Summon Skeletons

For the Vaal-themed counterpart, see Vaal Summon Skeletons.

Summon Skeletons is a spell that summons two allied skeleton minions.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Spell Totem - When Summon Skeletons is supported with , the totem will continue to cast Summon Skeletons even if the maximum number of skeletons has been reached. Older skeletons will then be replaced by newer skeletons, possibly moving them to another target.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	# Skeletons	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	10	29	5	N/A	0	0
2	13	35	5	N/A	9569	9569
3	17	43	6	N/A	28189	37758
4	21	52	6	N/A	59146	96904
5	25	60	7	N/A	111192	208096
6	29	69	8	N/A	193800	401896
7	33	77	8	N/A	320280	722176
8	36	83	9	N/A	359090	1081266
9	39	90	9	N/A	498508	1579774
10	42	96	10	N/A	682057	2261831
11	45	102	11	N/A	921777	3183608
12	48	109	11	N/A	1727879	4911487
13	51	115	12	N/A	1791769	6703256
14	54	121	12	N/A	2353679	9056935
15	57	127	13	N/A	3070912	12127847
16	60	134	14	N/A	9095466	21223313
17	63	140	14	N/A	16039890	37263203
18	66	146	15	N/A	29817117	67080320
19	68	151	15	N/A	62895056	129975376
20	70	155	16	N/A	212051599	342026975
21	72	159	17	N/A	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	17	N/A	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	18	N/A	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	18	N/A	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	19	N/A	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	20	N/A	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	20	N/A	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	21	N/A	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	21	N/A	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	22	N/A	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	22	N/A	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	23	N/A	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	23	N/A	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	23	N/A	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	24	N/A	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	24	N/A	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	24	N/A	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	24	N/A	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	25	N/A	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	25	N/A	N/A	N/A

Skeleton limit

By default, the player can summon up to six skeletons at a given time (assuming the use of a level 20 gem). This limit can be increased with certain passive skills or items.

Passive skills

The following passive skills increase the player's skeleton limit: Template:Passive table

Unique items

The following unique items affect the player's skeleton limit:

Catarina

Catarina, Master of the Dead provides the following crafting mod for body armour: +2 to Maximum number of Skeletons.

Total

Players can have a maximum of (22 to 56)¹ skeletons at once:

• 6 from the skill gem
• 6 from passive skills
• 6 from unique equipment (wearing Alberon's WarpathAlberon's Warpath
  Soldier BootsArmour: (268-319)
  Energy Shield: (18-20)Requires Level 49, 47 Str, 47 Int(15-18)% increased Strength
  Adds 1 to 80 Chaos Damage to Attacks
  +(180-220) to Armour
  +(13-19)% to Chaos Resistance
  25% increased Movement Speed
  Summoned Skeleton Warriors are Permanent and Follow you
  Summon Skeletons cannot Summon more than 1 Skeleton WarriorAlberon walked among the accursed,
  and they welcomed him. and dual wielding Midnight BargainMidnight Bargain
  Engraved WandWand
  Physical Damage: 21-38
  Critical Strike Chance: 7.00%
  Attacks per Second: 1.50Requires Level 40, 131 Int(22-26)% increased Spell Damage+(10-20) to Intelligence
  Minions have (20-30)% increased Movement Speed
  Minions deal (50-70)% increased Damage
  +1 to maximum number of Raised Zombies
  +1 to maximum number of Skeletons
  +1 to maximum number of Spectres
  Reserves 30% of Life
  Cannot be used with Chaos InoculationA chilling hush, a scraping sound
  Of things no more entombed in ground.
  A shambling horde is on its way
  To crush the very light of day.)
• 2 from a body armour with Catarina's mod
• 2 from the To DustTo Dust
  Cobalt Jewel(20-10)% reduced Skeleton Duration
  Minions deal (8-12)% increased Damage
  (7-10)% increased Skeleton Attack Speed
  (7-10)% increased Skeleton Cast Speed
  (3-5)% increased Skeleton Movement SpeedCorruptedIn the end, time comes for all of us.
  It just comes for some much sooner.Place into an allocated jewel socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket. unique jewel¹

¹ Note that Army of Bones is accompanied by a Reduced Skeleton Duration modifier. For example, a Witch taking all passive skills for the amount of skeletons will need 18 jewel sockets, in which she puts Army of Bones. This gives the theoretically maximum 56 skeletons but would also require the allocation of duration nodes and gems. In a perfect build setup for it one would possess perfectly rolled Army of Bones jewels with 10% duration reductions, resulting in -180% duration, which could be negated by Queens Decree (150-200% skeleton duration. It would cost the player two skeletons from dual wielding Midnight Bargain) or simply minimized by taking duration nodes (90%) and gem (up to 64% at gem 20 no quality etc) if the player doesn't wish to limit his weapon. However, without increased duration nodes and gem, the duration of skeletons would be 0 seconds.

Threshold Jewel

The following threshold jewels augment the skill gem:

Alternate skill effects

Name	Cost	Description
Summon Statues SkinSummon Statues SkinSkill Gem EffectYour Summoned Skeletons become animated statues	95	Replaces the standard skeletons that are spawned by a gem with magically animated statues. Preview

Monster stats

Summoned Skeleton

Mods:

• {{#show: MonsterSpeedAndDamageFixupComplete | ?Has stat text}}

Resistances:

• Normal: {{#ask: Monster resistances#MinionTotem|?Has lightning resistance in normal difficulty|?Has cold resistance in normal difficulty|?Has fire resistance in normal difficulty|?Has chaos resistance in normal difficulty|format=template|template=SMW resistance row|mainlabel=-}}
• Cruel: {{#ask: Monster resistances#MinionTotem|?Has lightning resistance in cruel difficulty|?Has cold resistance in cruel difficulty|?Has fire resistance in cruel difficulty|?Has chaos resistance in cruel difficulty|format=template|template=SMW resistance row|mainlabel=-}}
• Merciless: {{#ask: Monster resistances#MinionTotem|?Has lightning resistance in merciless difficulty|?Has cold resistance in merciless difficulty|?Has fire resistance in merciless difficulty|?Has chaos resistance in merciless difficulty|format=template|template=SMW resistance row|mainlabel=-}}

Level	Life	Attack Speed	Damage
10	48	0.93	16–40
13	63	0.93	20–50
16	80	0.93	24–60
19	102	0.93	31–77
22	128	0.93	38–95
25	157	0.93	46–115
28	192	0.93	56–140
32	247	0.93	72–180
36	315	0.93	91–227
40	397	0.93	115–287
44	497	0.93	145–362
47	586	0.93	171–427
50	688	0.93	201–502
53	807	0.93	235–587
56	943	0.93	276–690
59	1100	0.93	323–807
62	1279	0.93	376–940
64	1413	0.93	417–1042
66	1560	0.93	463–1157
68	1722	0.93	512–1280
70	1897	0.93	565–1412
72	2090	0.93	624–1560
74	2301	0.93	690–1725
76	2531	0.93	761–1902
78	2783	0.93	841–2102
80	3058	0.93	927–2317
82	3358	0.93	1022–2555
84	3686	0.93	1126–2815
86	4045	0.93	1239–3097
88	4436	0.93	1364–3410

Version history

Version	Changes
2.0.0	No longer deals less elemental damage but now has a new stat which reduces Minions Added Damage by 50%.
1.2.0	Summoned Skeletons deal 50% more base damage than they did previously.
1.0.6	The mana cost of the Summon Skeletons skill has been reduced at all levels. Summoned skeletons now do around 40% more damage at all levels.
0.9.12	Life increased by 50%. Skeletons are now summoned in pairs, regardless of the level of the gem. The maximum number of raisable skeletons now starts at 4 and goes up to 6 at maximum level. An additional six can be obtained from the passive skill tree.
0.9.7c	Fixed the sound effects so that it isn't too loud when multiple skeletons are summoned.
0.9.7	Summon Skeletons has been added to the game.