Spell Bar - 54 Necro

[ghost182]

Just started playing on P99 again after a little break back in September. Memory & mechanics are bit rusty, but after a few days grouping in Karnors Castle I decided to move to Howling Stones Basement.

So far the XP is killer, but just wanted to get some feedback on what spells most people are using. I've never gotten a necro this high before, but the practice charm killing in Tower of Frozen Shadows definitely is coming back and has been a big help.

Currently I'm using:

1. Screaming Terror (mez)
2. Paralyzing Earth (root)
3. Thrall of Bones (charm)
4. Deflux (lifetap)
5. Splurt (dot)
6. Bond of Death (lifetap dot)
7. Harmshield (invulnerability)
8. Feign Death


So pretty much that's my bar, I keep Shield of the Magi up, and Lich of course. Generally I don't DoT, it's mostly just charm and send pet on packs of mobs, back pet up as i root mobs and fight things in series of 1v1 battles. I kill my pets with deflux now but before that I was having a hard time finishing off pets with no fast cast spells

My questions:

Is Manaskin a must use? Reagents are expensive.

Now that I have Deflux, should I still use Bond of Death?

Is Rest the Dead (lull) worth using?

Is Harmshield a waste of a spell slot?

Should I Splurt when mana permits or just let the pets do their thing?

Does anyone use some of the undead-only roots/fears or quicker cast CC? spook the dead is only 3 ticks and casts very fast for only 10 mana. Hungry(?) Earth is a nice little root too. Is that short duration fear just to dangerous? is it not worth soaking up 2 spell slots for a 2nd root thats undead only for just .5 sec faster casting

Does anyone use some of the darkness lines, like the lower level ones just for safety/insurance?

Thanks for any and all feed-back. It's a class with an overwhelming amount of options compared to the rangers i previously played, and coming back to a lvl 54 necro is much tougher than starting from lvl 1.