Edit: no idea about the void worm will have to try it on him. love Decaying Touch, another great 1 point wonder as is First Aid both mentioned above (so many excellent one point wonders in the game). Used it on Niles, Orivand, Skeletons, Magisters, voidlings and Radaka, off the top of my head with great results (it isn't an I win ability, but it can save you're backside or even kill the npc or lock the npc down as their AI goes into a wth moment or makes them change targets). does it work with everything? no, it is not a god ability (although some times the AI doesn't handle it well at all), you still need to use it tactically. I've used Shackles from roughly lvl 2 to 7 on several builds magic and rogue with brilliant results (when needed). I don't really see any sense in a backstabber who can also cast spells as far as the numbers go. The only hybrid class right now that has be scratching my head is Shadowblade. Fairly nice and scales well with hydro-sophist talent. Shackles of Pain only works with Renewal. Its a great school but requires more finesse then say Pyro or Earth to use imho. it can cause enemy mobs without magic armour to take all the damage you suffer (massive boost to your survivability) At present running a Pyro/Necro with great survivability and damage, damage dealt will return % as health and abilities like Mosquito Swarm are healing me for a little over 20 % of my maximum health. Originally posted by tomcf:I would take necromancy purely for Shackles of Pain, used well this spell is a one point super wonder. So necromancy on a non mage is kind of bad right now, i wouldnt reccomend taking it. This, in the current state of the game, is nto very worthwile though since the game is about your physical and magical armor, not your raw hitpoints, since those armors protect you from status effects. The point of taking necromancy on a non int character would largly just be the healing based on damage you do. There are some effects that bypass it, but generally speaking its limited. Keep in mind in orde for most effects to be applied it has to get past the magic armor first (and yes, some rare spells use physical armor for save instead of magic, such as one of necros starting spells), which means you need int based dps stripping that. Magic in this game does various effects which you dont really need int for, there are a lot of spells you use because they apply effects, these effects dont care what your int is, only direct damage components. You wont be using many necromancy skills in this case however. The health heal on damage done is of course based on damage done, from any source, so a strength fighter with 3 points in necromancy can go clobber something over the head with his strength hammer, and get some health back. The spells themselves are gonna be int based, and the tooltips should say as much. I can see putting points into Warfare would compliment both damage types, but surely where attributes are concerned it should be either str, int, or finesse and then vitality or memory if needed, not a combination of str and int or fin and int. If the damage of the ability is governed by Intelligence I see very little reason to invest in two different damage attributes.

Obviously the Necro abilities deal damage to Physical Armour and cause Physical effects like bleeding. I notice that in many of the hybrid classes such as Cleric and Shadowblade Necromancy is used as the default magic ability. Originally posted by Senenleigh:Without going in and testing the numbers myself, I was hoping someone could tell me if Necromancy is governed by intelligence or a different attribute.

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