Is it actually impossible to start with a difficult class as a new player?

[MageBlue]

If you want a fun challenge just for today only forming a highlander guild on p99 green

Everybody roll best elf

Turn in your book to priest of discord to get pvp enabled

Group up other pvp players

As pvp player you cannot receive *any* buffs from bluebies

Will stay in nek till 6 then move into ec

*can* receive items and plat

If peeps ask what going tell the prophet already warned those in ec to repent

[Salaryman]

RED99

[MageBlue]

Well it is confirmed

Salaryman is fanatic flat earther

Even after Jeff Bezos sends him up - space tourism - and sees with his own eyes that blue marble that is our home - would STILL insist the world is flat

P99 red is working perfectly and as intended - a daycare for the vile sociopathic griefer

Now after the devs finish integrating deepseek library will be able automate sociopath detection - so they added fbi watch list

[one3eight]

Can't remember his name but there was a dude that did a solo/self found rogue to 60

[Swish]

Originally Posted by one3eight [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Can't remember his name but there was a dude that did a solo/self found rogue to 60

Was that Barthorn? I know he did a warrior but it sounds like something he'd do afterwards...insane!

[zelld52]

Monk is a good choice for Freeport human. Monk can solo way better thank rogue, thanks in part to mend (guaranteed 25% heal at 200 skill), dual wielding at level 1, and monk defensive skills like block (level 12) and stone stance (level 51)

Monk is a dps like rogue, and while rogue hide/sneak is the preferred method of traversing dangerous areas, monks feign death (level 17) and sneak means they can also get around pretty unscathed

[WarpathEQ]

Gotta love a thread that starts with a new player asking about rolling a brand new toon and only ever making it to level 8 devolving into a thread about end game and how many 60 toons people have. Way to be useless to the OP.

As someone who also rolled a Barbarian shaman as my first character ever back in 1999 and eventually quit the character I think there is something important you may not be considering about your ideal character.....race.

In my experience barbarian and human are some of the worst, most useless races in the game and make quality of life much worse regardless of what class you play. To me the only point of human even existing as a race is to be able to roll a monk pre-kunark. Both have amongst the worst night vision of any race in the game and make it extremely hard to navigate the world. While this can be largely offset by gear over time, when you die and need to assist in corpse recovery (something rogues are expected to do frequently and over any other class) you're making one of the most negative experiences in the game 3x more frustrating and complicated which are generally the types of things that lead people to quit the toon/game.

When it comes to class selection there is no right or wrong answer, for the most part the game is surprisingly well balanced and every class has a purpose and excels at certain things, sure there may be a right class for a particular scenario, and so it really comes down to how you want to engage in the game.

OP seems to be focused on soloability a lot and avoiding grouping while showing most interest in Rogue and Necro. If you expect to spend a fair amount of your gameplay exploring the world by yourself than save yourself the trouble, forget the rogue, and roll the necro (or consider shaman/enchanter/bard). Rogue has very little utility as a casual player that just wants to level up a character and explore exp camps. Rogue's power curve is really more in the end game and raid situations where their ability to deliver top notch DPS on tough targets and move about zones undetected really shine.

First thing is figuring out what class you want to play, then racial selection can be determined. Head over to the P99 wiki and go to the class page for the class you decide to roll. The top 20-25% of the page is all about character creation, it walks through all available races, the benefits and opportunities of each, religion, and anything you might want to consider to avoid regret later. I've never rolled a necro but I assume Iksar is the prevailing premiere race for that class given how much HP regen benefits a necro's play style. If you do end up going rogue I would highly encourage gnome. I've leveled many rogues and found the quality of life of the gnome was the best, and the good thing is if you get super far along in the game and really regret not being a different race there are illusion masks you can get to become virtually any other race in the game (but sadly you can no longer get an illusion to become a gnome).

[Tann]

Is it actually impossible to start with a difficult class as a new player?

No, any class is doable as a new player, it all boils down to how much downtime your willing to put up with. Any class can solo to 60, again it all depends on how much downtime you can tolerate.

[loramin]

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

No, any class is doable as a new player, it all boils down to how much downtime your willing to put up with. Any class can solo to 60, again it all depends on how much downtime you can tolerate.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

No, any class is doable as a new player, it all boils down to how much downtime your willing to put up with. Any class can solo to 60, again it all depends on how much downtime you can tolerate.

Indeed. Soloing a self found Rogue to 60 mostly requires some game knowledge on which easy single spawn mobs can be camped by a rogue, and at what levels you can get upgrades for your weapons.

It's just going to take significantly longer than solo leveling a Necromancer. At least 2-4x longer. That's why a lot of people don't end up self found soloing a Rogue to 60. It isn't challenging if you know what to do, it's just tedious.