well if you're anything like me you will solo most of the time, won't be in a huge guild that raids, and will like to come and go as you please. you'll like to explore new spots to find a better camps and like the fact that you can fd after accidentally pulling a train and then go afk for as long as you want, hide, stand up, invis, run away and not die (or even use harmshield!!) and if you do group or raid you will make an excellent scout/puller. you'll rarely be out of mana and with your twitching the entire group, neither will they hence the group won't slow down and keep xp rolling in. if you haven't guessed we're talking necro.

wtf is a mage? /em scratches head

mages and necros both solo very well, and are both very strong classes. its all about your playstyle, do you wanna for the lack of better words.. blow **** up with decent nukes and have your elemental pet wack away at em, or do you wanna really make a mob beg for mercy when you stack on a few dots, fear em, and have your pet beat away. both can be appealing. i have played both a mage and a necro on the seventh hammer. my necro is 70, and my mage is 60. to be honost i have more fun on my necro, and i tend to be able to solo better as a necro, but that dosnt make necros any better at it. mages can solo quite well, its how you play your class; and i honostly think i play a necro better. think about how you wanna approach your fights, with dots, or with direct damage, and go from there. necros do get some forms of direct damage, their lifetap being one of them, but a mage gets the stronger nukes. keep in mind that necros do get lich, which enables them to gain back their mana faster. as far as race goes, my necro is an iksar, my mage is a DE. i too liked to level in Gfay, theres something about that foresty area, and great exp spots. with the expansion PoP, you really dont have to worry about what race you are, just dont get to close to kelethin if your KOS. i made an iksar for my necro because of their hp regen, helps with the lich ( at lower levels), and a DE for my mage.. because well lets face it, DE's look cool. money making? both can pull in some nice plat at later levels. as far as grouping, i soloed most of the time on my mage and necro, but when i did group, i enjoyed grouping on my necro more. they have more utility to give to a group including twitch, heals( not the best heals, but heals nontheless), awesome damage, and on occasion if we got to many adds i would taptank one of the mobs.. pretty much chaincast litetap, leaving the tank with 1 less mob beating on him, putting less preassure on the tank. now you can get away with that at lower levels, but i find if i try and taptank a WOS mob.. well lets just say its not pretty, they have alot of hp, and hit hard. mages in a group provide good damage with their nukes and pets. having your air pet out helps alot with damage, having the air pet stun means the mob is taking damage while the tank is not. even if the stun lasts for a sec.. thats 1 second the mob didnt have to attack, and that 1 attack could of been a double attack. i find that mages at later levels are used for good DPS, and they get alot of utlity spells as well, pet kits are nice, mod rods, which i dont know if you remember, has a right clicky effect that damages you and returns mana. very nice to have in raids. i can go on and on describing mages and necros, but the choice is yours, i hope some of this info helps in what you decide to make.

lmao if your going to repley to something i said have the decency to say what you see wrong with what i posted, by you just "copy and pasting" a sentence of what i said only shows that your childish. these posts are opinion related. you didnt even state an opinion with what i said. i wrote what i did to help a fellow player in need. by trying to flame me how does that help with the situation?

again.. shall i say childish. ima be the man here and stop this useless discusion, hope the info helps you jonsmith

Simple facts-
Necro is better soloer(nothing against mages they can solo fine just not as well as necro's)
Mages do more dps
Necro's have a line of spells to regen mana
Mages summon an item to regen mana
Necro has a well rounded pet
Mages have a pet for any situation
Necro's can make money summoning corpses(for ppl who can't access the guild hall)
Mages can make money summoning items and pet toys(which kick *** for necros lol)
Ect.
All classes in EQ are built to be balanced so it's mostly how you want to play that makes the difference.Personally I'm a necro player but thats cuz my main is a war so I like a toon that I can purely solo. But to each his own right?
Races:
Mage-De,Eru,Gnome(my fave),High Elf,Human
Necro-De,Eru,Gnome,Human,Ikzar

Play a Magician if you plan on grouping mainly.

Play a Necromancer if you plan on soloing mainly.

They are very different classes.

they are both very good at soloing and grouping. Necros are better at soloing, but in a grp they are equal. Mages add more dps to the monster that you are killing in short fights but it comes out the same in a long one. I have a wizard(not exactly the same but close) and a necro, and the wizard seems to get resisted more. The necro also has his own lifetap and will always do better when fighting undead. The mage can do bigger nukes but thats about it....necros are so much more versatile and mages kinda just do dmg. If i had to choose i would say necro, however i am interested in making a mage too. IMO they are the two best classes in the game.

i hope this helps ..
good luck with what u choose and welcome back to eq =)

Necromancer-
* dps only surpassed by a rogue
* utility in groups is only surpassed by a shaman.
* pets are decent but in no way as sturdy as mage pet.

solo- necros : kite / lifetap & tank / root & rot
(* high-end nec can solo mobs that will eat a mage pet )

groups : DPS. snare, rez ,fd splitting, tap mana/hp/str/ac , mez, root, debuff, fear.corpsecall. & lol: dmf


raids : DPS-DPS-DPS .. kite on some encounters. some rez duty,
+ mind wrack/flay for ur group is a nice thing to do .

down side of the class.. we are often regarded as a mana battery, you will get tells from clerics who blew there mana spammin CH , u will be asked to twitch joe blows gimp bot. if u look at the math : mana dumped vs mana spent) twitching can be a ridiculous waste of ur time and mana. (esp with the new rest state in TSS). join a raid force that understands our role and it wont matter. in groups is more or less not an issue that affects the level of fun u have.

FLAME ON : the math speaks for itself & i am keepin my surname

75th Level Necromancer
Thirteenmoons Deleted'Twitch
EVOLUTIA
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Edited, Oct 19th 2006 at 10:36pm PDT by thirteenmoons

I have a 66 mage and a 66 necro hands down the necro can do zones mage could only dream of so for soloing necro is the way to go.Now on the hand let tell you how much plat Jaber lvl 66 quadding 110 air pet makes me.My pet makes 1,282 plat per hour.On Sat,Sun i play 20 hrs.Thats 25640 plat in two days work and weekdays 38460 plat 6 hour sessions per weekday.Thats 64100 plat per week x 28 = 256400 plat not bad now once i get new 71 air pet plat rate goes way up.So if you want money making machine make a mage they have the best pets hands down for farming.If you want to exp and farm and solo well make a necro your mage can buy all your necro gear and spells with ease.Dont get me wrong certain mobs you can solo at 66 but the necro just has more options cause of roots,snare,dots,feigh death,self escape portal,shadow step and many other advantages.Necros were made this way for a reason you will solo more than you group i did both and i like both.

Mage's = dps at a high mana cost so will have a little but not as much as before since the TSS expansion brought in Turbo Regen. Mage pets can stun also whichgives a lot of options for Wiz as long as it onlyone mob.

Necro = best solo class along with Druids. Druids just can't FD or split indoors which makes the Necro better in that situation, plus druids don't have good pets and hard to find a dire charm pet in the new zones.

If Mage's could FD then maybe they would be the best solo class since there pets can tank but they have no heal ability and Necro's can heal their pets which can't tank like a Mage pet can.

Personally, I have a 72 DRD, 72 WAR, and 66 Necro that I started in August '06 but don't play it as often as I'd like. I farm aa's in the 69.1 (Hard) I just sit my War down and invis. out of the way and leech XP and solo with my Necro.

If you want to get lots of XP and money, choose necro. If you are a mage you will need to group the high level stuff and /random the loot. Necros don't random unless they feel like entertaining themselves.
Can a mage solo elder mammoths in icefall? Necro can do it without breaking a sweat.

Yes brother we can,NP did that for spell drops til i got bored and decided to hunt parchments to make them.We both are awsome at soloing just different fighting styles.Dont really need a group but its fun to hang with peeps.Money and loot? NP either just depends on drops and where your huntin

No disrspect for the Necros.We just different in our hunt styles