Yeah beats me, the entire class doesn't feel like a Necromancer at all, more a dark sorcerer or something like that. I'd love to have a permanent pet like the Sorc/Warden has that does special things based on the attacks I do. But that would mean that ZOS would actually need to put in some proper work on the Necro and that just won't happen... I wish it would but... myeah...

To be honest, I have always suspected that ZOS reversed the styles of Sorc and Necro.

Necro should be the guy who uses pets. Forming an army through skeletons, zombies, and ghosts is Necro's style.
Sorc is more like a magic user who uses his power to control Daedric, using dark magic, lightning, and occasionally controlling Daedric to serve himself.

But ZOS reverses the two, so we see Sorc constantly asking for a pet-free style, while Necro wants more pets.

I’ve spoken my mind about necromancers on quite a few post over the past few years. And I ask this same question concerning more minions on a necro.

I read an article somewhere (around the time necromancer was released as a class) that ZoS didn’t go the permanent pet route because they wanted to try something different from most other games necromancer class’s and that they didn’t want to step on the sorcerer’s pet theme.

If you ask me, that was a bad move. The class as it is now is a pale imitation of what a real necromancer is. Even the NPC necromancer’s are better necros than the class. They can at least summon one permanent pet AND buff them with that beam skill they attach to their minions. And some can summon flesh and skeleton atronachs that actually move around and attack instead of smashing the ground for a few seconds and disappearing. Don’t get me started on Blastbones. Our archer/mage “pets” are nothing more than glorified dots. Who ever came up with this idea should really research what a necromancer really does in fantasy. When I think necromancer, I think:
- Summoning undead and empowering them.
- Damage over Time like curses, poison, and or diseases.
- MELEE and range pets.
- Some type of cold fire or blue flame attacks.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, I’m extremely disappointed with this class. I really wanted to like it. I really did. It is my favorite class in RPGs. I even bought or earned every emote, personality, and motifs associated with necromancers. But as it stands, this class isn’t even a necromancer.

Necro fnatasy in eso is quite something.

We had been in soul cairn several times troughtout the series, and soul cairn is the place in oblivion where powerful necromancers derive its power from. Necromancer's that commune with Ideal Masters, supposed lords of the plane, have a powerful summons and a ways to control souls no other petty conjurer have.

Its a shame ESO didnt expanded on this aspect of elder scrolls necromancers, instead to be tied to soul cairn, they seem to made them derive their power from coldharbour and molag bal, and, while its resonable, cuz molag also gives necrotic power to his followers, it would make more sense to player character to not rely on him, cuz he steals our soul and basicly an antagonist of a main game story.

And while its not directly stated, that our character necro uses coldfire as a sourse of his power, thematicly its obvious, color scheme of a skills clearly tells that our fire spells is indeed coldfire. And a flesh atronachs is the ones from coldharbour, made by molag bal's flesh sculptors.

And while necros colors look coldharboury, mechanicly however their spells looks like they are learned from soul cairn. If you remeber Skyrim, you CAN actually sumon powerful undead from oblivion,and that what we see with ESO necros where our undead is SUMMONED, not raised.

I guess they wont change lore aspect of necro, but having an expantion of class lore in the game would be something that brings a lot of attention (and players money) in.