Necromaner class refresh

brandsnipe · February 2

I know warden is next and necro is further down the road, but this is the class that needs the most help. I've brainstormed some ideas that might help bringing necro up. I don't like the corpse mechanic because it makes the class a micromanagement nightmare, but adding corpse generation to boneyard and it's morphs would make the class less clunky. Adding the ability for necros to extend the duration of summons using corpses would also be nice and could play into the corpse mechanic pretty well.

Here are some ideas i have for necro changes:
-avid boneyard spawns corpes every 2-3 seconds for 10-15 seconds with the skill being a larger radius.
-passive/skill that consuming corpses extends the duration of summons
-spirit guardian only targets you for healing and is the base skill with intensive mender being a morph and a knew morph called "ghostly knight" which turns this healing summon into a knight that gives enemies a debuff.
-grave grasp morph that turns into a single target root/stun
-summoners armor increasing the duration? With beckoning armor giving major or minor maim to pulled targets
-one of the skeletal mage morphs summons 2 skeletons.
-replave the rapid rot passive, this passive does not synergize with the class kit.
-A passive to turn undead NPC enemies into an ally? Ghosts, skeleton, zombie, etc

There is so much that can be done to improve necro and over the years i have seen a lot of greats ideas in the forums. This class needs a rework instead of a refresh. I like how DK was refreshed, and i have no doubt that this team will do it's best with necro.

nightbringer1993 · February 3

After four years of nerfs the class feels like a scam nowadays and is being discriminated in game.

The fact that ZOS placed it last on refresh(if not counting arcanist)and refused to listen to their players concerning the blastbone change and buff proposals shows that they don’t care or even hate the class.

If they hate or don’t care about the class then why did they release it in the first place. A 12.99€ class that is not playable is a scam.

Horny_Poney · February 3

Unfortunately ZOS doesn’t want us to generate more corpses nor extend their duration, so I don’t think the refresh will improve the class.

Plusscher · February 4

I honestly given up hope that necro will ever be even half decent again, I expect them to add some sort of channeled ability, aka beam, and call it a day on the refresh (which would be so utterly disgusting that might just make me uninstall the game for good).

After how they dealt with the class, a paid class mind you, not functioning in the live game for months (the corpse bug), and now goliath bashing also bugged because of animation updates, I do not see any future for the class. It's like they go out of their way to make it as miserable for any of the remaining 10 necro enjoyers and it is humanly possible.

Enjoy while it lasts as buggy as it is I suppose (which will last quite a while, since they are absolutely not in a hurry to fix the mess they've created).