Necromancer Raid Role - Page 3

Stormhowl · #1 06-29-2011, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by quellren [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Seriously, necros: do you truly enjoy bombing all your mana and HP onto OTHER RAIDERS, and being the 'oh shit button' to FD and /q when shit goes badly? Even then your job is to be the clerics bitch. Blow a 500+ pp essence emerald rezzing a cleric so the 'real classes' can get back up and the raid can continue? LoL Suckers.

Some of you should really try raiding with less batteries and more DPS. It's P awesome.

1) Your experiences, preferences, and opinions on a class and what is or is not enjoyable about it do not reflect the opinions of others, and some people may *GASP!* find something fun where you find no enjoyment at all. Such as being a mana battery, spot healer, and the like.

2) I can't remember a time in ANY MMO I've ever played where the cost of an ability (e.g., Essence Emeralds) or consumable (e.g., potions) was solely on the person playing the class and not up to the guild to help cover the costs of at least a few for raiding purposes only. If the guild isn't helping to front the costs of Sacrifices (or providing sacrifices themselves) and still expects the Necromancer to rez during a raid CR, then the guild is doing its own members a disservice, and it becomes less about "us", which is what a guild should be about.

3) Calling people "scrubs" because you have a differing viewpoint is both counter-productive to making your point, and immature. Why are such jabs at people necessary?

*ahem* At any rate, with the limited experience I had with raiding (PoFear for my Shaman epic, some Chardok raids), Necros were, as others have said, the "swiss army knife". Spot healing, ghetto mez, and mana battery to help make things smoother, while at the same time putting out some DPS through pet and Lifetaps. They're far from useless in a raid setting, IMO, but my experience is... limited. :P

Nagash · #2 06-30-2011, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by quellren [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

To all the scrubs above:

Nah I'm not bad, I just realized that necros are a wasted raid spot if you have competent players and quit at 56 after spectating too many raids where my presence was completely extraneous. I now happily regularly contribute to a raid force as a contributory class.

Seriously, necros: do you truly enjoy bombing all your mana and HP onto OTHER RAIDERS, and being the 'oh shit button' to FD and /q when shit goes badly? Even then your job is to be the clerics bitch. Blow a 500+ pp essence emerald rezzing a cleric so the 'real classes' can get back up and the raid can continue? LoL Suckers.

Some of you should really try raiding with less batteries and more DPS. It's P awesome.

What you say is like saying "driving with a safety belt on is for suckers" (and that's assuming necro's sole role is fd - rez, which it isn't). Good luck on the roads bro.

Bubbles · #3 06-30-2011, 05:19 AM

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.

Tiggles · #4 06-30-2011, 05:33 AM