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Question regarding Necro's Skeletal Mage skill

mk53v3n
mk53v3n
Soul Shriven
Hi guys, a quick question regarding the Necro's Summon Skeletal Mage skill:

I'm currently around level 30 (with CP at around 170) and I am struggling with the damage of this skill. I morphed it to Skeletal Arcanist and it does ~ 1.7 k damage every 2 seconds. Compared to my other abilities, this seems pretty low.

This is no thread to complain about the Necro. Quite the contrary. I love the new class and overall I am very happy with my Necro's damage output. E.g. both my Flame Skull as well as my Graveyard skill hit like a truck. Both have way higher DPS than the skeleton. It's just the Skeletal Arcanist that seems to suck really hard regarding the damage compared to all my other skills.

Does this skill get better when I reach a higher level, am I missing something here or is the Skeletal Mage skill really quite useless in its current state?
  • Wavek
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    It is basically a dot but can change targets unlike normal dots. If it is doing 1.7k every 2 seconds that means overall it does over 13k damage which is pretty good. It does plenty of damage given you can cast it and forget about it for 16 seconds. A good build will have dot like abilities and direct damage abilities.
  • Lightspeedflashb14_ESO
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    The skeletal arcanist morph does AOE too. The skill is really good.
  • Iskiab
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    Yea, it’s like a dot like others have said, plus target blocks and creates a corpse when it dies.
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  • mk53v3n
    mk53v3n
    Soul Shriven
    Thanks for the replies, I guess that makes sense.
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