Four Horsemen Golem Necromancer Build Guide
Last Updated: May 20, 2026 by Aaron ActionRPG
About
The "Four Horsemen" Necromancer is an endgame minion build for Last Epoch designed to push high corruption. The build centers around summoning four full-sized, heavy-hitting Fire Golems that utilize massive ignite damage over time to melt bosses and clear maps rapidly. By stacking unique gear and specific passive nodes to increase the maximum skeleton cap, the build unlocks a fourth golem, maximizing offensive output while maintaining high visual cool factor and strong defensive layering.
The Endgame Loot filter can be found here.
Gameplay Loop
The primary loop revolves around passive damage supplemented by a deliberate mechanical interaction to boost minion strength:
Passive Threat Management: The four giant Fire Golems naturally generate massive threat, drawing enemies away from you so you rarely take direct hits.
Traversal: Using a traversal skill pairs with experimental boot affixes to teleport your golem army directly to your location, maintaining smooth positioning and immediate front-line shielding.
The Golem Super-Boost: Your primary active interaction involves spamming Skeleton Mages. Because you operate at your maximum minion cap, casting a new Skeleton Mage forces an existing one to despawn. The game registers this despawn as a minion death, which continuously triggers a massive multiplicative fire damage-over-time buff for your Golems.
Passive Auras: Aura of Decay and Dread Shade remain active to constantly shred enemy resistances and multiply minion damage over time, turning high-health targets into ash within seconds.
Standard Gear
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Skills
Aura of Decay
Converted entirely to fire through unique footwear, this aura acts as a massive debuff engine. The specialization points focus on providing fire and ignite resistance to the player, increasing the aura's area of effect, and applying high stacks of fire shred and ignite to nearby enemies to drastically lower their resistances.
Aura of Decay
Converted entirely to fire through unique footwear, this aura acts as a massive debuff engine. The specialization points focus on providing fire and ignite resistance to the player, increasing the aura's area of effect, and applying high stacks of fire shred and ignite to nearby enemies to drastically lower their resistances.
(Click on the image to expand it)Passives
Acolyte
A straightforward foundation tree used to establish core stats. Points are invested to gather raw intelligence, necrotic resistance, cast speed, and ward retention. The final nodes provide a heavy chunk of base armor directly to your minions to ensure they survive high-corruption environments.
Acolyte
A straightforward foundation tree used to establish core stats. Points are invested to gather raw intelligence, necrotic resistance, cast speed, and ward retention. The final nodes provide a heavy chunk of base armor directly to your minions to ensure they survive high-corruption environments.
(Click on the image to expand it)Idols
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(click to enlarge)Prophesied Altar
Any Atlar that boosts suffix or prefixes are ideal for the build.
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FAQ
Here are some of the most frequently asked questions for this guide:
What is the general level of corruption this build can obtain with standard gear?
This build can reach 800 to 1200 corruption in endgame Monoliths when equipping the standard gear shown in our Last Epoch build guide.
Does this build have a downloadable Last Epoch loot filter?
Yes, the Last Epoch loot filter can be found here.
Follow these steps to add it to your character:
Select the Export button - then “copy it to the clipboard”.
Load the Last Epoch game and goto your chosen character.
Go to the loot filter section, or hit Ctrl-F and select “create a new loot filter”.
Now select the “paste from clipboard” option.
Save the new loot filter under whatever name you choose.
