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Playing as a Necromancer inSpellForce: Conquest Of Eolets you maintain a numerical advantage over your opponents. Using the class’s unique crafting system, you can quickly create large, powerful armies of the living dead to march alongside your normal recruits and summoned creatures.
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Whether you’re just starting out your journey into the art of Necromancy, or just need a reference guide on-hand for your latest campaign, this guide contains tips for playing the class, as well as a complete list of all the units that you can craft. Are you ready to make the Circle fear your armies?
How To Get Souls
Every crafting recipe for Necromancyrequires a Soul as a base material.Souls are typically gained as loot after a successful battle, but the starting probability of an individual unit dropping one is fairly low.
At the start of the game, the best way to collect Souls is toattack enemies with your starting unit of Necromancer Minions. This unit can inflict the Soul Caged status, which guarantees a successful Soul harvest as long as you win the fight.
Later in the game,upgrades to your tower and spells from the Necromancy page of your Grimoirewill make it easier to harvest Souls.
Souls arethe same tier as the unit that dropped them, indicated by the Roman numeral on the item’s icon in your inventory. A Soul can createany craftable unit of the same tier or lower, provided that you have sufficient materials. Most Souls also provide an ability to the unit created from them, allowing you to customize your army.
Lesser Lost Soul
Undertaker -Guarantees one drop of Remains after battles in which this unit participates.
Lesser Greedy Soul
Greedy -Loot one extra gold after battles in which this unit participates.
Lesser Feral Soul
Pack Tactics- This unit deals an additional point of damage for every unit with Pack Tactics in the same stack.
Lesser Enraged Soul
Guard Break -This unit’s attacks take the target out of Guard Stance.
Lesser Arcane Soul
Mana Affinity- Gain two additional Mana per day while this unit exists.
Greater Tormented Soul
Essence -Crafting with this Soul adds an extra point of each Essence type used.
Greater Lost Soul
Assimilate -This unit gains additional damage and regeneration each time another unit (friend or foe) dies within its line of sight. This effect stacks, but is reset at the end of the battle.
Greater Feral Soul
Nature’s Vengeance -This unit gains additional Willpower, Armor, and damage each time a Beast unit (friend or foe) dies within its line of sight. This effect stacks, but is reset at the end of the battle.
Greater Enraged Soul
Berserk- This unit deals extra damage proportional to its missing Health, up to a maximum bonus of ten.
Greater Arcane Soul
Allfire Affinity- Gain two additional Allfire per day while this unit exists.
Pure Vigorous Soul
Defy Death- If this unit is destroyed in combat, it returns with one Health after the battle if you win.
Pure Tormented Soul
Pure Pristine Soul
Follower- This unit costs no upkeep. You still pay Mana to upkeep any spells cast upon it.
Pure Lost Soul
Leech Life- Whenever this unit deals Melee damage, it recovers Health equal to half the damage dealt.
Pure Greedy Soul
Looter -Find thirty percent more loot after battles in which this unit participates.
Pure Feral Soul
Feral Rage- This unit deals ten additional damage with all attacks.
Pure Enraged Soul
Frenzy -Each time this unit is hit with a melee attack, it deals one extra damage for the rest of the battle. This effect stacks.
Pure Arcane Soul
Extra Trinket Slot- This unit can equip a Trinket, normally reserved for Apprentices and Heroes.
A handful of quests provide Necromancers with the Souls of prominent NPCs. These unique Souls are always Tier Three, and provide powerful stat boosts to the crafted undead. Naturally, they can only be used once per campaign!
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All Necromancy Recipes
There are twenty units in total that can be crafted through Necromancy, from lowly Ghouls to mighty Vampires. The unit created isbased on the Soul used and the combined Essence of all the ingredients.
Unlike Alchemy and Artificing, Necromancy has one additional rule to its crafting system; the final Essence totalmust not include any Life Essence.Life and Death Essences cancel each other out, so for most Souls you’ll need toinvest materials with plenty of Death Essenceto negate those pesky green dots!
Lots of Necromancy units can exploit Bleeding, but few can inflict it. Orc Javelineers can inflict Bleeding with their attacks, so attempt to recruit them as support!
