[Tuljin]

Dark Elf makes a great Wizard and casters in Dark Elf cultural chain look great. Hide and ultravision are nice bonuses, though you do get vision spells if you decided to roll another race. Unlike on Blue you really need to cast them on Green if you don't have racial ultravision.

I prefer Erudite for wizard because I have always liked the Erudite (superior) race and if you really want to get into actual "min/max" especially if you are going to ~~~~~~~~rAiD~~~~~~~~ you roll an Erudite with max Stamina. They also have the racial +5 MR. There is so much int on Wizard gear you don't need to put any points into it at roll on an Erudite.

Human makes a nice statty toon all around but if you aren't going to go hard and get the top dragon drops you'd have to dump a lot of points into INT instead of STA. From the sounds of it you're already late to the ~~~rAiD~~~ game so it'll take some "catching up" to get in line for drops.

As far as the solo/group question is concerned - and P99 is infamous for a lot of hot air and buzzwords that float around - "quadding" on this server is not something you just "go do." People like to talk about it, people like to say "oh just go quad" and "oh just go get jboots" but its not that simple.

While you're leveling you will be able to get groups. There is still a lot of "wizard hate" but on this server people like to load up groups and churn mobs. You will get lots of invites and in Classic wizards are quite powerful. Also, if you are good at the game and can stun, CC, and use your interrupt nukes on casters you will be a great help to your groups. Also, if you have your act together you can put groups together easily. If you just sit at zonein posted up /LFG you'll be sitting for a while if you don't make some friends.

Now, somebody posted a link to a quadding guide in their signature. This is fine but this is mostly listing Kunark zones. The Classic zones that are mentioned work....in theoryquest. I will now address the hot air and buzzword of "quadding" as it relates to Green.

You won't be "quadding" Crag Spiders in your high teens/low 20s. You won't be "quadding" gnolls outside of Paw in your high 20s. The fact of the matter is everything on this server is camped. By the time you mess around and play games with other people taking your mobs your bar doesn't move very much. If you get in a good group in a zone with a good ZEM your XP bar will fly. Runnyeye in 20s flies, for example. You can't move your bar any "faster" by quadding while leveling on Green because while it works on a paper napkin, the fact of the matter is everybody knows all the spots, and everybody is going to be there messing with your mobs.

This brings me to my final point, which I find unbelievably frustrating. I will address it now and "let the secret out" which really is no longer a secret at all. Quadding Oggok guards in your 40s, which everyone "says to go do," has now become an incredibly annoying endeavor.

There is always somebody there. There are level 50 druids that go there to farm plat (which is incredibly frustrating and honestly very lame.) As someone with "limited" playtime I don't have the luxury of waiting around for a camp to open, I need to log in and get my bar moving. When people get a spot there, they stay for hours. There's always somebody there pretty much 24 hours a day. Everyone has been told to go do it, everybody now does it. Including level 50s who go......farm fine steel for plat. Absolutely ridiculous.

So say you get the four guards at the front tower. Theres gonna be someone else there killing the other guards around the front. Mobs spawn every 24 minutes. It takes you a few minutes to actually kill the quad. So that brings us to (paper napkin math) maaaaaaaaaaybe 10 mobs an hour, if you're lucky (again, I'm writing on my paper napkin.)

You won't be able to kill 4, sit to full for 10 minutes, get the next 4 that spawn in the front area of the zone, and stagger that out to be pulling a quad every 12-15 minutes. That works on a paper napkin. Does not work on P99 green. Not with level 50 druids farming guards for fine steel and everybody constantly going there. Even Bards go there in high 40s. Its an absolute shitshow.

So to answer your question - you will actually be grouping most of your life on P99 Green as a Wizard. In lower levels the bar really does fly and you'll get groups easily. Higher levels it will be a little tougher but you can still get groups all the way through your 30s and low 40s. High 40s gets tough for everybody that can't solo on green, but honestly if you can't commit enough to sit around and wait for Oggok guards to open you can move the bar just fine in a good spot root rotting mobs. This whole "go quad Oggok" thing has gotten out of hand, and there really isn't anywhere else good to "quad" in your high 40s. Everything is always camped. Real talk, enough Theoryquest and PaperNapkinQuest