The response to this thread is interesting. So I asked a similar question a while back:
https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=401101
The consensus response I got was to go with Necro/Monk/Shaman. We decided try it and made a trio of Iksars and have been doing very well. I mean, we are only level 15 because we can only get together to play a few times a moth, but so far its been solid advise. We're having a blast.