[Bubbles]

Baalzy absolutely nailed this out of the park, but i'll add two small tidbits.

1. ) Necros shine the brightest in smaller raids. For example, taking a couple groups into Fearplane or Hateplane post-50, having a pair of necros twitching, bi-pactings, bonding, and dpsing not only will shed all concept of downtime (outside of smoke breaks), Clerics will seriously load nukes out of sheer boredom once buffs are done.

2. ) Expanding on the small-raid idea, along with all the pre-kunark raiding madness, necros do one thing that *NO* other class can : heal people kiting adds, and simply feigning off any potential aggro, allowing the kiter to continue his kite without ever needing to slow down or (thank god) re-aggro any of the train off a healer.

Believe me when i say that knowing your necro role on a raid will get you on the xmas list of any druid/bard/ranger/monk whatever stuck with kite duty.