Necromancer Overview for Last Epoch (Patch 1.1)
Welcome to our Last Epoch Necromancer build guide for the Acolyte class. Here you will learn everything about the Necromancer playstyle, passives, skills and strengths or weaknesses to conquer the world of Eterra.
Introduction to Necromancer
"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.
Gain access to the best Necromancer builds below!
Necromancer Skills
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.
Summon Wraith
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 |
Summon Skeletal Mage
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 |
Sacrifice
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 |
Dread Shade
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 |
Assemble Abomination
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 |

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