Necro Elite Skill

Summon Smoke Phantom [Elite]

Description: Exploit nearest 3 corpses to summon a level (1/X/X) Smoke Phantom. Only permitted (1/X/X) Smoke Phantoms (NB: If you die the minions become masterless and may attack your allies.)
Energy Cost: 35.
Casting Time: 5 seconds.
Recharge Time: 15 seconds.
Linked Attribute: Soul Reaping (maybe Death Magic). Increases creature level and creatures permitted.
Skill Type: Spell.

This "Summon" would be extremely nice for soloing necros, the "permitted" amount would be, because like the real phantoms in the game already, they do not have a health degeneration. It might work out as a Elementalist "summon", because of the skills the Phantom uses, but saying its an undead it would work better as a "Necro summon."

Plz express you opinions, suggestions, etc.

3 Corpses? 35 Energy? 5 Second Cast? This is extremely impractical.

Also, I have no idea what you mean by (1/X/X).

- recharge should be 60 or more
- maybe even make the casting 10 secs
- limit it to only 1 at a time
- instead of having a level (1/x/x), just make it require 12 soul reaping and be max, like lvl 18 or wuteva

all of this because of the fact that it has no degeneration

Well hey im just thinking i really dont know how much the energy cost, cast time and corpse # it would take, but saying they would b better then a fiend or horror or minions... the (1/X/X) is supossed to be the number of summons u can have, or wut lvl they are. I dont know exactly how high thier level would be, or how many permitted, but its just fill... thats all i have to reply

Ugh...Summons are fun, but I'm a Blood Necro. A Soul Reaping skill would be great. Period. If anyone thought of Blood Necro summons I would be happy. Only ones I could think of were, Sacrifice X amount of health to summon a cute little Imp.

Did you by chance get the idea from this skill from those Damned Clerics? Who as soon as you attack them, seem to have Smoke Phantoms join them from nowhere.

eh heh heh yah *rubs neck nervously