Necromancer Skill Tree

The Necromancer has access to six groups of skills:

• Basic - Generate Essence with no cooldown so always available to cast.
• Core - Powerful attacks that cost Essence but have no cooldown.
• Corpse & Macabre - Control the battle and manipulate the deceased.
• Curse - Afflict debilitating effects over an area.
• Corpse & Macabre - More controlling the battle and manipulating the dead but with shorter cooldowns.
• Ultimate - Big hitting physical damage with matching cooldowns.
  • Key Passives - Icing on the cake at no cost to Essence but only one can have a point at a time.

The tables are read from left to right with the upgrades listed to the left of the main skill. All talents are listed in yellow.

Basic Required Points: 0

Decompose Generate Essence: 13 per second Lucky Hit Chance: 40% Tear the flesh from an enemy, dealing 60% damage per second and forming a usable Corpse with the flesh every 1 second. Damage: Shadow Damage Tags: Basic, Darkness, Channeled	Enhanced Decompose Decompose now causes a small explosion dealing 40% damage when creating a Corpse or when the enemy dies, and you gain 10 Essence.	Initiate's Decompose Decompose Slows (CC) enemies by 50%. When Decompose explodes, you gain + 30% Movement Speed for 8 seconds.
		Acolyte's Decompose Explosions from Decompose make enemies Vulnerable for 4 seconds.

* Vulnerable enemies take 20% increased damage.

Hemorrhage Generate Essence: 13 Lucky Hit Chance: 50% Burst an enemy's blood, dealing 40% damage. Hemorrhage has a 20% chance to form a Blood Orb. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Basic, Blood	Enhanced Hemorrhage After picking up a Blood Orb, your next Hemorrhage also deals damage to enemies around your target and grants 2 additional Essence per enemy hit	Initiate's Hemorrhage Hemorrhage grants 1.6% of your Maximum Life as Fortify each time it hits an enemy, and has a 1.5% chance per enemy hit to Fortify you for 100% of your Maximum Life.
		{{:Acolyte's Hemorrha

* Healthy is a Status Effect that means above 80% of Life.

Bone Splinters Generate Essence: 10 Lucky Hit Chance: 30% Fire 3 splinters of bone, dealing 15% damage each. Each subsequent time an enemy is hit by the same cast of Bone Splinters, you gain 1 Essence. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Basic, Bone	Enhanced Bone Splinters Bone Splinters has a 25% chance to fire 2 additional projectiles if cast while you have 50 or more Essence.	Initiate's Bone Splinters Bone Splinters has a 20% chance per hit to make enemies Vulnerable for 2 seconds.
		Acolyte's Bone Splinters Hitting the same enemy at least 3 times with the same cast of Bone Splinters grants + 8% Critical Strike Chance for 4 seconds.

Reap Generate Essence: 4 per enemy hit, 15 for a Boss. Lucky Hit Chance: 30% Sweep an ethereal scythe in front of you, dealing 20% damage. Hitting an enemy with Reap increases your Damage Reduction by 15% for 4 seconds. Damage: Shadow Damage Tags: Basic, Darkness	Enhanced Reap If an enemy hit by Reap dies within 2 seconds, you gain 30%[+] Attack Speed for 3 seconds.	Initiate's Reap Reap instantly kills enemies below 5% Life. This does not work on Bosses or Players.
		Acolyte's Reap Reap forms a Corpse under the first enemy hit. Can only occur every 5 seconds.

Core Required Points: 2

Blight Essence Cost: 20 Lucky Hit Chance: 40% Unleash concentrated blight that deals 40% damage and leaves behind a defiled area, dealing 135% damage over 6 seconds (DoT). Damage: Shadow Damage Tags: Core, Darkness	Enhanced Blight Blight's radius is increased by 15% and directly hitting an Elite with it doubles the damage of its defile area.	Supernatural Blight You and your Minions deal x 20% increased damage to enemies within Blight.
		Paranormal Blight Blight has a 25% chance to instantly Freeze (CC) enemies on impact for for 3 seconds and its defiled area also Chills (CC) enemies for 15% every second..

Blood Surge Essence Cost: 30 Lucky Hit Chance: 12% Draw blood from enemies, dealing 20% damage, and expel a blood nova, dealing 70% damage. Blood Surge's nova damage is increased by 5%[x] per enemy drained, up to 50%[x]. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Core, Blood	Enhanced Blood Surge If an enemy is damaged by Blood Surge's nova, then gain 1 stack of Overwhelming Blood. When you have 5 stacks of Overwhelming Blood, your next Blood Surge Overpowers.	Supernatural Blood Surge Each time an enemy is hit by Blood Surge's nova, you are Fortified for 1.1% Maximum life. While you have Fortify for over 50% of your Maximum Life, Blood Surge deals 50%[x] increased damage.
		Paranormal Blood Surge Picking up a Blood Orb grants 3 stacks of Overwhelming Blood.

Blood Lance Essence Cost: 15 Lucky Hit Chance: 50% Throw a blood lance that lingers in an enemy for 3 seconds, dealing 130% damage to the enemy and all other lanced enemies. Blood Lance applies the lanced effect to another surrounding enemy, and if it initially hit a lanced enemy, it deals 100% increased damage. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Core, Blood	Enhanced Blood Lance After casting Blood Lance 5 times, your next cast of Blood Lance is guaranteed to Overpower and spawns a Blood Orb under the first enemy hit.	Supernatural Blood Lance Blood Lance deals 15%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage and 15%[x] increased Overpower Damage.
		Paranormal Blood Lance While at least 2 enemies or a Boss are affected by Blood Lance, you gain + 15% Attack Speed and Blood Lance's Essence cost is reduced by 3.

Bone Spear Essence Cost: 25 Lucky Hit Chance: 50% Conjure a bone spear from the ground, dealing 130% damage and piercing through enemies. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Core, Bone	Enhanced Bone Spear Bone Spear breaks into 3 bone shards when it is destroyed, dealing 25% damage each.	Supernatural Bone Spear Bone Spear makes the first enemy hit Vulnerable for 3 seconds.
		Paranormal Bone Spear Bone Spear has a +5% increased Critical Strike Chance. If Bone Spear's primary projectile Critically Strikes, it fires 2 additional bone shards upon being destroyed.

Sever Essence Cost: 20 Lucky Hit Chance: 40% A specter of you charges forward and attacks with its scythe for 110% damage then returns to you and attacks again for 45% damage. Damage: Shadow Damage Tags: Core, Darkness	Enhanced Sever Sever deals 85% of its initial damage along its path and Slows (CC) enemies by 40% for 3 seconds.	Supernatural Sever Casting Sever deals x 2% increased damage for each Minion you have and spawns a Corpse at its end point.
		Paranormal Sever Every 3rd cast of Sever Fears enemies and makes them Vulnerable for 3 seconds.

Passives

Hewed Flesh 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.	Imperfectly Balanced Your Core Skills cost 3%[x] more Essence, but deal 5%[x] increased damage.
Unliving Energy Your maximum Essence is increased by 3.

Corpse & Macabre Required Points: 6

Corpse Explosion Lucky Hit Chance: 25% Detonate a Corpse, dealing 85% damage to surrounding enemies. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Corpse, Corruption Fueled by Death You deal 3%[x] increased damage for 6 seconds after consuming a Corpse. Prerequisite: Can also reach Fueled by Death via Corpse Explosion.	Enhanced Corpse Explosion Corpse Explosion's radius is increased by 15%.	Plagued Corpse Explosion Corpse Explosion deals 10%[x] increased damage to enemies that are Slowed (CC), Stunned (CC) or Vulnerable. These damage bonuses can stack.
		Blighted Corpse Explosion Corpse Explosion becomes a Darkness Skill and, instead of exploding, releases a vile miasma dealing 110% Shadow Damage over 6 seconds (DoT).

• Direct access to Passive Fueled by Death

Bone Prison Cooldown: 15 seconds Unearth a prison of bone with 120 Life that surrounds the target area for 6 seconds. Tags: Macabre, Bone	Enhanced Bone Prison Enemies inside of Bone Prison when cast are made Vulnerable and take x15% increased damage for 8 seconds.	Ghastly Bone Prison Casting Bone Prison grants 40 Essence. Trapping a Boss generates another 25 Essence.
		Dreadful Bone Prison Reduce your active Cooldowns by 0.5 seconds for each enemy trapped by Bone Prison, up to 5 seconds.

Blood Mist Cooldown: 24 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 8.73% Disperse into a bloody mist, becoming Immune for 3 seconds. You periodically deal 35% damage to enemies and Heal for 0.5% of your Maximum Life. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Macabre, Blood	Enhanced Blood Mist Casting a skill that Overpowers reduces the cooldown of Blood Mist by 2 seconds.	Dreadful Blood Mist You gain +15% Critical Strike Chance and 10% Critical Strike Damage for 5 seconds after Blood Mist ends.
		Ghastly Blood Mist Blood Mist is now a Mobility Skill that grants +30% Movement Speed, spawning a Corpse every second and applying Vulnerable for 5 seconds to enemies it passes through.

Passives

Necrotic Fortitude Lucky Hit: Your damage has up to a 5 / 10 / 15% chance to grant a Barrier for 5% of your Maximum Life for 6 seconds.

Titan's Fall While Fortified you deal 6 / 12 / 18%[x] increased damage to Elites.

Spiked Armor Gain 32 Thorns and 5%[x] additional Armor.

Skeletal Warrior Mastery Increase the damage and Life of your Skeletal Warriors by 15%[x] . Damage: Physical Damage

Grim Harvest Consuming a Corpse generates 2 Essence.

Fueled by Death You deal 3%[x] increased damage for 6 seconds after consuming a Corpse. Prerequisite: Can also reach Fueled by Death via Corpse Explosion.

Curse Required Points: 11

Iron Maiden Essence Cost: 10 Curse the target area. Enemies afflicted by Iron Maiden take 30% damage every 2 seconds and each time they deal direct damage. Lasts 10 seconds. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Curse, Corruption	Enhanced Iron Maiden Iron Maiden no longer costs Essence. Instead, gain 5 Essence for each enemy Cursed. Does not work with enemies already cursed with Iron Maiden.	Horrid Iron Maiden When at least 3 enemies are afflicted by Iron Maiden , its damage is increased by x30%.
		Abhorrent Iron Maiden Heal for 7% of your Maximum Life when an enemy dies while afflicted with Iron Maiden.

Decrepify Essence Cost: 10 Curse the target area. Enemies afflicted by Decrepify are Slowed (CC) by 40.0% and deal 20.0% less damage for 10 seconds. Tags: Curse, Corruption	Enhanced Decrepify Lucky Hit: Enemies hit while afflicted with Decrepify have up to a 10% chance to be Stunned (CC) for 2 seconds.	Horrid Decrepify When you or your Minions hit an enemy afflicted with Decrepify below 10% Life, they are instantly killed. Does not work on Bosses.
		Abhorrent Decrepify Lucky Hit: Enemies hit while afflicted with Decrepify have up to a 15% chance to reduce your active cooldowns by 1 second.

Passives

Death's Embrace Close enemies take 2%[x] more damage from you and deal 4% less damage to you.

Death's Approach You gain 5 / 10 / 15%[+] Movement Speed.

Precision Decay Your Lucky Hit chance is increased by 5 / 10 / 15%[+].

Skeletal Mage Mastery Increase the damage and Life of your Skeletal Mages by 20%[x] . Damage: Physical Damage

Amplify Damage You deal 4 / 8 / 12%[x] increased damage to Cursed enemies. Tags: Curse

Corpse & Macabre 2 Required Points: 16

Corpse Tendrils Cooldown: 11 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 30% Veins burst out of a Corpse, Pulling in enemies, Stunning (CC) them for 3 seconds, and dealing 20% damage to them. Does not consume the Corpse. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Corpse, Corruption	Enhanced Corpse Tendrils Enemies who are in range of Corpse Tendrils are Slowed (CC) by 50% before being Pulled.	Blighted Corpse Tendrils Corpse Tendrils has a 30% chance to drop a Blood Orb when damaging enemies.
		Plagued Corpse Tendrils Enemies damaged by Corpse Tendrils are made Vulnerable for 3 seconds.

Bone Spirit Cooldown: 12 seconds Essence Cost: All Remaining Essence Lucky Hit Chance: 33% 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 x4% for each point of Essence spent casting Bone Spirit. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Macabre, Bone, Core Compound Fracture After Critically Striking 10 times with Bone Skills, your Bone Skills deal 6%[x] increased damage for 5 seconds. Prerequisite: Can also reach Compound Fracture via Bone Spirit. Evulsion Your Bone Skills deal x6% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies. Rapid Ossification Every 100 Essence you spend reduces the Cooldowns of your Bone Skills by 0.5 seconds. Prerequisite: Can also reach Rapid Ossification via Bone Spirit.	Enhanced Bone Spirit If Bone Spirit Critically Strikes, its Cooldown is reduced by 7 seconds. This effect can only happen once per cast.	Ghastly Bone Spirit Bone Spirit has an additional +10% Critical Strike Chance.
		Dreadful Bone Spirit After Bone Spirit hits an enemy, you restore 30% of your Maximum Essence over the next 4 seconds.

• Direct access to Passives Compound Fracture, Evulsion and Rapid Ossification

Passives

Coalesced Blood While Healthy your Blood Skills deal 6%[x] increased damage.	Drain Vitality Lucky Hit: Hitting enemies with Blood Skills has up to a 30% chance to Fortify you for 2.5% of your Maximum Life.
	Tides of Blood Your Blood Skills deal 5%[x] increased Overpower damage. This bonus is doubled while you are Healthy.
Gruesome Mending You receive + 10 / 20 / 30% more Healing from all sources.	Transfusion Lucky Hit: Your Blood Skills have up to a 3% chance to create a Blood Orb at the target's location. This can only occur once every 2 seconds. This chance is doubled against Bosses.

Necrotic Carapace When a Corpse is formed from your skills or your Minions, Fortify for 2% of your Maximum Life.

Serration Your Bone Skills have a 0.3%[+] increased Critical Strike Chance for each 30 Essence you have upon cast.	Rapid Ossification Every 100 Essence you spend reduces the Cooldowns of your Bone Skills by 0.5 seconds. Prerequisite: Can also reach Rapid Ossification via Bone Spirit.	Evulsion Your Bone Skills deal x6% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies.
	>>> Serration direct to Evulsion>>>
	Compound Fracture After Critically Striking 10 times with Bone Skills, your Bone Skills deal 6%[x] increased damage for 5 seconds. Prerequisite: Can also reach Compound Fracture via Bone Spirit.

Reaper's Pursuit Damaging enemies with Darkness Skills increases your Movement Speed by 5%[+] for 3 seconds.	Gloom When you damage enemies with Darkness Skills, they take 2%[x] increased Shadow damage from you and your Minions for 2 seconds, stacking up to 4 times.	Terror You deal 3%[x] increased Shadow damage to enemies who are Slowed (CC) or Chilled, and 3%[x] increased Shadow damage to enemies who are Stunned, Immobilized, or Frozen. These bonuses stack and apply to Shadow damage dealt by your Minions.
	>>> Reaper's Pursuit direct to Terror>>>
	Crippling Darkness Lucky Hit: Darkness Skills have up to a 15% chance to Stun (CC) for 1 seconds and deal 20% Shadow damage to them.

Ultimate Required Points: 23 - You can have only one Ultimate active at a time.

Soulrift Cooldown: 50 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 20% For 8 seconds, you corrupt surrounding enemies, dealing 65% damage per second. Every 0.25 seconds of this duration, you absorb the souls of up to 3 enemies, gaining 2 Essence and a Barrier for 2% of your Maximum Life for 5 seconds. You absorb 3 souls at a time from Bosses. Every 30 souls consumed refills 1 of your Health Potions with the lifeblood of your victims. Damage: Shadow Tags: Ultimate, Darkness

Prime Soulrift Soulrift extracts twice the souls from enem9ies and applies Vulnerable to them for 3 seconds. After it ends, all surrounding enemies are Feared (CC) and Slowed (CC) by 85% for 5 seconds.

Supreme Soulrift Every soul absorbed increases your damage by 0.5%[x], up to 75%[x]. This bonus persists for 5 seconds after Soulrift ends.

Blood Wave Cooldown: 50 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 50% Conjure a tidal wave of blood that deals 500% damage and Knocks Back (CC) enemies. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Ultimate, Blood

Prime Blood Wave Casting Blood Wave grants 20% Damage Reduction for 10 seconds.

Supreme Blood Wave Blood Wave leaves behind 6 Blood Orbs as it travels.

Bone Storm Cooldown: 60 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 40% A swirling storm of bones appears around you and your Golem, dealing 350% damage to surrounding enemies over 10 seconds. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Ultimate, Bone

Prime Bone Storm Your Damage Reduction is increased by 15% while Bone Storm is active.

Supreme Bone Storm Your Critical Strike Chance is increased by +20% while Bone Storm is active.

Army of the Dead Cooldown: 70 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 64% Call forth the deep buried dead. Volatile Skeletons emerge over the next 7 seconds that explode when around enemies, dealing 45% damage. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Ultimate, Summoning Hellbent Commander While you control at least 7 Minions, your Minions deal 10%[x] increased damage. Prerequisite: Can also reach Hellbent Commander via Army of the Dead. Death's Defense Your Minions gain 4%[+] increased Armor and 8%[+] increased Resistance to All Elements. Prerequisite: Can also reach Death's Defense via Army of the Dead.

Prime Army of the Dead When Army of the Dead's Volatile Skeletons explode, they have a 100% chance to leave behind a Corpse.

Supreme Army of the Dead Army of the Dead also raises your Skeletal Warriors and Skeletal Mages.

• Direct access to Passives Hellbent Commander and Death's Defense

Passives

Stand Alone Increases Damage Reduction by 6% when you have no minions. Each active minion reduces this bonus by 2%.	Memento Mori Sacrificing both Skeletal Warriors and Skeletal Mages increases their Sacrifice bonuses by 20%.
Golem Mastery Increase the damage and Life of your Golem by 25%[x] . Damage: Physical Damage
Finality You deal 5 / 10 / 15%[x] increased damage for 8 seconds after casting an Ultimate Skill.

Hellbent Commander While you control at least 7 Minions, your Minions deal 10%[x] increased damage. Prerequisite: Can also reach Hellbent Commander via Army of the Dead.	Death's Defense Your Minions gain 4%[+] increased Armor and 8%[+] increased Resistance to All Elements. Prerequisite: Can also reach Death's Defense via Army of the Dead.
Inspiring Leader While you are Healthy, you gain + 4 / 8 / 12% increased Critical Strike Chance and your Minions gain 6%[+] increased Critical Strike Chance.
Bonded in Essence Every 8 seconds, your Skeletal Priest's Healing will Heal your Skeletons for an additional 20% of their Maximum Life.

Key Passives Required Points: 33 - You can have points in only one of these.

Kalan's Edict Your Minions gain 3%[+] Attack Speed for each active Minion.

Shadowblight Shadow damage infects enemies with Shadowblight for 2 seconds. Every 8th time an enemy receives Shadow damage from you or your Minions while they are affected by Shadowblight, they take an additional 60% Shadow damage. Shadowblight's damage is increased by 100%[x] of your Shadow Damage Over Time (DoT) bonus. Damage: Shadow

Affliction Vulnerable, Crowd Controlled, or Corrupted enemies are Afflicted, taking 45%[x] increased damage from you. Your Curse Skills deal 180% Shadow damage when applied to Afflicted enemies. This amount increases by 120%[x] of your Damage to Crowd Controlled, Vulnerable Damage, and Critical Strike Damage bonuses, up to 900%[x]. Damage: Shadow

Rathma's Vigor After being Healthy for 15 seconds, your next Blood Skill Overpowers. This timer is reduced by 2 seconds each time Blood Orbs Heal or Overheal you for 400 Life. Tags: Blood

Ossified Essence Your Bone Skills deal 0.5%[x] increased damage for each point of Essence you have above 50 upon cast.

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