I have never seen a screenshot that shows deflux doing anything except 219 in pvp. 219 was a number that haunted necros because it was all a melee or a wizard had to outdamage to kill a necro.
Necros are different here for a variety of reasons, the biggest being that the pvp intelligence of this community is abnormally high compared to on live, when people were dumb and didn't have backpacks full of golem wands, didn't know what to do with a pet, and in general were morons that stood and fought instead of gate and come back later.
But the biggest issue is that people are misremembering things, and Necros were never that hot to begin with. From 1-49 Necros were indeed bad ass, and that's where they got much of the "OH MY GOD NERF" rants on pvp boards. Then Kunark came out and Necros blew ass. Velious was no better. Gimpy pet, shitty dots with long casting times that got cured or even worse, just ignored because you could kill a necro before they did any real damage.
Necros simply were not very good from Kun-Vel unless you had a huge gear/level advantage AND you got the jump on someone. It's sad but it is true. On Vallon Zek the necro population plummeted during Kunark and Velious, and many rerolled rogues and monks. You could do a /who all 60 nec and get like 3 people if that, most were being used to plevel guildies or just on to summon corpses.
Some legit Necro bugs that need to be fixed are pets still are not innately dual wielding, which means you have to carry around bags of daggers. This causes the Spec pet to not DW and thus hit for even worse damage than he already does. In addition, pet haste spell is bugged and only lasts 6 minutes, which isn't classic either. Bot have been bug reported for months and not been addressed.
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