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Build Overview

This Necromancer Shadow Lord build is what's known as a "lazy" summoner: once your skeletons are summoned, you just need to order them to attack a target and they do all the work. Mana generation is automatic, healing too, and Overpower stacks accumulate passively thanks to the Blood Mist mechanic and the blood orbs produced constantly during combat. The result: an extremely smooth, low-stress gameplay suitable for every situation.

This is the OverPower Mythic version, built around Heir of Perdition, Tyrael's Might and the Blood Moon Breeches. Since the recent patch, the bracer received a significant buff and Deathgrip is far more effective, pushing this build to around Pit 133-144 for the most optimized players.

If you don't have the mythics yet, don't worry: the build runs perfectly fine using The Undercrown and the Aspect of Hardened Bones instead, with any main weapon.

Pros and Cons

Recommended Gear

Horadric Seal S13

The build leverages the darkness set of the Talisman, an ensemble particularly suited to summoners: your shadow skills inflict 75% of their damage as Corruption or cold damage over 30 seconds on all targets hit. Since the Reapers and Skeleton Mages are shadow skills, they trigger this bonus constantly, turning each strike into massive damage stacking over time. The set also adds damage reduction and additional layered damage bonuses.

The Blood Blessing charms let you gain Overpower stacks by picking up blood orbs, which are produced continuously by the build. The configuration shown below in the Horadric Seal is the one used in the OverPower Mythic version.

Gameplay Tips

The gameplay loop is deliberately minimalist: send your skeleton warriors at the target with a right-click, and let them destroy everything. Curses (Decrepify and Iron Maiden) trigger automatically via your minions' attacks thanks to the Blood Moon Breeches. Healing goes through the Life Leech mechanic of Decrepify: on every minion hit you recover roughly 11,000 HP, making your survival nearly automatic.

To maximize damage, remember to force an Overpower stack by activating Blood Mist before an important fight. You can also use Bone Prison to trap groups of goblins or reduce your cooldowns in dense packs: each trapped monster gives you cooldown reduction, letting you re-order your warriors immediately. In normal combat, cooldown is managed by the Lucky Hit chance of Decrepify.

Army of the Dead is configured in passive mode: it constantly summons volatile skeletons that grant you the commander damage bonus permanently during combat. If you prefer a more active style with more Overpower stacks, the author suggests replacing it with Blood Wave in castable form. Don't forget: on every zone change, remove and re-add the Golem to your bar to benefit from the attack speed buff for yourself and your minions.

Talent Tree

Mercenary S13

Paragon

This build's Paragon orientation relies on stacking minion damage, shadow damage and Overpower. The two central glyphs are Deadraiser (Dead Raiser), which amplifies effects on minions, and Cult Leader, the key board: this one requires 100% attack speed to express its full potential, hence the need to temper attack speed on the weapon and use Varyana. The Wither board exploits the 20% chance to deal 300× additional damage on shadow damage, synergizing perfectly with mages, warriors and Bone Prison.

The Abyssal glyph boosts both shadow damage and Corruption damage from the darkness set. The Bloodbath node grants 20% additional damage as soon as you have at least one Overpower stack, plus a 50× bonus for 5 seconds after each stack gain or loss — which happens continuously in this build. The Essence, Warrior and Gravekeeper glyphs round out the picture with bonuses to armor, life and minion power.