I saw a lot more necromancers around back when CoV launched. My guess is it has something to do with the squishy nature of the zombies.
All ATs have good sets and bad sets, and robots are simply too good.
Managed to get mine up to lvl 38 on Defiant villains, i suppose it also depends on your playstyle
I really, really want to love the zombies. I've tried three Necromancers in my time, one Necro/Dark, one Necro/FF and my latest Necro/Storm. No matter what I do, they remain squishy and slow. Compared to something like Thugs, they really are not as good as they could be.
But at least they're still better than Mercenaries. 
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Got a Necro/Poison hovering at 22 that I don't play anywhere near as much as I'd like to. He's one of only 2 characters from my original 10 that I made when I started playing in the EU, still got the 2nd (and all following) anniversary badge ^^
Hm... I think I'll go play him for a bit 
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Kalantari what is Dark Empowerment like? Cant wait to get to lvl 32 to try it.
Overal I think Necro/FF rocks, but it takes a little while to get started, especially with /FF, team is usually on their 2nd/3rd mob by the time Im with them with my army (even with binds attached to powers).
Well if you guys want to try and get to 50, Im sure we can get together and get there. Between a variety of Necros/ Im sure we could do it.
Eice
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I would argue that Necro is the best solo MM primary. Anyone want to?
Well, I have a lot more free time during the week now since my SG team took a small break. I'd certainly be up for an all Necro team
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lvl50 necro/traps here.
Its my personal favorite MM set of all others (vary from 25 to 43 on the other sets).
Melee, range, control, heal, damage.. its all in the pack. Downside with the tier1, they have a huge delay at movement after falling from something (rocks is plain a nightmare).
Combined with /trap, they are good in surviving, great in damage (2 graveknight melee = heaven) and extract soul is just plain great.
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I like poison as a 2ndry, a well slotted alkaline is a godsend, but you do have to watch out for fire damage on zombies. i.e. a longbow flamethrower still takes out my entire tier 1 pets with a single blast.
Lvl 45 necro/poison, and yes any boss or flame attack nails my zombies in one go, in fact when i'm on a team i don't even bother summoning them, but if you can coax your grave knights into melle range they are silly!!
prolific use of weaken gives my zombies a bit more survivability, and dark empowerment gives tham a heal so they live a bit longer, but with a 60 second recharge i tend to throw waves in, and i'm not too worried.
The lich at full pelt is great, he immobilizes, and has mass fear to tie up groups while the knights wade in and smash.
In short i love my deadites, its been a slog but i'm nearly lvl 50, and am most definately up for a mass zombie horde!!
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After getting too much problems with my Merc/TA versus those, i choose /traps for the huge ammount of alpha tricks.
Seeker drones work lovely if u cast them behind the flame trowers, so i can savely send in my pets to attack from the other side. Meanwhile i run in for the poison trap, or even acid mortar (it seems to take agro also, and can take quite some dmg). If im lucky Lich does its fear straight away, saving me some more.
It seems those flametrowers wont use their patch or cone once my pets are in melee range so i try to send them in asap.
But overall i tr to avoid longbow anyway, but sadly many mob-types have alot fire dmg.
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My secondary MM is a Necro/Poison that has been sitting at L32 for a while (more from PC problems than lack of interest).
He's actually good fun to play and makes a change from Bots/FF.
lvl 50 necro / dark here and i have to say that it is the most fun and effective solo set i have played out off all the mm sets and yes i mean they are, as people have said before necro has it all damage and debuffing and if you match it with dark miasma suddenly you have 3 dark miasma users on your "team" :P
Necro/Poison here, but languishing around level 8-10. Too many other alts!
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Hi Eiceman - Long time no team 
My highest level villian is on defiant who's a Necro/DM mastermind. I don't tend to play villains very much so he's been stuck at level 34 for over 12 months, but is great fun to play. I need to press on since getting the DS will be nice. Zombies are squishy, but the Lich and Grave Knights are cool. Debuff the mobs and send in the brain munchers. From my experience there seems to a good number of necromancers around, although no where near as common as robotics.
Mine's sat at 50 while I'm levelling my Mercs, and the necro one feels much nicer to solo. Once you're stacking fears with your pets on a Darkie its very tough.
My Mercs do feel better in teams though, they huddle up in a tight group rather than split into smaller groups and run all over the place
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Well, on Union I'm testing out Necro and Trick Arrow. SO FAR, it's ok, but I've got too many alts i love playing to test it much these days.
Level 18 Necro/Poison here. It's ridiculously fun! Or maybe i'm just in love with Poison.
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Im not sure where you guys are? Or if your hiding? Are there many Necromancers out there?
Ive managed to get mine to lvl 28 on Defiant Villains, and played CoV for just under two years, and cannot recall seeing any Necromancers.
Is it gimped, or just not everyones cup of MM.
Eice
@Eiceman
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