Gotta love a thread that starts with a new player asking about rolling a brand new toon and only ever making it to level 8 devolving into a thread about end game and how many 60 toons people have. Way to be useless to the OP.
As someone who also rolled a Barbarian shaman as my first character ever back in 1999 and eventually quit the character I think there is something important you may not be considering about your ideal character.....race.
In my experience barbarian and human are some of the worst, most useless races in the game and make quality of life much worse regardless of what class you play. To me the only point of human even existing as a race is to be able to roll a monk pre-kunark. Both have amongst the worst night vision of any race in the game and make it extremely hard to navigate the world. While this can be largely offset by gear over time, when you die and need to assist in corpse recovery (something rogues are expected to do frequently and over any other class) you're making one of the most negative experiences in the game 3x more frustrating and complicated which are generally the types of things that lead people to quit the toon/game.
When it comes to class selection there is no right or wrong answer, for the most part the game is surprisingly well balanced and every class has a purpose and excels at certain things, sure there may be a right class for a particular scenario, and so it really comes down to how you want to engage in the game.
OP seems to be focused on soloability a lot and avoiding grouping while showing most interest in Rogue and Necro. If you expect to spend a fair amount of your gameplay exploring the world by yourself than save yourself the trouble, forget the rogue, and roll the necro (or consider shaman/enchanter/bard). Rogue has very little utility as a casual player that just wants to level up a character and explore exp camps. Rogue's power curve is really more in the end game and raid situations where their ability to deliver top notch DPS on tough targets and move about zones undetected really shine.
First thing is figuring out what class you want to play, then racial selection can be determined. Head over to the P99 wiki and go to the class page for the class you decide to roll. The top 20-25% of the page is all about character creation, it walks through all available races, the benefits and opportunities of each, religion, and anything you might want to consider to avoid regret later. I've never rolled a necro but I assume Iksar is the prevailing premiere race for that class given how much HP regen benefits a necro's play style. If you do end up going rogue I would highly encourage gnome. I've leveled many rogues and found the quality of life of the gnome was the best, and the good thing is if you get super far along in the game and really regret not being a different race there are illusion masks you can get to become virtually any other race in the game (but sadly you can no longer get an illusion to become a gnome).
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