I have a few questions about necromancy...
Are there any necro bashing skills?
Are necro attacks dmg based on intelligence?
And finally, is it a very useful skill in general?

Thanks in advance...

Well, theres abilities that can be used for bashing IE: Putrefaction, Cannabalize but there are no damage attacks in necromacy(like cosmicfire) that can be used for bashing. It has its ups and downs, overall you need its trans skills for it to be useful.

Yeah, necromancy gets a lot better once you're up ghost/lich.

at trans with skills like lich it becomes overpowered

There are a few useful Necromancy skills.

Cannibalize, eat corpses.
Ectoplasm, slow balance, which I always forget to use.
Ghost, easy fleeing, unless they have Kether/Violet, then yer screwed. Or if you're afflicted.
Lich, no exp loss death, just 20 power.
Thats about its that is useful, anyway.

lich is still overpowered

How? It costs 20 power, you get a good amount of time of equi, and you come back with 0 power, undeffed. How is that over powered? Oh, and you lose no exp for the death.

HarHar. That's almost funny.

It does not cost 20 power. It costs 10p, plus whatever is left in your prompt. So the intelligent thing to do, is use all your feats before you die.

Well, either way that still costs 20 power, just your way you're getting a couple of extras on the side.

The topic was for the questions stated guys, let's not get into the tenth rant over lich being over/under powered.

Your Intelligence raises the amount of damage your Cosmicfire does, but otherwise I don't think it helps with anything specific to Necromancy. Necromancy is also one of the better skillsets in the realm right now so it's good to take, especially for bashing/surviving

Tis the season! Since Ethelon has, for a change, decided to be reasonable, I've taken my almighty transcendant Necromancy and stuck it in. I'll explain what they're good for, eh? Well, am I ALLOWED to post skill lists?

No, you're not allowed to post skill lists.

Well that sucks. You'll use Drain, Carrion, Ghost and Lichdom more than anything, really. Oh, and Putrefaction.

Necromancy still got Shrivel?

As useful as one shrivel is compared to mending balance. Its one of those "only when they're screwed up" abilities and, with the free giving out of systems the "only when they're screwed up" changes to "only when they're passing out from hunger because they aren't carrying food".

Why aren't you allowed to post skill lists?

I don't know, but I remember Estarra erasing Iggy's post when he posted two of the (then-new) Stag abilities a while back and saying that it's better not to post 'em.

since lich is a necromancy skill i was wondering how does it work. Like what is the set up and things like that cause to my understanding you put lichseed you die become a lich and then the last death counts for experience.

10 power: Lichseed defence.
Die.
Turn into soul as usual - have about 10 seconds or so to get away, can move OFF eye sigils but not ONTO eye sigils.
Reform as lich (-1 STR/INT during day, +2 STR/INT during night, both from default) with no power, no defs, and about...er...4 secs eq, might be wrong there.
Run away if you didn't already get far enough as a soul.
Get 10p back.
10: Lichseed def again.