==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==