Lol. I was running a Necro/Swordsman who utilized Vamp Form+Curse Wep+HLL to tank **** during AoS (Particularly the Doom Gauntlet), long before Sampires came out. His template at the time was 120 Swords/GM Tact/GM Anat/GM Heal/GM Focus/GM Necro/GM SS.
I could even PvP on him then, and people **** bricks once they realized not only was i healing from bandies, pots and SS, but i was also leeching 20 health every hit with the Breath of the Dead.
I'd Corpse Skin someone, hit them a few times, then Para Blow them, Strangulate then Pain Spike them, Mortal Strike, and watch them die from Strangulate basically. I could also Blood Oath someone and make them eat their own damage on top of my damage output. If someone Blood Oathed me, it didn't even phase me because i had so much self healing. You wouldn't believe the amount of Necro/Mages i killed who thought i'd back off and that they'd be safe once they got a Blood Oath on me, lol.
Not many people used Necro Warriors back then, because not many people had the gear for it. I was lucky enough to have a ****load of T-Maps when AoS hit, and dug them all up in the first few weeks of AoS when T-Map loot was nuts at the time. With that, i had an all 70's suit (Which was hard as hell to get that early in AoS) which had some misc crap on it. I also had the Ring of the Vile and Leggings of Bane. I still had to carry around reg bag though for my spellcasting.