Classes: The Necromancer

Necromancers - Masters of death. With their powerful pets and variety of damage over time spells, necromancers are one of the best solo classes in the game.

What is the best way to play a necromancer? What are the best solo strategies? How should the necromancer be played within a group? How should you develop your necromancer to best take advantage of his abilities? What are the important faction considerations for a necromancer? Which spells work best, and which are not worth their price?

Post your strategies on how to best play and develop the Necromancer and read, rate and comment on what others have to say.

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#1 Sep 06 2007 at 4:39 PM Rating: Decent
I am trying to decide if I want to keep my 34 necro, or start a wizzy. I have seen what wiz's can do, and I find it amazing. I also don't have any form of a transporting class, which I think would be fun. Here is what I am compareing;

Wiz:
- Big Nukes
- Transports
- Can quad. kite

Necro
- DoTs
- Kite
- Solo's in most places


I just don't know which to choose... I only have one character I could delete, and that would be my baby necro if I wanted to replace it with a wiz. I am interested in the class for their soloing abilities.. so if it's slow, I can solo. I just don't know how WELL wiz's can solo compared with a necro, despite the fact many people have said necros are the best soloing class.

HELP!!!.... If anyone can just shoot out some info. about these 2 classes, I am hoping it will help me decide if I want to keep necro and lvl it, or start a wiz... Thank you all =)

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#2 Sep 09 2007 at 11:18 AM Rating: Decent
I would go with Necro.
Mainly because of their versatility.

They can solo so much better than a Wiz. They can offer more to groups.
I would just ask yourself what ya wanna do.. if you just wanna solo then do the necro or even a mage? The good thing with Wizards is they are so simple. You have 1 job. big nukes. + you can go AFK and no one will know =P

but yep. I would reccommend Necro, I have a lv 62 atm, and i'm not an expert, but i'm really lovin him so far.

Dont forget FD =P
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#3 Sep 09 2007 at 8:31 PM Rating: Default
necro > wizzie imo. dots, pet/pets, heals, constant mana flow without a stun to it. an necros r sick dps. an always look cooler too.
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#4 Sep 10 2007 at 6:42 AM Rating: Decent
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Actually, Wizards can solo very well BUT they need good gear and AAs to do so.

Go with Necromancer. You just need your spells to solo well. (Good gear and AAs make it better of course)
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#5 Sep 11 2007 at 7:09 PM Rating: Decent
Thank you for your imput =) ! Really helps...
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#6 Sep 11 2007 at 7:09 PM Rating: Decent
This is true... Necro's are given the tools they need to solo, and don't need god-like gear or a lot of aa's... Thank you, I never thought of that before
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#7 May 20 2010 at 2:11 PM Rating: Default
I duo Wiz and Necro, both 85, main is the wiz but necro getting very good now. Both are very good dps but depends on what you want to do. Wiz with a lot of AA has insane dmg short term. I can and have done over 600K DMG in 30 seconds with my wiz. It is rare but has happened. Twincast, intensity, second spire and of course silent casting hehe, I only do this for names but I can tell you it impresses your group and up to T7 names die very fast. Wiz are great for getting around fast and killing very fast. However that is about it for them. They do get boring fast but are formidable on raids and grouping so not useless by any means.

What I like about Necro and I will like a lot more when he has more AA and better gear is survivability. When the wiz gets in a bad situation she has to evac, plain and simple. Necros can FD send pet tap send more pets etc. Another big bonus to Necro is as stated in another post pretty much unlimited mana. Death Bloom will put a 22K mana necro to full in 45 seconds, however warn you cleric or have merc up cause it sucks 4K health per tick. Anyways hope this helps a bit I definitely didn't cover everything.

Pallasathena and Coffeefreak, 85 Wiz and Necro



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