How do Celestial Powers bound to Raise Skeleton work?

[DaShiv]

This has been well-known since closed testing – I had already asked Praetorians like Superfluff to look at combos like the Flame Torrent + Raise Skeleton combo before AoM release, and other Praetorians like TomoDaK had also experimented with their own devotion combos with their test necros. This concept is explained in more detail as part of the “Special Topic: Devotions for Raise Skeletons (Necromancer Mastery)” section of the Pet Devotions for AoM guide. Here’s a portion of the article:

[1.0.2.1] The Night King: Pet/Vitality Hybrid Cabalist. 5s MQ, 3.5m Glad. Necro & Devotion Guides.

A devotion proc bound to Raise Skeleton can be triggered by any of its skeletons, with up to 10 max skeletons (up to 12 max with skill modifiers) all making use of the same proc. This can greatly increase devotion proc frequency! Choosing an appropriate devotion based on the build’s RR profile can also significantly improve proc performance.

Note that all skeletons will also share the same devotion proc cooldown. However, the shorter the proc cooldown (CD), the more efficiently it can be shared among all skeletons. With short enough CD (especially with high CDR), multiple skeletons can continuously spam devotion procs to provide significant additional DPS. Keep in mind that devotions that inflict damage on a per-tick basis (such as Aetherfire, Rend, Wendigo’s Mark, etc) won’t stack when multiple instances are applied to the same target.

Refer to the article for additional information about cooldowns, AOE vs ranged restrictions, %WD, and lots more.