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Diablo 2 Resurrected Necromancer Solo Summoning Build Guide (Creation ~ Hell Graduation)
This is a guide for a new Necromancer summon build in Diablo 2 Resurrected's DLC. It details the leveling process from an early-game fire build to a summon build in Nightmare difficulty, all the way to end-game in Hell difficulty. It provides skill trees, stats, item setups, mercenary usage, quest progression tips, and more to help you efficiently level your Necromancer.
1. 🔥 Introduction to the Necromancer Summon Build and Early Build Recommendations
- ✅ A method of summoning demons and using the Boiling Blood skill to deal area-of-effect physical/fire damage
- ✅ Largely unaffected by immunities, and allows for cool gameplay with active skill usage
- ✅ Can move summons and perform area attacks with the Mark of Death skill
- ⚠️ Lacking summons and weakened firepower when skill levels are low in the early to mid-game
- ⚠️ Recommended to switch to a summon build after entering Nightmare difficulty and securing a Spirit Sword and skill points
00:00 - 01:19
1. 🔥 Introduction to the Necromancer Summon Build and Early Build Recommendations
- ✅ A method of summoning demons and using the Boiling Blood skill to deal area-of-effect physical/fire damage
- ✅ Largely unaffected by immunities, and allows for cool gameplay with active skill usage
- ✅ Can move summons and perform area attacks with the Mark of Death skill
- ⚠️ Lacking summons and weakened firepower when skill levels are low in the early to mid-game
- ⚠️ Recommended to switch to a summon build after entering Nightmare difficulty and securing a Spirit Sword and skill points
01:21 - 04:36
2. 💡 Diablo 2 Resurrected Early Game Tips: Controls, Time, Money, Survival, Collection
- ✅ Controls: Activate the Quick Cast option, use the Force Move hotkey
- ✅ Time: Hunt key monsters, skip unnecessary monsters
- ✅ Money: Sell expensive items in shops (throwing weapons, jewelry, items with skills), sell weapons with skills using Cube recipes
- ✅ Survival: Use public games with passwords, store emergency funds in the shared stash, secure resistances and life
- ✅ Collection: Vitality potions, crafting materials (gems, runes, jewels), magic jewelry, socketed base equipment
04:37 - 06:39
3. 🔥 Very Early Starting Build: Pure Fire Build Skill Tree and Stats
- ✅ Skill Tree: Invest 1 point each in Evil Pit, Goatmen Summon, Demon Mastery, and Levitation Mastery until level 3. At level 6, invest 1 point each in Fire Ring, Debilitate, and Damage Pledge. Afterwards, max Fire Ring to 10. Invest Radament points in Echoing Strike. At level 18, invest 1 point each in Fire Wave and Blade Shift. Afterwards, invest in Fire Wave, Wrath, Death, and Doom in that order.
- ✅ Stats: Invest 50 in Mana until level 5, then invest Strength according to item requirements (Act 1: 25, Act 2: 40, Act 3: 60), and the rest in Vitality.
06:40 - 13:03
4. ⚔️ Normal Difficulty Walkthrough: Act 1 ~ Act 5 Guide
- ✅ Act 1: Utilize Axe Bolt and Goatmen, secure funds with the Evil Pit quest, purchase Portal/Identify scrolls, stamina potions, and keys, purchase a three-row belt, hire a Cold Arrow mercenary, and defeat Andariel with Fire Ring after increasing poison resistance.
- ✅ Act 2: Replace with a Prayer aura mercenary, proceed through Act 2 after defeating Radament, acquire the Cube, Staff, and Amulet, craft runewords (Leaf, Stealth) after reaching level 18, secure runes by farming the Countess, secure socketed equipment by shop running, and defeat Duriel with Fire Wave after using thawing potions.
- ✅ Act 3: Collect Khalim's Will, proceed to Travincal, clear the Jade Figurine/Lamesen's Tome quests, purchase a teleport wand (before level 24), and defeat Mephisto with Debilitate and Fire Wave.
- ✅ Act 4: Purchase a four-row belt, defeat Izual/Diablo (utilize portals, avoid lightning/fire patterns)
- ✅ Act 5: Store Ort/Ral/Tal runes, rescue Anya, and defeat Baal's Minions (Dully) with Goatmen as meat shields and Debilitate.
13:04 - 16:11
5. 😈 Nightmare Difficulty: Crafting a Spirit Sword and Switching to a Demon Summon Build
- ✅ Craft a Spirit Sword (Tower Run, Cow Level), secure a 4-socket sword
- ✅ Reset stats and invest 60 in Strength, and the rest in Vitality
- ✅ Reset skills and invest in the Chaos Tree (Death Seal), the Grotesque Tree (Blade Shift, Spell Absorption), the Demon Tree (1 point in all skills except Consume), Demon Mastery 20, Boiling Blood 20, Damage Pledge/Devour Mastery, invest in Goatmen
- ✅ Goatmen as main summons, utilize the Demon Shackles skill (Amplify Damage/Fanaticism aura mobs), teleport demons with Mark of Death
- ✅ Demon Shackles Usage Tips: Skip Travincal Council Members/Baal's Minions, use as a meat shield in boss fights, shackle Paladin aura mobs
16:12 - 17:03
6. 🛡️ Nightmare Difficulty Item Setup and Progression Tips
- ✅ Set up a Rhyme shield, Lore helm, Authority armor, and Insight mercenary weapon
- ✅ Secure bases through shop running, except for Insight materials
- ✅ Craft the Magic Sword shield with Rhyme
- ✅ Skip Cube quests, deal with demon monsters with Demon Shackles
| 아이템 | 획득 방법 |
|---|---|
| Rhyme Shield | Shop Run |
| Lore Helm | Drop |
| Authority Armor | Shop Run |
| Insight Mercenary Weapon | Runeword |
17:04 - 18:13
7. 🔥 Hell Difficulty: Dealing with Immune Monsters and Final Farming
- ✅ Actively use vitality potions, watch out for Amplify Damage curse and ranged mobs
- ✅ Recommended to utilize Cube-crafted items, craft runeword items
- ✅ Manage mercenary levels (unequip gear when re-hiring)
- ✅ Clear Travincal, Mephisto, Izual, Diablo, Ancients, Dully, Baal
- ✅ Run Mephisto with a Topaz magic find setup, farm Terror Zones