Will there be a Necromancer Class?

[WhiteHornedRatMessiah]

I know its based in D&D all that good jazz, but for the future will it come or plans summons and have minions and all that good stuff

[mayrc]

not in DND 5e. (only if larian skipsall rules and make his own rules). What you can do is a necromancer subclass of wizard. But i can tell you... forget your army of undead. If you realy want this then go pathfinder wrath of the rightous. Best necromancer experience yet in a computer rpg.

[Yojo0o]

Necromancer is a wizard subclass. I'd say there's a good chance of it being available to wizards upon the 1.0 release. Necromancers in 5e DnD have the ability to keep a good number of zombies/skeletons under their control, but I'm not really sure how that'll translate into a computer game.

[everybe2]

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

[Hobocop]

Originally posted by Yojo0o:

Necromancer is a wizard subclass. I'd say there's a good chance of it being available to wizards upon the 1.0 release. Necromancers in 5e DnD have the ability to keep a good number of zombies/skeletons under their control, but I'm not really sure how that'll translate into a computer game.

One of the main issues with minion masters on TT is they tend to bog down combat. Perhaps they could leverage Swarm AI to mitigate this in BG3.

[felmari]

subclass would make sense. i have played one in nwn and it was that way(not sure about pnp stuff really) it had some summoning but was not great or anything it basically gave other buffs and hardened the wizard. many used the sub classes for meta multiclasing like 1 or 2 lvls monk and shapeshifting etc.

[Runic Tunic]

Just looked over my copy of the PHB to verify. School of Necromancy is present as a subclass for Wizards so I'd say there's a good chance it'll be in at full release. It's not exactly the same as a full blown necromancer, but summoning minions is a thing so I'd expect it to be implemented in some capacity.

[Yojo0o]

Originally posted by Hobocop:

Originally posted by Yojo0o:

Necromancer is a wizard subclass. I'd say there's a good chance of it being available to wizards upon the 1.0 release. Necromancers in 5e DnD have the ability to keep a good number of zombies/skeletons under their control, but I'm not really sure how that'll translate into a computer game.

One of the main issues with minion masters on TT is they tend to bog down combat. Perhaps they could leverage Swarm AI to mitigate this in BG3.

Yeah, I imagine the subclass would be somewhat reconfigured for video game purposes. Otherwise, it'll just get extremely tedious to manage a bunch of zombies individually.

[dolby]

Well i played bg 3 with 20+ characters unmoded some of them undead others alive so yeah sure. i think Necromancer wizard could work just fine for start you should get the hag zombi and move on from there... But don't expact balance from it. Not like it matters cos most all combat is easy so it's whatever no matter what. still fun though even if it takes away from .

On the speed of combat, swarm AI so far doesn't do much at least it feels that way to me. Pales in comparison to surprise round, that speeds up the combat ow and braking of potion of speed so you get AOE haste without concentration.
Maybe they should just combine those trashy unites into a single one... but i guess swarm AI is at least better than nothing.

Best thing to speed up BG 3 combat would be to fix - remove the dash animation and automatic camera paning to active unite. That would help for sure with all the trashy zombies you would have. Both of those are comeplety redundant and take a long time out of combat when you stack them up...

[Dragon Master]

Originally posted by Joe:

I know its based in D&D all that good jazz, but for the future will it come or plans summons and have minions and all that good stuff

Necromancy is a subclass of wizard at level 2.

They really aren't a pet or summoning subclass, but they can eventually animate nearby dead bodies and maintain control of them for 24 hours so you can have a few of them, and you can create more than other casters using the same spell.

Your undead minions would also have more health and deal more damage than any other spellcaster using the animate dead spell by adding your wizard level to their hit points and your proficiency bonus to their damage.

Necromancers in D&D are very, VERY powerful debuffers. They can summon and create minions, and their undead minions are stronger than other casters are, but it's also not their focus.

[Ronin Gamer]

As others have said, there is no "class" called necromancer, since it's a subclass of wizard, it's just not implemented into EA currently. You can certainly be a necromancer by picking a wizard and getting the bonuses that are usually afforded to a necro wizard.