Best Caster Class for a returning player?

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Originally Posted by Gnomish Elite [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wow, sounds game-breakingly better. I guess mage it is haha.

To push back on this a little, I just want to point out that its very unlikely to matter much for grouping (conventionally) or raiding. It's really only in soloing or "combos" that you are likely to miss the regeneration.

So by the time you are late enough in the game for the starting stats to be trivial, you will probably end up grouping and raiding most your time. Before then, Iksar starting stats are kind of bad, it sucks to be KoS everywhere (especially on a no boxing server), and their regeneration isn't even that good until their 50s or something.

All that being said, it is really cool for soloing to have regeneration. I have a necro and it is Iksar. But I had plenty of pp to twink him out, and deal with the research problem Iksar have (no free research like every other race). I didn't have to worry about the small amount of pp lost selling stuff to vendors etc.. It would be a lot harder for a lizard starting from scratch.