Diablo 4 Boosting

Although Diablo 4 Season 14 Necromancer is not considered one of the strongest classes, it remains the favorite choice for players who prefer a more relaxed playstyle. You can charge forward with your army of skeleton companions and let them handle everything for you.

Summon Necromancer build is not the strongest setup for this class, but its performance is not far behind Blood Wave. Most importantly, it is almost an AFK build. Even in Torment 12 difficulty, you can leave almost everything to your skeleton army.

Summon Necromancer Damage

Most of Summon Necromancer's damage comes from its minions, and their power is increased through several different sources.

Attack Speed (200%)

You need to increase your minions' attack speed to 200%. This is not only to increase their attack frequency but also to fully activate Cult Leader node on Paragon Board, granting 200% additional damage. This allows attack speed to be directly converted into a massive independent damage multiplier.

Reaching 200% attack speed is not difficult. You can use Gargantua upgrade option for Golem, which grants other minions 100% additional cast speed, allowing them to attack more aggressively and move faster. Combined with Pact of Bone Unique Ring and attack speed affixes on your equipment, reaching this target is relatively easy.

Crowd Control Damage Bonus

Bloodless Scream allows Darkness damage to apply 100% Chill. Once Chill is fully stacked and converted into Freeze, enemies will take 325% increased damage.

You can use Blight to group enemies together and combine it with Thul Rune to ensure enemies remain Frozen throughout the entire damage phase, allowing you to fully benefit from this bonus.

The damage of this build is not calculated in a single burst. First, Skeleton Mages and Skeleton Warriors deal massive direct damage. Then, Berú of the Black Shroud set converts 75% of that direct damage into Darkness and Frost DoT effects lasting 30 seconds.

This turns a single trillion-level burst into continuous burning damage. This is especially effective during high-tier boss fights because even when you need to reposition, DoT continues steadily draining the boss's health.

Critical Strike

Critical Strikes provide extremely powerful direct damage increases. Ideally, you want to reach 100% Critical Strike Chance. Besides the critical strike chance gained from equipment, choosing Bone Storm as your ultimate skill can also grant your minions an additional 28% Critical Strike Chance.

Summon Necromancer Survivability

This build does not rely on dodging or positioning to survive. Instead, you need to stack maximum Life. During combat, you will constantly generate Barriers, making you almost impossible to kill in Torment 12.

Infinite Barrier

The main source of Infinite Barrier comes from Book of the Dead. Shadow Skeleton Mage upgrade causes every Shadow Mage attack to generate a Barrier for the Necromancer.

When you have 22 minions and 200% attack speed, there are dozens of attack calculations happening every second. This means your Barrier is almost restored instantly on the same frame you take damage.

Massive Life Pool

You need to focus your equipment and Masterwork upgrades heavily toward Maximum Life, with the goal of reaching around 40,000 to 50,000 Life. A massive Life pool not only prevents instant deaths but also increases your Barrier limit because Barrier strength is based on your base Life.

Damage Reduction

Decrepify and Iron Maiden are automatically applied across the entire screen through Blood Moon Breeches, reducing enemy damage while providing Fortify and slowing enemies.

Another effect from Berú of the Black Shroud set is that as long as you can deal DoT, you gain 30% damage reduction. For this build, this effect is active almost permanently.

You can also choose Aldkin as your Mercenary and pair him with Field of Languish, which provides an additional 20% enemy damage reduction.

Summon Necromancer Minions

Minions are the absolute core of this build. None of them are filler choices, and every summon plays an important role. The more minions you have, the higher your DPS becomes.

Skeleton Warriors Reapers mainly exist to reduce Bone Storm's cooldown and ensure the critical strike aura remains active permanently. They also act as carriers for Darkness damage and help Bloodless Scream spread Chill.

Shadow Mages mainly provide Barrier generation. When entering The Pit, they can be replaced with a pure damage version, but during regular farming and stable progression, unlimited Barriers indirectly protect all your minions by preventing your character from dying.

You can also use The Undercrown helmet to increase the maximum number of minions by 4, bringing your total army size to 22. The enormous attack frequency not only guarantees Lucky Hit resource regeneration but also allows you to use the Igni and Ceh Runes to summon Wolf Companions.

This allows you to trigger Pact of Bone effect through additional summons, gaining the “35% increased damage when a minion dies” effect. In reality, your skeletons are not actually dying, but the system counts the wolves as dead, allowing the 35% damage bonus to remain active permanently.

Another hidden mechanic of The Undercrown helmet is that when commanding Warriors to attack, Mages will also focus the same target. This solves the long-standing issue of scattered minion AI and ensures that after using Sever to gather enemies, all 22 minions can concentrate their full power onto frozen enemy groups or bosses. 

Summon Necromancer Skills

Army of the Dead is not chosen here. Although it can provide a 50% minion damage bonus, Bone Storm combined with increased duration provides additional Critical Strike Chance for your minions, resulting in higher overall damage.

Summon Necromancer Equipment

Among Diablo 4 items used in this build, some Unique items are extremely important, such as The Undercrown and Bloodless Scream. This does not mean they are completely irreplaceable, but if you want your build to have both high damage and strong durability, it is better not to replace them.

Aspect of Reanimation can be swapped. Both Aspect of Piercing Cold and Aspect of Crippling Darkness are viable alternatives. As long as their affixes are strong enough and they improve your damage output, you can replace Aspect of Reanimation without concern.

If you can replace most of the unique items with Mythic Uniques, this build's damage can be boosted several levels. However, farming Mythic Uniques requires a lot of materials. You can join IGGM Diablo 4 Facebook group; if you win in the giveaway, you can get many Lair Boss Keys and gems for free.

Charms

• Berú of the Black Shroud
• Fer of the Black Shroud
• Mlor of the Black Shroud
• Phoba of the Black Shroud
• Linta of the Black Shroud
• Azurewrath

Black Shroud set is the core of this build's damage and survivability. Wearing all five pieces allows you to deal 175% additional Shadow and Frost damage. It also makes enemies who are corrupted or afflicted with Frostbite beyond their remaining Life permanently Vulnerable, weakened, and take 50% additional damage. This effect is extremely powerful for crushing bosses.

Even without top-tier equipment, this build can still reach around Tier 120 in The Pit. Of course, you will need to adjust your gear and skills accordingly, but for a semi-AFK build, this performance is already extremely impressive.

Since its introduction from Lord of Hatred, Horadric Cube has been a highly popular gear-enhancing mechanic in Diablo 4. You can use it to add, remove, or modify affixes, craft new items, and, in Season 14, even craft new Mythics!

Of course, utilizing these features requires specific crafting materials. For instance, if you want to perform Transmutations, you must first farm the appropriate Tuning Prism based on your base item or the type of affix you desire.

Among the eight currently available Tuning Prisms, Kullean Tuning Prism is arguably the rarest and unique, making it both highly sought-after and challenging to farm. But don't worry, we've got a detailed guide on this item right here!

Understanding Kullean Tuning Prism effects

First, it is important to understand that the function of any Diablo 4 Tuning Prism is essentially to add new affixes to your gear via Horadric Cube's Transmutation feature; however, different Tuning Prisms allow you to narrow down the specific category of the target affix.

For example, the four magic tier Tuning Prisms serve to lock the affix into one of four categories: offensive, defensive, resource, and mobility & utility.

In this context, the unique tier Kullean Tuning Prism stands out as the only one with a specific gear requirement: it can only be used on amulets. It guarantees the addition of a new Legendary Affix without rendering the item unmodifiable for future changes.

This distinction is crucial because the legendary tier Entropic Tuning Prism renders the gear permanently unmodifiable after use.

However, Entropic version offers the advantage of not being restricted to a specific gear slot; it also removes the riskiest Transmutation outcomes, thereby preventing you from ending up with useless affixes.

Note, however, that repeatedly using Kullean Tuning Prism for Transmutation will only re-roll that specific Legendary Affix, rather than adding entirely new affixes.

Additionally, regardless of which Tuning Prism you use for Transmutation, it is best to complete other enhancement processes, such as Tempering, Enchanting, and more, on your base gear first, as the bonus stats are calculated based on the gear's already enhanced attribute values.

How to farm Kullean Tuning Prism?

Regardless of the method you choose to acquire this item, we always recommend playing at the highest Torment difficulty you can handle to slightly boost its drop rate. After all, based on the current Diablo 4 experience, the drop rate for Kullean Tuning Prisms is quite low.

So, if you are struggling to obtain this item or want to reroll your amulet, a more convenient option is to buy Diablo 4 Kullean Tuning Prisms on IGGM simply. You can complete the trade as long as you already own Lord of Hatred expansion!

Defeating elite enemies

You will encounter various elite enemies while completing endgame events or dungeons. Although they aren't as dangerous as bosses, they shouldn't be underestimated.

Diablo 4 identifies Elite enemies by the color of their names; they are also usually larger, so you can use these traits to spot and eliminate them first.

Compared to standard enemies, Elites possess skills with special effects and are further empowered by random additional affixes. An Elite enemy can carry up to four affix effects, though, naturally, the rewards for defeating them are greater.

Aside from Kullean Tuning Prisms and other loot, Elites more frequently drop lower-rarity Tuning Prisms, so obtaining Kullean Tuning Prisms will require engaging in plenty of combat.

Completing War Plans lists

This mechanic consolidates various disparate Diablo 4 endgame events; you can create a list containing up to five event types, and upon completion, the system rewards you with spoils. Opening these spoils can yield materials used for Horadric Cube crafting, such as Kullean Tuning Prisms.

More importantly, beyond the immediate rewards, the specific endgame events you complete earn you points to unlock nodes in the corresponding event upgrade trees.

These nodes come into play as you complete further events. Some directly boost your loot yield, while others raise the potential reward ceiling by increasing combat difficulty.

Take farming Lair bosses as an example: if you unlock Exotic Armory node, the boss hoard will grant an additional Unique item reward that isn't restricted to a specific class.

However, to successfully open the hoard, you need to farm Lair keys of the appropriate tier beforehand. Fortunately, IGGM Diablo 4 Season 14 giveaways in Facebook Group are currently in full swing! Participate for a chance to win various Lair Keys and Gems!

Obtaining Whisper Caches

Completing bounties for Tree of Whispers rewards you with Grim Favors; every ten Favors collected can be exchanged for a cache. During Season 14, Kullean Tuning Prisms have a chance to drop from these caches.

It is worth noting that Tree of Whispers mechanic also interacts with War Plans. Therefore, be sure to devise an efficient Whisper cache farming strategy tailored to your specific upgrade tree nodes.

Other farming methods

While the aforementioned mechanics offer a relatively higher drop rate for Tuning Prisms, Kullean Tuning Prisms can also drop during other endgame activities, such as higher-tier runs of The Pit or by opening Tortured Gifts during Helltides.

However, integrating these tasks into your War Plans list will undoubtedly yield greater efficiency, especially once you have stacked the effects of multiple upgrade nodes.

Additionally, you can obtain Kullean Tuning Prisms by increasing your Seasonal Rank during Season 14, as high-rank rewards include crafting materials and various caches containing useful resources.

We hope this information helps you acquire more Kullean Tuning Prisms in Season 14, allowing you to use Transmutation feature to craft your ideal amulets sooner!