I just don't get it - why theme of ER is necromancy

Not just Ogres performing ritual, but also both alliance and horde have necromancer-characters. Forsaken one is especially excited

Isn’t necromancy, like, forbidden? How is necromancers in mortal realm even relevant to our future travel to shadowlands.

Could be just regular quest about beating ogres, but no, nercomancy. Not even once.

I would say it’s because Necromancy is about pulling souls from the Shadowlands to a corpse and we are going to Shadowlands this xpac.

It’s just that both are related to death I guess.

Wait where were these Necromancer characters on Horde and Alliance?

Forsaken for horde and Dwarf on alliance, click on them several times

you save both from harpies i belive

They were Mages, the dialogue I remember from them had them dismissing Necromancy. The “Forbidden” magic they use was Void magic.

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Necromancy is forbidden. Necromancers was all cast out of the Kirin Tor.

The fact the factions allow us warlocks to walk in their cities is a stretch of good faith.

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Herbert literally says

  • Necromancy! It’s insane, right?
  • Need some… forbidden magic?

and chuckles.

And dwarf women. Why would she SPECIFICALLY deny use of necromancy if she’s not necromancer and hides it?

Im ashamed ta call ya bruda, we trolls like ta com get de voodoo doncha know

It’s forbidden by most civilized (or in the case of the Horde, semi-civilized–Hey, I have no illusions about my faction) peoples. People who are doing necromancy are generally considered bad people. (Death Knights notwithstanding, and face it, they haven’t been popular with most of the citizenry historically.)

That’s why when we start a new toon (that’s not Allied Races), if we start at the reach, one of the most important things we do is beat the crap out of some Ogres, because they’re being bad ogres, because Necromancers.

Also they can drop an extra bag which is useful for new players.

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TBH Shadowlands would be the perfect expansion for them to introduce a Necromancer class.

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Herbert is insane and there are other magics that are forbidden besides Necromancy. Dwarf, she’s remarking on how the Ogres are using necromancy and shivers in disgust.

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Thought we had that already… stares at unholy spec dks.

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ofcourse he is, like any necromancer would.

You’re screwing with me right now aren’t you?

We do but because they don’t follow the exact 1:1 formula of Necromancers people dismiss them.

A Necromancer must be a cloth wearer, fighting at ranged only and summon an infinite army of undead minions.

Sort of like how Blonde, light skinned blue eyed elves are on the Horde and that is the purest form of audacity imaginable.

i just want necromancers

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Roll a UH DK. There ya go. A necro.

summons army of the damned inside stormwind church just to spite people

It really isn’t the same. Necromancers are more then just summoning a single ghoul. You should play some other games with real necromancers in it then come back and talk about how DK is anything like those.

They have a spell called Army of the Dead, one of their abilities Apocalypse summons undead minions by using festering rot debuff on the enemy. They use disease, dark magic. The only thing they don’t do is wear cloth and fight at ranged.

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