Made wrong Necro race, reroll question

[DMN]

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

That's a cute oversimplification and an inaccurate one. All caster downtime is related to mana, which all races deal with equally. Non-Iksars live on the edge of a knife, while Iksars get to chill in the sun.

He said that iksar suffer less downtime. That's neither an oversimplification nor inaccurate. Non iksar don't live on the edge of the knife, they just warm the ground with their ass longer.

[TheSurgeon]

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

He said that iksar suffer less downtime. That's neither an oversimplification nor inaccurate. Non iksar don't live on the edge of the knife, they just warm the ground with their ass longer.

Where does the downtime come from? Is it common for necromancers to sit down to get their health back? Is that why they are warming the ground?

Hmmm.

Or does mana regeneration remain the same so that one necromancer has ample mana and ample life, while the other sits at 50% performing the same actions?

One is safer than the other, and that's about it. The speed between the races is the same, as mana is the limiting factor and not health.

[Shodo]

If you want to try out cleric I wouldn't bother spending the time to twink it out with one of those staves, they're very easy to level up near-naked and without other gear you won't be melee'ing much past your teens anyway.

If you don't want to start from complete scratch, a smoldering brand and some banded mail goes a long way for maybe ~300p total and the armor can transfer to about half of the available classes. You can farm that in a few hours at your level - LFay sisters, OOT gargoyles/wood elves, paineel guards are all decent cash camps for that range.

[Atychiphobia]

Thanks a lot for all the answers!

Will most likely just reroll directly instead of wasting time then [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I got the picture that if I was a non-iksar necro at 60 no one would want me, but I guess I was wrong about that =)

[Solist]

Race is irrelevant. Play what you want to look at.

[Izmael]

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

Race is irrelevant. Play what you want to look at.

This ^

Also necro is largely a solo class. Perfect for farming HS for a month, make 100k pp and twink a melee character.

[beltruckus]

Am I the only one that thinks Iksars look badass in robes?

[kent247]

yeah re roll.. you'll enjoy the new character and you wont have that "should've would've feeling the back of your mind"

[Irulan]

Ya, but how many camps can an iksar fully utilize their downtime enhancing regen at? like also, this requires a lot of effort to make use of, so if you are going to play an AFK necro where u make a kill every 40 minutes, being an iksar will just make leveling take 50% longer.

But if your going to sit there constantly killing mobs or feed a group mana iksar is better.

At the same time how fast can you really kill in a dungeon with an exp bonus, so a dark elf, with normal regen, killing 40% bonus will be leveling at the same speed as an iksar in the same tight spots with less spawns.

And if you group on your iksar, you will also only kill at the speed of the group, and that usually won't be improved much by your own regen.

[kjs86z]

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

Hi there!

I am currently a lvl 23 gnome necromancer. Knew from the start that Iksar was a better choice but because I was totally new to this game I got scared when reading about factions [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I am totally fine of rerolling and even thinking of another class (possibly Cleric) that is more sought after at endgame.

So my question is should I continue leveling my necro to a point where I can farm plat and twink a new character and perhaps buy a Velium Crystal Staff or just start a new character without twinking it? When can I reliably farm around 10k plat for the staff?

Cheers!

I would re-roll to Iksar if you're going to be playing it to 60 and beyond.

Its good to have a couple of characters going. Your necro can be your solo / short time window choice and the cleric can be your grouping, more social option.

Both can be leveled in totally different zones / paths too.

No need to twink a cleric.