Ultima Online Necromancy spell list
For official shards · 17 entries · every figure sourced
Every Necromancy spell, what it does, the skill it needs and what it costs. The descriptions are uo.com’s own words and the minimum skills come from the school’s published table.
Open this book in the toolkit → — it works out your real chance to cast each one at your own skill, and shows the icons from the game.
| Spell | Min skill | Mana | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curse Weapon | 0 | 7 | Temporarily imbues a weapon with a life draining effect. |
| Pain Spike | 20 | 5 | Brings a jolt of temporary pain down upon your enemy causing damage and, very briefly, stamina loss. |
| Corpse Skin | 20 | 11 | Transforms the flesh of the target to resemble rotted corpse flesh, making them more vulnerable to Fire and Poison damage. |
| Evil Omen | 20 | 11 | Amplifies the effect of the next hostile strike. |
| Blood Oath | 20 | 13 | Temporarily creates a dark pact between the caster and the target. |
| Wraith Form | 20 | 17 | Transforms the caster into an ethereal Wraith, lowering some Elemental Resists while increasing their Physical Resist. |
| Mind Rot | 30 | 17 | The receiver of this curse has difficulty thinking, making all abilities that require Mana more expensive. |
| Summon Familiar | 30 | 17 | Allows the caster to summon a Familiar from the selected list. |
| Horrific Beast | 40 | 11 | Transform into a terrifying form that grants great physical strength, at the cost of your mind. |
| Animate Dead | 40 | 23 | Raises a corpse. The resulting undead creature's form depends on the original creature's fame and body. |
| Poison Strike | 50 | 17 | Summons a cloud of poison to strike down your enemy. |
| Wither | 60 | 23 | Summons an evil, withering frost, damaging all nearby enemies - especially those who are good. |
| Strangle | 65 | 29 | Temporarily chokes off the air supply of the target with poisonous fumes, doing more damage as their Stamina drops. |
| Lich Form | 70 | 23 | Transforms the caster into a lich, increasing their mana regeneration and some resistances. |
| Exorcism | 80 | 40 | Relocates any player ghosts around the caster to a shrine on that facet. |
| Vengeful Spirit | 80 | 41 | Summons a powerful revenant to slay a chosen foe. |
| Vampiric Embrace | 99 | 23 | Transforms the caster into a powerful Vampire. |
What the minimum skill actually buys you
The minimum is where a spell becomes castable, not where it becomes reliable. The chance to cast comes down to one line, and it is the same line for every book [!]:
Chance to cast = ( ( Skill − ( Difficulty − ( Casting Focus ÷ 2
) ) ) ÷ Casting Focus )
Casting Focus is 40 for Magery and Necromancy and 50 for the rest [!]. What the two groups do not share is where the minimum sits inside that line: Chivalry, Magery and Necromancy start at 0% and reach 100% one whole Focus above it, while Bushido, Ninjitsu, Mysticism and Spellweaving start at 25% the moment they can cast at all. That is why a Bushido ability feels dependable so much sooner than a spell of the same nominal level — it is not a feeling, it is two different lines. The toolkit works that out for your skill →
Where these come from
uo.com’s Necromancy page for the descriptions and the published minimums. uo.com does not publish the chance-to-cast line or the Casting Focus values, so they are unpublished and carry a [!]. Everything here is from uo.com or the game itself; anything uo.com does not publish is marked [!] as unpublished.
The other books
Magery · Chivalry · Bushido · Ninjitsu · Spellweaving · Mysticism
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