Interesting ideas, however I think it's very unlikely they would rework the class. In fact, some buffs and changes would make necromancer a lot better, like changing stalking blastbones morph into something actually useful and increasing skulls projectile speed.

make empowering grasp last 10 seconds and not require hitting the summon(last time i used this otherwise useless skill it didnt buff unless they were hit)

This looks like a balancing nightmare, especially in PvP. Answer me this, can the boneflayer be targetted by enemies like blast bones can right now?

Also did you really propose a instant cast heal with a cost of Breath of Life that also removes up to 5 harmful effects per cast with no inherent cooldown to it? Do you really not see any problem with that? As a reference Templars can only remove 5 harmful effects from themselves while allies cleanse all effects but have a 16 second cooldown on that and need to use a synergy. Purge in Alliance War skills is significantly more expensive, has lower range, only cleanses 3 effects and doesn't heal unless you morph into Cleanse which costs almost double the magicka of Breath of Life.

I may be biased towards the current iteration of Necromancers because ZOS seems to have had the same ideas about it as I had in a Necromancer idea thread shortly after Morrowind dropped, so I like the weakness of it not having access to Major Brutality/Sorcery and Savagery/Prophecy (even though I was too shortsighted back then to realize that they can easily get access to both through potions), but I still think it is fitting that Necromancers focus a lot on debuffing enemies rather than buffing themselves. At least you have kept their lack of mobility skills, but I am surprised you have not kept or added any pulls.

Nerfing Boneyard by removing Major Fracture and Breach isn't going to go over well with Necromancer tanks. You'd just force them to use Caltrops instead, which eats up the stam pool that is meant for blocking and taunting. Not to mention all the complaining you would hear from PvE players if they have to set food into PvP again just when Vigor and Rapids were handed to them on a silver platter. And no, Blast Bones is not going to be an alternative to that. You want to have an area effect that sticks around and doesn't need to be recast every 3 seconds or explodes at the edge of your group of enemies.

Necrotic Potency gives Major Heroism on demand to all nearby allies without even needing a corpse or anything at all? Even Minor Heroism would be crazy on a skill like that. This is not balanced.

Also what do you mean "enemies cannot leave the area for 3 seconds"? Aside from potentially causing tons of bugs, are you sure this skill, which has essentially a cooldown of zero seconds and only costs 4050 magicka to cast, is balanced in that state? A skill like that would make Necromancer easily the most hated class in the entire game, topping even Nightblades. Do you really want what I would assume to be your potential favorite class to be the target of all the hate that this skill would induce in PvP?
I will admit it would be pretty fun to use against ballgroups and people who use line of sight around a tree a lot, but that skill is broken beyond belief. Compare that to Time Stop which costs 8100 magicka and is just a stun and has a cast time. This one you cannot even break free or cleanse or cc immunity through. Even as an expensive ultimate this would probably still be too powerful, although if it had to exist anywhere, this is where such a skill would have to exist to be balanced at all.

Oh and then you give allies Minor Prophecy too. I suppose this is one of those "nerf Sorc" threads then? Every class has one unique buff that they bring to trial groups, which is the reason mixing groups is desired over all group members being one class. Templars have minor sorcery, Nightblades have minor savagery, Dragonknights have minor brutality, Sorcerer's have minor prophecy, Wardens have minor toughness and Necromancers have Major Vulnerability. You can't get these buffs to all group members at once through any other way than to bring one of that class to your group. Give Necromancer's the unique Sorc buff and suddenly nobody will be allowed to bring their Sorc to a trial anymore because Necros would just be better Sorcs at that point.

After reading everything, aside from giving ridiculous buffs like Major Heroism to everyone in your group, this Necromancer rework sucks for tanks and healers and has too many skills for damage dealers with too much functional overlap. You can only ever slot 12 skills, you don't need that many damaging skills on there and for healers and tanks there aren't many skills you want to be using.

I'd be giving more constructive criticism here if there wasn't so much wrong here in the first place. That's just how it is.
But to make it brief, should you want to come up with another rework idea keep these in mind:

• Healers want at least one persistent ground-based area healing over time skill, at least one synergy to provide the group with, one unique buff or debuff they can provide the group with (preferably a different one than the damage dealing version of the class has) and the rest is already being covered by Undaunted or Restoration staff abilities so whatever you come up with needs to compete with that or share synergy cooldowns for balance reasons.
• Tanks want a targetted pull that's better than Silver leash and ideally costs magicka or nothing, a sustain tool, Major Resolve, a debuff, at least one synergy, a way to generate ultimate faster. Anything beyond that should help the group deal more damage one way or another, otherwise it's not needed and won't be used. Some people also want an immobilize but that's generally not needed as long as the tank can keep taunt up.
• PvP is complicated and can't be summarized as easily so I'm not gonna, but anything that can in theory deal damage, heal or tank will have some sweetspot between the roles where a good PvP build can exist. They also want crowd control and movement abilities, but it's not always good to give a class everything they want, especially if they can deal a lot of burst damage. But to give you the answer to the first question of my post, anything that can block line of sight is already extremely annoying to deal with in PvP and if you can, as I understand it, have up to three annoying body blocking minions up at the same time and they don't immediately explode, it's broken in PvP.

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What needs to happen to necromancer:
A health cap needs to be added to battle spirit.
Spirit gaurdian should grant the minor protection buff, instead of taking damage or the ghost needs to have a set amount of health. Where if it takes enough damage it dies.

I agree with your assessment of this rework proposal, but I don't agree with what you think needs to happen to Necromancer. A health cap is not needed and without shields or mobility or strong instant self heals that mitigation from Spirit Guardian is all that's keeping you alive. Making the ghost targetable will also just make the problems with it worse because it can suddenly block line of sight and interrupt burst combos.

With the recent nerf to Major Protection we just have to wait for the proc meta to be over and then Necros will probably be a lot more balanced than they are now without needing any adjustments, so I'd say they don't need to be nerfed for now.

Necro, color needs to be changed from dull green to black like


From slow to fast like


And rapid cast times for certain abilities like