Diablo Immortal: The Best Summoner Necromancer

Summoner Necromancer Guide

Summoner Necromancers use the Soulfire primary attack with Skeletal Mage, Command Golem, Bone Armor, and Grim Scythe. Bone Armor is very important for keeping your summons alive which makes you deal more damage while also shielding you and your allies. With the Decrepit Visage essence your Devouring Golem also repeatedly refreshes the duration of your skeletal mages. Your skeletal mages are mobile and deal increasing damage based on how long they channel their attacks with the Black Wall offhand essence. Grim Scythe is also used to empower your primary attacks to slash at enemies with the Cravings-Bay mainhand essence or mark enemies dealing damage to them when they are hit by you or your summons with the Death Disseminates mainhand essence. You should also use a Devouring Golem from the Rotted Harvest weapon essence for high damage and a large area of effect slow aura.

Paragons & Legendary Skills: Summoner Necromancer Build

1. Slinger is the best damage paragon for this build because it increases the damage of you and your minions with range.
2. Slinger is the best PvP paragon for damage because the Gladiator paragon cheat death respawns you without minions.
3. Vanquisher is the best paragon tree for increased magic find and has increased damage and attack speed on kills.
4. Harbinger should be used in Erebban for an absorb shield, movement speed, and to move unhindered through enemies.
5. Survivor is the recommended paragon for Vanguard because it provides a cheat death that works in Vanguard.
6. The recommended legendary skill is Benefactor because it gives a life shield to you, your summons, and your allies.
7. Below you can find an image for the best paragon for damage and the second image is the same paragon for PvP.

Summoner Necromancer Skills and Equipment:

Skills

1. Soulfire (primary skill)

2. Skeletal Mage

3. Command Golem

4. Grim Scythe

5. Bone Armor

Main Hand

Rotted Harvest - Summons a Devouring Golem that consumes corpses to increase its damage, life, and size and the golem also has a large area of effect slow aura.

Off-Hand

Black Wall - Skeletal mages are now mobile and channel beams that increase in damage the longer they hit.

Main Hand 2

Cravings-Bay (PvM) - Grim Scythe now empowers your primary attacks to slash enemies.

Death Disseminate (PvP) - Grim Scythe marks the target causing them to take damage when they're attacked.

Note: Death Disseminates is better for single target fights because it needs to be recast on new targets or it switches after the enemy dies. You should use Cravings-Bay when you need to switch targets like in dungeons, raids, and farming.

Off-Hand 2

Corrosive Slab - Command Golem now also makes enemies take increased damage.

Helmet

Decrepit Visage - Your golem roars increasing the duration of your Skeletal Mages by two seconds every two seconds.

Note: This item now allows you to have six Skeletal Mages out at all times as long as they are kept alive.

Shoulders

Executive Discontent - Your damage is significantly increased for each Skeletal Mage you have out.

Note: This essence works well with Decrepit Visage and provides a huge damage increase with six Skeletal Mages.

Chest

Parting Gift (PvM) - Bone Armor now gives you, your summons, and your allies five charges of damage absorption. This chest armor is very helpful for keeping your summons alive which helps you deal damage.

Whisperwill (PvP) - Bone Armor now makes your summons immune to damage and loss of control for PvP.

Legs

Dead Druthers - Bone Armor now also increases you and your summons attack speed and movement speed.

Recommended Sets

1. Shepherd's Call to Wolves (6 Set) - Increases the damage of you and your minions for each minion you have out.

2. Banquet of Eyes (2 Set) - Increases damage done by 15% when the enemy has a continual damage effect on them.

Best Curses

1. Lashed (PvM) - Using your primary attack gives a chance to generate three crackling whips that damage enemies.

2. Vexed - Damages nearby enemies when your summons enter the battlefield and it buffs minions once ranked up.

3. Ghosted (PvP) - Optional for PvP to summon a minion to take some of your incoming damage.

Best 5 Star Legendary Gems

1. Roiling Consequence - Increases your critical hit chance and causes critical hits to burn enemies.

2. Blood-Soaked Jade - Gives increased damage, reduces damage taken below 50% life, and increases movement speed.

3. Golden Firmament - Deals wind damage and increases your evasion rating.

4. Starfire Shard - Deals AoE damage and stuns enemies in PvP inside the Maw of the Deep legendary gem effect.

5. Maw of the Deep - Used at high ranks to deal damage, gain a damage buff, draw in enemies, and stun enemies.

6. Wulfheort - After damaging enemies 5 times you slash them and increase attack speed for you and your allies.

7. Void Spark (PvM) - Deals AoE damage that's very effective for challenge dungeons, terror rifts, and speed farming.

8. Echoing Shade (PvM) - Summons one to three minions based on gem rank that use your primary attack.

9. Seeping Bile (PvP) - Deals high continual damage which is strong in PvP for finishing off opponents after fights.

Note: The Seeping Bile legendary gem isn't needed in PvM to trigger the Pain Clasp legendary gem for increased damage when you have continual damage on the target because the Black Wall essence already deals continual damage.

Best 2 Star Legendary Gems

1. Pain Clasp - Gives high increased damage against enemies that have a continuous damage effect on them.

2. Fervent Fang - Increases your damage each time you or your minions hit an enemy stacking up to ten times.

3. Specter Glass - Increases the damage taken by enemies after critical hits and increases your critical hit chance.

4. Bloody Reach - Deals increased damage based on the distance to your summon and then distance to the enemy.

5. Mother's Lament - Increases your critical hit chance and releases a blood spike that causes enemies to bleed.

6. Mourneskull - This legacy gem is drop disabled but it can be used to increase your damage and it deals damage.

7. Crimson Behelit (PvP) - Strong PvP legacy gem with increased damage and reduced damage taken that's drop disabled.

Note: The Black Wall offhand essence makes your mages deal continuous damage which triggers the Pain Clasp gem. Also, the Follower's Burden two star legendary gem may be tempting but its damage doesn't scale well at higher ranks.

Best Starter 1 Star Legendary Gems

1. Berserker's Eye - Increases all of your damage and critical hit chance but also increases your damage taken.

2. Everlasting Torment - This budget gem deals damage over time which triggers the damage increase on Pain Clasp.

Note: Berserker's Eye is a strong one star gem and requires a high ranked up 5 star gem to match its damage.

Best Familiars

1. Savior Duskprowler - Look for a 170+ Resilience legendary Duskprowler with the Savior passive skill which provides a cheat death and temporary damage immunity. The 170+ Resilience is important for lowering the cooldown of Savior.

2. Broodtalon/Skitterwight - Look for Savior which provides a cheat death and Lingering Wounds for increased damage.

3. Any Savior Familiar - Look for any 170+ Resilience familiar with Savior for a cheat death and great passive skills.

4. Rare Duskprowler - Relentless Strikes is the next best skill because it gives a chance to cast the Duskprowler shield twice. Innervate which gives a chance at resetting one of the player's skill cooldowns, Steel Hide which gives a chance to block, Precision which gives critical hit chance, and Tenacity which lowers the cooldown of the shield are also desirable.

5. Magic Duskprowler - Duskprowler shields are hard to replace so a rare or magic ability Duskprowler is the budget option.

Note: Broodtalons and Skitterwights have status effects over a duration which increases the duration of Lingering Wounds.

Normal Gems

Prioritize Tourmalines for damage in red sockets and Citrines for Potency which increases harmful effects durations in yellow sockets. You should use your highest refinement Aquamarines and Sapphires for increased armor and armor penetration in blue sockets. You can optionally combine all of your Rubies which give life and Topazes which give resistances into one Ruby and one Topaz and socket one of each in your equipment for higher refinement. Gems give refinement based on their quality and refinement increases the attributes on the equipment the gems are socketed in.

Gem Notes

Legendary gems that provide increased skill damage like Colossus Engine, Power & Command, and Entropic Well don't increase the damage of summons so they shouldn't be used on this build. The Specter Glass two star legendary gem is one of the best two star gems for almost every class. The Viper's Bite and Seeping Bile legendary gems aren't needed to trigger the Pain Clasp gem which increases your damage when you have continual damage on the target because the Black Wall offhand essence already triggers it. When using the Roiling Consequence and Mother's Lament legendary gems you should also consider rolling critical hit damage on your equipment with Reforge Stones for increased damage. Echoing Shade summons one to three minions that use your primary attacks and is especially helpful for minion builds that use the Shepherds Call To Wolves set which increases your critical hit chance based on how many minions you have out. As an added note, Summoner Necromancers are sometimes a little weak in PvP but the Grim Scythe/Corpse Lance Necromancer and the Wiltbloom Golem Tank Necromancer are highly recommended as better Necromancer PvP builds.

Here are two strong Necromancer PvP options Grim Scythe/Corpse Lance Necromancer and Wiltbloom Necromancer.