In my opinion, a Necromancer should be able to rise people from death. I don't mean your party members but to rise an ally from a death corpse and it will fight for you, like in Diablo 2.

it's sure there will be more than just 1 hero class. i'm looking forward to all of them =j

yeah. that would do nicely. and as a profession the possibility to create voodoo dolls xD

yea thats a good idea, but the death night will be able to summon up ghouls and other undead units from warcraft 3, right? so the necromancer will prob do wat u said and arise a dead corpse to do ur bidding. the necromancer will obviously be shadow (der), and will prob were cloth. it should come from the lock i think, and all undead and all humans (cause undead were corrupt and humans were plauged by Kel'Thuzad) and priest. So its all priests, warlocks, and if u wanna go into races i think humans and undead.

Something like "Dark Heal" would be cool, maybe to like heal your minions (only) and damage an any with it.

I wouldn't mind seeing something like "Consume" where you consume your minions to make you temporarily powerful. Like lets say you consume your undead skeleton - thus you get maybe a bonus to armor, or maybe you consume a ghoul - maybe a bonus to your spell damage.

EDIT: Im not saying Consume as in eating, consume as maybe their energy >.<

And last, it'd be cool too see a nice offensive spell that you see alot of the boss' use. Something called "Black hole" or something to that matter, that makes an AOE target on the ground that can deal damage if they stand on it.

Thats my bit :D

Definitely some kind of plague cloud, DoT damage for people while standing in it. Would be a nice
addition to both arenas and large scale pvp. And some useful safe and unique AoE. :)

I like the idea of undead minions like a pet class. They work well in City of Villans and given the warcraft touch, they could be a very cool addition.
Corruption is a warlock spell, but fits with the class.
You could almost make them shaman like and have spirits to boost or sheild, like totems.

It might be interesting to see an in combat "rez" where you could resurrect ppl in your party or raid and they would come back temporarily as a skelly or something like that. Maybe like a 30 second cooldown. You could have any ally that fell in a boss fight at least doing something to help out and not be so bored. :P

I think it would make sense that if the Necromancer died then the "rezzed" players would go down too. The skelly's wouldn't have much hp, but with a 30 second cooldown or there abouts you could keep bringing them back if it were a longer fight.

i would love to see a necro class based off of the necromancer moves from diablo 2 i am a die hard D2 fan played it for a long time before WoW and i used a necro most of the time

if you ask me, necromancer would just be a straight upgrade from warlock. the class ideals are so much alike that i don't really see how a necromancer class would fit in WoW with warlocks already running about.

That being said, if necromancer did make it into the game, they'd have to be able to have more than one pet out at a time (probably three maximum), and I think using an aoe cloud, as mentioned, would be a good idea. The earlier WC RTS games already have a spell for that too, and I've seen it used on me in Shadowmoon Valley, called Death and Decay. Target aoe spell, cast similar to flamestrike.

Just my 2cp.

i agree with combat. we already have warlock, and with the death night coming out, i dont rlly c the need for necromancer

just have the locks learn these spells 71-80

they should make a witch docter or somethin :)

hi all,

as already said the Rune Warrior and the Necromancer were planned for the original World of Warcraft..
so whats the Death Knight? I think its a mix between both classes .. the death knight uses runes for his abilities and has dark spells to call skeletal minions like a necromancer..

On the american forums they are heading to the direction that the necromancer for gameplay urposes should not be similar to the warlock or hunter as they are both high DPS cc ranged attackers

Some people are stating that they be hybrid buff/melee hybrid

they will deal a small amount of damage from several/many summoned minions and they can be sacrificed and brought back to form buffs or debuffs to help the raid/group, they would not focus on DOT or DD damage but would be more of mass attack, not like a mage and conjure some dots bleeding effects and poison (shadow poison)

If blizz implement anything like that i would defeinately look into it

i agree with healjunkie. i was and still am a die hard D2 LoD player. my first class was the necro. i dunno how i would feel about low damage though coming from a mage main in WoW and the fact that necros were very powerfull in D2. but putting a lower maximum number of summoned creatures would be a deffinate must, as much as it would suck. some places jsut couldnt handle the mess of adding more npc's or players running around. but i also agree that they would be similar to the lock and the mage. they were based on DoTs and AoE effects, curses and bone (arcane now) spells. and as far as the lock being demonic, what is not demonic about raising the dead and controlling them? the necro is just as "dark" as a warlock.

I agree with geko on this one... i don't see this adding that much more to the game that a warlock doesn't already do...

What first came to my mind is the Druid ability that summons 3 Treents. Do something similar with the necromancer and summon 3 skeletons that only last x-seconds/minutes.
Something similar to the soul shard system would probably be the root of their summoning ability with the possibility of requiring a dead body nearby as well. It would be interesting for different corpses to have different abilities, like hunter pets, etc. only your minion wouldn't last as long as a hunter pet and would probably be more disposable. Could throw an interesting twist on things.

Imagine resurrecting your opponent in battlegrounds and pitting them against their former team mates.

Looks cool...but most of the ideas so far either make it an uber-warlock (which is seriously unnecessary) or a Guild Wars necromancer ripoff. I would like to see this happen, but I wanna see some innovation, too.

Well, there were funny necro-like classes in Dark Age of Camelot.

one could summon a strong minion, and change into a shadowform that was intangible until his minion was killed. He could cast most of his spells only through his minion and once this Pet was killed, he was almost dead (loosing like 80% of his health when his soul linked minion died).

The other one was a bone dancer. He had one Commander Pet and up to 3 Minion Pets if my memory serves me right. He could choose between support minions and dmg dealing minions and his commander minion as well as himself got healed and buffed by support minions. He also had a set of spells involving bone channeling, debuffs and drains.

Both classes were fun to play and even more fun to battle in pvp until the next addon made them near worthless.

Something along those lines would be fun. The idea to cast 2 minute Pets + some 30 second pets and maybe one strong main pet or a golem (like D2 as we all know) would be fun as well. What do you think about the approach that DAoC had on necro classes?