Silly Drow Necromancers

[Kimeni]

I went running out into the King's Forest tonight, to look for a fight before logging for the evening, when I abundant stepped over a cliff, and saw two Drow Necromancer's standing around looking mischevious.

Knowing how they like to take turns raising each other, I floated down gracefully and stunning fist'd the first one, then ran over to the second one (which had ran off about 20 paces) and quivering palmed him.

Then as I turned around to go back to my stunned buddy, I realized he was saving me some time by 'sliding' over to me! He stopped sliding next to his dead drowmate, stood there innocently, then rotated (still stunned) to look at me.

So, naturally, I punched him in the face.

About that time, I saw the dead necromancer come back into the fight again, about 20 paces away. So I stopped punching the first (still living one) in the face, and ran over and Stuck the dead guy in a tomb of jade.

Then, I amusedly returned to the living one, which had about 5% hp left, and roundhoused him to the floor.

At which point. The Jade statue, which had been peacefully standing by, suddenly zoomed over, posed next to the (now horizontal) other guy, then quickly pivoted to face me.

SO - THEN the second one I killed appeared about 20 paces away...

I'm sure these Necromancer's have been the source of many laughs, and probably a few scowls and guffaws. Do you have an interresting experience with them?
Do Share!

[Kmnh]

My usual MO is "ignore the necromancers." You don't need to kill them to complete the quest, so dealing with them is a waste of time. They usually get CC'd or kited on group runs.

[SHOCK_and_AWE]

If I'm not zerging, I'll usually target the necromancers first and kill them twice (living then undead).

[FuzzyDuck81]

So, naturally, I punched him in the face.

I've decided i'm going to make this my new catchphrase for any anecdote involving my monks

[doomboy]

i am one....

[KutchemesTheDark]

Drink a haste pot , Drop one of necromancers %10 hp ,kill other one than kill prepared works %80 of time.

[MrkGrismer]

Yeah, I noticed that necros have a 'priority move' to raise anything killed near them, especially another necromancer, that takes precedence over crowd control. Casters and archers all have a similar move when they take damage to 'reposition'. There appears to be absolutely nothing that can be done to stop these 'priority moves'.

[DaSawks]

Seems kinda strange that I cannot move when Held, Stoned, Paralized or Stun'd but mobs can? They can even cast spells. Necromancers are just one of the mobs that play by there own rules.

My favorite experience was a pair of Necromancers in one of the House quests (forget which one). I was soloing on my WF FVS when I entered a kitchen type area. Killed all the trash then went to the Necro's. Killed one while the other raised just about eveything in the room. Went after trash again. Swept the room saving that last necro for the end. He raised the first necro while I beat him down. First necro raised everything again. ARRRRG!

Too bad Spawn Screen does not work on mobs.

[Sylvenon]

I find that simultaneously erasing them from the multiverse prohibits raises, and makes the fight a lot shorter. EiN ftw!

[Miow]

common guys you just have to get used to it, just another thing that happens but really shouldn't you kinda have to give up and go with the flow at this point.

[Nibor]

I like when an inactive necromancer raises the dead, while remaining inactive.
"Oh hey a dead body, we'll just turn that into a zombie. Now, what was I doing? Oh, yes, staring at the wall over here in case of attack."

Also, last time I ran House of Undying, a guard spawned in the wall, standard bug. It was near a Priestess, who of course ate him out of the wall.
Then a necromancer in another room raised him out of the wall, so we could kill the zombie.

[Thrudh]

My favorite experience was a pair of Necromancers in one of the House quests (forget which one). I was soloing on my WF FVS when I entered a kitchen type area. Killed all the trash then went to the Necro's.

Kill necros first.

[Rauven]

I find those necromancers to be extremely annoying. My own "yep, this is Turbine" moment was when I assassinated both necro's (they were standing together and I double assassinated), went on to kill the archers and fighters only to see that both necro's had been raised as zombies. There were no other necro's around.

[FlimsyFirewood]

Wow, this is definitely not working as intended. Have you filed any bugs reports regarding their atrocious behavior? These necromancers have been naughty, to say the least.

[Tyrande]

Flimsy, not only necromancers are naughty, drow priestesses are naughty girls too.

I was on my artificer in the underdark two days ago and the drow priestess was sacrificing slaves while being a statue.

I think this is an olde bug related to paralyzed, held, blinded, stunned, monsters.

[FlimsyFirewood]

No, it's their new logic (sacrifice/raise dead) that is forgetting to check their current condition. Please bug report incidents like this per monster type.

[Missing_Minds]

Wow, this is definitely not working as intended. Have you filed any bugs reports regarding their atrocious behavior? These necromancers have been naughty, to say the least.

Quite frankly, given how.... trying to do any tactical stuff on casters works to try to get them to stop casting spells.

trip them? they run on their butts.
Stun them? They run away dazed while still casting,
etc.

I think most of us have given up bug reporting it as to players it is all the same thing. Bad fish that just won't get fixed.

Players gave up on the devs in this sort of case scenario honestly, so why continue to bug report it? Sure, you can give logical reasons on why we should, but when players never see any change, update after update....

[Dawnsfire]

Quite frankly, given how.... trying to do any tactical stuff on casters works to try to get them to stop casting spells.

trip them? they run on their butts.
Stun them? They run away dazed while still casting,
etc.

I think most of us have given up bug reporting it as to players it is all the same thing. Bad fish that just won't get fixed.

Players gave up on the devs, honestly, so why continue to bug report it.

There is an old saying: "The squeaky wheel gets more grease". The theory goes: If players flood the bug report tool with everything they see, every time they see it then perhaps Turbine will tire of all that traffic. After all someone has to deal with the reports day in and day out.

Will it work? Hard to say but there is a method to the madness.

[Rauven]

Quite frankly, given how.... trying to do any tactical stuff on casters works to try to get them to stop casting spells.

trip them? they run on their butts.
Stun them? They run away dazed while still casting,
etc.

I think most of us have given up bug reporting it as to players it is all the same thing. Bad fish that just won't get fixed.

Players gave up on the devs, honestly, so why continue to bug report it.

Sadly I have come to expect that this is standard operating procedure. Casters will do what they want, when they want regardless of state, including being dead. Why would we bug report something that, based upon precedent, appears to be working as intended?

[Hokiewa]

Quite frankly, given how.... trying to do any tactical stuff on casters works to try to get them to stop casting spells.

trip them? they run on their butts.
Stun them? They run away dazed while still casting,
etc.

I think most of us have given up bug reporting it as to players it is all the same thing. Bad fish that just won't get fixed.

Players gave up on the devs in this sort of case scenario honestly, so why continue to bug report it? Sure, you can give logical reasons on why we should, but when players never see any change, update after update....

Agreed. Though I need to roll a critical in order to get the bug reporting tool to function properly. Hence I stop.