Feeling anxiety from this post and all the comments, I quickly became a member of the community and searched for the term âNecromancer.â I read everything, from the old to current.
All of the latest posts were nothing but mockery, only the older ones had some analysis of the classâŚ.The more I carefully read, the darker I felt.
In particular, when I read the words of Hong Seungmin, a sunbae 1 who walked the path of Necromancer before me, I wanted to tear my head off.
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<Why is Necromancer an inferior class?>
Poster: Hong Seung-min
This post is a PSA. For anyone who believes theyâve become a successful Necromancer, validate yourself and write some tips. But I bet there arenât any lolol.
Iâm a Necromancer, and Iâve been a Necromancer for three yearsâthis class is a mess. Itâs not that Iâm a bad User, Iâm objectively stating some facts.
From the very beginning, the whole explanation of the class is a scam.
A partner to spirits, A friend of darkness and night.
By this description, you become a solitary ruler of the battlefieldâŚYoung Users who love anime or old legends may be tempted by that image. (F*cker, that was actually how I felt). But I assure you, this skillâs introduction is fraudulent.
Iâll explain why, one by one.
First â One-man army.
Looking at this, you would think that if you could manage to just kill at least one enemy in battle, you can begin to grow a limitless army. But, the number of enemies that each servant can kill and convert is fixed by the grade of the servant. If you just kill anything and turn it into a soldier, itâll become a low-level zombie which isnât much help in real combat.
To make it easy to understand, the low-grade skeleton that all necromancers first receive, can only make low-grade zombies even if it were to successfully bite and kill an enemy. Itâs not one plus oneâŚ.even if it were to bite many enemies, only one of them would turn into a zombie. Low-grades can only raise 1 zombie, mhmm.
Furthermore, the bitten and revived zombie will lack in ability. This will never happen, but if, for example, your low-grade skeleton bit and revived a swordmaster, the swordmaster zombie will only groan and move sloppily. He wonât revive as the swordmaster he once wasâŚ.
So, Iâve done various researchâŚ.It turns out that the only way to maintain the skills and levels of the dead or monsters is to make a âformal contract.â A servant can only kill and revive enemies into low-level zombie legions. Itâs not a horrible skill, but itâs not a great skill.
2nd â Fear.
I donât exactly know what the set probability is, but after years of experiments, it rarely triggered. In my experience, in ten thousand times of using a skill attack, itâll trigger once.
Also, the fear effect only really works on opponents that are much weaker than the Necromancer. Stronger monsters gain immunities to Fear, and it rarely works. Whatâs the use if you Fear an easy level 1 slime anyway? Itâs putting a shiny coating on an absolutely useless skill.
3rd â Friend to Darkness and Night.
Now this is the real crux of the scamâŚ[Increase skill attack by 10% in night, shade, and darkness]. You may think itâs a good skill when you see it, but Necromancers are already naturally reduced by 10% in the morning and day, in bright daylight!
Not only thatâŚI only once got together a party to raid in the middle of the night, and it wasnât easy. Users generally sleep at night and start to explore the Dungeons in the morning.
In other words, itâs a perilous skill. It doesnât explain any of the risks and only shows the advantageous parts to deceive people. âSystem Messagesâ arenât supposed to be User-friendly in the first place, but Necromancerâs are especially deceptive. Even if youâre an ordinary person, just from what Iâve written, youâll know that this job is hopeless.
Lastly, Necromancers have no recourse to make money, but must instead break their bank.
A Necromancerâs ability is determined by how many useful servants they can gather. Simply put, the more high-level servants, the better. The only way to get servants, though, is through making contracts, which are divided into two methods: [vengeful spirit contract] and [sacrificial offering contract].
The problem is that these two are particularly tricky to trigger.
I donât know much about [vengeful spirit contracts] because Iâve never raised a ranker-grade soul beforeâŚBut, in any case, the contract requires a soul filled with grudge nearby.
So, to attain this type of contract, I pitched a tent in a cemetary Dungeon for 30 days. I deliberately checked into the hospital, wandered around intensive care units, and lingered in funeral halls, but none of this worked. Only âContract conditions are not metâ windows would appear and it was of no use.
I canât even understand how one forms a contract. I asked around to see if other Necromancers knew how, but not even they had any idea. There may be a bastard who knows and wonât tell me. Anyways, Iâve never gained servants using this method.
Next is the [sacrificial offering contract], which summons servants with materials. If the offering is properly prepared, there is a 100% chance of it working.
But, even getting the materials for an mid-grade Skeleton is very difficult and costlyâa âmana stoneâ will definitely be consumed. A low-grade mana stone the size of your fist is already priced at 70 million won on the current market. To summon an intermediate Skeleton, 10 low-grade mana stones are required.
So, âjust go earn 70 million won,â you say? Do you think you can take one Low-grade Skeleton and clear a DungeonâŚCrush mobs? Youâre more likely to crush your head.
Still, wanting to be successful as a Necromancer, I somehow saved money for two years and summoned an Mid-grade Skeleton. But⌠For the money and effort I spent, the specs were too inferior. Definitely not worth the money and the mana stonesâŚ
Furthermore, Necromancers canât receive a decent amount of buffs. Perhaps because the concept of the class relies on desecrating the dead, any of the Priestsâ blessings will not apply. Buffs or weapons of sexual nature cannot be effective either. Since a Bardâs âperformanceâ buff is usually of sensual nature, the so-called âBuff Highâ 2 is unavailable to Necromancers as well.
Any parties formed must work at night, Only Low to Mid-grade Skeletons are available for the beggarsâŚOf course I canât even dream about a fixed salary. Iâll fail all guild interviews; I canât go to the Dungeons that are supposed to match my level⌠I eventually got to the point where I couldnât even earn enough to afford potions.
So whatâs leftâŚ
Thereâs a way to increase the strength of your original servants. If you look at the bottom of your servantâs âStatus Window,â there is a button to âReinforceâ them.
But this, too, is impossible lolol
Because, no matter how I search auction listings or put request posts on the forums, the reinforcement materials they ask me to collect canât be found. Iâve searched for any traces on the internet, but I canât even find the data. lololol
So, I believe that these are materials that arenât available from any of the current open Dungeons but are from Dungeons that havenât been cleared yet. In other words, if our current progression is not advanced enough, the materials will remain unavailable forever. Itâs virtually impossible to strengthen your Skeleton.
Conclusion: So IâŚafter settling all my accounts during my time as a UserâŚwent and took a test to become a Police Officer.
I know there are <class reset scrolls>, but its market value is 200 million these days. I gave up since I heard that itâs not only just your class, but levels as well. Thinking of all the effort and sweat wasted, I felt that giving up was the answer.
Maybe it would be different for people who were born with a gold spoonâŚbut instead of investing hundreds of millions into this class, just reset until Priest is one of your options.
No, just choose to be a Warrior instead.
Anything would be better than Necromancer.
Iâll summarize in three lines.
Donât be a Necromancer
Not even if youâre rich
You wonât look cool. Itâs a class where youâre dragging around weak skulls while shedding many tears.
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After reading all of this, my mind felt empty.
HeâŚfor 3 years he tried to endure, but in the end he couldnât afford potion costs and eventually became a police officer?
But, come to think of it, I havenât really made money this past year as a User eitherâŚ.Iâve survived with the money my family sent along with the savings Iâve gathered in college. Iâve chipped away at that nest egg slowly; I couldnât survive with the items Iâve gathered from the Dungeons.
My Skeleton (Lackey) is cute, but Hong Seung-min is right. He doesnât have any attack power, and his only skill is to bite. Mob clearing has to be done one enemy at a time, by luring a straggler away from the crowd. Levelling is slow going since thatâs a tactic that can only be used on low-tier monsters such as slimes and orcs
I thought about changing classes, but, of course, there was no way I could afford 200 million won. Besides, if I reset myself, a yearâs worth of hard work will go down the drainâŚ
I felt ashamed and wondered if I should give up being a User and take a civil service exam like the other Necromancer.
ButâŚ.
âYes, MomâŚ.â I answered the phone.
âAigoo3, is our son doing well?
âYeahâŚ..How about you, mom?â
âMommaâs doing wellâŚ.Youâre eating and living well, right?
âYeah. I guessâŚ.â
âWhy do you sound like that? Should I send some allowance?
âYou donât have to! I didnât call to ask for moneyâŚâ
âThen, did something happen? Did you get hurt in the Dungeons?
âNo. I have potions, Iâll be fine⌠How are you lately, mom? Doing well?â
â*Sigh* You know I went to the hospital last time, right? The doctor says that heâll need to run more tests.
âAhhâŚ.Yeah. How was it?â
âWell, itâs the same as always⌠He wants me to retire. HaahâŚEver since my shoulder surgery, my arm wonât raise up all the way. And itâs not as if I can deliver kimchi by walkingâŚ
âThatâs why I said you should rest on the weekendsâŚâ
âAigoo, itâs all right. By the way, why did you call?
â⌠Itâs nothing. I was just curious about how you were doingâŚâ
âYour mom is in a cafe with her church members. Ah, thatâs right! You remember Gyu-joon right? Gyu-joon hyung 4. He used to live next door.
AD
âYeahâŚ.I remember him.â
âApparently he just recently got married!
âAhâŚ.Is that so?â
âDo you have a girlfriend yet?
âNo, I donât even have time to date.â
âI guess if you go into Dungeons, it takes the entire day?
âY-yeahâŚ.â
The more I heard about my momâs inconsequential stories about daily life, the less I could speak. Though my mom spoke about Gyu-joon, who became a 7th rank civil servant and married this year, she was always proud that people took interest in her 'son who goes Dungeon divingâ. I mean, ordinary people think that all Users are somehow successful.
In the end, I couldnât say what I wanted to and ended the call. However, as soon as I did, she sent 500,000 won to my account. I felt guiltyâI said I was okayâŚ
âCheer up! And come down to visit every once in a whileâŚ.I want to see my sonâs face.
Thinking about what she said before I hung up, I wanted to sob.