All Necromancer Class Changes in Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred 2.0.2 and Season 6

Paragon Updates

General

• Glyph Scaling values have been reduced by 50%.
• Rane and Magic Nodes that provide additive damage have been increased by 100%.
• Single Resist Nodes have all been converted to bonuses to Maximum Resistance for a single element:
  • Single Resist 10%.
  • Max Single Resist 3%.

   

• Recuperate Rare node:
  • Potion Healing has been changed to +Max Life.
  • Life Per Second increased by 2x.

   

• Armor nodes Increased by 50%.
• Slayer: Potion Healing changed to Max Life.
• Spearhead: Armor changed to Max life.
• Fleeting:
  • Impairment Resistance increased by 50%.
  • Damage Over Time Reduction changed to Dodge Chance.

   

• Suffused Resistance: Damage Over Time Reduction changed to Damage Reduction.
• All sources of Damage While Fortified increased by [x]2.25x.
• Healing Received increased by 1.5x.

Necromancer

Hulking Monstrosity

• Flesh Horror
  • Minion Resistance to all elements changed to all resistances.
  • Golems Armor changed to Armor.

   

• Miscreation
  • Summon Damage changed to Golem Life %.

   

Flesh Easter

• Critical Strike Damage changed to Corpse Attack Speed.

Scent of Death

• Ruin changed to Suffused Resistance.
• Corrective changed to Restorative.
• Seethe
  • Damage replaced with Damage to Healthy.

   

Bone Graft

• Splinter
  • Bone Critical Strike Damage changed to Critical Strike Damage.

   

• Calcified changed to Suffused Resistance.

Blood Begets Blood

• Blood Empowered
  • Blood Orb damage changed to Blood damage.

   

• Vampiric Blood
  • Orb Healing has been Doubled.

   

• Blooddrinker
  • Orb Healing has been Doubled.

   

• Invigorated
  • Blood Orb Damage changed to Blood Damage.

   

Bloodbath

• Thick Hide
  • Bonus now applies to Maximum Life instead of Damage While Fortified.

   

• Powerhouse
  • Damage while Healthy changed to Healing Received.

   

Wither

• Lingering Shadows
  • Shadow Damage changed to Resource Cost Reduction.

Starter Board

• Grasp (replacing Preservation)
  • Previous: +200 Armor / +10 Intelligence
  • Now: (Grasp) +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Intelligence
• Cult Leader
  • Minion Damage per 20% Attack Speed Bonus increased from 30%[x] to 40%[x].

   

Hulking Monstrosity

• Miscreation
  • Previous: +14% Golems Armor / +10 Intelligence
  • Now: +10% Summon Damage / +10 Intelligence

Flesh-Eater Board

• Rend (replacing Erudite)
  • Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Intelligence
  • Now: (Rend) +10% Damage / +10 Intelligence
• Erudite (replacing Culler)
  • Previous: +35% Ultimate Damage / +2.5% Attack Speed
  • Now: (Erudite) +3% Resistance to All Elements / 4% Maximum Life

Scent of Death

• Seethe (replacing Preservation)
  • Previous: +100 Armor / +10 Intelligence
  • Now: (Seethe) +10% Damage / +10 Intelligence
• Ruin
  • Previous: +35% Ultimate Damage / +15% Crtitical Strike Damage
  • Now: 4% Damage Reduction from Vulnerable Enemies / +20 Armor

Bone Graft Board

• Erudite (replacing Tenacity)
  • Previous: 4% Maximum/ +100 Armor
  • Now: (Erudite) +3% Resistance to All Elements / 4% Maximum Life
• Calcified
  • Previous: +15% Bone Critical Strike Damage / +10% Bone Damage
  • Now: +20 Armor / 4% Damage Reduction from Vulnerable Enemies
• Splinter (replacing Erudite)
  • Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Intelligence
  • Now: (Splinter) +15% Bone Critical Strike Damage / +10 Intelligence

Blood Begets Blood Board

• Aggression (replacing Blooddrinker)
  • Previous: +5% Blood Orb Healing / +10 Intelligence
  • Now: (Aggression) +12.5% Damage while Healthy / +10 Intelligence
• Blooddrinker (replacing Aggression)
  • Previous: +45% Overpower Damage / +10% Damage
  • Now: (Blooddrinker) +5% Blood Orb Healing / 4% Maximum Life

Bloodbath Board

• Guarded Advance
  • Previous: +10% Damage while Fortified / +6.5% Fortify Generation
  • Now: 4% Damage Reduction while Fortified / +6.5% Fortify Generation
• Remedy
  • Previous: +4% Healing Received / +10 Intelligence
  • Now: +45% Overpower Damage / +10 Intelligence

Wither Board

• Gnawing Darkness (replacing Gloom)
  • Previous: +10% Shadow Resistance / +10 Intelligence
  • Now: (Gnawing Darkness) +10% Damage to Shadow Damage Over Time-Affected Enemies / +10 Intelligence
• Gloom (replacing Gnawing Darkness)
  • Previous: +10% Damage to Shadow Damage Over Time-Affected Enemies / +16% Damage to Elites
  • Now: (Gloom) +10% Shadow Resistance / +20 Armor

Legendary Node

• Frailty: Cursed enemies take 10%[x] increased damage from you and your Minions, increased by 10%[x] each second they are Cursed, up to 40%[x].

Rare Nodes

• Lingering Shadow: +10% Shadow Damage Over Time, +10% Shadow Damage
• Shadow Resilience: +10% Shadow Resistance, 4% Maximum Life
• Calculated: +15% Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies, +20 Armor Meticulous: 3% Resistance to All Elements, +30 Armor
• Preservation: +10 Intelligence, +20 Armor +15% Damage to Crowd Controlled enemies, +10 Intelligence
• Eradicate: +10% Vulnerable Damage, +10 Intelligence
• Relentless: +2.5% Attack Speed, +4% Maximum Life

Active Skills

Soulrift – Darkness Ultimate Skill – 50 second Cooldown

• Base Skill: For 8 seconds, you corrupt surrounding enemies, dealing 65% Weapon damage per second.
• Supreme Soulrift: Every soul absorbed increases your damage by 1%, up to 30%. This bonus persists for 5 seconds after Soulrift ends.
• Prime Soulrift: Enemies with their souls absorbed become Vulnerable for 2 seconds. When damaging enemies affected by Soulrift, you have a 5% chance to absorb their soul.

Blight

• Enhanced Blight
  • Previous – Blight Slows enemies by 25%.
  • Now – Blight’s radius is increased by 15%.
• Paranormal Blight Reworked
  • Previous – Blight has a 30% chance to Immobilize enemies for 2.5 seconds on impact.
  • Now – Blight Chills enemies for 15% every second.

Reap

• Damage Reduction duration increased from 2 to 4 seconds.
• Enhanced Reap’s Attack Speed duration increased from 3 to 4 seconds.

Blood Lance

• Blood Lance now always pierces through enemies who are currently lanced, dealing 10% reduced damage to subsequent enemies beyond the first.
• Enhanced Blood Lance Reworked
  • Previous – Blood Lance pierces through enemies who are currently lanced, dealing 10% reduced damage to subsequent enemies beyond the first.
  • Now – After casting Blood Lance 8 times, your next cast of Blood Lance is guaranteed to Overpower and spawns a Blood Orb under the first enemy hit.
• Supernatural Blood Lance Reworked
  • Previous – After casting Blood Lance 8 times, your next cast of Blood Lance is guaranteed to Overpower and spawns a Blood Orb under the first enemy hit.
  • Now – Blood Lance deals 15%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage and 15%[x] increased Overpower Damage.

Blood Wave

• Prime Blood Wave Reworked
  • Previous – Blood Wave Slows enemies by 50% for 4 seconds.
  • Now – Casting Blood Wave grants 20% Damage Reduction for 10 seconds.
• Supreme Blood Wave
  • Blood Orbs spawned increased from 3 to 6.

Army of the Dead

• Damage increased from 45% to 90%.
• Cooldown reduced from 70 to 60 seconds.

Passive Skills

Affliction

• Key Passive: Enemies affected by Vulnerable, Crowd Control, or Shadow Damage over Time are infected with Affliction and take 15%[x] increased damage from you and your Minions. Your Curse Skills deal 30% (Weapon Damage) Shadow damage to enemies that have Affliction. This amount increases by 30%[x] of your damage to Crowd Control, Vulnerable, and Shadow Damage over Time combined.

Titan’s Fall

• While Fortified you deal 6/12/18% increased damage to Elites.

Precision Decay

• Your Lucky Hit chance is increased by 5/10/15%.

Finality

• You deal 5/10/15%[x] increased damage for 8 seconds after casting an Ultimate Skill.

Necrotic Fortitude

• Lucky Hit: Lucky Hit: Up to a 5/10/15% chance to grant yourself a Barrier for 7 5% of your Maximum Life for 6 seconds.

Transfusion – Cooldown for spawning a Blood Orb reduced from 4 to 2 seconds.

Death’s Approach – Movement Speed increased from 4/8/12% [+] to 5/10/15% [+].

Kalan’s Edict

• Previous: Your Minions gain 3%[+] Attack Speed for each active Minion.
• Now: Your Minions gain 3%[+] Attack Speed and deal 3%[x] increased damage for each active Minion.

Bonded in Essence

• Skeleton Priest Healing timer reduced from 8 to 5 seconds.

Death’s Defense

• Minion Armor bonus increased from 4/8/12%[+] to 8/16/24%[+].

Necrotic Carapace

• Fortify amount increased from 2/4/6% to 5/10/15% of Maximum Life.

Book of the Dead

Bone Golem Active Skill

• Armor conversion to Thorns increased from 70% to 200%.

Blood Golem Sacrifice

• Maximum Life increased from 15%[x] to 20%[x].

Unique Item

The Unmaker – Unique Helm

• Affixes
  • X% Damage Reduction while you Have a Barrier
  • X% Resource Generation
  • X% Chance for Soulrift to Deal Double Damage
  • +X to Imperfectly Balanced
• Power
  • Soulrift’s duration is increased by 0.5 seconds for every 30 Essence you spend while it is active, up to 8 seconds. Soulrift deals 100-200% of its Shadow damage per second to surrounding enemies for every 30 Essence you gain while it is active.

The Mortacrux

• Previous Affixes
  • Inherent: +50% Damage
  • +126-180 Intelligence
  • +98-125% Critical Strike Damage
  • +70-85% Vulnerable Damage
  • +3-5 Ranks of Hewed Flesh Passive
• New Affixes
  • Inherent: +100% Macabre and Corpse Damage
  • +126-180 Intelligence
  • +36.5-50% Chance For Corpse Explosion to Deal Double Damage
  • Hewed Flesh also grants a Barrier for 8-10% Maximum Life for 4 seconds
  • +3-5 Ranks of Hewed Flesh Passive

Black River

• +126-180 Intelligence Affix replaced with +36.5-50% Chance for Corpse Explosion to Deal Double Damage.

Greaves of the Empty Tomb

• Ranks of Reaper’s Pursuit Affix replaced with Movement Speed.

Ring of Mendeln

• The damage is now attributed to your Minions, and thus will scale with Minion Damage bonuses.

Lidless Wall

• Armor Affix replaced with Chance for Bone Storm to Deal Double Damage.

Mutilator Plate

• Blood Lance Duration affix replaced with Chance for Blood Lance to Deal Double Damage.

Legendary Aspects

Reaping Lotus’ Aspect – Offensive Aspect

• Sever no longer returns and instead splits into 3 specters that expand out and back from its apex. Sever deals 80-120% of normal damage.

Phasing Poltergeist’s Aspect – Offensive Aspect

• When Bone Spirit explodes, it spawns 3 spirits that seek nearby enemies and deal 20-40% of its damage. This effect can only occur once per cast.

Aspect of Fel Gluttony – Offensive Aspect

• Your Golem Active also causes your Golem to erupt, dealing (200-400% of Weapon Damage) Physical damage to surrounding enemies. Your Golem consumes Corpses to reduce its remaining Cooldown by 1 second.

Aspect of Cursed Aura

• Tooltip updated to clarify that Curses are not cast, and so the curses would not benefit from Tempering.

Tidal Aspect

• Additional Blood Waves now deal 100-120% of normal damage instead of dealing 50-30% reduced damage.

Shademist Aspect

• The damage is now attributed to your Minions, and thus will scale with Minion Damage bonuses.

Aspect of Fel Gluttony

• The damage is now attributed to your Golem, and thus will scale with Minion and Golem Damage bonuses.

Aspect of the Damned

• Damage bonus now also applies to damage from your Minions.

Tempering Recipes

Bone Innovation – New Utility Recipe

• +X% Bone Storm Duration
• +X% Bone Spirit Explosion Size
• +X% Bone Prison Duration

Blood Innovation – New Utility Recipe

• +X% Blood Surge Nova Size
• +X% Hemorrhage explosion size
• +X% Blood Lance Duration

Decay Innovation – New Utility Recipe

• +X% Blight Size
• +X% Decompose Explosion Size
• +X% Soulrift Duration

Execution Innovation – New Utility Recipe

• +X% Sever Effect Size
• +X% Reap Effect Duration
• +X% Skeleton Priest Effect Duration

All Weapon Tempering recipes have been updated with the following stats.

Bone Augments

• +X% Chance for Bone Spirit to Deal Double Damage
• +X% Chance for Bone Splinter Projectiles to Cast Twice
• +X% Chance for Bone Spear Projectiles to Cast Twice
• +X% Chance for Bone Storm to Deal Double Damage

Blood Augments

• +X% Chance for Blood Surge to Deal Double Damage
• +X% Chance for Blood Lance to Hit Twice
• +X% Chance for Blood Lance to Deal Double Damage
• +X% Chance for Hemorrhage to Hit Twice
• +X% Chance for Blood Wave to Deal Double Damage

Shadow Augments – Decay

• +X% Chance for Blight Projectiles to Cast Twice
• +X% Chance for Decompose to Deal Double Damage
• +X% Chance for Soulrift to Deal Double Damage
• +X% Chance for Affliction to Deal Double Damage

Shadow Augments – Execution

• +X% Chance for Sever Projectiles to Cast Twice
• +X% Chance for Reap to Hit Twice
• +X% Chance for Corpse Explosion to Deal Double Damage

Summoning Augments

• +X% Chance for Army of the Dead to Deal Double Damage
• +X% Chance for Skeleton Mages Attacks to Cast Twice
• +X% Chance for Skeleton Warriors to Hit Twice
• +X% Chance for Golem to Hit Twice

Thorn Army

• Skeleton Mages Inherit X% of your Thorns affix removed from this recipe.
• Skeleton Warriors Inherit X% of your Thorns affix removed from this recipe.
• Golem Inherit X% of your Thorns affix removed from this recipe.
• Ranks of Spiked Armor added to this recipe’s Weapon Attunement.
• Resource Generation while Wielding a Scythe affix replaced with Resource Generation with Two-Handed Weapons affix.

Other Tempering Updates:

• +X% Corpse Explosion Damage removed from Shadow Finesse
• +X% Bone Spirit Damage removed from Bone Finesse
• +X% Blight Slow Potency Tempering affix changed to +X% Blight Chill Potency on the Profane Cage

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Abyssal Glyph did not grant its bonus damage to non-physical attacks.
• Fixed an issue where The Unmaker could allow Necromancers to equip 2 Ultimate Skills.
• Fixed an issue where the following Necromancer skills had incorrect values.
  • Reap
  • Hemorrhage
  • Bone Splinters
  • Blight Corpse Tendrils
  • Rathma’s Vigor
• Fixed an issue where the additional Severs from Reaping Lotus Aspect were not leaving Desecrated Ground when using Greaves of the Empty Tomb.
• Fixed an issue where the Druid Aspect of the Mighty Storm could drop for Necromancers.
• Fixed an issue where Blood Orbs would remain after dying during an Encounter.
• Fixed an issue where killing a vulnerable enemy with a Bone Skill could not generate essence when using the Aspect of Exposed Flesh.
• Fixed an issue where higher Item Power on Bloodless Scream could have lower affix ranges than intended.
• Fixed an issue where Bonus projectiles fired from the effect of Path of Trag’oul overlapped, which made it appear that bonus projectiles were never fired through this method.
• Fixed an issue where the Bone Golem upgrade for shedding additional corpses was inconsistent.
• Fixed an issue where curses cast by minions while using Blood Moon Breeches could curse the player. (Curse upon your house, wanderer!)
• Fixed an issue where the tooltip for Unyielding Commander displayed the bonus as additive instead of multiplicative.
• Fixed an issue where the Whither Legendary Paragon Node did not respect the 1200 Intelligence cap.
• Fixed an issue where the Whither Legendary Paragon Node applied to damage over time inflicted on the player by the player, such as through Endurant Faith.
• Fixed an issue where the highlighting of Necromancer Minions was inconsistent throughout various tooltips.