[Foxplay]

#1) Enchanter: if you want to learn the game and all its mechanics and how to abuse them. In essence how to "win" at EQ
#2) Necromancer: will teach you many of the lessons that you can gain from enchanter but offers a much easier learning curve and safety net, while also being a bit more powerful than enchanter in situations that call for direct damage sourced via the caster and not thru a charm pet (Necro has super DD, and DoT's, and a stronger natural pet vs. Enchanter charm is better and haste and buff spells beef up their charm to super saiyan levels of stupidity)
#3)Mage: Wont teach you much about the game with the exception of good pet control - and chaining pets at higher levels, but if you want a relaxed class that is fairly powerful, as well as having a certain amount of "guaranteed power" the mage is a sure bet with you are always at the very least as strong as your pet which are pretty decent. I have no personally leveled one up but I imagine mages being pretty much unmatched at farming lower level content as their hasted pet + dmg shield could just curb stomp it with ease.
#4)Wizard: Mathematically probably the worst class in velious, yes they can burst out a lot of damage and are fairly relevant in Kunark when bosses only have 32k hp. But their nukes just did not scale well in velious as mobs almost across the board received sizeable health increases. While they are not an amazing class by the numbers on at least one positive note playing a wizard will teach these players proper kiting and quadding techniques on p99 as it will be engraved in the back of your skull simply because getting into groups as a wizard may (will) be difficult.