Skills - Animate Bone Fiend

This can also be found on Lord Timrot, the Necromancer boss that you fight as part of the Reversing the Scales quest (starts with the Captain at the Ascalon settlement). I think this is probably the earliest you can get this skill as it is just after arriving in Kryta. Before the changes to the capture signet this would have been hard to cap because he rarely actually summons minions (instead he uses putrid explosion). I got the skill before the SoC change and it was very hard at level 15ish.

Thom died many times for me to get the skill. What a guy.

any of you know about how much damage these guys do at lvl 18? im trying to decide which of the three summons is best I don't know for sure, but it seems about the same as a lvl 18 ranger with about 10 in marksmanship using a max bow. It's not so much how much damage each type of minion does, but what they do and how they do it. For lots of death novas, use the one that summons 2 lower level minions. They're sure to die fast enough to explode and take advantage of nova. For tanking, use the horrors. They all help out to distract enemies, which buys time to use other skills.


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Does anyone really use this skill? I know my death nec does. @ lvl 18, 3 or so shooting arrows can do better damage than the horrors, but they don't do as wel a job tanking and since they are long range it's not rally worth it to put death nova on them...then again, i could argue it's worth it to use death nova on everything...fast cast and instant recharge, only 5 energy They serve a couple of purposes:

1) When you get a bunch of them, their mass ranged attack does reasonable damage, without the time it takes for Horrors to stumble over and start swinging meaty paws. Add Favorable Winds and/or Winnowing to boost their attack damage. Three or so? Try sixteen for real fun.

2) They're not as effective as Horrors at tanking, but they _are_ meat shields nonetheless, and return energy to primary Necros via Reaping when killed, so in a way you _want_ some of them to die now and then to refuel your energy.

3) The Fiends you raise are corpses that enemy Necros can't exploit against you.

Hi, sorry if I seem extremely nooby, but I've just started playing as a Rt/N and I'd rather know ahead of time to be safe, 1is there a number cap on the fiends you can summon?2Can they enter a town with you, or do they dissappear across instances?3Are they on AI or do you control them separately? The cap is 10 minions max, whether it's fiends, a golem, horrors or minions. They disappear when you zone, so none carry over while in town. They're under AI control. Usually just summoning a lot of them kills pretty much everything quickly, so it's not really a problem.