Yea venom skull still feels relatively similar to the once every 3 blastbones-kinda rotation from before. Addition of major defile 100% and the AOE hit is nice. Big thing for me personally that is still missing is more corpse generation and also, I feel like necros really should have permanent minions similar to sorc pets. Would add to the feel and class fantasy big time.

Its so weird to have a game with a necromancer class, yet the only pet class in the game is the sorcerer. Necromancer is one of my favorite classes in all of fantasy and gaming, and ESOs has always just felt so lacking compared to what i expect and am used to from my prior experience. Dont get me wrong, the flavor is still mostly there. I dont think the class is themed poorly or anything. Its just that almost every necromancer ive ever played in any game is all about summoning minions/undead. Please just rework corpse mechanics and give us perma pets.

I want to summon an army of skeletons so large that it will crash the server(even more). Otherwise ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hey, love the work you put out find your guides and videos very well thought out and detailed with enough to keep you engrossed enough that when I took a year break from the game I'd still find myself watching some of your videos :-) well back in the game again now and I used to run the Malcolm necro tank build absolutely loved going ham on people constantly due to the ultimate regen, I noticed the guide only says it's updated till quarter 1 2023 does it still work as it used to or has it fallen away now, thank you for getting me interested in the game again

Looking forward to necro build vids for u41 xy.. Biggup yourself bro!

Hello mate, thanks for that Video and the much Informations... What set did you use for this Necro??

This simplifys my understanding of how it works. I still dont think i like it. When i first read that they changed it to enhance class abilities, not just gravelord, i was excited to use ruinous scythe as my spammable for hemorrhage. But i need corpses...so i feel like im being pigeon holed into using skulls. It seems like a very strange choice to change the skill to simplify rotation, but then do skulls the way they are as well. I dont wanna be negative but it feels like it was very rushed and not fully thought out before being implemented. Could be wrong. But it feels that way.

Is that every third tracked the same as the extra damage skull, or could they get out of sync if you cast a skull before the buff goes active?

When i heard/read the changes to blastbones i thought it was pretty brillant especially with the changes to disease. Its perfect for those that love to play that ARPG thornbuild setup IMO and im sure it can have many other possibilties depending on how you do your build. My first idea was to do a Zaans,Azureblight,DeadlyStrike setup as soon as possible. Like the changes for the Necro and the Sorc so far, very excited to try them out. Xynode Thank You so much for your indepth reviews and to not cast everything aside as a bad change as many do. Greatly Appreciate It and You.

Your awesome and awesome video be safe out there big fan of world of warcaf and Eos

With the class skill buff --- does this open a portal to a possible pet build set up?

Should i play this class for magicka dps I'm new to the game

Hey xynode ty for that easy sorc build it came in clutch 1st vateshran clear only 2 deaths 255k score so glad i can farm the arena thanks to your build just ran it a 2nd time I got no deaths under 45 minutes without sigils your build is amazing I got a 270k and my title (SPIRIT SLAYER)

I used blight blast bones on my necro healer so the defile debuff one would be my choice seeing the healers buff and debuff stuff

My necro tank going to win on this update

Skeletal summon should be two archers. Make you feel more like you can summon multiples. And also the aoe ulti. Should summon a couple blastbones.. necris should have a summoned army...

Definitely gonna level up my stam necro now. I was initially a hater but you explained it in a way that made it make sense. Ready for the update now

It's like we're paying the devs to miss every update with necro 😂

Does that mean blighted Blastbones will proc snake in the stars now? 🤔

So guys is it kinda save that we get the changes or what are the chances ?

I was mesmerised with the damage

I have a magika necro and i used to like the blast bones skill very often....maybe i should try a stamina necro? :) But i do enjoy this news about the variant of blast bones that is a buff for you. Might return to the game 🤔

I hope they do stuff with scythe too! I love that skill to death and i do not want to start spamming skulls instead of scythes.

I'm concerned my mag necro BB build will not survive these changes.

Why can't we have the bone totem remade and instead summon skeletal warriors that stun (shield bash/dash)? This will add bodies to be used, and the class fantasy will be a little more tangible. The morphs can be two fragile skeletons or one stronger skeleton that lasts longer. The skill line of the bone tyrant is the only one that doesn't summon any minions, and the fact that the totem is extremely useless would give more variety to the class.

Best way is to buff passives. Add the 1500 Pen when any summon is up. Tether, spirit etc. Add 5% bonus damage to enemies below 25% (along with the increased Crit chance). Add longer uptime on the Empower buff from grave grasp. If you double bar summons, they stay permanently. Add 5% to the Damage, healing, and damage reduction (unique, not minor berserk).

I actually like this changes a lot 😌

It lacks a buff to necro healing abilities, so I'd move further and made sacrificial morph buff a flat weapon and spell damage addition to class abilities, ca. 450-600 units. It would make the class feel confident in any encounter. And add Major brutality/sorcery already in the class toolkit!!

So if it stacks with deadly, some monster sets with Ansuls will be nasty like Prior and Zaans

when i first read about the change i was annoyed and tbh in hindsight i think i totally misread it, i thought they were trying to force magcro blastbones users into using a stam skill, later i saw the benefits of the new mag morph but im still a little 50/50 on it, id like the addition of a permapet ala sorc or warden but thats just me being greedy lol, will wait and see if this changes anything about my necro builds that use blastbones, cheers for the vid Xy appreciated as ever

If I sound angry, I am. My main character is an Necromancer, and worse, a Vampire also. Both the class, and skill line are in need of a lot of love from ZOS. Here is hoping.

Im beginning to like it, but please do something about the Skeleton archer/mage.... Is there a anymore useless skill in the game? lol

Title should be more unnecessary changes to necromancer.

I've mentioned on another post about necro. What I'd like to see is blast bones and it's magic morph changed to function similar to the warden subterranean assault. Instead of summoning a skeleton you summon in an area a group of spirits doing damage to enemies.

That change looks great to me. The blastbones was powerful but both annoying & often only useful sparingly as mobs died before the skeleton reached them. & since it would just stand there unless there was another group close enough, it was oft wasted (at least for me). This change looks like I'd have more control over where my damage is going & I'd prefer that when playing as a ranged necro.

So my poison necro using Defiler/Scav Demise is going to be a little stronger… nice.

From what I understand, I should change my solo Mag Necro to Stamina Defile.

Yesterday i came back after 4 years. Never played that much of tje game, but then when i decided to go ham on it, and dust my old lvl 15 ne ro, just realized was something different with blast bones... Now i see this... I refuse to give up, will play stamcro until i enjoy it. Period. Games changin always, gotta deal with it

I just wanna use Blast Bones without the Skull...

Tbf, Boneyard should have been the skill that gives a corpse on demand. From that skill then they could have reworked the rest of the gravelord skills which are all very underwhelming. I would have liked to see BB summon two melee skeletons (with sword & board) that fight for you then recast the skill to make them charge at an enemy and explode. Gives you more control.

It's incredible how Zenimax did what no one asked for...since the first day of this class, the only thing we wanted were permanent skeletons...like a regular Necromancer...RIP Necromancer, again.

Need a skill where you can explode corpses that would be nice

Having to be in combat feels awful for the new morph sadly (tested on pts) :( I am also not a big fan of the animation. I am a magcro but it feels like I need to do the stam morph now. I just wish the stam morph had a better pve debuff.

So no necromancer permanent summons? And an army? Of all the fantasy rpg/mmos I played have necromancer with permanent summons. GW2 necromancer, WoW Unholy Dk, Rift, and Diablo 3 and 4.

Long as I can keep playing fetch with my skelly....

the devs sure are doing everything EXCEPT what ppl ask for. how does the necromancer have no permanent summons and basically only two timed ones, none of necros kit feekls fun to play nor is it good over anything else. imo theyre out of touch and lazy ah. just let us summon the dead ffs

Take the new BB morph and just use animate BB ult... best of both worlds

I feel like the only things Necromancers wanted was for them to fix blastbones’ targeting, alternative play style to the blastbones play, do something with the summons, and make corpse play better for the necromancer. A few other things could be changed but this should’ve been the starting point for this patch. Blastbones should target whoever you target while casting and if that target is gone it goes for nearest enemy. Stalking Blastbones should become an execute ability called Tormenting Blastbones. (Do stamina necros need an execute when nearly every weapon they use has one, no? Okay). Make Flame Skull produce a corpse. Make the Skeletal summons last longer and make them slightly weaker but summon two instead of one. Give the Bone Tyrant a summon. A Skeletal Warrior Summon. Make it have a tanking morph and a damage morph. Probably replace it with Bone Totem and move the Totem to the Living Death line or something. Now people have the ability to produce more corpses, for their abilities. You could even create a mechanic where you can “cast” the summon ability of the necro to consume a near by corpse to increase the duration of the summon.

The skill still needs alot of work. And why did they knock back down dam to 15 percent the class is already underperforming than all the other classes

It feels like a big nerf for pvp. It may be easier for pve content but i dont see how you would burst someone in pvp. Also the change from fire isnt as good as most pvp builds use vamp nowadays. Nearly nobody uses skulls and try to hit 3 Times a fleeing NB... it wont work.

After all these years we're still not an ACTUAL NECROMANCER!! Smh should be able to summon enemies u just recently killed

I want optional perma skeletons/minions :D key word (optional)

Speaking only for myself I feel the class skill line is too click heavy and for many players too easy to get out of sync and lose big chunks of dmg especially in moving fights. Others have made comments that I feel players would like to see more of is some type of pet or group of zombies that can be controlled and used either as shield or attack in some way. Compared to other classes the necro feels like it lacks burst attack that's truly useable. In the build up time of skills and for everything to actually kick in often the fight is already over or it's moved on and your DOTs are doing nothing as the mobs have left the area. Watching and playing with Sorc heavy light attacks standing and just blowing up rooms with 1 skill seems like the necro is just wasting time. I have a character I've played but too often I go back to what works and use other classes.

the buff is increasing damage done class abilities...so i can spam scythe now

PVE improvements, but it doesn’t fix how they destroyed this class in pvp. What’s the point of buffing class and damage over time skills if you are changing the way blast bones work. This class doesn’t have a way to naturally give itself major/ brutally, its stuns are not useful in pvp as they are easily avoidable, what attack skills does the class have?

Imagine raising mini bosses and any add from the dead for limited time lmao only one could dream. 💀

Just out necro back to the way it was when it first released

They're making wrong updates on the class. I don't want to wait 2 or 3 years for the class to be playable. They should seriously increase durations of Armor buff, and the pets to 25secs. One of the Necro passives where it says an increase in critical chance when enemy is below 25% health, add 10% critical damage as well. And just add minor breach, minor berserk, and minor courage on their skills somehow. Boom!!!! Class fixed and playable.

its like zos has no idea what players want from the class

ZOS, say's that they are balancing stuff, etc.., but there is a majority of unused skills in the Necromancer skill line they can choose from, probably around 98% of them. Why pick 1 of the 2% of useful class skills , to F**k with?.

Hmm interesting

Yep. Until the next update, when they nerf the necromancer yet again, that has been nerfed, nerfed, and nerfed again and again since it's inception into the game. On first release, the Necromancer was up there with the strongest classes in game, now the necromancer class playing solo, can just about handle a bunch of skeever's, It has gone from one of the most powerful classes in game, to one of the most useless for both PVE, and PVP. Again ZOS decide to F**K with Necromancer, and of all the class skills to F**K with, they choose stalking blastbones; that they know 100%, most necromancers rely on. Blastbones AOE, has already been nerfed, same as spirit mender, now they will do away with it altogether. Years ago, I created a character, an Necromancer, and have had years of fun with that character. The fun has gone, ZOS have killed it. RIP Necromancer.

Looks like the mag blast bones is clunky af sure humping a dummy it work's...cant see it doing fuck all in pvp

The magicka version of Blastbones sounds stupid complicated. I dig the Stamina version though.

garbage. completely killed a playstyle for a worse one lol

Nothing of this fixes necro's real problems, those being bugginess and lack of basic buffs available to other classes to mention a few. Wow, a new morph gives 15% DoT damage... but necro has no native dots. Wow, skulls now deals more damage... but skulls is so slow that in PvP even a newbie will have eternity to block or roll-dodge it. Wow, you get both minor and major defile simultaneously on a target... that you won't kill anyway because you are stuck in an eternal loop of self-buffing not to die. And to sprinkle some love for the finishing tips - the necromancer doesn't feel anything like necromancers described in the lore: commanding hordes of undead and wielding the power of death itself. Instead we get a sorc from Wish that has to kit its both bars with guild/weapon skills just to stay alive even without a hope of being competitive. Necro is dead in PvP for a good reason and ZOS doesn't hear feedback at all because "look, shiny arcanist. Buy. Buy! BUY!1!" Kind of gave up on my maincro already and don't believe ZOS will fix it.

No sir, I don't like it.

"Buff and all necromancer abilities are stronger" This is a class with just TWO ranged class attacks for gods sake. One of them WAS Blastbones. You're down to just Skull now, and Skull STILL underperforms as any spammable. Or you just de-morph Blastbones and have ranged magic attack that class NEEDS. They need to scrap whole thing. That's all. Necro has already Spirit Mender and Arcanist/Archer. THEY should give this buff. If these people struggle then they have few other classes to play, also third cast .. you just have to count to three. Also I can't shake feeling that what you presented was just ... boring. It looked awfully boring. You just stand there and blast thing in front of you, it flies in contrast of being you know .. magicka user who blasts things from afar and tries to keep them afar ? While yeah I love close combat on my main, that is because he has variety of NON BLASTBONES to have on close range for him. So I literally have fun from scythe, you did not used scythe + totem of anguish here .. instead you wholly relied on clunky skull. Skull DOES feel clunky from get go. It's really sad what they are doing to my favourite class. Blastbones was freaking fun. I loved the animation, I loved the attack, I loved the playstyle it allowed me on my hybrid (an actual hybrid, not misguided ZOS idea of what that means). Now they try to ruin it because .. combat dev is pvp head maining Nightblade and got panties in twist over fact that Necromancer was better bomber build. That's all. I think this game needs new combat dev ... asap. He even neglects the fact that he has been ruining Nightblade's damage on pve side .. I think people who mained Necromancers, like myself, should just group up and start new campaign, namely make many posts on almost every popular forum titled "So what other MMO has Necromancer similar to ESO ? Looking for advise". ZOS only does revert awful changes when something drastic happens. Having chunk of playerbase just threat to leave game could work. That and if this awful thing does go live, then spam tickets for Feedback in live game and definately give piece of mind how awful they made playstyles.

so they made it less cool? nice

Because thse devs are just straight garbage i feel its getting easier to just let this game die...they atent gamers and they have no idea what they are doing. Most of their efforts go towards making the gsme into an interactive store.

Eso necro is not a real necro

I don't know man..... this looks not awesome. I've been playing so long that messing with play styles can be tricky.