Necros and their issue

1. Necromancer is a unique pet caster class, not a hybrid class like wardens, champions, thanes, etc that split their core offense and defense utility in to different branches and roles. You can't justify any CC dampening on necromancer what so ever, because you are both the safest, and the most fragile player at the same time. You need to manage your pet in a cumbersome and unique way to make it work, and in some areas this class shines, while in other areas it is complete garbage. I am not saying necros are garbage, because I know they have a place in the RvR meta, its just nerfed out of a very good reason. You use the combination of words like "Normal classes" and refer to classes like Thane and Paladin. They are hybrid, and not normal. An eldritch, or a wizard, or a warrior or a hero is a "normal" class. They have one specific role that befits their arch-type.

2. This I remember from live, and hopefully gets fixed to be more friendly. The reasoning behind it is that you. as the ghost are the manapool holder, not the pet.

3. NO! CC is a powerful tool. By that I mean, it can make or break a class. Look at our dear minstrel, a high skill gap class indeed but they get a weaker offense with CC to keep them vital in combat and if you ask me a TAD to much offensive too. Try to imagine what would happen if a necromancer pet could hard-CC on a RNG based system. It would first of all be very useless in group play, since you only melee when you REALLY have to, but in a 1v1 situation you would go from a class that can solo 80-90% of the classes in the game to 100% just because of that RNG. It would literally break the class. The thought is good, but the mechanic is just so broken that it will cause more harm then good. Everyone likes to feel overpowered, and you really do as a necromancer in 1v1.

4. You have 1 castable from pet, and 1 instant tap from shade. So in those 3 seconds it takes you to cast 1 lifetap with the pet, you can cast two. Still think a faster cast is justifiable, and if so how?

5. Just because the enemy has immunity to a certain kind of CC, doesn't mean your spell removes the ability to interrupt with it. I know this very well, because I root the living ¤(/# out of things my self and will spam that root it if I have to just to keep certain classes interrupted. Snare and root shares the same timer.

One of the most powerful benefits of a necro, is their support. You won't be the heaviest nuker, you won't be the strongest group player, but in your nuke spec you have two things that are HEAVILY needed for groups in albion. ABS buff and a power transfer. If people don't want to take the advantage of this, then they are not thinking outside of the box. Most people that comes from live has forgotten the old necro, but still remember how crap it was in New Frontiers, but they forgot that we are playing in OF and that necros don't have the same movement problems here as they had in NF and just neglect them. Necros was nerfed in beta because they provided so much utility to one certain type of alb group, and it's a damn shame that a nerf like that is the nail in the coffin for players.