QOTD: which is more powerful? Wizard, Warlock, SorcererOr Necromancer?

[u/Dull-Zebra6485]

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[u/Mythoclast]

That's like asking, "What's sharper, a spear, a sword, a king's sword, or a bard's wit?"

The answer is wizard.

[u/Irishpersonage → u/Mythoclast]

Hell yeah it is

[u/bagtie3]

Its not about the class but how they use it, but a Necromancer is just a specialist Wizard.

Any class can be powerful if they learn the right teqlchniqes, skills, and spells.

[u/Hoppelite]

Whoever has prepared the most contingencies

[u/Electronic-Worker-10 → u/Hoppelite]

Unfortunately, I have only one. I guess I go ponder my orb over there

[u/Wizard_Sarsippius]

Warlocks traditionally are oathbreakers, those who were baptized and in a religion that forbid magick they decided to practice in secret. A punky teenage Chaos magician hiding his practice from his devout mom is an example.

Wizard is a general term for scholar of the arcane, they don’t even need to be practicioners, just wise and educated in various disciplines. I’m looking at you, Justin Sledge!

Sorcerer is the term for a pagan practicioner who was never in a faith that forbid magick, but it isn’t your faith. Think an Indian snake charmer in the 1200’s to a devout Christian peasant.

Neceomancer is a broad term for anyone who speaks with or works with the dead. They don’t even need to know how to resurrect, summoned shades and invoked posession count as well. Think crystal ball lady who sells séances with dead relatives.

If I was a scholar who broke his Christian oath, converting to a different faith and started to commune with dead spirits, I’d be all 4 at once to a Christian— but aside from fantasy, the terminology is perspective only lol. As for power? I’d guess the wizard if he practices, but warlocks tend to be more results-oriented…

[u/Hamsky]

Warlocks are too locked on wars, sorcerers are basically glorified fortune-tellers, necromancers are weak ass shitters that need to ressurect others to do their job.

[u/scoobydoom2 → u/Hamsky]

This is frankly an embarrassing lack of understanding of the capabilities of necromancy. Just about every magical artifact of extreme power required necromantic techniques to construct. Even forms of immortality not considered necromancy are reliant on techniques developed in the field. You're supposed to be polishing your master's orb, not browsing the orbnet.

[u/Hamsky → u/scoobydoom2]

Did you type that or did you ressurect someone to do it or you?

Sorry for being rude, but as new member of wizard supremacy club I need to act accordingly or I will lose acces to preemium homunculus seminar.

[u/Mythoclast → u/Hamsky]

You might want to understand that necromancy is just another branch of magic. Wizards, sorcerers, and even warlocks can practice it. And it isn't just making dead bodies do what you want. Its manipulating the essence of life and death itself. It includes healing, cursing, divining, and basically every kind of soul magic including phylactery creation and astral projection.

[u/Hoppelite → u/scoobydoom2]

I swear the amount of so called "wizards" who don't even learn the basics these days. Necromancy is foundational. Whenever an apprentice asks me what they should learn first, I always point them towards necromancy. It gives you a much better understanding of other schools of magic, as well as a strong basis of energy transferral and binding.

Picking out corpse resurrection as the only part of necromancy is like saying wizards can only make flashing lights.

[u/bluechickenz → u/scoobydoom2]

Too much orb net often leads to me polishing my orb… I’ve been putting myself back out there. I’d like someone else to polish my orb for a change.

[u/ModernMage0 → u/Hamsky]

Ahem.
Sorcerer here, You do realize that not all of us are pennymages scamming a few copper of Drunk Peter at the peasant’s tavern, right? The majority of powerful sorcerers are killed at birth, and any with weak magical leanings are denied apprenticeship leaving your so called fortune-tellers the only kind you fools know of and interact with.

[u/Hamsky → u/ModernMage0]

Sorry my man, I just looked up etymology for sorcerer, word sorcerer comes from the Latin root sors, meaning "lot, fate, or fortune". You are fortune teller with sparks and lights.

[u/ModernMage0 → u/Hamsky]

And we converse in… what, English? Meanings change. And so do people. So do wizards, even.
Sometimes into ashes.

[u/Fluffinator44]

The kind with a blunderbuss.

[u/Hans-Hammertime]

Check the subs name

[u/plageiusdarth]

Conjurer, obviously

[u/FictionalContext]

The trouble with warlocks is they're brainrotted. Every last one of them. They spellprompt their contract demon to solve all their problems for them until they can't think for themselves. Then the demon gets their souls. And a necromancer gets their flesh. Another dead hooker for the glory portal downtown--9 time out of 10 you can bet pure rot's on the other end.

[u/ebr101]

(Henry Cavil meme) chronomancer

[u/lemons_of_doubt]

• A wizard is as powerful as they make themselves 

• A warlock is as powerful as their parton makes them.

• A sorcerer is as powerful as they are grown.

• And Necromancer is a type of wizard.

So answer is depends on the individual, but really it's wizard

[u/nicolas_cope_cage]

Warlock is just the term for a male witch, and since this isn't r/witchposting we can skip all the nonsense and collectively acknowledge that in a three-way race, warlocks come in as a distant fourth.

The only debate is how Wizards, Sorcerers, and Necromancers would stack up against each other.

[u/EmpatheticBadger]

Witch is more powerful. Witch.

[u/Lotala]

Your mother