I find necromancer to be a confusing background to play. they have an interesting and fun playstyle that can get through the early game just fine and even the lair with enough effort, but going all the way on memorizing their entire starting library and playing the melee-hybrid way the spells want you to play kind of leaves you with no future. you’re in lair, you lead a small pack of zombies behind you, you cast curse of agony on every cane toad then hit them with your weapon and finish them off with vampiric draining, all while having the option to switch places with your zombies to disengage if the combat rolls ever go poorly. it works, but only for so long, you can’t keep doing this forever and must eventually move on from your level 3 and 4 spells. in most non-Kiku games you don’t get new necromancy spells to bridge into, so you usually need to do something different
so the question is, where do you typically take the character so they actually have a path to winning? train your weapon skill and other melee skills to play a more pure melee until you find new necromancy, hexes or summonings spells that make it worthwhile to cast again? or does pivoting to other spell schools to possibly quit being a necromancer work out well for you? or what else are you doing to win your necromancers?