Gedonia – Necromancer Guide

Necromancer Build Guide

I don’t have much experience using dark magic skills, but I do have a lot of experience with Gedonia’s mechanics in general. This is my suggested build for a fully minion focused necromancer:

Stats:

Either 4 intellect and 3 charisma, or 3 intellect and 4 charisma.

Gear:

• Skull mask
• Robe of the necromancer
• Gloves of the necromancer
• Pants of the necromancer
• Shoes of the necromancer
• Dark lord cloak
• Dark lord necklace
• Ring of the lord of the darkness x2
• Rune of darkness
• Warped doomblade x2 in first weapon loadout (see lower priority skills below)
• Warped doomblade + Astral fire in second weapon loadout

Crafting Skills:

• Tailoring 7 to make the skull mask. I suggest using embroidery to add health instead of mana, since 90% of your maximum mana will be reserved by summons anyway.
• Enchanting 6 to get +30% magic damage on all three doomblades.
• Optionally also take Blacksmithing 6 and Leatherworking 6 for some extra stats on your armor, though they aren’t too important for a necromancer.
• Use an oblivion potion to retrain out of the crafting skills once your gear is all set up.

High Priority Skills:

Dark Magic 15

• Dark Element Level 2
• Dark Pact Level 2
• Shadowwave Level 3
• Mastery skill: powerful skeletons
• Bone serpent Level 3

Elemental Magic 8

• Elemental attack
• Wind Element Level 2

Notes:

• Wind element for skeleton archers, who tie with elemental mage skeletons for top DPS but with fewer skill points required.
• Tanky melee skeletons aren’t really necessary since you can re-summon killed skeletons at will for zero resource cost.
• Dark element level 2 and elemental attack are taken to give you a direct attack option, but it’s optional since your own damage will be pathetic compared to your skeletons.
• Shift+V to summon your minions to your location! Very important!

Lower Priority Skills:

(Dark Magic)

• Drain Health Level 2
• Raise Skeleton Mage Level 2

Elemental Magic 15

• Elemental Beam Level 2
• Mastery skill: Focus the element effectiveness
• Fire Element Level 2
• Ice Element Level 2
• Lightning Element Level 2

Arcane Magic 15

• Mastery skill: Maximum overload
• Flying Level 3
• Magic Resistance Level 3

Combat Mastery 15

• Mastery skill: Dual-wielding

Defense 7

• Mastery skill: Defense master

Speech 5

• Encouraging Speech Level 3

Notes:

• I added skeleton mages to the game and expanded the elemental options for them. I also included more direct attack spells for players to use. However, the skeleton units will still deal more damage per second than the player character.
• Abominations underperform in my experience, so I don’t suggest taking Raise abomination.
• Using two weapons at once is chosen because using two warped doomblades, each with a 30% increase in magic damage, is about 23% more powerful than using one doomblade with astral fire in the other hand. This does require a lot of effort for a fairly small advantage, so you can choose not to do this if you want to use your skill points for other things.
• Defense master is a good boost to survivability, especially if your armor is embroidered with +500 HP. Magic resistance from the arcane magic tree is also a good choice for survivability vs. spellcasters.
• Maximum overload makes skeletons considerably stronger for the brief time you can maintain the mana cost. Also makes your own damage a lot less pathetic if you ever feel like ditching the skeletons and killing things with direct damage spells.
• Flight is a huge convenience for getting around and cheesing certain platforming challenges. Pro tip: magic overload increases your flight speed.
• Encouraging speech is underwhelming by default, but becomes quite powerful for a minion build using the new runic forge.
• Leftover skill points can pretty much just go wherever.