New player necro questions
 

Hey peeps just had some questions here, new player starting EQ again used to play in Tallon Zek lightyears ago. Anyways! Are necros still viable in pvp and solo gaming? I've made an ikky necro and remembered that Kunark was a good place to level up in early games from back then. Also I completely forgot and enjoying how much more brutal it is with the learning curves and no maps it is with EQ than these soft new games out there. How does one farm for money early level cause spells seem more expensive now than they were back then, maybe that's just me =p.

Thanks for your future responses, can't wait to start leveling this guy up here.

necros suck dont do that to yourself. farm cracked staves, welcome.

necros are pretty fun. they have high survivability but burst dps is king when it comes to pvp, something necros lack. really hard to finish someone off before they zone plug, hopefully that shit disappears with the next patch.

Yeah necros pretty weak unfortunately. They are gonna be in short supply come Velious when we actually need them to twitch though. :\

id play necro man, get a feel for the server.

When do you ever need a necro to twitch? Would always rather just have another cleric.

Play a shaman buffing 50+ people.

Necros not allowed in Lguk on this server actually.

Necro is great for this server, if you want to play one, play one. I am playing one and having a blast, it's what I played on Vallon Zek and it feels very similar to classic Necro.

That being said, post 50 you're going to get fucked up in pvp. Make sure you get a duo partner or something because a melee is going to maul you. Splurt is going to get dispelled. Jobaber going to get ignored or even worse, feared into mobs. Very classic, oh well.

Also Nujabes is great, I miss him.

Having played a necro for almost a year here, I can tell you with confidence, they simply do not last.

I have seen dozens of necros come and go, often quitting or rerolling.

So here is the advice to make it;

As a necro you are the second best farmer. Charming is absolutely op, get a buddy caster/priest or two and do zones like kaesora, lguk, City of mist and howling stones.

In that time you will smash exp and get good loot for yourself, twinks and friends.

You will not enjoy pvp. Your nukes cost more mana and take longer to cast. Your dots are only useful in group pvp but you often go oom quickly and get focused early.

In group pvp where training is unlikely to occur the best thing to do is pull up a pet for sustained dps. For spells da, dots, a lifetap and shadow step. Use call of bones as it is the same illusion as aon form.

Solo pvp can vary, against casters with low pr you will want to spam poison bolt and ebolt, because of the knock back component. You will want to lifetap dot as well.

Against melee, expect to get raped 1v1 if they carry pumice. Even with shadow step, you need to work so hard to wear so someone down only to get destroyed in a few seconds of melee contact.