1. Boneyard not casting consistently. About 1 in 3-4 casts of boneyard simply does not work. Instead you'll only light attack for whatever reason, and it will take another gcd or two of you hitting the boneyard key for it to finally work. Happens with all morphs. If you've done any parsing with mag necro for a good amount of time, you're probably extremely familiar and frustrated with this bug. I have not yet been able to complete a full raid dummy parse without this happening multiple times.
2. Siphon both not hitting bosses (all bosses in SS for example) and just deciding not to activate at times. You've probably also noticed this if you've parsed a lot with mag necro. Often instead of consuming the corpse directly in front of you, your character will turn on it's own and attempt to consume the corpse to the side of you, but for some reason the corpse consumption doesn't actually fire, and you miss a gcd trying to activate Siphon. Clearly there is some attempt to use Siphon on the corpse since your character turns and faces it, but for whatever reason it just doesn't work.
3. Blastbones and it's inconsistencies. In melee range you can use Blastbones every third gcd, but even this is only really reliable on a dummy. Often you are waiting another GCD even though you're on top of a target for Blastbones to explode so that you can cast another. Beyond that, the damage that you lose when Blastbones is only usable every 4th gcd or worse, 5th gcd, is substantial enough that at medium range you will be doing less damage than all other magicka dps classes/specs even including your own major vulnerability. We're already losing dps (and sustain) in trials by not being able to use Siphon on bosses, but things get even worse with Blastbones forcing you even further behind every other class if you're not in melee range.
4. Sustain in general. It's terrible without Siphon, even as Breton, and the inconsistency of Siphon plus your reliance on it for sustain makes this a major pain point IMO. I'm having a much harder time sustaining than I ever did on magblade.
5. Self heals/mitigation. This is an area where dps mag necro falls behind in a group situation. You have absolutely no passive self heal while DPSing (like magblade with funnel/siphoning and now bow proc, sorc with power surge and blood magic passive, warden with the bond with nature passive, or even magplar with purifying light) which means that if you want to heal yourself in any capacity during a trial/dungeon, you absolutely must slot a heal. Major ward/resolve is also not something you'll receive passively (like magblade, along with it's self heals, lol) so your incoming damage will be higher than some other magicka dps in trials unless you're receiving ward/resolve from another source, like warden's frost cloak. I believe that mag necro is the only class that has absolutely no way to passively heal itself while dpsing. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure I went over everything to confirm this.
6. Touching on the point above, the mender as a self heal, or a reliable heal in general. It sucks. It does absolutely nothing for two seconds after you cast it, might not heal you when it does finally heal, and then you have to wait another two seconds for it to finally heal you. Compared to Vigor, it's terrible. Vigor heals immediately, heals every second, and is guaranteed to heal yourself and everyone around you. The mender heals one person, might not even heal you, and doesn't do a thing for two seconds. I learned this the hard way trying to slot it as a self heal in trials and dungeons, where instead of getting a heal from it, I just ended up standing there spamming my shield. Neat. At the very least it needs to heal as soon as you cast it, or no later than one second after. It's just too unreliable otherwise.
7. Extremely backloaded damage. The huge increase sub 25% from the crit chance buff means that to reach your maximum dps potential you need to run some bloodthirsty jewelry and sacrifice some up front damage for that huge dps increase you get during execute. It doesn't sound so bad on paper but with everyone running bloodthirsty jewelry and possibly having a class execute for a huge amount of dps sub 25, execute phases in dungeons and trials are so short that you hardly benefit from the sub 25 crit buff. The problem is that due to the insane execute dps (115-120k on the trial dummy), necro dps kind of has to be relatively weak until you hit execute. Some balance in this area would be nice.
8. Weak DPS in general. Pretty self explanatory. Barely competitive with an absolutely perfect rotation in melee range, including major vulnerability. Easily the worst magicka dps if not in melee range.

Tasear wrote: »

What are your pain points?

*Mine is Rez ultimate is so very situational that negate might actually be better. Wish it did something with enemy corpses too so could be used even if you haven't failed as healer.