First off, i am not a fan of the way mana regen works currently. In a group its not that bad because you have other people to take the heat for you allowing you to regen mana. However when soloing being completely incapable of regenerating any mana while being attacked combined with the fact that you are almost exclusively taking the hits has made for several deaths that could have been avoided with just 1 or 2 ticks of mana.

Now on to the class itself. I am fairly satisfied so far with the necromancer in Age of Conan. At first it was difficult because i am not used to playing a cloth wearing pet class that doesn't use the pets to tank or some form of cc to keep the mobs away. After i have played with it a little bit i am adjusting and its not so bad. Which brings me to the pets.

So far i find the pets fairly lackluster, other than about 20 seconds out of every two minutes they are completely incapable of pulling aggro no matter how little i do. now i realize that up to level 20 i only have 1 type of pet and have barely scratched the surface but i am commenting on the first 20 levels so... To be honest, the pets so far have been little more than a really annoying DoT you have to re-summon EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU ZONE. Now having just hit level 20 i gained my second pet which i have points in to give him a chance to proc an unholy AoE, i think i get another spell around 25ish so im hoping things are gonna start looking up on the pet end.

As far as CC goes, i basically have none. The fear is mildly useful however its more of an O shit button than a real CC. The root however, i have found to be amazingly useless. The duration isnt terrible nor is the cool down but its the range that kills me.... its a cone which is nice but... come on ... 8m 10 degree angle.... i can count the number of times i have actually successfully hit a mob with this spell on one hand....

As far as my unholy nukes go im pretty satisfied,my single target DPS is on par with most other classes i have come across, mind u rogues tend to have me beat if they get a stealth attack off, but my Parasitic swarm aoe is ungodly doing over 1000 dmg in 10 seconds to all mobs near me and having a pretty high chance to summon a temp pet for the next fight. I did a group run though the arch ruins on Tortage and i was absolutely decimating groups of mobs...

the ice spells however i find almost useless. I haven't really had a chance to try out deathly blizzard but other than the fact that it is target able rather than PB it is inferior in every way to parasitic swarm, the ice nuke does less dmg with the same cast and cool down as my unholy nuke and chill is even less dps. I have given my opinion already on the ice root.

Lastly there is pvp. Other than a couple of encounters whlie quest grinding i have had very little pvp experience in the first few levels. Pretty much the victor came down to who got the jump. If i can catch an enemy at max range i can generally kill them or weaken them severely before they get in range. If a melee gets in range of me before ive had a chance to soften him up, i honestly dont stand a chance in hell. Im just way too squishy to stand toe to toe with a melee for more than a few seconds and i have no real way to keep them at bay.

Other than a bit of blandness in the pets and a couple of worthless spells im prety satisfied with the necro in PvE. My damage is where i feel it should be with rogues beating me in single target while i prevail in multi target dps. On the pvp front i feel i am a bit weak, with no cc i am unable to keep melee classes at bay and unless i have time to weaken them first i cannot hope to survive.

~~ Nindydar