Necromancer as Primary Healer?!?

[Vexenu]

"When playing your Necro, heal.
When playing your Cleric, nuke.
When playing your Shaman, attempt to out-DPS a Mage.
And most importantly of all, wherever you go, always troll."
- Confucius on EverQuest

[Solist]

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

"When playing your Necro, heal.
When playing your Cleric, nuke.
When playing your Shaman, attempt to out-DPS a Mage.
And most importantly of all, wherever you go, always troll."
- Confucius on EverQuest

It aint far wrong wrong.

Why does a shaman ever slow a mob when they have heals.

Because it reduces damage coming in, and thats more efficient than healing.
Why root? because ir reduces damage coming in, and thats more efficient than healing.

A necro does the same. Root, ST, Fear when appropriate. All FAR more efficient than healing. If you do those things well the healing load is minimal in most groups.

[long.liam]

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

Bard + necro can heal 95% of group content

hope this helps

Personally I would take a Cleric and Enchanter over a bard and necro any day of the week. The whole Specialist vs Jack of all Trades idea. Clerics best healers. Enchanters best crowd control class plus Best DPS. Necros and Bards are both filler classes. They can't do any one thing amazing, but can fill many roles in a group. Not surprising that people keep finding that out when these of one of 3 classes that were originally designed that way. The third would be druid. Primary healers are clerics and Shamans. Primary crowd control enchanters and shamans. DPS would be rogues, Warriors tanks etc.

[Toxigen]

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

Personally I would take a Cleric and Enchanter over a bard and necro any day of the week.

no shit

[Jimjam]

Necro + geared ranger!

[Crede]

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

Personally I would take a Cleric and Enchanter over a bard and necro any day of the week. The whole Specialist vs Jack of all Trades idea. Clerics best healers. Enchanters best crowd control class plus Best DPS. Necros and Bards are both filler classes. They can't do any one thing amazing, but can fill many roles in a group. Not surprising that people keep finding that out when these of one of 3 classes that were originally designed that way. The third would be druid. Primary healers are clerics and Shamans. Primary crowd control enchanters and shamans. DPS would be rogues, Warriors tanks etc.

If you’re low manning stuff, Necro gives you dps and heals on a level much higher than bard so not fair to group them together. I’ve killed juggs with Necro heals. For instance on my ranger I’d rather duo with a Necro than a cleric or enchanter. They’re a highly capable class most people just aren’t playing them to that level.

[Snaggles]

Yea cleric and enchanter are more powerful, not sure that’s debate lol.

People often play what they want to play and figure out a solution after that. Especially if it’s not their 5th 60 alt. You can grind xp with almost any combo and necro/bard isn’t a bad one at all.

[Toxigen]

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

Yea cleric and enchanter are more powerful, not sure that’s debate lol.

People often play what they want to play and figure out a solution after that. Especially if it’s not their 5th 60 alt. You can grind xp with almost any combo and necro/bard isn’t a bad one at all.

Exactly, its not a debate at all. When you lose your cleric and don't have a rep, there are off-meta options that can keep a big group healed up. Necro + bard working together is one of these and they do it surprisingly well.

[Ripqozko]

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

Exactly, its not a debate at all. When you lose your cleric and don't have a rep, there are off-meta options that can keep a big group healed up. Necro + bard working together is one of these and they do it surprisingly well.

inb4 DSM suggest shm/shm doing 175 dps per

[Toxigen]

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

inb4 DSM suggest shm/shm doing 175 dps per

el oh el