It's not what I hoped for, but the stam variety is fun and powerful. Mag is trash, clunky and underpowered. The corpse targeting mechanic is finicky and glitchy, and I'd rather it were automatic. I agree the class seems less than fully baked after so long in development.

i'm resigned to agree with you slightly.

my thoughts:
1) healer
Nothing particularly unique. they have a lot of good synergies to give alkosh, and a 3 person rez during progression runs is nothing to sneeze at. Also the ultigen with the soul eater skill is super good and fun. So much so that if you found yourself in a support comp with 2 necros, I bet 1 could not even slot warhorn and still have 100% uptime on it. Which is cool. Have to actually experiment though, just what i've seen. Healing skills are fun, but just not as economically viable as other classes. I'm conflicted on whether to "main" it or not since i was so sick of templar i made it a magplar and then haven't been nejoying healing since... I might just do it because it's what i like. but support roles are wayyyyyyyyyyyy harder to determine how they're doing since they don't have a flat measure like dps.

2) magdps
sucks. Fix blastbones, ricochet is mediocre, and the hallmark of bad magdps classes is lacking an execute, so...

3) stamdps
apparently BiS. it's definitely fun, and i'm enjoying leveling him so far. the number of stamina morphs they made for the necro is definitely a huge step in a good direction for future class design / reworks. I'm having trouble finding what the aesthetical goal is though. like for magcro it's vanilla your basic Necromancer with bone dark magic shaman abilities.. is stamcro like the same thing but more based on poison and decay? Like, you're using your body energy as a conduit to summon undeath rather than mental energy? What's the theme? Underwater? I jest, it's not that bad, just my only complaint for it so far

4) tankcro
I dunno i haven't made one yet! but all my hardcore guildies and people i know and have connections with are making these above all else because apparently the prediction is these will be meta offtanks or something, possibly even replacement main tanks if they get buffed.

speaking of, when is the first time we'll be getting adjustments on necro? is that really next dungeon dlc pack?

I've played the Necro class in EQ, EQ2, DAoC, Age of Conan, and other single player games. For myself, this iteration is the weakest that I've seen. It feels more Warden-esque, with annoying gimmicks and time delays, than anything.

I..just don't feel like a master of the undead. Or even a neophyte.

I'm going to take it to 50, get some gear, then do some different content to see how it pans out at that time. Maybe by then there will be some tweaks to make it beefier, and less reliant on a 4th resource for performance.

Imperial_Voice wrote: »

This isnt a "boo necro" thread. Its a class balance thing. Necro underperforms in every area except tanking.

Your thread title reads, "Anyone else finding Necromancer underwhelming?", and people are answering you. In fact, your OP was a "boo necro" post. You can always make a new thread with a more specific topic, with guidelines in your post about the material you want to discuss.

Glad it's not just me.

MagNecro in particular feels weaksauce. StamNecro seems rather better.

I'm not surprised they are underwhelming. The class design in general is lacking any identity. Two tether skills one healing and 1 dps, a wraith that tethers as well. We get it.. you like tethers.

Cliche skull throw skill, conjuring a graveyard? Honestly?

Blast bones is shalks from warden only interuptable and killable

If this is the best you can come up we should all be dissatisfied.

Necros are watered down summoners at best and hardly the plague bringer that it should be.

Ya'll are crazy, magnecro is op and I'm destroying everything in PvE and I easily dominate in PvP.

I finally wanted to try a magicka character and I keep seeing stamcro is better.

The only reason I'm playing magcro is there's only so many characters I care to have as stam because all of them just plays the same with a bow backbar and have to farm pvp for the same skills... there's hardly any identity.

Mag is more diversified with the exception of elemental blockade for thematic purposes or just fun, but I admit, magcro is a bit clunky requiring more setup with its skills.

stamcro is mad fun im having a blast, just want those fixes and improvements is all

I dont get why many player say necro feel like a weak sorc. Nothing in their toolkit works like anything a sorc does.

First sorc have permanant pets.

Second, petless sorc spam elemental weapon fishing for crystal frag proc while keeping 2 slots for skills that passively give stats.

And they have one of the best execute.

Magnec temporary pets only. They are forced to be in melee range to lower the travel time of blasting bones, you dont fish for proc but instead work with timers.

PvP sorc have the best mobility while necro have the worst one.

They really do not feel the same and play totaly differently. The only look alike skill is liquid lightning vs graveyard. But you still need a corps on necro.