Duo.
I''ve levelled a couple necros up in my day and just trust me when I say they make for amazing small group situations..
Necros and Mages go well together.. Druids can snare/track/pull/sow/regen. Pact heals can keep most melee with legit avoidance up and kickin... Clerics and nuke undead, fear, heal, buff etc....
Well you get the idea. Point is.. A necro solo can accomplish a lot. A necro with a mage buddy, or even another necro... can kill *more* than twice the mobs, resulting in more XP, *safer* xp (fear resist x3 isn't instant death with a mage nuking them off of you, a cleric healing you, etc...).. You'll kill more, die less, chat and have more fun. It's a complete win-win.
And psychologically, it is so much easier to have like 10 duo buddies on a /friends list. Someone's on doing something fun, just need to join in! And if you like to solo cuz you only have an hr or two, Duo groups aren't long term commitments. MageBuddy_01 solos the tree spec when you have to leave early, life goes on. It's not even near on the same par as getting to Shroom King in Seb and having the cleric bail for a RL emergency.
Trust me, duo. If you are level 30 a quick /w all 29 34 will open your eyes. Solo EQ is a really bad AOL chatroom with low-res whack-a-mole attached. Live a little.
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Oh in case you are not sold yet: pet's don't eat group XP, so a mage and necro can literally fling their pets and cast level 1 DDs, juggle pet aggro, and spam kill areas like unrest basement/city of mist/etc.. while barely casting spells beyond mage pet heal and necro pact/lifetap if they so choose