Necromancer tips

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Grenth is the embrace that turns the fiery chaos that is life to the ice cold perfect order of death. The necromancer is Grenth's servant and must deliver the same cold justice to his foes as Grenth does to his.
I've played a curse necromancer for 2.5 years now so I guess I can add some pointers.

1. Never be affraid of sacrifice when it is needed.
Whether it is your arm or the warrior in front of you. If something must be sacrificed in order to save the team, it must be done and it is quite often up to the necromancer to decide this.
2. Control the battlefield.
Necromancers have the wide array of hexes and corps control spells that allow them to shape the battle. Make sure your minions obbey their master, make sure your wells are placed there where they are needed and make sure to disable the core of the enemy's team with your hexes and conditions. Necromancers do not have much in the way of self defense, their defense lies in succesfully disabling whoever tries to take them down.
3. Understand the weakness of your enemies and punish them for it.
Hex stacks, armor ignoring damage, impossible-to-defend-against life stealing, enchantment stripping. No matter what the defense is, necromancers are key to taking it down. Go and read up on monster's/people's skills and adjust your builds to optimally take them on.
4. Soul reaping.
No matter how you try and turn it, soul reaping is the most potent primary attribute in PvE. Although there are few enough skills linked to it, you should always link whatever attribute points you can spare to this ability.

Necromancers ftw

[quote="Dan Obsidian"]

1. Never be affraid of sacrifice when it is needed.
Whether it is your arm or the warrior in front of you. If something must be sacrificed in order to save the team, it must be done and it is quite often up to the necromancer to decide this.
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Well as a monk i must disagree with that it is up to the nec..but for the rest good job on helping necroes.

I's a matter of field control: the monk will have a choice to intervene when the red bar goes down, the necro (curses neways) will have the choice to disable whoevers pounding on the warrior or not. Best example is to throw away your reckless haste on Shiro to get him to use Impossible Odds (which removes a hex) and then using SS to kill him, knowing full well he'll take half your team down with him.

Random Tip: Meleemancers make things blow up

Mostly themselves

lol dan true that.

Dan Obsidian wrote:
2. Control the battlefield.
Necromancers have the wide array of hexes and corps control spells that allow them to shape the battle. Make sure your minions obbey their master, make sure your wells are placed there where they are needed and make sure to disable the core of the enemy's team with your hexes and conditions. Necromancers do not have much in the way of self defense, their defense lies in succesfully disabling whoever tries to take them down.
3. Understand the weakness of your enemies and punish them for it.
Hex stacks, armor ignoring damage, impossible-to-defend-against life stealing, enchantment stripping. No matter what the defense is, necromancers are key to taking it down. Go and read up on monster's/people's skills and adjust your builds to optimally take them on.
Necromancers ftw

My key to playing a Cursing Nec is to seek and destroy. Set loose a Spiteful Spirit on all those front line enemy melee characters and watch them kill themselves. We all know that casters tend to ball up, so hit one of them with Mark of Pain and have your favorite damage producer bring the pain by targetting them. This is a wonderful opportunity to have your favorite Splinter Barrage ranger hitting a nice fleshy Monk, Ele, or Mesmer and watching the yellow numbers fly across the screen. Make sure to bring a nice self heal like Insidious Parasite and cast it on the enemy tank. And don't forget to take advantage of your Asuran, Norn, etc. skills.