Necromancer/Assassin..Is it doable?

Way of the empty palm
Jagged Strike
Fox Fangs
Death Blossom
Demonic Flesh?/Conjure element (ele)

This might actually be overkill on energy, but elite is pretty marginal on JS-FF-DB anyway so it's not a huge loss. You can just ignore soul reaping and pump your blood some. Can't use Conjure on a N/A.

Greatings

First off, I am a newbii with the Assassin (played two A characters to around level 15). So my experience in the later run with both new skills and different enemies is highly lacking.

But I wondered about the use of a Necromancer as Primary, played as an Assassin.
I would use the Soul Reaping attribute from The Necromancer to fuel the Assassins dagger comboes. But I am unsure if the loss of the Assassins primary attribute and the skills associated with it would spell disaster later on?

At the moment the largest "problem" (if it is a problem) is that even the cheapest energi cost of the quickly run comboes drain the energi in a few seconds.
I am aware of the additional loss of runes that will have a semi large effect on the dagger skill, but on the other hand energy should not be a problem (especially combined with a minion master/bomber hero/ally). The continuation of the attack comboes should be pretty much garanteed?

The loss is the higher "normal" damage and armour, but the gain should be higher cost comboes with more damage/effect?

Am I totally off or can it be used effectively?

I am also thinking about using a E as the primary build, to use the larger energy storage to fuel the comboes and the effective high damage/effect close combat spells for a quick group kill? The large problem I see here is of cause running out of energy to early without "a refuel plan".

Hope You will be willing to give some good (and explained) advice

Oh, and the build is for PVE only...

/Confused Assassin
Honestly if you want to use Daggers, just go Assassin primary, Critical Strikes is amazing Energy Management, you get +10 armor from your base max armor and if you want to use an oddball necro / ele skill, well the option is open without recreating characters.

Necromancers are still great Primary Professions to play, but they are spellcasters, if you use one as a frontliner, its wasted potential, because you could have run a primary frontliner profession and received more benefit from the increased durability and access to runes that specifically improve weapon skill.

I am a bit surprised that 10 armour points seems to make a big difference between a front runner and being a spellcaster? It doesn't. The only big deal is the skill critical agility, which is another 30 armor and a very convenient attack speed booster. Even so you can get by fine with an ether renewal prot spammer hero. The most "efficient" PvE sin builds involve basically "tanking" on the frontline and spamming attacks, any kind of hit and run play will just slow down your ability to kill stuff unnecessarily.

Don't have any confusion about it, Assassin primary always does the build better. Critical strikes is better energy management than soul reaping as long as you are attacking, runes will boost your death blossom damage significantly, and elemental magic is a distraction compared to how much damage your attacks dish out + spamming the warrior PvE skill Save Yourselves. I just put a workable build up because I know casters get tired of playing support and want to do big damages sometimes, and melee casters are still very effective with all the buffs you can stack. But they are in no way superior to assassin primary.