BiS Gear – Naz Mendeln Summoner Necromancer Diablo 4 Build (Season 9)

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Legendary Aspects

Each aspect is listed with its matching gear slot. Do your best to keep each aspect in the assigned slot. Additionally, if you are trying to farm a specific item, we recommend using your Obols to target farm them! Other recommendations for Legendary Aspect farming would be to do the Seasonal mechanic and to some extent you can farm them in Helltides as well.

Gear Slot	Gems	Aspect / Unique	Legendary Aspect / Unique Power
Helm	Igni + Gar	Aspect of the Cursed Aura	A dark aura surrounds you, inflicting Decrepify and Iron Maiden on enemies who touch it. Curses inflicted this way spread to surrounding targets every X seconds and last 4 seconds outside the aura.
Chest	Royal Topaz	Aspect of Hardened Bones	You gain 15-20% increased Damage Reduction.
Gloves	N/A	The Hand of Naz	Sacrificing both Skeletal Warriors and Golems grants an additional Skeletal Mage for each Minion sacrificed. When a Skeletal Mage attacks enemies 25 times without dying it upgrades to a Skeletal Arch-Mage. Skeletal Arch-Mages teleport to safety when attacked and their attacks occasionally shatter on impact dealing x#% increased damage to the target and up to 3 additional targets.
Pants	Royal Topaz	Blood Moon Breeches	Extra critical strike damage and makes your minions apply curses.
Boots	N/A	Aspect of Occult Dominion	Your maximum number of Skeletal Warriors and Skeletal Mages is increased by 2.
Weapon 2H (Scythe)	Nagu + Thul	Aspect of Service and Sacrifice	Skeleton Mages take 90% less damage and deal x#% increased damage.
Amulet (50% Scaling)	Idol From Below	Unyielding Commander’s Aspect	While Army of the Dead is active, your Minions take #% reduced damage and you deal x#% increased Summon Damage.
Ring	Willbreaker	Ring of Mendeln	Every 6th attack from each Minion is empowered, exploding for X Physical damage.
Ring	Seal of Power	Aspect of Frenzied Dead	Each time one of your Minions damages an enemy, they gain #% Attack Sped for 3 seconds, up to #%.

Curious how this build compares to other endgame options? Take a look at our Endgame Build Tier List.

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Stat Priority and Tempering Affixes

Below are the affixes to prioritize on gear. Each line of affixes is listed in order of importance. Tempering Manuals and their recommended affixes are provided in the second column, and the bolded affixes are the most important targets for Masterworking upgrades. The main priority for Greater Affixes are marked with a “*”, secondary would be anything providing Intelligence or Life. Be sure to check our Tempering guide, and our Masterworking guide, for more details about these topics.

Slot	Targeted Gear Affixes	Tempering Affixes
Helmet	1. Resistance to all * 2. Maximum Life 3. Intelligence	Necromancer Wall #% Damage Reduction for Your Minions Profane Innovation #% Corpse Tendril Size
Chest	* 1. Maximum Life 2. Intelligence 3. Essence per Second	Profane Innovation #% Corpse Tendril Size Worldly Endurance #% Total Armor
Gloves	The Hand of Naz * 1. + Ranks to Skeletal Mage Mastery	n/a
Pants	Blood Moon Breeches * 1. + Ranks to Hellbent Commander 2. Critical Strike Chance	n/a
Boots	1. Maximum Life 2. Movement Speed * 3. Armor	Natural Motion #% Movement Speed Thorn Army + Ranks to Spiked Armor
Amulet	* 1. Ranks to Hellbent Commander 2. Critical Strike Chance 3. #% Intelligence Note: In higher end-game gear you can replace Critical Strike Chance for + Ranks to either Gloom or Coalesced Blood.	Necromancer Efficiency #% Ultimate Cooldown Reduction Minion Finesse #% Skeletal Mages Damage
Ring	1. Critical Strike Chance * 2. Attack Speed 3. Maximum Life	Necromancer Efficiency #% Ultimate Cooldown Reduction Minion Finesse #% Skeletal Mages Damage
Ring	Ring of Mendeln * 1. + Ranks to Minion Masteries	n/a
2H-Weapon (Scythe)	1. Lucky Hit: Chance to restore Essence 2. Intelligence * 3. Maximum Life	Dreadful Augments + Ranks to Titan’s Fall Minion Finesse #% Skeletal Mages Damage

Keep in mind that the maximum Resistance is 70% by default for each element and can be increased to 85% by various sources.

Make sure to achieve and maintain armor cap of 1,000 as soon as possible! For that purpose, helm or chest temporary tempering can be Total Armor %.

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Uniques and Mythic Uniques

Below you will find information on Uniques and Uber Uniques that are useful for this build. Moreover, if you are interested in target farming Uber Uniques, check out our How to Farm Uber Uniques guide.

Uniques

• Ring of Mendeln (Required) – Bread and butter of the build to scale your minions damage output. You can target farm this from Beast in the Ice.
• Blood Moon Breeches (Required) – Incredibly effective pants to optimize the performance of the build as it scales both damage and defenses. This item can be target farmed from all Lair bosses.
• The Hand of Naz (Required) – Makes the build what it is! You get super Skeletal Arch-Mages.

Mythic Uniques

• Heir of Perdition – Replaces your current helmet and comes with complete Runeword changes to Igni + Wat due to dropping Cursed Aura!
• Shroud of False Death – Straight up replaces your current body armor for better scaling. Greater Affix and Masterworking priority on this item will be Maximum Life.

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Gems and Runewords

See below for a more detailed explanation of the best Gems to socket into your gear for each category.

Weapon Gems	Armor Gems	Jewelry Gems
Recommended Runewords listed below.	Recommended Runewords then Royal Topaz For increased Intelligence.	Horadric Jewels as listed here.

Below, you’ll see the recommended list of Runewords for this build.

Runeword Combination	Effect
Nagu + Thul	Gain: 100 Offering. Maintain at least 1 active Summon 5 seconds, gaining offering for each up to 6 summons. Requires: 300 Offering. (Overflow: Increased Size). Cooldown 1 second. Invoker the Sorcerer’s Mystical Frost Nova, inflicting Freeze and Vulnerable onto enemies.
Igni + Gar	Gain: 25 Offering. Stores offering every 0.3 seconds. Cast a non-Basic Skill to gain the stored offering. Requires: 25 Offering (Overflow: Gain Multiple Stacks). Cooldown: 1 second. Gain 2.5% Critical Strike Chance for 5 seconds, up to 25%

Obol Gambling

Similar to Kadala in Diablo 3, the Purveyor of Curiosities lets you gamble your Obols for 750 item power gear at Level 60, making them a great way to fill in missing affixes, Aspects, or upgrades. There is also a small chance to receive an Ancestral piece with item power 800.

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