Necro Tanking?

Ohhgrizyyy

Lets start a discussion now. I'm honestly hyped for Necro tanks and I've never been a fan of tanking in this game. What abilities do you think Necro's will have when it comes to fulfilling a tank/support role? Kinda hoping it reminds me of the Death/Shadowknights from WoW and EQ

Peekachu99

Lifesteal and Bone Armor are the obvious ones.

Ohhgrizyyy

Peekachu99 wrote: »

Lifesteal and Bone Armor are the obvious ones.

You dont think it will be a near copy and paste from a NB Sap Tank do you?

Zathras

If it's like EQ2's Shadowknight, then I'd build one. Loved that class.

Peekachu99

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Peekachu99 wrote: »

Lifesteal and Bone Armor are the obvious ones.

You dont think it will be a near copy and paste from a NB Sap Tank do you?

Sap Tank is pretty dead atm. Would be interesting if they made the Life Steal scale with health (via morph) or something. Health scaling abilities add a bit of flavour for tanks—though the dps just QQ about it.

Ohhgrizyyy

Zathras wrote: »

If it's like EQ2's Shadowknight, then I'd build one. Loved that class.

I personally never liked EQ2 as much as EQ. I'm only about to be 20 but grew up playing it some and watched my dad play the hell out of EQ growing up. Actually kinda hyped and hope the class feels amazing cause also my dad was a Necromancer main in EQ and I remember him maining a Necro in WoW and tried a Deathknight when he unlocked it

Ohhgrizyyy

Peekachu99 wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Peekachu99 wrote: »

Lifesteal and Bone Armor are the obvious ones.

You dont think it will be a near copy and paste from a NB Sap Tank do you?

Sap Tank is pretty dead atm. Would be interesting if they made the Life Steal scale with health (via morph) or something. Health scaling abilities add a bit of flavour for tanks—though the dps just QQ about it.

Actually make Plague Doctor worth using besides just a useless facetanking setup for normal trials and dungeons aye? Lol

Lady_Sleepless

I'm hoping for a zombie/skeleton horde summon ultimate so soak up damage. Could be so much fun.

Ohhgrizyyy

Lady_Sleepless wrote: »

I'm hoping for a zombie/skeleton horde summon ultimate so soak up damage. Could be so much fun.

Have a feeling there might be either an ult that literally makes you invincible and you cant die for a certain amount of time but maybe do less damage? Or a sort of copy/paste of Magma Armor from DK

TheGreatBlackBear

They can't add anything meaningful to a new tanking class without stripping it from another. I'm interested to see who's the victim.

Tasear

Use corpses to make a barrier for allies to stand behind?

OneKhajiitCrimeWave

I envision skills like:

An Armor Buff with an AoE minor life steal attached.
A magicka version of repentance.
An AoE immobilize/snare like the lich one or the hands in EH1.
A method to grab ranged targets (teleport or ghostly chains)
Possibly a minor maim source too.

xxthir13enxx

Tasear wrote: »

Use corpses to make a barrier for allies to stand behind?

Ooooh a corpse wall on breaches in Cyrodiil....niiiiice.....lol

Tommy_The_Gun

^ Title ^
Everything that NB (sap tank) had on release date (2014) but better + more pet summons...

FatelessLava

My guess it would have some sort of cc or slow, like the zombies coming up out of the ground or the giant hand that roots you. Something like boneshield combined with DK spiked armor

AhPook_Is_Here

I'm gonna be all like, RAISE a wall of CORPSES to tank for me, and then my GOLEM is going to plow through their masses and hammer down the bosses, while I, protected by my BONE WALL, will TAP the life of my enemies and encase them in an IRON MAIDEN of the mind squeezing their blood into my soul, while the stand CONFUSED and BLINDED in my death grip!

A gift for you,
a gift for you,
thanks, thanks,

You die too easily!

That's my necrowish.

profundidob16_ESO

most noticeable Necro tanking abilities:


-Hungry graves: an aoe ring of bony hands comes out of the floor and hold all enememies in place (necro version of talons/timestop). Looks like the last boss of Elden Hollow I

-Leeching aura: you automatically steal life and stamina over time from the enemies around you while this buff is active

-Dark whispers: interrupts and silences/disables target enemy for 4 seconds, preventing the use of any abilities or spells

-Unholy aura (Ultimate): An uholy aura appears around up to 4 group members for 10 seconds. 50% of any damage taken while the aura is active is transferred to the caster.

josiahva

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Peekachu99 wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Peekachu99 wrote: »

Lifesteal and Bone Armor are the obvious ones.

You dont think it will be a near copy and paste from a NB Sap Tank do you?

Sap Tank is pretty dead atm. Would be interesting if they made the Life Steal scale with health (via morph) or something. Health scaling abilities add a bit of flavour for tanks—though the dps just QQ about it.

Actually make Plague Doctor worth using besides just a useless facetanking setup for normal trials and dungeons aye? Lol

Speak for yourself, Plague Doctor is a great tank set for shield spamming tank builds. Besides...there are times 50k health comes in handy(not being able to be one shot by Dranos in vCoS when the DPS in your PUG dont interrupt the shades pinning you as an example) There is a lot to be said for face tanking.

As for necromancer tanking...I will only try it if I dont have to use summon spells to try to do my job for me.

Silver_Strider

Bone Armor - Major Resolve/Ward
Morph: Jagged Bone Armor - deals damage to attackers
Morph: Fortified Bone Armor - Adds Minor Resolve/Ward to you and allies

Skull Totem - AoE Minor Protection + Damage
Morph: Leeching Totem - Applies Minor Lifesteal
Morph: Necrotic Totem - Defile + greater damage

Ghostly Bindings - Pull skill a la Fang Lair
Cursed Bindings - DoT damage
Eternal Bindings - Roots pulled Target

Cursed Rune - AoE root
Siphoning Rune - Heals per target hit
Crippling Rune - Minor Maim

Spirit Resurgence- Tank Heal
Revitalizing Spirits - Minor Vitality
Bonding Spirits - Adds a HoT.

Ultimate - Flesh Atronach. Damage it deals heals caster
Burning Flesh Atro - Leaves trail of fire as it walks
Flesh Abomination - Leaves poison AoE pits that spawn under enemies.

Ohhgrizyyy

josiahva wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Peekachu99 wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Peekachu99 wrote: »

Lifesteal and Bone Armor are the obvious ones.

You dont think it will be a near copy and paste from a NB Sap Tank do you?

Sap Tank is pretty dead atm. Would be interesting if they made the Life Steal scale with health (via morph) or something. Health scaling abilities add a bit of flavour for tanks—though the dps just QQ about it.

Actually make Plague Doctor worth using besides just a useless facetanking setup for normal trials and dungeons aye? Lol

Speak for yourself, Plague Doctor is a great tank set for shield spamming tank builds. Besides...there are times 50k health comes in handy(not being able to be one shot by Dranos in vCoS when the DPS in your PUG dont interrupt the shades pinning you as an example) There is a lot to be said for face tanking.

As for necromancer tanking...I will only try it if I dont have to use summon spells to try to do my job for me.

Shield spamming tanks dont offer much utility usually.

profundidob16_ESO

Oh I forgot a most important ultimate:


Summon Lich: You summon Ozzy Osbourne causing all enemies in 28m aoe radius to become instantly stunned in place at the sight of such a horrid creature and lose all armor and protection bonuses for 10 seconds

Ohhgrizyyy

profundidob16_ESO wrote: »

Oh I forgot a most important ultimate:


Summon Lich: You summon Ozzy Osbourne causing all enemies in 28m aoe radius to become instantly stunned in place at the sight of such a horrid creature and lose all armor and protection bonuses for 10 seconds

If only 😂

josiahva

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

josiahva wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Peekachu99 wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Peekachu99 wrote: »

Lifesteal and Bone Armor are the obvious ones.

You dont think it will be a near copy and paste from a NB Sap Tank do you?

Sap Tank is pretty dead atm. Would be interesting if they made the Life Steal scale with health (via morph) or something. Health scaling abilities add a bit of flavour for tanks—though the dps just QQ about it.

Actually make Plague Doctor worth using besides just a useless facetanking setup for normal trials and dungeons aye? Lol

Speak for yourself, Plague Doctor is a great tank set for shield spamming tank builds. Besides...there are times 50k health comes in handy(not being able to be one shot by Dranos in vCoS when the DPS in your PUG dont interrupt the shades pinning you as an example) There is a lot to be said for face tanking.

As for necromancer tanking...I will only try it if I dont have to use summon spells to try to do my job for me.

Shield spamming tanks dont offer much utility usually.

50k+ shields for all group members with all shields up isn't utility? If you say so. There is a reason they already nerfed shield tanks once...but with the changes adding in tank resistances to the shields they cast, its still effective.

Ohhgrizyyy

josiahva wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

josiahva wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Peekachu99 wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Peekachu99 wrote: »

Lifesteal and Bone Armor are the obvious ones.

You dont think it will be a near copy and paste from a NB Sap Tank do you?

Sap Tank is pretty dead atm. Would be interesting if they made the Life Steal scale with health (via morph) or something. Health scaling abilities add a bit of flavour for tanks—though the dps just QQ about it.

Actually make Plague Doctor worth using besides just a useless facetanking setup for normal trials and dungeons aye? Lol

Speak for yourself, Plague Doctor is a great tank set for shield spamming tank builds. Besides...there are times 50k health comes in handy(not being able to be one shot by Dranos in vCoS when the DPS in your PUG dont interrupt the shades pinning you as an example) There is a lot to be said for face tanking.

As for necromancer tanking...I will only try it if I dont have to use summon spells to try to do my job for me.

Shield spamming tanks dont offer much utility usually.

50k+ shields for all group members with all shields up isn't utility? If you say so. There is a reason they already nerfed shield tanks once...but with the changes adding in tank resistances to the shields they cast, its still effective.

Since when is it 50k shields? Im sorry I quit last January and just came back. Even when Morrowind released and people ran 70k HP it was not even remotely close to a 50k shield for everyone

Ohhgrizyyy

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

josiahva wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

josiahva wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Peekachu99 wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Peekachu99 wrote: »

Lifesteal and Bone Armor are the obvious ones.

You dont think it will be a near copy and paste from a NB Sap Tank do you?

Sap Tank is pretty dead atm. Would be interesting if they made the Life Steal scale with health (via morph) or something. Health scaling abilities add a bit of flavour for tanks—though the dps just QQ about it.

Actually make Plague Doctor worth using besides just a useless facetanking setup for normal trials and dungeons aye? Lol

Speak for yourself, Plague Doctor is a great tank set for shield spamming tank builds. Besides...there are times 50k health comes in handy(not being able to be one shot by Dranos in vCoS when the DPS in your PUG dont interrupt the shades pinning you as an example) There is a lot to be said for face tanking.

As for necromancer tanking...I will only try it if I dont have to use summon spells to try to do my job for me.

Shield spamming tanks dont offer much utility usually.

50k+ shields for all group members with all shields up isn't utility? If you say so. There is a reason they already nerfed shield tanks once...but with the changes adding in tank resistances to the shields they cast, its still effective.

Since when is it 50k shields? Im sorry I quit last January and just came back. Even when Morrowind released and people ran 70k HP it was not even remotely close to a 50k shield for everyone

And after they nerfed it in Morrowind they were *** and people still tried using them and it was pointless.

actosh

it will be a better sap tank and it will have a grp dmg increase buff

luen79rwb17_ESO

Your taunt will be throwing spiky ribs!

Konstant_Tel_Necris

Tasear wrote: »

Use corpses to make a barrier for allies to stand behind?

Looks much like corpse required bone shield synergy.

CipherNine

whatever it will be. The leaderboard guilds will find the one way that they say is the most efficient. Then the community will make another bs meta and say its the only way to do things. Then that is the only choice you will have if you want to get into Trials with it.

AlienatedGoat

I'll be going deep into necro tanks when they pop on PTS.