Runescape New Skill Necromancy Guide: Start, Progression, Training, Rituals and Rune Crafting (2024)

Welcome to the RuneScape Necromancy guide! Embark on a journey into the world of dark arts and forbidden knowledge. Whether you're new or returning, this guide will help you master the Necromancy skill. Explore Um, perform rituals, and craft runes to become a powerful necromancer. Unleash your potential and conquer the shadows in RuneScape's latest skill.

Starting Your Necromancy Journey
Exploring the City of Um
Progression and Training
Combat Mechanics and Abilities
Rituals and Crafting
Necromancy Rune Crafting

↖ Starting Your Necromancy Journey

To embark on your necromancy journey, head over to the Draynor Lodestone. There, you'll find a trail leading to an underworld portal. This portal initiates a tutorial that introduces you to the story, both skilling and combat basics, and the City of Um. Even if you skip through the tutorial, don't worry! This guide will provide you with extra details to make sure you're fully informed.

↖ Exploring the City of Um

Before entering the City, speak to Malignius Mortifer. This NPC will give you trails to key shops within the City. After crossing the bridge into the City, activate the Um lodestone for quicker access. If you have Wax, use it to enhance your lodestone teleport charges.

↖ Progression and Training

Necromancy progression involves collecting souls from rituals and quests and then using them to unlock talents. Talents require talent points obtained by gaining combat experience. This means you need to engage in both rituals and combat training for efficient progression.

In the early game, combat training is effective for leveling necromancy. Since the release week might bring fierce competition for low-level training spots, consider using the instance Ghost Troll Cave for peaceful training. The experience gained depends on the monster's health.

↖ Combat Mechanics and Abilities

In necromancy combat, your basic attack happens automatically, generating adrenaline for thresholds like the Finger of Death ability. Hover over abilities to learn more; for instance, using the Touch of Death ability before Finger of Death reduces its adrenaline cost.

You'll notice two colors of damage: purple (necromancy damage) and yellow (spirit damage from conjurers). Conjurers and summon familiars can be used simultaneously. Check the hit chance percentage; aim for 80-90% or higher to maximize effectiveness.

↖ Rituals and Crafting

Rituals are a vital part of necromancy. Prepare by placing supplies in your ritual bank. Choose rituals, set up requirements, and perform them. React to ritual disturbances for extra rewards. Keep an eye on the glyph and candle durability.

Upgrade your necromancy armor and weapons using Lesser and Soul Materials. These materials are crafted from various items and are used to improve gear at different levels. Certain quests like Killerand Ru Mythosoffer unique tasks to advance your necromancy skill further.

↖ Necromancy Rune Crafting

At level 24 necromancy, you can access the Ru Mythos quest and learn the Lesser Essence ritual, turning pure Essence into impure Essence for rune crafting. Necromancy runes include Spirit, Bone, Flesh, and Miasma runes, which can have various uses in crafting, upgrading gear, and more.

Requirements:

Completion of the "Rune Mythos" quest, which unlocks the Necromancy Incantations and the ability to craft Necrotic Runes.
Decent RuneCrafting level, particularly level 92 for Bone Runes.
Recommended RuneCrafting pouches and a high Summoning level for Abyssal familiar.
Optional: Threads of Fate Relic, which prevents pouches from degrading.
City of um tasks completion for Tome of um, increasing rune yield.
Teleport to the Smithy for quicker access to rune crafting altars.

Method Breakdown:

Step 1	Prepare Impure Essence	Start by heading to the ritual site and gather 200 pure Essence. You'll also need basic ghostly Essence, basic ritual candles, and some irregular ghostly ink (around 150k gold per ink). Use the Lesser ritual (or higher-level rituals if available) to convert 200 pure Essence into 40 impure Essence. You'll need 88 impure Essence per inventory.
Step 2	Crafting Necrotic Runes	Set up a preset with Power Burst of Sorcery, pouches, and impure Essence. Teleport to the City of Um and make your way to the rune crafting altars. Consider using the Tome of Um for faster access (limited uses per day). Use Power Burst of Sorcery to double rune yield and craft the runes.
Step 3	Selecting Rune Types	Choose the rune type based on current market demand and prices. Bone runes are a solid choice, followed by flesh runes. You can experiment with myiasma and spirit runes too. Check the price fluctuations before committing.
Step 4	Selling Runes	Teleport back to the Grand Exchange. Sell the crafted runes to capitalize on their current value. The market prices fluctuate rapidly, so swift selling is crucial.

Tips for Maximizing Profits:

Stock Impure Essence: Gather around 600 impure Essence before crafting to capitalize on favourable prices.
Utilize Power Burst of Sorcery: Time your crafting sessions with the cooldown of the Power Burst for optimal efficiency.
City of Um Tasks: Obtain the Tome of Um for extra rune yield and profits.
Teleport to Smithy: Use free teleports to the Smithy for faster access to rune crafting altars.
Diversify Rune Types: Experiment with different rune types to adapt to changing market dynamics.
Keep an Eye on Prices: Monitor rune prices and adjust your crafting strategy accordingly.
Prepare for Demand: Iron and bronze bars are in high demand for upgrading necromancy gear, making them profitable options.

Conclusion:

As you progress through the Necromancy skill, focus on a balanced approach between rituals and combat training. Explore the intricacies of the City of Um, upgrade your gear, and harness the power of necromantic arts to become a formidable necromancer in RuneScape. Good luck on your journey!

Runescape New Skill Necromancy Guide: Start, Progression, Training, Rituals and Rune Crafting (2024)

FAQs

How fast to 99 Necromancy? ›

People had 99 Necro within 24 hours of launch, (using combat rather than rituals, which were even quicker). Yes, it's easily possible to do in 25 days. It's not very difficult to do in a week, and can be done mostly afk.

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How to unlock tier 3 Necromancy? ›

You should use the fragile mementos to perform lesser communion rituals. After doing 50 lesser communion rituals, you will have 400 souls, which is one requirement to access tier 3 of the Talent tree.

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What is the max hit for Necromancy? ›

Necromancy has a damage cap of 30,000, like other combat styles. Critical strikes have a base chance of 10% to trigger with necromancy combat. Initially, they deal 20% extra damage, but this can be increased up to 50% by levelling up the Necromancy skill.

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How do you start Necromancy in RuneScape? ›

First you must complete the "Necromancy!" quest, which will inform you of the basic mechanics of the skill. You can start this quest by clicking on the glowing blue portal by the Draynor lodestone. After completing the quest head to the grand exchange and buy 50 fragile mementos.

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How many hours does it take to get a 99 in RuneScape? ›

Start by training attack, then defence, then strength. Train on chickens until 30 in all stats. At level 50, kill deadly red spiders all the way to 99, make sure you have at least a rune weapon by now and bring plenty of food. 99 should take around 120-130 hours.

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What is Necromancy weak to? ›

May be Weak against Animancy and other Life-Based powers. Filth Manipulation may be used against this power.

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How to get tier 20 Necromancy rs3? ›

Necromancy/Level up table

Ability to raise your Necromancy level to 20.
Wield the tier 10 Death guard and Skull lantern.
Use the tier 1 ritual site to perform rituals.
Create and use the Elemental I glyph in rituals.
Create and use the Commune I glyph in rituals.
Use the basic ritual candle in rituals.

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What is Necromancy strong against RS3? ›

Necromancy is neither weaker nor stronger against the other styles. The combat triangle is a game mechanic put in place to balance out the different combat styles in combat. Each combat class is given an advantage against an opposing class, while receiving a disadvantage against the other.

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Where do I unlock Necromancer? ›

Necromancer is a class introduced in the base game. It must be unlocked by killing the necromancer Celia in the Last Hope Graveyard, after reading all 4 parts of the lore "how to be a necromancer". (The player can read them in the Sher'Tul Fortress's library after finding them on a previous character.)

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What beats a Necromancer? ›

The most consistent strategy is to stun the Necromancer. The Occultist and the Houndmaster in particular can Stun the Necromancer fairly well, but other characters can also Stun him if equipped with the proper trinkets.

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When was necromancy banned? ›

The Necromancy Ban of 3E 431 was enacted by the Mages Guild per the new Arch-Mage, Hannibal Traven. The Ban was to immediately remove all traces of Necromancy from the Mages Guild, though Necromancy itself remained legal in Cyrodiil.

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What is the first skill in Necromancer? ›

Reap: Since most of a Necromancer's skills focus on summoning and dealing area damage, you must pick a skill that deals some kind of physical damage from close range. Hence, you must pick Reap initially when your Necromancer doesn't have most of the summoning skills at their disposal.

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What are the new skills in RuneScape? ›

Now in 2023, over two decades from release, RuneScape is finally adding its first new combat skill, Necromancy, and it's available to play right now. In the Necromancy update, you'll be thrust deep into the heart of the underworld City of Um, where you're tasked with the freeing lost souls trapped within.

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How do I learn Necromancy two worlds? ›

If you visit the gravedigger outside the starving town (the first town after you leave the orcs' island), he'll give you a severed head and a quest. If you follow that quest to its end, you'll end up visiting a necromancer in his basem*nt, and he has a skill book lying on a cabinet right next to the headless body.

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What skill takes the longest to get to 99 osrs? ›

Mining: Now, Mining is a super slow skill, and that will take you about 150 – 170 hours to get all the way to level 99. Smithing: Smithing is next, and that is about 50 – 70 hours, entirely depending on the method that you are using.

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How long does it take to get to 99 strength Osrs? ›

I'll start by showing the Fastest Pathway to 99 in the melee stats, where you can get up to 400k xp per hour with alt accounts, or 200k xp per hour solo. On the AFK Pathway that I'm showing, you can get 99 attack, strength and defence in 350 hours at the Nightmare Zone, or 500 hours at Bandits.

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What is the fastest level 99 in RuneScape? ›

From 33 – 74 doing Oak Larders, then 74 – 99 doing Dungeon Doors, it will cost you only 84 000 000, taking approximately 38 – 40 hours. The next fastest 99 is Cooking. Making jugs of wine to level 99 takes only 22 hours with a low cost of 20 000 000.