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Necromancer

    • 71 posts
    October 21, 2024 11:43 AM PDT
    The Necro seems fun, maybe it'll replace my Summoner.
    • 39 posts
    October 26, 2024 7:25 AM PDT

    Got my first crack at the Necromancer last night and can safely say it will be my main.  Love it so far, even at my low level.  The pet looks amazing.  Love the entire feel and look of it so far. 

    • 1 posts
    October 26, 2024 7:49 AM PDT

    The comment Joppa made about all necro pets going to be some form of a skeleton is horrible in my opinion. Your pet should get more powerful as you level and should also look more badass while increasing in strength. Joppa you should seriously reconsider this. If you insist on a skeleton variation, please take EQOA as an example to do something similar, going from normal skeleton to larger bigger skeleton, to skeleton with rotting flesh, to apparition skeletons that float to a floating reaper skeleton, to a floating mass of bones swarming around, to essentially a red mass of deathly gas. 

    Video showing the max level pets: 
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=xGCwSt-5FvE

    1 Summon Shambling Bones
    4 Summon Stumbling Bones
    8 Summon Walking Bones
    12 Summon Lumbering Bones
    16 Summon Hulking Bones
    20 Summon Wilting Flesh
    24 Summon Decaying Flesh
    29 Summon Rotting Flesh
    34 Summon Putrid Flesh
    39 Summon Preserved Flesh
    44 Summon Howling Death
    49 Summon Ancient Death
    55 Summon Swarming Bones
    60 Summon Swarming Death


    This post was edited by Noroxus at October 26, 2024 7:50 AM PDT
    • 39 posts
    October 26, 2024 8:05 AM PDT

    The fact that I can equip my pet with gear and have it reflect on the actual model is more than enough for me.  I can customize it with gear if I want, but to each their own on that I guess. I am enjoying it so far.

    • 2 posts
    October 27, 2024 6:09 PM PDT
    I totally forgot you can equip the pet with gear… I’ve been selling tons of stuff that it can probably wear to vendors.


    What type of gear can the pet wear? Tank stuff? Also, I think I read that you lose the gear if your pet dies… is that true?
    • 56 posts
    October 27, 2024 7:16 PM PDT
    I like the skelly -- I'd love a zombie too though --
    now let's talk the meat and potatoes -- the pet runs off in high pop zones-- leaves me totally or just goes off by itself leaving me alone and vulnerable
    goes to help other necro players or whatever -- I've had other necro pets come over and steal my kills -- not fun
    I heard anothervnecro comment about it in game chat,so I know it's not just me -- please devs can we get a fix on this ?
    • 56 posts
    October 27, 2024 7:20 PM PDT
    And please please please- NO making it mandatory for pets to have gear to be viable - shudders of EQ2 mercs - if you played it, you know what I mean -- it's hard enough for some of us to gear up ourselves because it's absolutely the only way to survive, but MUST we do.it with our pets too ? Please no !!
    • 64 posts
    November 3, 2024 1:51 PM PST

    I just be happy to see the pet get some kind of taunt.  His agro is absurdly bad.  At 9th level using 9th level pet, vs. a light blue or green, best I can get away with is sprinkling damage with the free nausea dot and the "snare".  What is that 10% move reduction?

    Sicken, life tap or drain a stat are all snap agro.  God forbid I'm dumb enough to pull the mob or upset them by walking too close, I can forget about the skele ever getting agro.  The 5 second fear isn't really kiting with the afore-mentioned "snare", assuming its not resisted before its 1 min cooldown.

    Then its off to the races with life tap before my level capped paper mache armor is eviscerated by a rusty dagger or some such.  It feels like the necro dev meeting discussion went, "hey remember how cool and OP EQ necros were?  Well, not on my watch!"

    Ok rant over.  Seriously is the pet supposed to be that lackluster?

    • 56 posts
    November 3, 2024 2:05 PM PST
    At level 10, it is the same -- can't get him to get aggro -- he may even be worse now at this level - he doesn't follow commands, runs off and at times just disappears ...
    • 1 posts
    November 5, 2024 7:47 AM PST

    Looking forward to jumping in and playing Necro!

    • 28 posts
    November 10, 2024 8:46 PM PST

    I've played most classes so far to around level 6 and the necro has been one of the worst experiences. I loved my EQ1 necro. He was a great solo/survivable class. I seem to take more damage than other casters because the time to kill is about as bad as the cleric. I wish I was exagerating. Seems to do really bad dame for a lot of mana, so I have to sit more than any other caster. This has got to be a joke. The summoner is at least 3x better so far. Can one shot mobs with a spell. On even con, 2 shot. Necro takes a lot more.

    • 2 posts
    November 12, 2024 4:35 AM PST

    You forgot to mention pet is also very squishy and useless.

    Totally broken class, except for the mez. Our only utility in a group !the only spell wich are not resisted most of the time.

    the snare curse is a joke.

    Have to sit most of the time, even with veil of undead, mana regen is ridiculous.

    Loved my EQ1 necro, will stop playing this one at 18.

    • 20 posts
    November 19, 2024 10:50 AM PST

    What about fear kitting/root rotting? This was a big part of the play style.
    Also - I'm only level 7 - but so far mana management is rough. I really hope that gets better at 14. I miss Demi Lich..

    • 64 posts
    November 24, 2024 9:36 AM PST

    The November 11 patch claimed Life Taps would be changed from 25% to 33%.  As far as I can tell, the healing is still at 25%.  When will this go live?

    • 56 posts
    November 24, 2024 12:55 PM PST
    I rhink that too ,--
    Necro is playing worse than before too --
    have heck of a time killing the boars now -
    Used to have NO problem -- makes me want to play an enchanter now
    • 64 posts
    November 24, 2024 8:52 PM PST

    Before 12th necro pet couldn't Taunt.  Insert 40% hp Nerf, now he gets his ass handed to him by light blues.

    • 56 posts
    November 24, 2024 9:14 PM PST
    So that is the problem - or one of them anyway ..... because Pet is pitiful even now -- anything lower than 9 now (I am level 10) is just useless imo
    • 71 posts
    November 25, 2024 9:09 AM PST

    As a pet class it has a ways to go.

    Has any one seen a pet list with abilities?

    • 56 posts
    November 25, 2024 12:43 PM PST

    with as bad as this class is at present -- and with no pet abilities listed anywhere -- are there ? am I just missing them ? 

    I will NOT be playing this class after the wipe in December  --- and NO taunt yet at lvl 9 pet / lvl 10 Necro --- that's where I'll leave it .... 

    • 71 posts
    November 26, 2024 7:05 AM PST

    I'm not ready to pack it in. It's still a new addition so I wait a bit i'm sure it's not working as intended. :-)

    • 56 posts
    November 26, 2024 7:33 PM PST

    I might roll one, but not play it --- not until I hear better things about it

    • 15 posts
    December 15, 2024 3:47 PM PST

    i love eq1 and eq2, that said my experience with necromancer is from those two games.

     

    i tried pantheons necromancer recently.

    We get no FD or Rez even though we are masters of death (strange)

    those two class defining abilities off the table kind of breaks the class for me. (but that's just me)

     

    The gameplay loop was like, cast siphon stat spells that suck so bad but i cast them cause i don't have much for abilities, a couple dots and send in a weak pet.

    lifetap if taking damage, 

     

     

    same loop from level 1-40.... necro complete garbage....

     

    • 56 posts
    December 15, 2024 6:05 PM PST
    I rolled a wizzie - it plays better now than earlier - any truth to what I heard in game chat today that summoner would be able to summon corpses - or is this just a summoner dream wish - necros should be able to -- NOT them - they haven't done that in any game I've ever played
    • 71 posts
    December 22, 2024 9:13 AM PST

    I built a Summoner rather than the Necro. I think my brain is wired around a Mage lol.

    I don't play alts so I guess i'm set.

    • 111 posts
    December 31, 2024 10:22 AM PST

    I like Pantheon Necro quite a lot and see pretty well how it's going to grow!