Re: Are Necromancers Just Terrible? Am I Missing Something?
any caster is going to get owned when they get ambushed by a scout, most of the time you will already be dead before you can get a spell off, some casters are better than others though, sorcerors and enchanters for instance have better survivability and crowd control.
necros in particular are probably the weakest out of all of the caster dps classes when it comes to survivability, even conjurors have snare and stoneskins, but necros only get fear. it is your bread and butter for survivability.
against scouts as a caster, you will never have the upper hand, very few classes in this game can survive the initial burst from a scout and the ones who can have trouble killing the scout themselves before all of their timers come up again for round 2, as a paladin, i can tell you that at 60% mitigation and about 70% self buffed avoidance, it is still very difficult to recover from a scout's initial ambush and very very difficult to press the attack back on them enough to kill them before they are ready to stunlock or stifle you again.
if you want to kill scouts, roll another scout, mystic or warden.
other than scouts, necros shouldent have a huge problem against tanks and healers or even other casters.
the tank pet's taunt and AE knockback can REALLY screw up a caster or healer whos midcast on an important spell, if you are against a caster, make sure you control the fight by starting right off with fear, and frontloading your longest casting dots, pet and more dots when you are ready to burn, when he hits 50%, and he should quickly, you should try to cast lifeburn, its real good to have your pet taunt while you are casting lifeburn so its harder to interupt it, lifeburn does extremely good damage in pvp with little health cost, your lifetaps alone should keep you from dying too much from it, with all your dots, your pet and lifeburn on someone, it doesnt matter who they are, they are gunna die, even healers have trouble removing necro dots faster than the necro can reapply them, with enough gear, necro dots will outdamage someones heals 2 to 1 and a healer simply cant win against you unless they can keep themselves above your damage output and manage to attack you at the same time.
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