Mages and necros are a lot different, granted both are pet classes.
I'd have to say that prior to level 34 mages are superior in soloing, but once 34 hits and a necro has dooming darkness, venom of snake, and invoker fear along with call of bones they really start to take off.
Once a necro hits 49 nothing solos better just do to lack of downtime via lich.
At 60 a necro has better potential in farming just due to demi-lich.
Both have their roles, mages and necros are both mana bots in a way because they'll make a lot of rods while necros pass a lot of mana. Some will say being a manabot is worthless, but you know what, I'm a fan of winning and a cleric with mana is winning.
In velious, necros will really start to shine even more because fights last longer than theyd do now with the 32k hp cap on bosses.
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