Probably not the best choice of name to call it a Blood Fiend.
The minion's model looks like the back half of a giant rat corpse.
Last edited by DrakeWurrum; 2012-08-26 at 06:11 PM.
I hope you haven't forgotten my role in this little story. I'm the leading man. You know what they say about the leading man? He never dies.
If you give in to your impulses in this world, the price is that it changes your personality in the real world. The player and character are one and the same.
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I hope you haven't forgotten my role in this little story. I'm the leading man. You know what they say about the leading man? He never dies.
If you give in to your impulses in this world, the price is that it changes your personality in the real world. The player and character are one and the same.
fiend (fnd)
n.
1.
a. An evil spirit; a demon.
Definition of FIEND
1
a : devil 1 b : demon c : a person of great wickedness or maliciousness
fiend
[feend]
noun
1.
Satan; the devil.
2.
any evil spirit; demon.
Need I go on? Thats just the first 3 links for "definition fiend"
EVERY SINGLE ONE says its a demon.
I'm personally just laughing that the OP is so mad about not getting bland skeletons. True necromancers have more class than that.
And Arena Net is far more creative. O_o
Warcraft 3 Necromancers summoned nothing but skeletons, and it got a little boring.
Last edited by DrakeWurrum; 2012-08-26 at 06:14 PM.
I hope you haven't forgotten my role in this little story. I'm the leading man. You know what they say about the leading man? He never dies.
If you give in to your impulses in this world, the price is that it changes your personality in the real world. The player and character are one and the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necromancy
Sounds like a necromancer to me.
I hope you haven't forgotten my role in this little story. I'm the leading man. You know what they say about the leading man? He never dies.
If you give in to your impulses in this world, the price is that it changes your personality in the real world. The player and character are one and the same.
I really don't get the QQ. This information was out some time ago, all you had to do was look it up. The necromancer summons things made of other dead things. Perhaps the necromancer summons minor demons into the flesh to animate them.
You already said you bought the game for one class, maybe you should have given it a little more thought if only one class interested you.
Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life.
Just, be kind.
How is a generic blood fiend creative?
I'll tell you why they added in fiends and not true necromancer pets. Less work.
Don't need to create walking or attacking animations for a full scale body, just create a floating glob, texture it red and call it a blood fiend.
Enjoy your boring pet!
I don't know from what I remember A necromancer is some one who uses spirits, shadow power and undead. Those creatures they call fiends are made up of bone and flesh. And one looks like a spirit. If I were a necromancer I wouldn't want to raise humanoids I would want rearrange the bones into a mess to try and scare people. Remember the flesh golem from Diablo?? that wasn't a standard human it was a Golem made of flesh. It looked a lot more scary then the normal skeletons.
But all and all you can just simplify them into death magic casters. Which they definitely fit into. They may for some reason not for you but maybe you can't think of what a body could look like if you took a few of them and stuck random bones together.
By "definition" I suppose Warlock would fit the profession name just fine. Though I think necromancer is more appropriate, since the definition of necromancer isn't as broad as warlock. Since warlocks are defined only as being an "Any male that delves in the dark arts; IE. Male Witch, whereas necromancers are basically defined as warlocks who specialize in conjuring the dead.
It doesn't mean controlling the dead. Necromancers is specifically a term (aside from games) for people who commune with the dead to see the future. In fact, the suffix mancer is related to prophecy telling or divination.
I agree though, i prefer the blacker art necromancers (anyone played Ultima 8?) and the pets look pretty average in GW2.
Really?
First line of that wiki
Necromancy (/ˈnɛkrɵˌmænsi/) is a claimed form of magic involving communication with the deceased – either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily
There are no bodies being summoned. There aren't even apparitions.
I'm sure everyone here thinks its crazy that I care this much, but its dissapointing that no game has the balls to create a true necromancer anymore. Maybe they hurt someones religious feelings by actually raising undead bodies and now companies are afraid to touch it.
Whatever
Last edited by Alcsaar; 2012-08-26 at 06:20 PM.
As I said before in my previous post: it feels like a Necromancer. The creatures it summons look like they once were a creature (or multiple creatures). The profession uses magic that is generally seen as "forbidden" or "taboo" because that type of magic is associated with death (necro-). Plague, blood, spectral things, life-draining... and it's all flavored with death-like names and aesthetics.
Just because it doesn't use generic skeletons or zombies doesn't mean it's not a necromancer. Fantasy is made out of things someone interpreted differently.
Edit: And that's the last I'll post in this ridiculous thread.
Last edited by Ynna; 2012-08-26 at 06:20 PM.
Resurrected Holy Priest
It sounds like you didn't even do a little bit of research for the profession. you just heard the word "necromancer" and went all nerdgasm over it.
so I assume you didn't do any research for the other professions either. If you don't like necromancer just because you feel like they used the wrong name or some dumb shit like that, try something else.