Zombie Skill Tree

The Zombie skill tree is a Witch Doctor skill tree containing lots of summoning type spells and skills. The tree was known as Plague skill tree before BlizzCon 2009.

Useful skill links:

• Skills - General skill design and mechanics.
• Witch Doctor skills - Witch Doctor-specific skill design.
  • Zombie Skill Tree - Zombie skills.
  • Spirit Skill Tree - Spirit skills.
  • Voodoo Skill Tree - Voodoo skills.
• Witch Doctor skill archive - Removed Witch Doctor skills.

Witch Doctor's Zombie skill tree as of BlizzCon 2009.

Zombie skills

The Zombie tree focuses on creating witch doctors whose main role in battle is to have a lot more of summoned minions than witch doctors of other builds. Also, like any skill tree focusing on any element of gameplay, it cannot be called a skill tree if it doesn't have signature skills that can actually kill. Luckily for us, the Zombie tree has a few cool skills that makes enemies easy to kill, like Sacrifice, Parasite and Wall of Zombies.

Tier I

• Summon Zombie Dog
  • Summon a pet Zombie Dog (formerly known as Mongrel).
• Mind and Body
  • A passive skill; regenerates mana and health.

Tier II

• Zombie Charger
  • Summon a reckless, enraged zombie from the ground to assault your enemies.
• Sacrifice
  • Detonate a nearby Zombie Dog in an explosion, dealing damage X% of the Zombie Dog's health to monsters nearby.

Tier III

• Grasp of the Dead
  • Summon undead hands that reach out from the ground, attacking all enemies within 8 yards of the targeted location.
• Unrelenting Assault
  • Enables one of your Zombie Dogs to instantaneously resurrect itself upon its death.

Tier IV

• Gargantuan
  • Summons a large zombie follower to fight for you.
• Leader of the Pack
  • Increases spell damage by 1% for every Zombie Dog under your command.

Tier V

• Parasite
  • Launch a parasite at an enemy dealing 3 damage per second. If the target dies while under the effects of the Parasite a Zombie Dog emerges from the slain body.
• Wall of Zombies
  • Zombies emerge from the ground and attack nearby monsters for 7 damage per second.

Tier VI

• Ferocity
  • Increases the health and damage of your Zombie Dogs and Gargantuan by 8%.

References

• Full Witch Doctor Skill Trees and Stats Discussion