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Originally Posted by ChairmanMauzer
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I didn't say they can't function at all. The regen bonus is an appreciable difference that no other necro race offers. Considering you can level 1 - 60 in Kunark, the faction hindrance isn't that big of a deal. Regen helps your efficiency and that's what necro soloing is all about. Being more efficient means you kill faster and I've found this easily offsets the racial exp penalty.
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It doesn't, unfortunately =/ Running the #'s:
Levels 8-19 - an extra 2 hp per tick, sitting = 20 hp extra per minute. Dark Pact = 2 mana for 4 hp every tick, or 0.5 mana for each hp, so 10 extra mana per minute.
Levels 20-34 - An extra 3 hp per tick, sitting = 30 hp extra per minute. Allure of Death = 4 mana for 8 hp every tick, or 0.5 mana for each hp, so 15 extra mana per minute.
Levels 34-48 - An extra 3 hp per tick, sitting = 30 hp extra, blah blah - Call of Bones = 8 mana for 16 hp, so 0.5 mana for each hp. 15 extra mana per minute.
Level 49 - extra 3 hp per tick, 30 hp extra per minute - Lich has a .625 mana-hp ratio, so approximately 19 extra mana per minute.
Level 50 - extra 4 per tick sitting regen. 40 extra hp per minute. 25 extra mana per minute.
Are you seeing my point?
Let's just jump to level 60:
Arch Lich = 35/53 mana/hp per tick, with 11 extra hp regen while sitting (7 for non-regen races, 18 for iksar). 110 hp per minute, so approximately 70 mana extra per minute, which isn't half bad - but definitely doesn't offset the iksar experience penalty (even ignoring all the lost time from 1-49), even if that same amount of mana was being given throughout your 50s - which it's not, it's a little lower.
If you play iksar, you can play it for the end-game uberness, or appearance, or cool hunting grounds or because you love kunark, or any other assortment of reasons which I entirely agree with
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Sources:
Regen:
http://www.monkly-business.net/index...geid=abilities
Spells:
http://crys.org/everquest/spells/nec...k=1&maxrank=65
If i'm wrong on any of those necro lich-type spells in terms of their ratio, i apologize and am totally open to correction...