Corpse Explosion Necromancer Leveling Guide

Welcome to the Diablo 4 Blood Corpse Explosion Necromancer leveling guide! The Necromancer holds the balance of Life and Death in their bony hands. Wielding power over the very blood surging through their enemies bodies, then up-cycling their useless corpses to summon minions and as macabre artillery rounds.

This leveling guide combines the two strongest skills in the Necromancer’s arsenal for the early-progression of the game. Blood Surge applying Empowered on every other cast, hitting the entire screen for MASSIVE damage, which nicely lines up a few corpses for the true star of the show: Corpse Explosion!

More Guides! Every class is playable in the second week of the Beta. Check out the other leveling builds if you’d like to play other classes!

Leveling Checklist

Before we jump into the guide, you may be wondering what you should be doing in the Beta to power up. Let’s go over the activities in detail that will get you as powerful as possible.

Complete the Act 1 Campaign (the Yellow quests). This will teach you the story and take you around Sanctuary. You will be level 12 by the end of it if you skip every other activity along the way.Complete the first 3 levels of Renown. Renown is your fame in Diablo 4 that has massive rewards. You can complete the first 3 levels of it in the Beta since the others are locked by higher difficulties. This means you should be spamming Dungeons, Side Quests, Altars of Lilith and Strongholds. Also don’t forget to uncover the entire map and activate every Waypoint!Kill Ashava, the World Boss. She will spawn 4 times in the Beta. The more times you kill her, the more loot you’ll get! Here are some critical things to understand about her:Her Circular Wing Swipe Attack is deadly. The best way to avoid it (even for ranged characters) is to get right next to her as she does it. This is telegraphed by her holding her wing up in front of her face right before she spins twice.She is level 25, so you are worthless if you aren’t close to that level. Remember this world boss only allows 12 people to fight her, so if you show up as a level 10, people will hate you. Don’t engage her unless you are at least level 20.Her weekly cache reward is bugged to only reward you on your first attempt in fighting her. This means if you fail the first time, you forfeit the opportunity to earn this prize (even if you kill her later). This has been reported to Blizzard and we expect it to be fixed on live, but for now, only kill her if you’re a high level and pretty sure you’re going to win.Craft a Poison Resist Elixir before you fight her to make the fight easier!Her spawn times are:Saturday 10am PSTSaturday 12pm PSTSaturday 10pm PSTSunday 12am PSTFarm the highest level equipment. There are 2 great ways to do this. The first is to go north to Kor Dragan and farm the level 30 monsters there. They are the highest level monsters available and can drop you sick yellows that you can imprint Legendary Aspects on. The second is to head west to Camio’s Landing west of the Nostrava Waypoint to kill the 35 elite “Wrathful” Osgar Reede. He hits really hard and explodes on death, so be careful if you’re on hardcore! Sometimes he drops loot too high for you to wear though, which is a bummer.Go Explore and Have Fun. Explore the world and look for events. Make an alt and try another build. Go back to some of your favorite dungeons and look for more Legendaries. Do whatever you see fit and have fun!

Alternative, faster, spoiler-avoiding method: If you just want to get to 20 as fast as possible to get the wolf pet and don’t care about the campaign or powering up, pick your favorite Dungeon and just run it over and over. The fastest way to do that is to use the Emote Wheel to Leave Dungeon, then bring up your Journal with J and hit Reset All Dungeons to go again.

Warning: You can only complete 33/35 Side Quests (29/35 if you’re not willing to farm for dropped Side Quest starting items) and 22/23 Dungeons in this Beta. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME TRYING TO GET THEM ALL, BECAUSE YOU CAN’T!

Skill Progression

Getting Started (Levels 2-3, 2 Skill Points)

First, we need to unlock our primary Basic Skill and it’s first enhancement. During the first few levels, your Skeletons help to absorb damage and put out a little DPS of their own. We use Hemorrhage to apply single and multi-target damage while generating our Resource. Make sure to pick up Blood Orbs while you fight!

Level 2: Hemorrhage

Level 3: Enhanced Hemmorage

Unlocking Bloodsurge (Levels 4-7, 4 Skill Points)

Blood Surge seems pretty benign to start. The initial pulse damage hits the entire screen and drains a bit of Life to keep you topped off. The second, smaller pulse, does much more damage to monsters in closer range. But once you fully unlock it’s potential, you are almost always dealing Overpower damage on every screen and that’s when your build really starts to perform. Accolyte’s Hemorrhage is the last point we need to unlock Corpse Explosion and helps by increasing our Resource generation.

TIME FOR CORPSE EPLOSION (Levels 8-17, 10 Skill Points)

Stop wasting those precious Demon bodies on summoning spindly little skeletons, those bodies are fodder for the great Corpse Explosion domino machine! Your rotation becomes quite simple. Blood Surge to pepper on some damage and drop some Corpses, Hemorrhage if you need to form another Corpse and then hold down the Corpse Explosion button until the entire screen is covered in the blood of your enemies! We also pick up Decrepify, which applies a Slow to monsters, increasing our Corpse Explosion damage from Plagued Corpse Explosion.

A Dash of Crowd Control (Levels 18-25, 8 Skill Points + 2 From Renown)

Now let’s grab the last tool we need, Corpse Tendrils. This pulls monsters into a single space so all of our Skills can be used to their maximum efficiency! It’s great for survivability, DPS output, and a massive tool in group play for others as well.

Reaching the Ultimate (0 Points)

This build has more than enough fire power, Crowd Control and survivability without an ultimate. This allows you to continue to use either of your summons that feel most comfortable for you. IF you feel the need to pick an Ultimate, take one Skill point out of Corpse Explosion and use Blood Wave.

Final Hints

Let us throw a few general hints your way to make life easier in the Beta:

Level Up Your Potion. Many players don’t know that you need to farm materials to upgrade your character’s potion. Make sure you collect all materials as you explore Sanctuary, especially Gallowvine which is used in many recipes!Compare your Items… Literally. Press Shift over an item in your inventory to compare it to what you’re wearing. This makes it easy to determine what is and isn’t an upgrade.Renown is your Friend. While exploring, take time to gather Renown along the way. It has long-term benefits for your entire account, including more Skill/Paragon points and Potion charges. Renown is gained by activating Waypoints, finding Altars of Lilith, completing Side Quests/Dungeons and rescuing Strongholds.Don’t Imprint Your Weapon. The most critical piece of gear while leveling up is your weapon, which gets replaced constantly. This makes imprinting a Legendary Aspect on it a waste of resources. Instead, put your best offensive Aspect on your Amulet, which can be used for a long time.

Alternative Builds

The build presented above gives the smoothest leveling experience and is overall best for any farming you might want to do after reaching level 25. However, there’s still plenty of other builds that can clear all the content just fine without being the best.

Now the good news is that you can fully respec your Skill Tree for just 2,000 Gold, which is basically nothing. You can also use any of these builds from level one but costs you 1-2 extra hours to reach the max level.

Summon Necromancer Build

This build seeks to maximize the damage output and viability of your summons. It puts the Necromancer in a more supportive role, applying AoE and Channeled Shadow Damage over Time and Crowd Control. You also get to wield the power of the Army of the Dead Ultimate Skill that’s one of my favorite skill animations in the game! Let your minions wash over Sanctuary in a tide of creaky bones and blood!

Full Blood Necromancer Build

This build answers one simple question… What if you could paint Sanctuary Red? We explore Blood Lance instead of rehashing Blood Surge, and then pick every skill that empower our Blood-based damage dealers. Corpse Tendrils and Decrepify help to CC monsters and group them up for better AOE damage potential! This build is VERY DIFFICULT to pilot on Controller. You have been warned!

Bone Spirit Necromancer Build

I’ll be honest with you, this build SHOULD absolutely melt crowds of monsters and bosses alike… If you can manage to generate enough Resource fast enough. The power of Bone Spirit requires you to be at maximum Resource when you cast it and we’re built to reduce its cooldown as fast as possible to spam it. So if you have the Resource, you’re in the clear. DON’T try this build until you have the gear to support it! Corpse Explosion actually becomes a Resource battery by cosuming corpses with Grim Harvest.

See You in the BETA!

The entire Maxroll team will be blasting all BETA long, so lets team up and purge Sanctuary of evil. Enjoy your first taste of the new chapter in Diablo and we’ll see you in game! If you haven’t already, head over to our Discord and select the D4 role in #roles to stay up to date with our content development. Sanctuary here we come!

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