New player!

theory · #1 01-18-2010, 02:50 PM

Hail! Firstly id like to introduce myself, my name is brandon and i am 17 and live in North carolina. I never played EQ in its hay day and i had just recently started trying the freetrail of it as i cant find any mmos that interest me any more.

My mmo career got started when my father bought Dark ages of camelot in 01' and i got hooked, something about the graphics classes game style took me in [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
i played Daoc from 01' to 08' when mythic fucked it with Warhammer online.
I went on to Wow, got tired of its simplicity, and went on to eve online ( which is my favorite mmo ive played next to Daoc but i got tired of grinding my sec status back up and got tired of being head diplomat for Sylph alliance.

Today i was looking around for video on the orig. EQ and found some posting about this server! i was instantly like, Hells yeah i must try this [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I am looking forward to playing Eq with you all, although i may be a noob for a while [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] i still wish to do end game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxDh2sYQRpo <- my feelings about this server

guineapig · #2 01-18-2010, 03:01 PM

Welcome!

P1999 is as original as you can currently get (without a time machine)

Hope you enjoy your stay!

theory · #3 01-18-2010, 03:02 PM

oh, well i do have a spare time machine in the basement, but i dont want to go back to that internet :S

theory · #4 01-18-2010, 03:07 PM

Btw, what classes are needed? I would really like to be an underplayed class

Jete · #5 01-18-2010, 03:10 PM

Bard / cleric... GL as a bard!

edit: Ranja is the most underplayed

theory · #6 01-18-2010, 03:11 PM

i may be a cleric but whats bad about a bard? ive played them in DnD alot and in Daoc

guineapig · #7 01-18-2010, 03:21 PM

I always love a Bard in my group... I don't care what anybody says.

And yes, Ranger is the ultra-rare class on this server. You should see the handouts that are offered to ranger mains.

Brad_mo123 · #8 01-18-2010, 03:22 PM

Bard is broken in some ways and also people hate you becuase you can charm merchants and put them in bad places [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. This server is not without bugs so you just have to learn to live with them but there really arnt any HUGE bugs that stops you from playing and this is as classic as it gets too. You can go try EQ live if you want to waste your money on like 1 hour of fun in the tutorial (escape to norrath) thats the only part thats fun now, the game on live is pretty ruined from most people's opinion [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

theory · #9 01-18-2010, 03:25 PM

ahh so the bard class is bugged :S how bugged is it :S

Witness · #10 01-18-2010, 03:27 PM

since no one is giving you a real answer on why bards are broken, i will tell you.

There are many minor issues that aren't worth going over.

The main, game breaking issue for bard is we do not know when we fizzle. All bard songs take 3 seconds to cast. Imagine a cleric casting a 3 second heal and the heal fizzles but the spell bar continues to move and you aren't notified that you fizzled. The tank would likely die from lack of heals. This is what bards deal with. Our song will continue to cast and no effect will take place, no resist, no group buff, whatever it is you are casting. And the reason is because we aren't notified when our song fizzles ("your song ends"). It is very annoying to spend 3 seconds trying to cast a spell not knowing if you fizzled or not, especially when you are trying to snare/mez/charm a mob beating you down.

Also, we've had no word from developers whether a solve for this issue is being looked in to.