BiS Gear – Mendeln Summoner Necromancer Diablo 4 Build (Season 8)

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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 + Xal	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	Aspect of Grasping Veins	Gain +#% increased Critical Strike Chance for 6 seconds when you cast Corpse Tendrils. You deal x#% bonus Criticla Strike Damage to enemies damaged by Corpse Tendrils for 6 seconds.
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 + Ohm	Aspect of Reanimation	Your Minions gain increased damage while alive, up to x25-40% after 10 seconds.
Amulet (50% Scaling)	Royal Skull	Aspect of the Great Feast	While you have active Minions, your Summons deal x#% increased damage, but each Minion drains 2 Essence from you per second.
Ring	Royal Skull	Ring of Mendeln	Every 6th attack from each Minion is empowered, exploding for X Physical damage.
Ring	Royal Skull	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. Ranks to Skeletal Warrior Mastery 2. Maximum Life 3. Cooldown Reduction	Necromancer Wall #% Damage Reduction for Your Minions Decay Innovation #% Soulrift Duration
Chest	* 1. Maximum Life 2. Intelligence 3. Essence per Second	Necromancer Wall #% Damage Reduction for Your Minions Decay Innovation #% Soulrift Duration
Gloves	* 1. Ranks to Skeletal Mage Mastery 2. Critical Strike Chance 3. Attack Speed	Decay Innovation #% Soulrift Duration Worldly Finesse #% Critical Strike Damage
Pants	Blood Moon Breeches * 1. + Ranks to Hellbent Commander	n/a
Boots	1. Resistance to all Elements 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	Necromancer Efficiency #% Ultimate Cooldown Reduction Worldly Finesse #% Critical Strike Damage
Ring	1. Lucky Hit: Up to a #% Chance to Make Enemies Vulnerable for 2 seconds. * 2. Attack Speed 3. Intelligence	Necromancer Efficiency #% Ultimate Cooldown Reduction Worldly Finesse #% Critical Strike Damage
Ring	Ring of Mendeln * 1. + Ranks to Minion Masteries	n/a
2H-Weapon (Scythe)	1. Critical Strike Damage * 2. Intelligence 3. Maximum Life	Worldly Finesse #% Critical Strike Damage Companion Augments #% Chance for Skeletal Mage Attacks to Cast Twice

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.

Mythic Uniques

• Heir of Perdition – Replaces your current helmet and comes with complete Runeword changes to Igni + Wat and Bac + Xal (one of these Runewords goes in the Weapon) to compensate for the loss of Cursed Aura. A VERY important note when equipping this helmet is that you gain movement speed. This allows you to drop movement speed modifier from your boots, and replace that with Essence Per Second to help sustain the Aspect of the Great Feast. Greater Affix and Masterworking priority on this item will be Lucky Hit Chance.
• 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.
• The Grandfather – This moves your reanimation aspect to the amulet and Great Feast goes on your gloves replacing Grasping Veins Aspect, and you simply remove Grasping Veins from your set-up. Insane damage increase across the board for the build! Greater Affix and Masterworking priority on this item will be Maximum Life and/or All Stats.

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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.	Royal Skull till your armor is capped at 1000 then we use Royal Diamond.

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

Runeword Combination	Effect
Nagu + Ohm	Gain: 100 Offering. Maintain at least 1 active Summon 5 seconds, gaining offering for each up to 6 summons. Requires: 600 Offering. (Overflow: Increased Duration). 2 second cooldown. Invoke the Barbarian’s War Cry, increasing your damage dealt by x15% for 6 seconds.
Igni + Xal	Gain: 25 Offering. Stores offering every 0.3 seconds. Cast a non-Basic Skill to gain the stored offering. Requires: 300 Offering. (Overflow: Gain more Maximum Life) 3 seconds cooldown. Gain 20% maximum Life for 6 seconds.

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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