Necromancer Class? It's more possible than you think.

jonsku — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:40:37 GMT

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.

Necromancer Class? It's more possible than you think.

Empi3 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:40:36 GMT

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

Necromancer Class? It's more possible than you think.

Empi3 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:40:35 GMT

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

Necromancer Class? It's more possible than you think.

Geckomyecho — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:40:34 GMT

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.

Necromancer Class? It's more possible than you think.

dietx — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:40:33 GMT

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

Necromancer Class? It's more possible than you think.

dixzer — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:40:32 GMT

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. :)

Necromancer Class? It's more possible than you think.

Xanthum — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:40:31 GMT

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.

Necromancer Class? It's more possible than you think.

Kimimaro — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:40:30 GMT

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.

Necromancer Class? It's more possible than you think.

healjunky — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:40:29 GMT

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

Necromancer Class? It's more possible than you think.

Kody — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:40:28 GMT

Great ideas so far -- keep 'em coming! :)

Necromancer Class? It's more possible than you think.

CombatReady — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:40:27 GMT

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.

Necromancer Class? It's more possible than you think.

Geckomyecho — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:40:26 GMT

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 :)

Necromancer Class? It's more possible than you think.

Kody — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:40:25 GMT

Sadly (or not, depending on your excitement for the class), the Death Knight is getting Death and Decay (it was one of their staple spells from Warcraft II), so I doubt it'd be a candidate for the Necromancer class.

That said, the Necromancer does feel like it would be heavily related to disease-based Area Effect spells, raising dead units, etc. I think they could fit in perfectly fine, even with Warlocks, since the Warlock class is more into demonic magics than anything else.

Necromancer Class? It's more possible than you think.

Akrim — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:40:24 GMT

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..

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evilgenius134 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:40:23 GMT

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