Necromancer Unique Equipment in Diablo 4 is specific equipment types that exclusively benefit the Necromancer class when equipped. Necromancer Unique Items in Diablo 4 offer stats and skills that will strongly benefit the class. You will find detailed information regarding the Unique Weapons and Unique Armor and how this equipment can alter your gameplay and character on this page.
Other Types of Unique Equipment in Diablo 4
Diablo 4 Unique Items represent significant enhancements for your character. They are extraordinary discoveries that possess the ability to alter your class gameplay when equipped. Apart from possessing potent affixes similar to those found on other items but with superior itemization, they often feature exclusive effects that cannot be obtained through any other means. General unique items do not correspond to a specific class, rather every class can take advantage of the said items.
How To Get a Class-Unique Equipment in Diablo 4?
Unique Equipment in Diablo 4 can be obtained by defeating enemies, bosses, opening chests, or breaking objects scattered throughout the game world. The game employs a randomized loot system, wherein the dropped items are generated randomly, taking into account various factors. Note that the class-unique items will only be triggered upon playing in World Tier 3: Nightmare and World Tier 4: Torment.
Special Features of Unique Items In Diablo 4
In Diablo 4, Unique items reign supreme as the most formidable gear, with a restriction of only one per character. They boast up to five Regular affixes alongside a single Unique affix, identifiable by a star icon. Players may opt to center their build strategy around a particular Unique item. These items possess predetermined affixes, allowing you to anticipate their complete list beforehand. Furthermore, the Unique Equipment is expected to exhibit the most visually distinctive appearance among all the items in the game.
How Do Bonuses of Unique Items Work in Diablo 4?
The bonuses of Unique Items in Diablo 4 cannot be transferred between items using extraction. Numerous of these potent items that can drastically alter your build will be accessible when the game launches, so remain vigilant for the slim possibility of encountering one.
Necromancer Unique Equipment Diablo 4
Diablo 4 All Necromancer Unique Equipment Quick Navigation
Black River ♦ Bloodless Scream ♦ Doombringer ♦ Blood Artisan's Cuirass ♦ Deathless Visage ♦ Deathspeaker's Pendant ♦ Greaves of the Empty Tomb ♦ Howl from Below ♦ Ring of Mendeln
Necromancer Unique Weapons Guide
Diablo 4 Black River Guide
The Black River brings a whole new deadly level to your Necromancer attacks. This Unique Scythe will make Corpse Explosion, a Necromancer Corpse & Macabre skill that detonates a target corpse within the area, become even more powerful by adding 4 additional corpses to the initial corpse, dealing increased damage and a larger radius per corpse detonated.
This Unique Weapon also further improves the +Damage to Healthy Enemies, +Ranks to Corpse Explosion, +Ranks to Fueled by Death, and additional Intelligence stats. Aside from that, the Necromancer will also gain +Life on Kill when the Black River is equipped. This will make the Necromancer unstoppable during fights and allow him to continue going for enemy cluster after enemy cluster.
Some other skills that will work best with this Unique Equipment are listed below:
Skill Name | Skill Effect |
![]() Corpse Explosion |
Lucky Hit Chance: 40% Detonate a Corpse, dealing X [50%] damage to surrounding enemies |
![]() Corpse Tendrils |
Lucky Hit Chance: 20% Veins burst out of a Corpse, Pulling in enemies, Stunning them for 3 seconds, and dealing X [20%] damage to them. Does not consume the corpse. |
![]() Fueled by Death |
You deal 3% [x] increased damage for 6 seconds after consuming a Corpse. |
![]() Grim Harvest |
Consuming a corpse generates 2 Essence. |
The skills listed above will take full advantage of the affixes offered by the Black River, this will enhance not only the damage being dealt by the Necromancer but as well as boost his survivability by generating Essence once the Grim Harvest is learned. You may also view the full list of Necromancer Skills here.
How to Get Black River in Diablo 4
Black River can randomly be obtained by defeating Enemies, opening Chests, or breaking objects in the game world. The game uses a randomized loot system, meaning the items that drop are randomly generated based on several factors.
Diablo 4 Doombringer Guide
The Doombringer is a Unique Equipment that takes advantage of the Lucky Hit mechanic in Diablo 4. With this Unique Sword, you will be able to trigger Lucky Hit after Lucky hit, with an increase of 15 up to 25% chance to deal Shadow Damage to surrounding units, while reducing their damage done to the Necromancer by 20% for 5 seconds. This will allow the Necromancer to withstand more attacks than usual.
The regular affixes of the Doombringer are centered around making it general and balanced equipment, as this can be equipped by ALL Classes. For the Necromancer, this will benefit the class by providing +Core Skill Damage, +Critical Strike Damage, and +Damage but not only that, it also gives +Lucky Hit: Chance to Heal and +Maximum Life, making this a well-rounded weapon that sits well in the middle of both defensive and offensive side.
Some other skills that will work best with this Unique Equipment are listed below:
Skill Name | Skill Effect |
![]() Blight |
Lucky Hit Chance: 40% Unleash concentrated blight that deals X [30%] damage and leaves behind a defiled area, dealing X [80%] damage over 6 seconds. |
![]() Blood Lance |
Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Throw a blood lance that lingers in an enemy for 3 seconds, dealing X [80%] damage to the enemy and all other lanced enemies. |
![]() Blood Surge |
Lucky Hit Chance: 12% Draw blood from enemies, dealing X [20%] damage, and expel a blood nova, dealing X [50%] damage. Blood Surge's nova damage is increased by 10% [x] per enemy drained, up to 50% [x]. |
![]() Hewed Flesh |
Lucky Hit: Your damage has up to a 4% chance to create a Corpse at the target's location. This chance is doubled against Bosses. |
![]() Sever |
Lucky Hit Chance: 20% A specter of you charges forward and attacks with its scythe for X [63%] damage then returns to you and attacks again for X [21%] damage. |
As mentioned earlier, the Doombringer brings focus to the Lucky Hit, and so the skills listed above all take advantage of the Lucky Hit mechanic and Necromancer Core Skills. This will further boost the Necromancer's damage in fights and in return, will provide health regeneration. You may also view the full list of Necromancer Skills here.
How to Get Doombringer in Diablo 4
Doombringer can randomly be obtained by defeating Enemies, opening Chests, or breaking objects in the game world. The game uses a randomized loot system, meaning the items that drop are randomly generated based on several factors.
Diablo 4 Bloodless Scream Guide
The Bloodless Scream is Unique Two-Handed Scythe that focuses on Necromancer's Darkness skills, as well as adding Chill Damage toward enemies for up to 40%. This also gives an up to 100% chance to generate 2-5 additional Essence when you damage Frozen targets.
The regular affixes of this weapon will also focus on the Skeletal Mages, particularly the Cold Mages from the Necromancer's Book of the Dead mechanic. The Bloodless Scream will further boost the +Damage to Chilled enemies, +Damage to Frozen Enemies, and +Darkness Skill Damage while increasing the Necromancer's cold resistance.
When you combine the core skills and the Darkness skills of the Necromancer, the Bloodless Scream is sure to deliver fatal damage to all enemies, including bosses and elites.
Some other skills that will work best with this Unique Equipment are listed below:
Skill Name | Skill Effect |
![]() Blight |
Lucky Hit Chance: 40% Unleash concentrated blight that deals X [30%] damage and leaves behind a defiled area, dealing X [80%] damage over 6 seconds. |
![]() Crippling Darkness |
Lucky Hit: Darkness Skills have up to a 15% chance to Stun for 1 second. |
![]() Reap |
Generate Essence: 4 per enemy hit. Lucky Hit Chance: 17% Sweep an ethereal scythe in front of you, dealing X [12%] damage. Hitting an enemy with Reap increases your Damage Reduction by 15% for 2 seconds. |
![]() Sever |
Lucky Hit Chance: 20% A specter of you charges forward and attacks with its scythe for X [63%] damage then returns to you and attacks again for X [21%] damage. |
![]() Terror |
Darkness Skills deal 3% [x] bonus damage to enemies who are slowed, and 3% [x] bonus damage to enemies who are stunned or immobilized. These bonuses stack and apply to shadow damage dealt by your Minions. |
The list of skills listed above belongs to the same category (both Actives and Passives): Darkness from the Necromancer Skill tree. By learning any of these skills, you will be able to take advantage of all the bonuses offered by the Bloodless Scream and in return, will make the Darkness build stronger than ever.
How to Get Bloodless Scream in Diablo 4
Bloodless Scream can randomly be obtained by defeating Enemies, opening Chests, or breaking objects in the game world. The game uses a randomized loot system, meaning the items that drop are randomly generated based on several factors.
Necromancer Unique Armor Guide
Diablo 4 Blood Artisan's Cuirass Guide
The Bone Spirit is one of the most powerful skills that you can learn in the Necromancer's skill tree, and equipping the Blood Artisan's Cuirass will make this even more powerful. The Bone Spirit falls under the Bone/Macabre/Corpse category which conjures a spirit of bone that will go after enemies, then explode to deal damage in the area around its target.
This is a costly skill that consumes all of your Essence upon casting but with this Unique Chest Armor, you will be able to periodically cast Bone Spirit every time you pick up [5-10] Blood Orbs and will deal damage based on the current Life percent. This free cast will allow you to focus your Essence on other skills while dealing still a significant amount of damage.
Since this armor is also heavy on the defensive side, you will gain +Armor, and +Blood Orb Healing and gain the survivability that you need on the Necromancer. Aside from that, this chest Armor also boosts your damage by adding +Ranks to Bone Spirit and +Damage for X seconds after picking up a Blood Orb, equally strong on both defensive and offensive, this is one of the Unique Armor that will suit the Necromancer playstyle.
Some other skills that will work best with this Unique Equipment are listed below:
Skill Name | Skill Effect |
![]() Bone Spirit |
Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Consume all of your Essence to conjure a spirit of bone that seeks enemies. Upon reaching an enemy, the spirit explodes, dealing X [80%] damage to the target and all surrounding enemies. Damage is increased by 3% [x] for each point of Essence spent casting Bone Spirit. |
![]() Ossified Essence |
Your Bone Skills deal 1% [x] increased damage for each point of Essence you have above 50 upon cast. |
The Blood Artisan's Cuirass is one of the armors out there that will greatly enhance a Bone build for Necromancers, whether it's against a cluster of enemies, an elite, or a boss.
How to Get Blood Artisan's Cuirass in Diablo 4
Blood Artisan's Cuirass can randomly be obtained by defeating Enemies, opening Chests, or breaking objects in the game world. The game uses a randomized loot system, meaning the items that drop are randomly generated based on several factors.
Diablo 4 Deathless Visage Guide
This Unique Helm will further improve the Bone Skills of the Necromancer. Among the many types of Necromancer out there, one of the most common builds is the Bone build, and the Deathless Visage will even encourage you to switch builds when you find this.
The Deathless Visage provides an enhancement to one of Necromancer's Core Skills, which is the Bone Spear, upon equipping this armor, your Bone Spear will leave echoes in its trail that travels and explodes in its path. The Bone Spear itself is already powerful but with the affix that increases +Critical Strike Damage for Bone Skills, the Necromancer just became even more deadlier.
Necromancers who enjoy the Bone build will be searching for this balanced armor as this not only increases your damage but also provides defensive stats such as +Maximum Essence, and +Armor.
Some other skills that will work best with this Unique Equipment are listed below:
Skill Name | Skill Effect |
![]() Bone Spirit |
Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Consume all of your Essence to conjure a spirit of bone that seeks enemies. Upon reaching an enemy, the spirit explodes, dealing X [80%] damage to the target and all surrounding enemies. Damage is increased by 3% [x] for each point of Essence spent casting Bone Spirit. |
![]() Rapid Ossification |
Every 100 Essence you spend reduces the cooldowns of your Bone skills by 0.5 seconds. |
![]() Serration |
Your Bone skills have a 0.3% [+] increased Critical Strike Chance for each 10 Essence you have upon cast. |
![]() Unliving Energy |
Your maximum Essence is increased by 3. |
How to Get Deathless Visage in Diablo 4
Deathless Visage can randomly be obtained by defeating Enemies, opening Chests, or breaking objects in the game world. The game uses a randomized loot system, meaning the items that drop are randomly generated based on several factors.
Diablo 4 Deathspeaker's Pendant Guide
Blood Skills and Minions is what the Deathspeaker's Pendant is all about. A Unique Amulet available only to the Necromancer class, the unique affix of this item allows the Blood Surge skill to cast a nova on your minions, which, the damage is increased by 10% per target drained by the initial cast, up to 50%.
What makes this item even better is that, all your Blood Skills' Damage is increased, the Minions' Damage is increased, and you get additional +Ranks to Coalesced Blood. If you are a Necromancer focused on the Blood Build, then this item is something that you should be shooting for.
Aside from the affixes mentioned, this Amulet also adds +Resistance to All Elements and increases +Healing for the Necromancer, and balances out the offensive and defensive attributes of this item.
Some other skills that will work best with this Unique Equipment are listed below:
Skill Name | Skill Effect |
![]() Blood Lance |
Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Throw a blood lance that lingers in an enemy for 3 seconds, dealing X [80%] damage to the enemy and all other lanced enemies. |
![]() Blood Surge |
Lucky Hit Chance: 12% Draw blood from enemies, dealing X [20%] damage, and expel a blood nova, dealing X [50%] damage. Blood Surge's nova damage is increased by 10% [x] per enemy drained, up to 50% [x]. |
![]() Blood Wave |
Lucky Hit Chance: 20% Conjure a tidal wave of blood that deals X [120%] damage and Knocks Back enemies. |
![]() Coalesced Blood |
While Healthy, your Blood Skills deal 6% [x] increased damage. |
![]() Rathma's Vigor |
Increase your Maximum Life by 10% [x]. After being Healthy for 15 seconds, your next Blood skill Overpowers. |
The Skills listed here are geared toward the Blood Skills that will benefit most upon wearing Deathspeaker's Pendant. Another thing to keep in mind is to make sure that your minions will be able to stay alive so that the novas would be activated near the enemies that you are trying to attack. The Coalesced Blood skill is what makes this item strong. The Deathspeaker's Pendant allows you to deal increased damage when Healthy (when Necromancer's Health is at 80%), you can level up this skill up to Rank 3 or increase damage up to 18%!
How to Get Deathspeaker's Pendant in Diablo 4
Deathspeaker's Pendant can randomly be obtained by defeating Enemies, opening Chests, or breaking objects in the game world. The game uses a randomized loot system, meaning the items that drop are randomly generated based on several factors.
Diablo 4 Greaves of the Empty Tomb Guide
A Unique Boots focused on the Sever skill, the Necromancer will leave a damaging desecrated ground whenever they cast Sever and will persist for 2 seconds. This Unique affix will take the Necromancer's Shadow damage to a stronger level.
The Greaves of the Empty Tomb is balanced on both offensive and defensive stats as it also provides max evade charges, Essence cost reduction, and Damage reduction from enemies that received Shadow Damage. This will allow the Necromancer to fully bank on Shadow damage without having to worry about survivability and resource management.
Lastly, something worth mentioning is that this item also gives additional Intelligence stats which in general, provides resistance to all elements. This will also improve the survivability of the Necromancer during fights.
Some other skills that will work best with this Unique Equipment are listed below:
Skill Name | Skill Effect |
![]() Gloom |
When you damage enemies with Darkness Skills, they take 2% [x] increased Shadow Damage from you and your Minions for 2 seconds, stacking up to 3 times. |
![]() Sever |
Essence Cost: 20 Lucky Hit Chance: 20% A specter of you charges forward and attacks with its scythe for X [63%] damage then returns to you and attacks again for X [21%] damage. |
![]() Shadowblight |
Shadow Damage infects enemies with Shadowblight for 2 seconds. You and your minions deal 10% [x] bonus damage to enemies with Shadowblight. Every 10th time an enemy receives Shadow damage from you or your Minions while they are affected by Shadowblight, they take an additional X [22%] Shadow Damage. |
The Greaves of the Empty Tomb is strong on its own but we recommend learning the 3 skills listed so you can see additional effects to your attacks. Gloom and Shadowblight will have their damage outputs increased and then Sever can be ranked up to Rank 5 giving you a specter with 88% damage and up to 29% return damage. Due to the affixes of this item, it is more suited for Shadow Build Necromancers than any other builds.
How to Get Greaves of the Empty Tomb Diablo 4
Greaves of the Empty Tomb can randomly be obtained by defeating Enemies, opening Chests, or breaking objects in the game world. The game uses a randomized loot system, meaning the items that drop are randomly generated based on several factors.
Diablo 4 Howl From Below Guide
Howl From Below shares a lot of similarities to the Black River, which is another Necromancer Unique. The difference is, these Unique Gloves will add a new effect to the Corpse Explosion by summoning a Volatile Skeleton that will charge at a random enemy, and then explodes. The Corpse Explosion's damage is increased by 30-40%.
This is a massive upgrade to the Necromancer's skill and you will also receive other affixes such as: +Attack Speed for Corpse Skills, +Lucky Hit Chance, +Lucky Hit: Fear Chance, and +Lucky Hit: Stun Chance. All of these are geared towards making the Necromancer's Corpse Skills even more powerful and so we came up with a list of skills that will help you improve your Corpse Necromancer gameplay:
Some other skills that will work best with this Unique Equipment are listed below:
Skill Name | Skill Effect |
![]() Corpse Explosion |
Lucky Hit Chance: 40% Detonate a Corpse, dealing X [50%] damage to surrounding enemies |
![]() Corpse Tendrils |
Lucky Hit Chance: 20% Veins burst out of a Corpse, Pulling in enemies, Stunning them for 3 seconds, and dealing X [20%] damage to them. Does not consume the corpse. |
![]() Fueled by Death |
You deal 3% [x] increased damage for 6 seconds after consuming a Corpse. |
These skills make for an excellent upgrade when used together with Howl From Below, clearing enemy clusters will be easier now than ever, especially if you get your hands on both Howl From Below and Black River.
How to Get Howl From Below in Diablo 4
Howl From Below can randomly be obtained by defeating Enemies, opening Chests, or breaking objects in the game world. The game uses a randomized loot system, meaning the items that drop are randomly generated based on several factors.
Diablo 4 Ring of Mendeln Guide
The Necromancer's Book of the Dead is a class mechanic which allows them to further customize their undead armies. They can raise a different type of Undead Minions depending on their build which they can alter to Bone, Darkness, or Blood.
The good thing about the Ring of Mendeln is that, it doesn't have any build-specific affix that will limit your skill choices, but instead, it applies a general boost to the Minions. For its unique affix, you will gain a chance to Empower your Minions when you have at least 7 and will cause the next attack from each unit to explode. Then, even their attack speed is increased giving you an unstoppable and ultimately strong undead army.
Aside from that, this Unique Ring also gives the Necromancer a defensive boost by increasing +Cold Resistance and +Shadow Resistance and Thorns stats. Thorns is an offensive stat that will let you return a portion of any received damage back to your enemies which will round out the Ring of Mendeln.
Some other skills that will work best with this Unique Equipment are listed below:
Skill Name | Skill Effect |
![]() Death's Defense |
Your Minions cannot lose more than 60% of their Maximum Life from a single damage instance. |
![]() Inspiring Leader |
After you have been Healthy for at least 4 seconds, you and your Minions gain 4% [+] Attack Speed. |
![]() Kalan's Edict |
After you have not taken damage in the last 3 seconds, your Minions gain 15% [+] Attack Speed. While you have at least 7 Minions, this bonus is doubled. |
For the skills that will benefit from Ring of Mendeln, the focus is maintaining your army and making sure that you will be able to raise a minimum of 7 Minions. The goal is to empower them, so you will get the strongest and most durable Undead Army.
How to Get Ring of Mendeln in Diablo 4
Ring of Mendeln can be randomly obtained by defeating Enemies, opening Chests, or breaking objects in the game world. The game uses a randomized loot system, meaning the items that drop are randomly generated based on several factors.