Hmm⌠PvP only Necromancer?
Well. First off, letâs see what Necromancer brings to PvP. Flesh Cannon for sure, however, itâs impacted by AOE Defense Ratio. With a base of 5 AOE Attack Ratio for the skill, plus AOE Attack Ratio on your gloves/Rod (because multi-hit skills like this scale much better with additional elemental damage youâd likely be using Karacha/Arde etc), youâre looking at hitting aroundâŚ
Around 6~8 players total. Compared to the 20+ players that other Wizard classes can hit at once. But even then you would need a linker because I canât stress enough how absolutely tiny the AOE Radius is on that skill. Teeny tiny. About the size of your placement circle graphic. To hit all 6-8 players to milk your AOE Attack Ratio, without linker, would literally require them to be standing on top of each other.
No joke.
What else does Necromancer bring to PvP? Horrible AI but with the terribad fps stutter some of your Skeletons may sneak in a few hits before being instagibbed by AOE spells. Your slug will waddle and ooze around a bit longer but ultimately wonât be contributing much.
Your Corpse Tower may last a while if you place it outside of range of enemies, but, since GvG battles involve a lot of moving around itâll be left in the dust and all youâll have to show for it is a skill on cooldown after hitting a few times. It could be alright in 2v2/5v5 though whenever we get it, but even then itâs more of a âDoTâ and meatshield to hide behind than an actually meaningful dps alternative.
Dirty Pole. This is likely the only contribution to GvG. Even then though it is more of a buff for all archers on your side than it is anything that will help you.
After all that I think the tl;dr should be:
PvP only Necromancer? Donât.
lol really though your best attack is limited to AOE Ratioâs and there are a lot of classes that will do everything you can in PvP except much, much, more efficiently.
If you absolutely had to roll a PvP only Necromancer (like if someone was forcing you to for some masochistic feels) then I would skip Thaum (and this is coming from currently a C3 Thaum). Swell Left/Right will not affect your summons at all and the utility youâd lose in both PvE and PvP from Linker or some other mystical class would be devastating. You could even try Linker/Psycho as your fillers giving you a much better chance in PvP to make use of your summon dps (summons + linker = blender, and CC from Psycho can hold them in place so your summons can do their thing as well as offer you some utility skills along the way).