Necromancy (Aequus)

NOTE: In the current version of Aequus for 1.4.4, Necromancy is temporarily disabled pending a rework. NONE OF THE CONTENT DESCRIBED HERE IS AVAILABLE IN-GAME.

Necromancy is a subclass of Summoner that converts and creates enemies to fight for the player. The friendly versions of enemies are normally called "Ghosts" or "Ghost minions". Ghosts share the same AI and attacks as their normal counterparts, however they deal a different amount of damage, have different movement speed, and are transparent with a colored aura. Ghost minions do not take damage, instead having a set duration that causes them to immediately disappear when it expires; they still treat this duration as health, however, and any appropriate thresholds for altered behavior will still apply.

Necromancy weapons are divided into two categories, Scepters and Candles. Scepters allow you to convert specific tiers of enemies into ghost, while Candles allow you to directly summon a specific enemy. Additionally, some minions may allow enemies to convert into a ghost on death. Any ghost minions will grant the Necromancy buff to the player; canceling it by right-clicking on it will instantly kill all of the player's ghosts.

By default, a player can only have a single ghost summoned at once. Various boosts can raise the player's ghost capacity ("slots"), allowing multiple simultaneous ghosts. With ghost cap boosts in effect, the same ghost can be summoned multiple times, or several different ghosts can be summoned. If the ghost cap later drops below the number of ghosts in use, the weakest ghosts are chosen and dismissed until the number of ghosts is below the current cap. Ghosts vanish when their player leaves the world, and are not re-summoned when the player re-enters that or another world.

Scepters

Necromancy Scepters are unlike typical summon weapons, and instead act more like a traditional magic weapon. They consume mana and shoot a projectile, when this projectile hits an enemy, it will apply a debuff which deals damage over time. If the enemy is killed with the debuff applied, it will then be converted into a ghost. Damaging an enemy with multiple scepters will only stack their damage over time, and the highest tier scepter will take priority when calculating conversions. A converted enemy will still count as "killed", dropping any usual items and contributing towards banner drops; ghosts drop nothing when they expire.

Similarly to Whips, hitting an enemy with a Scepter's projectile will cause your minions to target it. Scepters themselves cannot activate whip tag effects, but ghost minions can.

Pre-Hardmode

Item	Tier	Damage	Movement Speed	Source	Notes
Zombie Scepter	1	Weapon: 10 Debuff: 16 per second Ghost: 20	+25%
Revenant	2	Weapon: 40 Debuff: 24 per second 48 per second when below 100 life 400 per second when below 50 life Ghost: 40	+100%	•	• Debuff deals more damage over time to low health enemies
Friendship Magick	2.33	Weapon: 0 Debuff: 0 per second Ghost: 50	+0%	( @  ) or ( @  )	• Heals enemies and friendly NPCs 1/5 of their life every 0.5 seconds • Has a 1/5 chance to convert enemies with full life into ghosts. • Ghosts created will not use any ghost slots, and will only live 1/10th of their full lifespan

Hardmode

Item	Tier	Damage	Movement Speed	Source	Notes
Osiris	3	Weapon: 75 Debuff: 40 per second Ghost: 75	+125%	+ 2 + 8 ( @  /  )	• Summons a swarm of locusts on hit which apply a damage over time debuff which can stack up to 20 damage per second • Using the Hive Pack allows for larger locusts to spawn, which deal more damage and apply more damage over time
Insurgency	4	Weapon: 125 Debuff: 120 per second 200 per second when below 500 life 1600 per second when below 200 life Ghost: 125	+125%	+ 5 + 3 ( @  /  )	• The enemy hit will spawn a large skull which explodes into several bolts which will apply the Insurgency's conversion debuff • Enemies with the Insurgency's conversion debuff will randomly spawn bolts which inflict the debuff • The weapon is a huge nod to the Insurgent boss from the Split Mod

Candles

Candles are more like traditional summon weapons, creating a ghost minion at the location of your mouse cursor. When used they create a ritual point which takes 5 seconds to complete, only one per candle type can be summoned at once, and summoning more than one ritual will refresh the timer. Taking a hit will clear all rituals.

Pre-Hardmode

Item	Ghost	Damage	Source	Notes
Phlegethon	Blood Zombie	20	/  + 6 ( @  /  )	-
Light Eater	Eater of Souls	14		-
Flesh Lighter	Blood Crawler	16		-
Wretchedness	Cursed Skull	40	•	• Visually appears to look like a Water Candle, however it doesn't increase enemy spawnrates when held
Purgatory	Demon	40	(10)	-

Hardmode

Item	Ghost	Damage	Source	Notes
Fallen Angel	Pixie	120	( @  )	-
Dragon's Last Breath	Phantasm Dragon	120	+ 8 + 3 ( @  )	-

Minions

Pre Hardmode

Item	Tier	Damage	Ghost Movement Speed	Source	Notes
Mindfungus Staff	1	Weapon: 9 Debuff: 8 dps (+4 dps per minion) Ghost: 20	+0%	8 + 4 ( @  /  )
Brainwave Staff	2	Weapon: 23 Debuff: n/a Ghost: 40	+0%	( @  )	50% chance to convert tier 2 enemies with less than 700 total life and 50 defense into a ghost minion on-hit.

Hardmode

Item	Tier	Damage	Ghost Movement Speed	Source	Notes
Disturbance Staff	3	Weapon: 28 Debuff: n/a Ghost: 60	+0%	12 + 17 ( @  /  ) or 12 + 17 ( @  /  )	25% chance to convert tier 3 enemies into ghost minions after killing them.

Boosting Items

In addition to the weapons themselves, Aequus provides a number of additional items that empower the player's necromancy abilities, including armor and accessories.

Armor

Item	Effects	Hardmode
Gravetender armor	Gravetender Robes grant one additional ghost minion slot Set bonus summons a wisp that empowers ghosts	✗
Seraphim armor	Seraphim Hood grants one additional ghost minion slot Seraphim Robes grant two additional ghost minion slots Set bonus grants two additional ghost minion slots, instantly kills and converts powerful enemies into ghosts when the player is at low health, and provides damage reduction when the player has no ghosts	✓

Accessories

Item	Effects	Hardmode
Shadow Veer	Ghosts will dash towards enemies	✗
Bloodied Bucket	Ghosts last 1 minute longer	✗
Pandora's Box	Scepter debuffs deal x2 damage All projectiles created by ghosts will travel 50% faster	✗
Osseous Ring	Scepter debuffs deal x2 damage All projectiles created by ghosts will travel 50% faster 25*1/4 (25%) to inflict Weakness (Bone Hawk Ring) to enemies	✗
Malediction	Double tapping ▼ Down applies Skeletron's arms to ghost minions	✗
Bottle O' Spirits	+1 ghost minion slot	✗
Keg O' Spirits	+1 ghost minion slot Ghosts last 1 minute longer	✗
Souljoint Cuffs	Ghost minions attach to enemies after dealing contact damage	✗
Nature's Cruelty	25% of damage taken is dealt to your ghost minions	✗
Ritualistic Skull	Converts all minion slots except one into ghost minion slots	✓