Victorio: your math is a little difficult to follow, but from what I can tell you seem to be right. Thanks for pointing out my error there.
Uteunayr: those gear profiles are pretty high end, which obviously starts to even out the mana comparison. I've always said flat out that Iksar is the clear choice for anyone whose character goals include hitting 60 and acquiring raid gear, because the INT advantage starts to become irrelevant quickly at that point.
Honestly, my main contention this entire time has really just been that Erudite Necros have a shit ton more mana than Iksars except at the very high end game, and that this fact makes Erudites a preferable racial choice for certain niche applications (i.e. you want to lock a Necro at level 51 to PvP with on Red, or you're a new player to P1999 and just want to level a Necro quickly to farm some plat with, knowing you will never level the Necro much past 50 or acquire a ton of gear on him). The nice thing about an Erudite Necro is that you need hardly any INT/mana gear to have a decent sized mana pool, which makes them great for starting out from scratch and for PvPing in full resist gear. But certainly, beyond those limited, niche applications I would recommend Iksar as the obvious choice (I have an Iksar Necro myself on Blue and never considered any other race).
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