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Necromancer
DoTs ticking on every target forever.
DoT-stacking pet-class caster. Necromancers solo better than any other class, rez in zones that shouldn't have rez, feign-pull like an SK, and stack disease/poison/magic DoTs higher than anyone else's damage curve.
Races
HumanEruditeGnomeDark ElfIksar
Strengths
- ·Best soloist in the game — fear-kiting, dot-cycling
- ·Call of the Hero (zone-summon) for group wipe-recovery
- ·Feign Death
Weaknesses
- ·DoTs are ramp damage; no burst
- ·Fragile caster mitigation
Key abilities by level
12
Feign Death
Solo and pull tool.
19
Siphon Strength line
STR debuff stack and lifetap.
34
Pet Summon (Emissary of Thule line)
Pet pulls and off-tanks in group.
49
Envenomed Bolt
Burst nuke off the DoT rotation. Mana-expensive.
65
Call of the Hero
Summon a group-member to zone. Critical raid-recovery utility.
Gearing by era
Classic
Flowing Black Silk Sash; BRD/NEC silk armor; Staff of the Serpent.
Kunark
Epic 1.0 (Scythe of the Shadowed Soul).
Velious
ToV/NToV class armor; faction-awarded staves.
PoP
Elemental/Time class armor; Primal scythe from Time.
Spell lists by level are a large piece of research and will roll in per-class as they're compiled. For the moment the abilities table above carries the signal.