Necromancer Rework

Necromancer Rework

Original Tower

Necromancer
Unlock Cost	1,800 or 1,500
Placement	Ground
Placement Limit	4
Statistics
Base Cost	$1,400
Base Selling Cost	$466
Base Damage	15
Damage Method	Homing (Level 0-3) Multi-target (Level 4)
Base Firerate	2.208
Base Range	16 8 (Gravestone Range)
Hidden Detection	Level 2+
Flying Detection	Level 0+
Immunities	None

Deal damage to collect souls! Souls get used to summon an army of skeletons...

―Store Description

Deal damage to collect souls! Souls get used to summon gravestones.

―Former Store Description

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―Former Store Description

Description

The Necromancer is an exclusive spawner tower that can be unlocked in the store for 1,800 gems. It is only sold during every Halloween, though for the Lunar Overture Event, it was on sale until 2nd of December 2023. However, due to a bug, it is still purchasable. It could have also been obtained through a gamepass for 1,500.

The Necromancer fires magic bolts at enemies, which can hit three enemies. At Level 4, these are replaced by beams fired from its book, which are not projectiles. The Necromancer also has a soul meter of 30, which it fills up by damaging enemies. When the soul meter is full, the Necromancer will summon gravestones. The Necromancer can destroy these gravestones using its Raise the Dead ability. The Necromancer will summon up to six gravestones, after which it will not summon any. At Level 3, the Necromancer now can upgrade gravestones. When it has reached the limit of 12 gravestones, after dealing enough damage it will upgrade them. Upgraded gravestones summon stronger units. At Level 4, these gravestones can also deal damage when destroyed.

The units spawned depend on the Level of the tower and the gravestone. At Level 0, Level 1 gravestones can only spawn Skeletons, at Level 2, Level 1 gravestones gain the ability to summon Sword Skeletons. At Level 3, gravestones can be upgraded to Level 2, where they spawn Skeletons, Skeleton Knights and Giant Skeletons. At Level 4, gravestones can be upgraded to Level 3, where they spawn Skeleton Knights, Hallow Guards and Executioner Skeletons.

The units that spawn from gravestones are a set of unique units that are guaranteed to spawn. Although after a set of guareented units, the extra unit types will be spawned at random.

The Necromancer has a placement limit of four per player.

Upgrades

Stronger Magic

Level 1 • Cost: Stronger Magic - $400

2.208 > 2.008 Firerate

+3 Damage

Sell Price changes to $632

Armed Skeletons

Level 2 • Cost: Armed Skeletons - $1,100

2.008 > 1.558 Firerate

+2 Range

+2 Max Hits

+6 Max Gravestone

+2 Gravestone Spawn Count

+Hidden Detection

•15 Damage

•0.808 Firerate

•6 Range

•30 Health

•Hidden Detection

Sell Price changes to $998

Corpsekinesis

Level 3 • Cost: Corpsekinesis - $5,800

+25 Damage

1.558 > 1.408 Firerate

1 > 2 Max Gravestone Level

•2 Range

•250 Health

•Hidden Detection

•60 Damage

•0.658 Firerate

•7 Range

•175 Health

•Hidden Detection

Sell Price changes to $3,331

Mastered Necromancy

Level 4 • Cost: Mastered Necromancy - $25,000

1.508 > 0.308 Firerate

+2 Range

-25 Damage

+2 Max Hits

+6 Max Gravestone

+2 Gravestone Spawn Count

Homing attack replaced with beam attack

+300 Gravestone Explosion Damage

2 > 3 Max Gravestone Level

•50 Damage

•4.008 Firerate

•0.1 Tick

•30 Range

•3,500 Health

•Hidden Detection

•2 Range

•1,750 Health

Sell Price changes to $11,664

Ability

Raise the Dead

Level 0+ • 5s Cooldown

Destroys all its graves, summoning random units based on the gravestone level. Any units on the path from the previous ability use are also instantly killed.

Stats Table

Necromancer Stats
Level	Total Price	Damage	Firerate	Range	Max Hits	Max Gravestones	Gravestone Spawn Count	Max Gravestone Level	DPS
0	$1,400	15	2.208	16	3	6	2	1	6.79
1	$1,800	18	2.008	16	3	6	2	1	8.96
2	$2,900	20	1.558	18	5	12	4	1	12.83
3	$8,700	45	1.408	18	5	12	4	2	31.96
4	$33,700	20	0.308	20	7	18	6	3	64.94

Skeleton Stats
Gravestone Level	Unit	Health	Damage	Firerate	Tick	Range	DPS
1-2	Skeleton	30	N/A	N/A	N/A	2	N/A
1	Sword Skeleton	30	15	0.808	N/A	6	18.56
2	Giant Skeleton	400	N/A	N/A	N/A	2	N/A
2-3	Skeleton Knight	175	60	0.658	N/A	7	91.18
3	Hallow Guard	1,750	N/A	N/A	N/A	2	N/A
3	Executioner Skeleton	3,500	50	4.008	0.1	30	124.75

Skeleton Spawning
Level	Unit	Set
0-1	Skeleton	N/A
2	Skeleton Sword Skeleton	4 (Skeleton) 4 (Sword Skeleton)
3	Skeleton Giant Skeleton Skeleton Knight	4 (Skeleton) 3 (Skeleton Knight) 2 (Giant Skeleton)
4	Skeleton Knight Hallow Guard Executioner Skeleton	5 (Skeleton Knight) 5 (Hallow Guard) 2 (Executioner Skeleton)

Strategy

• Placement is important for the Necromancer, because of its projectile and the way it spawns gravestones.
  • The Necromancer should be placed at curve path to maximize its homing attacks.
    • At Level 4, the Necromancer no longer fires projectiles and instead targets enemies using beams, making placement less important in this regard.
  • The Necromancer needs to be placed next to the path so that it can summon gravestones, so you might not be able to utilize the most of its range.
• The Necromancer stops attacking while summoning gravestones, making it unable to attack for a while.
  • This does not happen when the Necromancer upgrades gravestones.
  • This makes it unable to defend by itself, as hordes of fast enemies like the Glitch or Shock could get out of its range fairly easily. Thus, bringing in reliable towers like the Minigunner will help avoid this issue.
• At Level 0, the Necromancer gains the ability to attack multiple enemies, allowing it to be used against crowds of enemies.
  • At Level 4, it fires beams instead of projectiles, making it significantly more effective against crowds of enemies.
• It is not recommended to use the Necromancer against major bosses due to its low single target DPS, and the fact that you have to move the Necromancers a lot for its units to actually be able to attack them.
  • Additionally, most major bosses can damage the units with abilities, making them even more risky to use.
• The Necromancer's Raise the Dead ability can be used to summon various skeletons, which get quite powerful at later levels.
  • It is recommended to wait until gravestones are at their higher level, so that it spawns strongest units.
  • The units that spawn are guareented, although extra skeleton that will spawn are still assigned randomly.
  • Do note that using its ability will kill any previously spawned units.
  • At Level 4, the Level 3 gravestones explode when you activate the ability, which can make them useful as traps to take down groups of weaker enemies and chip the health down of stronger ones. You should only do this when enemies are about to walk on the gravestones or are walking on them currently, since you will still kill any previously spawned units.
• Units spawned by the Necromancer, especially at higher levels, have high health, making them useful against crowds of enemies.
  • The Executioner Skeleton's axe also deals piercing damage, rapidly dealing damage to any unit caught by it, though its high firerate and the far distance that its axe travels make it quite inconsistent.
• The Necromancer has flying detection at Level 0, which can make it fairly useful against flying enemies.
  • While it does not have hidden detection until Level 2, some of its units can detect and all of them can deal damage to them, making it still useful against hidden enemies before being upgraded to Level 2.
  • You should not solely rely on the Necromancer for these two traits alone, however, as the Necromancer is a rather expensive way to counter these types of enemies and there are better and cheaper alternatives such as Ace Pilot, Militant or Golden Scout.
  • That being said, the Necromancer's homing attacks and high damage at Level 2 makes it great against hordes of Hiddens and Balloons, though the Necromancer's fairly slow firerate may struggle with them from time to time. At Level 4, it can do quite well against groups of Hidden Bosses along with supplementary damage with its ability.
  • The Necromancer is, however, useless against Lead Balloons because it cannot damage lead enemies nor can any of the skeletons collide with them.
• The Necromancer is quite expensive to upgrade to Level 3 and 4. Because of this, towers like the Farm, Cowboy, or Golden Cowboy are recommended to afford them more easily.
  • The DJ Booth can also be helpful at reducing its upgrade costs.
• The Necromancer's skeletons can be effective against Leads and Lead Bosses because they can damage them through collision and have a good amount of health to eliminate multiple of them.
  • However, the Sword Skeleton, Skeleton Knight and Executioner Skeleton cannot damage them with their own attacks, so they may likely be destroyed quicker than usual.
• The Necromancer can pair up well with the Mercenary Base, because its Field Medics can heal multiple skeletons. This is particularly useful for the Executioner Skeleton as its primary attack is ranged.
  • Additionally, its damage buff can be useful at boosting the Necromancer's damage, increasing its DPS and making it build graves faster.

Trivia

• The Necromancer is the first non-hardcore tower to be obtainable for Gems.
  • Unlike most other towers purchasable in the store, the Necromancer is only available every Halloween, though during the Lunar Overture Event, it was on sale until 2nd of December 2023.
    • Due to a bug, it is present in the store much longer than intended.
• The Necromancer's beam attack at Level 4 shares a resemblance to the Plasma Trooper's beam attack from Tower Battles, as they both can attack more than one unit and use beams to target an enemy. There is a visual resemblance as well.
• The Necromancer's homing attack at Level 0-3 is loosely based to Crossbower's X-3 upgrade from Tower Blitz.
• This is the first tower to place something on the track.
• The former Necromancer Level 4 upgrade name is a reference to the Darkhold from the Marvel Comics.