(Yet Another) Necromancer Race Thread

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Safon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Play what you want, though as much as I despise min maxing Iksar regen really is pretty great for necro's

Amen to both sentiments. But the forums can be a bit of an echo chamber, and it's easy for people to over-exaggerate the differences between the races. I suspect 99% of the "Iksar = best" crowd have never actually played two different races of Necros for a meaningful amount of time OR done the number crunching on the differences between them.

As proof, look at all the pro-Iksar threads where people claim that the Iksar XP penalty is negated by the faster leveling from the regen ... and then look at the post I referenced (if anyone ever links it) where the poster does crunch the numbers and shows the regen won't even come close to making up for the XP penalty.

So I'm not arguing against the idea that in general Iksar is the best race for a level 60 Necro. I was just persuaded by the post I mentioned to think that perhaps another race, like say Erudites, could be better circumstantially.

Originally Posted by shamanredux [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Max mana means basically nothing for necro, right?

Well, yes and no. Like I said, for certain things such as PvP or trying to break a room with several mobs in it, it does matter. In both cases you have a limited amount of time, so the Iksar regen can't provide the benefit it normally does. Also you have to keep in mind that while any Necro race can hit the Int soft cap, an Erudite can do it while still having extra slots free for HP gear that an Iksar wouldn't. So it's not just higher max mana we're talking about, it's also higher max HP.