Necromancer Skill Tree

The Necromancer has access to six groups of skills:

• Basic
• Core
• Corruption
• Summoning
• Ultimate
• Masteries

The tables below show the Necromancer 's skills and talents as they appear in the game's skill tree and in the correct order.

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.

Note: As the skill and talent stats are changing as testing progresses, all stats have been removed as they will change prior to the game's final release.

Basic Required Points: N/A

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unliving Energy Your maximum Essence is increased by 3.

Imperfectly Balanced Your Core Skills cost 3%[x] more Essence, but deal 5%[x] increased damage.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Bone Prison

Cooldown: 15 seconds
Unearth a prison of bone with 120 Life that surrounds the target area for 6 seconds.

Tags: Macabre, Bone

Corruption Required Points: 6

Corruption Required Points: 11
Iron Maiden Curse the target area. Enemies afflicted by Iron Maiden take 10.00% (2-3) damage each time they deal direct damage. Lasts 10 seconds. Essence Cost: 10 Damage: Physical	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 x15%.
		Abhorrent Iron Maiden Heal for 5% of your maximum Life when an enemy dies while afflicted with Iron Maiden.
Decrepify Curse the target area. Enemies afflicted by Decrepify are Slowed by 50% and deal 25% less damage for 10% seconds. Essence Cost: 10 Damage: Physical	Enhanced Decrepify Enemies hit while afflicted with Decrepify have up to a 10% chance to be Stunned 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.
		Abhorent Decrepify Enemies hit while afflicted with Decrepify have up to a 15% chance to reduce your active cooldowns by 1.0 seconds.
Death's Embrace Enemies in melee range take x2% more damage from you and deal 3% less damage to you.
Death's Reach You deal 4% increased damage to enemies outside of melee range.
Amplify Damage You deal 3% increased damage to Cursed enemies.
Skeletal Mage Mastery Increase the damage and Health of your Skeletal Mages by 15%.

Summoning Required Points: 16
Corpse Tendrils Veins burst out of a Corpse, pulling in enemies, Stunning them for 3 seconds, and dealing 20.00% (5-6) damage to them. Cooldown: 11.0 Seconds. Damage: Physical	Enhanced Corpse Tendrils Enemies who are in range of Corpse Tendrils are Slowed by 50% before being pulled.	Abhorrent Corpse Tendrils Enemies slain while Stunned by Corpse Tendrils have a 25% chance to drop a  Blood Orb.
		Horrid Corpse Tendrils Enemies Stunned by Corpse Tendrils take x40% more damage from  Corpse Explosion.
Blood Begets Blood While below 50% Life, you receive 10% more healing from all sources.	Tides of Blood Your Blood Skills deal x5% increased  Overpower damage. This bonus is doubled while you are  Healthy.	Drain Vitality Hitting enemies with Blood Skills has up to 25% chance to  Fortify you for 1.
	Coalesced Blood Blood Orbs heal you for 15% more.	Transfusion Blood Orbs also heal your Minions for 15% of the amount.
Bone Spirit All Remaining Essence Consume all of your Essence to conjure a spirit of bone that seeks enemies. Upon reaching an enemy, the spirit explodes, dealing 80.00% (21-26) damage to the target and all nearby enemies. Damage is increased by 3% for each point of Essence spent casting Bone Spirit. Cooldown: 12.0 Seconds. Essence Cost: All remaining Essence Damage: Physical	Enhanced Bone Spirit If Bone Spirit Critically Strikes, its cooldown is reduced by 6 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 generate 30 Essence over the next 4 seconds.
Bone Spurs Gain 3 Thorns.
Reaper's Pursuit Damaging enemies with Darkness Skills increases your Movement Speed by 5% for 3 seconds.	Crippling Darkness Darkness Skills have up to a 15% chance to Stun for 1 seconds.	Terror Darkness Skills deal 5% increased damage against Immobilized, Slowed, or Stunned enemies. This also applies to Shadow Damage dealt by your Minions.
	Gloom When you damage enemies with  Darkness Skills, they take x2% increased Shadow Damage for 2 seconds, stacking up to 3 times.
Serration Your Bone skills have a 0.5% increased Critical Strike Chance for 10 Essence you have upon cast	Rapid Ossification Every 100 Essence you spend reduces the cooldowns of your Bone skills by 0.5 seconds.	Evulsion Your Bone Skills deal x6% increased Criticial Strike Damage to Vulnerable enemies.
	Compound Fracture After Critically Striking 10 times with Bone Skills, your Bone Skills deal x6% increased damage for 5 seconds.

Ultimate Required Points: 23
Blood Wave Conjure a tidal wave of blood that deals 90.00% (24-29) damage and knocks enemies back. Cooldown: 50.0 Seconds. Damage: Physical	Prime Blood Wave Blood Wave Slows enemies by 50% for 4 seconds.	Supreme Blood Wave Blood Wave leaves behind 3 Blood Orbs as it travels.
Stand Alone Increases Damage Reduction by 6%, reduced by 2% for each active Minion.	Memento Mori Sacrificing both Skeletal Warriors and Skeletal Mages increases their Sacrifice bonuses by 20%.
Bone Storm A swirling storm of bones surrounds you and your Golem, dealing 180.00% (49-59) to nearby enemies over 10 seconds.	Prime Bone Storm Your Damage Reduction is increased by 15% while Bone Storm is active.	Supreme Bone Storm While Bone Storm is active, you consume nearby Corpses. Each Corpse consumed adds 2 seconds to Bonestorm's duration, up to 10 seconds.
Army of the Dead Call forth the deep buried dead. Volatile undead emerge over the next 7 seconds that explode near enemies, dealing 30.00% (8-9) damage. Cooldown: 90.0 Seconds. Damage: Physical	Prime Army of the Dead When Army of the Dead's Skeletons explode, they have 15% chance to leave behind a Corpse.	Supreme Army of the Dead Army of the Dead also raises your Skeletal Warriors and Skeletal Mages.
Hellbent Commander Your Minions deal x10% increased damage while you are near them.	Inspiring Command After you have been  Healthy for at least 4 seconds, you and your Minions gain 4% Attack Speed.
Bonded in Essence Your Minions gain 15% of your Resistances.	Death's Defense Your Minions can't lose more than 50% of their maximum Life from a single damage instance.
Golem Mastery Increase the damage and Life of your Golem by 15%

Masteries Required Points: 33
Strength in Numbers While you have at least 7 Minions, they gain  20% Attack Speed.
Shadowblight Darkness Skills infect enemies with  Shadowblight for 2 seconds. Every 10th time an enemy receives Shadow Damage from you or your Minions while they are affected by  Shadowblight, they burst for 20.00% (5-6) Shadow Damage.
Rathma's Vigor Increase your maximum Life by 10%. While Healtthy, you deal x25%increased damage
Ossified Essence Your Bone Skills deal x1% increased damage for each point of Essence you have above 50% upon cast.