So, continuing on to chapter 4...
4. Having more or less becoming familiar with Qeynos Hills, I grew increasingly upset about my warrior combat abilities. The mobs that I could kill easily no longer gave any good XP, and those that did would beat the living crap out of me, so I would have to sit and wait for health to recover what seem to be hours and hours....
At this time it occurred to me, that I need some healing. Thought of grouping with other players haven't visited me yet - I never played a social game before, so I thought grouping only relevant at high levels and during dragon raids.
So I have made a conclusion, to MAYBE try a different class. Thankfully I am not a person who gets upset by the need to start over, so went back to char select and decided to make a Paladin.
"It will be just like a warrior, but I could heal! Its ok that i won't get Dual Wield, but I could survive better".
So my Human Paladin was created, again in Qeynos and I proceed to repeat the process of last 3 days of playing from the scratch...
Fast Forward to my new paladin level 5, I made few new discoveries. First of all, I discovered BASH skill. Prior to this I had no idea how to get it. All the time I played my Warrior, I had no idea I could Kick from level 1, since the the Kick button wasn't on the starting interface, and I have missed on ton of DPS I could have done, which could have made my fights to end much faster.
Another, sad discovery was that - the fighting wasn't really getting any easier. I knew I had heal spell waiting for me at level 9, but it was A VERY LONG WAY TO GO. And I was once again stuck at level 6, sitting on my arse waiting for my hp to regenerate.
This is where I told myself "I need MORE healing power" And best healing class around is Cleric (according to the manual at least). And cleric is the toughest of the priests - he can wear Plate armor and can heal at the same time! the mobs won't be able to kill me at all!
With this in mind I have created my 3rd character - the Cleric. Starting with Minor heal at level 1 was COOL. One problem I run with the cleric, is the need to buy my spells, which cost TON OF MONEY. Something I didn't had with warrior and paladin so far. And there seemed to be A LOT of spells to buy. Some were useful, so looked useless to me. I could not for the life of me figure out how LULL spell suppose to work I was casting on a mob and attacking the same mob somehow hopping it will not attack me back, and of course that didn't work
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Frustrated of money lost of a stupid spell that didn't work, I moved on, once again onto Qeynos Hills.
At level 4, I got Spook the Dead spell, which I found to be very cool. For a moment I thought I can now kill any undead very very easily.
Unfortunately, the undead had other plans.
The skeleton I tried it on, started to run away at a speed of light, and me chasing after it, while unharmed, could barely get any swings with staff at it. 18 seconds later, the fear run out, and skeleton proceeded to beat at me like it always happened before, and since I was continuously interrupted, i could not get another Spook or Nuke off, and was forced to melee it to death.
Another discovery I made was what BIND was.
I was selling in North Qeynos, when someone asked for a bind at the gates. I knew that warrior could Bind Wound, and I thought that person wanted someone to bandage him. I promptly replied that I was a cleric, and I could heal him instead. I rushed to the gates to deliver my services, where I discovered this player at full health. I was confused for a moment, till I somehow figured out that he wanted a re-spawn point BIND, which I read about in the manual, I haven't yet encountered this feature myself, as I have not yet needed to change for re-spawn point for any reason.
Slowly progressing up to level 6 (AGAIN), I came to a new realization.
It really didn't got much easier. Yes I did had heals now, and I could nuke, and fear, but casting in mid combat was nearly impossible (I had no knowledge of my channeling skills yet, and that they take a while to build up). And it took forever for my mana to recover, which while being slightly better that HP regeneration, still sucked.
Another thing that happened at this point of time, is when I did ding 6, and proudly announced to the zone
"RAWR! level 6! Fear me infidel!", someone replied back with following
"LOL, Fear Cleric!"
My day was ruined. If this what fellow player thought of my combat abilities, I could only imagine what mobs thought
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Frustrated, upset, disappointed, I sat down with EQ manual once again, to maybe find a new class that tie well with my play mentality.
My Diablo and Baldurs Gates skill set was rather useless, and I knew I had to improvise to get anywhere...
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to be continued
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