Resists

[Atarius]

Fighting mobs 3 lvls lower than myself and just had two of them resist me 4 times in a row on snare and fear. Pretty awesome stuff.

[Bubbles]

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

Fighting mobs 3 lvls lower than myself and just had two of them resist me 4 times in a row on snare and fear. Pretty awesome stuff.

Note that Fear and Snare are really the *only* two spells you can potentially use that have a MR check. Both are horribly mana inefficient, and tbh the darkness line is probably the only spell you'll ever cast as a necro and go "wow look i had a spell resisted!".

Pet and pact tank stuff. Root/Rot stuff. It may sound crazy, but duoing with another pet class or someone who can cast snare it remarkably efficient and a much safer experience than stubbornly trying to fear kite your way to 60.

Fear / Kiting on a necro is kind of like root/nuking on an enchanter. You'll eventually meet your goals, but spamming MR-based spells to the point you have to med like a wizard after each fight, in an outdoor ZEM-free zone, is just not a recipe for success.

Bonus points if you're sitting down for long med breaks next to a druid who's b*tching to you about how much of a pain soloing is, and it never dawns on either of you to actually click 'invite' and/or 'follow'. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[SupaflyIRL]

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

Note that Fear and Snare are really the *only* two spells you can potentially use that have a MR check. Both are horribly mana inefficient, and tbh the darkness line is probably the only spell you'll ever cast as a necro and go "wow look i had a spell resisted!".

Pet and pact tank stuff. Root/Rot stuff. It may sound crazy, but duoing with another pet class or someone who can cast snare it remarkably efficient and a much safer experience than stubbornly trying to fear kite your way to 60.

Fear / Kiting on a necro is kind of like root/nuking on an enchanter. You'll eventually meet your goals, but spamming MR-based spells to the point you have to med like a wizard after each fight, in an outdoor ZEM-free zone, is just not a recipe for success.

Bonus points if you're sitting down for long med breaks next to a druid who's b*tching to you about how much of a pain soloing is, and it never dawns on either of you to actually click 'invite' and/or 'follow'. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you're using dooming/invoke, resist strings should not drain your mana.

[Bubbles]

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

If you're using dooming/invoke, resist strings should not drain your mana.

Good catch, forgot to add that casting anything above dooming, ever, is a complete waste of time and resources hehe.

Probably the biggest problem young necros have is leaning on the crutch of fear kiting *and* soloing. And their targets are usually Spectres, hill giants, town guards, kunark mobs, etc...

Which is precisely the highest possible blue cons, the heaviest hitting mobs, and the mobs with the most hit points. The mobs that will both resist the most often and, in consequence, since they hit amazingly hard, will punish both snare and feign resists the most lethally.

[Vladesch]

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

Pet and pact tank stuff. Root/Rot stuff. It may sound crazy, but duoing with another pet class or someone who can cast snare it remarkably efficient and a much safer experience than stubbornly trying to fear kite your way to 60.

Fear kiting is fine so long as you're fighting lower level dark blues and is an order of magnitude more efficient than root rotting. (I would call this pure fail for a necro)

You can *almost* kill with 0 downtime fear kiting with pet (that you give 2 weapons to).

I do agree that grouping with a druid can be very rewarding though, and lots of fun.