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. Given their low armor rating, Necromancers are not usually found on the front lines. However, given their abilities, it is generally found to be useful to include one in your team. The patron god of Necromancers is Grenth.

The primary Necromancer's base armor provides 60 armor, +10 energy, and +2 energy recovery. A starting primary Necromancer begins with 30 base energy and 4 energy recovery.

The Necromancer's primary attribute is Soul Reaping, which provides energy whenever nearby 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 bonder Monks and nuker Elementalists in areas like the Fissure of Woe.

Minion Masters
Often referred to as "MM", a minion master uses 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 by the party and inflict a large amount of damage back towards the opposition. When the corpse supply runs low, the minion master must rely on minion healing skills, like Blood of the Master, which require a health sacrifice. This may be dangerous to inexperienced players if they don't watch their health closely, because the death of their master will turn the entire army against the creator's allies. Certain skills, such as Barbs from the Curses line or Death Nova from the native Death Magic attribute, are sometimes used to increase the effectiveness of the army. MMs are particularly popular in PvE, thanks to the large number of corpses left from foes.

Spiteful Spirits
A common Necromancer build that uses curses to drain an enemy's health or inflict damage whenever any enemy attempts to attack or use skills. This build is centered around the elite hex spell Spiteful Spirit. This skill, as well as the build itself, is usually referred to as "SS". SS Necros can cause massive damage to a group of enemies very quickly, be it spellcasters or attacking classes. SS Necromancers are often seen with 55 Monks: the 55 holds enemy aggro while the SS deals incredible damage to the attacking foes.

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 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 effectiveness of direct damage spells and animated minions.
 * Death Magic skills
 * Curses: With a punishing skill set, Curses increases the effectiveness of hexes that weaken and cripple enemies.
 * Curses skills
 * Unlinked Necromancer Skills

Profession combinations

 * Secondary professions for a Necromancer

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