Is iksar Necro a must?
 

So i played back in 99 and i had both iksar and darkelf. I know the regen and ac were AMAZING but i just love the look and feel of dark elf. Is the iksar passive that huge and game breaking to the point i should stick to iksar? Im just not wanting to be an animalistic necro lol. I want good visuals BUT i want to have good race choice as well and dont want to make the worst necro possible.

Iksar necro is the best choice hands down. That said you should just play what you want; it's your character. No point investing many hours into a character that you just hate looking at. It's not like non-iksar necros can't do camps iksar necros can or anything like that.

Yes. If you choose another race, you will be softlocked from progressing and cannot finish the gamez The necro 51-60 spells are actually all IKS only. Also, when you try to summon a pet past level 40 as a human or erudite, the pet just laughs at you, makes fun of you for being a loser, and despawns.

From a leveling perspective Necro is a strong class regardless of race.

End-game a non Iksar is more expensive to gear. An Iksar only needs a ZHeart for positive sitting HP regen with Arch Lich. A Dark Elf would need ZHeart + Ring 10.

An Iksar can also get positive HP regen with Demi Lich using ZHeart + Ring 10 while sitting. A Dark Elf cannot get positive HP regen on Demi Lich with self gear.

So you just need to decide if fashion or end-game is more important to you.

The Iks regen isn't that noticeable until level 51+ imho.
If anything I wish my Iks was female, so tired of looking at that huge tail on the male.
Not a huge fan of the iks, but I'm literally a skeleton most of the time anyway.

It's a roleplaying game. Enjoying your character is far more important than having the most optimal spreadsheet.

I wish cringe ogre players would take a hint

Some people like optimizing. That's how they enjoy their character. It's not your place to tell other people how to play the game. Give people the facts and let them decide how to play given the information.

A human, gnome, erudite, or dark elf necro can kill all the same things an iksar necro can.

Play whichever race you like looking at the most.

Iks regen is very noticeable starting at level 1. They regen HP twice as fast as non iksar. 100% more HP regen is extremely noticeable when youre sitting to med. Not as noticeable if youre actively lifetapping to regain HP

But yeah, as a necro you spend most of your time in skel form anyway