Verant Logic: Necromancer vs Magician

[Tunabros]

best class is cleric

[starkind]

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

best class is cleric

I actuchually agree with tuna big time here [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Kohedron]

Both are shit though if we're being honest

[Swish]

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

folks that play necros at/near skill cap will disagree

necro is one of the best additions to a group, especially when there are undead mobs to charm

sorry you dont got good necro hope this helps

You got the active necro, probably plays a bard as well... is always casting HoT, holding charmed pet, looking over the enchanter and mezzing when their pet breaks, adding lifetaps to top up health.

Then you got the lazy bastards, summon a crap pet, don't haste it, forget to send it half the time, barely cast a spell even in a crisis, turn on Netflix and then wonder why they rarely get a group.

[Vianna]

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

This guy never played a mage past 20, its pretty much balanced between mage and necro. Necros trade off any fast dps for utility. In group settings mages offer higher sustained dps and utility, while necros are a jack of all - master of none. six of one half dozen of other.

Mod Rods
Call of the Hero
Summoned Utility like staff of runes, ring of flight
Self Regen
Pet heals
best DS
2nd best nukes/pbae
eye of zomm
strongest pets
Malo

No Necros are pretty much superior past 20 as well.

[Valik1016]

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

earth pets u can keep like 2 mobs rooted and nuke 1 down if u use

line1: /pet back off
line2: /pet attack

and another hotkey that is just pet back off

on a earth pet

I have to point out that my level 4 wizard has the Root spell.

[Zsin]

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

I've played Mage to 60 after being a Necro fanboy and you're just wrong. Mage sucks ass compared to Necro in basically every way other than COTH.

I think Verant's mistake was that they had a "class advocate" or some kind of bullshit like that for each class and these people ended up in product meetings basically yelling about how their class needed more or less stuff. Each class ended up as it did solely based on this one person's ability to convince others within Verant. Probably Joe Cool, Necro advocate, was fucking the product manager and Neckbeard Ned, Mage advocate, was constantly talked over in meetings or was too dumb to even understand how underpowered their class was.

Not only that but I bet Necro which was insanely overpowered and got nerfed in classic then ended up with the ability to say "we got nerfed, what are we going to give Necro players to make them feel better?" And Mages it was more like, "Everything looks good. Fuck em."

This also explains why Ranger was always such a horrible joke. The advocate was probably Brad himself, Aradune, and he never even played EQ and was just snorting coke and nerfing anything he didn't like that was being reported to him as allowing players to progress too quickly thus upsetting his Sony bosses. Ranger sucks ass, can't do shit? Sounds fucking great, they'll be paying their subscription fees forever. What?!?! Necros are soloing in PoF? Damn it they'll be bored in a couple weeks and cancel, fucking nerf that shit.

This post was a work of poetry.

[Fammaden]

You guys ok in here?

[starkind]

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

This post was a work of poetry.

Ya that was a good post.

[Gustoo]

A lot of classes are really good, basically all of the caster classes with mage being one of my least favorite because of lack of crowd control limiting their dungeon crawling capabilities.

Cleric
Druid
Necro
Enchanter
Wizard
Shaman
Bard

All melee lower because the mobs are physically super strong.