Lets be real. Shadowlands, Journeying into the realm of the dead, all that biz. No Necromancers? Really? And the reason was, ‘No new classes really stuck out to us.’
I call bull crap. Blizzard isn’t stupid. My bet?
We’re either being lied to and we will get a new class, or We are getting so many changes for the general game that there just wasn’t time to make a class and put it into the game effectively. Now, I’m sure this topic has been posted a million times but I would personally LOVE to be a necro. I main them in everything, that’s why I’m a Warlock/DK player. Cause they’re as close as I get to Necromancer. I dunno tho, I feel like Shadowlands is gonna either be great, or garbage. If not getting necromancer is a clue, or really any new class, then its still in the air. Opinions?
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And what exactly would a Necromancer class be? Death Knights already throw out diseases and raise things from the dead. Warlocks already cast curses and drain life.
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Honestly, I think Necromancer would pretty much be a Demonology Warlock with different minion skins and spell effects.
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Covered by warlocks/death knights.
We need necromancers like we need more Elves 
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I don’t know. Sylvanas already started raising dead night elves. Now you want to give that power to the players?! That’s madness!
Oh God please no more elves.
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I think personally there’s plenty of ways to make a Necro, Just imagine a more casty version of a DK. It’s basically just the same relationship as Paladin and priest.
That being Said Blizzard can’t make me not use my dk transmogged to look like she’s wearing robes and wielding a scythe while raising undead to look like a classic war3 necromancer. EZPZ as close as I can get.
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I would understand asking for a new class if there was any way to differentiate it from classes that already exist.
You say that Warlocks and Death Knights are “as close as I get to Necromancer” and this is the point.
Please tell me how a Necromancer would be any different from them?
The only difference I can see is that Necromancers historically function by raising the spirits of the dead. But even if they did have spirit ‘pets’ of some sort, what exactly would their powers be?
Historically, Necromancy was the ability to communicate with the dead for the purposes of things like divination, using the dead being as a weapon, and not all that much more. Divination (or telling the future) would be useless within the WoW framework, and we already have classes that use raised dead beings as weapons or tools.
ESO introduced Necromancers but that the game had the benefit of not having classes like shamans, warlocks or DKs and they could make use of not previously available abilities. Until or if somebody can come up with a definition and detailed abilities that are significantly different from what we have now, I don’t see it happening.
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I don’t think that’s an accurate arguement. Paladins and priests are the same thing basically. So by that logic Priests shouldn’t exist right? I mean they both use the light. But you would probably tell me the manner in which they use the light is different.
Same deal with necromancers. Necromancer is to DK as Priest is to Paladin. There’s a lot of potential there. In game Necromancy is the study of the forces that Manipulate life and death. You have potential to be this unholy healer, or a summoner, you could focus on ice magic and lich transformations. There’s so much lore there and diffferent ability that ‘Not being unique’ just isn’t a valid reason.
That being said I don’t think it’s outside of reason that WoW won’t add it. I can’t foresee a new class for a while, we have so many as is. But I will say I’m disappointed I didn’t get a necromancer.
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Apparently there are Necromancers that are being brought into the Shadowlands to assist the Ebonblade.
Foreshadowing perhaps? We’ll see.
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Priests wield the Light. Paladins are infused with the Light. It’s like the difference between holding a flashlight and setting yourself on fire.
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That analogy escalated really quickly.
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Necromancers could be very different from Death Knights. DKs just summon basic mindless undead. Necromancer pets could be vastly more refined. You could perform a ritual to “preserve” the body of a humanoid you’ve killed, which adds it to a tab where you can assign which humanoid you want to summon. You could stitch together a custom abomination, with traits and looks that you select. You could summon spirits that would harm enemies or empower allies. You could drain blood from enemies, then use funnel it into allies to revitalize them.
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A question - what are their specs? You say you want a Necromancer, but all but one class has a minimum of 3 specs. Even assuming you limited Nec’s to 2 as happens for DH, what would those specs be?
But as for Priests and Paladins - Paladins are sworn warriors of the Light and draw on that in various ways - they are sort of walking Light sworn beings. Priests are healers that use the Light by ways of spells. The only real similarity is that they both access the Light. Then again, Warriors use melee weapons, rogues use melee weapons. They are certainly not the same though they both fight with their hands.
I’ll give you this much though - if you could come up with a logical way that a Necromancer could use the power of Death to create Life (ie healing and a rez) I might see it as a possible class.
Also, if Paladins and Priests were “the same thing basically”, they’d share a lot more of their spells, and there’d be “Shadow Paladins”. Just because both classes use Holy magic doesn’t make them the same. Just how both Mages and Death Knights use Frost magic doesn’t make Mages and Frost DKs “the same thing basically”.
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Soo that’s a yes to necromancers? 
Unpopular opinion: Necromancer can be a Warlock or Deathknight spec or class skin.
When you AFK and come back to see a lot more activity than before.
as for the Two specs, I’d do Damage and Healing. A third would probably be another Damage spec, but in a different way. Maybe one focused on the Reanimation aspect, the other focused on the frost/curse aspects. As for the priest paladin thing. Paladins and priest are the same thing. A paladin is LITERALLY just a priest who can fight like a warrior. That’s the Actual. Canonical. Explanation.
I’m not sure that’s actually an unpopular opinion. xD
Another class to take away from warlocks?
I have no idea why it replied to you… Stupid forums.
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