What makes nercomancers so appealing?

Odovacar

I enjoyed playing the necromancer in both Diablo 2 & most recently 3. Something about raising the dead really has griped me and many others over the course of RPG games with this role. I really like how Blizzard made the player trade off one resources for another powerful skill/playstyle (blood, bone, etc). I know comparing D3 to ESO is nonsense, but its all I have to go off and I'm sure Zeni will nail it (fingers crossed) I'm very curious to see how ZOS will develop their playstyle. I cannot wait to hear more details as the time goes by.

josiahva

Necromancers only appeal to those to lazy to do their own fighting.

phileunderx2

It's something new and gives me a reason to roll some new characters.

Freakin_Hytte

I'm excited for a new class, but whyyyy go for necromancer that have been in sooo many games and not a new exciting class that haven't been done (or rarely been done). Sure I loved playing necromancer in Diablo 2, but I'm very disappointed that the best idea zos could brainstorm for a "new" and "exciting" class is a necromancer...

If it is a necromancer, I atleast hope they make it different than raising undead and casting curses on people.

Brrrofski

I pretty much only PvP these days and I'm not hyped for necromancer. Pets in PvP just don't really work (people make pet builds work, not saying they don't - but if everyone ran them it'd be a mess). They're unreliable in such a fast paced environment, get in the way when you want to target a player and surely will put a strain on the already suffering servers.

I'll make one (if it's a class) and have a play around, sure, but kind of sceptical how they'll work in PvP. I don't roleplay any of my characters or anything like that in this game so it doesn't speak to me for that either. Single player RPGs I do, but not in MMOs.

randomkeyhits

Same as many

Loved the Diablo II necromancer and the skeletal minion army.

Sadly I just can't see that working, at least not a full on mixed group of 20 or 30 minions.

Perhaps if they were to play up the creepy, what are you doing with that shovel? side of things there may be fun to be had.

Still, it will be two bars, 5 + ulti on each, a means of tank/heal?/damaging so I don't think it will stray far from the existing character styles.

I don't want to be but I think I'll probably be disappointed unless we can raise bone dragons (hint, hint)