Which race for a solo Necro?

[Vexenu]

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

It is crazy easy to get to max int with reasonable caster gear. Necro, who can camp anything they want, even easier than normal tunnel questing for int gear. So stamina makes sense for what to do after int, thus a reasonable option to do at creation is 25 stamina.
that being said, if you're not min/maxing for raiding, then you're min/maxing for soloing for items/gold, and 25 str does actually make some sense. Even on top of weight reduction bags, that just multiplies the effect, yes? Unlike most farmers, your options for quick sale/conversion of gold to plat are more limited, so there's that.
It's kinda hard to go wrong with a necro anyway. I can tell you I wear some str items on my iksar necro because of how annoying it is to stop farming and go bank/sell.

It's really not, especially when limited to Classic gear and when trying to maximize HP for a Necro specifically. Go ahead and actually look at the stats of "reasonable caster gear" in Classic, and hell, even Kunark. You won't be close to maxing out INT while also wearing HP gear in your rings, ears and neck slots (as you should be doing on a Necro). And if you go Iksar it's even more difficult with their low starting INT. Maxing both INT and HP on a Necro doesn't really become feasible until late Velious.

OP: Make an Erudite with 25 INT and 5 AGI. Gear for INT and HP. Enjoy having a massive mana and HP pool. 15 INT, 10 STR and 5 AGI would also be pretty reasonable.

[Sabin76]

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

It's really not, especially when limited to Classic gear and when trying to maximize HP for a Necro specifically. Go ahead and actually look at the stats of "reasonable caster gear" in Classic, and hell, even Kunark. You won't be close to maxing out INT while also wearing HP gear in your rings, ears and neck slots (as you should be doing on a Necro). And if you go Iksar it's even more difficult with their low starting INT. Maxing both INT and HP on a Necro doesn't really become feasible until late Velious.

OP: Make an Erudite with 25 INT and 5 AGI. Gear for INT and HP. Enjoy having a massive mana and HP pool. 15 INT, 10 STR and 5 AGI would also be pretty reasonable.

Wouldn't that depend on what they mean by "maxing INT"? Although Green doesn't have the incredibly harsh softcap at 200, there is still a softcap and if that's where people consider "maxing" a stat, then it is, actually, quite easy to get to 200 INT with cheapish classic gear (I'm at 210 INT on my lvl 39 DE Mage and haven't spent more than 800p on a single piece of gear).

Now, if they mean actual numerical max, then I agree. It's just not feasible in classic without a TON of grinding either plat, raids, or both... assuming it's possible at all.