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Wraith's can't fly because they can't think happy thoughts! They lost their magic feather...

Couldn't resist

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Well, Spectral Dragons are not THAT crappy I think. They do reasonable damage and have normal attack and defense rating for level 7. They have only 2/3 Hit Points, but you get 3/2 of them, so that levels out, sort of, at least when you get the Animate Dead spell. Of course, in the only Necro game I played so far, I didn't get the Animate Dead spell in any of my four towns (what's the odds of that ...) which of course was a huge disadvantage. I think statistically, the Necros aren't that bad off, but I think OOPMan has a point in saying that in most combats, you will have the Vampires go into melee and have the Liches and Skeletons attack from a distance, and then just hold back all of the other troops in order to save them and let the Vampires self-ressurect. And that's pretty boring game-wise. So from that point of view, it would be nice to have the Necromancer units levelled out a bit.

Some ideas how to make the Necros more varied:

- Let Wraiths float but not fly. Float means it'll pass over obstacles + moat, but not across city walls.
- Give Wraiths Dead Touch ability to kill 10 % of their numbers rather than harm touch.
- Nerf Vampires by making Life Drain an activated ability where they do less damage than regular attack, but may perhaps resurrect 100 %. To balance this, make them do better damage on regular attack, so that they become better melee units.
- Make Ghosts faster and change their abilities, to make them more usefull. The Incorporeal ability might have looked like a good idea on paper, but in real game, it's to random - one succesfull hit, and they are decimated.
- Give Spectral Dragons some sort of more usefull Incorporeal ability (for instance, give them 50 % damage reduction against none-magical attacks instead of 50 % miss chance), increase damage and Hit Points, make them faster, and make them come at only 2/week.
- Do something with the Zombies ... make them not useless!
- Nerf Necromancy skill, so that Skeletons doesn't come by the thousands. When Necros get's insanely many skeletons, all other units have to be more or less crap to keep up the balance, which destroys gameplay.

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Well, it would be nice to play Necro in more than one way...

As is both the lvl 6 and lvl 7 are not exactly amazing, the lvl 2 sucks horribly and the lvl 3 is marginal.

Unless I mixed up the Ghost/Spectres as lvl 3 when they're lvl 4, in which case the lvl 4 sucks.

The point is, only Skellies, Vampires and Liches see much play. Everything else is pretty useless or overcosted.

This doesn't give the Necro play many army styles...

At least in H3 you could choose whether or not to play Vampires or Dread Knights. In H5 it just seems like Vampires are the only choice you have when it comes to melee...

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The problem with necro level 7 unit isn't it's performance (which is bad, but not terrible). it's their price - the dwelling price. It's stupid that I can get angels on any map on week3 (some gold on the map + several days of not buying anything with capitol built and bam, there you go) and let them grow in numbers until I'll have the cash to buy them while I can't do it with boners bcuz the dwelling costs many different resources, which are generated at random and you can be quite f*cked up for long when there will be no mercury pile close.. I think bone dragon dwelling should be cheap and the upgrade can be expensive IF spectrals will get improved some way. Although it has to be done carefully, since it can destroy the balance.. ~~

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Maybe the Wraith should have a whole new ability: Floating..."Floating gives the Wraith the ability to walk over small obstacles like rocks, but unlike flying creatures they cannot pass over castle walls or other creatures" .

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