Hunting as a Necro

[Vumr]

I have a 65 shaman and started a necro about 2 weeks ago. I love the class and am having a great time. I am very impressed with the power of this classes spells and pets. I have leveled to 37 primarily by soloing in EW with a few hill giants in Rathe and enough frost giants that I am amiable to the dwarfs in GD. I am however having a hard time trying to figure out the best way to hunt when I don't have the wide open spaces to agro or fear kite. As great as the pet is, it can't take the kind of beating these mobs are handing out and I don't have the healing spells I have as a shaman to keep him alive. I am hunting solo to try and really learn what is possible. As a shaman I could root/dot but at this point the short duration root available doesn't seem to be what I need. Maybe I am trying to hit dungeons and cities too soon. I would like to learn this class to the best of my abilites which is why I am not interested in using my main to PL this character. From the posts I have seen there are some very skilled Necros contributing to this forum and I would appreciate some advice about hunting in tighter quarters when you can't send the mob running across the zone.

[Beltathor]

Hmm.. I soloed most of my way..

I guess in tighter quarters I would recommend someting like this.

spells:
tap
tap over time
fear
darkness
heal other spell
root
dot
FD

Since you dont have a lot of room to run, try pull with snare, send in pet, fear, tap over time, cast heal on pet, dot.. etc

With root you can stop the mob where ever you want, this will break the fear. Since you are healing your pet with the heal over time, if he starts to get low on health, you can re-fear at any time to let your pet get some health back. Keeping darkness on him will allow you to move the mob to anyplace you want to fight at. The fear/root thing will keep him in the close quarters you set out.

This is really the only thing I can think of for a close area kind of killing.

[Mortimus]

I have found that you can successfully root/dot/tank with pet in very tight situations if you use heal over time on your pet as Beltathor suggests. the advantage of using the root is that you can pull your pet off if it looks to be close to dying. Need to keep Darkness up though, for when the root breaks.

Tried this out in Velketors at lvl 58 but I'm not sure how successful it would be with harder mobs, might not be able to keep up with the big damage dealers found elsewhere.

Mort

[myndless of tallon]

find undead mobs, slow them sick pet, leach the undead and reverse leach your pet, you will have np keeping your pet healed and doing most the damage so your mana is nearly FM, you can dps as you see fit

[Vumr]

Thank you for the suggestions. I have started using the root/dot method and it's working much better. I will go after some undead mobs as myndless suggests as well. Thanks again.

[Christed]

you guys have it all wrong.. when exping you do not want to make the battles long and drawn out.. you want to be efficient and swift with each kill, consider how much dmg your dots do and how much hp~ the mob you are exping from has. now stack your dots accordingly to where they will run through right as the mob dies.. theres more to this but you just have to figure it out and get a feel for it.
sullon zek rules :ph34r:

[Mixylplix]

Buff your pet. Get him his spirit armor and whatever your level pet twink is and use it. Give him weapons AND THEN a shield. Give him cheesy armor as YEAH it helps. Hunt down a amge and have him cast up a whole set of pet armor for you. Great way to start is having a pet with a few hundred extra AC points on him.

Too often we send our children to battle nacked and wonder why they perform so poorly. Ever think about what just a cheesy set of CLOTH armor would do for a pet? You get mage armor and your pet just got a boat load tougher.

Treat your pet like your children as they will save your life.


: loves his pet very much

:rolleyes: