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Originally Posted by sureal
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It has nothing to do with high end gear or raiding honestly cormag.
I truly don't really have any desire to raid at all.
I've played here semi-seriously three times. The first was maybe 6 months before Red where I was ridiculed and kicked from groups because I played a monk who had the audacity to not be using a fungi/cof and dual wielding jade maces. (I was a strait up fresh character and was repeatedly removed from groups for the twinks.) I rerolled a bard and leveled to 55ish.
The second time was right before Red opened, people were much more friendly that time but when red opened we went there to get the "fresh" feeling. I quickly remembered I hate EQ pvp and came back. I leveled to a monk to mid 40's and got tired of feeling useless because every person I grouped with was so geared they basically carried me to victory 24/7.
The last time was about a year ago and I solo'd my way to 50 on a necro. I actually really enjoyed the difficulty this provided but EverQuest is and has always been about the people you play. Playing it solo WoWstyle just wasn't fun.
I think majority of the people who bring this post up (after going back and reading about 15 different posts on the topic) are kind of like me... If you are starting fresh you are either NOTHING but a burden to the people you play with or you can beg people to give you some starter loot that you didn't earn and don't deserve just so you can actually play with other people and not completely encumber them. It's nothing bad about the people on the server or anything like that... It's just a desire to experience the struggle without the comfort of knowing there are 200 epic'd clerics that will rez you any time you ask. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] |
So start a guild with the goals of 1) playing from scratch, 2) not accepting certain kinds/most/any help from players outside the guild, 3) only using gear you obtain directly, etc.
I bet you'd find a fair number of players who would be willing to play in a guild like that, even if it is just with an alt. You get company and you don't play with the twinks that make you feel useless.
It can be much simpler than that though. Your three "failures" to stick with p99 were when you tried to play a gear-dependent class on an established server while unable to get past those things, trying to play on a PVP server when you don't like EQ PVP, and trying to solo when you don't like to solo. So... play a class that doesn't need gear and that is liked by groups. Cleric, shaman, enchanter. Maybe even a knight class.