A few tips for a new Iksar Necro player at the early levels:
1) Make sure you always have your highest level skeleton pet summoned during combat and tell it to attack the enemy. In this case it will be the level 4 spell Leering Corpse. You need 1 Bone chip to summon it.
2) Melee attack enemies along with your pet. You're a caster but at low levels your melee is a significant source of damage, and it's a good way to build your defense skill.
3) Start combat by casting a DoT, then cast lifetaps in between your melee attacks. In your case you should cast level 4 Poison Bolt, then Lifespike.
4) Skeletons always show what weapon/shield they are carrying. Prioritize those ones. Also look for skeletons carrying a brown staff. This will either be a Worn Great Staff 2HB, or a Cracked Staff 1HB. The Cracked Staff sells for 1pp and also has a good ratio for you to use as your personal weapon for awhile.
5) Make sure you always have food and water in your inventory or else you won't be able to regenerate health/mana. As an Iksar you have the ability to forage, so if you press that button whenever it's up you should rarely have to buy food for yourself.
6) If your pet is about to die and you still have health, run into range of the mob you're fighting and it will attack you instead.
7) Generally the best and safest XP you will find, especially as a new and untwinked (no good gear) player, is to kill mobs that just barely con blue to you. In other words, you want to look for monsters that are lower level and weaker than you but that still award XP when killed.
8) If you find yourself in trouble in combat and need to flee, learn how to strafe run to stay ahead of mobs chasing you. This basically means holding two directional keys at once to run diagonally (i.e. if using WASD you hold W+D for example) while also holding down your mouselook/right click. May take a little practice to get the hang of, but an extremely useful trick that will save your life many times.
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