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Description
The Necromancer is both dangerous
and powerful, they are among the most feared individuals on Norrath and for good
reason. They specialise in the manipulation of the life force of themselves and
others, with an exceptional talent in controlling the undead. The dark magics
they delve into are considered by the good races to be evil at worst and immoral
at best. They can slow or increase heart rates, cause blood to boil and rip
flesh from still living bodies, and then raise the dead of their 'experiments'
as skeletal minions.
The Necromancer is one of only a
few classes capable of restoring their health by 'leaching' it from their
enemies. They use evil pacts and rituals to drain their own health in return for
mana to cast spells, which often consist of those that produce the said
'leaching'. In addition to gaining health for themselves they possess a variety
of spells for transferring both health and mana to others. Necromancers are
capable of providing enough healing to keep a Warrior alive for a few more
seconds and the mana surge for a healer to cast one last spell.
With their ability to provide an
effective back-up for quite a few roles and despite their usually selfish
motives, they can be a very valuable ally in a group. Necromancers have some of
the most powerful spells of any spell caster, inflicting considerable damage
with spells based on poison and disease. Their skeletal pet can provide an
effective extra combatant, though not a particularly good one at taking hits,
and similar to a Monk both the pet and Necro can feign death (pretend to be
dead) at later levels. Necromancers have one of the widest range of spells of
any class and are very effective alone, with the ability to make an enemy run in
fear, slow its movement and then bombard it with harmful spells. |
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Necromancer Races
Dark Elf, Erudite, Gnome, Human,
Iksar |
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Stats
The races capable of becoming
Necromancers are naturally intelligent and make good use of their
considerable intellect when researching new spells and developing their magical
abilities. The single biggest influence on a Necromancers abilities is their
intelligence statistic and for this reason it should be developed before all
others.
Necromancers have a lot of spells
which convert hit points (physical health) to mana (mental energy), because of
the aggression Necros generate in combat, these spells work most effectively if
they have a fair amount of 'safe space' preventing them always being low on
health. Stamina along with a few other factors, determines a characters
total hit points, raising it can be helpful but still only of secondary benefit
to intelligence.
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Tips
1. The intelligence statistic is
crucial to a Necromancer and at low levels should be increased as highly and as
quickly as possible.
2. Items can be obtained that
increase the natural health regeneration rate of a character, for a
Necromancer who is often losing health at a steady rate while converting it to
mana, they can be very useful.
3. Necromancers are one of the
most hated classes on Norrath, this is often countered by employing others to
help buy your spells and supplies for a small fee, try to keep stocked up on all
the essentials as the fee you'll pay will probably be more then you would buying
supplies from a friendly merchant. (They would be likely to try and make a
profit after all)
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Screenshots
With thanks to Deisyde (Dark Elf),
Sinnester (Dark Elf), Ruschae (Erudite), Cybanecro (Iksar) and Zzyzz (Iksar) of the Karana server
for being the Necromancer screenshot models! |
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Sites
Casters Realm -
http://eq.crgaming.com/menu/necromancer.asp
The Casters Realm area on
Necromancers, includes skill and spell lists, creation and strategy guides,
spell research information and more.
EQ Classes -
http://www.eqclasses.com
Though the name is a little
misleading, this community site is dedicated to Necromancers. Includes many
useful guides, spell list and forums.
NecroGnomicon -
http://www.necrognomicon.com/
A site dedicated to EverQuest and
more specifically Gnomes who are Necromancers in EverQuest.
Necromancer's Realm -
http://necrorealm.gotdns.com/
A great place for Necromancers both
new and old, loads of Necromancer related information and very active forums to
converse with fellow Necros.
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Comments |
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1 comments listed at this time, if you would
like to add yours please use the form below. |
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User: anon
Comment: Link for casters
realm goes to warrior page, not necromancer page
Response:
Link corrected, thanks! |
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