Xul

Xul
"It is time."
Basic Info
Title	Cryptic Necromancer
Role	Bruiser
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Diablo
Price	750 / 10,000
Release Date	March 1, 2016
Base Stats
Attack Type	Melee
Health	2080
Health Regen	4.333
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.6875
Attack Speed	1.2
Attack Range	1.5
Attack Damage	95
Data Page

Xul, the Cryptic Necromancer, is a melee Bruiser Hero from the Diablo universe. From the recesses of the eastern jungles comes a man cloaked in mystery. As a member of the secretive Priests of Rathma, or the Necromancers, Xul fights to preserve the delicate balance between order and chaos. Using powerful death magic, Xul will sap the strength of his enemies, block their escape, and direct his spectral scythe with lethal accuracy. Those who fall before the Necromancer find no peace even in death, rising again as skeletal servants bound to do their master’s bidding.

Xul is a Summoner who can push multiple lanes with ease.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to Diablo universe.

The necromancer, as his name implies, is an unseemly form of sorcerer whose spells deal with the raising of the dead and the summoning and control of various creatures for his purposes. Though his goals are often aligned with those of the forces of Light, some do not think that these ends can justify his foul means. Long hours of study in dank mausoleums have made his skin pale and corpselike, his figure skeletal. Most people shun him for his peculiar looks and ways, but none doubt the power of the necromancer, for it is the stuff of nightmares.

Xul was the necromancer in the group of Heroes who battled Diablo and his brethren during the events of Diablo II. He survived the journey, and later trained an apprentice named Mehtan.

Abilities

See Data page for a table of scaled values at key levels.

Raise Skeleton

When a nearby enemy Minion dies, it becomes a Skeletal Warrior with 240 Health that attacks for 21 damage and lasts up to 12 seconds. Upon death, Skeletal Warriors deal 40 damage to nearby enemies. Up to 3 Skeletal Warriors can be active at once when spawned in this way.

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Type: Summon

Affects: Enemy Minions

Radius: 12

Skeletal Warrior

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Type: Active

Scaling: 4.00% (Health, regen & damage)

Health: 240

Health regen: -20

Basic Attack damage: 21

Attack Speed: 1.0

Attack range: 0.5

Movement speed: 4.0

Sight radius: 8.0

Leash radius: -

Spawn delay: 0.65 seconds

Corpse Explosion

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect

Radius: 1.5

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• This explosion damage will not trigger A Call For Help, i.e. Structure aggro onto Xul, if Xul and an enemy Hero hit by the explosion are in range of that enemy's Fort, Keep or Core.

Q

Spectral Scythe

55 Mana Cooldown: 8 seconds

Summon a scythe that travels to Xul after 1 second, dealing 190 damage to enemies and spawning a Skeletal Warrior when hitting Enemy Heroes. These do not count toward Xul's Raise Skeleton maximum.

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Type: Spell Damage / Summon

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point Target

Properties: Area of Effect, Skillshot

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 8.1

Radius: 1.5

Missile speed: 12

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• The scythe persists up to 5 seconds.

W

Cursed Strikes

50 Mana Cooldown: 16 seconds

Xul's Basic Attack deals damage in a wide area and reduces the Attack Speed of Heroes and Summons by 40% for 2 seconds. Lasts 4 seconds once triggered.

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Type: Physical Damage / Status effect

Affects: Enemies (damage) / Enemy Heroes and Summons (Attack Slow)

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect, Attack Modifier, Attack Slow, Cleave, Primed

Cast time: Instant

Area of Effect: Radial

Radius: 5.75

Arc: 180 degrees

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• Cooldown and duration start once the ability is triggered by attacking an enemy.
• Partial Basic Attack reset if timed correctly (sets Basic Attack timer to 0.25s).

E

Bone Prison

70 Mana Cooldown: 10 seconds

After a 2 second delay, deal 80 damage and root the target enemy Hero for 1.75 seconds. All nearby Skeletal Warriors will fixate on the target for their duration.

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Type: Spell Damage / Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Root, Revealed

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 3.5

Radius: 16 (target focus)

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• The target becomes Revealed once the ability is cast until the Root wears off.

R

Poison Nova

100 Mana Cooldown: 90 seconds

After 0.5 seconds, release poisonous missiles that deal 630 damage to all enemies hit over 10 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: No target

Properties: Damage over Time, Skillshot (piercing)

Cast time: 0.5 + 0.125 seconds

Range: 16

Tickrate: 1.0 per second (x10)

Damage per Tick: 63

Missile count: 12

Missile speed: 5

Missile radius: 0.625

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Skeletal Mages

80 Mana Cooldown: 90 seconds

Summon 4 Frost Mages in a line that attack nearby enemies for 47 damage a second and Slow them by 30% for 2 seconds. Lasts up to 15 seconds.

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Type: Summon

Targeting: Vector targeting

Range: 10.5

Spawn offset: 3.25

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• First point determines the center point and second the direction of the line of summoned units.

Frost Mage

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Type: Active

Scaling: 4.00% (Health & damage)

Health: 700

Basic Attack damage: 46.875

Attack Speed: 1.00

Attack range: 5.5

Movement speed: -

Unit radius: 0.375

Sight radius: 5.5

1

Bone Armor

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Activate to gain a Shield equal to 25% of Xul's maximum Health for 3 seconds.

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Type: Shield

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Cast time: Instant

Talents

1

Backlash

When Bone Armor expires, nearby enemy Heroes take damage equal to 12% of their maximum Health.

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Type: Percent damage

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Area of Effect, Percent damage

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.75

Shackler

While Bone Armor is active, nearby enemies are Slowed by 35% for 1 Second. Basic Attacks against Heroes that are Stunned, Rooted, or Slowed reduce the cooldown of Bone Armor by 2 seconds.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect, Attack Modifier (cdr), Slow

Radius: 3.0

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• Cleaving Basic Attacks from Cursed Strikes can also apply the cooldown reduction.

Shade

While Bone Armor is active, Xul evades all Basic Attacks, but increases the cooldown of Bone Armor by 10 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Evade

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Reaper's Toll

Reduce the cooldown of Spectral Scythe by 2 seconds and its Mana cost by 15.

Grim Scythe

Increase Xul's Basic Attack damage by 15%. Each enemy hit by Cursed Strikes reduces its cooldown by 1 second, up to 12 seconds.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier

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• Stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Xul's Basic Attack damage.

Jailors

Bone Prison spawns 2 Skeletal Warriors. These do not count toward Xul's Raise Skeleton maximum.

❢ Quest: Spawn 80 Skeletal Warriors.

❢ Reward: While fixating on an enemy, Skeletal Warriors gain 25% Movement and Attack Speed.

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Type: Summon / Status effect

Affects: - / Skeletons

Properties: Attack Speed, Movement speed

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Harvest Vitality

Cursed Strikes heals for 70% of the damage dealt to Heroes.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier (heroes), Lifesteal

Trag'Oul's Essence

Every time a Skeletal Warrior attacks an enemy, restore 0.2% of Xul's maximum Health and 0.5% of his maximum Mana.

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Type: Healing, Mana Restoration

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier

Wall Of Bones

Increase the Shield amount of Bone Armor to 35% of Xul's maximum Health, and Xul gains 20 Spell Armor for its duration.

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Type: Bonus Shield, Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Spell Armor

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• Does not stack with other positive Spell Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

10

Poison Nova

Cooldown: 90 seconds
After 0.5 seconds, release poisonous missiles that deal 630 damage to all enemies hit over 10 seconds.

Skeletal Mages

Cooldown: 70 seconds
Summon 4 Frost Mages in a line that attack nearby enemies for 47 damage a second and Slow them by 30% for 2 seconds. Lasts up to 15 seconds.

13

Echoes of Death

Spectral Scythe spawns 2 additional scythes next to the first after 1.5 seconds, dealing 40% damage.

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Type: Spell Damage / Offensive damage modifier

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemies / Ability

Offset: 5.0

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• Scythes are spawned on the same y-coordinates as the initial scythe, which makes their range slightly longer.
• Damage penalty stacks additively with offensive damage modifiers that can affect Spectral Scythe's damage.

Rapid Harvest

Gain 5% Attack Speed for 3 seconds each time Cursed Strikes hits an enemy, up to 75%.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Speed

Amplify Damage

Increase the Root duration of Bone Prison by 0.25 seconds. Enemies Rooted by Bone Prison lose 25 Armor for 2 seconds.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Armor reduction

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• Does not stack with other negative Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

16

Decrepify

Enemy Heroes who are damaged by Spectral Scythe or Skeletal Warriors are Slowed by 30% for 2.5 seconds.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Slow

Weaken

Enemy Heroes who are damaged by Cursed Strikes or Skeletal Warriors deal 35% less damage for 3 seconds.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemy Heroes

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• Stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that affect the target Hero's damage output.

Bone Spear

Cooldown: 12 seconds
Deal 230 damage to enemies in a line.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point Target

Properties: Skillshot (piercing)

Cast time: 0.125 + 0

Range: 11.9

Hitbox: 1.5 x 1.8

Missile speed: 15

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Andariel's Visage

Poison Nova heals for 50% of the damage dealt and its duration is increased by 50%.

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Type: Healing

Affects: Self

Properties: Lifesteal

Cold Hand of Death

Increase the Slow of Frost Mages by 20%.

Every 5th Spectral Scythe that hits enemy Heroes spawns a Frost Mage instead of a Skeletal Warrior in their location.

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Type: Summon

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Mortal Wound

Enemies hit by Spectral Scythe receive 75% less healing for 4 seconds.

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Type: Healing received modifier

Affects: Enemies

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• Stacks additively with modifiers that affect healing received and multiplicatively with modifiers that affect healing dealt.

Kalan's Edict

Each time Skeletal Warriors deal damage reduce the cooldown of Bone Armor and Xul's Heroic Ability by 1.5%.

Builds and guides

Icy Veins Xul Guide

Xul Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

Xul Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Skins

Xul Skins
Cryptic Necromancer
Backstory: From the recesses of the eastern jungles comes a man cloaked in mystery. As a member of the secretive Priests of Rathma, or the Necromancers, Xul wields powerful death magic and fights to preserve the delicate balance between order and chaos.
750 / 10,000 Cryptic Necromancer	Free Poison	Free Crimson	120 / 75 Frost
Bone Visage
Backstory: In accordance with Mendeln's decrees, the bones inlaid within Xul's armor serve as a symbol of his mastery over death and the helm as a grim reminder that death surrounds us all.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Classic	350 / 400 Royal	350 / 400 Rusted	350 / 400 Skeletal
Necromaster
Backstory: Cloaked in foreign garb, Xul returned from his fight against the Prime Evils as a Master Necromancer. He chose to mentor only a single apprentice, a promising student named Mehtan.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Bone	120 / 75 Golden	120 / 75 Reaper
Serpent King
Backstory: While the Serpent King acted as Pharaoh Ta-sadar's vizier, his true loyalty had always belonged to the Spider Queen. Once he saw his chance, Xul's betrayal was as swift as a serpent's strike.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Luxoria skins.
160 / 100	160 / 100 Turquoise	160 / 100 Copper	160 / 100 Amethyst

Xul Event Skins
Scarecrow
Backstory: Farmer Saldean looked at the empty pole with confusion. Hadn't he hitched up that new Scarecrow? In his bewilderment he missed the words scratched into the dirt, "It's time to harvest."
Features: Altered voice-over, themed abilities.
600 / 1,200	600 / 1,200 Orchid	600 / 1,200 Crimson	600 / 1,200 Rotten	600 / 1,200 Pinstripe

Portraits

Xul Portraits
Bone Visage Xul75 / 40	Carbot Xul120 / 75	Ink Xul75 / 40	Scarecrow Xul75 / 40	Xul Hero	Xul Icon75 / 40	Xul Mastery

Sprays

Xul Sprays
Carbot Xul120 / 75	Emoji Xul120 / 75	Puzzling Necromancer120 / 75	Scarecrow Xul75 / 40	Tattoo Bone Visage Xul75 / 40	With the Fishes120 / 75	Xul Icon75 / 40

Emojis

Xul Pack 1			Xul Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Xul Happy	:xulhappy:		Xul Angry	:xulangry:
	Xul ROFL	:xullol: :xulrofl:		Xul Cool	:xulcool: :cool:
	Xul Sad	:xulsad: :sad:		Xul Embarrassed	:xuloops: :xulembarrassed:
	Xul Silly	:xulsilly: :silly:		Xul in Love	:xullove: :xulinlove:
	Xul Speechless	:xulmeh: :xulspeechless:		Xul Surprised	:xulwow: :xulsurprised:

Scarecrow Xul Pack 1			Scarecrow Xul Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Scarecrow Xul Happy	:xulscarecrowhappy: :xulschappy:		Scarecrow Xul Angry	:xulscarecrowangry: :xulscangry:
	Scarecrow Xul ROFL	:xulscarecrowlol: :xulscarecrowrofl: :xulsclol: :xulscrofl:		Scarecrow Xul Cool	:xulscarecrowcool: :xulsccool:
	Scarecrow Xul Sad	:xulscarecrowsad: :xulscsad:		Scarecrow Xul Embarrassed	:xulscarecrowoops: :xulscarecrowembarrassed: :xulscoops: :xulscembarrassed:
	Scarecrow Xul Silly	:xulscarecrowsilly: :xulscsilly:		Scarecrow Xul in Love	:xulscarecrowlove: :xulscarecrowinlove: :xulsclove: :xulscinlove:
	Scarecrow Xul Speechless	:xulscarecrowmeh: :xulscarecrowspeechless: :xulscmeh: :xulscspeechless:		Scarecrow Xul Surprised	:xulscarecrowwow: :xulscarecrowsurprised: :xulscwow: :xulscsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Xul/Quotes

Trivia

• Xul represents the necromancer class from Diablo II (June 2000).
• Xul is voiced by Michael McConnohie.
• Xul is the first necromancer hero in the game.
• Xul is the first Diablo II hero in the game.
• During development, there were attempts to make Xul's skeletons follow him. However, the biggest problem was clutter. At the time they developed Xul the game already had Zagara, Nazeebo and Azmodan along with other heroes. They were getting into a trend of putting a lot of summons on the screen at the same time. They tried to keep the fantasy of the Necromancer as much as we could while keeping clarity for the player base. One ability that hit the cutting room floor was that we wanted to get a more active corpse explosion which consisted of using the skeletons as leaping at a target then detonating.
• Xul had an easter egg line when he was on the home screen where he would say "Hmm, Battle.net is a lot shinier than it used to be".
• Xul's "I've got your ear" voice line is a reference to players dropping their ears as a loot item when killed in Diablo 2

Gallery

General

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  Xul's artwork
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  Xul home screen
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  Xul menu
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  Malthael's Bargain

Concept art

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  Xul face sculpt
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  Xul's model
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  Necromaster Xul's model
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  Serpent King Xul's model
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  Necromaster Xul concept

Abilities

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  Q: Spectral Scythe
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  W: Cursed Strikes
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  E: Bone Prison
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  R1: Poison Nova
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  R2: Skeletal Mages

Gameplay

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  Xul takes a mercenary camp
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  Xul fighting the Headless Horseman

External links

• Xul Hero Week
• Xul - Heroes of the Storm
• Xul - Diablo Wiki
• Xul Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Xul Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm