I don't find those examples very convincing. AFK farming Droga is boring as hell; at least the spore king gives you 3 minutes of mild excitement every half hour. Grinding your way to the Boogeymen solo over 4 hours seems like a waste of time compared to AEing with a guild in 15 minutes. HS North is a bunch of L45 mobs that drop junk.
What I find more interesting is being part of part of a small crew against legit targets, say Lower Sebilis or WW dragons or Kael giants. And I just don't see how Iksar regen is gamebreaking there. The Iksar Advantage comes from skipping lifetaps in favor of more efficient spells. But against legit targets, lifetaps *are* the efficient spells because their -200 mod means they land every time.
So the only real argument I see here is that Iksar necros are better twitchbots because they can AFK with Demi-Lich on. Why not just group with a shaman and get a torpor every 10 minutes? It's not exactly the end of the world.
Anyway, Iksar is the obvious min/max choice and anyone who says otherwise should be slapped with a seabass. But I'll still take Necrious over most Iksar necros, or Hokushin over most Iksar monks, or Sentenza over most Ogre SKs, or Cucumbers over most Ogre Warriors, and so on and so forth.
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