thilly billy

Played a necro on live for the longest but never a mage, I am saving myself for the iksar necro personally. Atm from what i hear from everyone else mages are superior but at 50 I couldn't say so thats why I am taking the time to level a mage now since I have never played one before.

On my 19 necro at least, my pet drops hit points about as fast as I do. Straight-up tanking is out of the question on anything above light blues. On the other hand, I've heard mages complain that they have to memorize a low level nuke so the pet doesn't steal most of the XP, because they can kill most efficiently just healing their pet.

Fear-kiting isn't particularly viable, either. Mob flee speed is much too fast. For me at least, agro-kiting seems to yield the best results as a necro.