Should have rolled a Magician. Can stack that STR gear all day since you don't need HP for Lich, don't need to balance HP/CHA/INT like a Chanter and don't need every ounce of mana you can squeeze in like a Wizard. Just run around with your pet killing mobs non-stop, being jacked as fuck, looting everything in sight, and lifting weights with the Freeport Militia on Thursday nights. Never worry about cover charges to the hottest clubs because you roll around with thousands of plat and gold at all times and are never encumbered. If your Mage doesn't have at least 150 STR unbuffed you're newbin hard.

Actually... I lift weights with the freeport militia Mon, Wed & Fri mornings. I out-eat halflings for sunday brunch. I head to Cabilis on Wednesdays to convert Iksars to Christianity, with a very high success rate. Oh, and the Dwarves are wondering how I get such high alcohol content in my Dwarven Stupor Beer, cuz it slobberknocker's them.

Super grateful to Kowalski, Lhancelot, Kawhi, and Tuurin.

Yeah, I siphon strength constantly. Doesn't help much when you're 160/60 LOL

I'll work on my Weight Reduction bags, and I'll work on some decent gear, too. Thank you all! And I'm still open to any helpful suggestions!

cheers!

Bit pricey, but str is good http://wiki.project1999.com/Froglok_Bonecaster%27s_Robe

I just wanted to clarify that despite the tone this was not a troll post. I discovered by accident along the way that you really can gear a Mage hugely for strength while losing essentially nothing in effectiveness (because you really benefit almost nothing from stacking HP or mana, and can take advantage of the fortuitous abundance of easily obtainable +STR/+INT gear). STR has enormous, noticeable returns if you're farming and regularly getting encumbered. It's a legitimately good stat to stack as much of as you reasonably can on any character. And it just so happens that the Mage, being the least gear dependent class in the game, has a lot of room to stack STR. That's how my Mage ended up like this: http://wiki.project1999.com/Magelo_Blue:Quanzel

*Runs around at full SoW speed while carrying 1500 plat and 5600 gold* :cool:

Thanks you for clarifying that, Vexenu. I'm sorry if I came off angry, I didn't mean to - it's been a tough go the last week... I guess I never knew that about Magicians, and I'm grateful to be informed!

I wanted to give a quick update here... Thanks to the really helpful input from most of the posters, I was able to re-evaluate that Necromancer a bit, and made some changes. They've helped a LOT!

Went for lighter bags, found a piece of gear on a vendor with AC, STR and INT, so grabbed it. Almost had a 2nd, but by the time I scraped the plat together it was gone. Now I'm back to xp and earning some plat, and we'll keep going from there! Can't wait to get some WR Bags....

Necro should worry about +INT so grab some Shralok Packs for extra weight...

http://wiki.project1999.com/Shralok_Pack

I like to collect weight-reducing bags. Might be a fun pastime for a necromancer. Check out Bag of Sewn Evil Eye and Light Burlap Sack, among others.
http://wiki.project1999.com/Weight-reducing_Bags
Forager Bag is my favorite! I made a level 5 Ogre shaman mule to trigger the quest mob and I get a bag on every character.

Yup, definitely looking for +INT gear, +Mana gear. If it happens to have STR on it, that's just a short term bonus. I don't have much of anything for plat any more, so I'll be working on that again soon...

I just learned of the Shralock pack yesterday, actually. I hunted the bag of evil eye on my old server years ago, as well as the pack from Najena, and another one, too. There's a lot of this stuff I just forgot after 14 years, you know? :rolleyes:

Thank you again!