Diablo 4 best Necromancer Bone Spirit Wave endgame build - Skills, BiS gear, Runes, and more (Season 6)

Diablo 4’s Bone Spirit Wave Necromancer builds flood the world in blood and bone. It creates waves of viscera that decimate anything it comes in contact with. When it comes to powerful Necromancer builds, it doesn’t get much stronger than this for the Season of Hatred. It’s a relatively easy build to play—it’s a Necromancer build after all—and it’s fun, on top of that! However, this is an endgame build, so it needs some pretty decent gear.

There are multiple ways to build a Bone Spirit Wave Necromancer in Diablo 4, this is just the way we prefer to play it as we go through Season 6. From skills, mercenaries, rune combos, and the best gear, here's our guide on setting up a Bone Spirit Wave Necromancer.

Note: This article is subjective and based on the author's opinion.

---

How to play Bone Spirit Wave Necromancer in Diablo 4

That's right - this build doesn't need or want summoned skeletons (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

If you want to play a Necromancer in Diablo 4 Season 6, Bone Spirit Wave builds are the way to go. It does incredible single-target and AoE damage, works well with others, and generally just feels ridiculously powerful. Once you’re geared up and have all the skill points you need, this build is just madness.

In combat, you use Decrepify first to slow down enemies and help you manage cooldowns. Use Blood Wave to start getting Blood Orbs into play, and damage enemies. This should also start putting Corpses into play—use Corpse Tendrils when you can to gather up your foes. Throw Blight down next, and keep using it off cooldown.

Now you’re ready to mop up, use Blood Lance to use the Blood Orbs on screen. This all works because of one of the required Uniques—Blood Artisan’s Cuirass. It spawns a free Bone Spirit when you pick up a certain number of Blood Orbs. You get lots of free spirits, so more free damage. Combine this with more Blood Waves, and enemies perish in short order. Below is the list of skills/talents you need to have in this build:

Level	Skill
2	Hemorrhage
3	Hemorrhage
4	Blood Lance
5	Enhanced Blood Lance
6	Paranormal Blood Lance
7	Blight
8	Enhanced Blight
9	Supernatural Blight
10	Imperfectly Balanced
11	Imperfectly Balanced
12	Imperfectly Balanced
13	Hewed Flesh
14	Hewed Flesh
15	Hewed Flesh
16	Blood Mist
17	Necrotic Fortitude
18	Necrotic Fortitude
19	Necrotic Fortitude
20	Titan's Fall
21	Titan's Fall
22	Titan's Fall
23	Decrepify
24	Enhanced Decrepify
25	Abhorrent Decrepify
26	Death's Embrace
27	Death's Embrace
28	Death's Embrace
29	Death's Approach
30	Death's Approach
31	Death's Approach
32	Amplify Damage
33	Amplify Damage
34	Amplify Damage
35	Precision Decay
36	Precision Decay
37	Corpse Tendrils
38	Enhanced Corpse Tendrils
39	Plagued Corpse Tendrils
40	Bone Spirit
41	Bone Spirit
42	Bone Spirit
43	Bone Spirit
44	Bone Spirit
45	Enhanced Bone Spirit
46	Ghastly Bone Spirit
47	Necrotic Carapace
48	Necrotic Carapace
49	Necrotic Carapace
50	Compound Fracture
51	Compound Fracture
52	Compound Fracture
53	Evulsion
54	Evulsion
55	Evulsion
56	Blood Wave
57	Blood Wave
58	Blood Wave
59	Blood Wave
60	Blood Wave
61	Prime Blood Wave
62	Supreme Blood Wave
63	Memento Mori
64	Memento Mori
65	Memento Mori
66	Stand Alone
67	Stand Alone
68	Stand Alone
69	Inspiring Leader
70	Inspiring Leader
71	Inspiring Leader
72	Ossified Essence

You also want to have the correct talents picked in your Book of the Dead for your Bone Spirit Wave build as a Necromancer. You want Skeletal Warriors—Skirmishers, Skeletal Mages—Cold, and Golems—Iron for more Critical Strike Chance, Vulnerable Damage, and Critical Strike Damage, respectively. To do this, you get no summons! But that's okay, you still obliterate enemies with the greatest of ease.

---

Best Runes for Bone Spirit Wave Necromancer in Diablo 4

Since we can repeatedly, easily cast Blood Wave as a Bone Spirit Wave Necromancer in Diablo 4, Zan+Ohm is one of the best Rune combinations we can possibly create. This gives you Offering for using Ultimates, which uses Barbarian’s War Cry. We can keep this up easily, adding a 15% damage multiplier at almost all times.

Next is Lith+Xal because you spend a lot of time standing in one place as a Necromancer. This rewards you for standing in place by giving you 20% Maximum Life for four seconds; the more Offering you have, the longer it stays active.

---

Ideal Mercenary for Bone Spirit Wave Necromancer in Diablo 4

The Bone Spirit Wave Necromancer in Diablo 4 Season 6 makes the most of Raheir (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

The best Mercenary for Diablo 4’s Bone Spirit Wave Necromancer is Raheir. His tankiness is amazing as it reduces your incoming damage, heals with Ground Slam, and uses Bastion to redirect damage to him. If you take Inspiration, that will also make sure you gain more damage while he’s using Bastion.

You’re going to want to take Varyana as your Reinforcements in D4. Her Ancient Harpoons connected to Blood Wave will make sure your targets don’t get knocked back too far, so enemies die in a nice, happy clump.

---

BiS gear and Legendary Aspects for the Bone Spirit Wave Necromancer in Diablo 4

Gear Slot	Ideal Stats	Legendary Aspect
Helm	Cooldown Reduction, Maximum Life, Maximum Resource, Armor	N/A (Requires Harlequin Crest)
Chest	Unique Effect, Bone Spirit Ranks, Blood Orbs Restore Essence, +Damage after picking up Blood Orb, +Life	N/A (RequiresBlood Artisan's Cuirass)
Gloves	Ranks to Core Skills, Intelligence, Attack Speed, +Life, Critical Strike Chance, Corpse Tendrils Size*, Macabre Damage*	Sacrificial
Pants	Maximum Life, Intelligence, Armor, Dodge Chance, Total Armor*, Bone Spirit Explosion Size*	Hardened Bones
Boots	Ranks to Bone Spirit, Maximum Life, Movement Speed, Intelligence, Movement Speed*, Corpse Tendrils Size*	Concussive Strikes
Amulet	Ranks to Imperfectly Balanced, Ranks to Evulsion, INtelligence, Maximum Life, Maximum Resource, Ultimate Cooldown Reduction*, Macabre Damage*	Fastblood
Ring 1	Maximum Life, Attack Speed, Chance to make Enemies Vulnerable, Critical Strike Chance, Ultimate Cooldown Reduction*, Macabre Damage*	Serration
Ring 2	Attack Speed, Critical Strike Chance, Lucky Hit Chance, Ranks to Core Skills, Unique Effect	N/A (Requires Ring of Starless Skies)
Main Weapon	Maximum Life, Intelligence, Critical Strike Damage, Vulnerable Damage, Macabre Damage*, Chance for Bone Spirit to Deal Double Damage*	Grasping Veins
Off-Hand	Critical Strike Chance, Intelligence, Maximum Life, Cooldown Reduction, Maximum Resource, Macabre Damage*, Chance for Bone Spirit to Deal Double Damage*	Gore Quills

The above sheet has the important gear, stats, and Legendary Aspects you need. If you see an asterisk, those are stats you’ll try to add via Tempering. This build does want a few incredibly powerful pieces of gear, such as Harlequin Crest, Blood Artisan’s Cuirass, and the Ring of Starless Skies.

---

Check out our other Diablo 4 guides and features

• Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred Mercenary system, explained
• Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred: Tenets of Depravity guide
• Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred: How to unlock the Undercity