"I didn't come all of this way to be forgotten to my dismay
I have been falling from the light (Nothing, nothing, but Simple Sight)"
Necromancer, along with Bomber, is one of the Elite Burst-type classes that cost 400 points in CRITICAL STRIKE.
Appearance[]
Necromancer appears to have light armor, consisting of leggings, wristbands (has a larger wristband on right hand), and a backpack. It also comprises some sort of a fragment attached between the torso and two legs.
Necromancer wields a staff with a skull that has horns on top at the left hand and a book that has an eye at the right hand.
Overview[]
Summary: Versatile moveset and strong combos, but not very beginner-friendly and has predictable moves.
Necromancer has its "necromancy" power as it can utilize many situations thanks to its "spirit" ability that empowers Necromancer. With damage boost, speed projectile boost, or even lifesteal, it can create a beneficial situation for itself fairly easily. With a strong combo game, Necromancer can shred opponent's HP very quickly, and even heal by doing so if you activate Thief's Spirit.
These strengths come with quite a few flaws, as Necromancer's abilities are quite telegraphed and easy to avoid if you know what you're doing. Necromancer also comes with below average mobility, and spirits aim at targets in a fairly weird way.
Strengths []
- Empowering effects to strengthen the class
- Great combos
- Crowd Control
- Average skill floor
Weakness []
- Difficult to master
- Low based-projectile speed
- Somewhat not beginner-friendly.
Movesets[]
[Passive] - Spirit Summoner
You can summon class spirits to fight for you, each spirits have unique passives and retain their ATK and CRT.
Warriors Spirit: Gain +2 defense and +2 damage for the duration of the spirit's lifetime.
Gunners Spirit: Increased your projectile speed by 50% for the duration of spirit's lifetime.
Thiefs Spirit: 15% of damage dealt will return as health and +5 speed for the duration of spirit's lifetime.
The class spirits lasts for 7 second.
| Attack | Name / Preview | Description | Status Effects | Damage | Cooldown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATK |
Dark Bolt Spirited Away  |
After a brief charge up, fires a decently quick projectile that explodes upon impact, dealing 10 damage on a direct hit and 5 damage as splash damage. - If you have class spirits, they will attack on a separate LMB cooldown. You activate both of these cooldowns with the same key (LMB.) Each class spirit has an individual cooldown. |
N/A | 10 / 5 | 1s |
| AB1 | Grave Hands
 |
After 0.5s delay, slam your staff down and send forth spectral hands that deal 10 damage and applies Panicked for 1s. |
Panicked (Target) | 10 | 5s |
| AB2 |
Necronomicon Spirit Strike  |
Open your book and slowing you down while reading. Using your ATK, AB1 and CRT will summon a spirit based on it's icon. You can summon spirits even if one of these moves is on cooldown. ATK will summon a Warrior spirit, AB1 will summon a Gunner spirit and CRT will summon a Thief spirit. If you have selected your spirit, this ability is replaced with the spirit's CRT. Recast with spirit will activate Spirits Strike, dealing half of it's regular damage as neutral damage (except Thief) and all effect debuffs are halved in power. Can only used once per usage. Recast without spirits will close the book with no penalty. |
Empowered (Self) Defense -0.5 (Target) Attack -1 (Target) |
6 / 3 / 5 / 1.5 | 5s / 0.5s |
| CRT | Eternal Coffin
  |
Summon a floating coffin that has one eye. After a brief charge up marking the players in front, pull them in front of it towards it current location, does 10 damage. This move has tool disable until right after the players are grabbed by chains. |
N/A | 10 | 12s |
[Passive] - Soul Collector
Ultilize Soul Fragments. Consume the amount of Soul Fragments on each of the moves.
If a player dies when at least one Necromancer is in the arena, they will get two Soul Fragments for each player.
The cap of Soul Fragments are 10 and you will start having 5.
| Attack | Name / Preview | Description | Status Effects | Damage | Cooldown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATK | Soul Shot
 |
After a brief charge up, fires a fast-moving projectile that explodes upon impact, dealing 10 damage on a direct hit and 5 damage as splash damage. Grants the user 2 Soul Fragments on hit. |
N/A | 10 | 0.8s |
| AB1 | Wraith Hunter
  |
After a brief charge up, send two wraiths in an X pattern, dealing 10 damage to anyone caught by the wraiths and apply Cripple. Consume 4 Soul Fragments. |
Cripple (Target) | 10 | 2s |
| AB2 | Sinister Psyche
  |
After a brief charge up, create an AoE of ghosts in front and deal 10 damage to all players in front of you and apply Panicked. Consume 3 Soul Fragments. |
Panicked (Target) | 10 | 2s |
| CRT | Eternal Coffin
|
Summon a floating coffin that has one eye. After a brief charge up marking the players in front, pull them in front of it towards it current location, does 10 damage. Consume 5 Soul Fragments. |
N/A | 10 | 1s |
Tips and Tricks[]
- Don't use Gunner's spirit. It's the worst one, and doesn't perform well in combos or general play. Warrior and Thief are better options.
- Use Warrior's spirit when you want to deal massive damage.
- Use Thief's spirit when you need to heal, or when you are facing a class that has avoidable moves (abuse +5 speed)
Combos[]
- Warrior CRT + Q / Good combo starter
- CRT + Jump up and LMB (Use Thief CRT at the same time if you have Thief active) + Q + Rush with LMB / Good combo to grab classes from a range
- Warrior CRT + Q + LMB + CRT + Jump up and LMB / Best combo for pure damage
Skins[]
Woodland Skin
- Woodland: 100 Event Tokens
- Has a wand with some kind of orb, and the staff appears to be much more rigged compared to the default skin. This skin comprises a long sleeve with few much scarves at the back.
- During equipping this skin, the moveset also changes visuals:
- The demonic shape is turned into a cobweb shape.
- AB2's spirits have their wings at the back.
- CRT is a spider instead of a coffin.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Necromancer was reworked twice.
- The first time was in v5.8.0 with mechanism rework. However, it was scrapped in v5.8.2 for the reason people would cast one more time from ability that they were already cast. (I need some confirmations)
- In April Fools 2023, Necromancer didn't have the passive.
- Instead, AB1 and AB2's cooldowns were increased by 3s each and CRT's were increased by 4s.
- ATK also cast two more orbs all the damage was increased by 1 as well.
- Necromancer is the only class in the game capable of inflicting "Panicked" on enemies.
- Necromancer previously was the only class that has the lowest move cooldowns in the game.
- Necromancer uses the staff at the left arm instead of the right, meaning that Necromancer somehow is one of the classes that are left-handed.
- Necromancer is the first class to be fully reworked by tecnoman20, second being Paladin and third being Mercenary.
Update History[]
- Necromancer was introduced to the game in CS v5.4.0, along with Controller and Monk.
- V5.5.2: Woodland skin has a slight appearance change in AB2 move.
- v5.5.0:
- Woodland skin added
Necromancer now gains 2 Soul Fragments per player death (including allies)
- v5.8.0: Necromancer reworked:
- Name changed:
- ATK: Soul Gathering > Soul Shot
- AB1: He Who Wander > Wraith Hunters
- AB2: They Who Afraid > Sinister Psyche
- CRT: She Who Suffer > Eternal Coffin
- All cooldowns were increased heavily from 2s to 7s. CRT's cooldown was from 1s to 8s.
- Passive put a cap at 5 Soul Fragments instead of 10 and only gain 1 Soul Fragment instead of 2.
- AB1, AB2 and CRT could be casted once more during the cooldown, but would cost 4 Soul Fragments.
- Name changed:
- v5.8.2: Reverted back to pre v5.8.0. However, names are not changed.
- v5.8.8: Temporarily reworked second time in Rework Rumble 2.
- v5.8.9: Permanently reworked.
