Necro mage with spellweaving

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• Grimbeard Posts: 3,182

  August 29

  Mystic mage far stronger 
• Arnold7 Posts: 1,469

  August 30 edited August 30

  If you have the spellweaving mastery active,you can generate an arcane focus without anyone else standing in the circle with you.  Unfortunately, it will only be focus of 3.  That’s much better than a 0, but not nearly as good as a six for word of death spell.
• Pawain Posts: 11,192

  August 30

  I've tried very hard to actually kill things with necro spells.  You actually see damage to difficult mobs with necro spells?   The best I could come up with is corpse skin and use fire damage. 

  Focus on what you can do, not what you can't.
• Grimbeard Posts: 3,182

  August 30

  Wither good for tot in some dungeon and for champ spawns but it's short range sucks realistically if not for vampiric embrace and wraith form it would seldom be used
• loop Posts: 518

  August 30

  This is my favorite mage:
  
  Spellweaving 120
  spirit speak 120
  eval 120
  mage 100
  necro 100
  heal 100
  anat 100
  
  I stick with the Spellweaving mastery for Mana Shield and Summon Reaper. Attune weapon, WoD, and the heal over time spell I use a lot.
  
  This template is hard to gear because you need to dump int and pump dex for bandages, and you wear non-med gear for over capped LMC. You sustain mana entirely with wraith form. It can be frustrating not having resisting spells.
  
  It would be interesting to go the necro mastery route instead of having spellweaving:
  
  Necro 120
  Spirit 120
  Eval 120
  Mage 100
  Heal 100
  Anat 100
  Poisoning 100 or med or inscription or parry
  
  

  Poisoning is quite poor, but it gives you some immunity to poisons, so I might actually favor it or parry in this case. Resisting spells would be great, but it would be too difficult to make up for penalties incurred from Protection. I might play around with it on TC since the gearing would be the same as my current template.
• loop Posts: 518

  August 31

  I took the above necro mastery template to TC and enjoyed it conceptually, though I could only really practice on lower level stuff.
  
  I find the process of procuring skeletal dragons to be more annoying than getting a full focus while on the spellweaving mastery. Additionally, I've seen quite a few complaints on their pathing and AI since they do not behave like bonded pets. Keeping to wraith form makes things better since you are not moving at mounted speed.
  
  I intend to try this template out at the next event. I foresee the skeletal dragons dying quickly and leaving the mastery feeling useless relative to spellweaving which offers so much. I've been pondering what it would look like to take veterinary for keeping the dragons alive while you wither.
  
  Necro 120
  Spirit 120
  Eval 120
  Vet 100
  Mage 100
  
  Hiding 100 and stealth 80 for something different?
  Poisoning 100 and rest in med?
  Resist 120 and rest in med?
  Heal + Anat for something more complicated and defensive wrestling?
  
  In general, though, necro does seem less popular in PVM because the spells don't work with slayers. The curses are probably more useful in PVP. I personally struggle to target things in UO and find wither fun to use.
  
  
• Grimbeard Posts: 3,182

  August 31

  Don't think you can heal them with vet?