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That said the dark elf right past the hidden entrance by the gate into WFP on the (north?) side will buy/sell your wares. Also the gypsies in Oasis. | |||
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This is the focus of the next update to my Necromancer Soloing and Strategy Guide. I am going to add a section for merchants that are Iksar Friendly, and their locations, so Iksar Necromancers have less of a difficult time getting around. | |||||
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I really wish people would stop using the exp penalty as a downside to iksars. Slow exp doesn't hinder your ability to kill things and as long as you kill, you will level.
Iksars are the best, especially in Velious with increased stats on items. However, as I've said before, any race of necromancer will suffice if you aren't trying to be extremely efficient and maximize your stats/play style. Choose iksar if you plan to min/max everything for raiding. Choose any race based on what you like looking at or want to be seen as for any other reason (including iksar).
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Can't say I noticed the xp penalty too much on my iksar necro. Wouldn't worry about it leveling up, it goes quick. If you just want to mess around though, you may as well stick with your mage, they're a fun class. You could even just roll an enchanter and you really could have a great time.
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Yeah, the xp penalty basically is nullified by:
1) You're a necro, you're soloing, you're getting XP faster than most classes out there. 2) You can kill more shit as an Iksar, so you're getting more instances of XP. I leveled Sesserdrix to 55 faster than I ever did Uteunayr, but that also may be because I know locations. What I can say is that leveling at Nobles for Uteunayr (DE: 4-5 enemies, 2 Nobles + 1 Isa + 2 Bards) and for Sesserdrix (Iksar: 6-7 enemies, 3 Nobles + 1 Isa + 2 Bards + 1 Front Gate Guy), Sesserdrix's mana sustain made the leveling go about the same pace. So, at least for that camp, regen was able to mitigate the entire slow down of the XP penalty. | ||
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I'm sure it's been broken down before, but I think it would be nice to add a rough number of kills to 60, without deaths, Iksar vs. non-Iksar.
I don't really notice the penalty that much either. Then again, we've been on a bonus for a while. We end up having to kill 22% more mobs than other Necros, I believe, which sucks during hell levels - FOR SURE - but for normal levels meh. | ||
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There's just no way you're going to level faster as an iksar. 20% is huge. If you want to explore more content with your limited playtime, roll noniksar.
If you want to feel generally more powerful while you play, go iksar. If you like or dislike the iksar look, that's a good enough reason for or against, imo. | ||
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Most high level necros I know are either glad they rolled an iksar or regret not rolling an iksar... the regen difference is too good to ignore and unless you're playing a halfling rogue as your other character the comparative difference in leveling isn't that noticeable.
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I've leveled both Iksar and Gnome. Iksar is the best.
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And then I got to 60. Once I hit 60, and I got Demi-Lich, I started to feel the damage income of Demi-Lich. It was just nasty losing so much HP. So I decided I would play an Iksar, and see how it went. So, I made an Iksar Necro, and leveled him to 55 before graduate school started up again and I have had no time to level. In that time, I found that I never noticed HP loss from Lich until 34 with Call of Bones, but even then, I was losing so little, I would be fine just running around in Call of Bones. Then, I hit 49, and I noticed that it hurt, but heck, I had leveled as a Non-Iksar, this was still smooth sailing. And then I hit 51, when the next tier of regen hit, and I was killing 6-7 mobs at the Noble camp in HHK. Next level, I get the next tier of regen (56), which reduces Lich damage to -6... That's like being a Non-Iksar with Call of Bones. It was a huge difference. Leveling wasn't that much slower, because I was killing more things. So long as I had camps that had more stuff to kill, I was leveling fast. If I was stuck (as my own guide on the wiki suggests) doing something like Bards, I was screwed. XP was slow. Also, just a general side note (not to Swish specifically, but someone above referenced to the xp penalty), although it is a racial -20%, because of the fact that Necros have a base -10%, and that the experience modifiers are multiplicative, being an Iksar Necro really nets -32% experience, so it is -22% more of a penalty from other Necros. | |||
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