Trying to clean up my hot bars. Any of you experienced Necro's out there have any suggestions on spells that just do not get used (if any)? Suggestions are appreciated, like I find i never cast Bats or the Vampire Orb, am I missing out on some dps not using those? Or if you have hotbar setups would love to see em.
both bats and vampirism are usable in raids with optimal rotation. both not great, so if you take them off ur hotbar you're not missing much and if you're a casual player you'll have no use for them. however, at about 1.30m into a single-target fight there will be holes in your optimal rotation where you'll want to cast bats vampirism is fine for 3+ mobs if you're not an etherialist or feedback is on cooldown
Does anyone use the limited pets spells? I have them on my spellbar, but never use them...am I missing something dps-wise? Same for root type spells....never use those either. Mobs are usually dead or fighting with my pet before rooting needed.
If you pull too many mobs, you can root one, throw nukes at another, go back and root hte first one and so forth. Also, all mages can use root-and0nuke on a single mob, where you root it, nuke it, back up a step or two, re-root, nuke again, etc.
I've found with Necros, if you pull too many mobs, best thing to do is try to kill them all quick. Casting speed at lower levels is an issue. In the time it takes to root 1 mob, you could be using a dps or aoe. The pet can usually keep the mobs busy enough. On other mage classes though..I use the roots quite a bit.
With a pet class, it's more a tactic for a single boss mob. You want to keep it off you and simultaneously not eat the pet.
A few expansions back, swarm pets kinda sucked, then the team finally got around to beefing them up, and they became extremely useful, which I experienced directly on my Conjuror. I'm raiding on a warlock now, which means I have the swarm pets Netherlord, Acid Storm, and the occasional proc of a set of Dark Broodlings, none of which seem to do significant damage. I cast them when more useful spells are down in hopes they might proc something more helpful.
maybe below level 20 and only if you're trying to solo at-level heroic zones. otherwise no you dont need fear to heal your pet, there are way better options.
Root-splitting on a necro has not been a thing for 10+ years since Kunark days where soloing heroics and raids at-level for profit took some serious skill. You can take root of your hotbars
Rooting would be one of those things I'd only suggest at lower levels, generally. Though I do root things sometimes.
Pet heals itself anyway, don't necessarily need tainted heals. Maybe once in a while I'll use the pet heal but not very often do I have to keep an eye on pet's health
