Ok, so I got to wondering a thought from another thread:
What do you guys think is the best necromancer?
I know there are many ways to view a necromancer so describe WHY you think yours is the best. Personally, I love the Grave Witch. The ability to ride your corpses around is really helpful for scouting ops and the Doll makes touch attacks pretty cool. Also the ability to dominate any undead she runs into makes her quite powerful.
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Depends what my goal is for Necromancy:
-Minions and the likes: Cleric, it's just easier. Oracle of Bones or Juju are convenient. Gravewitch is not bad.
-Necromancy spells : Wizard, Arcanist, Sorcerers.
Special mention:
Samsaran or build a necromancer: Gravewitch + Samsaran and pick spells that you are missing from the wizard spell list.
Gravewalker Witch is my personal pick even before it got access to Spirit Talker - Arcane Enlightenment.
Main reasons:
1. Can control undead from level 1. Bonewhistle can be used repeatedly on the same targets. Bonewhistle also solves a Witch weakness by giving you a repeated SoD v. Undead.
2. Gravewalker gives you the three most important spells for animating minions at their lowest level - Blood Money at level 1, Command Undead as a level 2 spell and Animate Dead as a level 3 spell. Admittedly you will have to wait til 6 to start animating.
3. The other important Necromancy spell Desecrate can be replicated by a Voidstick for only 2,500 GP.
4. You can eventually get to use magic jar on your undead all day long.
So let me talk real quick about why Juju mystery (the old one) is secretly bad for necromancy or any class that tries to sell you on offering more then 4 HD per level of Animate Dead control, say Juju offering you 6 HD. Basically Command Undead (the spell) makes this worthless. Command Undead has an insane duration of days per level. That's a lot of Undead you can potentially be controlling at very very little cost.
Sidenote: Juju used to be pretty good because it let you make Good or Neutral undead, which allowed for a 100% Good Necromancer. That ability was since errata'd away, but if you can get a GM to stick to what is printed I'd recommend them. Also it's still good if you want to turn your entire party into Juju Zombies, since it's a pretty rocking template. And since you are an Oracle it can make you even more CHA SAD.
This is also the reason that classes trying to sell you having Command Undead (the Feat) are kind of bleh. Oh wow, you have a really pretty bad extra pool of undead control.
So ya, Gravewalker Witch. Shaman of course will work, but all it's mysteries are incredibly meh for it.
Don't forget to grab Experimental Spellcaster (Undeath) so you can raise undead for free. At range. As a standard action. With 2nd level spell slots.
So now the question arises on how to diaguise these guys as a witch lol
Disguise skill maybe?
Disguise skill maybe?
lol that is a lot of perfume lol.
Im just trying to picture disguising bloody skeletons lol
Words of Power Oracle.
cleric, undead/death domain and law domain if you can get it.
at 8th level you're healed by negative energy, even energy that would damage you, so you can just channel negative nergy to damage and include yourself to heal as you make people die and your undead minions go to work.
If you use 3pp the Undead Summoner is pretty good.