Necromancer Race Choice?

[madhatta317]

Hi all! I just recently rejoined the server and have been playing on my Bard, which is a fun toon I used to main on other emu servers, but sometimes I don't have the playtime to actively find and commit to a group (and I dont like the idea of swarming). (I'm also open to mage but haven't looked too much into it so feel free to argue that as well).

So i've decided to create a Necro on the side for solo play downtime. I've never played a cloth/pure caster before and the Necro sounds so much fun for both solo and grouping. Now i'm debating race.

Gnome sounds fun because Steamfont/Crush/Unrest are all accessible and being a good race I'd at least have access to alot of the main popular cities to bank/merch.

Dark Elf has always intrigued me and I feel like is the middle ground race, being evil but at least having access to Neriak on the main continent.

Now Iksar sounds like the best choice stat wise and honestly the one im leaning towards. From what I gather you can level self-contained on Kunark at least for 1-30 before moving on to grouping/soloing in old world. It looks like he has the best stats and regen too. My main question is how inconvenient is the huge faction hit to EVERY other city / is it easy to at least faction up some places or use some hiding techniques to merch/bank?

TL;DR: What are your opinions on the best race to play a necro for? Pros/Cons? I'm also open to rolling a mage so argue that over necro if you think it's the better class.