Being a mediocre bard, get to lvl 6 and afk regen song in groups til lvl 32 then replace with manasong.

All easy choose what you feel most fun and favorite starting town.

Enchanter sux low level. druid kinda sux low level. Both become highly enjoyable solo classes later on.

everything else pretty good all the time.

To whoever said "split pulling is hard" etc: the OP didn't ask "what class has no complexity to it".

The OP asked what is simple and easy to play for a newbie. That's very different.

For example, rogue is incredibly straightforward, yet not easy to play for a newbie. Getting any kind of aggro from a mob you can't solo kill right there means your only hope to survive is to reach a zone line. In most dungeons it means you will die and will need to CR - not very newbie friendly.

Monk is simple (few abilities, no spells), and easy (FD, mend).
Druid is pretty newbie-friendly, too. Nice friendly spells and all.
Mage is good. Have the pet fight for you.

I think all the other classes are less newbie-friendly than these 3.

Arguably by those metrics paladins are pretty resiliant and they get lull, heal, root, and every class can buy invis and ivu pots as well as sow pots. Fundamental EQ stuff right there.

Obviously rogue. Requires the least skill to play. Click backstab once every 6 seconds.

Sounds like a Wizard is right up your alley. Or a Magician. Wizards are nice and relaxing to play. Just don't AFK and leach exp we already have a bad enough stigma lol

but nobody expects wizards to utilise their CC.

They aren’t even really expected to use their interrupt or duration stuns. Nor rooting the main tanks target to help control aggro.

All people expect is you dump your mana into nukes every quarter of an hour and then go back to work / netflix / playing with the baby / chores.

I think meeting social expectations is something to consider when arguing the easiest class to play.

Of all the suggestions, I’d say the rogue might be the simplest one that I saw mentioned. No idea why anyone would recommend to you a necro or Druid. Their skill sets have way too much variety in the type of spells they’re able to cast. Those two classes rely heavily on experience to get the most of them.

I would honestly recommend cleric, though, as the most complex decision you’ll have to make is knowing which heal to use. Once you start talking about druids and necro then there are so many options and the best choice for what to do when, won’t always be apparent. For instance, if you cast a dot that takes 2 mins to do its damage but the mob dies way before that, and quadding? For a newbie? Lol

I bet a fisherman would make more moneys. Beg to get enough for a sturdy rod and some bait....

UNLESS you are a druid / ranger! Then you can forage your own bait and food and water to save money! Even sell some of that extra foraged foods.

Boom, fish, berries, veggies....that's some good moneys. You probably start making 1pp every 10 minutes with good fishing (and fishing isn't capped by level, so you can be a master fisher early).

Just because some people think this doesn't make it true. Rogue by far is the least skill class. Monk would be next. A low skill player playing a wizard is the same results as a high skill player playing a rogue, just mindless dps. A high skill player on a wizard brings a lot more to the group than dps.

And for the next at least 2 years mage and wiz are god mode dps in raid bosses.