Greetings all,

As I cannot for the life of me let such a thread die, and since I joined only yesterday, I’d like to give it a go now.

First, Darksoul posted the three ways of the necromancer (control of the dead, leach , Death). I couldn’t find where the info comes from, could anyone help, please ? Thank you.

Second, since I don’t know how official is the above info, I’ll do as if it weren’t at all, and give some skeleton (!) of a skill tree I’d like (it’s a bit of a wish list, so please be lenient) :

1. Undead way

   1. Corporeal undead

      1. Detection (farther, weaker, hidden, hide from… )
      2. Fight (Repel, DoT, DD, … )
      3. Control (farther, stronger, more, steal control, … )
      4. Creation (quicker, stronger, with equipment, with unique abilities, … )
      5. Becoming (with prerequisites in the life force way)

   2. Incorporeal undead (same as above)
   3. Half-undead (those that suffer curses, or weirder things even ?)
      

2. Life force way

   1. Self

      1. Buffs (hp bonus, some physical ability increases… )
      2. Wards (against diseases, ability decreases, leech effects,… )
      3. Siphon life (further, more efficient, …prerequisites would be “debuffs others” )
      4. Clone (some kind of self-resurrect, with prerequisites in create undead)

   2. Others

      1. Buffs
      2. Wards
      3. Debuffs
      4. Mass Siphon life (for group)
      5. Resurrect (as pets first, then really)

   3. Environment (drain life from plants, and such ??)

3. Dark Mana way (the one I have the less thought about, and about which I know the least, but still, I think it makes some sense given the background… )

   1. Fountain

      1. Detection (direction, strength, distance, allegiance… )
      2. Influence (strengthen, repair, create)
      3. Use (from farther, more efficiently, … )
      4. Becoming (just a silly thought in my mind… )

   2. Crystals

      1. Detection
      2. Use
      3. ?

   3. Mana

      1. ?

Last, some wild and more or less random thoughts and wishes:
I like the idea of creating an undead, and not summoning it.
Necromancers are wizards, too, and not merely death-freaks, so maybe they could have some “typical wizard abilities” like fly (I know they can change in bat, well… ), invisibility, fireball, and some such, even if they should understandably remain fairly weak in that respect.
I don’t know much how crafting will be implemented, but I want my necro to be able to craft some death-related items (throne of bones, anyone ?).
And last, but definitely not least, I want him to be able to wield a scythe.

There we are, I have described what would be my perfect (?) necromancer, and any feedback is more than welcome. Regardless, I am very eager to hear soon from you all again about the necro !

Thank you,
Parellan

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