The minions spawned with this spells will last forever but they don't follow you.

Dread Cocoon: Cast on a corpse to implant it with a fearful creature that will hatch in 15 sec.

On death, the target spawns poisonous spiders, which attak and infect other hostiles.

Infestation: Infects the target with a plague.

Dagger: The dagger is only usefull in early game and to aply a special spell so investing a lot of perk points in this tree is not necessary.

You need the Restoration Dual Cast perk for this to work

Under my Wings: This perk allow you to heal all of your minions at once.

The Necromanticon perk will grant you offensives spells for free.

Plague Doctor: The tree perks from the plague doctor branch are a great addition to this character, increasing the power of restoration spells and reducing the disease resistance of the enemies.

Also the Rat King perk is very usefull for increasing numbers and fits the character pretty well.

Also with Reap and Sow 2 you can level the conjuration skill from 70 to 100 by creating and destroying skeletons. The Skeleton Mages 2 perk allows the creation of skeleton mages that deal poison damage, fitting with the build.

Bone collector: All the perks in the bone collector branch are usefull and some of them are very important so you should get the entire branch.

With Edge of Oblivion you can maintain two minions which is really powerfull in lower levels.

Summon: This character doesn't really depends on his traditional summoning spells so it's not necesary to invest too many perk points 0n this branch.

They usually don't affect too much but be carefull with reducing one of the primary skills of the character to 0.

Peryite's Gifts consist on debuffs like reducing the attributs and resistances or reducing a skill to 0.

Devotee - Green Dragon’s Breath: Activate a living opponent in combat to inflict all of Peryite's Gifts you have on the target, plus 5 disease damage per second for each gift.

Follower - Taskmaster: Learn all skills X% faster (based on favor with Peryite).

Attributes: 4 points of Magicka and 1 point on Health up to 160, then all into Magicka.

Gameplay/Quest: Provilence and Pestilence, Death Consume All.

Build: Ordinator, Wintersun, Lost Grimoire, Arcanum, Toxin Doctor Outfit.

'The Plague Doctor, a deadly mage that will use the power of disease to corrupt his enemies and to form an infinite army of decay and pestilence.'

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