Yes, I know we have death knight. But that’s not really a necromancer the way most people imagine them. I’m talking about a Kel Thuzad, lich type necromancer. The way I see it, there are two options for this:
Create a new necromancer class, take away pets from DK and add them to it
Create a new specialization to allow for a cloth based caster necromancer playstyle, perhaps make it a warlock spec
Before you all say, we already have death knight. Well death knight is to demon hunter as necromancer is to warlock. We have two demon classes but only one undead class. Make it even folks.
It’s not mechanically different huh. You don’t even know what the mechanics would be as it doesn’t even exist. How would you measure the difference anyhow. There are layers/tiers to this. I mean I could argue that warriors and death knights have no mechanical differences as they both fulfill dps and tank roles.
Why are people so knuckleheaded regarding increasing this games options, like you really want to limit this game and make it less enjoyable for people?
Sorry, I used the wrong word there. I meant expanding aesthetic options.
You are right undead is not a playstyle, but a caster that raises undead minions - that would be a new thing.
Funny I recognize your name. And I RARELY post on here. The times I do, it seems like its just a revolving door of the same folks gatekeeping the forums. It’s actually pretty funny.
You are basically asking for demo warlock to be given a skin, and make it a new class
I am not gatekeeping anything. Having a different opinion than you isn’t a sin.
All I am saying, is that if a new class doesn’t play different than what we have, regardless of it being necromancer, tinker, whatever. Then I am not a fan of it.
The only way you could make a spec, not a class, a spec, for necromancer is to take all the pet stuff from unholy, or take the pet stuff from demonology and reskin it as undead.
Demo is silly never gonna happen
If they did unholy, they could lean into unholy dk being a disease spreader, but that still leaves necro with only 1 spec, and upsets a ton of dk mains.
Necro is never gonna happen unless blizz just goes full desperation mode
As much as Akston is kind of dismissive above, they aren’t wrong. A reskinned demonologist, with just… new visuals but the same function, would make a perfect necromancer.
For me, I’ve just resolved that my necromancer characters have to hit things. The concept for one of mine is a Castlevania-style forgemaster and like… it’s kind of a perfect fit for unholy.
I get what you want, I’d like it too, but effort-economical blizzard, who have actually finally had the class skin bug inserted directly into their ear relatively recently, are far more likely to reskin before entering the balancing nightmare of a whole new spec or class unless it is wildly different… Like, say, a bard!
I’m actually not too familiar with demon hunters - but it seems that they can have temporary pets according to a quick google search. So maybe do the same for DKs.
At the end of the day - people generally want more options not less. I made my undead mage because that’s the closest thing to a lich that you can do in WoW currently. I’m ok with it, but I think it would be better if they had a necromancer option. I mean they have two demon based classes, why not have two undead based classes?
Yeah, I mean heres the thing though. There’s layers to this. Because DK didn’t bring anything new mechanically on the surface. It’s just another DPS or Tank, in a game that already had those before. You could say “well runic power”. Ok. So imagine something similar for necromancers. I mean, I could think of a few ways that they would be different from warlocks - make it an ongoing effort to keep your pets up, require some form of energy etc. Perhaps make their pets based more on quantity as opposed to warlock’s quality. Etc.
