Necro - Morph VS Morph

hope0burns

I know it's still a bit early, yet I'm in need of some advice and I figure I'm likely not the only one.

Generally, for other classes, I can search "XMorph" vs "YMorph" depending on what I'm looking for and I'll get a thread that's either all about that or has related information comparing the two morphs, giving information and thoughts on them and generally helping the reader figure out which would work best for what they want or, generally speaking, which is just outright better for any number of reasons.

The necro still doesn't really have these sorts of threads. I've looked for them and while I've found some talk about different abilities, it's mostly been a lot of comparing Necro class abilities to things like Templar abilities or DK abilities. While enlightening, this doesn't really give the information I want.

So, to that extent, for each of the abilities a necro has, especially the ults, which morph do you feel is best? Why is that? Whether it's in general or in specific situations such as pvp, high-end content, etc.

If you wouldn't mind sharing your thoughts I'm sure there's many of us who would love to hear what you have to say! Until now it's been a lot of guess work and trying to think tactically, yet with some good advice on this sort of stuff I'm sure it'd help quite a few make good decisions for themselves and others and thus give everyone better team mates to play with!

Runefang

Well the dps morphs are either stamina or magicka except one. So no room for discussion there.

I don't heal or tank so can't speak to those.

Gundug

Here are the support skills I have messed with so far:

Boneyard morphs:
Unnerving Boneyard - great for tanks or solo players due to Major Fracture / Breach

Avid Boneyard - allows you to use your own synergy

Bone Armor morphs:
Beckoning Armor - automatically chains in ranged attackers, so good for tanks or solo players who like to group enemies in one area

Summoner’s Armor - reduces the costs of your summoning abilities

Bitter Harvest morphs:
Deaden Pain - grants Major Protection (30% damage reduction), which is great for a tank or player who wants more damage mitigation

Necrotic Potency - grants more ultimate per corpse, so better for DPS, or ultimate uptime in groups

Grave Grasp morphs:
Ghostly Embrace - snare and Minor Maim, plus each patch can immobilize 1 enemy for 3.1 seconds. A weird skill for me in the way it generates the three circles in front of you, but I guess useful for a tank. Not really the best immobilizing skill.

Empowering Grasp - snare and Minor Maim, plus empowers the next light attack of your allies hit by it. Also enhances your skeletal mage or spirit mender by 40% if hit.

Expunge morphs:
Expunge and Modify - remove up to two negative effects and restore a bit of magicka and stamina per effect. A useful purge skill, and I like getting resources back.

Hexproof - in this case, remove up to four negative effects. Unless you are getting hit with a lot of debuffs at once, I prefer the above skill.

Iskiab

Have a 50 stamnecro who I pvp with (not well) and PvE tank with. 30 Magnecro.

I’ve been messing around with morphs. They’re almost all decent and situational:

Boneyard morphs:
Unnerving Boneyard - better pvp morph imo

Bone Armor morphs:
Beckoning Armor - awesome for pve tanks, decent with drawbacks for stam dps
Summoner’s Armor - better magicka morph
Chudan - pvp - might be worth it just for an extra skill slot on magicka. With cc flying around in melee interrupting switching bars I think I wouldn’t use it as stam, might be a magicka option I’m not sure

Bitter Harvest morphs:
Deaden Pain - Not sure for pvp yet
Necrotic Potency - Better morph for pve

Grave Grasp morphs:
Not sure yet, my magnecro is too lowby to know.

Expunge morphs:
Expunge and Modify - better morph and in all situations

One I’m not sure about is the mender. Which morph is best for pvp? The intensive mender being alive half the time sounds great for corpse generation