Necromancer Race Choice?

[Crawdad]

There's already a very long thread in Casters about this.
http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=200861

1) Gnomes feel inadequate.
2) Numbers are, apparently, worthless
3) All pro-iksar, real-world applications (Iksar FD+Lich vs Others FD+Lich) are dismissed and replaced with "But gnomes look through walls" or "30int is better for burst fights."

Anyone who tells you "regen doesn't matter" is misinforming you and has either never played a Necro or plays one poorly.

The only reason to not play Iksar is that you don't want to be an Iksar, which is fine. But at the end of the day we're all just spooky skeletons, trading Hp for Mana into DoTs, one tick at a time.

[Issar]

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

The only reason to not play Iksar is that you don't want to be an Iksar, which is fine. But at the end of the day we're all just spooky skeletons, trading Hp for Mana into DoTs, one tick at a time.

This. There is a reason why people pay 70k for negative stats and +regen. There is a reason people pay 15k for a stateless regen BP that only regen 5hp. No one pays 70k for just 30 int. For necro, there is no better race when comparing stats, bottom line. That being said, there's nothing wrong with playing the race you want to play.

[Bruno]

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

We don't really disagree. Necros are better if you play them full throttle, but my point is that very few Necros I've encountered are willing or capable of doing so. People who want to group and mash buttons constantly like a Bard usually don't roll Necros in the first place. A Magician is very easy to play to its full potential in a group, however, so the result is that 9/10 times a group is probably better off with a Mage over a Necro, with the 1/10 being the exceptional Necro who is willing and able to take full advantage of all his tools.

You're hanging out with the wrong crowd [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

[Ivory]

Iksar necro are for cowards who play the game on easy mode!!

Yea, I said it! Gnomes are EQ hard mode for the true l337 players [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Llodd]

Well yeah, but then I wanted to play necro for easy mode to begin with; why would I make it harder by not picking Ikky [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Uteunayr]

My opinion on this subject has been well documented in the Casters subforum version of this post, so I wont go into that again.

However, if you do go Iksar and you have issues finding merchants, I did add a section to my guide that is a list of each merchant I could find (or was told about and confirmed to work) that a necromancer can use to sell. All of these were tested with Iksar, so it should work for other races... Should.

http://wiki.project1999.com/Sesserdr...ndor_Locations

Hopefully that helps to curb the difficulty of Iksar racial faction.

If anyone else knows of any merchant that is a no-faction or friendly necro faction, let me know and I'll add it.

[Xaanka]

iksars suck, why would you want to be a lizard that gets -2 mana regen per second? makes no sense necromancers need mana.

[Issar]

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

iksars suck, why would you want to be a lizard that gets -2 mana regen per second? makes no sense necromancers need mana.

I feel like there's a joke that I'm missing in this.