I don't like it personally. Does the gear drop when a necro banishes his charmies? I think its lame, charmies looting had a lot greater potential then annoying your enemies and it was one of the really nifty things about necros that made them painful enemies. Now its like, he's got your gear, gang him to #### or summon away his pets because he has to summon them back repeatedly or have them drop the gear asap. *shrug* Do whatever you want though, nerf the class til its useless.

So much for 'significantly'.

100%hp 84%m 31%mv 3861tnl (6 PM/civilized)
A bone golem gets a silvery ring from the corpse of Brolg.
A bone golem gets a practice sword from the corpse of Brolg.
A bone golem gets a fine leather cloak from the corpse of Brolg.
A bone golem gets a fine leather bracer from the corpse of Brolg.
A bone golem gets a fine leather bracer from the corpse of Brolg.
A bone golem gets a fine leather cloak from the corpse of Brolg.
A bone golem gets a pair of fine leather gloves from the corpse of Brolg.
A bone golem is burned by 228 silver coins and drops it.
A bone golem's burning hands scratches it.
A bone golem gets 5 copper coins from the corpse of Brolg.
A zombie of Vjolnir gets a pair of fine leather leggings from the corpse of Brolg.
A zombie of Vjolnir gets a pair of fine leather sleeves from the corpse of Brolg.
A zombie of Vjolnir gets a water skin from the corpse of Brolg.
A zombie of Vjolnir gets a steel chainmail hauberk from the corpse of Brolg.
A zombie of Vjolnir gets a pair of steel chain boots from the corpse of Brolg.
A zombie of Vjolnir gets a blue tabard embroidered with a golden lion from the corpse of Brolg.
A zombie of Vjolnir gets a steel open-faced helm from the corpse of Brolg.
A zombie of Vjolnir gets a wide bronze belt from the corpse of Brolg.
A zombie of Vjolnir gets a cruel battle axe from the corpse of Brolg.
A zombie of Vjolnir gets an expertly balanced practice axe from the corpse of Brolg.
A zombie of Vjolnir gets a blue sapphire ring from the corpse of Brolg.
A zombie of Vjolnir gets a Half-Moon Shaped Axe from the corpse of Brolg.
A zombie of Vjolnir gets a large boar steak from the corpse of Brolg.
A zombie of Vjolnir gets a large boar steak from the corpse of Brolg.
A zombie of Vjolnir gets a large boar steak from the corpse of Brolg.
A zombie of Vjolnir gets a golden key from the corpse of Brolg.

You're looking at two zombies of Vjolnir. Each one carries about half a dozen items. (Slightly higher. Vjolnir is a giant, and makes a larger zombie.) That's 'significantly' less than 20-25.

valguarnera@carrionfields.com

I see. Seeing how size now matters for zombies in terms of inventory space, was thought also given to the number of servants someone has when determining how much one can get?

No. Why would that matter?

valguarnera@carrionfields.com

Because a necro with 5 zombies, a ghoul, golem and whatever can just happily ignore the changes pretty much.

Good luck making and holding on to 5 zombies, as an aside.

valguarnera@carrionfields.com

Necromancers make up 3% of the Carrion Fields population.

Of that 3%, there are probably 6% who can have 4 zombies.

If you're dying to them, yeah...you're gonna get looted. If two of you die to him one right after the other, the second guy is probably gonna have most of his gear still around.

Don't think about the worst case scenario, think about the other 90%, where you aren't gonna get full looted by charmies.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

That's not entirely true. For killing one person, it's almost true.

If someone really dangerous makes a necromancer, they're going to roll over groups of three or more in quick succession like toddlers at a monster truck car crush. Not being able to clean out all those corpses fast is a significant downgrade. Not being able to loot a dozen kills and then sort them much later is a downgrade.

Nowhere in the list of changes did it say zombie looting was going away entirely.