I am making a necro but am not sure which of these templates would work better:

Necro
SpiritSpeak
SpellWheaving
Meditation
Swords
Bushido
Parry

or

Necro
SpiritSpeak
SpellWheaving
Meditation
Swords
Anatomy
Healing

or

Necro
SpiritSpeak
SpellWheaving
Meditation
Magery + swords of prosperity
EvalInt
?

help
please

Ok I will try my best, this is a template that I tried but could not get the stats right was.....

110 Necro
110 SS
115 Swords
115 Parrying
100 Tactics
90 Poison
rest in med.

I don't know the pos or negs with necro/swords but I wanted to try. Since then I transfered the skills to mage.

My necro mage is primarily for PvM, not sure if that is your intent:

100 SS
105 Necro
110 Magery
100 SW
110 Meditation
110 Eval Int
115 resist

Frankly, it's a good damage producer but it fails a great deal on key high-level spells. I'd recommend dropping 10 points somewhere for 120 Magery and another 10-15 points for spellweaving 115. I'm trying to squeeze those in now...

~M

Thanks to both of you for your replies

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Nice build, I would like to try something similar to this (you are missing 80 points though).
But I have a question though, what is the 90 poison for? Do you use a sword weapon with infecting move or is there any necro spell affected by poisoning?
And another question... my necro is now currently necro/mage/spellwheaver and I wanted to try a tank version of it to see if things like curse weapon(necro) immolating weapon(spellwheaving) are actually usefull, so I'd like too know what you think about the more warrior-like spells of necromancy and also the reason you decided to turn into mage.
Thanks for your contribution!

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My necro is currently almost exactly like yours, the only difference is that I dont have resist, instead of it I have left over points in focus for extra mana regen.
I was considering to turn my necro mage into a more warrior type of build to see if the more warrior-like spells of necro and spellwheaving are actually usefull.
Thank for your contribution also.

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QUESTIONS FOR BOTH OF YOU:
(and anyone else that wants to help me out)

What do you think about more warrior oriented spells like...?:
-attune weapon (absorb 50% enemy's weapon hit damage) SW
-immolating weapon (extra fire damage to weapon) SW
-curse weapon (weapon life drain effect) NECRO

And what do you think of the warrior oriented tranformations like...?:
-reaper form (ssi, +resists, -run_speed, -fire_resist) SW
-wraith form (hit mana leech, +phisical_resist, -other_resists) NECRO
-horrific beast (+melee_damage, +hp_regen) NECRO
-vampiric embrase (hit_life_drain, +stamina_regen, +mana_regen, -fire resistance, damage from garlic magery spells) NECRO

The reason I was thinking of dropping magery/eval for a more warrior-like necro/sw was because these look like nice bonuses that as a mage I am not taking advatange from... But since I am not a warrior I dont know if they are actually usefull, what do you guys think about these spells? Have you tried them out? Are they actually usefull or am I not missing out by not using them?

The is for swords. Poisoning has no affect on Necro Spells only Spirit Speak. As far as the 80 skill points, I put those in Meditation. I would take poisoning to 100. According to the new information from Chad you need 100 poisoning with weapon skil.

UOTHIEF.COM | Section 6: Poisoning Mini-FAQ




What spells would one cast?
Strangle, Corpseskin, Painspike, Poison Strike, Painspike, Poison Strike and so on..

Would one use Vampiric Embrace in pvper?
I would use it as Dexxer, but as Necro-Mage you really shouldnt use it because u get damage for every garlic spell u cast.

What is the highest skill points that one would need? (ex at 106 in margery you can cast all level 7 spells without fizzling)
With 105 u can cast Strangle without fizzling



Check out this link

Necro in PvPer

My necro macer is:

120 Macing
120 Bushido
120 Spirit Speak
120 Resist
105 Necro
90 Tactics
45 Meditation

I'm really just starting to mess with this guy, and I like him a lot so far. I still see a tweaking of stats, mine are pretty balanced on him, but I need a tick more mana and I can live with a tick less dex, so we'll see. He's around 100/120/70 right now with items. Probably drop dex to 100 and take intel up on him.

Thanks for all your help guys ;)