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Description

Skeletons are animated bones, undead creatures both strong and dexterous. They have access to special skeleton talents and a wide range of undead abilities:

• Poison immunity
• Bleeding immunity
• Fear immunity
• No need to breathe
• Special skeleton talents: bone armour, resilient bones, re-assemble

Note: Undead are unnatural creatures and may not use infusions or be any Wilder classes. They do not gain the Harmony talent tree from eating the Heart of the Sandworm Queen, but they may consume a corrupted heart to gain the Vile Life talent tree.

Starting Equipment

• Brass Lantern
• Rune: Shielding
• Rune: Phase Door

Starting Location

Blighted Ruins

Racial Talents

Skeleton
Game Version	1.7.6
Category Type	Undead
Category	Skeleton
Requirements	Level (0,1,2,3,4)
Use Mode	Passive
Cost	-
Range	-
Cooldown	-
Travel Speed	-
Use Speed	-
Description	Improves your skeletal condition, increasing Strength and Dexterity by 2–15cTS:0.75P.

Bone Armour
Game Version	1.7.6
Category Type	Undead
Category	Skeleton
Requirements	Level (4,5,6,7,8)
Use Mode	Activated
Cost	-
Range	Melee/Personal
Cooldown	25–15cTL:10
Travel Speed	Instantaneous
Use Speed	-
Description	Creates a shield of bones, absorbing (120–400cTS + 3.5 * Dexterity + Max Life * 1–5%cTL:10%) damage. Lasts for 10 turns. The total damage the shield can absorb increases with your Dexterity.

Resilient Bones
Game Version	1.7.6
Category Type	Undead
Category	Skeleton
Requirements	Level (8,9,10,11,12)
Use Mode	Passive
Cost	-
Range	-
Cooldown	-
Travel Speed	-
Use Speed	-
Description	Your undead bones are very resilient, reducing the duration of all detrimental effects on you by 10–41.7%cTL:100%. Note: the duration reduction is rounded down. An effect with duration 2 will still generally have duration 2 after resilient bones at 40% is applied.

Re-Assemble
Game Version	1.7.6
Category Type	Undead
Category	Skeleton
Requirements	Level (12,13,14,15,16)
Use Mode	Activated
Cost	-
Range	Melee/Personal
Cooldown	30–15cTL:10
Travel Speed	Instantaneous
Use Speed	-
Description	Re-position some of your bones, healing yourself for (100–500cTS + Max Life * 1–5%cTL:10%). At level 5, you will gain the ability to completely re-assemble your body should it be destroyed (can only be used once).

Strategy

Recommended Classes: Warrior classes, particularly Archer (bow); Archmage; Reaver Not Recommended: Necromancer (can't use Litchform)

The racial bonuses for Skeleton make them very strong for classes that have synergy with those abilities. Classes depending on Strength and Dexterity - in particular Archers - will benefit from the first racial skill. Bone Armour, Resilient Bones and Re-Assemble provide excellent ability to survive when raw damage and status effects are the problems. Passive immunity to poison, bleeding and fear are also good for classes that don't have strong abilities to reduce or remove status effects. Skeletons who are not magic users are eligible to go Antimagic, providing even more damage reduction and adding resistance bonuses.

The primary weaknesses of the skeleton (and ghouls) are the inability to use infusions. This makes them unable to use many of the best survivability options in the game - wild infusions to remove physical/mental/magical debuffs; movement infusions to provide quick attack or escape; and heroism infusions for powerful stat increase combined with near-death prevention. The Skeleton's large experience penalty will also make leveling slower.

Heat Beam rand Biting Gale runes are an option to replace physical and mental infusions, but lack the ability to remove cross-tier effects. Mobility skills like Rush and Disengage are useful options to replace movement infusions, as well as class-specific talents for mobility.