Sorcerer or Necromancer? Which is more fun and which is a better all-around class?

[Captain Crow]

A few friends and I are going to start playing soon and I cannot decide between these two classes.

The ultimates for necromancer look really cool, and they seem to be better at doing any role than sorcerer.

Sorcerer seems to be a good DPS, but that seems to be about it. At least from things I've seen. It doesn't have anything like the bone colossus

Out of the friends I want to play this with, one wants to be an arcanist healer or tank (healer more), and the other wants to either be a healer templar or dragonknight DPS or tank. I want to cover all grounds and make sure we fill every role. So it looks like I'll either be tank or DPS.

Necromancer seems way more complicated to me. The corpse mechanic especially. But in other MMOs I have played, I wasn't a big fan of mobility, which is something the sorcerer seems to have a lot of.

I know this is a lot different than other Elder Scrolls games, but I was always more of a fan of daedra stuff and destruction magic than I was with necromancy. The only appeal of necromancer to me is the ultimate abilities and that it can be a good tank, dps, or healer from what I can tell, while sorcerer doesn't seem to be the same.

Edit: Also the fact that I can get in trouble in towns for using necromancer abilities concerns me and makes me wonder if I should play it.

[Sanctified Reach 420]

sorcerer with the green dinosaur forgot the name lol they can heal and tanks very well to for your sorc... for a newb best one besides templar.

[Archon]

Necromancers are not in a great spot. they are good tanks, but suffer from complicated rotations and issues with their class abilities. Pick Sorcerer instead. Despite several nerfs over the years they remain competitive in both PvE and PvP.

[Captain Crow]

Originally posted by Archon:

Necromancers are not in a great spot. they are good tanks, but suffer from complicated rotations and issues with their class abilities. Pick Sorcerer instead. Despite several nerfs over the years they remain competitive in both PvE and PvP.

But would a sorcerer make a good tank if I end up needing to be the tank? I don't particularly care about meta, because meta always changes.

[Archon]

Originally posted by Crow Man:

Originally posted by Archon:

Necromancers are not in a great spot. they are good tanks, but suffer from complicated rotations and issues with their class abilities. Pick Sorcerer instead. Despite several nerfs over the years they remain competitive in both PvE and PvP.

But would a sorcerer make a good tank if I end up needing to be the tank? I don't particularly care about meta, because meta always changes.

Sorcerers aren`t usually chosen for their ability to Tank, but they can tank rather well, thanks to cost reduction and decent heals.
They do best as DD`s though, with healers being their second best spec.

[MISO4EVER]

Originally posted by Bossonova420:

sorcerer with the green dinosaur forgot the name lol they can heal and tanks very well to for your sorc... for a newb best one besides templar.

Clannfear and green? it is more like blue/purple conjured magic color

[siransan]

Tanking in ESO is about debuffing the boss and buffing the group, sorcerer does not have a lot in his kit for that. They would be good though, high survivability. The shield is just sooo good. Sorcs are great DD, soso Healer and soso Tank.
Necro would be better as Tank for group purposes. Necro is good for Tanking, alright for Healing and a good support DD for Trials.
If you just want to play and have fun with your buddies it does not matter that much honestly, Necro is a bit clonky to play. Sorcerer is good for beginner because you get a Healing pet and a Tank pet.
Convince your buddy to go with DK, DK are great Tanks, and easy to play. Also great DD.
Arcanists, meh, i do not like them as Healers, in the 4 second beam i could spam 4 other spells, and if you don't stand in a row....
Good DD and tanks though.

[Beytran70]

How are Necros for soloing?

[MISO4EVER]

Originally posted by Bossonova420:

Originally posted by MisoForever:

Clannfear and green? it is more like blue/purple conjured magic color

thanks for the correction although you did not help the op or me in the least, i will know better next time then to post where douches like you live.

Yeah that was uncalled for reported

I thought Canadians were supposed to be chill and nice.

[HungBelowKnees]

I main a tank sorcerer, and I can just stand there and not worry about any boss or enemy. but I get one shot in pvp.... doesn't make sense

[Archon]

Originally posted by HungBelowKnees:

I main a tank sorcerer, and I can just stand there and not worry about any boss or enemy. but I get one shot in pvp.... doesn't make sense

Tanking in PvP is not very viable without being able to do damage, as players can use unblockable attacks such as Templar Javelins, Nightblade fear, Sorcerer rune prison etc, and deal much more damage than mobs.

To better survive, most sorcs stack shields when they get attacked, but their best defense is the mobility from their Streak.

[AmaiAmai]

Necro is a terrible class, go sorc

[N€ko ≽^•⩊•^≼]

Ive tried so hard to like necro, but i just couldnt. Plus all those random wandering npc's seeing me raising dead or shooting skulls gives instant bounty so its not fun. Better go sorc.

[ice]

sorc is 1000% more meta

necro has some particular things that nobody else has.. but most of that is not very good