New player character creation - Enchanter

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I played an Enchanter when I first played EQ and I've been craving a similar style class ever since, but no MMOs I've played have even come close. That in addition to the lack of immersion modern MMOs have has led me here to Project 1999.

I'm definitely playing and Enchanter since I loved that class so much. My original Enchanter was a High Elf. I'm trying to decide if I should go High Elf again, or try something different and go maybe Dark Elf.
Do you have any recommendations?

Also, how should I spend my points?
I didn't know anything about points when I made my original Enchanter, so I'm fairly certain I had just thrown points into every stat as evenly as I could. I'd like to actually be smart about it this time.