Necromancy Abilities

Introduction

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Some general notes:

⬥ The game runs on an internal tick system: 1t (tick) = 0.6s (seconds).

⬥ The minimum time between abilities is called the global cooldown: 1 gcd = 3t = 1.8s.

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Necromancy

This section covers the basic abilities, enhanced abilities, ultimate abilities, conjures and commands, special attacks, and incantations for Necromancy.

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Basic Abilities

Necromancy

⬥ Cooldown: 3t (1.8s) ⬥ Affected by :     • Gain ( Rank * 0.05) more adrenaline ⬥ Automatically activated when in combat (toggleable) ⬥ Generates 1 Death Spark stack if Omni Guard is equipped     • At 6 Death Spark stacks the will deal double damage

Touch of Death

⬥ Cooldown: 24t (14.4s) ⬥ Generates 4 stacks

Soul Sap

⬥ Cooldown: 9t (5.4s) ⬥ Generates 1 stack

Enhanced Abilities

Soul Strike

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Requires minimum 1 stack. One stack is consumed on use. ⬥ Stuns and Binds for 5t (3s) ⬥ Deals a reduced amount of damage to enemies within 1 tile of target

Volley of Souls

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Requires minimum 2 stacks. All stacks consumed on use.

Finger of Death

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Base adrenaline cost of 60% ⬥ Adrenaline cost reduced by 10% for each stack ⬥ Consumes up to 6 stacks

Bloat

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Base adrenaline cost of 20% ⬥ Applies Bloated debuff to target for 10 hits ⬥ Bloated:     • 25% of initial damage per hit every 3t (1.8s)     • On Death: Applies Bloated to up to 9 enemies within 1 tile for 4 hits

Spectral Scythe

⬥ Cooldown: 25t (15s) ⬥ Base adrenaline cost of 10% ⬥ AoE damage in a cone (max 9 targets) ⬥ On-hit: 25% chance to generate 1 stack per target hit ⬥ Able to be re-cast upon unlock from the Necromancy skill tree:     • 2nd cast costs 20% and does AoE within 2 tiles of you (25 max targets, in addition to your primary target)         ⬩ Also has a 25% chance to generate a stack per target hit     • 3rd cast costs 30% and does AoE within 2 tiles of you (25 max targets, in addition to your primary target)         ⬩ Damage is increased by 1% per 1% missing life points on target

Blood Siphon

⬥ Cooldown: 75t (45s) ⬥ No adrenaline cost ⬥ AoE to enemies within 2 tiles of player ⬥ Channeled attack: 4 hits over 8t (4.8s)     • Completing the full channel deals 100% of the total heal plus extra damage to the target ⬥ Heal for 70% of the damage dealt

Ultimate Abilities

Death Skulls

⬥ Cooldown: 100t (60s) ⬥ Launches a Death Skull that bounces up to 4 times after hitting the target ⬥ Prioritises enemies by maximum life points, but can also bounce off of you ⬥ The Necromancy Zuk Cape reduces the adrenaline cost of this ability to 60% and also adds two additional bounces

Living Death

⬥ Cooldown: 150t (90s) ⬥ Change forms into Death form, empowering Necromancy abilities for 30s ⬥ On-cast: the cooldowns of and are reset ⬥ While active:     • generates 2 stacks     • generates an addition 6% adrenaline     • deals 1.5x damage     • cooldown reduced to 10.2s

Conjures and Commands

Listed conjure durations do not account for the Spirit Pact unlocks in the Necromancy talent tree nor the set effect of the First Necromancer armour

Conjure Skeleton Warrior

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ 70t (42s) duration ⬥ Conjure a Skeleton warrior:     • Skeleton attacks every 5t (3s)     • Generates 1 Rage stack with each attack     • Deals an additional 3% ability damage per Rage stack

Command Skeleton Warrior

⬥ Cooldown: 25t (15s) ⬥ Commands a conjured skeleton to rapidly perform additional attacks (every 2t (1.2s)) for 10t (6s)

Conjure Vengeful Ghost

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ 70t (42s) duration ⬥ Conjure a Vengeful Ghost:     • Ghost attacks every 7t (4.2s)     • Heal for 140% of the damage dealt by the ghost

Command Vengeful Ghost

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Applies Haunted to the target     • Haunted: Takes up to 10% bonus damage from all attacks, capped at 20% ability damage

Conjure Putrid Zombie

⬥ Cooldown: 50t (30s) ⬥ 70t (42s) duration ⬥ Conjure a Putrid Zombie:     • Zombie attacks every 6t (3.6s)     • Zombie inflicts poison damage every 3t (1.8s) to enemies within 1 tile

Command Putrid Zombie

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Command the Zombie to explode, dealing large damage to enemies within 2 tiles

Conjure Phantom Guardian

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ 70t (42s) duration ⬥ Conjure a Phantom Guardian:     • Does not auto attack     • Reduces core damage taken by 5%, up to 10% of your ability damage         ⬩ Core damage refers to the 4 combat styles     • Generates 1 stack of Valour per incoming hit, up to 25

Command Phantom Guardian

⬥ Cooldown: 15t (9s) ⬥ Deals 45%-55% Necromancy Spirit damage to the target and up to 4 additional enemies within 1 tile of the target ⬥ Consumes all Valour and increases damage dealt by 20% for each stack     • Caps at 270%-330% damage at 25 stacks

Conjure Undead Army

⬥ Casts up to 4 conjure abilities ⬥ Consumes 2x the ectoplasm for each ability

Special Attacks

Death Grasp / /

⬥ Cooldown: 50t (30s) ⬥ Base adrenaline cost of 25% ⬥ Stuns and Binds the target for 8t (4.8s) ⬥ Deals extra damage for each stack held, but also consumes all stacks     • The spec seems to hitcap easily without many stacks, so consider using if at high stacks before using the Death Grasp as to not waste stacks

Death Essence

⬥ Cooldown: 100t (60s) ⬥ Base adrenaline cost of 30% ⬥ 50t (30s) duration ⬥ On-cast: immediately readies Death Spark     • Death Spark causes to deal double damage ⬥ For the duration, , , and immediately ready Death Spark

Incantations

Lesser Bone Shield

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Toggleable bone shield with a tier matching 25% level     • Allows the use of non-offensive abilities that typically require a shield ⬥ Rune cost:     • 5     • 5

Threads of Fate

⬥ Cooldown: 75t (45s) ⬥ 11t (6.6s) duration ⬥ necromancy attacks will also be cast on up to 4 additional enemies within 4 tiles of the target ⬥ Soul sap generates residual souls equal to number of targets ⬥ Rune cost:     • 5     • 2     • 1

Greater Bone Shield

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Toggleable bone shield with a tier matching 50% level     • Allows the use of non-offensive abilities that typically require a shield ⬥ Rune cost:     • 10     • 10     • 5

Life Transfer

⬥ Cooldown: 75t (45s) ⬥ Deals self damage equal to 50% max health ⬥ Extends the duration of all active spirits by 34t (20.4s) ⬥ Rune cost:     • 10     • 5     • 2     • 1

Invoke Lord of Bones

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Gain a 60-second buff making your Skeleton Warrior apply a stack of the Shattering bones debuff per attack ⬥ Shattering bones: Reduces armour rating by 0.2% per stack     • Up to 200 stacks can be applied (-40% armour rating) ⬥ Rune cost:     • 8     • 6     • 2     • 1

Invoke Death

⬥ Cooldown: 6t (3.6s) ⬥ 10t (6s) duration ⬥ Your next necromancy attack during the 10t duration applies Death Mark     • If your target drops below 20% hp, the next necromancy attack to hit it will execute it. Damage caps at 30,000 ⬥ Rune cost:     • 5     • 2     • 2     • 1

Invoke Arisen Flesh

⬥ No cooldown ⬥ 150t (90s) duration ⬥ Each Zombie attack deals 6% max LP as damage to you     • Zombie attacks deal 75% of this as additional damage     • This additional damage is doubled when <50% LP ⬥ Rune cost:     • 10     • 2     • 8     • 1

Darkness

⬥ No cooldown ⬥ 1200t (12 min) duration ⬥ Applies the Darkness aspect to self     • 20% chance to dodge incoming attacks ⬥ Rune cost:     • 40     • 20     • 10     • 5

Aspect of Evasion: You may only have one aspect active at once

Split Soul

⬥ Cooldown: 100t (60s) ⬥ 34t (20.4s) duration ⬥ 400% of the healing from soul split will instead be dealt as damage ⬥ Rune cost:     • 10     • 5     • 2     • 1

Necromancy Ability Index

⬥ Click the links to quickly navigate to that ability's information. ⬥ General notes can be found in the introduction here.

Basic

⬥ Necromancy (Auto) ⬥ Touch of Death ⬥ Soul Sap

Enhanced

⬥ Soul Strike ⬥ Volley of Souls ⬥ Finger of Death ⬥ Bloat ⬥ Spectral Scythe ⬥ Blood Siphon

Ultimate

⬥ Living Death ⬥ Death Skulls

Conjures/Commands

⬥ Skeleton Warrior     • Conjure     • Command ⬥ Vengeful Ghost     • Conjure     • Command ⬥ Putrid Zombie     • Conjure     • Command ⬥ Phantom Guardian     • Conjure     • Command

Special Attacks

⬥ Death Grasp ⬥ Death Essence

Incantations

⬥ Lesser Bone Shield ⬥ Threads of Fate ⬥ Greater Bone Shield ⬥ Life Transfer ⬥ Invoke Lord of Bones ⬥ Invoke Death ⬥ Invoke Arisen Flesh ⬥ Darkness ⬥ Split Soul