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The Diablo 4 Necromancer class gives the undead a taste of their own medicine. Using essence, Necromancers can conjure undead to fight for them and even conjure sharp bone spears to cut down their enemies. But if you really want to strike fear into your enemies, you'll want to unlock the ability to summon Golems.
Golems are giant amalgamations of Blood, Iron, and Bone; unlike most of the Necromancer's abilities, you won't have to spend precious essence to spawn Golems, making them very valuable in battle. However, you won't be able to summon Golems until you've reached a few requirements.
Requirements For Summoning A Golem
- You must reach level 25 before you can summon a Golem.
- You must complete the Necromancer: Call of the Underworld quest.
You will want to unlock the Menestad Waypoint before starting the Necromancer: Call fo the Underworld quest, since the quest takes place in the Western Ways and the Sallow Riverbanks area.
Necromancer: Call Of The Underworld Quest Walkthrough
Once you hit level 25, the Necromancer: Call of the Underworld Quest will automatically be added to your map. Your character will need to pray at the Shrine of Rothma located in the Western Ways area of Fractured Peaks.
A spectral figure named Maltorius will meet you upon praying at the shrine. He explains that he will teach you how to build a Golem if you can collect 12 Unbroken Bones and bring them to him.
How To Collect The Unbroken Bones
Skeleton-type enemies have a chance to drop Unbroken Bones. You'll find large groups of Skeletons in the Sarkova Pass and Western Ways area.
Watch out for elite skeletons and Skeleton Ballista as they have powerful and long-range attacks.
Luckily, they take a long time to charge their attacks. You can easily evade their attacks if you watch their loading animation.
Find The Cave Containing The Vile Artifact - Bitter Cave
Once you've collected all 12 Unbroken Bones, return to Maltorius, who will give you your next objective to find the vile artifact that will grant you the power to create a Golem.
You're looking for the Bitter Cave; it will have a Cellar map icon and can be found by traveling southwest from the Shrine of Rothma. Jump down the cliff side to enter the Sallow Riverbanks area.
Then, travel south to find the Bitter Cave entrance.
Fill The Jar Of Souls
Bitter Cave is a small cave that features the Jar of Souls artifact; your objective is to open the jar and then fill the jar with the souls of enemies that spawn in the cave. To do this, kill the enemies and walk into the glowing green souls.
Once the jar is full, Maltorius will appear and grant you the power to build Golems.
There's plenty of value in unlocking the Golem skill in the Book of the Dead tab, even if you don't summon creatures in your Necromancer build. You can sacrifice the ability to summon your Golem for powerful passive abilities for your character.
How To Summon A Golem
Now that you have completed the Necromancer: Call of the Underworld Quest, you will unlock the Book Of The Dead ability tab accessed via the character menu.
Choose the type of Golem you want to summon and select an upgrade.
You can only activate one Golem upgrade at any given time. You won't be able to summon the Iron-type Golem until you reach level 32.
Once you've chosen your Golem, you must assign the Golem spell to your hot bar. Open your skills and assign Golem to a spell slot. Your Golem will automatically spawn when the ability is placed on your hotbar; activating the Golem spell will cause the Golem to respawn at your location.
Having a hot bar with both the Golem summoning skill and minion summoning skill is taxing on your character's offensive capabilities in combat. Fewer skill slots mean you'll be relying more on your minions to deal damage for you.
It's possible to switch your Golem variant in battle by accessing the Book of the Dead skill tree; however, switching your Golem will cause your current Golem to die and trigger a hefty cooldown before you can summon your new Golem.
If your Golem dies, it will automatically respawn after a short duration of time.
Bone Golem Type
The Bone Golem acts as a protector that taunts nearby enemies to attack it; this effectively gives you a tank companion.
The more mobs that the Bone Golem taunts, the more damage it will take, meaning you'll want to increase your character's Thorn stat as much as you can.
- Upgrade 1: Each time your Bone Golem takes 20 percent damage to its max health, it sheds a corpse.
- Upgrade 2: Your Bone Golem gains ten percent Maximum Health, and the amount of Thorns they inherit from you is increased from 30 percent to 50 percent.
- Sacrifice: Your Attack Speed is increased by ten percent, but you lose the ability to summon a Golem.
The Bone Golem is a fantastic choice if you like to play solo, as it grants you a buffer from enemy attacks. Upgrade 2 is a superior option for solo players as this gives your Golem more survivability and offensive capabilities with Thorn damage.
Blood Golem Type
The Blood Golem cannot taunt enemies like the Bone Golem, but it can drain the life of nearby enemies to heal itself. You can use this to great effect to kill large groups of damaged mobs.
- Upgrade 1: Your Blood Golem absorbs 15 percent of the damage you would take.
- Upgrade 2: While Healthy, your Blood Golem gains 25 percent Damage Reduction and 50 percent increased damage.
- Sacrifice: You Maximum Life is increased by ten percent, but you lose the ability to summon your Golem.
Blood Golems are an alternative defensive Golem that act as a Templar by decreasing damage taken to you. The Blood Golem sacrifices its own life to keep you Healthy.
Upgrade 2 synergizes well with Blood Magic spells that focus on healing and keeping your Necromancer Healthy. You can activate the Blood Golem's drain life ability every ten seconds, giving it more survivability than the Iron Golem in combat.
Iron Golem Type
The Iron Golem is an offensive variant that can slam the ground to Stun nearby enemies.
- Upgrade 1: Every fifth Iron Golem attack causes a shockwave, dealing 238 damage to a group of enemies.
- Upgrade 2: Your Iron Golem's Slam attack also makes enemies Vulnerable for three seconds.
- Sacrifice: You deal 30 percent extra Critical Strike Damage but lose the ability to summon a Golem.
The Iron Golem has the best Sacrifice passive of the Golem types for solo players, as 30 percent is a significant increase and works perfectly with Bone Spear Necromancer builds.
The Iron Golem is fantastic at supporting you while fighting Elite enemies, as its slam ability grants you a short window to put in some free damage, which can be increased further by making your targets Vulnerable.
The Iron Golem's slam attack can be used every ten seconds, giving you a reliable stun throughout boss fights.