Raise Skeletal Mage | Diablo 2 Wiki | Effects, Stats, Skill Tree and Synergies

Raise Skeletal Mage is a Necromancer Skill in Diablo 2. Raise Skeletal Mage is part of the Necromancer Summoning Spells Tree and requires level 12 to be unlocked. Skills usually define a character's playstyle and are divided by Class and Skill Tree. Some Skills have synergies, which provide benefits to other skills on the same Skill Tree.

Important Note: With the release of Patch 2.4 this skill has suffered some changes.

 

Dead warriors are not the only heroes that a Necromancer may summon to inhabit his creations. Many a Necromancer regales in raising the corpses of long dead wizards and bending them to his will. The priests of Rathma feel that this is the proof of the dominance of their particular branch of the mystic arts.

 

Raise Skeletal Mage Information

Effect

• Cast on the corpse of a slain monster. This raises a skeleton mage that fights for you. 
• Cast Delay: None
• You cannot set what type of elemental attack a Skeletal Mage will have. You can keep raising a new Skeletal Mage until you get the type of Mage you want. Skeletal Mages have a high resistance to Magical Attacks, especially when they have the same elemental attack as the monster or player attacking them.

• Skeletal Magi are useful throughout the game on all difficulty levels. At the minimum, they provide additional targets for monsters to attack. This is good because you want the monsters to attack your Minions instead of yourself. Skeletal Magi work great with Iron Maiden because melee monsters kill themselves on the Skeletal Magi.
• Skeletal Magi are also helpful in "breaking in" to a new area, such as when you first join the game. For those Necromancers that specialize in Revive, their goal is to get together a group of Revived Monsters so that they can start to do damage, take them elsewhere, or feel more secure. At first you will have your Golem and you'll either have to kill the monsters to create bodies yourself or use your Golem (a Curse helps too), to get some good Revive candidates created. Once a body is created, make a Skeletal Mage if the body can't be Revived such as Leapers in the Outer Steppes of Act IV. Next cast Iron Maiden on the monsters. They will kill themselves on your Skeletal Mages allowing you to create more Skeletal Mages or Revive those monsters. Skeletal Magi are very helpful in this situation, especially in the first area of the Outer Steppes.
• Cold Damage Skeletal Magi can be a pain. Monsters, when chilled, may explode leaving no corpse. Necromancers need corpses for Corpse Explosion and for creating Minions. But, Cold Damage Skeletal Magi can be very helpful also if you don't wish to have monsters leave a corpse. While you can't decide what Skeletal Magi elemental type is used, you can Unsummon those offending Skeletal Magi when you see them.
• Skeleton Mastery can raise the damage of their attack.
• Percentage HP per level increased from 7% to 10% in Patch 2.4.

 

 First Level

• # of Skeletal Mages: 1
• Mana Cost: 8
• Defense Bonus +X: 10

 

Requirements

• Raise Skeletal Mage Required Level: 12
• Raise Skeletal Mage Prerequisites: Raise Skeleton

 

Raise Skeletal Mage Synergies

Raise Skeletal Mage Receives Synergy From:

• Skeleton Mastery
• Summon Resist

Raise Skeletal Mage Provides Synergy to:

• No synergies

 

Raise Skeletal Mage Progression

The following chart displays the upgrade values for each level of Raise Skeletal Mage

 

 

Necromage missile's damage

 

 

Notes and Tips

• Since Patch 2.4, tooltip will now properly display the Life scaling per level.
• Notes & Tips go here

 

 

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