D3 Necromancer Leveling Guide S28 | 2.7.5

Hey guys! Welcome to our Necromancer Leveling Guide! If you need to reach max level Necro (without being PL’d) – look no further! Bring out your skelies and let’s get to 70 fast!

I HIGHLY SUGGEST YOU OPEN our D3 Leveling Process (all classes). It answers the usual leveling questions. “Leoric’s?” “Grinding?” There’s a ton of supplemental info there.

S28’s Altar of Rites VASTLY affects leveling

S28 is the ‘Season of Massacre Leveling’ due to Node A in Alter of Rites:
“Double massacre exp bonus and duration”.
Every other method is made worse by this. Also, Node C is “no item level requirement”…

First of all, see our Altar of Rites guide / order to get a clearer picture of what I’m talking about. Basically, this hinges around “Opening your first Challenge Rift Cache”, and if you want to take it ASAP. Also, there couple notes on Node C there, specifically how to get Node C with or without the cache.

I’ll be pasting this reminder in all leveling related content. GL leveling your necro in S28!

Necromancer Leveling – Quick Navigation:
Leveling Build | Summary | Leoric’s Crown? | Notes | Fresh Level 70!

!!! Challenge Rift Material Spending !!!

As mentioned in our general all classes leveling guide, you SHOULD be doing the Challenge Rift and WISELY be spending the resulting materials from it. TLDR: Challenge Rift -> Attempt Deaths Breath upgrade and Blood Shard gambles for a good legendary.

For a leveling Necromancer, you’re in luck. Both halves of the equation are godly.

Death’s Breath

Upgrade L70 2H Scythes. You have a 100% chance to get something godly. It could be any of these: Nayr’s, Reilena’s, Bloodtide or Maltorius. All amazing.

Blood Shards

Gamble on Gloves at Level 1 to 15. The only possible legendary is Grasps of Essence, which is for Corpse Explosion. It’s crazy cause you can get a 2H Scythe that works with it!

Necromancer Leveling: FULL BUILD per Level

This build is not SUPER optimized for MASSACRE (S28, you should be doing it)|
but it doesn’t need to be, given how easy it is to level.

Put your level in the box on the upper right – or hit back / next found in the bottom right!

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Necromancer Leveling: Skills & Reminders Summary

Necromancer Leveling & Leoric’s Crown – When, and is it worth it?

Review our D3 Leveling Process (all classes) for more notes on this. Summary:

Still worth it || You must be minimum L14 (so you have max minions out)
You must beat him in Campaign Mode | You must not have beaten him previously

Since Necromancer does not get a true mobility skill until L30, the L10 passive Fueled by Death should suffice. I dislike doing this straight out of the gate (if solo) as it’s generally not worth the slow pace reaching Leoric.

I like to do it after “some time has passed” to “take a break” so to speak. Do this on easy if you feel really weak.

Necromancer: Leveling Notes

Playing the Build

“Nova Nova Nova, Lance Fatties, Devour, Move, Repeat”

Bone Spikes – Is only here because you NEVER WANT TO BE “STUCK” WITHOUT ESSENCE. The fact that it does damage if simply a “bonus”, lol.

Corpse Lance – use this to ERASE elites. A couple of Corpse Lances should do the trick. Blood Lance rune can even one-shot. Hell, unruned can one-shot.

Death Nova – its for those chumpy enemies, especially those surrounding you. Unstable Compound rune tags a much larger AoE.

Command Skeletons – Command them to attack those elites. They’re mainly here to protect you and provide free damage. They’re not absolutely essential and you can even use Command Golem.

Devour – Be careful not to over eagerly Devour. You always want corpses to Lance tougher enemies. Once the coast is clear of fats after the initial barrage of Nova, Devour before you leave the area.

Fighting Elites WITHOUT NEARBY CORPSES IS A BAD SITUATION.

Tested this build without equipping any legendary items or gems.
Adjust the build to fit in any legendaries you might pick up. 

Followers – Hire them!

Hire your Templar while you level up! Templar does most of the healing for you while you trash enemies. Choose all the left skills to fully maximize Templar’s support power.

Crafted Weapons

Craft a blue 2H axe at level 8 and once you get to level 16, craft the best 2H yellow axe you can. The damage boost from this is huge. Occasionally check Blacksmith if there’s a new craftable weapon available. Don’t forget to upgrade him as soon as you can.

At level 61 it is IMPORTANT you craft a new weapon since the stat difference is gigantic compared to pre-60 weapons. Do this for your armor, too.

Necromancer: Gems while Leveling up

Topaz (yellow) gems for your armor. Try to combine them and get the highest possible gem you can upgrade.

Highest Ruby for Helm to increase your Exp gains (with Leoric’s Crown, of course) and Weapon during the leveling up phase.

Fresh 70 Necromancer, now what?

You got your Necro to 70! Yey! Get hyped since the end-game is just beginning! Just a quick reminder though, craft a level 70 armor, 2H mace for that higher base damage or 2H scythe to help you with Essence. 

>>> Fresh Level 70 Necromancer Guide  <<<

We recommend you check that out so you won’t have a hard time at L70+!

Necromancer Leveling – Quick Navigation:
Leveling Build | Summary | Leoric’s Crown? | Notes | Fresh Level 70!

We hope our Necromancer Leveling Guide has guided your hand.

Check out our other Necro Guides:

• Necromancer Fresh Level 70
• Necromancer Speedfarming General
• Necromancer Best Speedfarm Build
• Bones of Rathma | Rathma Set Dungeon
• Grace of Inarius | Inarius Set Dungeon
• Pestilence Master’s Shroud | Pestilence Set Dungeon
• Trag’Oul’s Avatar | Trag’Oul’s Set Dungeon

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