Necromancer · Summoning Skills

Raise Skeleton

Required level 1SummonClassic

What it does

cast on the corpse of a slain monster, this raises a skeleton warrior that fights for you.

How Raise Skeleton works, in depthThe Necromancer's skeleton warrior: how many you get (1 at level 1, 8 at level 20, 12 at level 30), their +50% life and +7% damage a level from level 4, +15 attack rating and +15 defense per level of Raise Skeleton and Skeleton Mastery together, and why the numbers are fixed at the moment of raising.

Items that give Raise Skeleton

1 item

+ levels to the skillyour own class only

Arm of King LeoricUnique · Tomb Wand	+3 to Raise Skeleton (Necromancer Only)	36

Per level

before synergies, masteries and +skills from items

Level	# skeletons total	Damage:	Mana cost
1	1	0	6
2	2	0	7
3	3	0	8
4	3	7	9
5	3	14	10
6	4	21	11
7	4	28	12
8	4	35	13
9	5	42	14
10	5	49	15
11	5	56	16
12	6	63	17
13	6	70	18
14	6	77	19
15	7	84	20
16	7	91	21
17	7	98	22
18	8	105	23
19	8	112	24
20	8	119	25
21	9	126	26
22	9	133	27
23	9	140	28
24	10	147	29
25	10	154	30
26	10	161	31
27	11	168	32
28	11	175	33
29	11	182	34
30	12	189	35

Also raised by

items that add levels without naming it

Leads to

Mechanics

the stats this skill sets

Source: skills.txt row “Raise Skeleton” and skilldesc.txt of build 3.3.93847. Mana = (mana + lvlmana × (level − 1)) × 2^manashift ÷ 256; damage brackets at levels 2–8, 9–16, 17–22, 23–28, 29+ scaled by HitShift. · Report incorrect data

Unless stated otherwise, everything here is Diablo II: Resurrected build 3.3.93847, Reign of the Warlock.

Level	# skeletons total	Damage:	Mana cost
1	1	0	6
2	2	0	7
3	3	0	8
4	3	7	9
5	3	14	10
6	4	21	11
7	4	28	12
8	4	35	13
9	5	42	14
10	5	49	15
11	5	56	16
12	6	63	17
13	6	70	18
14	6	77	19
15	7	84	20
16	7	91	21
17	7	98	22
18	8	105	23
19	8	112	24
20	8	119	25
21	9	126	26
22	9	133	27
23	9	140	28
24	10	147	29
25	10	154	30
26	10	161	31
27	11	168	32
28	11	175	33
29	11	182	34
30	12	189	35

Level	# skeletons total	Damage:	Mana cost
1	1	0	6
2	2	0	7
3	3	0	8
4	3	7	9
5	3	14	10
6	4	21	11
7	4	28	12
8	4	35	13
9	5	42	14
10	5	49	15
11	5	56	16
12	6	63	17
13	6	70	18
14	6	77	19
15	7	84	20
16	7	91	21
17	7	98	22
18	8	105	23
19	8	112	24
20	8	119	25
21	9	126	26
22	9	133	27
23	9	140	28
24	10	147	29
25	10	154	30
26	10	161	31
27	11	168	32
28	11	175	33
29	11	182	34
30	12	189	35

Level	# skeletons total	Damage:	Mana cost
1	1	0	6
2	2	0	7
3	3	0	8
4	3	7	9
5	3	14	10
6	4	21	11
7	4	28	12
8	4	35	13
9	5	42	14
10	5	49	15
11	5	56	16
12	6	63	17
13	6	70	18
14	6	77	19
15	7	84	20
16	7	91	21
17	7	98	22
18	8	105	23
19	8	112	24
20	8	119	25
21	9	126	26
22	9	133	27
23	9	140	28
24	10	147	29
25	10	154	30
26	10	161	31
27	11	168	32
28	11	175	33
29	11	182	34
30	12	189	35

Level	# skeletons total	Damage:	Mana cost
1	1	0	6
2	2	0	7
3	3	0	8
4	3	7	9
5	3	14	10
6	4	21	11
7	4	28	12
8	4	35	13
9	5	42	14
10	5	49	15
11	5	56	16
12	6	63	17
13	6	70	18
14	6	77	19
15	7	84	20
16	7	91	21
17	7	98	22
18	8	105	23
19	8	112	24
20	8	119	25
21	9	126	26
22	9	133	27
23	9	140	28
24	10	147	29
25	10	154	30
26	10	161	31
27	11	168	32
28	11	175	33
29	11	182	34
30	12	189	35

Level	# skeletons total	Damage:	Mana cost
1	1	0	6
2	2	0	7
3	3	0	8
4	3	7	9
5	3	14	10
6	4	21	11
7	4	28	12
8	4	35	13
9	5	42	14
10	5	49	15
11	5	56	16
12	6	63	17
13	6	70	18
14	6	77	19
15	7	84	20
16	7	91	21
17	7	98	22
18	8	105	23
19	8	112	24
20	8	119	25
21	9	126	26
22	9	133	27
23	9	140	28
24	10	147	29
25	10	154	30
26	10	161	31
27	11	168	32
28	11	175	33
29	11	182	34
30	12	189	35

Level	# skeletons total	Damage:	Mana cost
1	1	0	6
2	2	0	7
3	3	0	8
4	3	7	9
5	3	14	10
6	4	21	11
7	4	28	12
8	4	35	13
9	5	42	14
10	5	49	15
11	5	56	16
12	6	63	17
13	6	70	18
14	6	77	19
15	7	84	20
16	7	91	21
17	7	98	22
18	8	105	23
19	8	112	24
20	8	119	25
21	9	126	26
22	9	133	27
23	9	140	28
24	10	147	29
25	10	154	30
26	10	161	31
27	11	168	32
28	11	175	33
29	11	182	34
30	12	189	35