Necromancer Overview for Last Epoch (Patch 1.0)

"Flesh, bone, blood, the lingering essence left in life’s wake; these are her tools, her weapons. She is the master of a forsaken army, her dark creations swarming her foes with the hunger of the dead. A hunger borne from her power and fed at your command."

The Necromancer is one of three Mastery classes that can be chosen from the base class of Acolyte. This dark summoner is the commander of death, summoning skeletons, zombies and golems to do his bidding. Nothing is held too precious to sacrifice in the name of power; this lord of the dead is willing to gamble everything to reign supreme on the battlefield.

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Upon unlocking the Necromancer Mastery, you'll gain access to your Mastery-specific skill,  Summon Wraith. While  Summon Skeletal Mage and  Sacrifice are not specific to the Necromancer, the Mastery Tree itself comes with four skills total that are unlocked by placing a certain amount of points into the Tree itself. All three Acolyte Masteries can use two of the four skills as long as they put enough points into the tree to unlock them. Only the  Dread Shade and  Assemble Abomination skills are reserved solely for the Necromancer.

Description	Summons a wraith that rapidly fades from this world, but will seek and attack your foes while it remains.
Scaling Tags	Minion, Intelligence
Minion Scaling Tags	Physical, Melee, Area
Possible Damage Types	Physical, Fire, Necrotic, Poison
Base Cooldown	0 seconds
Base Mana Cost	20 Mana

Description	Summons a Skeletal Mage to assist you. You are limited to 2 Skeletal Mages at a time. Skeletal Mages cast Dread Bolt, which has 150% added damage effectiveness and has a 50% chance to apply Damned on hit.
Scaling Tags	Minion, Intelligence
Minion Scaling Tags	Necrotic, Spell
Possible Damage Types	Physical, Fire, Cold, Necrotic
Base Cooldown	0 seconds
Base Mana Cost	27 Mana

Description	Rips apart an allied minion, dealing physical damage to enemies around it. Added damage applies at double effectiveness.
Scaling Tags	Physical, Spell, Area, Intelligence
Minion Scaling Tags	N/A
Possible Damage Types	Physical, Fire
Base Cooldown	0 seconds
Base Mana Cost	25 Mana

Description	Your minion's health is drained for 3% of its max health per second for each second the shade has been active, but it and your minions around it deal +10 necrotic damage with spells and attacks and have 50% increased necrotic damage.
Scaling Tags	Necrotic, Spell, Buff, Area, Intelligence
Minion Scaling Tags	N/A
Possible Damage Types	Cold, Necrotic, Poison
Base Cooldown	0 seconds
Base Mana Cost	30 Mana

Description	Hold ability key to channel to absorb minions in a moderate area. When you release, summon a single hulking abomination with added health and more damage per minion absorbed. The abomination's heal decays increasingly fast over time.
Scaling Tags	Physical, Minion, Channeled, Intelligence
Minion Scaling Tags	Area
Possible Damage Types	Physical
Base Cooldown	3 seconds
Base Mana Cost	65 Mana