BG2:EE Necromancer first timer.

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• wubble Member Posts: 3,156

  December 2014

  Summoning is more the realm of the conjurer than the necromancer (apart from animate dead), If you go for a sorcerer(or a variation) you'll have to be very careful with you're spell picks as you won't get many. I reccomend going for a specialist mage but you'll have to ask someone more informed than I which would suit your play style the most (i think it would be either conjuration or necromancy but not sure).

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• redpiano Member Posts: 2

  December 2014 edited December 2014

  Summoning isn't necessarily the most important thing, I enjoy like poisons and big debuffs and stuff like that as well.

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• JuliusBorisov Member, Administrator, Moderator, Developer Posts: 22,724

  December 2014 edited December 2014

  Hello and welcome! It's always nice to have a new member:)
  
  If you want to play as a necromancer with poison, I suggest that you make a multiclass mage/thief and with the EEKeeper (http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/16497/ee-keeper-updated-to-v1-0-2#latest) change her into a mage/assassin and use only necromancer spells as a mage.

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• lunar Member Posts: 3,460

  December 2014

  There are not any poison spells for a necromancer. Clerics get a poison spell which is also a necromancy spell, but it is not that great, either. The mage necromancy spells in bg2 deal with life forces, and death. As a school it packs immense offensive power at high levels. It lacks utility/protection type spells but it does what it does very well:killing living things!
  
  Low lvl spells are a bit weak, chill touch being very useless in general. Horror is a good debuff at lvl 2, and ghoul touch can be of use unlike chill touch. Vampiric touch is excellent damage dealer and hp buffer, and you can get some castings per day as a special ability at the start of the game. Skull trap has no damage cap and becomes more powerful than fireball at high levels. Plus it damages even those monsters immune to fire such as dragons and demons/devils. At lvl four there are no good necromancy spells, contagion is very meh. Get greater malison and an emotion spell this will knock out many enemies:think it as a general misery and feel bad type of spell, not very unfittng for a necromancer. At lvl five there is the bread and butter animate dead spell, at higher lvls it creates more powerful skeleton minions that are very durable against magic. Sixth lvl and above necromancy spells are the darkest and are feared throughout the realms, they outright kill people instantly or cause great pain like doing hundred points of damage to every enemy, I will leave them to you to discover.

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• Vallmyr Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 2,459

  December 2014

  You should probably know Clerics gain animate dead at lvl 5 while Wizards gain it much later. I believe it was level 9 if I recall.

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• kcwise Member Posts: 2,287

  December 2014

  You never forget the first time you romance a nec.

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• lunar Member Posts: 3,460

  December 2014

  Vallmyr said:

  You should probably know Clerics gain animate dead at lvl 5 while Wizards gain it much later. I believe it was level 9 if I recall.

  Yeah but other clerical spells are weak and not flashy enough when compared to mage selection. Clerics are more like 'support' characters that can contribute to a battle well enough, a party is so much better with a cleric in its mix than without. But high lvl mages are game winners on their own.
  
  

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• Vallmyr Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 2,459

  January 2015

  Kind of "Necro-ing" this thread, heh, but there this mod for BG:EE, BG2:EE, and IWD:EE called Tome and Blood by the awesome @Aquadrizzt. I'll place the link below.
  
  http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/31274/mod-beta-tome-and-blood-more-options-for-wizards-and-sorcerers/p1

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