PWK may not work well for necros, but I can think of one class that landed it almost everytime against Ecasio. The one time it did not land was once out of seven tries, which resulted in seven deaths for me. 
necro - nightmare
I've got a log of me using it successfully with my necro' date=' at lvl 46 or 48 or some such against a 50.[/quote']
That was due to a bug in the powerword code that hopefully has been fixed. It allowed any necromancer below level 50 to successfully powerword a level 50 pc WITHOUT death grasping prior. Pretty kickass.
Actually I death grasped him a number of times...
And I have never seen any evidence of this bug.
I do agree with f0xx that imm's have to do enough of work fixing bugs and balance fixes.The idea is nice but why we have to bother them with not so needed change when there are LOTS of necro bugs waiting for fixing.
Was that a suggestion in some way about the imms being slack in fixing bugs?
Seriously.
Im saying this very calmly whilst biting my tongue....
This is a free MUD. Completely Free. The administrators and implementors pay for everything. Might I add that this is one of the best FREE muds on the internet.
This isnt bias - this is fact.
I have played many and worked on many others. Fixing things takes time. Life takes more time as does any other of the NUMEROUS acitivies involved in life. This may not be their number one priority
If this is your number one priority in life then I give you full respect. If may not be for the implementors. This is a choice that you have open to you to make.
You are here as a GUEST. This is a PRIVATELY owned mud. They may do as they please. If they want to make humans get 30 con and deal ten times the damage of anything else they can. They own it. Its theirs. We BEG a place to play here.
As such they can do things at whatever pace they wish.
You know some things make me wonder. It was a JOKE way back in the day that the one thing that will unite the playerbase was whining.
** Whist this may not be completely relevant nor sigular to this thread I think its very important this is said:**
** The Imms give their free time to look after us. The players, you, me and maybe balinor (if you can call what he does 'playing')... But jokes aside.. They give a lot for us. **
** Who are we? Some randoms sitting across on a computer screen 10,000 miles away. People who show no appreciation for everything that the immortals do for us, yet we all continually spew this whining crap?**
** This is what put the old IMM STAFF off. You know - those people that ditched us? That said **** YOU! we cant handle the abuse and lack of respect that you all show us. Us who do this FOR YOU. SOME STRANGER.**
** But then we had a new staff, to take over and keep this place going. A new bunch of suckers we can abuse for giving us their time and patience.**
** **
These people are doing you a favour. Treat them like it.
** **
Well said. I agree completely.
what the hell? this thread is about spooky horses for necros. Start your own thread; you can't have mine. Kiss the imms' rumps in a different thread.
This is the suggestion forum. I made a suggestion. You all need to take some Valium.
Meh your thread got old. I made it interesting.
Those thoughts have been brewing a while - ehh Tant? wink
Bout time I shared em I think.
I agree 150% with Aulian on that one. If you have ever worked on a mud, (I have worked on a few myself), you would know the amount of work that goes on without any of the regular playerbase even knowing about it. Building a new area? It takes time, you have to map the area, know the rp for it, build it, etc, all of this takes REAL LIFE TIME! Creating a new class? You have to know the rp, code the skills, test the skills, etc, etc, etc, and it all takes REAL LIFE TIME! See the theme here? I hope you do because hopefully next time you won't fling that piece of crap veiled flame of the imms at them. Show at least a bit of decency and respect for 'em, eh?
Back to topic:
An undead mount for a Necro would be rather interesting. Not only would it give the necro a mount, but also give them an actual RP reason behind needing to raise the dead, besides the common, "army to PK", thought, though that is a very viable rp reason as well, but it never hurts to expand it.
Perhaps have the timer of the spell based off of the mob's rank? Maybe something that would go like this:
If moblevel < 40
spelltimer = moblevel * 1.5
else
spelltimer = moblevel * 2.5 // if moblevel is >= 40
With this, it would allow you to kill easier mobs, but for less time, but also to kill harder mobs for the more time, just like the mobs you buy, you pay more, you get more (well, in the main cities at least 
) This, I believe, would also add just a bit of risk to getting that extended time, just like building your army is a risk. If you don't want the risk, you can always go for that lower ranked mob, but you're going to have to do it more often and you have to figure if you want that little annoyance or not? Either way you go though, you would have your undead mount for your RP whims. 
I can't understand why when someone posts a topic everytime a person begins to argue with it?I never said that imm's owe us something I said just the opposite,that they might want to spend their time IG fixing necro bugs that are of much importance instead of implementing something not so needed.I think that your post was completely useless and not refering to the topic.We all know what the imm's are doing for us,no need to open our eyes.If you wish to thank them for something or to ask them if they need your help then just take it to the prayer forum just as I did.Myrek told you best -do not kiss rumps in ideas and suggestions section,please.
All of you, calm down or a big fat forum vacation will be heading your way.
As to the original topic, something similar exists already for undead Nexus. Your idea of a mount consuming the original mount is nice however, could be both a necro and lich spell.
Really, instead of relying on the IMMs to do everything, why not just write the code for the skill yourself and send it in?
Anyways back on topic, I'm all for cool ideas like these.
I hate Dark-Knights, never played them except one and couldn't get him past level 20, and I think a summonable mount like the Paladin's Goliath would be a FANTASTIC idea. Nightmares. How freaking cool is that?
Maybe even mounted combat, too. But that might be a bit too much. They do have the charmie and all that.
I like the idea of summonable mounts or created mounts for the classes discussed provided they're nothing more than for cosmetic/aesthetic purpose. Dark-knights do not need mounted combat, at all. Nuh-uh. No way. No.
PWK works great for necros.
Powerword Death (From PK Forums)
I did this 14 times with Stytnlye after this one.
Now I was Savant, but 8 of them where during a period when I wasnt, having left for RP reasons.
As for mounts? meh, 100% mount would be nice. Though in truth, any necro that isnt flying 100% of the time would die just as fast 100% mount or not. So in the end, a profficent one wouldnt show any difference...as they would be flying all the time, period.