Necro spammable (wishful thinking)

Navaac223

Here's my proposition if zos were to delete skull in favor of a good spammable. I tried to make it good for pvp and pve, while following the "debuff class" image necro has :

muscle snap : melee skill btw
Deals 2200 disease damage.
The first cast of this ability inflicts minor maim for 15 secs.
The second cast inflicts minor cowardice for 15 secs.
The third cast deals 50% increased damage. If no corpses are nearby, rip a part of the enemy's flesh to create a corpse and deal 2603 bleed damage over 15 secs. If a corpse is nearby, awaken it after 1.5 secs to rush at the enemy with a scythe (like bb), dealing 2603 magic damage and afflicting the enemy with major cowardice for 5 secs

Cost determined by the highest ressource, 2295
Morphs :

sinew snap :
The "consume a corpse" part of the ability now stuns when the risen corpse hits the target

wither muscle :
Each damage type used in this ability now procs the corresponding status effect.

Edit : wait sorry I forgot to mention that it should be instant. As in "doesn't take 10 minutes to hit the target"

Deimus

We already have access to Minor Maim from Ghostly Embrace via the guaranteed chill proc, and Major Cowardice from Bone Totem, so while I do think your source for these debuffs is better than what we have it's redundant in our current kit.

I don't think ZOS will touch Ghostly Embrace anytime soon, but Grave Grasp/Empowering Grasp and Bone Totem and its morphs are begging to be reworked into reliable instant CC and wide area of control skills. This might allow the Major Cowardice effect to be used without it being on two different Necro skills.

I like the idea of adding a sticky DoT component on the spammable and the Scythe wielding minion is also a good way to add a bit of extra burst while further enabling the "minion master" feeling of the Necromancer. Just don't classify it as a pet.

Venom Skull if used correctly can be strong, but is essentially a melee ranged skill already. Unless they make the skill undodgable melee distance is the only way to reliably hit someone with it.

MJallday

necro doesnt have any spamables that could be compared in terms of DPS output to other classes . maybe im playing it wrong though. advice welcome on this one

YandereGirlfriend

MJallday wrote: »

necro doesnt have any spamables that could be compared in terms of DPS output to other classes . maybe im playing it wrong though. advice welcome on this one

Poison Skull is actually pretty good since you can get a lot higher % of your total casts of it buffed with the +50% multiplier.

But Flame Skulls is dogwater and the morph effect is not worth using at all.

Bleed Scythe is tuned the same as most other AOE spammables but it suffers because there is literally nothing either in the skill or in the skill line in terms of damage passives or mechanics. So it is a huge self-nerf to take the line on a damage character when you could just slot Assassination and use Spin-to-Win instead (if you need an AOE spammable). That morph should receive execute-scaling and Bone Tyrant needs at least one decent damage passive. Do those things and it becomes more interesting (though never in the meta as long as Assassination, Tome, etc. exist in their current forms).

ESO_Nightingale

YandereGirlfriend wrote: »

MJallday wrote: »

necro doesnt have any spamables that could be compared in terms of DPS output to other classes . maybe im playing it wrong though. advice welcome on this one

Poison Skull is actually pretty good since you can get a lot higher % of your total casts of it buffed with the +50% multiplier.

But Flame Skulls is dogwater and the morph effect is not worth using at all.

Bleed Scythe is tuned the same as most other AOE spammables but it suffers because there is literally nothing either in the skill or in the skill line in terms of damage passives or mechanics. So it is a huge self-nerf to take the line on a damage character when you could just slot Assassination and use Spin-to-Win instead (if you need an AOE spammable). That morph should receive execute-scaling and Bone Tyrant needs at least one decent damage passive. Do those things and it becomes more interesting (though never in the meta as long as Assassination, Tome, etc. exist in their current forms).

Ricochet skull should have half of the 3rd skull bonus active on the 2nd skull imo. So it'd do +25% damage and bounce to 1 other target. That'd make it feel a lot more worth spamming.