The necromancer in The Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) is newly released. How to optimally build the dark necromancer, you will learn here in our guide to the necromancer build for beginners.
What is the necromancer? The necromancer is the latest class in ESO, and you can play it by purchasing the new expansion Elsweyr. There is no way to retrain an existing class to become a necromancer.
Who should play the necromancer? The necromancer is ideal for all players who want a versatile class. The necromancer is good as a damage dealer, but also as a tank and even a healer.
Additionally, there is the special dark flair of the necromancer, who fights even darker powers as an actual anti-hero.
In the following, we present a guide for a beginner build for the necromancer. The information is based on an article from the site AlcastHQ.
General information about the necromancer
What is the role of the necromancer? The necromancer is a unique new class in ESO. He is by no means just another wizard with undead pets. Rather, the necromancer uses a variety of elements to cast his spells.
Moreover, he provides not just a good damage dealer (Grave Lord) but also a powerful tank (Bone Tyrant) and healer (Living Death).
Moreover, there is a special mini-game that makes your spells more powerful when you have corpses available. Therefore, good planning and positioning when playing the necromancer later in the game is very important.
What attributes should you assign to the necromancer? While the necromancer can also be built for stamina in the damage tree, we will use magicka for this build. So always allocate all points to the magic resource.
Which Mundus Stone is ideal for the necromancer? It’s best to use the “Lover” (More damage through magic) or “the Mage” (More magicka).
The Equipment
What weapons and equipment do you need? Ideal for your Magicka necromancer are a destruction staff (fire) and light armor. Because the latter increases your magicka and gives you more spell power to unleash your spells.
Ideally, you should add the attribute “Learning” to your equipment, as this will give you more XP when killing enemies and level up faster.
As a second weapon, you should use a healing staff as soon as it becomes available.
The Skills
Which skills should you choose and how do you modify them? You will farm the following skills over the course of the first 15 hours and morph them as follows.
Your skills in the first skill bar
In the skill bar with your destruction staff, you use the following skills:
- Flame Skull: Your first skill. Change it to “Cleave Skull” as soon as possible to enhance your combat power against groups.
- Death Scythe: This skill comes next. Morph it to “Swift Scythe” to heal yourself additionally.
- Shape Flesh: As your next skill, you will learn this ability. It heals you by briefly weakening your combat power.
- Elemental Wall: This ability from your staff causes your opponents to take fire damage. Morph it for more effect to “Elemental Blockade”.
- Bone Barrage: This cool skill creates corpses and an exploding skeleton. Morph the skill to “Pursuing Bone Barrage” to improve its power at long range.
- Frozen Colossus (Ultimate): Learn your first ultimate ability at level 11 to deal extra damage.
Your skills in the second skill bar
In the skill bar with your healing staff, you use the following skills:
- Major Healing: This allows you to heal further. Morph the skill to “Source of Healing” to also regenerate magicka.
- Shape Flesh
- Bone Barrage
- Death Scythe
- Elemental Wall
- Resurrection (Ultimate): This allows you to immediately resurrect up to three friends. Ideal for instances.
These are the passive skills of the necromancer:
You will also acquire the following passive skill in the first 15 levels once you have enough points left.
- Gathering the Dead (Bone Tyrant)
- Summoning (Light Armor)
- Bone Collector (Grave Lord)
- Death Bell (Grave Lord)
This is how you continue developing the necromancer
What comes next until level 50? After getting familiar with the necromancer, you can gradually continue to develop him. Once you unlock more skill points and levels, your skill selection should finally look like this:
Skill bar 1 (Destruction Staff):
- Cleave Skull
- Mystical Siphon: You obtain this skill as a morph from the “Shocking Siphon” of the Grave Lord.
- Skeleton Arcanist: You obtain this skill as a morph from the “Skeleton Mage” of the Grave Lord.
- Inner Light: You obtain this skill as a morph from the “Mage Light” of the Mages Guild.
- Pursuing Bone Barrage
- Elemental Wrath (Ultimate): You obtain this skill as a morph from the “Elemental Storm” of the destruction staff.
Skill bar 2 (Destruction Staff):
- Elemental Blockade
- Reaving Cemetery: You obtain this skill as a morph from the “Cemetery” of the Grave Lord.
- Absorbing Magic: You obtain this skill as a morph from “Neutralizing Magic” from light armor.
- Resistant Flesh: You obtain this skill as a morph from “Shape Flesh” from Living Death.
- Inner Light
- Glacier Colossus (Ultimate): Morph your Frozen Colossus to this skill.
These are your passive skills: Make sure to include these skills and level up your racial and guild skills as needed.
- Dissection (Grave Lord)
- Quick Decay (Grave Lord)
- Last Breath (Bone Tyrant)
- Corpse Consumption (Living Death)
- Undead Ally (Living Death)
- Trifocus (Destruction Staff)
- Elemental Power (Destruction Staff)
- Ancient Knowledge (Destruction Staff)
- Destruction Expert (Destruction Staff)
- Grace (Light Armor)
- Spell Protection (Light Armor)
- Wunderkind (Light Armor)
- Concentration (Light Armor)
That’s it for our build for new necromancers. We will publish more guides for endgame variants of the necromancer here. Have fun with necromancy!
