Should necromancy have been an elite skill?

[Elesh Norn]

Do you think Necro should have been an elite skill like invention on release?

Which 3 skills do you think you would have needed level 80 in to unlock Necromancy if was released as an elite skill?

[Papa Walrus]

No because it doesn't let newer players interact and get to PvM. Necro closed the gap for a lot of players and love it or hate it, it was good for the game to bring parity to bossing and PvM activities. If it was elite new players wouldn't have access to it and it would have to be more DPS/end-game focused.

 

edit: If I had to choose 3, it would be magic, summoning and prayer.

Edited January 14 by Papa Walrus

[Dariot]

A lot of the planned content for necromancy seemed to have gotten scrapped by release date... with the Alpha & Omega quest it seemed like they wanted that to be more of a culminating point in the skill but ended up not doing it due to time constraints.

 

I personally was hoping for a little more depth to the skill progression. Rituals took too much of the focus for me during leveling the skill and still feel like there's a bit too much of a focus on them.

 

Magic, ranged, and melee skills seemed to have been left in the dust so far with skill development. There's still longstanding issues with bleed skills in melee for example they've not really addressed. Hoping the upcoming combat updates will make things a bit better for the other combat styles.

 

Runescape always had a more iconic combat system to me when it was simply based on weapon attack speed... no EoC / skills to worry about. I still don't like trying to figure out PvM with EoC skills but it's better than it used to be.

 

I view elite skills as something that should have a lot more function and interaction with other skills than Necromancy seems to have. Even invention really doesn't stand up to being an "elite skill" to me due to the complexity/chance based use of that skill. I'm really hoping post-treasure hunter removal brings a lot more to the table in the game.