D3 S28 Necromancer Fresh Level 70 Guide | 2.7.5

What three Legendary gems? L25 them ASAP.

Your next goal should be getting at least L25 on your three most important gems. Just get repeat the cycle of Nephalem Rift for a Key -> Do a Greater Rift until you get them, and do the absolute minimum level you need to level them up. Get them and level them quickly – do not feel pressured to “maximize” your rift keys by inflating the difficulty.

Legacy of Dreams is mandatory, as mentioned in the basics segment! Level this up as much as you can.

From here you have some choices

Honestly, double defensive gems will serve you best FOR NOW. Molten Wildebeests Gizzard and Moratorium (L25 only) are the best pair for you IMO. If you’d rather a defensive gem that scales into lategame, trade wildebeest for Esoteric Alteration.

If you want some more power Bane of the Powerful is amazing even at just L25, it’s a small investment. Bane of the Trapped is your go-to lategame DPS gem.

Can’t ever go wrong with leveling up a Boon of the Hoarder for speedfarming.

Legendary Items in ALL SLOTS

LoD gets stronger with each legendary item you have equipped – so get to it! You should aim to get this done “passively” by natural item drops, but you can also craft items if you’re desperate.

Simply wear whatever junk you find eventually
replacing them with useful pieces as you get them!

Spending Blood Shards is “OK”, but only use Death’s Breath to fill up the slots if you’re absolutely desperate. You’ll get an item for each slot in no time (you can even craft them). Save your resources for finding SPECIFIC items that will greatly boost your power. We talk more about this in the next segment, refinement.

Ancients DOUBLE this bonus, and they’re a welcome boost to consider.

Defense Type & Gems

Wizards / WD’s / Necros are INTELLIGENCE classes (they get free ALLRES from INT). So, in the face of all this free allres, your prime defensive stats are ARMOR > VIT. So try to reroll Armor on your gear if you need defense – it’s your best defensive stat by FAR. REMOVE AS ALLRES (it’s pretty useless as a rolled-in stat).

Slot in your best Rubies or Emeralds, as they give Armor.

Basic Rerolls

Since legendaries are a little expensive to reroll EARLY ON, try to make the most by REMOVING GARBAGE STATS, and getting anything “remotely usable”.

INT VIT and Armor are your best stats and are welcome on any item.

Life per Hit is great early on. Even if it appears on weird pieces of gear, it’s very welcome in the early game.

Corpse Lance% is found in Shoulders and Chest.

The Element% you want is ultimately Poison, found typically in Bracers and Amulet.

Remove useless stats

• Life Regeneration – garbage for any build.
• Attack Speed – it usually an endgame tune-up stat.
• Excess Resource Cost Reduction – Is a crutch, and only niche builds need it.
• Excess Cooldown Reduction – Only useful for an endgame “need”.
• Unused skill and element% – literally USELESS.
• All Resists – Useless for us, take Armor and VIT instead.

Take better stats

• INT VIT– can’t go wrong with these. Your core stats!
• ARMOR Life% Great defensive stats.
• Sockets are essentially MANDATORY.
• Life per Hit – Great early game sustainability.
• CRIT Stats (CHC / CHD) – More for endgame, but I’d take this over garbage stats.
• Skill and Elemental% – that you use.

A super flexible build that you can change in many ways. With Steuarts in the cube, this is an uber speedy uber tanky build.

Full Build Preview: Pestilence 6 Brainless Speedfarming

MORIBUND GAUNTLETS is purely for “quality of life” and ensuring you have infinite corpses so you’re never “bricked out”. Swap it out for Dayntee’s or something if you’re confident. Same goes with the golem rune – Decay is stronger, but flesh gives you corpses.

You’re gonna need the RoRG to fit in Guardian. Guardian is crafted btw

Here’s advice on how to spend your blood shards with Kadala, roughly in order of importance:

Shoulders – Corpsewhisper Pauldrons: Your one item build. Really shines once you get Pestilence 6

Hands – Moribund Gauntlets: An optional quality of life item.

EVERYTHING ELSE is pretty much “filler gear” for your LoD build.
Feel free to use anything useful, check the full build previews.
almost every slot has ‘something’ you can use!

From here, try to find your 6pc Pestilence set. Blood Shards are a great way to get ’em.

Here’s advice on how to get your weapons from Deaths Breath rare item upgrades (Kanai’s Cube Recipe: 25x Deaths Breath convert a rare into random legendary of same type), roughly in order of importance:

2h Scythe for Reilena’s Shadowhook and Nayr’s Black Death, the deadly pair that comes from a single item type! Either one you find is useful.

Corpsewhisper Pauldrons from Shoulders if you’re super desperate. Blood Shards are easier, but sometimes you just don’t get it!

This isn’t the section for it, but defense can get pretty rough early on so consider the double defensive gem duo of Moratorium + Wildebeest / Esoteric.

You can reroll set items to another slot (example, Helm to Shoulders)
using DB’s FS’s in the cube. Just a reminder, if you want your Pestilence 6.

Nothing else is really WORTH spending DB’s for, and would rather spend to try and get jewelry you might not have yet.

Rings and Amulets are tough to get from either BS or DB’s (due to the large amount of possible outcomes), but if you’re done getting your core items from these currencies – and you haven’t got your core accessories, it’s a viable way to spend them. Typically you’ll just find these as you grind – then use currency if you’re desperate. Anyway, if I had to rank the importance of your rings and ammys…

Krysbyns Sentence is a brainless dps boost.

Unity is a decent defensive option, but you need the follower immortality relic, and another Unity for the follower! It’s difficult to set this up early on.

Lornelles Sunstone isn’t a bad option if you can’t unity.

As an aside – Ring of Royal Grandeur and Avarice Band are BOUNTY ONLY rings (respectively ACT I and III), which DO NOT APPEAR FROM any other source. They, like any other bounty item, DO NOT DROP from monsters, gambling, upgrades or any other source outside of their respective BOUNTY CACHE.