[Top 10] ESO Best Necromancer Builds That Are Fun To Play (2022 Edition)

Most fun Necromancer builds, fun builds to play, Necromancer builds to try

Updated:

03 Jan 2023

“All of Tamriel’s dead are a resource for you to manipulate and exploit, as nothing is forbidden for those who seek to master the dark arts. The Necromancer Class brings a unique style of play to The Elder Scrolls Online, allowing you to summon the undead and make use of corpses to overwhelm your enemies and empower your attacks.” - The Elder Scrolls Online

Here are the top 10 best, and most fun Necromancer builds. You’ll notice that there aren’t any healing builds in this list, that’s because the way I see it, Necromancers are already healers with really horrible timing. Although with one joke of many aside, this list is comprised of both PVE and PVP damage builds that’ll let you tackle content both in a group and alone.

10. Bloodrush Necromancer

Powerful Stamina Necromancer Build - Alcast

Bloodrush is an easy-to-maintain Stamina build with fantastic burst damage. As with a select few Alcast builds, they have great skills and gear setups, but little in the way of rotation, however, once you’ve given the skills explanation a once (twice, maybe thrice) over, it all starts to come together (sort of). There are multiple gear options for those who are still taking their first steps into the game, and resources are easy to maintain granted that you keep up your heavy attacks.

What this build is good for:

PVP due to the Camouflaged Hunter skill
Single target damage
Increased regeneration and constant heals
Adaptable skills due to Magicka and Stamina points being equally distributed

Build Details:

5-2 gear Setup: 5 Heavy pieces and 2 Medium pieces
Two-handed/ Dual Wield
Strong single target damage
Burst damage
High Mitigation and Healing
Two-handed weapon bar for offense
Dual-Wield weapon bar for defense and healing

http://alcasthq.com/eso-stamina-necromancer-build-pvp/

9. Claws Werewolf Necromancer

Powerful Werewolf Build - Alcast

Claws is an extremely fun Necromancer build, when you’ve slotted your two ultimate abilities, you get to decide if you’d like to transform into a Werewolf or summon a giant Colossus which pretty much makes you the coolest person in your group. This build focuses on long-range Disease Damage abilities and Werewolf melee damage, making it highly versatile in combat. The downfall of this build is that most Necromancer Class passives won’t be up whilst in Werewolf form, which is a real bummer and the reason for this build not being higher on the list.

What this build is good for:

Optimized for Dungeons and Trials
High physical damage
Disease damage to all nearby enemies
Resource regeneration
Good survivability

Build Details:

Medium Armor
Dual-Wield, Bow, Sharp Claws
High damage
High Mitigation and Healing
Dual-Wield weapon bar for offense
Bow weapon bar for resource recovery and offense

http://alcasthq.com/eso-werewolf-build-pve/#necromancer

8. Draugr Kin

Magicka Necromancer Solo PVE ONE BAR Build - Hack The Minotaur

This is undeniably one of the most fun solo builds for Necromancers. A highly controversial approach to ESO, yet an incredibly relaxing experience. Using this one bar build allows the player to focus on the storyline and explore the world that is often overlooked when we’re watching our DPS. Along with being a fun and unique approach, the build maintains the feel of a classic Necromancer with the unique class skills equipped.

What this build is good for:

New players that need to ease into the game
Simple rotations with no weapon swaps
Exploring the game and managing solo content
Surprisingly powerful for a one bar build
Great self-sustain

Build Details:

3 Primary sets
Destruction Staff on main weapon bar
5 Light pieces, 1 Medium piece, 1 Heavy piece
Can be extended to a 2 bar setup when you’re ready
Very simple rotation for one and two bar build

http://www.hacktheminotaur.com/builds/eso-magicka-necromancer-solo-pve-one-bar-build-draugrkin

7. Cleave Necromancer

Powerful 2H Stamina Necromancer Build - Alcast

Cleave is a powerful Stamina build that is geared towards group content. Optimized for maximum damage with both single-target and AoE, this Two-Handed setup benefits mainly from Necromancer passives and skills. As much as there is a big focus on the Two-Handed weapon bar, the secondary weapon bar is equipped with a Bow, allowing for some distance and a break from melee damage.

What this build is good for:

Group content
High splash damage
Great AoE damage
Good single target damage
Easy to maintain self-buffs

Build Details:

Resource focus on Stamina
Two-Handed equipped for weapon bar 1
Bow equipped for weapon bar 2
Medium armor
High AoE and splash damage
Group content build
Close-combat oriented build

http://alcasthq.com/eso-stamina-necromancer-2h-build-pve/

6. Colossus Necromancer

Powerful Necromancer Tank Build - Alcast

The Colossus Necromancer build is a fantastic Tank for group content. Necromancers have an extremely strong Bone Tyrant skill line that pairs very well with the numerous debuffs that you have available to you. One of the best parts of this build is the defense and buffs gained from fallen enemies, overall this is a super fun tanking experience for once.

What this build is good for:

Group content
Tanking/ support build
Great sustain
Fantastic survivability
Easy to maintain self-healing
Multi-target damage

Build Details:

5 Pieces of Heavy armor, 1 Medium piece, 1 Light piece
All attribute points in Health
One-handed weapon and shield on weapon bar one
Lightning staff on weapon bar two
Gains heals from corpses
Multi-target damage and good debuffs

http://alcasthq.com/eso-necromancer-tank-build-pve/

5. Solo Magicka Necromancer

Powerful SOLO Magicka Necromancer Build - Alcast

The Solo Magicka Necromancer is a brilliant self-sustaining build that relies mainly on passives and summoning skills for survivability and damage. This may not be a useful build for most group content, but it certainly is fun to play Overland, in Dungeons, and in Arenas.

What this build is good for:

Solo gameplay
High mitigation and healing
Great self-sustain
Overland, Dungeons, and Arenas
Easy gear farming

Build Details:

Light armor
Weapon bars 1 and 2 are equipped with Lightning staves
Health recovery is drawn by summoning skills
Attribute points solely in Magicka
Solo build
Easy rotation and easily maintainable DoTs

http://alcasthq.com/eso-solo-magicka-necromancer-build-pve/

4. Reaper Necromancer

Powerful Stamina Necromancer Build for ESO - Alcast

The Reaper Necromancer build utilizes some of the many Stamina abilities available to the class that allows for significant single-target and AoE damage. The build uses both dual-wield weapons and a bow, although both bars allow for some distance when needed. The skills used in this Stamina Necromancer build are focused on maximizing your damage done in a group so don’t go wandering off alone.

What this build is good for:

Adding a great amount of damage to a group
Single-target and AoE damage
High burst damage
Dual-wielding
Crowd control and trash pack wiping
Good self-sustain
Good Stamina recovery

Build Details:

Slightly longer rotation
Attribute points solely in Stamina
High burst damage
High single-target and AoE damage
Dual-wield weapon equipped for weapon bar 1
Bow equipped for weapon bar 2
Medium armor

http://alcasthq.com/eso-stamina-necromancer-build-pve/

3. Curse Necromancer

Powerful Magicka Necromancer Build for ESO - Alcast

Curse Necromancer is a build optimized for group content and is particularly useful in higher-level dungeons and trials. This Magicka build uses a Fire Staff on both front and back bars for single-target and AoE damage, with AoE being the slightly better focus. The reason for this being a poor solo build is its lack of sufficient resource recovery when unassisted in a group. Despite this factor, the build is still very effective provided it is used in the correct situations and allows for a great amount of damage.

What this build is good for:

Great AoE damage
Good single-target damage
Fantastic ranged damage
Good survivability provided your Magicka shield is maintained
Best suited to Trials, Dungeons, and Arenas
Group build

Build Details:

Group build
Light armor
Most effective with AoE damage
Attribute points focused solely on Magicka
Support skills
Double Destruction Staff setup
Easily maintained survivability

http://alcasthq.com/eso-magicka-necromancer-build-pve/

2. 103.2K DPS Magicka Necromancer

PvE Magicka Necromancer - Skinny Cheeks

Skinny Cheeks is one of my most referenced build creators, and this particular Magicka Necromancer build is amongst my favorites. This build was in collaboration with LingRanLi and provides two rotations to play around with both a dynamic rotation and a more static one. I’ve found Ling’s 103.2k DPS set up to be a great deal of fun, making use of dual-wield on the front bar, and an Inferno Staff on the back. Although his rotation is longer and a little harder to master, it’s so worth the effort.

What this build is good for: