Necromancer - Standard Power Necro
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Overview
Power necromancer is a very powerful PvP burst build that is easy to play in 1v1s but requires experience and good positioning in teamfights.
Skill Bar
Dagger/WarhornHealingUtilityElite
Slot Changes
Elite skill options
Lich Form 1 180 Lich Form - the classic burst form. While it has devastating pressure, as you climb the divisions it'll start becoming harder and harder to pull off to the point where it can cause more damage to you than to your enemies.
Plague 180 Plague Corruption. Become a virulent cloud and inflict multiple conditions on foes you touch. Entering this form destroys all minions and removes spectral effects. Damage: 104 3Stability (3s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted. Poison (2s): 67 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness Self-Bleeding (10s): 220 Damage Number of Targets: 5 Boon Application Interval: 3 seconds Duration: 20 seconds Damage Pulse: 1 second Radius: 240 - can help with surviving enemy burst or securing stomps/resses.
Specializations
Equipment
3 Superior Sigil of Air 50% Chance on Critical: Cause a Lightning Strike. (Cooldown: 3s) 5 Superior Sigil of Blood 50% Chance on Critical: Steal Health. (Cooldown: 5s)
3 Superior Sigil of Air 50% Chance on Critical: Cause a Lightning Strike. (Cooldown: 3s) 9 Superior Sigil of Hydromancy Damage nearby foes and chill them for 2 seconds when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)
Superior Rune of the Chronomancer (1): +25 Power (2): +35 Precision (3): +50 Power (4): +65 Precision (5): +100 Power (6): Apply 2 seconds of quickness when you cast a well.
Marauder Amulet +1050 Power +1050 Precision +560 Vitality +560 Ferocity
Variants
Dagger/Warhorn
- You can swap
Superior Sigil of Blood 5 Superior Sigil of Blood 50% Chance on Critical: Steal Health. (Cooldown: 5s) for:
Superior Sigil of Rage 30 Superior Sigil of Rage 50% Chance on Critical: Gain Quickness (3 seconds). (Cooldown: 30s)
Superior Sigil of Fire 5 Superior Sigil of Fire 50% Chance on Critical: Trigger a Flame Blast for area of effect damage (240 radius). (Cooldown: 5s)
Staff
- Either sigils can be replaced by:
Superior Sigil of Leeching 9 Superior Sigil of Leeching Your next attack after swapping to this weapon while in combat steals some health. (Cooldown: 9s)
Runes
Superior Rune of the Pack Superior Rune of the Pack (1): +25 Power (2): +10% Swiftness Duration (3): +50 Power (4): 25% chance when struck to grant nearby allies might, fury, and swiftness for 10 seconds. (Cooldown: 20s) (5): +100 Power (6): +125 Precision; +20% Swiftness Duration
Usage
Lich Form 1 180 Lich Form is a skill strong enough to turn the tides of a teamfight, its autoattack pierces enemies and hits harder than any other skill you have. That being said, it's likely that you will become the #1 target while in this form - strong offense comes with weak defense, you are really vulnerable in this form, so you should position yourself to some hard to reach spot / high-ground before using it.
- Besides your elite,
Death Shroud 10 Death Shroud Assume a spectral form and gain new skills, turning your life force into health. is your main damage dealing form with Life Blast 1 Life Blast .
- You can use to root people into your wells or major attacks.
Locust Swarm ½ 30 Locust Swarm generates life force, boosts mobility, and does a small AoE damage every second - this AoE can deal with Blinds and allows you to land your main Death Shroud or Staff attacks.
- Try to make your foes stay in your wells by utilizing your
Chills, Cripple and .
- In team fights, a good way to utilize your wells is to wait until a player on either team goes down - with a well bomb, you can discourage the enemies from hardressing/stomping or punish them for trying.
- If you're getting focused, you can migrate a decent amount of damage by popping
Spectral Armor 50 Spectral Armor quickly followed by Death Shroud 10 Death Shroud Assume a spectral form and gain new skills, turning your life force into health. .
Counters
Blind (your main sources of damage are Life Blast 1 Life Blast and Deathly Claws ¾ Deathly Claws , both skills have long cast times)
- CC
- Counterpressure exhausts
Death Shroud 10 Death Shroud Assume a spectral form and gain new skills, turning your life force into health.
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Even if it's not the most common necro build, it's still very efficient. Standard Reaper could be easier to master but the power burst of this one could turn the wind in a teamfight. It's efficient in 1v1 (great vitality and very good damage) and it's even better in team.
I rank it as 'good' rather than 'great' because the power necro needs to know perfectly his build and his moves in order to be a real advantage to his team. Otherwise, the reaper seems to be a better spot for non-exp necro user.
I prefere lich forme rather than plague but again, it's a skill that you can't use everytime. In exp-ranked game, this skill is more like a "quick finished" to achieve enemy, and it could be used to blast several ennemies if they tried to res the guy down.