Is Necromancy Even WORTH Your Time...? 

Wish we could use the ashes they actually gave us during the event to make ink

Started replaying a few weeks ago now. Got Necromancy to 50, upgraded gear. "done for now" Much more worth it to continue training other skills and doing older quests.

Ima be honest sitting here at 75 necromancy and with 4.5K souls the most boring and dreadful thing to do in the skill is the ritual. Necromancy is 90% rituals and 10% combat. Rituals is depended on souls, nectoplasma, materials for gear upgrades, etc. besides that combat is top notch but man rituals are a pain.

Pro tip: if u right click the middle platform u can select repair all instead of repairing everything individually 😉

I like it since it's not just combat. As an ironman, it sucks getting a few things before the actual thing but I think they did it so it isn't like other skills. It's a fun style

I like it - except how the t80 power amour is locked behind 5 nex kills. I suck at bossing and cant kill nex. Other than that, im enjoying it

My take is that if you have all the prerequisites for quests and upgrades, then go for broke, but it’s more important to do quests. It is however, the most dps from my experience so if you plan to do this before finishing other quests or bossing, you’ll have an easier time with them

I need max cape back, so I'll be getting it to 120. But im not a PVMer so I'm not too keen on the grind.

I personally am having a lot of fun with the skill. It’s helping me a lot to understand combat better since I am a rookie with combat in bossing.

It is a fun new thing to do. I can't speak to its overall "Value" to the rest of the game but it is a fun new thing to experience. So, yeah worth it. I will say most of the issues you speak of are fixed through reading. I know you said you intentionally sapced through everything to get the rushed experience. But yeah slowing down helped me understand a lot. Also love the "scientific mythology" reference.

The skill is enjoyable, but as someone that doesnt feel like playing super-sweaty, i just use Revo... I feel that Revo feels pretty ehh when compared to the other styles played through Revo. The Necro-RC is alright, but the pathing to it is terrible (even from smithy) and we still havent gotten a frequently asked QOL such as presets fill the outfit and the pouches, which would smooth out the whole RC process. I like how you have 1 set of armour that can take 2 paths, what i do not like about it is when you choose to go the power way, you're essentially forced to defeat bosses at like 30 to 60% accuracy, meaning your DPS is already dogwater and not everyone is skilled at High-end PVM, especially if Jagex comes in, breaks your hand and eats popcorn in the distance looking at you struggle. Rituals... WHERE DO I BEGIN... Rituals arent terrible, its a pretty chill way of doing the skill, but once again, one thing to dislike about it would be: - The Ritual site, in a crowded world, you cant see shit as everyone runs around dripped in chaotics amount of particles. - The Distractions: 1. The ghost always gets me annoyed because for some reason pathing always screws up, making my character just STOP altogether when literally sniffing the ghost's buttcrack. WHY cant we just Necromancy-blast the ghost? 2. The Shambling Horror, apparently you're supposed to see the particles on where he aims to go. I don't see it and my graphic settings are all ultra. 3. They are never announced, why does the game tell me when the ghost wanders off, but not when he wanders in? Once again, supposedly, ghosts, horrors and whatnot are supposed to have some sound to indicate that they spawn in, but, despite on max volume, I do not hear any indication that they spawn, because the sounds of the ritual cloak it. Now, for the Quests. simply put. I LOVE THEM. except for 1 simple tiny thing. That Old Black Magic quest, which needs you to fight Hermond for god knows how many times... Why is a quest-item a Collection Log item and put behind some shoddy RNG? its not like we can get a second set of drumsticks to get a drummer pet.

I give it like a 2 tbh. It doesn't feel very different from magic, just new animations. I do not understand how it works either, and I did not mash the space bar lol.

I think necromancy/city of um needs more meaningful interaction with existing grandmaster-level storylines I do like that icthlarin is immediately there to tell you his blunt perspectives. I think more stuff with zaros/mahjarrat (I know moia stuff is coming), sliske, and other gods would make the afterlife feel meaningful and consistent with afterlife lore established in other quests like Azzanadra’s Quest

Necromancy looks insane, might make me want to try rs3 again

They should do things this way for getting souls, doing combat and getting kills and it adds souls. They can keep the rituals thing but also have players get souls from killing stuff.

I would give it an 8/10: 1. Tutorial + extended tutorial via the quests, excellent 2. Rituals - the part that brings down the rating for me. Not because of the rituals themselves, but the new skill release experience of them. Ritual site should have been instances to say ~10 players so that you still get the first day “it’s busy” feel, but you don’t have the immense lag and can actually see the spirits. Everyone is complaining about rituals right now because they’re boring or too grindy but here’s my question, have you been playing the same game all these years? Grinding is a core part of the game and I don’t know why you would be surprised to have that aspect in a new skill. Also, once you get through the souls grind you’re done with at least communion rituals right? Plus, stop grinding 5k souls straight off the bat and wait for higher levels so you get more souls per bone per ritual 😂 3. Graphics - the city looks amazing 4. Achievement diaries - easy and medium were decent, but I was surprised there was no hard one on release. Guess they didn’t want to overwhelm us. 4. Combat - I love that we got abilities one at a time instead of 10 at once, and that the tool tips forced us to read them or at least click through. They were short so even if you clicked through you probably got the gist. The combat so far has been pretty cool too. I’m 74 right now so I can’t really give end-game opinion, but at looks like the damage cap is insane from other creators’ videos. After reading a few more comments: - Armor/weapon upgrades: I find it annoying at the beginning since you level so fast, but I think overall it’s nice - don’t have to just buy everything and it’s not too difficult to make at least up to T70. - Lore: Agreed, lore feels lacking at this point. We’ll see how future expansions go in that regard.

I'm just training to be maxed again lol

The problem with Necromancy is that if you're not a top tier PvM'er (the hardest task for dogshit tier 80 gear is killing Nex in T70 gear with T80 weapons if you're rich or T70 weapons otherwise. For the T90 gear, sure hope you have Ambassador on farm with garbage T80 gear.) It's actually so demoralizing it's insane, I can't even kill those bosses yet with my full T90s and 92 weapons.

The enjoyment comes from the fact that it’s live, real, not just a play test.

Making Ghostly ink is not fun

My rating for Necro is a 4 out of 10, maybe pushing a 5. There is so much either wrong or really missed the mark on with the skill. E.g. Summons getting stuck constantly, rituals and combat is not user friendly for mobile players, Revo is pretty bad and I'm aware it's intended to be manualed but when you have a large community using mobile, mobile being absolutely horrible to manual on, it's not good. Rituals themselves feel like a drag and it just feels like they're hard capping the experience gains by locking things behind them. City of Um gets a solid 8/10 though, amazing city, looks great!

Love the skill very fun Encourages going off of revvo and making lots of gp Excited to see new summons and abilities

As an Ironman combat portion pretty fun, everything else sucks with it, they made this skill so fucking grindy on irons impure ess are a 1/5 of what you get from regular ess, extreme necro pots use arbuck which are annoying to stock up on irons, they just made the Skilling portion of this skill as tedious as they possibly could which sucks because it is required to use the higher tier abilities

It is a combat skill, your 7/10 means the skill is awesome, but not a skill to level to max, but a flavour to the game, it's a long-run skill.

So the pedalstal has a right click options so you don't need to repair one at a time you just need to have the materials in storage or inventory

I agree the rituals al boring but having the option to have a way to train afk and having a significant amount of benefits in materials or souls that you need a lot its pretty nice, im 82, you said that im high level is even better, hope to get there soon

Placing Arch on launch at 9/10, with 10/10 after the two additional sites. 7.5/10 for Necromancy. That is mostly due to the rituals and lack of weapon/armor choices atm.The rituals are just extremely annoying. I've seen that the XP rates kick up to high levels later on but the design of the site is not friendly. You cant dive over it or surge in the correct direction, and its COVERED in players and familiars most of the time. Its not fun and a slow grind at level 60 requiring lots of materials and if you don't realize how to do that initially, it results in a lot of janky stopping and starting over if iron mining /poor kidding it. I can file all of this away as a janky quest line with a grind in it with killer rewards to make up for it. But still -1 point. Next, the weapon/weapon progression. you cant buy and wear it if you haven't made it before. Cant buy/sell the materials to make it directly, and the high/mid-end requires bosses that most people wait to have t90 equipment to do. Nex launched with t80 equipment and required multiple people to kill her and it was difficult. We are suppose to do this alone with necromancy like we've mastered this boss. Same with The ambassador. I can forgive Arraxxi a little bit, I just hate spiders. Im very much a combat cripple and did not appreciate that. The thing with the subjection armor was odd too, it comes in at I think 80 but you have to be at t90 to make it so you only need one set of the stuff. Finally, I'm not fond of purple so only having 2, really 3 weapons, one being around on release was annoying. They could have had single-handed weapons be craftable or as drop from old necromancy bosses. Its not even worked into the customizations. There are items in game like the stuffed vampire plushie that could have acted as siphons. Vecnas Skull, Skull of remembrance, bone crossbow as a hybrid weapon, necromancer staff as 2h, the necro godsword, and anything found in morytania. At low levels the abilities don't work with the revolution bar. They completely break the bar specifically summoning conjures without commands unlocked and using defensive with no runes. Instead of skipping over the ability it halts the bar and it does an automatic attack. The last thing is the lore fail. This storyline is after Extinction but involves Nex, The Ambasstor, and GWD1 bosses. Story-wise, they all abandoned that area or are gone/dead. Forgetting the ending of the story and then inserting a recon as a clean up to that same story is just... I haven't seen sloppiness like that outside of comic books. So comical, its in the literal sense comical.

Fastest ashes is abyss, logs and hellrats in that order

I'm really enjoying Necromancy. Just hit level 60

honestly this skill is a miss. not a fan of it and not a fan of the combat xp nerf that came with it.

I just want to rush this skill 99 and done with the game.

Totally worth it, even if it’s only to get your capes back 🤣

It was for the billions i made on launch since i hate this games combat cause tik based combat is dogshit and has been for 15 years. Other than that no like all combat its dogshit. The non combat side i enjoy but then again i think they need to just delete everyones accounts and start over after removing bloat aka dead content and exp pathways.

when you said "worth" i thought you mean gp wise ty none the less for absolutely no information :) he also says this in discription --> "In this video i will be giving you all the tips and tricks you need to make your Necromancy journey faster and more profitable! " wasting our time are you ?

I'd say rituals are a huge drag. I am spending more time doing rituals than actual combat.

its not

The durability when starting out rituals sucks.

It's pretty whatever. Compared to other new skills and how much they impacted the game, this doesn't do much. They put world of warcraft crafting in

It’s fun but if it isn’t meta it’s useless. If my magic gear still does more damage i will say Necro was a failure until its fixed

Sort of f-up the overload...

josh strife hayes is a casual that knows nothing about games and makes awful takes about stuff he doesn't understand lel he just wants every game to last 8 hours at maximum so he can move on to the next one, he doesn't acknowledge long-term game design

You are wrong about rituals, random events causes them to be more interactive than combat. Rumbling about content you haven't played 3/10 review.

Long story short. No

Hell no shit cost more than magic 😂

Spoiler alert: it's not.

not interested just yet i guess illl wait tilll theres more accurate guides

Can confirm. Not worth

Right, there is no attachment . It is a pain in the ass. Everbody i know will leave this to age like old wine. Waste of time.