The easiest and simplest class to play?

[magnetaress]

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

Why in the hell am I thinking of making a dark elf magician right now.. especially instead of a superior enchanter.. a weaker class, with an impossible epic..

It is only impossible because you were told it was impossible. Now go prove them wrong.

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[BlackBellamy]

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

Well I will be playing without groups most of the time, So Rouge is not viable for me.

When you get on do a /who all dial. It's a trade association for porters but they'll take any level even naked. You'll have a druid chat channel and tons of great advice for leveling spots. Talk to anyone about joining, most everyone can invite.

Druid life is all about catering to the lazy coward.

As a lazy coward your druid experience will consist of rooting something then sitting down and watching it die slowly. You'll stare right into it's eyes as it sways there and makes the noises and then falls over. It never gets old. You would think but it doesn't. I mean you can kite and charm and quad and blow stuff up and be very very active, but that is all optional.

Your ports and speed buffs maximize laziness by lessening travel time. You are right there all the time and the bank is almost a single button press.

You won't waste time asking for a rez because your cowardice and escape methods means you will die by choice and besides hello halfling bonus.

As a premier plat farmer, you will minimize time spent in EC trying to haggle out a price by just paying top dollar for the gear you want which means a pair of +55 hp rings and I guess nothing else. People will tell you to buy wisdom gear but those guys are liars in cahoots with the equipment cabal because all wisdom does is increase your mana pool and that means you can be more active and this goes against the whole lazy coward ethos. I mean do what you want, just sayin those extra 110 hp will allow you take one more frost bolt up your ass while you skeddadle that's all you need.

You won't waste time looking for a group because before a very precise point in your druid life other people will be like yeah come we need a healer and after that precise point it will be just radio silence but either way again there's no time wasted here cause you'll know what's going on.

[Geomance22]

pure melee just sucks without a discord of pals, hybrid is an okay compromise since you can still solo just not at an ideal rate

[pivo]

Ashamed to admit, still on lvl 1. Not much time for play, maybe tomorrow I get few hours in.

I have 2 kills/wins so far and 4 deaths. With body chased far away and I have no clue where. So I created new toon. Clicked on guard, to see if there is something interactive with him and it was. He killed me on the spot! lol That's how I got 4th death.

Druid starts with thick skin protection buff, heal and weapon. I was sure that will be enough to mop with the creatures. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Here comes by Klaknak Drone (i think), I attacked and he would not die. At least not before me. Looks like it is not the weakest one. After i re-spawned, I figured out, there are creatures more equal to my lvl. So I eagerly attacked one. Only to found out I had no spells, no weapon... Then I recalled, I did read about it, I should go to my corpse first, duh! Died second time.

OK got to my corpse, got my stuff back, buffed up and I was ready. Finally!

Bat! My level. Easy peasy if I can reach him. Snake, my level, killed both. Then next snake, running away, I was chasing it when some player fly by me.

Come to find out, it was not a player, but some bloodlust Bixie Drone. I started to run toward the guards. Little problem was, I had no clue where guards were. Can I outrun it? I tried, running some one minute or so. Who knows where. Then he cougth me. Third death.

After that I'm standing next to guards, thinking what to do next. Corpse is who knows where... Someone probably noticed my struggles and he traded me nice, blue pair of gloves. (I wrote your name down, good soul, will try to pay back some time in the future).

Gloves looks nice. No way I was going to search for my corpse miles away. I would die again and lose gloves. (at that time I didn't know if there is bank around or where it would be) So I created new toon, that guard killed on the spot for right clicking on him. One day i will be back and then this guard will see all the marbles!

Then I ran out of playing time. Can my first toon send gloves via email to second toon? Or is there a way to share items through bank slot? In the mean time I found bank, so i can save gloves in it, if I decide to go search my corpse with first toon. But bare hands, no food/drink for regens, not knowing where I died, I'm not that inclined to go this route.

Anyway, fun start lol I will remember this one :-)

p.s.
Have some tweaking to do. Computer completely froze solid during the game. Only reset helped. That's not good, can add to my deaths count, so i need to experiment and figure out how to get more stable system.

p.p.s.
I see (you tube video) some players have compass at top of the screen. I need to get one, first priority. (or are those videos from blue server, is compass available on green server?)

[pivo]

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

When you get on do a /who all dial. It's a trade association for porters but they'll take any level even naked. You'll have a druid chat channel and tons of great advice for leveling spots. Talk to anyone about joining, most everyone can invite.

Thank you for all the tips!!!
Ahh, Druid channel, never thought of it!

[pivo]

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

There are a couple options you can use for in game maps, but I'm not sure how well they work under Linux.

One is called nparse, that one has spell timers built in as well so you can see when your buffs/dots are wearing off. The one I prefer is called ZLiz as it uses the old EQAtlas maps which just look better.

Maps! Thank you, will check this out, yay! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Yep, found guides, will start reading soon.

[Videri]

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

Clicked on guard, to see if there is something interactive with him and it was. He killed me on the spot! lol That's how I got 4th death.
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Can I outrun it? I tried, running some one minute or so. Who knows where. Then he cougth me. Third death.
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Someone probably noticed my struggles and he traded me nice, blue pair of gloves. (I wrote your name down, good soul, will try to pay back some time in the future).

Sooooo classic! Congratulations on having these experiences.

Do you know how to strafe-run? If you run forward and hold right click and also try to turn, you end up running diagonally. This makes you slightly faster (because EverQuest physics). You can outrun mobs with normal runspeed this way. Cats, though, not so much.

[Cen]

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

Sooooo classic! Congratulations on having these experiences.

Do you know how to strafe-run? If you run forward and hold right click and also try to turn, you end up running diagonally. This makes you slightly faster (because EverQuest physics). You can outrun mobs with normal runspeed this way. Cats, though, not so much.

Its interesting how many old games this worked on but how few new games it does. If you add the movement of two vectors you run along the hypotenuse which is longer than the two right-angled sides. Somehow it went from common programming to a beginner's blunder

[larper99]

There is no way a halfling druid is KOS in Rivervale or Misty. So, right clicking on the guards should not cause them to kill you. You must have right-click mapped to auto attack. If true, turn that off immediately.

When hunting in Misty Thicket at level 1, stay close to the huts just near the tunnel back to Rivervale. Really, at level 1, you should be doing some newbie quests from the Druid guild to deliver food and such to the guards. That will level you up to 2 without risk, THEN you can go out into Misty.

Create a macro key for Sense Heading and mash it at all times (or map to a movement key, but that is an advanced technique). By constantly mashing the Sense Heading macro, even while sitting, you should be able to max the skill out (200) by level 4. That skill can save your bacon for corpse runs and just getting familiar with zones.

Create a macro called LOC that does a /LOC on each line available in the macro editor. When you think you are going to die, hit the button. You will then have a record of WHERE you died. Also, using the LOC macro when in an unfamiliar or dark zone can help you get oriented as you move around. The first number is North/South, the second number is East/West. For East/West, negative numbers are to the East, which seems backwards to most people I would think.

Yeah, your experiences are very memorable to most. Truly wish we could all go back to such innocence.

[Jibartik]

The classic experience is to have auto attack just on while you dope around town and eventually try to interact with an NPC, where you will now need to return to, to CR