Bones of Rathma Army of the Dead — Necromancer

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Bones of Rathma Army of the Dead for the Necromancer: tier S, Season 39, with gear, cube powers, gems and 3 variants.

At a glance

Class: Necromancer
Tier: S
Season: S39
Main skill: Siphon Blood
Items: 13
Cube powers: 4
Updated: 25.08.2026

Equipment

Helm Rathma's Skull Helm
Shoulders Rathma's Spikes
Amulet Squirt's Necklace
Chest Rathma's Ribcage Plate
Gloves Rathma's Macabre Vambraces
Bracers Bonds of C'Lena
Belt Captain Crimson's Silk Girdle
Pants Captain Crimson's Thrust
Boots Rathma's Ossified Sabatons
Ring 1 Krysbin's Sentence
Ring 2 Convention of Elements
Main Hand Jesseth Skullscythe
Off Hand Jesseth Skullshield

Active Skills

Siphon Blood Purity of Essence

Command Skeletons Kill Command

Bone Armor Limited Immunity

Army of the Dead Frozen Army

Decrepify Opportunist

Revive Purgatory

Passive Skills

Rathma's Shield

Final Service

Spreading Malediction

Grisly Tribute

Kanai's Cube

Weapon Funerary Pick

Armor Fate's Vow

Jewelry Ring of Royal Grandeur

4th slot (Season 39) Trag'Oul's Corroded Fang

Stat Priority

Intelligence
Critical Hit Chance
Vitality
Armor
Critical Hit Damage
Area Damage

Legendary Gems

Zei's Stone of Vengeance Rank 150

Bane of the Trapped Rank 150

Esoteric Alteration Rank 100

Regular Gems

Armor Topaz

Helm Diamond

Weapon Emerald

Rathma's Skull Helm

Helm

✦ Intelligence

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Vitality

✦ Socket

✦ Intelligence

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Area Damage

✦ Vitality

Rathma's Ribcage Plate

Chest Armor

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ Armor

✦ Socket

✦ Intelligence

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Area Damage

✦ Intelligence

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Physical Damage

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ Pickup Radius

✦ Armor

✦ Life %

Captain Crimson's Thrust

Pants

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ Armor

✦ Socket

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ Armor

✦ All Resistance

Squirt's Necklace

Amulet

✦ Gold Find

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Physical Damage

✦ Socket

Krysbin's Sentence

Ring 1

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Attack Speed

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Socket

Convention of Elements

Ring 2

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Socket

Jesseth Skullscythe

Main Hand

✦ Attack Speed

✦ Physical Damage (Weapon)

✦ Maximum Essence

✦ Damage %

✦ Area Damage

✦ Socket

✦ Intelligence

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Damage against Elites

✦ Maximum Essence

✦ Resource Cost Reduction

Gameplay

The configuration

This setup is stored as a complete build — gear, skills, runes and all four cube slots work together and are not assembled from individual statistics.

Set: Bones of Rathma
Rating: tier S across all classes
Kanai's Cube: Funerary Pick, Fate's Vow, Ring of Royal Grandeur, Trag'Oul's Corroded Fang
Skills: Siphon Blood (Purity of Essence), Command Skeletons (Kill Command), Bone Armor (Limited Immunity), Army of the Dead (Frozen Army), Decrepify (Opportunist), Revive (Purgatory)
Passives: Rathma's Shield, Final Service, Spreading Malediction, Grisly Tribute
Variants available: GR push, Speed farming, Torment 16 / Nephalem rifts

Use the variant switcher above to move between the versions. What changes between them is spelled out below — read it before you rebuild.

What the set does

This build wears Bones of Rathma. These bonuses apply once the matching number of set pieces is equipped — the damage multiplier hangs on them, not on the individual stats of the pieces:

2 pieces: Your permanent minions reduce the cooldown of Army of the Dead by 0.50 seconds each time they deal damage. Your skeletal warriors spawn faster, and your revived minions no longer expire.
4 pieces: Your minions no longer take damage. You gain 1% damage reduction for 15 seconds each time one of your minions deal damage. Max 75 stacks.
6 pieces: Each permanent active minion increases the damage of Army of the Dead by 1750%, up to 31,500%.

How the variants differ

Measured against the push version. Anything not listed here stays the same:

Speed farming: swaps in skills Blood Rush (Hemostasis); cube Reilena's Shadowhook.
Torment 16 / Nephalem rifts: swaps in skills Blood Rush (Hemostasis), Frailty (Early Grave), Army of the Dead (Dead Storm), Bone Armor (Thy Flesh Sustained); cube Messerschmidt's Reaver, Steuart's Greaves; gems Bane of the Powerful, Boon of the Hoarder.

Sockets and gems

The 3 legendary gems (Zei's Stone of Vengeance, Bane of the Trapped, Esoteric Alteration) belong in the jewellery slots — that is the only place their rank counts, and the only place they keep growing when you upgrade after a Greater Rift.

The remaining 7 sockets are filled with Topaz: the multiplier already comes from the set and the legendary powers, so one more base stat does more there than another effect would.

On the season theme

Shades of the Nephalem spawns a shadow clone of your class at every shrine and pylon that fights along for one minute. Activate shrines inside the pull, not on the way there. The fourth cube slot is already filled in every variant above.