Shattered Kingdoms

Theres plenty of buyable jade/stone/gemstone weapons in sk, even obsidian.

If you really believe that then you are have no idea what you're doing as a necro, haha.

Most are either a. useless subtypes, b. difficult to get to, or c. really freaking expensive.

I've resorted to using the only one I know that's really viable. Krychire was good but...well we all know what happened to that.

Yea okay, we've all see you 'rape people' with hoards of undead. How about this, roll a necromancer that never uses more than 6 wraiths or etherealform and see how well you do. And I don't mean attacking people unawares in Teron. Go out to Nerina, Sith'a'Niel and Exile alone with your 6 wraiths and no ethform and see how long you live if anyone bothers to defend.

Oh and there are currently 2-3 darkie sorcs, give in a month or so before they delete THEN do it.

Oh and of course since you are one of the self proclaimed "pro pkers" cut your survival time by a factor of ten for the average necromancer.

Ah, but why do I suggest this when I know your response? "As long as the system is broken I intend to abuse it to its fullest until it gets nerfed" or some load of crap like that, neglecting to test what the consequences of your proposed nerfs would be. And of course never returning to the class after the fact.

I agree with Konrin on this one. It's difficult to balance necros because they either become too weak or too powerful. They really do have a lot of weaknesses. Ranged combat absolutely mains, brutalizes, destroys annihilates, [insert demolition type adjective here] any cloth user that has no way of hiding, healing or going ethereal. Take in account that most stock up on MR due to BoG / holy word damage destroying a class that already has low HP, and yeah, vials become difficult to use. The last thing any class wants to do is remove their armor while being targeted to heal / zap etc.


Not only that, the mana drain on controls is pretty steep. My Delf has max wisdom and 2 controls take around 8% a tick. It drains it really difficult and to the point that even with mastered meditate and trance, I still find myself having difficulty recovering mana, even when sleeping. Tack on the fact that BoG can 1 shot just about any undead no matter how uber it is, unless you enchant their suit of course, then controls become far too risky to use in a mass scale PVP.

Anyways, back on track, the best way I feel to "test" any changes you want to incur, is to actually implement them live yourself. Restrict yourself to that and see how well you do. You can't go slinging things around without testing them first. Although things may look good on paper, not everything works as well as it looks.

I admit my suckiness at pk, but if you need a paladin for "testing" I am willing to help.

You obviously haven't explored the North.

Did some fun testing today, apparently 2 controls = 17 wraiths for concentration on a 22 int character. Even before considering mana drain...yea not worth it.

I'd take one control and 10 animates.

Generally a bad idea to go over 8 + control on a halfling from personal experience.