New Player (Minimal EQ Experience)
 

Hello there!

I'm Llurendt and I've played many many MMOs (and games of all genres, really). I played a bit of EQ when I was a kid, around the time WC3 was still pretty new and I fell in love. by the time I had a regular job and income to support the habit, it seemed EQ was dead and gone (mostly) and I had moved on to other things. Since then, I've tried EQ Live, but it didn't feel right and the communities were... ghostly, to say the least.

This community looks and feels amazing already and I'd love to become involved, at least to some extent.

To start with, there are SO MANY race and class options that I've no idea where to even begin. I'll be reading through whatever I can find, but I haven't really seen anything like a 'new player guide' floating around the forums... In modern MMOs, I often play a healer or DPS, though I'm not sure if those terms even really apply in the same way to EQ. Any help is greatly appreciated!

-Llur

So far, I've made a halfling cleric (who I'll be playing with my SO, the halfling Monk once the IP exemption goes through) and a human Druid out of Qeynos. Really enjoying the Druid so far, though I'm only just now finding doable quests, haha. Lots of delivery quests and far fewer killing quests that I can find. :D

I'm absolutely finding the nostalgia, though!

Lower levels are way harsher than when you level up and get some more tools in your bag - stay the course my friend!

Also halflings can't be monks, sorry to burst your bubble.

Whoops! I forgot about that... she made a rogue instead of a monk since we wanted to start together, haha.

Yeah, I've died a couple times, but I'm still enjoying myself. :D Currently playing on Blue, but seriously considering going to Red... I've always enjoyed PvP servers as humans are always more difficult opponents than computers.

Thanks for the welcome!

Should also note that quests aren't what gives the most xp. Grinding mobs is more rewarding.

Aah, good to know! It seems the item rewards can be important, though. :D The wolf pelt quest in the Qeynos Hills was very useful for my Druid!

Best thing to do is try a few classes out and see what you think!

Agreed, I started a week ago and was a cleric. Got the cleric to level 10, then decided on a shaman and now the shaman is lvl 9 already and I found I enjoy that class more :)

I'm really liking my druid so far... I think the only thing that might be better would be a pet class and that's just a maybe. :D

Druid will get a charm animal spell later on. I believe lol