Easiest class to start with

[Rotted_Corpse]

The best "ungeared" or Untwinked class by far is the Necro. You can do virtually everything a geared necro can (just a more med time is all so a lil slower). And xp faster and do more then most classes fully geared. IMO the most powerful class in the game. Again IMO all.

Iksar is a preferred race by many for the hp regen. I went that route on 99 and if you know the zones and where to go the "mythical" xp penalty that so many WHINE about isn't even a factor. My necro is now lvl 37 and about a month and a half old. And I spent a lot of time working on research with no XP happening. 145 skill now $$$

In live I played a DE Necro as I started at game start. Played all the way into end game content in each expac up through Omens. So a DE can do it just as well as a Iksar. Just got to watch your hp's more is all.

If you go the necro route and have any questions shoot me a tell. Would be more then happy to help ya. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Oh and there is a nice post where some of us wrote up leveling guides for necro's. Post is named "Iksar Necro Guide".

Rotted Corpse
Necromancer of Cabilis

[baalzy]

Agree that Necro is great untwinked. Just to nitpick though, technically you'd have less med time on a non-twinked necro to go from OOM to FM because of a smaller mana pool :P.

But the only time your mana pool really comes into play is if you're trying to break a difficult camp. Having that extra 100-200 mana could mean the difference between breaking the camp and getting a good spawn split, or dieing/feigning and having to try again.

[Arkanjil]

I really liked the playstyle of necros. They can navigate a dungeon w/ undead fairly easily and they solo like champs. Get yourself a haste belt, staff of undead legions, and go to town with your pet!

Fun times!

[Tewaz]

Logged on my 36 Bard in OT last night. Went from 3 yellows in 36 to 1 yellow in 38 in 1 hour 4 minutes and made about 350 pp.

Bard is the easiest class to start with. Or necro.

/end thread

[Arkanjil]

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

Logged on my 36 Bard in OT last night. Went from 3 yellows in 36 to 1 yellow in 38 in 1 hour 4 minutes and made about 350 pp.

Bard is the easiest class to start with. Or necro.

/end thread

Stop giving away the OPness of bards! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Zuranthium]

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

Logged on my 36 Bard in OT last night. Went from 3 yellows in 36 to 1 yellow in 38 in 1 hour 4 minutes and made about 350 pp.

Bard is the easiest class to start with. Or necro.

/end thread

You may be able to do that with your Bard, but a new player will not be able to. I've had several lower level Bards on this server tell me they can't swarm kite when I gave them suggestions. Plus twisting songs in general is something that will annoy many people. It's far from the easiest class to start with.

[Stormhowl]

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

You may be able to do that with your Bard, but a new player will not be able to. I've had several lower level Bards on this server tell me they can't swarm kite when I gave them suggestions. Plus twisting songs in general is something that will annoy many people. It's far from the easiest class to start with.

*cough*

http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...767#post311767

So many people missed the point of the thread. Easiest to play untwinked =/= easiest to play in all respects.

[Tewaz]

I am sure the bards just come out the woodworking:

"Oh Zura come near so I can bask in your magnificence"

"Oh Zura, let me touch your ice skates"

"Oh Zura, I no can haz exp's the mobs all touch me and makes me die, you can halp me?"

Kiting really isn't that hard and I can kill 80 mobs at a time with a horn that cost 8 gold and my underwear.

[Zuranthium]

*shrug*, I've had 3 different bards tell me they couldn't really do it. I think one of them, Eyeke, was eventually able to get decent at it but still does not find it "easy" and prefers grouping over trying to swarm kite.

[Rotted_Corpse]

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

Agree that Necro is great untwinked. Just to nitpick though, technically you'd have less med time on a non-twinked necro to go from OOM to FM because of a smaller mana pool :P.

But the only time your mana pool really comes into play is if you're trying to break a difficult camp. Having that extra 100-200 mana could mean the difference between breaking the camp and getting a good spawn split, or dieing/feigning and having to try again.

Which is exactly what I meant about medding. Less mana means medding more often. And as you said its not as big of a deal unless your splitting a camp of multiple mobs. Pretty much semantics as I didn't elaborate. What I said still holds true. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]