It's improved slightly since the last patch, but it still lags behind other classes.

Many of its core strengths have been significantly nerfed — Major Protection, Major Defile, Major Vulnerability, Harmony + self-activated synergy, to name a few.

Meanwhile, other classes have been consistently receiving buffs, leaving Necromancer in a position where it won’t be able to compete at the same level without a major overhaul, imho.

For pve : terrible animation for the spammable (if you choose to use it). Only stamcro DDs are viable but, as always, you will get outparsed by a 3 button rotation stamarc. Necrotanks are great and healers are above average.

For pvp : not even playable. No reliable stun, short cooldowns, crowded bar space, lacking ults, no reliable way to use corpses, skeletal archer is still outclassed by rally and degeneration (unless you're in a 1v1), stalking blastbones is gone...

I play a MagCro as a Heavy Attack Healer in SOLO environment.
Its fun and both the healing and the damage are quite good, but I jump a lot of loopholes to get there.
And frankly, this build doesn't feel like it is a "Real Necromancer".

StamCro is still good, but compare it to others and you'll ask yourself: why bother with all that complicated stuff?

You know what would make Necro awesome in ESO? A Death Beam! 😂

If you mean is PvP:Yes ,necro is weakest class in PvP
If you mean is PvE:No,necro alway T0-T1 just bad in dungreon and difficult
The PvE weakest is stam warden and NB these two years

All classes have the same set of skills (but under different names): direct damage, DoT, crowd control, resource regeneration, protection, healing. Most of these skills have their own duplicates in the skills available to each class and in gear sets.
So, there is no "weakest" class in the game (when it comes to PVE content, because I do not understand the desire to kill other players and tell mom and dad at the dinner table that you killed them for an achievement), there are mainly builds that suit the game encounters (groups and bosses) and the game mechanics.
Thus, Necro is not the best or the worst. Just cook it right

Necromancer needs a few tweaks. A big issue is that it has too many different elemental damage types. Personally, I would ditch Magic Damage completely and just stick with Flame, Shock and Frost. Then I’d go Disease and Bleed only for Stamina.

I would do the following alongside the above suggestions.

1. Make a morph of Graveyard deal Disease Damage and consume a corpse to summon a zombie that lasts until killed or dies. The zombie would deal Disease Damage and have a high chance to Defile enemies.

2. Change the Skeletal Archer to Bleed with increased damage vs Haemorrhaging targets.

3. Change Venom Skull to Festering Skull with guaranteed Disease Status on hit and increased damage vs Defiled targets to make up for its poor animation and speed.

4. Change the Siphon skill to target enemies directly instead of targeting a corpse. Making it more usable and better for PvP and mobile encounters. Consumes a nearby corpse to significantly increase its chance of applying its respective status effect.

5. Bone Totem would be ranged at base. Both morphs would deal damage per pulse. Flame and Disease. Both totems would empower your minions while active.

6. Empowering Grasp needs to go and be replaced. Upcoming Frost change isn’t bad, I would make one morph Disease based.

7. Make one morph of Spirit Guardian directly damage enemies with Frost Damage, but it heals you or a nearby ally for the damage dealt. Less healing than the dedicated healing morph.

8. Restoring Tether directly targets allies. Consumes a nearby corpse to empower it.

9. Swap the damage types of Shocking Siphon and Frost Goliath Ultimates. The Shock Morph would apply Off Balance with first hit and stun with the second hit.


That’s a lot of things I would change but that’s my opinion.