New Player Intro

[Eastwood]

Hi Guys,

My gaming name as of late has been Eastwood, kind of inspired by a truely badass old actor, and it's kind of woodsy rangery which is how I like it. I'm an Ultima Online veteran until EQ came out in 1999, I started the game on day 2 and fooled around a lot, never made it to level cap hehe.

My most serious character in EQ was a ranger on Rodcet Nife named Kalaner. I was also a teenager and immature those days so I screwed around, made twinks, and was around level 36 by the time Kunark came out and made it to level 56 during the Velious era before quitting the game.

I just found out about this server today after getting kind of bored of UO Nostalgia servers, and I'm looking forward to trying it out.

My main concerns are the lower server population of an emulator server. If I make a barbarian warrior am I going to be blind, and desperately looking for people to group with?

On the other side of that I am not at all interested in playing a super solo class.

Classes that interest me are Shamans, Warriors, Rogues, Rangers, and maybe Bards.

Ranger is a class I loved but I know they suxored for most of the era, especially Kunark. Warriors are great because I love tanking and armor and weapons but my concern is that it is a horrible class to solo with. Without RL friends to join me in EQ will I be really hurting for groups at times?

Shaman is pretty high on my list, any thoughts guys? I was looking for new player starting tips type of threads on the forum and library but did not see any. Is there an active enough population on this server that I could find groups to do dungeons with? I remember EQ was very cliquey with the high end guilds and I never found it possible to get into any raid client except with extremely scrubby guilds that implode after their first failed raid.

Thanks for the advice ahead of time.