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Necromancer Class Skills 11-15
COMING THIS WEEK!
Having mastered the power of the Deathwalker, your knowledge and power as a Necromancer are now far in excess of anything you had accomplished before -- but the growing crisis in Orcus Archive will challenge even that! Now that you've turned Scythe and Shadow against each other, and uncovered their ambitions to overthrow the Archive... It's time to prepare the final blow against both. You will need allies. Real allies.

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Zombie Hands is back, now as Grasp Essence.

There's some nice basic combos you can do with Grasp Essence:

1. Looming/Searing/Primal Fear -> Consume Fear
2. Death Dog Bleed / Grevious Weave -> Unravel Blood.

Of course the more stacks of infliction you do the more damage the Zombies Hands will do.

Deathless Dracolich is plenty strong, and does even better damage with inflictions. Can seek between fire/dark and gives them a pretty strong burn status that stacks with itself.

Anima Atunement is our lean adjuster for this class. Curiously there's a Spellcaster lean that we cannot have for now but I remember that this was not a well-received form with Brihaldo forms so we'll have to see how that works this time around or if there will be any adjustments to make it worth using.

Mana Amplification. Not much I can say here. Pay SP for more powerful spells.

Haunting seems like its own menu of generic dark spells with Standard/Efficient/Overcharged flavors.

All in all these are some pretty nice skills. I don't really play with tons of effects but I'm sure the right players with the right equips and knowledge will best know how to utilize some of the interactions that are possible within and outside of necromancer. From Grasp Essence alone there's a ton of possible combos you can do that's already akin to a Fear/Bleed eater.

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It also looks like Deathwalker has been updated so that you can assume Deathwalker form at will once you have enough charges, without needing to die first.