10-11-2018, 02:15 PM
I made the necro as a vanilla wizard with a spell focus on necro and a specialization school of necro which makes you pick 2 opposition schools. I picked evocation and illusion as my opposition schools. If you pick that special sub-class of Wizard (I forget the name) then you get an additional bonus to not resist your specialization school but your opposition schools are completely closed to you. By going general wizard with a specialization you can still cast from the opposition school if you really want to but they take up two slots. So if there's some illusion spell I really really think I need for some encounter I can still technically use it. I figured with my main being an evocation sorcerer I didn't want my wizard to be so specialized that I leave big gaps in my spellcasting.
Necro specialization gives her some bonus necro abilities and the first one is a large PBAE Turn Undead which I figure might make up for my cleric crusader not being much of an undead fighter. Mainly she just casts Fear, which works great. If I don't need fear then I load her up with "whatever" -- usually Mage Armor for my tank and Summon Monster. Stuff where I don't have to worry about being resisted since I didn't put a spell focus point in it. Ray of enfeeblement should start getting good but it lasts for 1 round per level so kind of a waste at level 1-2.
Necro has its own damage spells too so no real need for evocation on that character.
Mage armor is a nice buff, btw. Straight up +4 AC on whoever and lasts for hours and has no downsides. I almost always keep 1 loaded up for nastier fights and put it on the main tank.
BTW, I didn't do it in this loadout but I briefly had a Mad Dog Barbarian which seemed cool. Basically instead of a druid with a pet it's a barbarian with the same pet. So you can have your melee berserker also come with a mastadon. Or boar. Or whatever. When I remade the team, though, I decided I just didn't like pets that much and left him out.
Necro specialization gives her some bonus necro abilities and the first one is a large PBAE Turn Undead which I figure might make up for my cleric crusader not being much of an undead fighter. Mainly she just casts Fear, which works great. If I don't need fear then I load her up with "whatever" -- usually Mage Armor for my tank and Summon Monster. Stuff where I don't have to worry about being resisted since I didn't put a spell focus point in it. Ray of enfeeblement should start getting good but it lasts for 1 round per level so kind of a waste at level 1-2.
Necro has its own damage spells too so no real need for evocation on that character.
Mage armor is a nice buff, btw. Straight up +4 AC on whoever and lasts for hours and has no downsides. I almost always keep 1 loaded up for nastier fights and put it on the main tank.
BTW, I didn't do it in this loadout but I briefly had a Mad Dog Barbarian which seemed cool. Basically instead of a druid with a pet it's a barbarian with the same pet. So you can have your melee berserker also come with a mastadon. Or boar. Or whatever. When I remade the team, though, I decided I just didn't like pets that much and left him out.