Necromancer

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Description

Masters of unlife after death, Necromancers have the power to raise undead minions from the remains of fallen opponents, hurl spears of bone at enemies, or cause the corpse of a dead enemy to explode with force or spew poison gas. Necromancers can also summon a powerful abomination that will act as a constant companion to their masters. Abominations can equip items, gain levels and grow in power and size as their master gains increasing power.

Info

Available Races Kojan Qalia Thestra Goblin Dark Elf Thestran Human Kojani Human Gnome Vulmane Kurashasa Qaliathari Human

Starting Attributes Attribute Value Strength: 30 Constitution: 25 Dexterity: 20 Vitality: 35 Wisdom: 50 Intelligence: 50

Skills

Weapon Types

Two-handed Blunt, One-handed Piercing, One-handed Blunt, Hand to Hand

Spell Schools

Conjuration, Alteration, Evocation

Combat

Block, Dodge

Perception and Concealment

Awareness, Combat Awareness, Detection, Counterspelling, Spell Identification

Spells

• Levels 1-25
• Levels 26-50

Mechanics

Pet

Necromancers, starting at level 4, can summon a vile abomination to aid them in combat. These creatures are under a considerable amount of control by the necromancer, accepting commands such as Attack, Guard, and Sneer (a taunting action that increases agro towards the abomination). The pet's health is monitored by a bar directly under the necromancer's own health, energy and endurance bar. Health can be transferred from the necromancer to his abomination, and energy can be harvested from corpses for both the necromancer and pet.

Here is an image of the pet command window:

From left to right the commands are:

Attack

Commands your pet to attack your current offensive target.

Follow

Commands your pet to follow you.

Back Off

Commands your pet to stop attacking.

Stay

Commands your pet to stay in its current position.

Dismiss

Dismisses your pet.

Always Assist

Commands your pet to change targets and always assist you when you attack an enemy.

Guard

Commands your pet to defend you.

Defend Self

Commands your pet to stop defending itself when it is attacked.

At level 10, necromancers learn an ability that harvests parts from corpses to be grafted to the abomination. These grafts can be accessed via the backpack icon on this window:

The Sneer ability, represented by the skull icon, allows you to command the abomination to taunt an enemy, thus drawing agro off of you onto your pet.

Necromancers can also name their pets with the /petname command.

Possible Abomination Grafts

• Graft List

Offensive Spells

Necromancers have a decent arsenal of offensive spells. Their direct damage (DD ie one time damage) spells are powerful, but it is in their damage-over-time spells (DOTs) where they really pack a punch. Coupled with their debilitating debuffs, necromancers can deal a good bit of damage.

Buffs

Starting at level 1, the necromancer receives a constitution and intelligence buffing spell, which helps to increase spell damage output.

Debuffs

Several of the necromancer's debuffs are coupled with damaging spells. An example is the Torment spell line. This spell causes a 50% movement speed decrease as well as a DOT. The other debuff spell line received early on is Crippling Blight, which lowers an enemy's damage for a time.