Short answer is what everyone told you, necro is better than wizard for grouping.
My experience with necro is I get bored on them very fast. Even at low levels, they are quite strong soloing not including what they can do in a group.
Necro also has so many dimensions to their gameplay, which probably sounds contradicting to my first statement when I said I grow bored quickly on them... But, it's true. They can fear kite, they can charm undead, they can pet tank mobs, they can tank mobs themselves sometimes, they get lifetaps to heal when they need health, they basically can do a little bit of everything.
Necros are a great class and good players really can make them shine in groups with their very nice group abilities and utilities.
All that being said, I find them so strong I get bored on the class.
I actually made a wizard for the hell of it, and it's fricking hard soloing a lowbie wizard, even with decent gears on. I got him to lvl 12 so far, and it's miserable.
Just for comparison, on my necro which is 24 lvl, I have been killing yellows and even reds with the necro solo since lvl 8.
The wizard can kill a blue or white, then sits and has to med for 40-50% mana before pulling again.
My necro shreds through mobs rarely having to stop for more than a minute or two with mana regen and has much more efficient damage spells.
I want the wizard for porting, but can tell it's a much harder road to level than the necro. Until the wizard can quad, that is.
The worst thing about wizards is they have an awful reputation on this server as useless players who ninja-afk and bring little to a group, and so as a wizard you will struggle getting invites often times.
That reputation is well-deserved too, I have grouped with wizards and rarely have they shown any reason to want them. Even had one wizard that refused to root park mobs when we lacked a CC class, she said it wasted her mana and that root broke too much.
I can't even begin to tell you how many times a wizard was "medding" in a group, and was asked a question, only to answer it minutes later as if it had just been asked.
Yeah, they go afk a lot. Basically I know if I make a wizard I am going to be soloing it to 60.
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