To all those saying a necromancer class would be against the lore:

If you don't want to play as a necromancer, that is okay. But there are many people who want this class in the game, or skill line, or guild skill line, or by spellcrafting. This class or at least the option to play as a necromancer was expected to come with the launch of the game. Most people said they would add a necromancer shortly after with the updates.

Well, here we are TWO years later and we're still waiting for a necromancer. It's just logical that we can play as one, the game is plagued by them, ZoS can invent whatever they want to make it lore-wise.

So it is against the rules to summon a skeleton, but it is okay to be a Vampire, or a Werewolf, or even summon creatures from Oblivion with Daedric Summoning. Is that your only reasoning against a necromancer class? really?

Have you ever played games like Age of Conan? Necromancer was a perfectly balanced class. Hell, they can add any class or skill line they want and make it balanced, they know what they're doing, they are the developers, not the people in this forum.

And no, nightblade "siphoning" is not necromancy, sorcerer "daedric summoning" is not necromancy. We're talking about debuff skills, about reanimating corpses and summoning undead creatures, which bodies are filled with souls extracted from the depths of Coldharbour. A headless zombie, a skeleton archer, you get the thing.

Personally i want the option to be there. If there is people who don't want to play it, simply don't. You can keep playing the same classes you've been playing for 2 years if you like.

I expect this class to land of the game with the Dark Brotherhood expansion or later in this year, but yes this is the year we will finally have necromancy. The only thing i want is that they get it done right.

I don't think necromancy fits because it was banned by the mages guild, wasn't it? And we work pretty closely with the mages guild throughout the storyline

Enodoc wrote: »

Lightninvash wrote: »

all I have to say to add to this conversation is when the game starts you are in jail... no one knows for what truly could be you are a bad guy or were a bad guy/necromancer imprisoned for being bad. then be broken out of jail and switch sides but have all the former darker side knowledge and skills... Plot twist o.o

That's the start of Oblivion; at the start of ESO, you're trapped in Coldharbour, because Mannimarco killed you and stole your soul. ESO is actually the only TES game where the circumstances leading up to the game's start are known.

but just because Mannimarco murders you & sucks out your soul doesn't mean you were a good person to begin with, right?

Necromancer is just a puny sub-class, yo'all just joining this herd that shouts for Necro class without even thinking it through. I've written numerous posts about it and how it shouldn't be a fresh new class, rather a new ability tree, which would be fine.

I think the easiest way to express my thought is that ESO's classes are more complex than in other MMOs, meaning that one class here stands up for several more - each class can do several things. What would Necromancer class do? Summon things and possibly ressurect dead bodies, that's it. There's nothing more to it, what a perfect class for clueless people who just wanna run around with 20 pets.

As much as I am for all kinds of new content and classes, Necromancer is just such a bad idea for a class compared to other classes that we currently have.