[Xanthos]

Hello everyone! I'm kinda of new to p99 and Everquest but I have a general question.

After reviewing the classes and trying out a few, I've been having some fun with my Magician. He is currently a Dark Elf. I tried the Necromancer but I prefer the nuke spells the Magician has. I just like ramping up that damage and then watching the explosions. Plus their pets look really cool. On a side note, I wish Magicians would get pets at level 1 or 2. I don't understand why it was set to level 4. But that's another matter entirely.

Anyway, I'm having some doubts about the current race I picked for him though. I've never really played an evil race in Everquest and from what I've been reading it can be extremely frustrating. I didn't really like the High Elves or Humans. So my only choices were Gnome, Dark Elf and Erudite. So I went with Dark Elf. Figuring that they look really awesome and would be kinda cool as a Magician. I even liked their starter city.

I've been playing for awhile now. I've noticed there really isn't that many Dark Elf Magicians and majority of them seem to pick the good or neutral races. In fact, I see mostly Dark Elf Enchanters and Necromancers for the most part. I even asked a player in game and he said I should have gone agnostic gnome. He said it would have made things a lot easier for me and honestly there is nothing to gain as a Dark Elf Magician. He said I'm wasting my time and unless I wanted some armor or something associated with Dark Elf that I should reroll. Since gnomes apparently get tinkering or what not and the stats are relatively close. Also I would have issues with factions. I didn't think it would be that bad picking Dark Elf as an evil race. Is this a poor class combination or something? I'm confused. I now feel like the oddball picking Dark Elf for a Magician.

So here are a few of my question. Did I just shoot myself in the foot by picking Dark Elf Magician? Are they really that bad at being a Magician? Is that why there aren't many of them around? Is being an evil race going to be such a pain that I should just remake him a gnome? Is it true that I gain nothing really by being a Dark Elf Magician over a gnome?

It kinda sucks if that was the case. The only other options I had was Gnome and Erudite and I'm not liking the idea of being a short race. If anything Erudite and I'm not a huge fan of their hooded look.

Any pros and cons and or advice would be great.