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: 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

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

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.

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

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

Summoning 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

Gruesome Mending You receive + 10 / 20 / 30% more Healing from all sources.	Tides of Blood Your Blood Skills deal 5%[x] increased Overpower damage. This bonus is doubled while you are Healthy.	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.
	Coalesced Blood While Healthy your Blood Skills deal 6%[x] increased damage.	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.

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

REDIRECT Seration

Reaper's Pursuit Damaging enemies with Darkness Skills increases your Movement Speed by 5%[+] for 3 seconds.	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.	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.
	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.

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.
	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.

Ultimate Required Points: 23

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

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%.

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

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.

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.

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.

Golem Mastery Increase the damage and Life of your Golem by 25%[x] . Damage: Physical Damage

Masteries Required Points: 33

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

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.