Leveling

Necromancer Leveling Guide

Level your Necromancer from 1 to 75 using Teeth / Bone Spear → Poison Nova / Summon. Includes skill progression, stat allocation, and gameplay tips.

Overview

This guide walks through leveling a Necromancer from 1 to 75 efficiently. Uses Teeth / Bone Spear → Poison Nova / Summon with a respec around level 32-38. By the end you will have used 1 of your 3 respeccs and be ready for your endgame build.

The Necromancer levels with Teeth and Bone Spear through Normal, then respecs to Poison Nova backed by a summon army. Skeletons provide a tank wall while the mercenary handles poison immunes. Craft a White runeword wand for +skills and an Insight polearm for your mercenary. Use Amplify Damage to break physical immunities and Corpse Explosion for massive area clear. Stealth armor and Lore helm are essential early upgrades.

Skills

Level 2-5: Teeth
Level 6: Clay Golem
Level 7-10: Teeth
Level 11: Amplify Damage*
Level 12: Iron Maiden*
Level 13: Teeth

Attributes

Level 2-3: All into Energy
Level 4-11 All into Vitality
Level 12-13: All into Strength

Skills

Level 14: Bone Armor
Level 15-16: Bone Wall
Level 17: Corpse Explosion
Level 18-20: Bone Spear
Level 21-26: Corpse Explosion

Attributes

Level 14-16: All into Vitality
Level 17-21: 22 into Strength, 3 into Vitality
Level 22-26: All into Vitality

Attributes

Level 27-75: All into Vitality

Helm: Lore (Ort+Sol) in a 2-socket helm — +1 skills
Armor: Stealth (Tal+Eth) in a 2-socket body armor — FCR, FRW, mana regen. Upgrade to Smoke (Nef+Lum) or Vipermagi unique for resists
Weapon (Pre-Respec Bone): Any wand with +skills. Shop for +3 bone spear wands from vendors
Weapon (Post-Respec): White (Dol+Io) in a 2-socket wand — +3 poison/bone skills, FCR. Shop a wand base with +3 poison nova or +3 summon skills from Drognan in Act 2
Shield: Rhyme (Shael+Eth) in a 2-socket bone shield/grim shield — CBF, resists. Splendor (Eth+Lum) in a 2-socket necro head for +1 skills. Spirit in a monarch later
Gloves: Any with FCR, mana, resist
Belt: Any with resistances, life, FHR
Boots: Any with FRW and resistances
Rings: Rare rings with life, mana, FCR, resistances
Amulet: Any with +skills or resistances
Mercenary (Act 2 Nightmare — Holy Freeze or Might): Insight (Ral+Tir+Tal+Sol) in a 4-socket polearm — meditation aura solves all mana. Armor: Stealth or Smoke or Treachery. Helm: Bulwark or life leech helm. The merc carries your summons — keep him alive

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