Necromancer Weapon Advice?

[Yumeno]

Which necromancer weapon do you use and why?
Also which potion effect too.

[Xeth Nyrrow]

All of the weapons are good. Right now I'm having the most fun with Eternal Night for ghost power. The only decent potion effect is the one that heals you.

[Steven]

I use the ghosts and the potion that heals. My weapon is the ranged attack. So I basically stand at a distance, spam the ranged attack then spawn ghosts. Nothing ever seems to get close before I am able to spawn more ghosts.

[Bean]

I haven't bought the Necro DLC. But from playing with other necros, I think the best weapons are the ones that let you spawn a giant hammer to smash down. That hammer is great for killing columns and clusters as well as spawners.

And the Dominate ability along with a charm relic is really over-powered -- you can ghost walk through a horde and fire off a charm, then ghost walk ahead a bit and fire off another charm and finally ghost walk once again and fire off yet another charm to tame a gigantic area of monsters.

Since I have unlocked every single achievement in the base game and I just have the last 3 necro DLC achievements to unlock, it's really tempting to buy the necro DLC. I just hate supporting the DLC gaming model and I've been holding off for a sale where the DLC is 50% off for $2.50 and I'll probably buy it then.

[Bean]

Originally posted by Azathoth:

I bought it somewhere else for under $2. Just shop around ;)

Where? I'm leery of third-party non-Steam sites that sell keys and stuff. I don't trust them.

[Bean]

This guy was full of it.

[Bean]

This guy is still full of it.

[Bean]

Since patch 2.2 dropped, I bought the Necro for the full price to support these developers for paying attention to the community and working hard on their game instead of going to some shady site that traffics keys bought in bulk from third-world countries or stolen keys.

The only reason I was holding off on buying the DLC was because I'm an opponent of the DLC model that locks game content without providing mod tools or map editors. It's a terrible direction that PC gaming is heading where they force you to buy season passes for the same price as the base game and only give you half-hearted recycled content.

But these developers earned my money with their support. Keep up the good work, Arrowhead!

[Bean]

This guy deleted his comments because he was full of it.

[Micsan]

I personally enjoy the Necromancer the most. (ps4 player)

I like the first weapon best, even though i havn't tried the other ones as much.
The spirit one is sooo ♥♥♥♥ when you don't have any souls, and it takes forever to kill something with that ranged attack.

As for the mind control weapon, i bought it yesteday... Didn't really like it. Though that is probably because i don't know how to use it properly yet.

Relics, i go for RoM. Usually every room I enter i will run to a spawner, pop the relic and the mirrors get more then enough souls for me to pop 5 "extra soul" skeletons. And while i do this I try to spirit walk back and forth with the hammer slam ability.

Drain HP potion is very good. The ressurect potion kinda sucks, because whomever you ressurect will have almost no health. The last potion i haven't tried yet.

I might upload a video on it in the future, as I haven't seen any how-to's for the necro yet.

[Cookie das Monster]

Hi!
Anyone know about the Special abitlity of the Scepter of the Vampire King? There must be something which gives you health back ...

[Mr Breeze]

I only use Dark Hunger for healing/slowing enemies to move through crowds. I like using the skeletons and archers on campaign and colosseum because the horde density is much lower. The archers are bomb at taking out towers on opposite sides of the map as long as you protect them because they are weak. But you can also spam the screen with them like the foot soldiers from pre-Slayer Edition. Can't really create mobs of regular skeletons. The ghosts are for the birds They do big damage but there's no protection so your necro is left wide open. In tight psaces where you can't always ghostwalk that is a death sentence. The damage is nice but the hammer is a million times more effective on the harder levels. So skeletons of some type normally, but in endless it's all about dominate. You can charm big mummies and orcs and they will wreck a tower. Esp if you drop ring of mirrors on the tower and then charm all the surrounding enemies then phase out and hammer the tower. I use Ring of Mirrors or Boots of Randam, because the damage from the hammer on the speed boots is awesome and crazy fast. Not crazy fast like the Valk or Warrior but close and it can stop mobs out with ease.

[<=( FishBone )=>]

I mostly use Necrotic Vessel for my weapon, Ring of Mirrors for relic and Dark Hunger for the tailsman.

Weapon
Sceptre of the Vampire King works like the Siren Flute but I believe it has a bigger AOE area than the flute. But I still prefer those Skeletal Archers for they have ranged attacks and kill
pretty fast, and usually I can summon 10 of them in a short time.

Relic
I prefer Ring of Mirrors over Siren Flute simply because if your Illusions can reach Rank 3, they are literally unstoppable. Charming of monsters to fight for you is good but sometimes I will accidentally kill them off and when the charming spell ends, they will still coming charging at you.

Tailmans
Dark Hunger worked very well and saved me from death many times when I was swarmed with mobs and low on health.

Anyway these are just my preferred gears.