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My human monk was about level 17 when Kunark was released?

At that point I thought, "oooh what a pain starting over." Huge mistake for sure. As I progressed I used the XP penalty (which was 44% then not 20% - so now days you're only as bad as a Human Monk used to be) and faction issues (well that could be annoying!?) to justify not re-rolling. Then I finished jboots, then I finished 45 (what a hell level!!) then I got deeper and deeper, kept getting upgrades, etc. and never did it.

When Velious started, I was playing my other chars more so than my monk but finally started to see how overpowered monks were. Monks solo'ing blues that I couldn't imagine pre-velious or killing Lodizal or Ragefire on their own with no assistance - is crazy. I saw people start to gear out and get 10th rings and Vulak weapons and iksar monks were doing crazy things.

At that point my human monk was stuck "in a time capsule" of the Kunark era, she hadn't really had any Velious upgrades - if I wanted to start investing energy into her it would mean replacing a lot of items. So I said, F it. Took all her droppable items and tink bags and created a level 1 Iksar Monk and have 0 regrets - ever since.

Iksar gets +regen, +AC. Iksar regen is incredibly game changing. Even if a nuke just happens to land on you and you need to sit FD to get back up - the regen is huge. Solo'ing it decreases downtime exponentially.

If you have a Fungi, Iksar, and 10th Ring, you're getting 370 hp regenerated every minute while running around from mob to mob? If I added up all the regen I've had on my iksar. I don't even remember the math but through level 59 on my iksar the regen alone (with fungi) it was like having someone log in every 14 minutes to cast a CHeal on me.

So yes, don't make the mistake I made and roll human. If you're concerned about XP... yes it can be a pain but don't worry about it - once you get to 60 this server isn't going anywhere so you can be 60 foreverrrrrrrrrrrrr - getting there a couple days earlier isn't worth losing the regen or AC. Go iksar it's way better. I still park my human monk random places to do little stuff so it's cool to have a character like that but now my iksar monk is far beyond my human in gear - with some easy to do Velious upgrades. I wish I just re-rolled from the start.