New to P99 - and EverQuest in General

[Adamas83]

Greetings,

Unlike many posts I have read on these forums, I am not a returning player. I don't have first-hand nostalgia pulling me back to the golden era of this game. But I was in High School when this released, I did play other grind-heavy MMOs of the day, and I have always held EQ in high regard as the forefather of anything in the genre after it. My gateway drug was Redmoon Online and later Lineage 2. Happy to say I avoided WoW and still have never played it to date (wasn't a particular fan of anything Blizzard made beyond D2). So I do have nostalgia for this period of time and maybe that's why EQ has sunk its hooks into me at long last. Seriously, my YouTube feed is destroyed after the past week... I am aware of the pitfalls of the new player experience, but I am determined to push past the near vertical learning curve because I know there's an amazing game on the other side with more depth than most anything I have ever played.

All of this puts me in the unique position of getting to experience this game now, in my 40s, for the first time ever. I did my homework, and looked around specifically at the EQEmu space - too many bad encounters with retail PTW so not even an option for me. While other servers do seem to have this or that appealing feature, after last year's events I question their long term stability (in more ways than one). All roads led me here. I value the long term stability over the short term gains. I know the value of earning your way, and while I don't have hundreds of hours per week to invest - or the ability to binge the way I used to - I look forward to my journey here.

After much deliberation, I have settled on a Dark Elf Necro named Almadon. See y'all in game. Happy to be here.