Necromancer Book of the Dead

The Book of the Dead is a unique Necromancer Minions enhancement system. You can specialize your Skeletal Warriors, Mages and Golem to fit the needs of your build. You can also choose to sacrifice your Minions, stopping your ability to summon them, but gaining powerful thematic bonuses based on the options you choose. As your Necromancer reaches higher levels, you are able to summons more types of Undead to add to your horde!

The Book of the Dead

While you begin your journey as a Level 1 Necromancer, with access to the Summon Skeleton Skill, you unlock many new options and combinations of summons/sacrifices as you level up that customize your gameplay experience. You actually unlock the Book of the Dead at level 5 for free, without needing to complete any quests! From here, you make decisions between two enhancements or sacrificing your Skeletons for a passive stat bonus. Below, we detail the general flavors of Minions as well as the specific stats available from in-game tooltips.

General Summon Overview

There are three types of horrors the Necromancer can summon at any given time. Your Minions now gain all of your stats, so anything that buffs you now buffs your minions! Raise Skeleton and Golem must be on your skill bar to summon them.

• Skeletal Warriors: These are your front-line swarming minions. There are high DPS, Tank and slow heavy Damage focused variants. Sacrificing these awards bonuses similar to the focus they have.
• Skeletal Mages: These skeletons are your back-line artillery minions. There are Shadow Damage, Physical Damage, and Cold Damage focused variants. Sacrificing these awards bonuses to your damage potential and Resource management.
• Golems: The Golems are front-line disruption tanks. There are Ultra-tanky, AoE damage, and AoE CC focused variants. Sacrificing your Golem awards bonuses that increase your own tankiness and DPS potential.

Specific Summons Stats

Skeletal Warriors

• Skeletal Warriors - Skirmishers
• Skeletal Warriors - Defenders
• Skeletal Warriors - Reapers

Skeletal Mages

• Skeletal Mages - Shadow
• Skeletal Mages - Cold
• Skeletal Mages - Bone

Golems

• Golems - Bone
• Golems - Blood
• Golems - Iron

Class Quest: Unlock Your Golem

The Necromancer needs to complete a Class specific Quest to unlock the ability to summon their Golem. See our guided walkthrough below under the SPOILERS dropdown or in the listed Video:

SPOILERS

• At Character Level 25 you unlock the Quest "Necromancer: Call of the Underworld".
• Travel to the Shrine of Rathma by selecting "Track" on the quest objective. It is to the Northwest from Kyovashad in Fractured Peaks.
• Interact with the Shrine of Rathma and then interact with Maltorius, the spectral NPC that spawns.
• Collect Unbroken Bones which drop from undead that spawn in the surrounding area to the south of the Shrine. 12 are required in total.
• Travel to the next area indicated by a blue circle on your map to the South West of the Shrine. Continue to Track the quest for ease of access.
• Find the "Bitter Cave" entrance in the center of the blue ring on your map. Enter the Cave.
• Travel into the cave to find the Jar of Souls and interact with it. This activates an event that requires you to kill the spawning undead to fill up the Jar's meter. This should require ~18 total undead.
• Talk to Maltorius who spawns next to the Jar's platform.
• You've completed the quest and can now summon your Golem as well as customize it in the Book of the Dead.
• Remember to add the Golem Skill to your Skill Bar if you want to actively summon your new pet!

Video Guide

Book of the Dead Summary

• Necromancers can summon multiple types of Undead minions to fight by their side. The three options are melee-focused Skeletal Warriors, ranged Skeletal Mages and hulking brute Golems.
• You gain access to the basic Skeletal Warrior: Skirmishers at level 1 with the Raise Skeleton Skill. You unlock the UI Menu for the Book of the Dead at Level 5. You continue to unlock new Skeleton options all the way up to Level 25, for free.
• Minions gain 100% of the stats you do. Increases in damage, attack speed etc, all are inherited by your minions.
• At level 25 you unlock a Quest to summon your Golem. Follow the guided video walkthrough or SPOILERS dropdown for specifics.
• To summon your Undead minions, you must have their Skills on your Skill Bar. This means that a full Summon Necromancer can only have 4 other Skills on their Bar.
• Sacrificing your minions has the potential to outweigh the benefits you may find from summoning. Each Necromancer build makes different decisions, and you don't always use your summons the same way.

Credits

Written by MacroBioBoi.
Reviewed by Echohack, ehtoka