Two years have passed since necromancers have been added to the game and have done the best they could to make combat feel just as bad as their class design.

At first this was more or less a stamina necromancer issue only, the magicka counterpart lacked offensive presence but still managed to ruin your day by being more tanky than any other spec in the game.
Stamnecro of course had major defile spreading homing missiles, access to major protection on a regular skill and inherited the rest of necromancers overtuned defensive options.

For almost one and a half years fighting a stamina necromancer ment that either no one would die or the person not playing necro would die, the spec was blatantly op.
Fighting a magnecro ment that the only way the fight could end was a sudden heart attack of one of the combatants.

Then during the "Dark Heart of Skyrim" the devs unleashed a harrowstorm of proc into the game that made magnecro from one day to another an incredibly threatening spec that abused full damage builds while still being more tanky than any other class could have ever dreamed about.

With changes to major and minor buffs the extraordinary power of necromancers took a hit, major protection wasn't as overperforming as it has been for ages and major defile didn't allow you to be a death bringing machine without any offensive investment.

But then the CP 2.0 system was introduced and along with it every character got a free 1000 weapon and spell damage bonus.
Those changes resulted in 2 things first of all, everyone lost loads of mitigation while damage stayed relatively high.
And here comes the catch, Necromancers have such high mitigation from the get go that they're now once again defensive overlords compared to any other spec in the game, the free 1000 damage have furthered those issues as the three most overpowered skills necromancers have access to (blastbones, Mender and mortal coil) all have an amazing scaling with weapon and spell damage, additionally % damage buffs like the previously laughably weak buff from stalking blastbones don't get watered down by multiplicative damage buffs from the old CP system.

To sum this paragraph up in one sentence: Everyone lost mitigation while necromancers kept enough mitigation to survive and gained enough damage to be an extreme threat.


Deciding which class to play has yet again be reduced to the question: Do you want to be as powerful as you want and if you do, do you want to be a magicka or stamina necromancer?


The worst part about this whole situation is that necromancer is the worst designed class in the entire game, there is no gameplay design behind it as the class is Frankenstein's monster build with a few overperforming skills and buffs that are sewn together with horribly bad skills that have no place in the game.

The overperforming skills I'm talking about are of course blastbones, Spirit mender and healing tether, necrotic potency, along with bone goliath as an overperforming ultimate and passives like disdain harm, rapid rot, buff wise necromancers are the only class with access to major vulnerability.
Other passives like undead Confederate or corpse consumption are also stronger than the equivalents of other classes.

Other skills like scythe, skulls, grave grasp, totem are horribly weak compared to other skills.
This leads to necromancers using the same skills with no variance at all as even picking a single of those skills means a huge loss im efficiency.


The only way to make necromancer actually balanced and fun to play is a complete rework of the class that frees it from the bane of being forced to have 1 defensive, 1 offensive and 1 healing skill line, while also establishing a whole new gameplay design for the class that completely differs from the rest of all other classes.

Until that happens please delete Necromancers from the game.