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Best Necromancer Skills To Use

Basic Skills
Tier Skill Description
A Tier
Fire 3 bone splinters, dealing 22.5% damage each. Each subsequent time an enemy is hit by the same cast of Bone Splinters, you gain 1 Essence.
Damage Type:
Physical
Lucky Hit Chance: 17%
Generate Essence: 5
Upgrades
Enhanced Bone Splinters
Acolyte's Bone Splinters
Initiate's Bone Splinters
A Tier
Sweep an ethereal scythe in front of you, dealing 12% damage. Hitting an enemy with Reap increases your Damage Reduction by 15% for 2 seconds.
Damage Type:
Shadow
Lucky Hit Chance: 17%
Generate Essence: 4 per hit
Upgrades
Enhanced Reap
Acolyte's Reap
Initiate's Reap
B Tier
Tear the flesh from an enemy, dealing 30% damage per second and forming a usable Corpse with the flesh every 2.5 seconds.
Damage Type:
Shadow
Lucky Hit Chance: 40%
Generate Essence: 6
Upgrades
Enhanced Decompose
Acolyte's Decompose
Initiate's Decompose
B Tier
Burst an enemy's blood, dealing 25% damage. Hemorrhage has a 20% chance to form a Blood Orb.
Damage Type:
Physical
Lucky Hit Chance: 40%
Generate Essence: 7
Upgrades
Enhanced Hemorrhage
Acolyte's Hemorrhage
Initiate's Hemorrhage
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Core Skills
Tier Skill Description
A Tier
Conjure a bone spear from the ground, dealing 85% damage and piercing through enemies.
Damage Type:
Physical
Lucky Hit Chance: 50%
Essence Cost: 25
Upgrades
Enhanced Bone Spear
Paranormal Bone Spear
Supernatural Bone Spear
B Tier
Unleash concentrated blight that deals 30% damage and leaves behind a defiled area, dealing 80% damage over 6 seconds.
Damage Type:
Shadow
Lucky Hit Chance: 40%
Essence Cost: 25
Upgrades
Enhanced Blight
Paranormal Blight
Supernatural Blight
B Tier
Draw blood from enemies, dealing 20% damage, and expel a blood nova, dealing 50% damage. Blood Surge's nova damage is increased by x10% per enemy drained, up to x50%.
Damage Type:
Physical
Lucky Hit Chance: 20%
Upgrades
Enhanced Blood Surge
Paranormal Blood Surge
Supernatural Blood Surge
B Tier
A specter of you charges forward and attacks with its scythe for 42 damage then returns to you and attacks again for X damage.
Damage Type:
Shadow
Lucky Hit Chance: 20%
Essence Cost: 20
Upgrades
Enhanced Sever
Paranormal Sever
Supernatural Sever
C Tier
Throw a blood lance that lingers in an enemy for 3 seconds, dealing 45% damage to the enemy and all other lanced enemies.
Damage Type:
Physical
Lucky Hit Chance: 40%
Essence Cost: 10
Upgrades
Enhanced Blood Lance
Paranormal Blood Lance
Supernatural Blood Lance
B Tier
Lucky Hit: Your damage has up to a 4% chance to create a Corpse at the target's location. This chance is doubled against Bosses.
C Tier
Your Core Skills cost 5% more Essence, but deal 10% increased damage.
D Tier
Your maximum Essence is increased by 3
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Macabre Skills
Tier Skill Description
S Tier
Detonate a Corpse, dealing 75% damage to surrounding enemies
Damage Type:
Physical
Lucky Hit Chance: 40%
Upgrades
Enhanced Corpse Explosion
Blighted Corpse Explosion
Plagued Corpse Explosion
A Tier
Disperse into a bloody mist, becoming Immune for 3 seconds. Your Movement Speed is reduced by 20% and you periodically deal X damage to enemies and Healing for 0.5% of your Maximum Life.
Damage Type:
Physical
Upgrades
Enhanced Blood Mist
Dreadful Blood Mist
Ghastly Blood Mist
C Tier
Unearth a prison of bone with X Life that surrounds the target area for 6 seconds.
Cooldown: 20 Seconds
Upgrades
Enhanced Bone Prison
Dreadful Bone Prison
Ghastly Bone Prison
A Tier
You deal 4% increased damage for 4 seconds after consuming a Corpse.
A Tier
Consuming a corpse generates 3 Essence.
B Tier
Increase the damage and Life of your Skeletal Warriors by 15%.
C Tier
Gain 3 Thorns
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Curse Skills
Tier Skill Description
A Tier
Curse the target area. Enemies afflicted by Iron Maiden take X damage each time they deal direct damage. Lasts 10 seconds
Damage Type:
Physical
Essence Cost: 10
Upgrades
Enhanced Iron Maiden
Abhorrent Iron Maiden
Horrid Iron Maiden
B Tier
Curse the target area. Enemies afflicted by Decrepify are Slowed by 50% and deal 25% less damage for 10 seconds.
Damage Type:
Physical
Essence Cost: 10
Upgrades
Enhanced Decrepify
Abhorrent Decrepify
Horrid Decrepify
B Tier
You deal 3% increased damage to Cursed enemies.
B Tier
Close enemies take 2% more damage from you and deal 3% less damage to you.
B Tier
You deal 4% increased damage to Distant enemies.
B Tier
Increase the damage and life of your Skeletal Mages by 15%
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Summoning Skills
Tier Skill Description
A Tier
Consume all of your Essence to conjure a spirit of bone that seeks enemies. Upon reaching an enemy, the spirit explodes, dealing 80% damage to the target and all surrounding enemies. Damage is increased by x3% for each point of Essence spent casting Bone Spirit.
Damage Type:
Physical
Lucky Hit Chance: 33%
Cooldown: 12 Seconds
Essence Cost: All remaining Essence
Upgrades
Enhanced Bone Spirit
Dreadful Bone Spirit
Ghastly Bone Spirit
B Tier
Veins burst out of a Corpse, Pulling in enemies, Stunning them for 3 seconds, and dealing 20% damage to them. Does not consume the Corpse.
Damage Type:
Physical
Lucky Hit Chance: 20%
Cooldown: 11 seconds
Upgrades
Enhanced Corpse Tendrils
Blighted Corpse Tendrils
Plagued Corpse Tendrils
A Tier
Lucky Hit: Darkness Skills have up to a 15% chance to Stun for 1 seconds.
A Tier
Lucky Hit: Hitting enemies with Blood Skills has up to a 25% chance to Fortify you for 2% Base Life.
A Tier
When a Corpse is formed from your Skills or your Minions, Fortify for 2% Base Life.
B Tier
While Healthy your Blood Skills deal 6% increased damage.
B Tier
After Critically Striking 10 times with Bone Skills, your Bone Skills deal 5% increased damage per 5 seconds.
B Tier
Your Bone Skills deal 6% increased Critical Strike Damage to Vulnerable enemies.
B Tier
When you damage enemies with Darkness Skills, they take 2% increased Shadow Damage from you and your Minions for 2 seconds, stacking up to 3 times.
B Tier
Damaging enemies with Darkness Skills increases your movement speed by 5% for 3 Seconds.
B Tier
Your Bone skills have a 0.5% increased Critical Strike Chance for each 10 Essence you have upon cast.
B Tier
Darkness Skills deal 3% bonus damage to enemies who are slowed, and 3% bonus damage to enemies who are stunned or immobilized. These bonuses stack and apply to shadow damage dealt by your Minions.
B Tier
Blood Orbs also Heal your Minions for 15% of the amount.
C Tier
While below 50% Life, you receive 10% more Healing from all sources.
C Tier
Every 100 Essence you spend reduces the cooldowns of your Bone skills by 0.5 seconds.
C Tier
Your Blood Skills deal 5% increased Overpower damage. This bonus is doubled while you are Healthy.
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Ultimate Skills
Tier Skill Description
S Tier
A swirling storm of bones appears around you and your Golem, dealing 180% to surrounding enemies over 10 seconds.
Damage Type:
Physical
Lucky Hit Chance: 40%
Cooldown: 60 Seconds
Upgrades
Prime Bone Storm
Supreme Bone Storm
A Tier
Call forth the deep buried dead. Volatile Skeletons emerge over the next 7 seconds that explode when around enemies, dealing 30% damage.
Damage Type:
Physical
Lucky Hit Chance: 54%
Cooldown: 90 seconds
Upgrades
Prime Army of the Dead
Supreme Army of the Dead
B Tier
Conjure a tidal wave of blood that deals 90% damage and Knocks Back enemies.
Damage Type:
Physical
Lucky Hit Chance: 30%
Cooldown: 50 seconds
Upgrades
Prime Blood Wave
Supreme Blood Wave
S Tier
Every 5 seconds, your Skeletal Priest's Healing will Heal your Skeletons for 20% of their Maximum Life
S Tier
Increases Damage Reduction by 6% reduced by 2% for each active Minion
A Tier
Your Minions cannot lose more than 75% of their Maximum Life from a single damage instance.
A Tier
After you have been Healthy for at least 4 second, you and your Minions gain 4% Attack Speed.
B Tier
Increase the damage and Life of your Golem by 15%
B Tier
Your Minions deal 10% increased damage while you are Close to them.
B Tier
Sacrificing both Skeletal Warriors and Skeletal Mages increases their Sacrifice bonuses by 20%
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Key Passive Skills
Tier Skill Description
S Tier
Your Bone Skills deal 1% increased damage for each point of Essence you have above 50 upon cast.
A Tier
After you have not taken damage in the last 3 seconds, your Minions gain 15% Attack Speed. While you have at least 7 Minions, this bonus is doubled.
A Tier
Shadow Damage infects enemies with Shadowblight for 2 seconds. You and your minions deal 10% bonus damage to enemies with Shadowblight. Every 10th time an enemy receives Shadow damage from you or your Minions while they are affected by Shadowblight, they take additional 20% Shadow Damage.
B Tier
Increase your Maximum Life by 10%. After being Healthy for 15 seconds, your next Blood skill Overpowers.
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