Mage is a great starting class. You don't really need gear at all and can make good money if you do things right. If you later get bored with it, you'll have some kind of income to help jump start a new character with.
http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...ad.php?t=28012
This guide is pretty much built for Mages/Necromancers to follow.
A shaman should be able to follow it as well, some of the later stuff might require you to start a few levels later. A druid could do parts of it too, also a bit later in levels. You'd wanna watch out in OoT as that would kill faction with people you probably don't want to kill your faction with (mainly as a druid).
http://wiki.project1999.org/index.php/Main_Page
is a good resource for P99 information, Alla isn't always accurate as far as this server is concerned. Also some other good guides there for the various classes.