Revive

Returns a monster to life to fight by your side.

Revive is the level 30 Necromancer spell at the end of the Summoning tree (requires Raise Skeletal Mage and Iron Golem; it unlocks nothing). Cast on a corpse, it brings that monster back as a revive pet with most of what it had in life. The skill's own level buys one thing: the count, one revived monster per level, 20 at level 20. Every revive gets +200% life, +50% movement speed and 180 seconds to live, and Skeleton Mastery adds +5% life and +10% damage per level. Mana is a flat 45.

The numbers

• Monsters is petmax lvl: one per level, 20 at level 20, 30 at level 30.
• Life is calc1, "HP % Modifier": Param1 200 ("HP %") plus Skeleton Mastery's level times its Param3 5, the "Revive Synergy HP % per level": +200% with no mastery, +300% at Skeleton Mastery 20. The base is the monster's own life.
• Damage is aurastatcalc1: Skeleton Mastery's level times its Param4 10, "Revive Synergy Damage % per level": +0% with no mastery, +200% at Skeleton Mastery 20. The Basin says it applies to physical attack damage only.
• Duration is calc2 ln34: Param3 4,500 frames ("Duration baseline") with Param4 0 a level, 180 seconds at every level, so the column is left out.
• Movement speed is passivecalc1 Param5 50, "Velocity %": +50% at every level.
• Mana is a flat 45 (lvlmana 0), so that column is left out too.

The count reads lvl, and the life and damage lines read Skeleton Mastery's full level (skill('Skeleton Mastery'.lvl)), so +skills from items count in full for both skills. Nothing reads hard points.

How it works

Revive needs a corpse and rolls nothing itself; the revived monster fights with its own attacks. The Basin's rules:

• Only normal and minion monster corpses qualify, and not every one: Minions of Destruction, Oblivion Knights, Putrid Defilers, Suicide Minions and Leapers cannot be revived, nor can Blood Hawk Nests, Gargoyle Traps or Tentacle Beasts. Champions, Uniques and bosses are not revivable.
• The revive keeps most of its AI, skills and stats, including a Unique's bonuses passed to its minions, but loses some, typically healing and buffing skills, spawning and resurrecting.
• Level: if your character level is below the monster's, your level is used for its life, which is then multiplied by your level ÷ its level, and for the chance to hit of the revive and of what attacks it, its attack rating and its damage. Otherwise the monster's level is used, and the monster's level is always used for its defense.
• Life and damage do not increase with the player count in the game, although the monster's did while it was alive.
• Summon Resist does not apply to revives; Skeleton Mastery does. Battle Orders and Oak Sage are applied after the +% life from Skeleton Mastery and Revive.
• In Resurrected all six of the caster's sunder charms are applied to the revives' hits (passivecalc2–7).
• The revive expires after 180 seconds.

Three minutes. Every revive has to be replaced at 45 mana each, twenty at a time, from corpses that qualify; the army is rebuilt area by area.

Synergies and +skills

No synergies of its own: Revive has no dsc3 lines and feeds none. Its only outside input is Skeleton Mastery, read at full level in both its life and its damage line, so a +1 to all skills is worth one revive and +5% life and +10% damage on each. The Basin lists Revive charges on Blood Raven's Charge, Eternity and Harmony, and notes a Paladin using such charges loses an eighth of his maximum life each cast.

Against players

The Necromancer casts nothing on a player with this skill. A revived monster's hits on a player are cut to 17% by the player-versus-player rule as any player-side hit is; the Basin's page records no other player-versus-player rule. See Player versus Player.

Build notes

• Level 20 is twenty revives for 45 mana each; a +skill is one more body, and since the level does nothing else, the skill is often left at one hard point and raised by items.
• Skeleton Mastery is the only scaling: +5% life and +10% damage per level, +100% and +200% at 20, read at full level.
• The 180-second timer and the corpse rules decide the army, not the numbers: pick monsters whose base life and attacks are worth the three minutes.