6 Out of 13 Diablo 4 Necromancer Chaos Uniques are Basically Useless
Choosing the right gear for a build is crucial to success in Diablo 4, and is even more important with the addition of Chaos Uniques in Season 10. Now, Diablo 4 players have an even wider range of Unique options to use on their build, with Chaos Uniques allowing certain affixes to appear on types of gear other than their original. However, not every Chaos Unique is worthy of consideration, and the Necromancer has nearly half of its offerings rendered unusable by its top meta builds.
Necromancer builds in Diablo 4 Season 10 are in a strange position; the class has several fantastic S-Tier options with nearly as many in the lowest tier and little in between. This means Necromancers need to weigh their gear options more carefully than ever to ensure they are getting the most out of the build they’ve chosen. To that end, there are 6 Chaos Uniques that Necromancers will want to avoid entirely.
These Necromancer Chaos Unique Aren't Worth Their Salt in Diablo 4 Season 10
- Black River
- Deathspeaker’s Pendant
- Mutilator Plate
- Ring of the Sacrilegious Soul
- The Mortacrux
- The Unmaker
Black River
On the surface, the Black River isn’t a terrible choice for a Chaos Unique on Diablo 4 Necromancer builds that utilize Corpse Explosion. This Chaos Unique causes Corpse Explosion to consume 4 additional Corpses to deal 192%[x] damage at 60% increased size for each Corpse consumed. The main reason the Black River isn’t worth using comes down to the fact that Corpse Explosion isn’t a great source of damage on its own, usually supporting other skills like Blood Wave or Bone Spirit, and there are better alternatives to use with those skills.
Deathspeaker's Pendant
Unlike the Black River, the Deathspeaker’s Pendant is a truly useless Chaos Unique for the Necromancer. Its Unique affix grants Blood Surge the ability to cast a mini nova over the Necromancer’s minions, dealing 103 damage and increasing by 10% for each target drained up to 50%. Not only is Blood Surge one of the Necromancer’s worst builds in Diablo 4 Season 10, but the optimal way to play it requires players to sacrifice their minions. Couple that with the very small damage boost it offers, and there is almost never a situation where Necromancers would benefit by using this Unique over a different piece of gear.
Mutilator Plate
The Mutilator Plate is in a similar situation to the Deathspeaker’s Pendant, where its affix is only useful on a low-tier Necromancer build. This Unique makes the player Blood Lanced, Fortifying them when it would typically deal damage and increasing the damage to enemies caused by Blood Lance. This is another case of a Unique that doesn’t even make the cut on Diablo 4‘s low-tier Blood Lance Necromancer, meaning there’s hardly ever going to be an opportunity to use it.
Ring of the Sacrilegious Soul
Ring of the Sacrilegious Souls only appeals to Diablo 4 players who want to press as few buttons as possible, as its Unique affix automatically casts Raise Skeleton, Corpse Explosion, and Corpse Tendrils on nearby Corpses. Since all of these skills can easily fit into the Necromancer’s skill rotation, this Chaos Unique would just be taking up space on a build that could be used for something more crucial to a Necromancer build’s ability to maximize its DPS.
The Mortacrux
Unfortunately for The Mortacrux, its Unique affix doesn’t synergize particularly well with any Necromancer builds. When players consume a Corpse, The Mortacrux has a 48% chance to spawn a decaying Skeletal Simulacrum that can’t attack but explodes to deal 548 damage on death. This is another case where the minimal amount of damage it deals isn’t worth sacrificing a better piece of gear for.
The only upside to The Mortacrux is the increased chance for Corpse Explosion to deal double damage and the ranks it adds to Hewed Flesh. However, these benefits don’t outweigh the Unique’s drawbacks.
The Unmaker
Typically, The Unmaker could have some utility on Shadowblight Necromancer builds thanks to the buffs it gives to Soulrift. However, with Diablo 4 Season 10’s introduction of Chaos Perks, the Shadowblight Necromancer gets access to the Alter the Balance perk that treats Soulrift as a Core skill and allows it to be cast continuously as long as players spend the necessary Essence. This makes the increased Soulrtift duration from The Unmaker largely unnecessary since the skill is no longer an Ultimate with a cooldown.
