Secondary professions for a Necromancer

Necromancers have some of the most powerful spells, with the longest recharge and highest energy cost.

Always remember, when choosing secondary skills, that native skills often have better synergy with the profession's purpose, interact better with the profession's other skills, and benefit from runes.

Necromancer/Warrior

 * Although there might be synergy between melee weapons and some hexes like Barbs, due to a Necromancers low armor, survivability becomes an issue. The Necromancer is better suited to cast these hexes for an ally, increasing their damage output.

Necromancer/Ranger

 * Combining Death Magic with Beast Mastery will allow your character to use both minions and a pet which complement each other rather well in battle.
 * Certain Nature Rituals can be useful for a Minion master.

Necromancer/Monk

 * The 55hp solo Necromancer is a very effective farming tactic.
 * Minion Masters sometimes use Heal Area as a non-necromancer alternative minion maintenance skill, although this split can draw points from other necromancer attributes where it would be more useful.
 * Dwayna's Sorrow can be used by a minion master to give party supportive healing.
 * Draw Conditions or Martyr can be used with Infuse Condition or Plague Sending to remove conditions from party members, though Foul Feast now works the same if not better than Draw Conditions.
 * A reusable resurrection skill is useful for any character in PvE.

Necromancer/Mesmer

 * Echo and Arcane Echo can be used to increase the damage potential of some of the longer recharging necromancer skills.
 * Recurring Insecurity combines extremely well with Soul Barbs, along with other mesmer hexes.
 * Many skills and hexes combine well with this combination

Necromancer/Elementalist

 * Glyph of Lesser Energy can be used for energy management.

Necromancer/Assassin

 * Enduring Toxin and other Deadly Arts hexes combine well with Soul Barbs.
 * Signet of Toxic Shock and other deadly arts skill combines well with Toxic Chill.

Necromancer/Ritualist

 * A Necromancer Spirit Spammer rarely has to worry about running out of energy.
 * A Necromancer can function as a healer using Restoration Magic, managing energy with the Soul Reaping bonus.
 * A reusable resurrection skill is useful for any character in PvE.

Necromancer/Paragon

 * A minion master can use "Fall Back!" to heal his army on the move and "Go for the Eyes!" to increase minion damage, however these are among the few shouts which affect minions.

Necromancer/Dervish

 * Mystic Regeneration can combine with necromancer enchantments such as Dark Bond and Aura of the Lich, but this tactic is easily outpaced by Blood Renewal.