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Like any of the other top raiding guilds though, it is going to take awhile to build up DKP to get the good stuff (unless you're a class where drops rot frequently). | |||
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It doesn't help either that my favorite class (wizard) isn't considered very good and is ostracized to hell and back on this server. | |||
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Wealth is pretty easy to come by in classic EQ with a bit of time. If you're willing to be a little evil in terms of the NPCs you kill you can make good plat just XPing. I mean damn the other day I made a couple thousand platinum in a level just killing some random dwarf guards in BB. Decent gear on Blue is relatively cheap, the guilds are a bit more relaxed in terms of requirements than they are on Green (or than they used to be on Green), and if you're set on playing a caster class you don't really need much gear anyway. | |||
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I've heard some guilds have recently removed their raid attendance requirements, maybe you could look into them? Most of the raiding guilds have recruitment threads on this forum. | |||
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I don't know the guild dynamic on Green or how Kingdom does their recruiting, but I'm also not surprised that a level 20 character with no reputation or higher characters wasn't greated very enthusiastically by a top raid guild. The road to 60, especially on a first toon, is usually long and arduous and more people never make it 60 here than do. I'm in the camp that the best thing you can do for any toon to increase your utility and usefulness is to get 60 and then really start worrying about raiding and gear (more hp at 60, mana, more spells, more likely to resist AE's, etc..). A better path to go would be to get into a leveling/social guild and make some friends and memories on the ride to 56+, and then worry about a raid guild. With this path you'll most likely meet some people that will help you choose which raiding guild you want to join. There's groups of people/friends from guilds like TSS and Kittens or Ex Astra that apply 'together' to raid guilds all of the time. Just my 2 cp. And as far as casual raiding? I was able to go to my son's baseball game, come home, and hit 4 raid targets in the 2-3 hours before dinner. That's pretty casual to me. Sometimes my monthly raid attendence is 25%, and sometimes it's 1% and no one has ever said a word to me. Life happens and even the top raid guilds now are just happy that you show up when you can and play your classes well. | |||
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Like I don't mind soloing to level, it just seriously sucks when you need things that require a group like the staff of temp flux, the acumen mask, the concussion spell, etc, and not a single person out there is willing to help or invite you to anything. If I couldn't get help for those, what chance did I ever have of getting an epic? Those were the seriously depressing moments I faced on this server. There were moments where I did struggle to level on my own, after a string of bad kites and deaths, and I'd ask my guild "hey can I join your hole group or something for a bit?" and they'd respond with crickets. | |||
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But yeah, I was just trying to make some friends. I never had any luck in the lower end guilds like Castle, FoH and FoW, who basically didn't really care about anyone but their inner cliques. So I thought I'd try Kingdom. Wasn't looking for anything but people to talk to, and possibly make some friends by the time I got up there to raiding. So it did hurt a little when they flat out rejected me. Pretty sure Seal Team also straight up laughed at my attempts to join them too. So you can understand why I feel a bit jaded when it comes to this community. What is even left after all that? I could potentially join Blue and try my luck there, but I'm also afraid of the same things happening, just in a newbie robe, no gear and no money on top of that. | |||
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When you raid you can learn to do train outs which are critical to raid success nowadays, you can TL monks and debuffers during pulls and engages to help make plays happen, and every non-caster in the raid is looking for a TL after the kill to move on to the next target. It does take a while to make those friendships on a new server, especially if your playtime is limited, but don't be afraid to use your friend's list and hit up people you might have leveled or grouped with when you can play to see what they are up to. Reputation matters a lot here more than live, and people will always tend to gravitate towards the friendly and helpful players they meet. Sometimes I just log on and check my friends list to see how people are doing or what they are into if I don't have long. | |||
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I just prefer to either solo, or be deep in a dungeon somewhere with a full group. Is that wrong? | |||
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