Summon Zombie Dog is a tier I skill in the Zombie Skill Tree, which summons zombie dogs to do the Witch Doctor's bidding.
Contents
Background
| Diablo III Skill [e] | |
|---|---|
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| Summon Zombie Dog Active, 5 ranks | |
| Used by: | Witch Doctor |
| Summon 1 level 12 zombie dog to aid you. Can have up to X zombie dogs at a time. | |
| Type: | Summon |
| Quantity: | Cast |
| Effect: | Target |
| School: | Magical |
| Health cost: | 10 health |
| Cast time: | Unknown |
| Duration: | None |
| Cooldown: | Unknown |
| Synergies: | Unknown |
| Requires: | N/A |
| Prereq of: | N/A |
The Witch Doctor summons forth vicious undead lackeys to do his bidding.
Skill Design
Summon Zombie Dog is the first summoning skill in the Zombie Skill Tree, and is the backbone of early witch doctors specializing in this tree. They aren't very strong individually, but at higher levels and with other skills in this tree, they can swarm and destroy tough enemies with ease. It appears this skill costs Health instead of mana, possibly to enforce the player to use his dogs wisely at earlier levels. Earlier versions of this skill allowed the dogs to be enchanted with Skull of Flame and Locust Swarm, giving fire damage or poison damage, respectively.
This idea was scrapped, since the hassle of having attack skills enchant mongrels turned out to be a bother. What will the player want to enchant their dogs with, fire or poison? There weren't enough factors that helped the player decide. In a recent post by Bashiok, he revealed that this idea will probably be turned into either passives or skill rune effects.
Skill Rank Table
(legend (A) = Assumed)
- Rank: 1/5
- Summon 1 level 12 zombie dog to aid you. Can have up to 1 zombie dogs at a time.
- Health Cost: 10 health
- Rank: 2/5
- Summon 1 level 12 zombie dog to aid you. Can have up to 2 zombie dogs at a time.
- Health Cost: 10 health
- Rank: 3/5
- Summon 1 level 12 zombie dog to aid you. Can have up to 3 zombie dogs at a time.
- Health Cost: 10 health
- Rank: 4/5
- Summon 1 level 12 zombie dog to aid you. Can have up to 4 zombie dogs at a time. (A)
- Health Cost: 10 health
- Rank: 5/5
- Summon 1 level 12 zombie dog to aid you. Can have up to 5 zombie dogs at a time. (A)
- Health Cost: 10 health
Synergies
- None known.
Skill Rune Effects
- None known.
Development
Summon Zombie Dog was seen in every Diablo 3 game demo to date, and was iterated, renamed and moved, judging from the latest demo. The Summon Zombie Dog was called Summon Mongrel, was in the Voodoo skill tree and mongrels could be enchanted with Locust Swarm or Skull of Flame.
Media
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References
| Zombie Skills [e] | |||||
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| Tier I |
Tier II |
Tier III |
Tier IV |
Tier V |
Tier VI • Ferocity |