I’m debating between Necro and Barb to partake in S1 with. I unfortunately don’t get a whole lot of time to play right now, so I haven’t had a chance to experience any of the late or end game with either. For late-stage Necro, how is the gameplay? Is it a pretty simple to play, or is there a lot of micromanaging involved?
Necro is my main and after making a bunch of alts and leveling them all to about 30 I would have to say that Necro is the easiest solo class to level up, do the campaign with, and do dungeons with.
For me personally Barb and Druid feel weak at the start and basically it is much easier to start on WT1 with them. Sorc feels pretty weak as well early on with some builds probably better off in WT1 as well. Rogue is pretty good and I would say comparable with Necro for solo play and kills stuff faster but with my Necro I could easily do the entire campaign had no issue with any bosses, no deaths, no roadblocks where it felt like something couldn’t be done.
In group play many of our builds kill stuff slower than other classes so you feel weaker but I feel like we shine alone.
I don’t know about end game but I can say that 1 to 50 is easy for a necromancer. WT3 is a bit of a challenge until 60. I stuck to WT1 and WT2 because I could do more whisper quests in the same time frame, so the experience gain was a little faster.
Necro is fine for solo play as long as you are willing to go without minions. If you want to succeed, you’ll need to utilize Bone Spirit, Bone Spear, or Infinimist/an Infinimist hybrid. There does come a point where you can do fairly well with minions, but it requires getting Ring of Mendeln.
Necro is fine for high level solo play as long as you can spec blood mist and reduce it’s CD significantly. Which means minion builds are very difficult and get slower as you progress. With blood mist, you can largely go full glass canon, but you will feel more like a dark mage than necro
This is exactly why they need to hurry up and fix minions. They broke them pre-launch and are taking too long to fix them as a more viable build. They also nerfed minion skills day 1.
Bone and mist are really strong. Its just that minions are dog water and necro without minions is just sorc. Edgy edition
Uhhh… That’s what infinimist is.