(Yet Another) Necromancer Race Thread

[Uteunayr]

Yup, understandable. There are a few points I'll make, but I mostly agree:

If it is your first toon and you plan to only get him to 50... I still wouldn't go Erudite. Plans change, and you may find you love necromancer. And then you'll be stuck 50 levels deep into an Erudite, and wish you had an Iksar. Minimize the total potential loss. In my time on Blue, I talk to a lot of necromancers of a lot of different levels, and more than a few have mentioned that they started their necromancer as a farm mule, and found they really loved it and wanted it to go all the way to 60.

To me, mana doesn't do all that much for the leveling experience to be honest. Sure, you get a bigger mana pool so you can cast a couple more spells in case of chain resists, but I'd much rather take health so I don't necessarily get curbstomped the second a fear breaks early and I can't reapply. It's honestly just preference at this point, but when one has Lich involved, health becomes mana, but health also prevents you from getting your face smashed in. It's why the #1 and #2 items I hand out to new players when I meet them are Adamantite Rings and Platinum Fire Wedding Rings. They are items with the best bang for the buck in terms of leveling assistance.

But of course, if you *know*, and I mean you *know* the character will not go past 50, then yes, for sure, go Erudite for the lower XP penalty and the Mana Pool (since I assume you'll twink heavy HP). For example, if you're making a necromancer to park somewhere like Frenzy, and you have experience as a necromancer sufficient to know you do not now nor ever want to play and run your own necro.

For PvP? Sure. I am not qualified in the least to say anything about PvP necromancer ever. I despise all forms of PvP personally, and stay away from it in as many forms as I can possibly manage. Just my preference. The argument for PvP Erudite seems strong from a blue side perspective. Gnome would probably be a strong 2nd... For only 9 less int, and 5 less MR, you get access to wall hacks.

The thing I want to stop is what happened to me: Come to the server, check out the wiki/forums, read that race by and large doesn't matter, make the blind decision to go Dark Elf (I still cringe that of all the non-Iksar races, I went Dark Elf... >.> ), and not until much later do they realize Iksar is actually really fucking great, and then need to reroll a necromancer, or sit pissed off with their character. The worst part is, I know there are others who this has happened to, and I wish I could do more to make sure people don't make the same mistake. That's ultimately why I am rather passionate on this subject: it's important to me to do all I can to prevent that from happening to others. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]