Raise Skeletal Mage - Diablo 2 Resurrected

Required Level: 12
Prerequisites: Raise Skeleton
Requires: A valid monster corpse.
Synergies: Skeletal Mages gain bonuses from points spent in:

  • Skeleton Mastery
  • Summon Resist

Details: Summons a skeletal mage from a monster corpse. Skeleton mages occur randomly in four types; fire, lightning, cold, and poison. Keep summoning new ones and unsummoning individuals if you wish to get all poison, or no cold, etc.

  • Cold mages are useful if you wish to slow monsters and potential break their corpses so shamans can not resurrect them. Cold is not good if you want monster corpses left to raise more skeletons from, Revive, or Corpse Explosion.
  • Skeleton mages have high elemental resistance, especially to the element that makes up their own attack.
  • See the Raise Skeletal Mage article for a complete breakdown of the damage, hit points, and more for each type of skeleton mage.

Skill Level Progression

Slvl Mages Mana Def. Slvl Mages Mana Def. Slvl Mages Mana Def. Slvl Mages Mana Def.
1 1 8 +10 6 4 13 +60 11 5 18 +110 16 7 23 +160
2 2 9 +20 7 4 14 +70 12 6 19 +120 17 7 24 +170
3 3 10 +30 8 4 15 +80 13 6 20 +130 18 8 25 +180
4 3 11 +40 9 5 16 +90 14 6 21 +140 19 8 26 +190
5 3 12 +50 10 5 17 +100 15 7 22 +150 20 8 27 +200

D2R Patch 2.4 Changes – 14 April 2022

  • Percentage HP per level increased from 7% to 10%
  • Poison total damage scaling increased by about 750%. Poison duration no longer scales and now lasts 4 seconds
  • Cold damage scaling increased by about 50%
  • Lightning damage scaling increased by about 5%
  • The tooltip will now properly display the Life scaling per level

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