Discussion Necromancers and other magic

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  1. Esperreal

    Esperreal [The Real Esper], [The Specialest Snowflake]

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    I was wondering what other type of magic would go well with necromancy.

    to me necromancy is summoning/controlling undead, curses/other debuffs, cc (example bone cage or grasp of death), and some attack type magic.

    I personally think that ice based magic would go well since it would have a lot of CC which I notice necromancers usually lack making up for it with their summons to restrain / slow their enemies while they either prepare a big spell or make some form of preparations. even if they mostly rely on their summmons CC spells are always a good thing to have, not to mention ice magic can be used a lot like earth magic making walls / obsticales, imprison enemies, various forms of attacks, and much more

    So what do you guys think, what other types of magic could go with necromancy.

    All ideas are welcome!
     
  2. Liyus

    Liyus Laksha's Desu~ Cat

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    why wasting their energy on something like a wall, when all they need to do is casting a slow curse....
    and i think a poison element is better than ice....
     
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    pietothesky Well-Known Member

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    Only magic generally opposed to Necromancy is Illusions/Charms. So elemental wizardry of any typegoes along well. Such as d&ds cone of cold, shocking grasp, or fireball. Time based buff spells also synergize rather well with undead such as haste and time stop.
    Necromancers typically also have access to weak healing spells, unless they are divine spellcasters rather then arcane.
    A cleric/divine caster tends to have buff/debuff spells rather then direct damage. Figure more like curses and blessings. Like blinding, diseases, and other similar effects.
     
  4. Robbini

    Robbini Logical? Illogical? Random? Or Just Unique?

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    If you could mix them, holy.

    Make necromantic creatures impervious to holy magic, and you've suddenly got a very, very tough to kill army.

    Other than that, there's no magic system that wouldn't have a counter against it, so each system would help out, until it's countered.
     
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    juniorjawz Well-Known Member

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    Necro, rune trap and infection-based magic
    It's either death by kaboom or a slow death.
    Then the dead rise, and the cycle continue till no man is alive.
     
  6. Echoes

    Echoes 【Wandering Monk】

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    Barrier magic.
    Either to protect them self. Or to place it in one of the undead and detonate it.
    And there is variety of barrier, be it repel, suppres, or anything.
     
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    Illusionism or conjuration obviously.
     
  8. Shizaki

    Shizaki Well-Known Member

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    I always thought that the necromancer from Diablo 2 is pretty much well balanced if you mention his other abilities like curses and such.
     
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    Holy/healing magic. That way power over life as well as death. Light + dark =OP
     
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    Scarecrow > dev/null

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    Holy magic. You'd never know when your underling starts revolting right? And its useful in various situation. Like infiltrating the church and then reanimating the various leaders and members of the church to spite on them. Muahahahaha
     
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    Poison, ice , and darkness
     
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    pietothesky Well-Known Member

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    Yeah cloud kill and stinking cloud go along well with a necromancer thematically.
    Ice is an excellent synergistic element as undead are either directly immune or have strong resistance to cold though
     
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    Raneday Not Rane

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    holy and fire it would be nice if they can control their opposing elements
     
  14. Sordahon

    Sordahon 『One Person Virtue Is Another One Sin』

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    The most glaring weakness is when enemy breaks trough your undead to kill you, so good surprise would be being stronger than any undead you rise, Necromancer/Death knight.
     
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    Hm... a Light Magic User Undead/ Holy Undead... Like the one from BTFTLIAW..
    or may be a Necromancer with space and time magic
     
  16. nubdog

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    oh please u don't need to be tied down to a certain system , it doesn't even have to be magic , just make some believable excuse so that character can get an interesting cc skill or something , use your imagination man , the more you mix with similar non flexible ideas the more your thinking gets limited , not saying the suggestions here are bad or anything but its the best if u can do it with your own original flavour
     
  17. Simon

    Simon [The Pure One's Chief Steward][Demon Beast]

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    Buffs, Body Transformations and Fleshcrafting , the Necromancer should have a good understanding of the body.

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  18. ln_

    ln_ All hail Master Roshi

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    throwing body parts magic. If you are a necromancer, you can always find undead body parts. You can add some runes/explosive powder on it and keep throwing them like summoned grenades ..

    Modify zombies, skeletons etc into cannons. Imagine a skeleton cannon. it will break upon falling inside a castle but reassemble itself and start attacking.

    Reverse summon, put some runes on the undead throw it to a far away place and then teleport yourself there.

    Eyes of death. Whenever an animal dies, as long as it is within a control radius, use its spirit to see everything thats happening in that place. Must be awesome for covert ops.
     
  19. nubdog

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    change yourself into some core and put yourself in your land whale undead and take direct control of it so u can hide underground while being safe while manipulating your minions , while doing that let the land whale let out some explosive gas from its air hole and let it flow to above ground , then control an undead above ground to ignite it and pretty much kill everyone simple
     
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    Insta death and auto summon as undead
    Immortality
     
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