Diablo 4 Boosting

Blood Wave Necromancer has never fallen below Tier A in nearly every seasonal build ranking, and in Season 13, this build has returned to the top, becoming the strongest Necromancer build available.

The playstyle of Blood Wave Necromancer closely resembles that of a Sorcerer, as it can eliminate all bosses within seconds. Changes introduced by Lord of Hatred expansion allow you to forego cooldown management entirely, enabling you to cast Blood Wave continuously without waiting.

Core Mechanics

Hematolagnia enhancement for Blood Wave transforms it into a core skill, letting you cast it repeatedly by consuming Essence. However, you must first solve your resource generation issues.

How to Generate Essence?

Generating Essence relies mainly on two skills:

• Sever: Produces Corpses.
• Skeleton Mage: Summoned by consuming Corpses, and also provides Essence regeneration.

Gift of Death enhancement for Skeleton Mage boosts Essence regeneration, but you need to keep at least one Skeleton Mage active on the field. Therefore, you should also take Litany of Death enhancement for your Skeleton Warriors, which allows your skeletons to cast Priest skills that heal Skeleton Mages.

During normal combat, you should maintain at least one Skeleton Mage at all times. When you cast Blood Wave and consume Essence, Decrepify skill automatically triggers to curse enemies. Meanwhile, Blood Mist provides additional mobility.

How to Sustain Essence?

To maintain sufficient Essence, you need to stack Essence Regeneration on your Boots and Pants. In the early game, you can also put this stat on your Helmet and Chest Armor.

If you do not have Ring of Starless Skies, aim for about 25% Resource Cost Reduction on your rings. It is also ideal to roll "Lucky Hit: Chance to Restore Primary Resource" affix on both rings. Combined with the energy return from your Skeleton Mages, this will satisfy all your Essence needs.

You only need to set up your initial casts once; after that, you can begin your sustained damage output with almost no energy concerns. Once combat is underway, the only skill you will occasionally need to manually recast—besides Blood Wave—is Iron Maiden, for cursing enemies.

Blood Wave Necromancer Skills

Sever (Rank 1)

• Cost Reduction: Reduces Sever's Essence cost by 4.
• Crowd Control and Corpse Generation: Slows enemies and generates one Corpse.
• Inexorable Reaper: The character dashes forward while casting and follows up with an attack.

Skeleton Warrior (Rank 15)

• Litany of Death: After being summoned, casts Priest skills to heal other minions.
• Healing: Skeleton Warriors restore 2% of your maximum life on each attack.
• Vulnerable: Has a chance to make enemies Vulnerable.

Skeleton Mage (Rank 15)

• Critical Strike Chance: Provides +15% Critical Strike Chance while continuously healing your minions.
• Ferocity, Resolve, or Overpower: Skeleton Mage attacks can stack Ferocity, Resolve, or Overpower.
• Gift of Death: Skeleton Mage is treated as a Corpse skill, and each active Skeleton Mage increases Essence regeneration speed by 50%.

Blood Mist (Rank 1)

• Movement Speed: Increases movement speed.
• Blood Rush: Turns Blood Mist into a Mobility skill that can be cast by consuming Corpses.
• Vulnerable and Slow: Makes enemies Vulnerable and slows them.

Iron Maiden (Rank 1)

• Essence Generation: Generates additional Essence.
• Blood Maiden: Iron Maiden is also considered a Blood skill and can produce Blood Orbs.
• Ferocity and Overpower: Has a chance to stack one layer of Ferocity or Overpower.

Decrepify (Rank 14)

• Critical Strike Chance: Increases critical strike chance.
• Dizzying Curse: Dazes enemies.
• Resolve: Has a chance to stack Resolve.

Blood Wave (Rank 15)

• Damage Bonus: Increases Blood Wave damage while Fortified.
• Hematolagnia: Turns Blood Wave into a core skill; damage becomes 300% and it no longer knocks back enemies.
• Overpower: Increases Overpower stacks.

When your gear is not yet strong enough for frequent Blood Wave casts, you can start with Blood Surge, using Blood nodes and damage bonuses. After obtaining the key items, you can fully transition to Blood Wave build.

Blood Wave Necromancer Gear

Without Mythic Items

• Helm: Aspect of Coagulation
• Chest Armor: Juggernaut's Aspect
• Gloves: Aspect of Rathma's Chosen
• Pants: Kessime's Legacy
• Boots: Wildbolt Aspect
• Amulet: Aspect of Thickened Blood
• Ring 1: Duelist's Aspect
• Ring 2: Crushing Aspect
• Weapon: Tides of Blood Aspect
• Offhand: Aspect of Coalesced Blood

With Mythic Items

• Helm: Heir of Perdition
• Chest Armor: Tyrael's Might
• Gloves: Aspect of Rathma's Chosen
• Pants: Kessime's Legacy
• Boots: Penitent Greaves
• Amulet: Aspect of Thickened Blood
• Ring 1: Ring of Starless Skies
• Ring 2: Tidal Aspect
• Weapon: Tides of Blood Aspect
• Offhand: Aspect of Coalesced Blood

Mythic items are not required, but they will make this build significantly stronger. The core piece in this build is Kessime's Legacy Pants, which greatly enhance Blood Wave's damage. You can now select your own affixes for these pants; recommended choices are Essence generation, Intelligence, maximum life, and armor. Resistances are not very important.

You can combine Cir + Que runewords, which will generate a shield whenever you cast skills, further improving your survivability.

When pushing beyond Tier 120, consider swapping your offensive offhand for a Shield. A shield provides additional armor, damage reduction, life, and life regeneration.

Once you obtain Ring of Starless Skies and can fully sustain your energy, you can replace Skeleton Mage. Instead, take Master of Puppets node for more Skeleton Warriors, and use Bone Prison with Life Imprisonment enhancement to replace Skeleton Mage. This provides Essence generation, cast speed, and the ability to apply Vulnerable on demand.

Talisman Priority

• Charm 1: Linta of the Blood Binder
• Charm 2: Mlor of the Blood Binder
• Charm 3: Phoba of the Blood Binder
• Charm 4: Red Blessing
• Charm 5: Berú of the Blood Binder
• Charm 6: Fer of the Blood Binder

For all charms, look for Blood Skills affix, and choose charms that combine Critical Strike Chance with maximum life.

This Blood Wave Necromancer build is straightforward to play and offers top-tier clear speed and boss-killing capability in Season 13. It is exceptionally well-rounded, and any Necromancer player is sure to fall in love with this build.

Exciting news! A fantastic method for farming weapons and crafting materials using Corrupted Roots has been discovered in Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred. Combined with Horadric Cube transformations, this allows for unlimited gear upgrades!

The core of this farming strategy lies in the synergy between Corrupted Roots and area switching. Players go to Temple of Life area in Skovos and repeatedly trigger area switching - for example, walking through a doorway and returning - to reset the placement count of Corrupted Roots.

In other words, you can place roots an unlimited number of times, each time summoning a large number of monsters. Crucially, these monsters only drop weapons and Horadric Cube materials, with virtually no other debris.

Multiplayer Stacking Effect

This strategy is perfect for multiplayer in the open world because each player can place their own Corrupted Roots, and the monsters and drops from all Corrupted Roots are stacked.

When 10 players place Corrupted Roots in the same area, it's equivalent to a 10x drop multiplier. Even if you're a solo player, once you reach this popular location, you'll naturally see other players placing Corrupted Roots. You simply need to follow suit and collect them; no team or friends are required.

Essential War Plans Nodes

To achieve a loop of only weapon drops and an infinite supply of Corrupted Roots, you need to activate three key nodes in Lord of Hatred War Plans:

• Corrupted Roots: Corrupted Roots have a chance to drop from Whisper Caches obtained after defeating Headrotten bosses.
• Roots of Power: Also used to generate more Corrupted Roots.
• Headrotten Feast: Increases the spawn rate of Headrotten bosses and caches drops.

With these three combined nodes, you'll continuously collect new Corrupted Roots from monster drops, creating a snowball loop of placing Corrupted Roots, killing monsters, getting weapon drops and new roots, and then continuing to place Corrupted Roots, almost without depleting your initial inventory.

Weapon Type Locking

The unique aspect of this location is that all Whisper Cache drops will only yield one-handed weapons.

This is a playstyle tailor-made for Barbarians, as they require four weapons (two sets of dual-wielded one-handed weapons). Furthermore, the equipment you obtain often possesses Greater Affixes or crafting potential.

Unlimited Horadric Cube Conversion

Use Horadric Cube to convert all picked-up weapons, including blue, yellow, and even useless Ancestral gear, into three-in-one weapons.

There's a chance to obtain a weapon with modifiable attributes after conversion, meaning you can continue to add Gem Power, quality, affixes, etc.

Those that become unmodifiable junk weapons can continue to be converted into three-in-one weapons until you get a satisfactory base.

Since the entire process consistently drops a large amount of Horadric Cube material, you can perform this conversion indefinitely without worrying about running out of materials.

Practical Steps

First, head to Temple of Life in Skovos region, then repeatedly switch areas (entering and exiting) to reset the root count.

After placing a Corrupted Root, kill the monsters and pick up all one-handed weapons and Horadric Cube materials. Then retrieve any dropped new Corrupted Roots and immediately place another, even before the battle ends.

It's recommended to place roots while mounted, as this allows for faster movement and safer, continuous root placement.

When your inventory is full, the entire team or you should return to town to convert Horadric Cube. Then, select weapons with the modifiable status and keep them for later Masterwork. Convert all useless weapons and try again.

Additional Helltide Boost

If you're currently in Helltide, you can bring the same large-scale root placement tactic to the Helltide area. This is because using multiple people to place roots in Helltide yields double rewards.

Why is this the best farming strategy?

First, this method only drops weapons and crafting materials, without any distracting items like armor or jewelry, resulting in a backpack purely for one-handed weapons.

The entry barrier is also very low; you only need to unlock three nodes in War Plans and have some Corrupted Roots activated. After that, it snowballs very easily.

Second, the strength of the monsters summoned by the roots is controllable, and the class strength requirements are not high; many classes can easily handle the enemies. Furthermore, the materials dropped by this method are sufficient to support an unlimited number of Horadric Cube conversions.

Finally, we can use this farming method to adapt to the late-game objectives of the season. Players will definitely need a large number of weapons to farm for endgame gear with multiple affixes, and this method directly meets this need.

Precautions and Risks

Server Item Limit

In Lord of Hatred, the number of items dropped on the ground is limited by the server. So you must pick them up quickly, otherwise early drops will disappear. It is recommended to use a very strict drop filter to only display high-tier weapons, materials, and gear with high affix values.

Corrupted Roots Prices May Rise

We predict that once this strategy is revealed, the trading price of roots may surge further. The good news is that you only need to farm roots from other players in Temple of Life.

A Small Amount of Starting Roots is Required

If you have absolutely no roots, you can first obtain your first cache by defeating Headrotten boss, then open the cache to get Corrupted Roots before starting the cycle.

Alternatively, you can directly buy Diablo 4 Corrupted Roots from IGGM.com; and buying 100 Corrupted Roots will get you a 10% discount, which is a great deal and will allow you to obtain dropped weapons and materials faster.

This can be considered the ultimate farming strategy for all Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred players who need weapon crafting. Try it out!