Shattered Kingdoms

I think there should be a limit to have many corpses a necromancer can animate instead of it being a spell that have to be hold. Not only does it affect the number of animates you can have but your mana regeneration is also VERY slow when holding even a few animates. Animate dead which is one of the few REALLY unique spells has now become more or less useless. That is too bad in my opinion.

I really don't think animate dead has a mana upkeep.

However, this change to animate dead was ridiculous when it was put in, and it remains so now.

It does not in fact lower your mana regen, but the concentration hit is a [REDACTED], as is the fact that if you ever have to go through a no magic room you're SCREWED which never affected you before.

I don't even play the necromancer class, and this change also makes me sad, too.

Necromancers still have the potential to be reasonably powerful, but if the animate dead ability is going to work like this, I wonder why anyone would play one with all the Hammer, Paladin, and Anti-Magic rooms.

The control undead feature might be a good boon to consider using, my friends--but I, too, am disenchanted about the change to this ability.

It's because necros were 'too good' (IE someone managed to use them to win instead of them dying instantly to hw/bolt/arrows/backstab/everything else) and required a wimp!

I love how CRS is still the broken system it was, and every change that is done to accommodate it hurts the game more and more. That's the real reason this was changed.

So, Dulrik, going to ever back off your mountain?

This is not true. Animates would collapse upon entering no magic rooms prior to this change.

Any change to how they worked involving anti-magic rooms was not intentional. So let's get it straight: Did they drop before or not?

Animates would drop when entering no magic rooms before the change.

I seem to remember long ago with the first change to animate dead that finally made the spell cool + useful, when I was playing Ezzevosh, that my animated dead DID drop in anti-magic rooms.

They've always dropped in no-magic as they likely should.

Too bad there aren't any no-melee rooms