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Build Mechanics
The build is designed to burn your Essence via 
Aspect of the Great Feast, which we are compensating with gear, passive nodes, and skills. Outside of this we keep our minions alive via the Skeletal Priest coming from using your 
Raise Skeleton when you have max summons out. The whole build is all about scaling the minions’ damage, and triggering 
Ring of Mendeln by having a vast army hitting fast. 
Soulrift will help to sustain our Essence pool and give us a nice layer of defense in the form of a barrier. The second source of barrier is coming from our 
Necrotic Fortitude via lucky hits that our minions and 
Blight provide us.
Rotation
Extremely straightforward:
You’ll want to keep Soulrift up at all times to help sustain Essence and provide a barrier. You’ll use 
Corpse Tendrils for damage output and crowd control. Blight will give extra damage output and barrier generation. Outside of this the baseline gameplay is all about keeping your minions at max quantity and using Raise Skeleton yet again. At that point, you summon a skeletal priest that will heal and buff your minions to deal even more damage!
We have Corpse Tendrils acting as a crowd control skill that also provides offensive scaling in terms of Critical Strike damage output. As enemies gets grouped up with the Tendrils we also cast Blight to further scale our damage output.
Should you find yourself in harms way, you’ll have access to 
Blood Mist as a panic button!
Runewords Synergy
Our first rune is the 
Bac simply providing Offering by moving and since we are rarely standing still this will pump that up fast. We combine this with 
Gar which will keep pumping up increased Critical Strike Chance. Needless to say; don’t stop moving!
The second runeword we use starts with 
Igni which provides offering every 0.3 seconds and then gives us all that stored offering by casting a non-Basic Skill such as Blight or Corpse Tendrils. We use this offering via 
Xal which requires 300 Offering and can Overflow meaning it can stack to provide a 6 second buff of increased Maximum Life!
Alternative Runeword Set-Up
If you have access to 
Heir of Perdition you’ll lose 
Aspect of the Cursed Aura which makes us change our runewords to the following set-up:
Our first rune is the Bac simply providing Offering by moving and since we are rarely standing still this will pump that up fast. We use this offering via Xal which requires 300 Offering and can Overflow meaning it can stack to provide a 6 second buff of increased Maximum Life!
The second runeword we use starts with Igni which provides offering every 0.3 seconds and then gives us all that stored offering by casting a non-Basic Skill such as Blight or Corpse Tendrils. We use this offering via 
Wat which requires 100 Offering to help invoke 
Decrepify to make sure enemies are cursed consistently.
Which Elixirs Should You Use?
Visit the Alchemist and craft an Elixir providing any Resistance you need most, or the 
Elixir of Advantage II to increase Attack Speed. Some Elixirs cannot be crafted and only drop from activities like Helltides or Nightmare Dungeons. Additionally, make sure to keep your health potion upgraded!
The following Elixirs are useful for most Necromancer builds:
Elixir of Precision II provides the highest damage output increase.- Elixir of Advantage II increases your attack speed.
Elixir of Resourcefulness II helps with resource issues, if you struggle with resource management.
Elixir of Fortitude II for additional survivability.
Elixir of Destruction II for additional Overpower and Vulnerable damage.
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