Some advice to counter-balance the min-maxxers

[Gugg]

Don't pick a race just because it has higher regen, hide, sneak, a special item, or whatever.

Instead, pick something you enjoy looking at and that you feel comfortable with others looking at.

Let's take the Iksar Necromancer as an example; the devs came along and created the Iksar Necromancer and this abomination of theirs made all non-iksar Necromancers technically obselete but my advice is don't play an Iksar Necromancer just for that reason and don't feel ashamed of playing a non-Iksar Necromancer.

I know girls don't like playing Iksar so they really have no choice but to either create a technically superior necromancer and play a race they hate just to fit in with the min-max crowd or create a race they love and be mocked by the min-max crowd.

Let me tell you this: Clicking 'create character' doesn't automatically make somebody a genius or a good player, anybody can do that, and EverQuest is just as much a visual experience as it is a numbers game so image has value in EverQuest.

Min-maxxers are one sided so they don't really care about the visuals, image, lore, and the social aspect of the game it's all about technical efficiency much of which is theoretical because in EverQuest you waste so much time not being technical and every race/class combo can level to max level some just do it faster than others.

Also, you might hear about endgame but the endgame is rerolling and from my experience in EverQuest nothing is guaranteed no matter what anybody says so that perk you built your character around which allowed you to level 3% quicker might not exist one day.

TL;DR: Play it your way not somebody elses way and variety is the spice of life.