NECROMANCER Gameplay Overview - Talents, Builds, New Weapons, Tips & Tricks - Warhammer Vermintide 2 

"When dealing with Necromancy, no ones ever really gone." LMAO

This just makes me wish Darktide had a tech adept character, because summoning a bunch of servitors sounds so fun. That and admech guns are just the coolest.

army of the dead seems like it should just let you have double the skellies (not any more) without crumbling

The only problem I have with the Vermintide combat now is that I am trying to slide with heavy objects and try to slide every time I dodge. Cursed be Darktide's enhanced movement! It gimps my Vermintide gameplay!

"This will have huge implications for Darktide". This man knows something!

I really had my doubts about their ability to make a 4th class for Sienna work, but they really seem to have knocked it out of the park.

I would love to see a Tech Priest in darktide that’s able to summon Servitors or something like that similar to the Necromancer

Indy give back everyones favorite intro or we RIOT 😡

Excited for it. I get to use red dust to make weapons I actually want! Darktide can learn from vermintide 2.

I've always wanted a summoner in a game like this, but had zero expectations for one. When I heard they're adding necro I laughed and said "can't wait for the ff14 version of necro, just another melee". Feels great to be proven wrong.

I just wish Necro Sienna was able to (passively) raise dead allies as extra skeletons, have them be controlled by the dead player, and would last until the said player gets rescued. If Army of the Dead ends up being actually bad, then maybe adding this as secondary function of the talent could be an ideal buff.

*"Calcium Crew"* nice, 10/10

Army of dead seems like it was designed with it being used in chaos wastes.

I definitely plan on being a 'commander' of sorts. Summoning some skellies and acting as a Captain would in Shadow of Mordor/War.

"sienna's scythe is her first greatweapon". Her mace truly is so horrible and unwieldy that we even forget it exists.

As much as I would like a large army of the undead for a Necromancer vs Pactsworn play, Army of the Dead seems to only be useful or used the most during CW or if you have a Conc Pot on hand, which relatively, you’ll rarely use for emergency situations

I'm thinking dagger with a reliable way to apply fire would work well for a crit build. Beam and Conc. staff both have really good burn application. Daggers high attk speed and crit coefficient might be pretty strong but its hard to say without sitting down to test how they'd work together. Might not be the perfect choice seeing as it has high cleave values already - it would still get good milage from the power tho, 25% is a lot on crits from any weapon, and the dagger would do it the most reliably. Her new staff might be one of the better for the crit build as well. Seems to be excellent at spreading flames and has great utility.

It seems that the Soulstealer Staff burns last way longer than those proc'd by any of the other staffs. Maybe the Cold Flames perk isn't working on the old staffs? (Also seems to also be the case with the Scythe vs. Flame Sword).

i dont get how you do the Gandolf smash thing with reaper like you said. did they patch it or am i missing something?

Does Curse of Undeath eat all 3 charges when quelling or does it count it as one instance of damage?

What is her skull on the "4" key for? It doesnt do anything when i try to use it

Love the vid, apologize my pedantry but there's a lore correction. Necromancy doesn't use Shyish, that'd be Death magic, Necromancy uses Dhar, Dark magic made of multiple winds of magic. As we know, humans only have the lifespan to learn to safely control a single wind, so Dhar is how Sienna, a pyromancer attuned to Aqshy, is able to cast necromancy in the first place without being able to channel Shyish.

She looks cool imma give her that. Do the skellyes take Friendly Fire Damage? If they dont then she could be a great pairing to Engineer, hold the horde back with skellyes and Bardin will just melt the monters with the Trolhhammer or Concoction Minigun. Excited to play her when she comes out.

Mechanicus type char for darktide with servo skulls or servitors would be awesome, Im surprised how responsive the skele bois are.

what are the odds of this i was craving some vermintide went to redownload it and got this suprise on the page and it looks like it was realeased yesterday im gonna have to much fun with this

Honestly I've been wanting a class like this for my team. As someone who is 260 hours in this game and exclusively played single player because the community at the time was a bit toxic on my preferred platform the PS4, and had developed multiple builds exclusively that I could play solo and with my good old team of AI, this update adds a lot of replayability I feel like. Not only issue incredibly fun to play yourself, but with the right build the AI is incredibly strong with this character. If you set up the other party members you have a very fun team on your hands that is quite flexible. Overall I really do think this is the best class in the entire game just for pure fun. And that's coming from someone who used to play this game try hard but now is mostly casual.😅

2:23 - DAMMNIT! That's literally the one and biggest thing I was looking forward to, a class that let's me solo all those stupid Weaves because literally nobody else plays that unfinished mode anymore, but I still want those 8 frames.

I would prefer that thr necromancar starts weaker but gets stronger over time. Like ultimate raises one permanent skeleton or two. And you can summon as many as you want with no cap. So end of the match you can have 20 or so plus the ones that died along the way. So maybe 40 total summoned. That would make sense as the more you kill the stronger you are. Nonetheless, i am absolute psyched for this class. Honestly think there is a huge market for a horde based game like vermintide, darktide, left for desd etc where you four player characters are actually summoners themselves. It would add a fresh dynamic to the playstyle. Like 4 necromancers take on the demons of hell or something. I hope fatshark explore this summoner idea more in many other ways. It has great potential and a massively untapped market of people with who love all things necromancer and personal army.

Back in the closed beta, I remember the devs saying they wanted to make a Necromancer, and Ogre as playable characters; It's been some time, but I'm glad they finally figured out how to make them both.

Maybe you can use the 20s skeletons to spam fire your ranged attack, vent / return a guy to grave, and keep spamming during that 20s period? (Unless the venting only uses your initial skeletons)?

I haven't got this excited for anything in a while. Been waiting 5 years lol

Do her old staves still have red fire or did they make all of them green, and can she uss the flaming flail?

I wonder how the Dread Seneschal and Barrow Blades will interact with each other in Chaos Wastes. Shields/2h hammers AND dualwielded blades at once? 3 skeletons being hammers/shield and 3 wielding 2x blades? I'm eager to see.

Given that development on Vermintide 2 seems to have mostly ebbed off this mainly gives me hope for a Mechanicus character in Darktide. Use up that 5th character slot and all.

Hope for a darktide summoning class, and just as much support for darktide

Was the section with the bomb cart objective from the new karaz azgaraz level or something?

Can the skellys be destroyed from enemy damage? Or do they have some timer to them?

What did you mean by the tickrate is halved?

Personally i just like more vermintide over darktide cuz im a medieval kinda guy

her overheat meter is alot more managable in this class which is good

"No one's ever really gone" I know it's probably not, but that phrase will always sound like an RLM reference to me

Personally I'd like to have a team of guardsmen helping out in darktide.

Going from Darktide to Vermintide, I find myself trying to sprint/slide once or twice and then remember I don't need to because the Ubersreik 5 are faster than their inquisitorial equivalents. Going from Vermintide to Darktide I keep forgetting you can't parkour in the lobby, and get frustrated that the combat is much less tactile with little damage feedback that lets me know I'm about to be eaten by swarms. I find Vermintide combat just feels better, and don't miss 'sprinting' in general. The stamina bar works against me as a preservation mechanic tbh

Army of the dead only exists for true summoner build in the Chaos Wastes. So many cdr abilities and modifiers in there lol

Are the Skelly bois considered "allies" for the sake of aura buffs like Markus Foot Knight giving 15% dr? Also for Bardins IronBreakers "Blood of Grimnir? "Each nearby ALLY gives him 5.0% Power"? I know some talents say "Party" which I'm assuming doesn't effect them, but anything with the word "Ally" in it must right?

She does NOT wield Shyish, it's Dhar that enables necromancy!

that comment about implication for darktide made me think of an admech and being able to summon skitarii or servitors.

"skeletons wont help you if you plan to play solo and get hit by a disabler." Which is why i decked the HELL out of the bots with gear to make them be helpful alongside the skeletons that will be on the march.

I am happy they didnt waste another subclass just to make a brightwizard but different.

Indy, does the Scythe look red when we use it on Sienna's other classes?

Makes me think a little of Reaper from Guild Wars 2 with the big cleave melee scythe :D

I agree with the take that army of the dead feels really underwhelming however, pairing It with Another alt in the chaos wastes Could prove very powerful and fun.

If Amry of Dead gives you cooldown when skele deals damage/when skele dies, that'd be cool.

I think with Lost Souls the enemy they attach to needs to stay alive to continue providing benefit. So it may be pretty limited in it's usefulness if that's the case.

Hoping for tech-priest in darktide that summons skitarii but on a reject power level

"calcium crew" lmao

darktide is great but the banter between these guys in beatable

Crowbill with infinite cleave crits 😱

This is gonna be a goooooooooooooooooood (eeeeeeeeeeevvvvvviiiiiiiiiiilllllllll) Halloween time! 🦇🥰

I honestly don't see why put a time limit in Army of the dead. It's not like the skeletons are particularly strong on their own? I've seen gameplay where they just get demolished by a black fur hitting them once. I guess maybe it's so you can't just spam your vent skill, but if you spam it, you'll run out of skeletons before your skill is back anyways. Kinda pointless.

I just downloaded the DLC and all of my progress is gone. Did this happen to you at all?

Necromancer doesn't really mean summoner. It would be Conjurer.A Necromancer is about the dominion or mastery over death and sometimes life. And the most common archetype of necromancy is "raising" the dead to fight for you.

I only have one complaint about the Necromancer. It is the only class that doesn't work with Overcharge at all. Every other Career rewards a high Overcharge state. Battle Wizard gets a faster charge speed on spells, Pyromancer gets more crit chance and the Unchained just goes mad in CQC. I'd love something similar for the Necromancer. Something like a faster Career Skill cooldown for more skellies or maybe even making the Malediction of Nagash be able to spread. Maybe even a chance up to 20% that unleashes the soul of a dead enemy affliced with Malediction to attack other nearby enemies!

Pretty funny that they just gave her brain burst

enginner + necromancer gonna be so op with that team up synergy

Whats the reason for not playing the Rat intro anymore???

Caught this quick xd

I wish she had zombies. Skeletons don't look as unsettling.

The skeletons deal 1.5 damage 💀

Plat medal for weirdest intro ever lol

Lol calsium crew! XD And Fist is back.

so shes the psyker from darktide

this game is fecking hard and medium good programmed, think of it like a Darktide with more light and less bugs...

Lads! if we can get a god damn NECROMANCER we can get a TECH ADEPT! pray to the omnissiah and we will prevail!

I really wish they gave the scythe a better move set.. It has to similar of a boring attack pattern. i love scythes.. but devs seem to rarely nail fun attack move sets for using this weapon. Dantes Inferno and Bayonetta are two of the only games i can think of that did scythes proper. Not even Dark Souls 3 did Scythes proper. Unfortunate.

I like what I have seen so far, EXCEPT the minions not being allowed to help rescue her from disablers. That's bullshit! I don't think it would be OP. On cata, the minions seem to do so little damage that even a leech should take like 10 seconds to make let you go or to kill with all your minions hacking away at it, and that's on a caster that can easily get 1shot the very second she gets caught, not to speak of the much tankier hook rat and the challenge of chasing it through other enemies blocking the way and attacking the pets. And even the assassin might knock the skeletons into enemy hordes they struggle to get away from or even off cliffs. The IB already does haver a tool that frees him and is incredibly tanky on top.

God i fucking love skeletons. Sienna is cool too i guess idk.

Only took them what... 3 years to drip feed us this last class? More classes for VT2 would have been a blast. Can really see the DT design "shinning" through there Spirit leech? Really? Crit stacking? Infinite cleave? What could possible go wrong there?

NOT Shyish! An amethyst wizard is not a necromancer. This is Dharr. The black wind.

the mobs not helping you when u get jumped on has to be the stupidest Decision ever. literally makes no Logical sense.

Darktide still doesn't even holds a candle to verm2 maybe in like 2+ years of content could come close but I wouldn't hold my breath on it.

The new staff works basically = brain brust in darktide XD

There needs to an Ogre player at some point.

Tldr : Best in waves, can clear like it wasnt even there. but, Sucks at elite / boss killing. Too slow.

mordhau & chivalry 2

Now hear me out... let dead players play as a random skeleton (if raised) until they are rescued

:D hehe complaining about losing a shield buff when hit. When does he remember all the Bardins which were shoot by sienna

You weren't overusing the slam. You were using it out in the open like an idiot, surrounded by enemies instead of moving to place your back against a wall.

The necromancer is way too op. Nerfs in coming. The game feels and plays just so easy with her, even on cata

Honestly, she looks like outcast engineer 2.0 Someone who you would rather not have on your team.

Vermintide would be so much better if u could choose gender.and before you start crying:my sister also hates it when she cant play as a female char

They fucked up with this one. So much potential for a new class wasted.

Won’t be in Vermintide 2.

to much damn melee i want my army to do all the work and i only cast give me a break..