No set Corpse Explosion — Necromancer

Necromancer Build A · by eRnstl · 204 Views

Legacy gem build Corpse Explosion for the Necromancer: tier A, Season 39, with gear, cube powers, gems and 3 variants.

At a glance

Class: Necromancer
Tier: A
Season: S39
Main skill: Grim Scythe
Items: 13
Cube powers: 4
Updated: 25.08.2026

Equipment

Helm Leoric's Crown
Shoulders Razeth's Volition
Amulet The Johnstone
Chest Aquila Cuirass
Gloves Grasps of Essence
Bracers Ancient Parthan Defenders
Belt Dayntee's Binding
Pants Blackthorne's Jousting Mail
Boots Ice Climbers
Ring 1 Krysbin's Sentence
Ring 2 Convention of Elements
Main Hand Trag'Oul's Corroded Fang
Off Hand Lost Time

Active Skills

Grim Scythe Blood Scythe

Land of the Dead Plaguelands

Blood Rush Hemostasis

Bone Spear Crystallization

Corpse Explosion Shrapnel

Bone Armor Limited Immunity

Passive Skills

Spreading Malediction

Blood is Power

Stand Alone

Eternal Torment

Kanai's Cube

Weapon Nayr's Black Death

Armor Stone Gauntlets

Jewelry Unity

4th slot (Season 39) Reilena's Shadowhook

Stat Priority

Intelligence
Critical Hit Chance
Vitality
Area Damage
Armor
Cooldown Reduction

Legendary Gems

Bane of the Trapped Rank 150

Legacy of Dreams Rank 99

Bane of the Stricken Rank 150

Regular Gems

Helm Diamond

Armor Ruby

Weapon Emerald

Leoric's Crown

Helm

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Poison Resistance

✦ Socket

✦ Intelligence

✦ Area Damage

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Corpse Explosion Damage

✦ Cold Resistance

Aquila Cuirass

Chest Armor

✦ Intelligence

✦ Armor

✦ Corpse Explosion Damage

✦ Melee Damage Reduction

✦ Socket

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Area Damage

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Poison Resistance

✦ Intelligence

✦ Poison Damage

✦ Vitality

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Ranged Damage Reduction

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ Life %

✦ Armor

✦ Arcane Resistance

Blackthorne's Jousting Mail

Pants

✦ Intelligence

✦ Poison Damage

✦ Vitality

✦ Armor

✦ Socket

✦ Intelligence

✦ Vitality

✦ All Resistance

✦ Armor

The Johnstone

Amulet

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Poison Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Melee Damage Reduction

✦ Socket

Krysbin's Sentence

Ring 1

✦ Attack Speed

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Area Damage

✦ Arcane Resistance

✦ Socket

Convention of Elements

Ring 2

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Area Damage

✦ Physical Resistance

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Socket

Trag'Oul's Corroded Fang

Main Hand

✦ Physical Damage (Weapon)

✦ Damage %

✦ Area Damage

✦ Damage against Elites

✦ Maximum Essence

✦ Socket

✦ Physical Damage (Weapon)

✦ Intelligence

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Corpse Explosion Damage

✦ Maximum Essence

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: no class set — Legacy gem build
Rating: tier A across all classes
Kanai's Cube: Nayr's Black Death, Stone Gauntlets, Unity, Reilena's Shadowhook
Skills: Grim Scythe (Blood Scythe), Land of the Dead (Plaguelands), Blood Rush (Hemostasis), Bone Spear (Crystallization), Corpse Explosion (Shrapnel), Bone Armor (Limited Immunity)
Passives: Spreading Malediction, Blood is Power, Stand Alone, Eternal Torment
Variants available: GR push, Torment 16 / Nephalem rifts, Speed farming

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

How the variants differ

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

Torment 16 / Nephalem rifts: swaps in skills Frailty (Early Grave), Blood Rush (Molting), Decrepify (Opportunist), Bone Armor (Thy Flesh Sustained); cube Messerschmidt's Reaver, Krelm's Buff Belt, Briggs' Wrath; gems Boon of the Hoarder.
Speed farming: swaps in skills Frailty (Early Grave), Devour (Voracious), Corpse Explosion (Close Quarters); cube Messerschmidt's Reaver, St. Archew's Gage; gems Gogok of Swiftness.

Sockets and gems

The 3 legendary gems (Bane of the Trapped, Legacy of Dreams, Bane of the Stricken) 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 Ruby: 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.