Questions from a prospective new player

[thraxll]

Hi all. I played eq on Rallos Zek for several years back in the day. More recently Ive been on blue p99 and for the last couple of months on the live TLPs. I'm thinking of rolling on red and had a couple of questions I was hoping you guys would answer.

I like playing casters. Back in the day on Rallos Zek everyone just stacked resist gear and caster damage was rather gimp. Is this how it works on red 99?

I often enjoy solo play. Assuming casters aren't completely gimp, which would make for a better solo ganker/stalker, druid or wizard? Ive kidn of boiled my choices down to those two.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

[Gustoo]

People here are just as smart as people were on Live, and some of them are smarter. Naturally the most important stats for everyone are resists, magic in particular as always.

Still, wizards are good for murder even when people stack resist gear.

Druids are better all around for both PVP and solo. For PVP they are more durable with heal spells and much more variety. For solo they can root rot tricky dungeons and overall are just a more versatile class in every way.

Wizard is good for dropping a bomb on a person with lower health and getting a kill. Great for PKing and by that I mean going out with the explicit goal of killing a player, which will mean looking for some poor low HP sap fighting a mob and 1 shotting them. Not a good all around PVP character because they die so quickly and have no way of quickly getting mana. Not a very great solo PVE character, but not the worst.

Druid is a good class to enjoy the game and if you are good at PVP the druid is a good class overall.

I personally would recommend an ogre shaman. Very good solo and pvp, and can solo some monster stuff in velious.

If you don't want to be evil than the druid is a good way to go.

[hurt]

Everybody seems to stack fire and thus making druids redundant with regards to killing. They do however make a great support class.

Wizards put people down with lures so are much more consistent killers.

[Uton]

he's not asking you to explain classes. he's asking if playing a caster will fuck him in the end.

Considering this server stops at Velious and melee are OP more than ever, i would suggest making a monk if you can get someone to hook you up with some starter gear/weapons.

if its your first char on box I would suggest making a mage honestly. You can lvl it up to 50+ easy as hell grp in fast xp zones or solo at cash camps. You require zero gear, focus items and nice stuff can be found in najena, you should not bother with any research. and within 1-2 weeks of decent play time you will have a farming toon making you lots of plat to gear up a monk or epic a lvl 1 rogue.

easy peezy

[DRAGONBAIT]

then you can join empire

[Terpuntine]

then you can join empire

This person is mad

[Uton]

and not so intelligent

[Genedin]

Real Talk.

If you are going to make a caster, make a wizard.
Wizard epic is attainable for any decent guild you join now, and in pvp it is amazing.

Druids are a joke as long as you carry a pumice. Mages cant do shit, necros are a joke unless you are AFK.

Even with Velious gear giving tons of resists and HP, you can still nuke someone for 500 damage that can't be resisted, and you don't have to be near them, or even see them, so IMO Wizards will always be viable and the only caster class to consider for pvp.

-fin

[DRAGONBAIT]

and not so intelligent


still dont know who u are

[grannock]

Casters are strong as long as you are careful. Rolling a melee as your first toon on red99 is gonna be ruff, but its possible, i did it.

[sktank]

Wiz are great in pvp, Druids are still solid as well if you get the jump on people. Wizard is very boring to play.. Your damage in groups is average/minimal believe it or not (compared to a rogue/monk/necro. And when wizards solo you will be afk half the time u play while medding. Druids can charm/ quad kite if your gear is good enough. Druids are more beneficial to groups with heals, tracking, buffs and can still help some with damage.

[HippoNipple]

Druid for solo and group PvE.

Wizard for PvP and raiding.

[Uton]

As a first character I still think a mage is great. Cheap, easy and the gear you collect can be passed to your wizard. A naked mage can camp anything naked in the 50s. And you will accumulate Plat and items so that you can gear out another toon. Also what grp doesn't love having a mage for dps/off tank.

I wouldn't aim for pvp with it, but deff a great starter toon

Druids are also amazing with charm animals but you still need gear for mana pool

[DRAGONBAIT]

As a first character I still think a mage is great. Cheap, easy and the gear you collect can be passed to your wizard. A naked mage can camp anything naked in the 50s. And you will accumulate Plat and items so that you can gear out another toon. Also what grp doesn't love having a mage for dps/off tank.

I wouldn't aim for pvp with it, but deff a great starter toon

Druids are also amazing with charm animals but you still need gear for mana pool


rofl

[LulzSect]

Shadow Knight for sure

most OP class