara in Act 2, who by level 12 will be 7 Oathbreaker for the Aura of Hate, and 5 Warlock Path of Tomes for extra undead, and the bonus of being able to caste Haste as a Warlock spell. I might also respec Gale to have 1 point in Rouge, so that I can use slight of Hand in conjunction with Crown of Intellect to give him the necessary dexterity he'd need to pick locks/traps.

A build guide that is mostly "do whatever you want" I like it.

I really enjoy your videos, man. I appreciate the time put into it. It's helped this game feel so much more approachable

Nice comprehensive video. Just downloaded it so i can save it for my necromancer build next playthrough. Thank you for your work and your diligence 🤙

This is perfect because I been thinking of what a good Durge character could be and this beauty might be just what I need ❤

I'm a simple man. I see Necromancy, I click Necromancy, and I like Necromancy. My minions do too 😏

Man you have such a good timing i bought the game yesterday and really needed a good guide like this

one kind of overlooked spell for wizards that I feel doesn't get enough love is Dual Wielder Since casters in BG3 do get quite a lot of love with various staffs that help out quite a bit, for instance stacking Cazador's Staff with another staff for jacked spellsave DC's that your enemies will have a helluva time saving against.

24:07 "...You're a wizard so... Harry..." 🤣

another reason to use ice is that the bodies of enemies killed with ice can still be reanimated

I am running Necromancer and when I cast Dance Macabre I can confirm no corpses are necessary AND as a Necromancer I get 5 ghouls not 4 !

Thank you for this video!!! I was struggling so much with my Necormancer (it's my absolute favorite in any RPG) and realy heartbroken when in felt so off to me. Well, not anymore, thanks to you! You have a new sub! :)

Hey new BG3 Player here. Just want to thank you for your guide and especially for not spoiling anything! Great video!

oh man Ive been waiting for your Necro build

Sweet. I just started a Necromancy Wizard, too. Perfect timing

I also like using the Elemental Myrmidons. Especially the Fire and Air one, it look so much like Cursed Reanimated Armor instead of a Elemental wearing armor. and let's be real, those Myrmidons look really COOL! And that Staff has a another cool ability something called Kareska's favour which lets you choose a Element and u get 2 Powerfull abilities and i believe Resistance and damage bonus, so using the frost one will be amazing too for the Necromancer. But i still prefer Cherished Necromancy staff. Can also use the Amulet that gives you a Spell Slot restoration that gives u a spell slot back of any level. only negative things about Necromancer: Yeah in Act 1 & 2 its pretty bad. in Act 1 you don't have your fancy tools yet In Act 2 you fight ALOT of undead already, and Ghosts are immune to Necrotic damage... But Necromancy really shines in Act 3 for sure!

You can cast Longstrider on your summons to give them some extra movement. It's a ritual spell so it won't cost you any spell slots.

Many times in the game your characters get the enemies HP down to like, under 10 hp. At this point the skeleton archers are great. Many times they actually get to finish the kill. They are a very good ranged damage dealing unit, icing the cake of your own partys efforts.

@italianspartacus posts a new bg3 class video Me: ...fine I'll start a brand new playthrough! Love the videos man

This build is scary powerful thank you ❤️❤️✨

Your videos are so good. Thanks so much man.

Currently playing a Duo NE campaign on tactician with my friend going for Barbarian, and myself going for Necromancer. Honestly until level 6, his build was far better…but now at level 8, the power shift has hit in full swing. We raided Last Light Inn, inadvertently, and my zombies kept raising Newborn Zombies, which kept raising more…and it was a domino effect that ended with 13 allied zombies. In Act 2-nothing stands a chance once a Necromancer gets going. Also Gith for med armor proficiency with Adamantine scale, guarantees you will get the ball rolling in a fight.

I would love to see a melee wizard (necromancer) multiclassesed with something like fighter, paladin or something along those lines. Great work with this build too. 👍🏻

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need to try this

I’m dual wielding staffs. You can have 2 arcane batteries but I’m using life essence. I also put 2 in bard to use bardic inspiration on allies and the mummy if I wanted to. Giving everyone an extra short rest is nice too.

Love it and thank you for staying more a "pure" wizard necro, but I like the choice the wizard gives me. That if I fight a etc something weak against fire, I can summon a fire elemental instead. But the focus of the class is the awesome undead hehe

You can forgo a feat to get duel wielding and use both staffs with arcane battery that stack the free spell slots.

@italianspartacus someone might have stated this already but because you’re summoning a lot of undead immune to poison - you can use aoe spells like poison cloud without care of friendly fire. Make yourself immune and incapable of blinding and you can cast this on yourself and undead without a care 👌

Not only were you thorough your voice is quite relaxing to listen to. As a result I subbed.

I could also recommend dipping into Warlock. Your zombies last until a long rest, why not short rest, get some spell slots back, and go animate even MOAR zombies :P

Honestly, I think the Circle of Spores Druid is a superior Necromancer. They gain the ability to raise additional 4 fungal zombies, who can summon additional zombies from enemies killed by them. So you have 4 undead from Raise Dead, 4 Ghouls from Danse Macabre and 4 fungal zombies who can create more zombies! A truly great undead army!

always love italian's vids! btw i like to pronounce it eye-talian because im authentic like that.

one thing to add, casting AID at max level will give your whole party and every summon 25 extra HP. when stacking summons already this gains incredible value.

Abyssal beckoners, are good if you are only going to summon ghouls because they are immune to madness so they can’t turn mad and they are then resistant to all damage but psychic.

There's also a pair of gloves in act 1 (Zentharim hideout) that when active gives summoned allies resistance to all dmg types except psychic dmg. Sure, it has a risk of turning them frenzied, so kind of high risk, high reward, but if you multiclass one level into cleric (or take magic initiate: cleric for a once per long rest) you can put Sanctuary on yourself (as a bonus action) to make sure they don't attack you :) Could be a really fun idea for a solo run! Edit: Remember that you can pick up the small corpses from goblins, intellect devourers and such to use later for summoning purposes!

appreciate your content!

Just want to add that Telekenesis causes the target to be thrown Prone when successful; meaning the Ghouls will be eating good.

Just to emphasise how good Warcaster is compared to resilience Consitution. If you start with 16 Con and go Warcaster you reduce your chance of failure on the most regular concentration check (DC 10) from 30% to 9%. With Reilience Con you reach the 10% mark only at level 9 when you lift your Con from 15 to 16 with the reilience feat. Of course there is the advantage of being better at other Con saves (posion, spell effects and the like), but for pure spell concentration War Caster is King. In BG3 one also needs to be mindfull that going prone is for some reason considered an auto fail on concentration. There are items that prevent you from going prone which thus are super important for casters that are going to concentrate a lot (and Wizards will want to do that). As good as feats are as primary spellcaster one should not ignore the importance of raising Int. At least as long as you want to use spells on enemies. In theory one could build a support Necromancer that only raises corpses and cas spells that will just work regardless of your spellsafe, but in reality you lock yourself out of several big guns you kind of play wizard with wizard spelllist for. Also more Int = more Spell preperations. Of course item options like the headband of intelect exsist, but that will not get you to 20 and those options come with oportunity costs (i.e. other items you could wear that raise your spell safe and spell attack to even higher heights). On Spell level 3 you should get Haste. Hast ein Bg3 is bonkers strong and even as necromancer it is kind of mandatory. In the normal TTRPG you get a special action with Haste that allows certain stuff. In BG3 the one who is hasted gets a full action. As in they can cast an aditional Spell this round or use their multiattack again and so forth. Want to see what a Fighter can do in one round when they have 3 actions (action + action surge + haste)? This is your ticket. Vamipric Touch has the problem that it is a touch spell. Touch range is something most wizards will want to avoid not seek (you could go for very specific builds that do it differently, but this seems to not be such a build given the lack of concern paid to AC).

If you use Minthara as an Oathbreaker Paladin, you can add even more undead abilities to your team.

The way I built my Necromancer was just a straight Summoner. Making Undead and summoning Elementals. I paired it with Shadowheart who can also make Undead and summon Celestial. I didn't go as full send ad much as I wanted.

Also cloak of the weave gives u the same bonus plus +1spell save and spell attack roll

Switch out Mommy for Water Myrmidon, they heal, teleport, reveal invisible and cast, and you can have two so they can heal everyone, even your undead and are generally amazing support.

I'm trying my hand at necromancer and I grabbed a single cleric level for Inflict wounds and a few other treats. I just really like the idea of a necromancer with a touch of death. Vexing that magic initiate doesn't give you the full breadth of the level 1 spell you take from another class.

The Staff of Crones pun at 29:00 dealt me 5d10 Psychic damage.

The necromancy book gives 5 ghouls if your a necromancer your self instead of 4 for other classes!

Reason to play any summoning class: action economy

putting 2 levels at the start as a fighter for any spell caster is just 100% win. You get all armor and all weapons, action surge (most powerful ability ingame) and last but not least, con prof. save bonus. All for free!

If you wanted a D&D master, while I don't know exactly everything, I have been a DM for over 20 years, and almost 600 hours on this game. Just a bit on ability scores, your ability scores should also reflect a little of what kind of party you're going for too. In an ideal world, going high on constitution is helpful for concentration spells, but you really and truly shouldn't be using a lot of concentration spells. Invisibility, Haste, stuff like that at the most. I would put 8 Str 16 Dex 14 Con 17 Int 10 Wis 8 Cha If you had a frontline team. This way the stray arrow from a ranged mob doesn't somehow find you, as you only have 1d6 HP. Replace the 16 on dex with the 14 on con if you do not have a frontline party member. For instance, if you're utilizing tank Lae'zel or Minthara for those big smites, then you could go with 16 Dex and be totally fine. The +3 to AC will make you start with 16 AC on the nautiloid (13 Mage Armor + 3 Dex), which is basically the same armor as Lae'zel. This will stop the vast majority of stray arrows or the occasional mob beelining for the wizard. If you did not have a frontline party member, like if you're taking Karlach as a thrower or multiclassing Laezel into Eldritch Knight Berserker to throw, then the extra HP and concentration saving throws would be better used. Also you shouldn't really be talking as a wizard. You are too engrossed in your studies for talking. Pick up Wyll or multiclass Astarion as a Sword Bard. I've also had quite a bit of fun using Shadowheart as a lightning sorcerer and changing her to Tempest Domain. You spent too much time among the dead to be discussing things with living creatures. I mean have you seen Balthazar? Bro is the epitome of the necromancer way. Since you're going straight down Wizard without bothering with multiclassing, you'll get 3 feats. Among them should absolutely be War Caster, which I would probably take at level 8. If you used the above template to have 17 Intelligence, then Ethel's Hair will cause you to only need 1 ability score increase to max out your soft cap of 20 Intelligence by level 4. The last one sounds unorthodox, but take dual wielding. Now you can have Markoheshkir in one hand and Staff of Cherished Necromancy in the other, and the +1 AC doesn't hurt anything either. With that kind of build, you'll easily have a spell save DC of like 20+ and they have disadvantage to save vs. the effects. Perfect for all your Blights, Cloudkills, Fireballs, and Hold Person spells (and yes I am aware they are not all necromancy spells, but they are good ones regardless). If you're going with Honor Mode, I highly recommend taking either Gnome or Halfling. Gnome getting advantage on all the major spell saving throws is so clutch, and Halfling has the effective same difference with their passive Lucky feat. But also, they're small, so advantage on stealth checks. Non-honor mode, it doesn't matter really. Just a little insight.

I'm pretty sure Oathbreaker Paladins have an aura that buffs all fiends and undead, which sound absolutely terrifying on this build.

love the info

How do you feel about Spore Druid vs Necromancer as far a power?

For equipment I recommend Robe Of The Weave, Hood Of The Weave, Nymph Cloak, Bracers Of Defence, Ring Of Regeneration, Shifting Corpus Ring, Spellcrux Amulet, DUAL WIELDING!!! - Markoheshkir+Staff Of Cherished Necromancy. Hope that helps lol

Hey I'm new to bg3 literally just installed and I'm planning on building this build is there any tips or items that I should add to my notes to grab while I play so I don't forget or get too far into the game to grab it again

I look forward to seeing your vids

Glyph of Warding: Sleep Give your ghouls a feast.

I can't believe i played this game for 200 hours and didn't realize i could summon 4 ghouls with animate undead.

Thanks for the video

Spore Druid - Necromancer can summon more stuff at once, and be tanky on top of it. I love playing it. ^^

Are Ghouls affected by the gloves from chapter 1, the ones that enrages summons on failed wisdom check? i vaguely remember, that they are immune

Was just looking for this! Can you also upload strong elemental summoner?

Do you think it be possible to incorporate oath breaker to take advantage of control undead?

Thanks, just started BG3 and decided to do a Tiefling fire/necro build. Dont like how it takes forever for this build to actually get started tho. The weakest character in the group for most of the game to finally get strong but its act 3 and the game is basically over

Can recommend the dual wielder feat for this build, so you can have two staves equipped at once and gain benefits from both. Markoheshkir in one hand and Staff of Cherished Necromancy in the other for a powerful combo. Also Circle of Bones is a good headpiece for this subclass :P

Another path is multiclassing 6 wizard necro and 6 spore druid. :) Or at least thats what I did. 😂

I used a Cleric 1 wizard 11 build using heavy armor and a shield. That gets more ridiculous over time and downright broken in act three after getting a certain staff and reading a certain forbidden tome.

With the introduction of Honor mode, would these builds hold up?

Wouldn't make more sense to get two levels in fighter for hvy armor prof. and action surge, then 10 levels of necro? That way you can use kethrics full set up, which mega boost necro

@2:15 i completely forgot 4E and 5E stripped out the primary reason to even play a drow. That sexy spell resist that was 11 + class levels though it all came at the cost of a +2 level adjustment.

Would something like this also work for a spore druid to add fungal zombies to the mix?

Maybe I’m stupid but how do you have control over your ghouls in combat? Mine are always listed as an ally and the move and attack in their own

How does the combined damage of all of these summons compare to a similar player character fighter?

You can have 2 oath breaker paladins, and necro wizard, and necro cleric on your team. It's fun going full necromancer

Use the quickspell gloves with the gemini gloves the formers sets u double cast a cantrip

Woah is this ACG? love it

So, there was no problem with the mummy not getting extra health. The feature specifically states that undead created with the Animate Dead spell get the extra hit points, since you created the mummy using the Create Undead, it's not gonna get the extra hit points.

I like Gnomes with the advantage to three saving throws

good job!

About the dual wielder feat, I was thinking it's not that strong compared to having a shield and more spell casting stat especially counting on the feat cost. Before act 3 (with amazing staff) I think it's not that amazing if you can have shield

Im gonna be so fr i made tatted up necromancer duergar papa smurf and this was really helpful in salvaging the joke run Great video

Nice videos. Subscribed. At first I thought you said you had 89% subscribed watchers, I was like "what the hell is he complaining about, that's awesome." 😂 Thanks again for the videos, good luck out there.

Can you play a good guy as Necromancer or do you have to play evil?

Would it be worthwhile to just multiclass into something else after level 6?

I definitely think a necro-build is more about the party you bring along than the gear. A priest for aid and heros feats + someone to give all the summons longstrider + an oathbreaker to give the aura and crusaders mantel. I think with this build you for sure want some way to give your minions advantage (maybe even bless) cuz by act3 their to hit is pretty low. It is a shame that the summon phantom steed / summon undead necro build didnt make it in from tashas (I think). It was a more table (and probably game) friendly necro that focused on one really strong summon. Also, no way is any wizard low tier or whatever in bg3 or 5e, especially when you dont have restrictive resting rules and abundent scrolls. What do you think about the summoner gloves (resist all but physic BUT gain madness)? I've tried them once or twice and can see the potential.

lol CC said "Baller's Skate 3" and that sounds like a dope skating game

Dual wield is underrated on casters. Use Marko and Staff of Cherished necromancy at the same time

One little tip with Necromancy Savant, you should avoid taking necromancy spells as the 2 free spells when you level up and should instead try to only learn necromancy spells from scrolls, otherwise you don't get any value out of Necromancy Savant. Obviously if you just want your necromancy spells ASAP go ahead its something to keep in mind