New Necro Elite

{E} Vile Reanimation: 15, 3, 20 (Death Magic)
Spell. Ressurect target ally as a "zombie". During zombie state the ally has 40 more armor, 100 more health, and is immune to conditions. While constantly suffering from gradually worsening degen (Max 5), attacking 33% slower, casting 50% longer, and experiencing 25% less energy. If ally dies as a zombie, he suffers no DP. Your ally remains a zombie unless it dies or a Rit or Monk ressurect spell is casted on it.

A new Ritualist elite for the heck of it...

Burial Ritual: 15, 2, 30 (Communing)
Summon. Summon spirit to your location, any corpses within its radius cannot be used by corpse using spells. This spirit dies after 24......136 seconds.

So for the first one, are you saying that the zombie can still be resurrected while that zombie is in that state?

hmm... that's a pretty cool idea. Rename to -

Vile Reanimation, if that's any better..

For Burial Ritual, the idea is good. But make it more powerful than that.

I think the Rit skill is useless, you can use a body once but why make a elite out of it?

First idea is good...

Second idea on the other hand... Why would you make it an elite when there's already a normal skill (Necrotic Traversal) superior to it in practically every way?

Dissowned Corpse is interesting. But by being an Elite, you are counting on the fact that your party members will die. I don't think many players would like to be on the receiving end of this spell. Better off with Vengeance. The reduced energy is almost enough to not warrant it's use.

With my Necro, there are other elites I would use in place of this.

What do some of the other Necro players think? Would any place this in their bar? Just wondering if it's only my play style that wouldn't accomodate this skill.

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The necro skill would be brilliant to cast on any wammo. Just let them die and then reanimate zombie on them. The IQ would go up by around 100 points (from about -40) and the wammo learns not to mess with the necro with the strange ressurection spell.

It looks like a crappy version of Vengeance to me :P