Zombie Charger
Zombie Charger is a Tier Two Witch Doctor skill.
It summons a zombie that charges forward, disintegrating rapidly into a poison cloud. This skill deals considerable poison damage, but the range is quite short. It can be greatly improved with Runes.
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Background
Diablo III Skill [e] | |
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Zombie Charger Active, 5 ranks | |
Used by: | Witch Doctor |
A reckless, suicidal zombie deals poison damage to all enemies in its way. | |
Type: | Summon |
Quantity: | Cast |
Effect: | Target |
School: | Magical |
Mana cost: | 12 mana |
Cast time: | Unknown |
Duration: | None |
Cooldown: | Unknown |
Synergies: | Unknown |
Requires: | N/A |
Prereq of: | N/A |
The base version of this skill essentially functions as a poison cloud that spreads disease to everything in a short path in front of the Witch Doctor.
Skill Design
The zombie is humanoid, but it disintegrates so quickly into a green acid that it's hard to get a good look at it.
Skill Rank Table
Skill stats as seen at Blizzcon 2009. There will be changes in the final game.
- Rank: 1/5
- Summon a reckless zombie from the ground to assault your enemies.
- Health Cost: Unknown
- Rank: 2/5
- Summon a reckless zombie from the ground to assault your enemies.
- Health Cost: Unknown
- Rank: 3/5
- Summon a reckless zombie from the ground to assault your enemies.
- Health Cost: Unknown
- Rank: 4/5
- Summon a reckless zombie from the ground to assault your enemies.
- Health Cost: Unknown
- Rank: 5/5
- Summon a reckless zombie from the ground to assault your enemies.
- Health Cost: Unknown
(legend (A) = Assumed)
Synergies
Numerous Witch Doctor traits increase his spell damage across the board, as well as against specific types of enemies. The only traits that specifically boost Zombie Charger are:
- Zombie Master -- Increases damage done by Zombie skills.
Runestone Effects
Only one runestone effect is known for Zombie Charger, the instantly-legendary "Zombie Bears." It's not known which rune creates this bonus.
The effect was created by Julian Love and revealed at Blizzcon 2010, where it became something of a running joke, and was brought up in interviews and panels with unbearable frequency. [1]
- Slashdot: I was playing a Witch Doctor, and I used the spell that summons a zombie for you, and I got a rune that turned it into a swarm of bears. We got a real kick out of that.
- Julian Love: Yeah! Zombie Bears! It’s kind of funny, that’s one of the skills that came up – the way we work is that we sit down and throw a lot of crazy ideas out, and sometimes it’s a little scary, throwing an idea that you think “I’m not sure how the group will react. This is kind of wacky.” And I remember sitting in the group and they were saying, “What are we going to do? We need something else.” And I said, “I’m not even sure why this works, but I’m just going to say it: Zombie Bears!” And everybody went, “Yes!” And that was it. Look at the way to it feels to play that skill in the game – it just sounds fun, right?
Media
No clear images of Zombie Charger (or the zombie bears) have been seen; the skill is just a blur of green smoke in every screenshot that's been taken from the gameplay movie.
References
The Witch Doctor - Witch Doctor skills - Witch Doctor traits - Mana - Witch Doctor skill archive [e] | ||||||
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Tier One/Clvl 2 | Tier Two/Clvl 3 | Tier Three/Clvl 6 | Tier Four/Clvl 10 | Tier Five/Clvl 14 | Tier Six/Clvl 20 | Tier Seven/Clvl 26 |
• Summon Zombie Dog |
• Zombie Charger • Corpse Spiders |
• Poison Dart • Grasp of the Dead |
• Firebats |
• Acid Cloud • Firebomb |
• Gargantuan |
• Fetish Army
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