Necromancer

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Summoner primary archetype combined with Cleric secondary is a Necromancer class.[1]

The Necromancer is a master of life and death. You can choose to be a Necromancer for good, or for "dark and twisted things".[2]

I view the Necromancer as a master of life and death and the way I want to implement our Necromancer is you can choose to be a Necromancer for good or Necromancer for dark and twisted things. Either is viable. If you want to work with spirits that aid you can do that. If you want to summon zombies and skeletons and other type of undead creatures you can do that as well; and then you can use them for your will.[2]Steven Sharif
The necromancer is going to be able to choose the path of life or death with regards to its summoning influences and augments. So you'll be able to augment your summons to either aid and assist in healing and providing support to either yourself or the other summons you may have out or other party members; and the death side of that augmentation will really influence your opponent to create damage, to sap life, to manipulate their ability to survive in combat.[4]Steven Sharif

Skills/abilities

The summoner uses abilities that channel through their summons (also referred to as class skill pets).[5][6]

You gain your summons from your summoner class as an active skill and then skills can be further developed with points.[4]Steven Sharif
  • Abilities from the summon appear on the summoner's hotbar. The summoner is essentially playing through their summon.[5][6]
    • Summoner has control over their summon, unless the summon is under ancillary effects.[5][8][6]
  • Summoners will not be able to fuse with or be taken over by their normal summons.[5][6]
  • Summoners may also have the ability to transfer pain to their summons, meaning that a portion of damage or threat taken by the summoner can be transferred to their summon instead.[10]
  • Summoner summons are not the same as combat pets.[11]
    • Summoner's summons will add to the summoner's power when they are summoned, unlike combat pets, which take a portion of the player's power.[12]
The Summoner archetype does not have that portion of power taken away when they summon their pet. That's part of their... power is their summon.[12]Steven Sharif
  • Summons will exist until another summon is cast, the summon is killed, or the summoner logs off.[13]
  • Summons can be leveled through the application of skill points to their active skill.[4]
  • Summons will be able to use crowd control (CC).[14]
  • Summoners may be able to name their summons, but will not be able to change their creature type, which is part of the nameplate above the summon.[15]
  • Summons follow the same PvP flagging rules as players and share the player's flag status.[16][17]
Summons follow the same flagging rules as players, if your summon pks someone, you gain corruption[16]Steven Sharif

Summoners summon different varieties of summons, depending on the class and augments they choose.[18][19]

Augments from a secondary archetype can be applied to a summon.[20]

For example: If your summon had a sweeping attack with a claw, or had the ability to bite an opponent, or rush an opponent; and you took teleportation, you could rush them similar to how I've given an example with the tank: Teleporting to a target instead. Or, its claws could combust on impact on a target dealing some burn damage that persists. Or... let's say your summon traditionally was some type of bear or bear cat, you could apply an elemental augment and now it could be a transparent flaming bioluminescent cat; and its damage would be fire based. So, that's how we want to influence the active skills with how augments apply; and that's how it would apply with Summoners.[20]Steven Sharif

Cleric augments

Classes with Cleric as a secondary archetype are able to choose between life or death augments.[21][22]

Any class that's going to choose Cleric as a secondary class will have the ability to pick from those augments to influence their skills to affect the life of others around you.[21]Steven Sharif

Summon appearance

Summoners can change the appearance of their summons.[19][26]

The great thing about the animal husbandry tech that we're creating and the idea of having customization options is that there might be some opportunity there to really create a more customized experience for the summoner and the types of visual representation that their creature has that's more to the players definition. But we will see about that. I think you guys will be getting some updates in the future about that.[28]Steven Sharif
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A summon's appearance is determined by in-game choices.[26]

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