Necromancer: Discussion of the dead

[Powercow]

Oh no i agree it shouldnt come out for a while but just to know if it was possible would be nice. And Mathematician was in Final fantasy Tactics so technically its not really all that new of an idea/class.

You missed the "for an MMO" bit. Calculators in FFT were a weird and unique concept (and still are) for a single-player game, and they could be very interesting if done right in an MMO environment. At least they would be different.

Necromancers have been done to death (get it?) in RPGs. Really, aside from "they have ZOMBIES!" there hasn't been a good reason why we should have a Necromancer class over just about anything else.

[KoujiGeki]

You missed the "for an MMO" bit. Calculators in FFT were a weird and unique concept (and still are) for a single-player game, and they could be very interesting if done right in an MMO environment. At least they would be different.

Necromancers have been done to death (get it?) in RPGs. Really, aside from "they have ZOMBIES!" there hasn't been a good reason why we should have a Necromancer class over just about anything else.

Yes this is true i did miss that. But i never said they should come before other classes only that i hope they can make it. Other RPGs did use it just god forbid my favorite RPG series ever added it.

Ps Hell i want them to add Judge as a dual wielding sword, Enfeebling Tank job.That would be new and awesome

[Powercow]

Yes this is true i did miss that. But i never said they should come before other classes only that i hope they can make it. Other RPGs did use it just god forbid my favorite RPG series ever added it.

Ps Hell i want them to add Judge as a dual wielding sword, Enfeebling Tank job.That would be new and awesome

Well if we had a lot more classes (like FFXI) I'd be OK with adding in something like Necromancer. As it stands there's just too many missing iconic classes and too many interesting ideas to add in something that's redundant.

I'm not just picking on you or even the idea of Necromancers. This sort of thing is also what bugs me about people who want Corsair, a ranged DPS/buff class. I mean, we already have one. It's called BARD. It's also why Dark Knight, as people want it, seems redundant. A heavy plate class that uses a 2H weapon to land slow but powerful hits... like a Warrior, BUT WITH THE POISON SPELL! Heck even Thief, a positioning-oriented light melee class is taken up by Monks (and Dragoons, in a way) thanks to the combo system requiring you to be conscious about positioning. The only advantage Thief would actually have over Necromancer is that Thieves have played a HUGE role in the Final Fantasy series compared to Necromancers who have had really small cameos.
This is why I keep bringing up Mathematician (and I keep calling him that instead of Calculator because that's the name used in the survey a while back) as a good possible addition -- a positioning, distance-conscious DPS caster with odd geometric shapes for AOE? That would be badass.