Profession mechanic
Death Shroud is the necromancer's profession mechanic, occupying the F1 slot above the skill bar. Activating Death Shroud will transform you into a phantasmal state with special skills, where your accumulated life force takes the place of health but slowly depletes over time.
| Skill | Recharge | Description | |
| Death Shroud | 10 | Assume a spectral form and gain new skills, turning your life force into health. | |
| End Death Shroud | Leave death shroud and return to your normal form. | ||
| Terrestrial | |||
| 1 | Life Blast | Blast a foe with accumulated life force, dealing more damage the more life force you have. | |
| 2 | Dark Path | 15 | Send out a claw. If this attack hits a foe, you teleport to that foe and chill nearby foes. |
| 3 | Doom | 20 | Make your foe flee in fear. |
| 4 | Life Transfer | 40 | Damage nearby foes and steal their life force. |
| Aquatic | |||
| 1 | Life Blast | Blast a foe with a plague that transfers one condition to them. | |
| 2 | Dark Water | 15 | Blind and poison foes near your target with a dark cloud. |
| 3 | Wave of Fear | 25 | Terrify all foes in front of you with a wave of fear. |
| 4 | Gathering Plague | 30 | Draw conditions from nearby allies to yourself, and inflict weakness on yourself. |
Weapon skills
Two-handed
| Skill | Type | Recharge | Description | |
| Staff | ||||
| 1 | Necrotic Grasp | Send out a grasping hand that damages foes in a line and grants you life force. | ||
| 2 | Mark of Blood | Mark | 6 | Inscribe a mark that bleeds foes when they trigger it, and grants regeneration to allies. |
| 3 | Chilblains | Mark | 20 | Inscribe a mark that chills foes when they trigger it, and leaves a poisonous area. |
| 4 | Putrid Mark | Mark | 25 | Inscribe a mark that transfers conditions from allies to foes when they trigger it. |
| 5 | Reaper's Mark | Mark | 40 | Inscribe a mark that causes fear when foes trigger it. |
Main hand only
| Skill | Type | Recharge | Description | |
| Axe | ||||
| 1 | Rending Claws | Slash your foe twice with ghostly claws to make them vulnerable. | ||
| 2 | Ghastly Claws | 8 | Summon spectral claws to slash your foe in a quick flurry of strikes, gaining life force per strike. | |
| 3 | Unholy Feast | 15 | Damage and cripple nearby foes. Gain retaliation for each foe you strike. | |
| Scepter | ||||
| 1 | Blood Curse | Bleed your foe. | ||
| Rending Curse | Bleed your foe. | |||
| Putrid Curse | Poison your foe. | |||
| 2 | Grasping Dead | 10 | Summon skeletal hands to cripple foes in the target area. | |
| 3 | Feast of Corruption | 10 | Strike your target, dealing additional damage and gaining life force for each condition on them. |
Dual-wield
| Skill | Type | Recharge | Description | |
| Dagger | ||||
| 1 | Necrotic Slash | Slash your foe twice. | ||
| Necrotic Stab | Strike your foe again. | |||
| Necrotic Bite | Strike your foe with [sic] and gain life force. | |||
| 2 | Life Siphon | 12 | Siphon health from your foe. | |
| 3 | Dark Pact | 25 | Immobilize your foe. | |
| 4 | Deathly Swarm | 18 | Unleash an insect swarm, blinding multiple foes. Transfer three conditions to your target on a successful attack. | |
| 5 | Enfeebling Blood | 25 | Inflict weakness and bleeding on foes in the target area. |
Offhand only
| Skill | Type | Recharge | Description | |
| Focus | ||||
| 4 | Reaper's Touch | 18 | Send out a scythe that bounces between foes and allies. Causes vulnerability on foes andregeneration on allies. | |
| 5 | Spinal Shivers | 20 | Chill your foe and remove three boons. | |
| Warhorn | ||||
| 4 | Wail of Doom | 30 | Screech a wail of doom in a cone pattern, dazing foes. | |
| 5 | Locust Swarm | 30 | Gain swiftness and summon a swarm of locusts that cripple nearby foes. |
Aquatic
| Skill | Type | Recharge | Description | |
| Spear | ||||
| 1 | Cruel Strike | Stab your foe. | ||
| Wicked Strike | Strike your foe again. | |||
| Reaper's Scythe | Reap life force from nearby foes. | |||
| 2 | Wicked Spiral | 10 | Spin in place multiple times, dealing damage and applying vulnerability to each foe struck. | |
| 3 | Deadly Feast | 18 | Gain swiftness and summon a swarm of vampiric shrimp that siphon health from nearby foes. | |
| 4 | Deadly Catch | 25 | Whirl around, throwing spears that cripple foes and pull them to you. | |
| 5 | Dark Spear | 25 | Pull yourself to a foe and inflict bleeding. | |
| Trident | ||||
| 1 | Crimson Tide | Bleed foes around your target. | ||
| 2 | Feast | 12 | Weaken and damage foes around you. Gain life force per foe struck. | |
| 3 | Foul Current | 15 | Dart at your foe, leaving poisonous bubbles behind. | |
| 4 | Sinking Tomb | 20 | Entomb your foe, making them sink. | |
| 5 | Frozen Abyss | 25 | Chill foes near you. |
Slot skills
Healing
| Skill | Type | Skill Points | Recharge | Description | |
| Consume Conditions | 1 | 25 | Feast on your conditions, gaining health for each one consumed. | ||
| Summon Blood Fiend | Minion | 20 | Summon a blood fiend that transfers health to you on each attack. | ||
| Taste of Death | Sacrifice your blood fiend to heal yourself. | ||||
| Well of Blood | Well | 3 | 40 | Conjure a well of blood to heal allies. |
Utility
| Skill | Type | Skill Points | Recharge | Description | |
| Blood is Power | Corruption | 6 | 30 | Bleed yourself. Bleed your target and gain life force. | |
| Corrosive Poison Cloud | Corruption | 1 | 40 | Weaken yourself. The target area is enveloped in a noxious cloud that poisons foes and leaves them weakened. | |
| Corrupt Boon | Corruption | 3 | 40 | Poison yourself. Transform all boons on your foe into negative conditions. | |
| Epidemic | Corruption | 1 | 15 | Apply vulnerability on yourself. Spread conditions on a target foe to all nearby foes. | |
| Summon Bone Fiend | Minion | 1 | 30 | Summon a bone fiend that attacks foes at range. Delivers a crippling attack once every ten seconds. | |
| Rigor Mortis | 50 | Immobilize your bone fiend, and it will immobilize foes. | |||
| Summon Bone Minions | Minion | 1 | 20 | Summon two bone minions. | |
| Putrid Explosion | 1 | Explode a bone minion. | |||
| Summon Flesh Wurm | Minion | 6 | 40 | Summon an immobile flesh wurm to attack foes. | |
| Necrotic Traversal | Sacrifice your flesh wurm, teleport to it, and poison foes. | ||||
| Summon Shadow Fiend | Minion | 3 | 30 | Summon a shadow fiend to attack foes. | |
| Haunt | 20 | Command your shadow fiend to teleport to and blind a foe. | |||
| Plague Signet | Signet | 3 | 60 | Passive: Transfers conditions from nearby allies to yourself.Active: Send your conditions to a foe. | |
| Signet of Spite | Signet | 1 | 90 | Passive: Improves power.Active: Inflict bleeding, blindness, crippled, poison, and vulnerability on your foe. | |
| Signet of the Locust | Signet | 1 | 60 | Passive: You run faster.Active: Steal health from nearby foes. | |
| Signet of Undeath | Signet | 6 | 180 | Passive: Generates life force while in combat.Active: Revive up to three downed allies in a target area. | |
| Spectral Armor | Spectral | 6 | 90 | Gain life force as you take damage. Removed when you enter Death Shroud. Also appliesprotection. | |
| Spectral Grasp | Spectral | 1 | 30 | Pull your foe to you and chill them. | |
| Spectral Walk | Spectral | 6 | 60 | Step into the shadows and walk with a trail behind you. When Spectral Walk ends, you return to where you cast it. | |
| Sever Spectral Bond | Spectral | Sever your spectral bond. You will not return to the casting point, but the act will leave youvulnerable for three seconds. | |||
| Spectral Wall | Spectral | 6 | 40 | Create a spectral wall that protects allies and makes foes vulnerable. | |
| Well of Corruption | Well | 3 | 45 | Target area pulses, converting boons on foes into conditions | |
| Well of Darkness | Well | 6 | 60 | Target area pulses, blinding foes with each pulse. | |
| Well of Power | Well | 3 | 60 | Target area pulses, converting conditions on allies into boons. | |
| Well of Suffering | Well | 1 | 45 | Target area pulses, damaging foes and inflicting vulnerability. |
Elite
| Skill | Type | Skill Points | Recharge | Description | |
| Lich Form | Transform | 30 | 180 | Assume the form of a lich for a brief time. | |
| Plague | Transform | 10 | 180 | Become a virulent cloud and inflict multiple conditions on foes you touch. | |
| Summon Flesh Golem | Minion | 10 | 60 | Summon a flesh golem to attack foes with crippling claws. | |
| Charge | 40 | Command your flesh golem to charge a foe. |
Downed and drowning skills
| Skill | Type | Recharge | Description | |
| Downed | ||||
| 1 | Life Leech | Leech a foe's health to heal yourself. | ||
| 2 | Fear | 10 | Make your foe flee in fear. | |
| 3 | Fetid Ground | 20 | Create fetid ground which damages and poisons foes. | |
| 4 | Bandage | 5 | Call your allies for help. Restores health while you channel it. | |
| Drowning | ||||
| 1 | Life Leech | Leech a foe's health to heal yourself. | ||
| 2 | Feeding Frenzy | 15 | Summon a school of undead fish to attack your foe. | |
| 3 | Death Curse | Poison yourself and your foe. | ||
| 4 | Bandage | 5 | Call your allies for help. Restores health while you channel it. |
Auxiliary skillbars
These skills replace the main skillbar after activating the specified primary skills.
Lich Form
| Skill | Type | Recharge | Description | |
| 1 | Deathly Claws | Send out grasping claws to damage your foes. | ||
| 2 | Marked for Death | Mark | 10 | Inscribe a mark that makes a foe vulnerable when they trigger it. |
| 3 | Chilling Wind | 20 | Release a freezing wind that chills and pushes back foes. | |
| 4 | Mark of Horror | Mark | 25 | Inscribe a mark that summons five jagged horrors when a foe triggers it. |
| 5 | Grim Specter | 30 | Send out a claw that explodes on impact, ripping boons off of foes and curing conditions on allies. |
Plague
| Skill | Type | Description | ||
| 1 | Withering Plague | Add bleeding to your plague. | ||
| 2 | Plague of Darkness | Add blindness to your plague. | ||
| 3 | Plague of Pestilence | Add cripple and weakness to your plague. |
