Necromancer

Diablo II Notation Basic Class Skill Item Ally Quest Area Monster Tale Amazon Assassin Barbarian Druid Necro Paladin Sorceress History As might be expected, the devotees of magic are a segregated lot. They are as leery of students of rival disciplines as a layperson is of all arcane practitioners. None, however, are so widely maligned and misunderstood as the Priests of Rathma. As with most users of magic, the priests of the cult of Rathma hail from the far Eastern jungles. They reside in a vast underground city located deep within those jungles. Their specific geographical locale is particularly secluded, however, preventing their assimilation into a formal mage clan. But it is this same isolation that allowed them to pursue their distinct kind of arcane science. For it is through the teachings of Rathma, as well as through years of research and physical experimentation, that these men have come to understand and hold sacred the delicate balance of life and death and are able to twist the line that borders the two. For although the minions of Hell have long possessed this power, among mortals the knowledge to reanimate and control the dead belongs to these priests alone. It is this practice that has lead outsiders to refer to them as Necromancers. They truly comprehend the balance of all things, and understand and accept their place in what they refer to as the Great Cycle of Being. Their culture has subsisted in the shadow of the great mage clans from the earliest days, and in most ways their practice reaches back to a time before magic was formalized into strict disciplines. Although their art is considered "dark", and the people of the outside world shun the priests who practice these arts, these mysterious cultists never suffered the epidemic of corruption that plagued the ancient Mage Clans. Pragmatists in the truest sense, they are above temptation. They see death merely as a natural part of life and do not seek to deny its arrival. Their singular knowledge of the unknown allows them to face death without fear. These ideals, coupled with an understanding of the natural balance between Order and Chaos, explain why they have not fallen prey to the influences of evil. Their desire to uphold this balance has brought the Necromancers forth from the isolation of their remote, dank homeland to destroy Diablo and his brethren. For the mere presence of these Prime Evils on the mortal realm upsets the natural symmetry of not only the mortal realm, but also the Great Cycle of Being itself. The followers of Rathma seek to right the balance by ridding the mortal realms of non-mortal intervention altogether. They resent any force that would treat humans as pawns in a cosmic game, though they are apparently willing to ally with the forces of Order (but only until such time as the balance is restored). Attributes Attribute Level 1 /Level-up /Point Strength 15 Dexterity 25 Attack Rating 80 +5 Defense 6 +0.25 Vitality 15 Stamina 79 +1 +1 Life 45 +1.5 +2 Energy 25 Mana 25 +2 +2 Point: Attribute point invested, or bonus (+Dexterity, +Vitality, +Energy, +all Attributes) from items equipped and charms located in character's inventory outside the Horadric Cube. Base defense is Dexterity/4, rounded down to the nearest point. Displayed life and mana are rounded down to the nearest point, but actual life and mana are rounded down to the nearest bit (1/256 point). Skills Necromancers have the ability to reanimate corpses of most entities and to control the recently dead. The dead release spiritual energies that haunt the mortal realms. The Necromancer can focus these energies, giving them manifestation in the corporal world. Practitioners of necromancy can curse the very fate of a victim by manipulating the Prime energies flowing through all living things. Amplify Damage Dim Vision Weaken Iron Maiden Terror Confuse Life Tap Attract Decrepify Lower Resist

Teeth Bone Armor Poison Dagger Corpse Explosion Bone Wall Poison Explosion Bone Spear Bone Prison Poison Nova Bone Spirit

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1. Skeleton Mastery
2. Raise Skeleton
3. Clay Golem
4. Golem Mastery
5. Raise Skeletal Mage
6. Blood Golem
7. Summon Resist
8. Iron Golem
9. Fire Golem
10. Revive

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Breakpoints

The tables below list minimum Faster Block Rate, Faster Cast Rate and Faster Hit Recovery needed to reduce the number of frames in the respective animation and thus increase its speed. Some breakpoints differ depending on the Necromancer's form. Block rate breakpoints >140 and hit recovery breakpoints >594 are beyond reach in the unmodified game.

• Necromancer transforms into a Vampire when he equips full Trang-Oul's Avatar.
• Vampire has no blocking animation, so when blocking its hit recovery animation is used instead and thus FHR, not FBR, reduces animation length. [1]
• Vampire cast rate breakpoints >110 are beyond reach in the unmodified game.

Block rate and hit recovery	Cast rate
0 Frames FBR FHR Man Vamp 15 0 14 2 13 0 6 12 5 10 11 0 10 16 10 6 16 24 9 13 26 34 8 20 39 48 7 32 56 72 6 52 86 117 5 86 152 208 4 174 377 638 3 600	Man Frames FCR Total Action 15 8 0 14 9 13 7 18 12 30 11 6 48 10 75 9 5 125	Vampire Frames FCR Total Action 23 5 0 22 6 21 11 20 18 19 4 24 18 35 17 48 16 65 15 86 14 3 120 13 180

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Attack rate

• TitanSeal, Attack Speed Calculator (inDiablo.de)
• RTB, Vampire attack speed (GamersOasis.net)
• Vampire Zeal attack speed

Strategy and guides

• Necromancer Archive Index (Necromancer Archives)
• Zoomancer Guide

References

• Necromancer (Arreat Summit)
• Librarian, Stairway to Heaven - Status Tables for all Classes (FAQtoids)
• Nefarius, CharStats.txt (Phrozen Keep)
• RTB, Animations'n'stuff'n'stats (GamersOasis.net)
• TitanSeal, FAQ - Bewegungs- und Animationsgeschwindigkeiten Teil 1 (inDiablo.de)