Diablo 4 Season 10 Guide: Chaos Uniques Blood Wave Necromancer

Season 10 brings one thing front and center: Chaos Uniques are busted in the best way possible. If you’re a Necromancer player hungry for over-the-top damage and relentless skill-spamming, the Blood Wave Chaos build is your ticket. This build flips the script on traditional cooldown management and turns your screen into a tsunami of death.

Let’s break it down.

⚔️ Core Mechanic: Chaos Perk – Alter the Balance

The engine of this build is the “Alter the Balance” Chaos Perk:

“Your base core skills are now empowered as ultimate skills (with cooldowns), and your ultimate skills are altered to be core skills (cost Essence).”

What this means:

• Blood Wave becomes a core skill.
• It costs Essence, not cooldowns.
• That opens the door to spamming Blood Wave like a machine gun, instead of waiting for triple-cast cooldowns.

🧠 Why This Works So Well

1. Crown of Lucion (Pants)

• +18% damage per cast, stacks 5 times → +90% damage total.
• Increases the cost of skills – which is exactly what we want for synergy with other Diablo 4 gear.

Blood Wave now costs more Essence (up to 144), which lets you tap into Banished Lord’s Talisman.

2. Banished Lord’s Talisman (Gloves)

• If your skill costs more than 275 Primary Resource (with multipliers), every second cast is an Overpower.
• That’s right — you don’t even need to pick up Blood Orbs. Just spam Blood Wave, and every second one will chunk everything in sight.

🧪 How to Regenerate Resource

Spam-heavy builds need serious fuel and abundant d4 gold. Here’s how you keep the engine running:

• Ultimate Shadow Perk: Casting Ultimate Skills (which Blood Wave now is) restores 71 Essence per cast.
• Bloodless Scream (2H Scythe): Converts Blood Wave into a Darkness Skill, enabling 100% chill and 240% bonus damage vs. frozen enemies and bosses.
• ZanQax Rune: Cast 3 Ultimates (i.e., Blood Waves), spend all Essence, and get it back instantly.

You use it all — and you get it all back. No waste.

💀 All the Chaos Uniques You Need

Here’s the full chaos-fueled loadout:

📊 Skill Loadout

You want to pack your action bar with Darkness skills to maximize Ebonpiercer and synergy bonuses.

Suggested bar:

• Blood Wave (Ultimate/Core)
• Blight
• Decompose
• Reap
• Corpse Explosion
• Sever

Each Darkness skill adds +36% damage via Ebonpiercer → 6 * 36% = +216% flat damage multiplier.

💣 Passive Bonuses You Want

To make this build cook at high tiers:

• Imperfectly Balanced – Increases Blood Wave cost even more to hit Banished Lord’s Talisman thresholds.
• Ultimate Shadows – Turns Blood Wave into a DoT, triggering Decimating Desecration (DoTs have chance to deal +50% damage = critical multipliers).
• Crazy Brew – Use potions for bonus attack speed & movement speed. Optional but great for boss fights.
• Erupting Chaos – Chaos eruptions around you for extra AoE fun.

🛠️ Gearing Tips

1. Stack Maximum Resource: Your Offhand and Amulet should roll +Max Essence to hit the 275 threshold.
2. Attack Speed > All: The faster you cast, the more Overpowers you pump out. Every other Blood Wave hits like a truck.
3. Masterwork Priority:
• Double Damage chance on Blood Wave
• Greater Affixes to Darkness and Core Skills
• Blood Wave Crit and Overpower damage

🔥 Gameplay Loop

1. Gather mobs
2. Spam Blood Wave nonstop
3. Every 2nd cast Overpowers
4. Chill enemies instantly → freeze + 240% bonus
5. Blow up bosses with no Essence fear thanks to ZanQax + Bloodless Scream
6. Repeat with a grin.

✅ Final Thoughts

This build throws cooldowns out the window, replacing them with a wave-spamming, essence-fueled, overpower-chained death engine. With proper gear and Chaos Uniques, it scales fast and hard. Whether you’re pushing Nightmare Dungeons, farming endgame bosses, or getting a fast Diablo 4 Boost, the Chaos Blood Wave Necro is one of the most explosive builds in Season 10.