Necromancy Abilities

Introduction

Note: Use the Table of Contents present at the bottom of the channel, or in the pinned comments, to quickly navigate through this channel and find the information you are looking for.

Some general notes:

⬥ The game runs on an internal tick system: 1t (tick) = 0.6s (seconds).

⬥ The minimum time between abilities is called the global cooldown: 1 gcd = 3t = 1.8s.

⬥ Some useful sheets and resources are given below.

Ability Damage Maths

To calculate your ability hit damage in detail, click here. This is affected by factors such as your gear and other boosts.

Ability Hit Timings

To see detailed breakdowns on ability hit timings, click here. This refers to when hitsplats appear on your target.

Auto-attack Adren Gain

To see adrenaline gained with different auto attacks, click here.

Note: If you have any difficulties in using the tools or understanding what the information means, you can always ask in #pvm-help.

Necromancy

This section covers the basic abilities, threshold-like abilities, ultimate abilities, conjures and commands, special attacks, and incantations for Necromancy.

Basics

Necromancy

⬥ Cooldown: 3t (1.8s) ⬥ Affected by

: • Gain (

Rank * 0.05) more adrenaline ⬥ NOT affected by

⬥ NOT affected by

⬥ Automatically activated when in combat (toggleable) ⬥ Generates 1 Death Spark stack if Omni Guard

is equipped • At 6 Death Spark stacks the

will deal double damage

Touch of Death

⬥ Cooldown: 24t (14.4s) ⬥ Generates 4

stacks

Soul Sap

⬥ Cooldown: 9t (5.4s) ⬥ Generates 1

stack

Thresholds

Thresholds in Necromancy are not like other styles'. Thresholds in Necromancy do not require an adrenaline amount more than the ability's requirement, and drain adrenaline by the shown amount on the tooltip. Some Necromancy Thresholds do not require adrenaline at all but instead will consume stacks of varying types.

Soul Strike

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Requires minimum 1

stack. One stack is consumed on use. ⬥ Stuns and Binds for 5t (3s) ⬥ Deals a reduced amount of damage to enemies within 1 tile of target

Volley of Souls

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Requires minimum 2

stacks. All stacks consumed on use.

Finger of Death

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Base adrenaline cost of 60% ⬥ Adrenaline cost reduced by 10% for each

stack ⬥ Consumes up to 6

stacks

Bloat

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Base adrenaline cost of 20% ⬥ Applies Bloated debuff to target for 10 hits ⬥ Bloated: • 25% of initial damage per hit every 3t (1.8s) • On Death: Applies Bloated to up to 9 enemies within 1 tile for 4 hits

Spectral Scythe

⬥ Cooldown: 25t (15s) ⬥ Base adrenaline cost of 10% ⬥ AoE damage in a cone (max 9 targets) ⬥ On-hit: 25% chance to generate 1

stack ⬥ Able to be re-cast upon unlock from the Necromancy skill tree: •

2nd cast costs 20% and does AoE within 2 tiles of you (max 9 targets) ⬩ Also has a 25% chance to generate a

stack •

3rd cast costs 30% and does AoE within 2 tiles of you (max 9 targets) ⬩ Damage is increased by 1% per 1% missing life points on target

Blood Siphon

⬥ Cooldown: 75t (45s) ⬥ No adrenaline cost ⬥ AoE to enemies within 2 tiles of player ⬥ Channeled attack: 4 hits over 8t (4.8s) • Completing the full channel deals 100% of the total heal plus extra damage to the target ⬥ Heal for 70% of the damage dealt

Ultimates

Death Skulls

⬥ Cooldown: 100t (60s) ⬥ Launches a Death Skull that bounces up to 4 times after hitting the target ⬥ Prioritizes enemies by maximum life points, but can also bounce off of you ⬥ The Necromancy Zuk Cape

reduces the adrenaline cost of this ability to 60% and also adds two additional bounces

Living Death

⬥ Cooldown: 150t (90s) ⬥ Change forms into Death form, empowering Necromancy abilities for 30s ⬥ On-cast: the cooldowns of

and

are reset ⬥ While active: •

generates 2

stacks •

generates an addition 6% adrenaline •

deals 1.5x damage •

cooldown reduced to 12s

Conjures and Commands

Conjure Skeleton Warrior

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ 70t (42s) duration ⬥ Conjure a Skeleton warrior: • Skeleton attacks every 5t (3s) • Generates 1 Rage stack with each attack • Deals an additional 3% ability damage per Rage stack

Command Skeleton Warrior

⬥ Cooldown: 25t (15s) ⬥ Commands a conjured skeleton to perform rapid hits (every 1t (0.6s)) for 10t (6s)

Conjure Vengeful Ghost

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ 70t (42s) duration ⬥ Conjure a Vengeful Ghost: • Ghost attacks every 7t (4.2s) • Heal for 140% of the damage dealt by the ghost

Command Vengeful Ghost

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Applies Haunted to the target • Haunted: Takes up to 10% bonus damage from all attacks, capped at 20% ability damage

Conjure Putrid Zombie

⬥ Cooldown: 50t (30s) ⬥ 75t (45s) duration ⬥ Conjure a Putrid Zombie: • Zombie attacks every 6t (3.6s) • Zombie inflicts poison damage every 3t (1.8s) to enemies within 1 tile

Command Putrid Zombie

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Command the Zombie to explode, dealing large damage to enemies within 2 tiles

Conjure Undead Army

⬥ Casts up to 4 conjure abilities ⬥ Consumes 2x the ectoplasm for each ability

Special Attacks

Death Grasp

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⬥ Cooldown: 50t (30s) ⬥ Base adrenaline cost of 25% ⬥ Stuns and Binds the target for 8t (4.8s) ⬥ Deals extra damage for each

stack held, but also consumes all stacks • The spec seems to hitcap easily without many stacks, so consider using

if at high

stacks before using the Death Grasp

as to not waste

stacks

Death Essence

⬥ Cooldown: 100t (60s) ⬥ Base adrenaline cost of 30% ⬥ 50t (30s) duration ⬥ On-cast: immediately readies Death Spark • Death Spark causes

to deal double damage ⬥ For the duration,

,

, and

immediately ready Death Spark

Incantations

Lesser Bone Shield

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Toggleable bone shield with a tier matching 25%

level • Allows the use of non-offensive abilities that typically require a shield ⬥ Rune cost: • 5

• 5

Threads of Fate

⬥ Cooldown: 75t (45s) ⬥ 11t (6.6s) duration ⬥

necromancy attacks will also be cast on up to 4 additional enemies within 4 tiles of the target ⬥ Soul sap

generates residual souls

equal to number of targets ⬥ Rune cost: • 5

• 2

• 1

Greater Bone Shield

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Toggleable bone shield with a tier matching 50%

level • Allows the use of non-offensive abilities that typically require a shield ⬥ Rune cost: • 10

• 10

• 5

Life Transfer

⬥ Cooldown: 75t (45s) ⬥ Deals self damage equal to 50% max health ⬥ Extends the duration of all active spirits by 34t (20.4s) ⬥ Rune cost: • 10

• 5

• 2

• 1

Invoke Lord of Bones

⬥ No Cooldown ⬥ Gain a 60-second buff making your Skeleton Warrior apply a stack of the Shattering bones debuff per attack ⬥ Shattering bones: Reduces armour rating by 0.2% per stack • Up to 200 stacks can be applied (-40% armour rating) ⬥ Rune cost: • 8

• 6

• 2

• 1

Invoke Death

⬥ Cooldown: 6t (3.6s) ⬥ 10t (6s) duration ⬥ Your next necromancy attack during the 10t duration applies Death Mark • If your target drops below 20% hp, the next necromancy attack to hit it will execute it. Damage caps at 30,000 ⬥ Rune cost: • 5

• 2

• 1