ok so...
Before green I had only ever played iksar necro to 65 ( pop ). For green beta I rolled dark elf, green launch went to lvl 20 as a gnome, then finally settled into my now level 24 erudite.
If you take aesthetics out of the equation ( because of guise ) then necro and gnome are pretty even. But I gave up on my gnome because I felt like he had a lot of mana problems. I know it’s only a slight edge, being 10 int, but it does feel like a lot more than that sometimes.
I like the low night vision. It makes EQ terrifying at times, but you also get ways to remedy this through spells very early on. Stein of moggok and dagger of marnek are both good light sources, and once you get deadeye it doesn’t matter ( level 16 ). Erudites get a pretty crazy mana item later on through quests. I don’t recall stats but I believe it’ll even out to somewhere north of 300 mana. And it’s a slot that doesn’t have a ton of good options anyway.
As for traveling around... I ran straight from Odus to Freeport, got lvl 5 off of bone chip stacks, then moved to cb and spent a few hours tagging everything for faction, went back to butcher block and killed goblins ( lvl 1 welps ).
Before I started going nuts killing guards and stuff, I was able to walk freely in Freeport, Kaladim, rivervale, kelethin and felewith. Obviously I did some faction work, but it wasn’t that much faction work. I basically went from lvl 5 to 19 off cb belts alone, but it was cake once I got enough faction in Kaladim. Idk if this helps, but in my experience it wasn’t difficult to fix faction, because I fixed it while doing things I would normally do at those levels anyway.
I would imagine this would have been much more difficult as a dark elf. Tinkering is also not in my opinion reason enough to go gnome.
At this point I would never go back to either race for this class or any other caster.
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