Newbie SK

[oldschoolguy]

Well if you going to play Iksar, their starting zone is easy, get to about 9 then go into Kurns tower. Collect the armor set you can make early on in the city, there is a starting guide getting curscale armor, easy quest and first armor set is not hard to get.

I played Iksar SK back in the kunark days, they are just too inferior compared to a large race SK.
First you miss out on all the good clickies you get from Kunark, and those are huge convenience. Feign Death Clicky, snare clicky. There is no velious equivalent AFAIK.
Then worst part is you don't get Slam, so you can't bash wearing a 2h weapon, at least not until your epic. Which means if you are up vs casters you have to swap to 1h to interrupt their casts. Your stats are very far behind, by a lot. You'll never really catch up in stats unless you play like permanently unemployed in Veeshans peak. That's what I remember at least from playing an Iksar SK. They do look cool though with Greenmist.

I'd really recommend you pick ogre or troll for SK.