EXP IS SO SLOW!

[Halladar]

Not to mention that if they were made capable of soloing, it would make them overpowered in groups.

Pretty much if you can solo well, you are useful in a group. The opposite isn't true, but that is. There used to be a lot of reticence to add a necro to a group, that I never understood. Those guys were great in groups.

(Note that SK's and to a lesser extent in this era Rangers can solo, but it is no where as easy as for a caster class sans clerics. And bards as always play under their own ruleset as far as that goes.)

(Well if Rangers get the fear animal spell in Kunark it will help, but I think that one was later.)