Necromancer

The Necromancer is a class that focuses on manipulation. Blood Magic will generally work to manipulate health, both of the player (through sacrificing) or of enemies (through redistribution of health). A focus on Death Magic will yield the player the ability to summon for undead minions, deal direct damage, and exploit corpses to the player's gain. Curses are considered the most insidious of the Necromancer's attributes, with the ability to punish, weaken, remove enchantments, as well as a range of other skills. Much of a Necromancer's arsenal is centered around the use of hexes and conditions. The patron god of Necromancers is Grenth.

Given their low armor rating, Necromancers aren't usually found on the front lines. However, given their abilities, it is generally found to be useful to include one in your team.

The primary Necromancer's base armor provides low protection, with 60 base armor, +10 energy, and +2 energy recovery. A starting primary Necromancer can expect to have 30 maximum energy and 4 energy recovery.

The Necromancer's primary attribute is Soul Reaping, which provides energy when creatures die.

Batteries
Energy-support Necromancers, often called "batteries" or "BiPs", use the skill Blood is Power to supply their allies with additional energy recovery. For casters such as the Elementalist and the Monk, this is extremely beneficial as it allows them to continue using their skills without running out of energy. Batteries are very popular for supporting bonding Monks and nuker Elementalists in areas like the Fissure of Woe.

Minion Masters
Often referred to as "MMs", minion masters use Death Magic to animate a small army of undead creatures from the corpses of fallen victims and allies. An army of these undead minions helps to alleviate the damage received from the opposition and inflict a very large amount of damage (when used correctly) back towards the opposition as well. MMs are particularly popular in PvE, thanks to the large number of corpses left from foes.

Spiteful Spirits
Another common Necromancer build uses curses (hex spells) to drain an enemy's health or inflict damage whenever any enemy attempts to attack or use skills. One such build uses the elite hex spell Spiteful Spirit, often referred to as an "SS". Probably the second most popular use of a Necromancer (after MMs), SS Necros can cause massive damage to an enemy very quickly. SSs are also often used with 55 Monks to deal large amounts of damage while the 55 holds enemy aggro.

Saccers
Saccers have been used in conjunction with minion masters, in quickly and repeatedly killing themselves (through sacrificing health) to provide a constant supply of fresh corpses for further exploitation - mainly for the minion master to quickly raise an undead army. Saccers were once used in EoE Bombs in simply triggering the build itself, though the build is generally out of use due to appropriate updates.

Attributes

 * Soul Reaping (primary attribute): For each rank in Soul Reaping, you gain 1 energy whenever a nearby creature (friend, foe, or neutral) dies, maximum of three times for every fifteen seconds.
 * Soul Reaping skills
 * Blood Magic: With a flexible skill set, Blood Magic increases the damage and effectiveness of spells dealing with the redistribution of health.
 * Blood Magic skills
 * Death Magic: With a skill set dealing with undead maintenance, Death Magic increases the damage and effectiveness of direct damage spells and animated minions.
 * Death Magic skills
 * Curses: With a punishing skill set, Curses increases the damage and effectiveness of hexes that weaken and cripple enemies.
 * Curses skills
 * Unlinked Necromancer Skills

Profession combinations

 * Secondary professions for a Necromancer

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