New player, some questions

[Autumnbow]

Gonna be a few hours before I can finally install the game, but I'm way excited about playing right now so I'm gonna obsess a little :P

I want to make a cleric! Is this a good choice? It's fun to heal. There isn't a disproportionate number of clerics here, is there? I'm having a bit of a hard time picking a race, too. Dwarves are ugly, so they're out. Thinking high elf or dark elf. Will going dark elf seriously limit me in any ways, like with quests?

How hard is it to find groups, when leveling? Is there much of a low-end population to exp with, or will I mainly be on my own? And how friendly are the people here, in general?

It's such a shame that the red server has a blah population. EQ without PvP isn't nearly as much fun, but you can't play the game without others :/

[Tarathiel]

cleric is always a good choice, cant think of any cons right off the bat with going DE, they have pretty good stats for clerics, outside of having bad faction in good cities i dont see a problem

[Alawen]

Innoruuk worshipping clerics, which include dark elves obviously, can get the Regent Symbol of Innoruuk, giving the cleric access to snare. You'll have a little trouble doing the Aegis of Life quest if you had planned on that. It's doable, though. Humans and Erudites can do the Paineel quests. Dwarves have very nice cultural armor for the moment, but it's a mistake in the itemization and should be nerfed--someone put the wrong era of cultural into the database. Halflings level a little faster than everyone else and get hide and sneak. Your dark elf will have hide, which is pretty useful.

You'll find groups playing a cleric. Welcome and good luck.

[kaev]

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

Innoruuk worshipping clerics, which include dark elves obviously, can get the Regent Symbol of Innoruuk, giving the cleric access to snare. You'll have a little trouble doing the Aegis of Life quest if you had planned on that. It's doable, though. Humans and Erudites can do the Paineel quests. Dwarves have very nice cultural armor for the moment, but it's a mistake in the itemization and should be nerfed--someone put the wrong era of cultural into the database. Halflings level a little faster than everyone else and get hide and sneak. Your dark elf will have hide, which is pretty useful.

You'll find groups playing a cleric. Welcome and good luck.

lol, no. Later cultural for most every race makes the initial (current) dwarf stuff look very very weak. It's the best of the early stuff, yes, significantly better than other races, yes, but Verant didn't insist on carrying that particular mistake forward later on.

[theaetatus]

Clerics are always needed and Dark Elf is probably the best choice (Hide / Snare).

[dredge]

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[Autumnbow]

When do halfling rangers come about? :P

[Ele]

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

When do halfling rangers come about? :P

Never on this server according to the timeline, post-Luclin addition. If it does occur, it will be a long way off.

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March 19, 2002
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We wanted to start by letting everyone know how grateful we are for all
of the suggestions for improvements that we've received both in EMail
and on the various class and server boards. We appreciate all the help
you've provided us.

** Changes for Low Level Characters **

- Characters no longer lose experience for death below level 11
- Characters now begin first level with a stack of 20 food and drink
- Items no longer appear on a corpse if you are below level 10, they
reappear with the character
- When a character "dings" level 10 you will be informed that your
items will now be on your corpse
- Characters will no longer appear with a Tome of Discord. They must
get one from the Priest of Discord
- New resurrection, evacuate and corpse summoning spells have been
added at lower levels
- We've moved the newbie bind points closer to where characters first
start out, not outside in their newbie areas
- Halflings and Gnomes have new classes available to them: Halfling
Rangers and Paladins as well as Gnome ShadowKnights and Paladins. All
of the necessary NPCs and items should be available for these new
classes

[Autumnbow]

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

Never on this server according to the timeline, post-Luclin addition. If it does occur, it will be a long way off.

Aww, that's a shame [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[jarshale]

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

How hard is it to find groups, when leveling? Is there much of a low-end population to exp with, or will I mainly be on my own? And how friendly are the people here, in general?

It's such a shame that the red server has a blah population. EQ without PvP isn't nearly as much fun, but you can't play the game without others :/

If you hit all the popular spots like EC, crushbone, oasis, etc you will almost always be able to find a group. And people seem to really friendly for the most part, the dickery seems to start when end game stuff is concerned, which is a long ways away for you anyway.