Below is a reference breakdown of commonly used Necromancer tank skills. You don’t need every skill listed here on your bar at once, use this section to understand what each option provides and when it becomes useful.

• Goading Throw – Ranged taunt that also heals you and applies Major Maim, reducing enemy damage.
• Necrotic Potency – Consumes nearby corpses to generate Ultimate and a heal over time for each corpse consumed. While slotted, it also reduces damage taken.
• Warding Burst – Group damage shield that also grants Minor Courage and contributes to ultimate generation.
• Polar Wind – Strong burst heal with a self HoT that also heals an ally.
• Trample – Grants Major Heroism and applies multiple damage status effects, turning the Dragonknight into an ultimate engine when paired with Saxhleel Champion.
• Gibbering Shelter – Emergency defensive ultimate that provides strong mitigation, group shielding, and passive resource recovery.
• Leashing Soul – Pulls enemies together, restores Magicka and Stamina, and applies Major Cowardice to reduce incoming damage.
• Elemental Susceptibility – Free Major Breach with constant Burning, Chilled, and Concussion procs, enabling Minor Maim, Minor Brittle, Minor Vulnerability, Off Balance, and Minor Breach (with Blockade), while triggering Dragonknight sustain through Burning.
• Elemental Blockade – Maintains continuous infused Crusher enchant uptime, applies Minor Breach to Chilled enemies, and provides a projectile damage shield for the group.
• Expansive Frost Cloak – Grants Major Resolve to the entire group.
• Runeguard of Still Waters – Passive safety tool that grants Minor Resolve and Minor Protection, immobilises nearby enemies, and triggers a heal when under 50% Health.
• Replenishing Barrier – Provides a large group and self damage shield, restores Magicka, triggers Major Force when paired with Saxhleel Champion, and grants 10% increased Magicka Recovery from the Magicka Aid passive.

Add Pull Skills

• Inner Rage – Ranged taunt that provides a strong group synergy, dealing Flame damage over time to the taunted enemy and additional AoE Flame damage to nearby enemies.
• Razor Caltrops – Applies AoE Major Breach to all enemies in large pulls and snares them.
• Power Slam – Used to proc Void Bash, pulling all enemies together in one cast while applying Major Maim to reduce incoming damage.
• Pulsar – Applies AoE Minor Mangle and, when used with a Charged Ice Staff, guarantees AoE Chilled, enabling Minor Maim, Minor Brittle, Minor Breach (with Blockade), and granting Minor Protection to the group.

Necromancer Skills (No Subclassing)

• Hungry Scythe – Primary Necromancer heal that damages enemies in an AoE while healing you. Both the initial heal and heal over time scale with Max Health.
• Summoner’s Armor – Grants Major and Minor Resolve, reduces the cost of summoning abilities, generates a corpse that can be consumed by Necrotic Potency, and must be kept active to maintain Disdain Harm passive for 15% reduced damage taken from damage over time effects.
• Spirit Guardian – Heals you or the lowest Health ally over time, transfers 10% of your damage taken to the spirit, generates a corpse when it expires, increases recovery, and boosts critical healing chance based on missing Health through passives.
• Glacial Colossus – Powerful ultimate that applies AoE Major Vulnerability, increasing damage taken by enemies and significantly boosting group DPS.
• Binding Contingency – Provides a reliable AoE immobilise for add pulls and applies AoE Minor Vulnerability to enemies.