Skill details
| Animate Bone Minions | ||||||||||||
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Full: Exploit nearest corpse to animate two level 0...10 bone minions.
Concise: Create two level 0...10 bone minions. Exploits a fresh corpse.
| Death Magic | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| Level | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
Acquisition[]
Notes[]
- A common strategy is to cast Death Nova on the minions and trigger the enchantment with Taste of Death.
- Another common strategy is to use Dwayna's Sorrow on the minions for a partywide heal when they die.
- 5 points in Soul Reaping results in these minions being effectively free (5 energy from the original death, + 5x2 on minions' deaths = 15, the spell cost). Each additional point in Soul Reaping results in 3 energy gained each time you cast Animate Bone Minions (at Soul Reaping level 16 you gain 33 net energy every time you summon Bone Minions.)
- Animate Bone Minions will trigger the bonus from Boon of Creation, Explosive Growth, and Spirit's Gift twice, once for each minion.
- The two minions count separately towards the Minion Master's maximum limit of minions (10 minions at 16 Death).
Trivia[]
- Animate Bone Minion's skill icon portrays them as looking similar to Scarabs, a type of enemy which can be found in several regions on Tyria, however, they actually have the appearance of smaller Bone Horrors.