iksar will level 22% slower. You won't really see much return on your exp penalty for quite awhile. I think non-iksar can deal with allure of death without even having to tap hardly.
So the question is how high you plan on leveling the character? i certainly wouldn't bother with iksar if you never plan on going over 50.
dark elf also get s hide which at some camps can be quite useful, though the higher level you get the less likely you will be able to get away with using it for AFKing while you mediate back your mana/wait for respawn. Which again goes back to how high level you plan to go.
You can actually decent plat with the druid quadding so might be best just to stick with that, could also port people and be away from keyboard a lot only popping in occasionally to do a port.
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