Infinimist Necromancer Endgame Build Guide for Diablo IV Season 12 - Slaughter

Season 8 is the Season of Belial's Return. It allows you to tap into Boss Powers obtained from World, Event, and Lair Bosses throughout Sanctuary. The new seasonal mechanic, Apparition Incursions, is available at any difficulty level and gives you the opportunity to unlock a subset of these powers very early on. Various Apparition Monsters appear in these special timed events throughout Sanctuary. Defeating these monsters spawns 1 of 10 Apparition Bosses to hunt you down and defeating them grants you their Boss Power. After defeating the first Boss, continue the event for a chance to fight a second Apparition Boss, after which Belial himself joins the fray.

There are 24 Boss Powers available and the first time you defeat one of these Bosses, you claim their power for yourself. Boss Powers each have Main and Modifier effects to boost your build. 13 are available in all difficulties (from Apparition Incursions and World Bosses), while 11 can only be acquired in Torment 1 difficulty or higher from Lair Bosses and Lilith. You can equip 1 Main Power and 3 Modifiers, and all powers can be upgraded up to Rank 20, increasing the potency of both the Main and Modifier effect. You use Spectral Ash to upgrade these powers, dropped from Apparition Incursions and by defeating any Bosses. Boss Powers also scale with your Paragon Level, growing stronger as you progress.

Belial's Eye Beams - Deals Corrupting type damage, which we scale naturally on this build with Wither.

• Wandering Death's Chest Beam - Executing non-Bosses vastly improves your clear speed, especially in the Pit.
• Sinerat's Flames - Adds a large multiplier for Shadow damage.
• Andariel's Flaming Skull - Scale DoT damage.

• Lilith's Wind of Hate - When speedfarming the Pit, the additional Blisters help to clear Elites/Bosses faster. The additional targets they create also help in triggering Lucky Hit Chance procs.
• Urivar's Lobbed Bombs - When speedfarming, the additional cooldown procs for your Ultimate helps with Soulrift uptime.

Use the slider to see the progression steps. At around Paragon 200, leveling slows down significantly and all important Rare clusters, Legendary nodes and Glyph sockets should be unlocked. Afterwards, you can min/max your build with minor tweaks and by picking up additional smaller nodes.

You can have up to two Runewords in your setup, each consisting of one Ritual and one Invocation Rune. Socket them in Two-Handed Weapons if your build calls for them, otherwise place them into your Armor pieces to replace normal gems. The Infinimist Necromancer focuses on the following combos:

Best in Slot

• Bac + Vex = More Skill Points increases your damage and decreases your Cooldowns.
• Igni + Ohm = Allows you to proc this Runeword on demand for another damage bonus.

Alternative choices

If you haven't unlocked the final setup or found the top runes, you can also benefit from these options:

• Yom can be used to help stagger bosses more quickly to activate damage vs Crowd Controlled targets.
• Mot for damage reduction, Xal for more Maximum Life, Zec for better Soulrift uptime, and Qua for movement speed are all great options to fit your particular playstyle.

Mercenaries are unlocked during the Vessel of Hatred campaign and assist you in battle. There are 4 separate Mercenaries to choose from, each with their own skill trees. You can have one Hired Mercenary that accompanies you into battle, and one Reinforcement Mercenary that triggers a selected Skill from their Tree based on your Skill use or other conditional event:

When Subo's Molotov hits an enemy, it grants a Damage over Time multiplier. This is also triggered by Snipe.

Varyana is a great source of Lucky Hit Procs to trigger Abhorrent Decrepify, especially against a single target.

To enable the Infinimist Necromancer to perform optimally, hunt for these stats on your gear with good rolls and aim to Temper ⚒️ & Masterwork Crit ↑ them accordingly. The green arrow ↑ indicates which affix is most impactful to Masterwork Crit, and it does not indicate how many Masterwork Crits you need on that particular affix. Keep in mind that certain stats such as Armor, Resistances, Extra Size Tempers, Attack Speed etc. have caps that may affect your priorities according to the items and Paragon points available at that progression step.

Recommended Endgame Stat Thresholds

• 100% Chance for Corpse Explosion to Deal Double Damage.
• 50% Blood Mist Duration
• >50% Lucky Hit Chance Bonus
• >2,500 Intelligence
• >20 Ranks to Corpse Explosion (Including Ranks to Corpse Skills)

• Armor Capped 1,000
• Resistance Capped 70%
• >8,000 Life
• 100% Movement Speed (Including Movement Speed During Blood Mist)
• >60% Soulrift Duration
• 65% Cooldown Reduction (In Stat Sheet)

Before you dive into the Endgame with the Infinimist Necromancer, take a look at this overview of the items used in the build. See below for further details about the different progression steps and variants. Some of your Skill Tree choices depend on what Legendary Aspects and Unique items are available to you. Keep in mind that while we can guarantee that everyone has access to the same Codex of Power Aspects, the exact progression is different for everyone.

This section is designed to guide your Infinimist Necromancer from a fresh level 60 into the very late endgame using the three variants Starter, Ancestral and Mythic. At the final step, you should be fully decked out with a great all-rounder build. From there, follow the other min/max variants if you want to optimize around certain activities such as Pit Pushing, Speedfarming and more.