Hinting at New Jobs? [ Small Spoilers for Patch 5.3 ]

[BasicBlake]

We've had a few Necromancers we've fought yes but not all of them were evil. In fact none of them were outright evil.

Alaqa was the first necromancer themed npc we met and she was the king pin behind the HW WHM job quests. It was elaborated on that she wanted vengeance for the abuse her and her family suffered. She is more misguided than evil since she is shown willing to atone for her wrongdoings after her efforts are thwarted and she is freed from the veil of the blinding desire for revenge.

Nybeth and Edda are sort of along the same lines. The main difference is that Edda had just ran herself to insanity in her despair after Avere's death while Nybeth became consumed by his desire to revive his deceased lover and let his grasp on reality slip and spiraled out of control.

Lastly we have the Spectral Necromancer from the Gauntlet. She is first and foremost some type of WoL given by the fact she is even there. The most vile thing to her is calling her zombies her servants. From the angle she is given I choose to think that her zombies in the fight are ether the corpses of her fallen allies or the corpses of the Voeburt kingdom since her fight takes place in ill mheg. She is very much an example of "ends justify the means" but if the corpses are her fallen allies I find it a touch poetic that she leads them to continue their battle against the dark even after death.

Wasn’t Alaqa’s whole thing that she was tainting aether, and the elementals of the Twelveswood got the white mages involved to stop it? What about Edda and the other necromancer wasn’t bad to you in Palace of the Dead? I mean we don’t strike a peace treaty with them, we killed them. And the boss in the new dungeon once again brings up how she is Tainted.

The chances of them putting a class in as the hero that is “tainted” are slim to none. Look at all the stuff we have done throughout the expansions so far, what do they all have in common? We’re the knight in shining armor, the good guy. They aren’t just going to flip it on it’s head and be like “we’re bad now ”. Peoples thoughts on this class are exactly the thoughts they had when “Warrior of Darkness” was brought up for ShB.

You just aren’t gonna be some tainted, corpse raising WoL side questing through some town and the locals just be cool about it from a story perspective.

I get that you all want to be edgy, but I don’t think this is the game that’s gonna let you express that.