Quick question regarding necro race

[Razaz]

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

the Iksar racial amounts to one extra cast of the highest level of your Darkness line (about) every 5 minutes at level 60.

Your math may be right but it's missing the big picture. It's about spending your mana efficiently. Being an iksar means you cast less lifetaps/leeches which are your least mana efficient lines, allowing you to use your mana on more powerful spells.

End of the day, Iksar wins the min/max numbers game. If you don't like the Iksar lore, city, aesthetics, or whatever, then play something else. You will still be able to do everything an Iksar can, but you will always be at a slight disadvantage.

[Troxx]

The regen effiency when leveling helps offset the 20% xp penalty by a good amount. In terms of general quality of life - it's priceless in ways that efficiency while leveling alone can't easily quantify. If shit hits the fan and I'm low on life and need to FD in a dangerous spot, I'll be regening 12 a tick after clicking off lich vs the 4 I'd have as a non-iksar. At 60 that's 14 vs 5 while fd. That's the difference of nearly 2 z-hearts (and people pay 150-250k for this one lore item).

The most important factor when choosing race for any class is how much you like the look. Unless you hate iksar graphic and like another to the point that you're willing to more than half your natural - iksar is unfortunately the way to go.

[Ravager]

I never monkeyed with Necro too much, so I can't comment on which would be better for you, but one thing I'd consider is your play style. If what nevil says is true and you'll be able to solo the same things regardless of which race you go, just at different efficiencies, then it wouldn't hurt to think about how efficient you really need to be.

For instance, when I'm solo leveling, I spend a great deal of time afk, so efficiency doesn't matter since I'm coming back to full health/mana anyway. But if you want to do non-stop killing for hours at a time, then the choice becomes pretty clear.

I understand the dilemma though. Iksars look stupid.

[Lhancelot]

This boils down to the type of player you are.

If you hate not having the best most optimized race on a class, then you need to roll iksar.

If you hate the gimpy running gait and combat animations iksar have like me, you don't pick iksar.

If you are fine with all race appearances, then you go iksar.

If you have a gnome fetish, you go gnome.

If you want to get your mangina on, you go dark elf female for full sexy hotness.

[Tenlaar]

Every race looks and moves the same after they peel their skin away...

[Tann]

gnome > all

wall hacks and cheaper stalking probes

[Troxx]

Yeah that's wrong. Non-iksar get a 1hp/tick bump at level 60 to 4/7.

Sesserdrix's Guide goes into great detail on this topic in the "choosing your race" section.

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

[loramin]

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

Yeah that's wrong. Non-iksar get a 1hp/tick bump at level 60 to 4/7.

Sesserdrix's Guide goes into great detail on this topic in the "choosing your race" section.

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

Well I'm too lazy to redo my math, so I'll leave that exercise up to someone else [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. Suffice it to say that being an Iksar gives you an extra darkness spell about once ever 5.5 minutes.

[GinnasP99]

The question you should ask yourself is, do you want to look this badass

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[Izmael]

I PvP'd a shit ton on a necro and I can't remember a single time when racial regen played any kind of role. I remember a lot of times where mana pool did play a role, though.