„Reanimate“ (Living Death Ultimate) - useful or useless?

Seraphayel

Hey there, maybe not so an easy question but what’s the point of Reanimate? I really can’t make out any situation where this skill would be actuall useful. Every player can reanimate in this game and there is basically no need for a skill to do this. Sure three at a time and instant sounds nice but when would I ever need this? And on top of that the incredible cost as it’s the most expensive Ultimate in game - by far.

So, what’s the point of this skill? Do you find it useful or useless? Would you even consider slotting this skill?

Chelo

Seraphayel wrote: »

Hey there, maybe not so an easy question but what’s the point of Reanimate? I really can’t make out any situation where this skill would be actuall useful. Every player can reanimate in this game and there is basically no need for a skill to do this. Sure three at a time and instant sounds nice but when would I ever need this? And on top of that the incredible cost as it’s the most expensive Ultimate in game - by far.

So, what’s the point of this skill? Do you find it useful or useless? Would you even consider slotting this skill?

Actually that ultimate is awesome in PvE. It can save your team from a secure wipe.

Seraphayel

Chelo wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

Hey there, maybe not so an easy question but what’s the point of Reanimate? I really can’t make out any situation where this skill would be actuall useful. Every player can reanimate in this game and there is basically no need for a skill to do this. Sure three at a time and instant sounds nice but when would I ever need this? And on top of that the incredible cost as it’s the most expensive Ultimate in game - by far.

So, what’s the point of this skill? Do you find it useful or useless? Would you even consider slotting this skill?

Actually that ultimate is awesome in PvE. It can save your team from a secure wipe.

So this Ultimate saves a team better than any healing / defensive ultimate that costs 1/3? I mean the situation where all of your mates are failing or get oneshotted sounds more like a L2P issue than something you’d want to counter with Reanimate, doesn’t it? It’s just so hard to imagine where you’d frequently make use of this skill not due to L2P issues.

Bezz

Seraphayel wrote: »

Chelo wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

Hey there, maybe not so an easy question but what’s the point of Reanimate? I really can’t make out any situation where this skill would be actuall useful. Every player can reanimate in this game and there is basically no need for a skill to do this. Sure three at a time and instant sounds nice but when would I ever need this? And on top of that the incredible cost as it’s the most expensive Ultimate in game - by far.

So, what’s the point of this skill? Do you find it useful or useless? Would you even consider slotting this skill?

Actually that ultimate is awesome in PvE. It can save your team from a secure wipe.

So this Ultimate saves a team better than any healing / defensive ultimate that costs 1/3? I mean the situation where all of your mates are failing or get oneshotted sounds more like a L2P issue than something you’d want to counter with Reanimate, doesn’t it? It’s just so hard to imagine where you’d frequently make use of this skill not due to L2P issues.

Frostvault vet 3rd boss. Even people perfectly skilled will die here. I'd suggest the tank to back bar it as it can be useful if someone gets clipped.

robpr

It saves wipes by instant revive critical people like main tanks or kiting healers that did a simple mistake. Not sure, but I think you can also revive people in vCR without killing shadows of the fallen. Of course its better for people to not die, but its very nice tradeoff - res people that do zero damage being dead for price of 1.5 horns.

Tasear

It's super situational on faliure. I wish we could not just reanimate our allies but enemy corspes so it could actually be used.

Chelo

Seraphayel wrote: »

Chelo wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

Hey there, maybe not so an easy question but what’s the point of Reanimate? I really can’t make out any situation where this skill would be actuall useful. Every player can reanimate in this game and there is basically no need for a skill to do this. Sure three at a time and instant sounds nice but when would I ever need this? And on top of that the incredible cost as it’s the most expensive Ultimate in game - by far.

So, what’s the point of this skill? Do you find it useful or useless? Would you even consider slotting this skill?

Actually that ultimate is awesome in PvE. It can save your team from a secure wipe.

So this Ultimate saves a team better than any healing / defensive ultimate that costs 1/3? I mean the situation where all of your mates are failing or get oneshotted sounds more like a L2P issue than something you’d want to counter with Reanimate, doesn’t it? It’s just so hard to imagine where you’d frequently make use of this skill not due to L2P issues.

I loss the count of how many times I've been fighting bosses alone while my entire team is dead... 95% of the population in this game are not really good players, neither in PvE or PvP. Most of the players are actually casuals who came from Skyrim (or other solo Elder Scrolls Game), so believe me, in this context, that ultimate is wonderful!

frostz417

Chelo wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

Chelo wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

Hey there, maybe not so an easy question but what’s the point of Reanimate? I really can’t make out any situation where this skill would be actuall useful. Every player can reanimate in this game and there is basically no need for a skill to do this. Sure three at a time and instant sounds nice but when would I ever need this? And on top of that the incredible cost as it’s the most expensive Ultimate in game - by far.

So, what’s the point of this skill? Do you find it useful or useless? Would you even consider slotting this skill?

Actually that ultimate is awesome in PvE. It can save your team from a secure wipe.

So this Ultimate saves a team better than any healing / defensive ultimate that costs 1/3? I mean the situation where all of your mates are failing or get oneshotted sounds more like a L2P issue than something you’d want to counter with Reanimate, doesn’t it? It’s just so hard to imagine where you’d frequently make use of this skill not due to L2P issues.

I loss the count of how many times I've been fighting bosses alone while my entire team is dead... 95% of the population in this game are not really good players, neither in PvE or PvP. Most of the players are actually casuals who came from Skyrim (or other solo Elder Scrolls Game), so believe me, in this context, that ultimate is wonderful!

Not going to lie. I totally agree with you on how 95% of the players basically have no thumbs.

Nerouyn

Seraphayel wrote: »

So, what’s the point of this skill? Do you find it useful or useless? Would you even consider slotting this skill?

It sounds like you're new'ish to the game.

Healing in this game is really weird. Mostly you're expected to buff and DPS but always have to be ready and able to heal if someone needs it.

1) Reviving a dead player with a soul gem takes time so that job falls to DPS, not healers. Also it's not uncommon for a DPS rezzing someone to get killed. All it takes is one mega aoe field to land on them which they don't roll out of. Or for another mega aoe to land where they've rolled to away from the first aoe. It's that kind of game.

At that point the other DPS might be able to rescue the two dead players. Or maybe not. Necro rez could prevent an imminent wipe.

2) If the tank dies you need them back up ASAP. Depending on what you're fighting, DPSers and healers might not be able to survive very long without a tank.

Being able to instantly revive the tank could prevent a wipe.

karekiz

Seraphayel wrote: »

I mean the situation where all of your mates are failing or get oneshotted sounds more like a L2P issue than something you’d want to counter with Reanimate, doesn’t it? It’s just so hard to imagine where you’d frequently make use of this skill not due to L2P issues.

If everyone was perfect, then everyone would be pugging every vet trial in craglorn.

LordTareq

In Battlegrounds it's similar to the Sorcerer's negate ultimate, in that it's too situational. I've seen it used a couple of times, and never did it have an impact. In fact the last time I saw this used, I and the rest of my team quickly killed the freshly resurrected players so it actually helped us more than his team.
In PvE and in Cyrodiil it's super handy on the other hand.

Tasear

LordTareq wrote: »

In Battlegrounds it's similar to the Sorcerer's negate ultimate, in that it's too situational. I've seen it used a couple of times, and never did it have an impact. In fact the last time I saw this used, I and the rest of my team quickly killed the freshly resurrected players so it actually helped us more than his team.
In PvE and in Cyrodiil it's super handy on the other hand.

I found myself disappointed of lack of chances to use it in pve.

" Is he going to die"

"Nope...bummer"

Tasear

karekiz wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

I mean the situation where all of your mates are failing or get oneshotted sounds more like a L2P issue than something you’d want to counter with Reanimate, doesn’t it? It’s just so hard to imagine where you’d frequently make use of this skill not due to L2P issues.

If everyone was perfect, then everyone would be pugging every vet trial in craglorn.

Idk we do have a lot of pugged vet trials now. The only ones I haven't seen pugged are CR and Hof

precambria

I am of the opinion that reanimate alone makes necro the best healer class by a mile, even just an instant rez is insane. If you aren't dying it's not because you are playing right you just aren't trying to do anything hard there are always levels to learning anything, if you aren't learning you are just farming or not progressing complacency is a worse form of death IMO

What other use of resources can bring as much output as a whole player, the amount of dps you just added by saving anyone from having to rez is equal to whatever time they would have been dead+the rezzer's output, it equals to way more than any other thing you could cast for any cost.

Pvp is a thing too.

That said, the times I slot it and don't need it are very frequent because I like to think I can keep people up pretty good, but if I am dead the group is as good as dead so it is really really nice on the tank who very often finds themselves being in a situation where 3 people are dead. Reanimate is the most powerful spell who's proper application is elusive, ^_^ plus we are necro's rezzing is our purpose in life, it would hilarious if there was a quest that made your reanimate rez any dead critters that are there into a zombie squirrel, spell customization is the thing that will make this game perfect.