How to PVP as a Necromancer

I have been told to write more about the game instead of the ingame drama, which has turned me into an attention-seeking 12-year old troll. Now i could say that if you want to read about the game, go to the forums, but as i really don't want to lose my 3-4 readers i have to do some crowd-pleasing :). So i thought i would compose a few tips for my fellow Necromancers, when it comes to PvP. Hopefully, other classes might appreciate this as well, as you can see our weaknessess might be exposed!

This post entails 1 vs 1 only, not minigames or other mass-PvP. This information is also only about Nightfall, as i think Reanimation sucks as it is now.

First of all, here is my build:

http://www.conanarmory.com/feat.aspx?id=9#::cf30ebe2fef2efaf2efdef2e2fe2fefe3f2ef2ef2ebf3e2f:


Preparing:
Before you start challenging people, make sure you have your most important spells bound to your keys. A "clicking" necro will die very fast, trust me. You will want to bind the following:

Mark of the Devourer, Gelid Bones, Pesential (sp?) Blast, Worms to Flesh, Lifestrike, Unimaginable Terror, Deaths Terror, Grip of Death, Purge, Decay, Blasphemous Ruin, Ritual of the Lich, Spellweave and health pots.

You will also need to stack up with some Daggamalt (or better) as well as some 4 hour food, which increases your health some (it saves you from the ToS-one shot)


Hint: Start out light:
In the beginning you shouldn't try to duel our bane-classes Assassin and Barbarian as they might ruin all your motivation :). Try on some DT:s and some Rangers, as they die with ease.

What spells to use:
Every class you face have their own advantages and disadvantages, and i wont go through every class here. But in generalm this is what i use (and often get away with it):

1. Summon a Life-Stealer to have at your side in every duel.
2. Freeze
3. Frenzy your pet (it will slow your target)
4. Mark of the Devourer
5. Gelid Bones
6. Ice Shackle
7. Life Strike
8. Flesh to Worms
9. Grip of Death
10. Enter Spellweave

Now, depending on your target, i would say that you can kill most cloth-wearers without using GoD. Anothet thing which is CRUICAL is to RUN RUN RUN! I usually run away after point 5, and using a pot when i do it. Your target will then try to catch up, failing to do that as he is slowed. You can also use the environment to get out of Line of Sight.

Running is especially important when you face CC-classes such as Assassin and Barbarian. If you let an assa or barb get close to you, you are dead. When facing an Assa, run until his Avatar of Death has faded, and eventually try to Freeze him. Once frozen, he is dead meat.

Practise makes perfect
In the beginning you will die in most of your fights, but as you fight more and more you will become better. Don't let losses get you down.

Miss Stygia 2009!

Even though its 2009, i managed to become Miss Stygia 2009 on the server, mostly for my skills as a loose whore:

Worst players on Aquilonia!

Alright, so there's a thread on the official forums covering the best of each class on this server, judged from performance in duels mainly. As there are major class imbalances and as duels are more of a rock-scissor-bag fight, these lists can be questioned.

There hasn't however, been a list over the worst players on the server, and it's my intention with this post to find out the top 5 worst players. This is NOT going to be based on PvP-performance, but on playstyle in general. It's up to the readers of this blog to decide and nominate. Post a comment in this post with your nominee and a motivation. Note that i will post ANY NOMINEE as long as the motivation is well written. Nominate me if you feel like it :).

I will start:

Azlea, 80 Ranger, C.L.A.N
Azlea is a retard, mostly for his cowardly playstyle as he shoots you from stealth, and when you turn on him to counter his attacks, he runs off to the guards. This happens every time i face him, even when he and his fellow guildies are outnumbering the rest of us in Keshetta. Another thing he has started with latley, is standing by the guards ang shooting criminals. Big douche indeed.


Beton 80 Guard [Fatality](i believe)
Stands in front of the guards to. Only he charges any easy kills (10% health, fighting mobs, talking to npc, dueling etc), does a few white swings and runs back to the if he can't win..
Provided by Anonymous


Nasher (Nesher?), 80 Ranger, Agronaut
Nasher has pretty same playing style as Azlea, but fails quite often when he tries run to the guards. Also /tells like "Go F-word your dead mothers organ" are his strong points (but I think someone has reported him because haven't got them lately). It is common to spot him places which are counted as "exploiting" like roofs at Kesh city. In GEM era his favorite spot was on the rock above Oasis resspad and shooting down people who was just ressed.
Provided by Galadh


Flathe
But my nomine right now is Flathe. Oh my f*cking lord is this ranger pathetic! He has absolutely no control over his CC, he pops everything right away, meaning he wastes all his CC right away. He stands at the dueling-area in Kheshatta behind his friends, shooting at people he don't like. Easy XP for him I guess. But worst of all; he keeps whining over his DPS, most likely becuase he fails at killing anyhting.
Provided by Anonymous2


Otso 80lvl Ranger (Relict)
I have neve seen him in the oasis, he ONLY attacks when you are fighting somebody else and already lost 50% of his health.
Provided by Anonymous3

Larsarus
you should vote for lasarsus and not maggy.Maggy is by far one of the greatest in pvp i have seen.
Provided by Jolantha

Sweden - Russia: 0 -2 :(

Empowered by vodka and with KGB-tactics Russian Celestial managed to burn down Condemned battlekeep yesterday.

What should have been a glorious victory, became a day of defeat for Nova Krepusko, Condemned and Band of the Gray Clover who tried to fence off the evil forces of The Empire.

Since i didn't take part in this myself (i was out drinking Smirnoff and hitting on russian ice-skating tennisplayers) i can't really say what went wrong, but they won and that's that. I would assume that the russians were playing from their bootcamp out in the Siberian tundra, where wins are awarded with vodka and losses are punished swedish vodka. So driven by that, it's not strange they won, eh.

Anyway, here's another episode of Celestial's high scool documentary Kreml High. In this episode, we see how Russia amazingly enough scores against Sweden in the 94' Euro (i think it was). "Salenko has once again humiliated the great satan from the West" is my favorite line.

Kill 'em and steal their borstj! A drum drum!

Tonight Nova Krepusko will help our friends in Condemned to defend their Battle Keep from the Celestial kosack-dancers. This is the first time NK gets to kill Celestial properly since they burned down our more or less undefended BK, and i really hope for a good, proper fight.

I can't join this onslaught myself as i will shower in Smirnoff all night long. Hope our other necros will obliterate the russians using GoD with Spellweaving.

In GoD we trust!

Oh yea, you all probably know that Mother Russia kept their national anthem when they switched from Soviet to Russia. I found the translation of the lyrics, i dont know if they changed or not:

PR and AoC

My day to day job is as a PR-consultant, and according to the latest news in AoC Aquilonia will merge with Corinthia. This means that there will be alot of new, swedish players seeking a guild to join, and Nova Krepusko is the most viable choice as we are one of the largest swedish guilds in the game (if not the largest).

So right now we are discussing a PR-strategy to broaden our brand and recruit more people. It's gonna be fun to apply my proffesional knowledge into this game, although im sure it's gonna be very tricky :).

The nerf is imminent

So after i have been duelling through saturday and sunday, lots of people have been whining about how OP the necro is. This isn't right at all, im winning about 50% of my duels and i consider myself to be a good dueller. So how are we OP? The OP thing about necros is the fact that we go into 100% crit chance immidietly in spellweave. This of course raises the question how Funcom will nerf us, cause im sure they will :).

A good thing would be if they nerfed the Spellweaving for the necros. Right now, we can get Death God (100% crit chance) immidietly, which makes Grip of Death extremly OP, as it sometimes hits for 1800 pet tick. GoD without Spellweave isn't more OP than Demo's equivalent.

However, knowing Funcom i think they will nerf the necros in more ways. Perhaps an overall damagereduction of our entire spell-line? Time will tell of course, but i will be really pissed if they make this class unplayable (again).