There's two build that I use; max out Discord or Schism tree.

Discord's Mindstorm damage is weak until you can get Dean of Discord. In the mean time, you kill stuff by kiting the enemy inside the Mindstorm radius while walking away from them. Remember that Psionic Form gives movespeed boost with at least 80 psi, so you can run away.

Schism deal more damage and has built-in crowd control effects. With Split Personality, you can pretty much spam it every turn. The random teleports means you can never be locked down, then again it's random so you need to be lucky.

Overall, the class has tons of AoE damage, but lack single target damage against boss (other than Distortion tree)

The main problem is that there is no impression of 'dancing'. Leaf dance is without alternative and you only need others to get stat requirements - till you learn the talent allowing you to use 2. I used Wind periodically but had to switch to Leaf at almost any serious opposition. I think that you should get at least some placeholder icons for talents - otherwise all similar icons are quite irritating. Also noted the bug with negative regeneration mentioned here but I think it is more connected with turning off own Leaf dance upon death. Semi-permanent stats effects for requirememnts is a good idea - but the game seems to see these as 1 lower ( or base requrements as 1 higher?): needed 19 Str for wwpn mastery, 29 Cun for Track, etc.

Looking forward to this! If you need any early testers/bug finders happy to help.

The only changes in this are to the Staff Mastery talent, adding that bit of Dexterity scaling to staff damage? Or is there more and I'm not loading it somehow?

is this going to be upstreamed?

I can't wait to try out this Necromancer! I really love playable necromancers, so even if the Necromancer as it is now is quite annoying and hard to build, one of my past times is precisely to ponder how to make a build that works.

Thank you very much for your awesome game!

It takes everything I love about the Dread Necromancer add on, makes it vanilla, then compounds upon it?! NEW FAVORITE CLASS EVER. DG, this is legit gonna be my all time favorite update. Thanks. My GF is now gonna murder me because this is gonna consume my life again.

I love this news, thanks very much for refactoring the necromancer. I think this new design will be really fun. I can't wait to try it. Thanks for providing some permanent minions as well. These are much more fun than timed ones, IMO.

Hey, thanks for trying out my addon, and congrats on the win.
Most addons are balanced around nightmare / insane difficulty, since any character can *feasibly* win normal.
Discordant revolves around AoE damage, which is strong against trash mobs. But will struggle against high hp bosses, which is more common on higher difficulties. Also, their early game isn't that great.
Other than that, it's a bit stronger than most vanilla classes, but the same can be said for most addons here.
Cheers.

I saw someone suggest asynchronous pvp: where you basicly choose a character from the vault and fight against an ai controlling that character. That would be way easier to implement than real time pvp.

Now works better, switching Avalanche with brambbles made iit surviable at low levels, making Cunning prerequisite for most talents, while not good from style point of view, made prerequisites reachable. Seems that Lua errors from the previous version are gone, too. Probably should switch or change descriptions for Avalanche and brambles, too? Also, Antimagic version doesn't work very well (mainly the same reason it is bad for Brawlers - you lose many good gloves). Maybe add magic tree?