Corridante Sycronius
05-29-2017, 11:36 AM
Good afternoon Red 1999. I have been kicking around the idea of switching to the seedy underbelly of the MMO scene that is your community, but I have a few issues;
1. I play EQ very casually. My work and home life is erratic, so on average I can play a few hours a week. If something shifts around I might have a friday or saturday night where I can play for several hours (for a raid or something). To give you an idea of how casually I play, my main on Blue is a currently 35 bard. But the time isn't the only reason I level slowly...
2. I love classic EQ because of the quests, class/race specific items and lore, and the community. Because of this my bard is regularly "wastes" time hunting down parts for quests that are largely obsolete in the modern P99 scene, or getting pushed out of zones by twinks or multiboxers who push right into a camp (when I'm not swarming), or leaving good swarming zones because continuing to do so would be rude to other players.
3. I am a hipster IRL (proof is the fact that I play P99) and in P99 (proof is the fact that I still use my full lambent even though I should really replace parts of it by now), so on top of the fact that Red 99 is already tough, I want to make it additionally tough by playing a race/class combo that (for probably very good reasons) is under-populated. And preferably evil, because evil is hard-mode for EQ.
That being said, I have a few questions before I get started on my probably over-ambitious goals;
1. Is there a guild that can provide at the very least, community and possibly even justice for a casual gimp like myself? There are a few on blue, but blue also has ~10x population, so I might be on my own here.
2. Are there moderately populated grouping locations in Red 99, or is it really just soloing while trying not to get killed? (I realize that asking this question really just provides an outlet for all the whiney trolls on here, but just in case someone has useful information I'll include it)
3. What races/classes are underpopulated right now? If someone has a /count list, that would be useful, but I'm more interested in another casual grouping player's complaints about "I never see [some class]" or "There's always [this other class] LFG everywhere I go and I'm SICK OF IT".
Right now leaning towards a DE wizard (to port) or a gnome warrior (to make sure one exists). The only things I don't want to do are another Bard or another Ranger (Ranger was my main on Live, and after playing the OP PoP Rangers P99 feels like swimming in molases).
Any responses are welcome, even the next three or four which will undoubtedly be useless bitching or attempted bubble-bursting.
1. I play EQ very casually. My work and home life is erratic, so on average I can play a few hours a week. If something shifts around I might have a friday or saturday night where I can play for several hours (for a raid or something). To give you an idea of how casually I play, my main on Blue is a currently 35 bard. But the time isn't the only reason I level slowly...
2. I love classic EQ because of the quests, class/race specific items and lore, and the community. Because of this my bard is regularly "wastes" time hunting down parts for quests that are largely obsolete in the modern P99 scene, or getting pushed out of zones by twinks or multiboxers who push right into a camp (when I'm not swarming), or leaving good swarming zones because continuing to do so would be rude to other players.
3. I am a hipster IRL (proof is the fact that I play P99) and in P99 (proof is the fact that I still use my full lambent even though I should really replace parts of it by now), so on top of the fact that Red 99 is already tough, I want to make it additionally tough by playing a race/class combo that (for probably very good reasons) is under-populated. And preferably evil, because evil is hard-mode for EQ.
That being said, I have a few questions before I get started on my probably over-ambitious goals;
1. Is there a guild that can provide at the very least, community and possibly even justice for a casual gimp like myself? There are a few on blue, but blue also has ~10x population, so I might be on my own here.
2. Are there moderately populated grouping locations in Red 99, or is it really just soloing while trying not to get killed? (I realize that asking this question really just provides an outlet for all the whiney trolls on here, but just in case someone has useful information I'll include it)
3. What races/classes are underpopulated right now? If someone has a /count list, that would be useful, but I'm more interested in another casual grouping player's complaints about "I never see [some class]" or "There's always [this other class] LFG everywhere I go and I'm SICK OF IT".
Right now leaning towards a DE wizard (to port) or a gnome warrior (to make sure one exists). The only things I don't want to do are another Bard or another Ranger (Ranger was my main on Live, and after playing the OP PoP Rangers P99 feels like swimming in molases).
Any responses are welcome, even the next three or four which will undoubtedly be useless bitching or attempted bubble-bursting.