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Hello, I would like to try a 2 Lone wolf with undead and I would like to use necromancer but to be honest I dont understand how necromancer work, its intel with physical, and I dont find it to have any good symbiose with anything. Do you have some good caster and warrior necro build?

I know it could work quite well with geomancer (because some spell are also physical) but its the only one. Warfare? how do you spend your stats point then? because you need intel and force (and wits, etc..)

sry for bad english

Necro is a heavy support role. You will need direct damage from somewhere else.
But You get great healing, debuff and damage buff from it.

Necro and warfare go well together as warfare will boost necro physical damage. Also high physical damage in General means You break shield faster for your debuffs.

Necro + geo can be seen as a dedicated undead healer support. Not just that You will have good heal from blood and poison but The physical armor spells in both trees will protect You from hydro healing spells.

I'm playing 2 lone wolf undead but with Geo/Sum with a focus on poison (ST and AOE) dmg.
You could exchange Sum for Nec and give that a go.

Ok so its more or less what I was thinking of Thanks.

Warfare necro is not so bad stats wise? with the need of force AND intel? (and wits, etc..)?

since you go lone wolf you will have an easy time adding enough int and str.

it is not as terrible as one would think, even for non lone wolf character.

because int and str only scale damage linearly. that means each new point you spent increase damage only marginably at a certain point.
the big scaling damage bonuses will come from your warfare

I found that pretty much any build is manageable because unless you go exclusively on Memory you get a lot more skills than your Memory stat can manage, so you stay flexible no matter which ability-trees you use.

Just make sure to use at least 2 if you do Lone Wolf.