Community Poll: Did the Necro Update go far Enough?

Necro right now is in an interesting place to say the least. The class should definitely be based around the mobs, but instead the class itself is insanely tanky and in certain situations can be considered as or close to tanky as heavy.

The reactiveness on the mobs needs to be buffed/changted, and then if the zombies go from zombie kittens to World War Z grade then I think we are pretty good to go.

 

Well necro is still here so i'm gonna say no

 

Ye necro tank class it very op it best class
P.S necro is trash ples remove kthxbai

 

no

everything

 

Necro is viable, but extremely situational. As long as the class has mobs and the ai isn't fixed it won't be good without being broken. We'd have to overbuff it so much for it to be meta right now that it would be too strong.

I honestly don't know what to do with necro from here on out. I doubt we'll be able to get any major changes to necro, if any at all, done soon.

 

Necromancer now is funnier than it was back in 2013 lul XD haha meme

 

I think remove a steak, but buff the mobs.

 

To put this into perspective, I was able to stand next to a group of enemy mobs for three minutes, occasionally attacking them or the necro; the mobs never attacked me once. That should never happen, the AI needs work above all else.

 

it seems that people are in quite a debate over this.

How bout deleting it all together? :3

Problem solved.

 

Yesterday I held the flag for about 18 minutes in a medium-big game. It was probably too easy to hold the flag considering necro has a "soldier" armor, more steak (so same health pretty much), and pickaxe that does more soldier's iron sword. It's got surprisingly good base stats, and I got my first 15+ killstreak after about a year of owning it. However, the abilities of necro are practically useless. All 16/16 of my kills were done using just the pickaxe, and even after I spawned blazes, they could not hit anything. The zombies and skeletons were even more useless in that the AI could not track more than one player and they had a limit to how many. Sometimes, I accidentally killed my super-buffed mob by overloading the mob limit, which was really annoying. Seeing how necro has weak abilities but great armor/melee damage, I think there should be a tradeoff where the armor/melee is nerfed to like engi armor and medic's damage but boosted with abilities as good (or bad depending on how you look at it) as engi's. Currently, necro is like mage because it's annoying, except that it's fun for nobody, not even the necro.

 

Considering hypotheticals will help get some ideas going. For example, say we could go back in time to before necro became nothing more than a bad joke. Knowing how the nerf(s) effected the class, how would you adjust said nerfs? Then, ask if your changes would balance with the current ctf.

 

what necro update

 

go away bob

 

I miss the ability to heal the mobs.

 

You can still heal mobs.

 

how about we return it to the old days where whatever person the necro last hit, the zombies relentlessly hunted down like a pack of rabid wolves?