How satisfied are you with your cahrecter

[pokeyloams]

With Green on the horizon many of use are looking to start anew. What classes have you invested time into, 55+ and how happy are you with them.

Whatever is important to you and makes you like your class I'd love to hear about. Is it the most fun to play, do groups always want you, you like gearing up bit by bit via end game raids, or maybe you just love the feel of your character.

So why do you love, or loathe your main toons.

[Videri]

I mained bard, then cleric, then bard again on Red99. I always loved both characters. It was fun to dote on my cleric and make sure she had the best gear I could get her so she would be a CH chain beast. As both classes, I felt valued in groups, and I felt needed by my guild for raids and other activities. Guildmates were supportive of me receiving loot in both cases.

I especially loved pulling on my bard. I would be firing on all cylinders, using every song and tactic I had learned to ensure a consistent and timely flow of mobs into the maw of the DPS machine.

I also remember my whole guild depending on me to pull certain outdoor dragons without dying: Talendor in Skyfire, Faydedar in Timorous Deep, maybe Severilous. It was an enjoyable kind of pressure: everyone wanting me to succeed, cheering me on, salivating over the loot I was bringing their way. Reflecting on this and similar experiences, I guess being a valued part of a team is one facet of the gem that is EverQuest.

[Jimjam]

Total eclipse.

[zodium]

I've been playing Gatmanno my druid pirate almost continuously since I started P99. almost three years in I have one alt that isn't just adventuring infrastructure for him to use, and most of the time I play her I'm wishing I was playing Gatmanno instead.

druid is a very creatively and socially demanding class. they're designed as a "jack of all trades" class, but effectively scale to "sufficiently good at all trades," and their gearing choice between a support druid emphasizing mana versus a charm druid emphasizing tank is probably the most dramatic in everquest. so is their power ceiling. your average joe druid is basically a port-and-potg bot, scaling up with appropriate gear and tactics to where a druid can solo the entire Kael arena or out-dps a rogue while performing multiple other roles. it's hard not to fall in love with that kind of raw potential.

as a druid you need little to nothing while people constantly need things from you. small and big. you also have incredible quality of life. get bored, or everything is camped? port somewhere else. group need a rep? pick them up. poor? money rains like manna from the heavens relative to your level and power almost immediately: selling ports, binding in camp and porting to vendor, powerleveling.

the main downside is really that seven years of Kunark, an expansion where druids objectively suck relatively large amounts of ass, has created an attitude that druids just suck relatively large amounts of ass in general that you need to overcome on a personal reputation basis. which isn't really that hard since velious druids are objectively very powerful, but it's somewhat demotivating at first and an obstacle all the same.

[aaezil]

Theres no bad classes just bad players ;)

[Chortles Snort|eS]

ME wiZ iNAnOtHer LiVe! NeVaR aGin!!!
EiTher Me SiCk or LuV SK on EMU
GrEen B 5 tIMe TRy SmASh!!! No kNo Y luV muCh??! FuN??!

[Evia]

I love my rogue!! So much so I have even contemplated leveling him again on green. I like the straight forward and simplicity of it, the utility in corpse dragging and dungeon exploration, and being considered best dps and wanted from groups is just icing on the cake. Its also nice when some punk is being a dick at hill giants and I lighten the coin from the giants hes fighting without him ever knowing any better...

One of my favorite things to do with my rogue is sneak/hide down into dungeons exploring and taking screenshots. Finding names and putting on my fungi and locustlure and trying to solo em down. I like the rpg feel, look and role of a rogue/thief/assassin and would highly recommend the class to anyone looking for little responsibility in groups and raids, while bringing high value in damage dealing to the table.

[Sunderfury]

People 'love' their melee because of easy to obtain epics (monk / rogue at least), cheap good ratio weapons, haste items, and fungi's galore. Gonna love seeing 8/35 weapons taking out mobs with no worn haste / regen.

[Krone90]

ENCHANTER !!!!!!!

[fadetree]

For extra melee masochism points, roll a hybrid melee! You'll really feel the love of original everquest then.

[Ruhtar]

I've been on and off this server for 7-8 years now and even being banned a couple of times along the way. It's hard to replicate the social dynamic this game creates and some of these classes haven't been made in any other MMO, which makes them quite unique.

My favorite class used to be the rogue. I've only had 2 60's on this server and both were/are rogues. As Evia stated, extremely low responsibility in groups or raids and I personally think it's a great introduction class into EQ to get to understand zones better and get a feel for everything before you do any deep diving on a different class that plays a bigger role.

After getting a Bard, Cleric, Druid, Enchanter, Monk, Shaman and Warrior 50+, I've added Enchanter and Monk to my favorites.

The Enchanter has so much control in groups that it's hard to play anything else after. Not only can you mez / stun / root mobs, you provide some of the best buffs in the game with crack and haste, and can outdps your entire group with a charmed mob hitting the 200-250 dps range. Since healing can be a bit boring in this game, I find Enchanter scratches that itch for me of perfecting an art in every group I join. I personally don't like soloing much, but they make fantastic soloers and even better duo/trio partners. You also won't find this skill set in any other game.

Monks are the only class where I feel 100% safe running around freely in any zone (except DN because those traps can suck). Instantly FDing whenever and being able to tank and dps is huge. By far the best melee class in my opinion. Though, I do have to be in the mood to pull for groups. Endlessly pulling can get tiring for me, especially being a rogue in my past lives.

TL;DR - I love my characters and I can't find their play styles in other MMOs which keeps me coming back again and again.

[Troxx]

I like them all for very different reasons.

What I didn’t like about my bard was hitting that wall where my epic was unobtainable. By the time I found myself inmates guild where it was possible, I had already reverted back to my original eq career of warrioring.

Warrior: I enjoy being the point man. As a gear dependent class each upgrade has a very meaningful impact unlike anything else other classes feel. For most melee it’s about having 41% haste and rocking weapons. Other gear slots help, but not to the same degree. Casters? Meaningful clicks. But for the warrior class, each slot is important. Weapons to hold threat. Other weapons to dish out damage and not draw threat. We get beat on incessantly by the nastiest monsters in the game so every pinch of ac, hp, and resists is important. Beyond that, 60 warriors are borderline Demi-gods in eq. Solid dps at baseline. Insane dps if we are free to unleash precision disc (more so if berserk). Tough as nails and hard to kill. All of this while still being a highly social class in that we are simultaneously completely dependent on those around us.

[Danth]

In ten years on P99 my Shadow Knight is the only character I've reached level 60 with, or even 55+. I remain fully satisfied with it, so much so that I've never felt the drive to level something else. Within the realm of what melee classes are expected to do in this game, it has done everything I've reasonably asked of it, and more besides.

I have access, of course, to the wife's Shaman. Being a Shaman means it clearly has more raw power than any melee, but I've no love for the mechanics of the Shaman class and don't particularly enjoy playing the thing. The wife likes it very much though.

Danth

[Budder]

People 'love' their melee because of easy to obtain epics (monk / rogue at least), cheap good ratio weapons, haste items, and fungi's galore. Gonna love seeing 8/35 weapons taking out mobs with no worn haste / regen.

This!!!

I’m spoiled rotten with my warriors free haste gloves and armor and super cheap awesome weapons. Killing shit with rusty weapons and leather/cloth (or if I’m lucky bronze armor) is gonna be a bitch lmao.

[Halfcell]

My 60 Shaman is the reason I keep coming back to P99. I started him almost 5 years ago and ground hard, starting with nothing, all the way to 60, epic, Torp, the whole mess. Then I quit. I went and did some RL stuff, got addicted to Destiny for a while, but at a certain point, the pull of the P99 Torp Shammy always brings me back.

I quit again about not long into Velious to go play on Agnarr on live, and I leveled a chanter to 65, full AA's, Vex Thal, PoTime.... but I missed my shaman, so yet again I came back.

Every other truly powerful class is frantic. The Chanter is amazing, but lives on the knife's edge 24/7. The Bard is incredible, but constantly swapping and twisting and kiting all gets exhausting. Necro's are incredible as well, but they are still always a charm break, and FD fail, or a fear resist away from being a pile of bones.

But not the shaman, especially not the Torp shaman. The shaman is zen, the shaman is calm. His entire being exists to outlast you, to deplete your ability to continue to put up a meaningful fight. I cant even count the number of times I have been in a group and watched them pull 5 or 6 things by accident and start freaking out.

The shaman stays calm, roots one, then another, then another. Eventually the tank notices and moves so he stops getting hit by everything. 1 mob slowed, 2 mobs slowed, 3 mobs slowed, and now, methodically, baddy by baddy the tables are turned. The mobs can attack the shaman, he doesn't care, he ignores them, or poisons them if they annoy him enough. He never sits, he never stops, he never rests, and he never panics.

Nothing will ever compare to my shaman.

[enjchanter]

I like them all for very different reasons.

What I didn’t like about my bard was hitting that wall where my epic was unobtainable. By the time I found myself inmates guild where it was possible, I had already reverted back to my original eq career of warrioring.

Warrior: I enjoy being the point man. As a gear dependent class each upgrade has a very meaningful impact unlike anything else other classes feel. For most melee it’s about having 41% haste and rocking weapons. Other gear slots help, but not to the same degree. Casters? Meaningful clicks. But for the warrior class, each slot is important. Weapons to hold threat. Other weapons to dish out damage and not draw threat. We get beat on incessantly by the nastiest monsters in the game so every pinch of ac, hp, and resists is important. Beyond that, 60 warriors are borderline Demi-gods in eq. Solid dps at baseline. Insane dps if we are free to unleash precision disc (more so if berserk). Tough as nails and hard to kill. All of this while still being a highly social class in that we are simultaneously completely dependent on those around us.

This is probably the most convincing arguement I've ever heard for enjoying the warrior class. Even with a geared epic warrior of my own I was never able to really find the joy in playing one fulltime. Just ask anyone in riot how I feel about poor yxarus lol.

Enchanter is my number 1 and it's not even close. Eberron was ironically born simply to be a chardok enchanter bot back in the aoe days and over the course of leveling him I fell in love with the class. Realized how high the skill cap was on it and just went full steam ahead and became my 2nd 60 despite being my 4th alt.

I do not like relying on other people and I dont like idling in game and i like a challenge. Enchanter solved alot of those things for me. I need help with next to nothing and can camp anything anytime. I never have to split loot or sit LFG because I am my own group. EQ is a social game sure but nothing is more fun to me than soloing hard camps. I can adventure as I please because an enchanter is the master of his environment. No other class feels as powerful or affords me the freedoms I have on my enchanter or even has the same "feel" when playing it. If I'm not playing eberron, I always wish I was instead.

Also, I have an odd fascination with the idea of charming monsters and locking down adds. Just feels really cool to mind control a bunch of baddies and win a fight using the fight itself as my tools.

For eberron's gear, I'm happy with what I've achieved for him. I just wish so badly I could get him out of the terrible looking skyshrine robe and into a vulak robe but it has become apparent that this wasnt meant to be. But eberron has achieved 4100 mana , 2450ish hp, 225MR and FT8 self buffed so hes come a long way since his loan bracelets and crimson robe.

I'll roll another enchanter on green for sure.

[Lojik]

Is the question how happy are you with the classes you played in general? Or how happy you are with your characters progression? Got monk/shm/wiz all to 60 w/ epic, enjoyed all three TBH. I feel like I enjoyed the wizard way more than the average person would.

[Jibartik]

My druid. Progression wise everything was an adventure of my own design. The only thing I would ever consider needing on him would be a guise.

My ehcnater was by far the most fun I had in a short amount of time, but after a while farming things and items became less fun and learning how to solve all the quests and find items in outdoor zones became my final destination in norrath.

One day I will finally be at rest, somewhere in a hut in a zone with level 12 mobs pathing around it, not on some alter plane at the foot of an immortal dragon. :)

https://i.imgur.com/LVk5Vxp.png

[AegnorP99]

I enjoyed my two mains for the most part. The paladin was great for group stuff and for very slow casual leveling (took 7 years to hit 60). The wizard was great for a super easy class that could contribute to raids without being so critical as to be stressful. Definitely had fun with both, but will be doing something new for Green. Probably not a tank and definitely not a wizard, but pretty much anything else could work.

[Crede]

I’ve played every class, and they’re all badass in their own way. I think that’s what makes this game so great is all of the different choices you have based on what you like to do.

What I’ve found more enjoyable is finding that perfect race and class combination that caters to you specifically instead of just the class alone. My two favorite combinations would have to be Troll SK and Dark elf wizard. Trolls in plate, regen, 2h bash, big starting stats, etc. it just feels right. And as a dark elf wizard with their fashion and having hide for all those med breaks and quadding afks I’ve never felt a racial ability more useful throughout the leveling process.

[Raev]

Monk is my favorite, as it requires more creativity than other classes. Geometry makes every split a little different, while say Ranger plays essentially the same in ToV and Kael (I'm sure some Ranger will come along to dispute this).

Contrary to Eberron I think Enchanter is fairly straightforward; mostly it just requires constant attention for quick recharming and a bit of zone knowledge if you want to solo. But for raw power you can't beat Enchanter in all the way through Planes of Power. Enc/Clr/X can absolutely steamroll Kunark dungeons without respect using AE mez and tash. A great Green choice except that you don't need a Guise or Manastone!

Warrior is extremely straightforward, but you definitely feel like the center of attention and everyone depends on you not fucking up. It's also a great class for raid leading since you aren't doing quite so much yourself. I'm a big Sakuragi fan, but if I had to do it over again, I probably would have rolled a Paladin.

Bard is interesting and very powerful but it's just a ridiculous amount of clicking and I like to chat, so my bard is now stuck in the tunnel.

Necromancer is underrated here but in the end you are half gimp monk and half gimp enchanter.

[Chortles Snort|eS]

My 60 Shaman is the reason I keep coming back to P99. I started him almost 5 years ago and ground hard, starting with nothing, all the way to 60, epic, Torp, the whole mess. Then I quit. I went and did some RL stuff, got addicted to Destiny for a while, but at a certain point, the pull of the P99 Torp Shammy always brings me back.

I quit again about not long into Velious to go play on Agnarr on live, and I leveled a chanter to 65, full AA's, Vex Thal, PoTime.... but I missed my shaman, so yet again I came back.

Every other truly powerful class is frantic. The Chanter is amazing, but lives on the knife's edge 24/7. The Bard is incredible, but constantly swapping and twisting and kiting all gets exhausting. Necro's are incredible as well, but they are still always a charm break, and FD fail, or a fear resist away from being a pile of bones.

But not the shaman, especially not the Torp shaman. The shaman is zen, the shaman is calm. His entire being exists to outlast you, to deplete your ability to continue to put up a meaningful fight. I cant even count the number of times I have been in a group and watched them pull 5 or 6 things by accident and start freaking out.

The shaman stays calm, roots one, then another, then another. Eventually the tank notices and moves so he stops getting hit by everything. 1 mob slowed, 2 mobs slowed, 3 mobs slowed, and now, methodically, baddy by baddy the tables are turned. The mobs can attack the shaman, he doesn't care, he ignores them, or poisons them if they annoy him enough. He never sits, he never stops, he never rests, and he never panics.

Nothing will ever compare to my shaman.

GooG joB haNdlinG daT ovR PuLL

Tyty <3

[Jibartik]

I am greatly concerned that at the end game I am really going to be unhappy with my choice of rolling a necromancer.

I am tempted to do a monk, but I dont want a class that is going to be guilted into working hard at raids.

What is life like for a level 60 necromancer? Do you feel like a powerful lich? Or do you feel like a gimped monk and enchanter and just roll an alt one of those and end up full timing it and ghosting your necro?

Just curious.

[Videri]

ME wiZ iNAnOtHer LiVe! NeVaR aGin!!!
EiTher Me SiCk or LuV SK on EMU
GrEen B 5 tIMe TRy SmASh!!! No kNo Y luV muCh??! FuN??!

Haha! Your fifth play-through as an SK?

[sacman08]

I had a Wizzy and SK on live. I loved my SK on live until they nerfed the class, then I liked my wizzy more because they finally added AA's that made him useful. The game in general finally got me pissed off enough because Sony made the content more and more a time sink. I couldn't find groups so I had to solo but exp was so slow it took hours just to progress. Sony's answer to not finding groups eventually became the mercenary and related quests but I was gone by then.
On P99 my lost love was being a druid. The nerfing of charming animal pets on live killed it for me but here on P99 it allows all classes to be what they should before Sony started changers and nerfs due to peer pressure from the players.

[soronil]

This thread makes me want to play an enchanter.

[Troxx]

Necros, much like bards, are the WD40 of eq. We make everything operate more smoothly. It’s not always glamorous (especially twitching in raids) but total power is more than most all classes in the game.

[Videri]

This thread makes me want to play an enchanter.

Yeah. If you've never done it, you should try it. There are so many ways to win.

[Chortles Snort|eS]

31 SK Red Launch - 2013 ban/retired
15 SK ReD 2012-2013 ban
15 SK RED 2012-2013 ban
40 SK Blue 2018 ban/retired
42 SK Blue 2019
25 DRU BLUE launch/retired

58 DRU ReD 2012 ban/retired
40 DRU RED 2013 deleted
44 DRU red 2014 retired
51 CLR RED 2014 soloish/retired

[Chortles Snort|eS]

Me enJoY ShaAdoW kNighT siMulAtOr

[Videri]

I believe it. What do you do to get banned?

[Chortles Snort|eS]

mAyBe caSt faY gAtE 2 muCh an nO sAy niCe thinGs sumTimeS In pASt
alSo cHoo CHoo RuDe ElVeS
ME clEanSed 2dAy
PrAS CT 👏🏽

[Nirgon]

get mad, make rl threat and dox

i forgive u

[honeybee12874]

cHoo CHoo RuDe ElVeS

Omg xD

Chortles, what is the picture in your signature? It's a little too small and I can't really read it :(

[Chortles Snort|eS]

https://i.imgur.com/z7Zq4NG.jpg

[Tethler]

It depends on my mood at the time. If I'm feeling lazy, rogue. If I want to solo/duo necro has been great. If I just want to chill and help friends with stuff, druid. I enjoy all three. I've played a lot of classes, but really the only role I don't enjoy is tank.

[Larkverdin]

I played a druid on live for many years. When I first came to P99 I tried a monk to do something different. I got him to 39 then ended up rerolling another druid. I love playing that class for it's versatility. You aren't amazing at any one thing specific like a cleric's healing, but you can fit into almost any group and fill a need. That said, you can also do your own thing if you are short on time or just don't feel social that day. I can be anywhere in the game within 10 minutes, which you can take as a good or a bad thing.

[Videri]

mAyBe caSt faY gAtE 2 muCh an nO sAy niCe thinGs sumTimeS In pASt
alSo cHoo CHoo RuDe ElVeS
ME clEanSed 2dAy
PrAS CT 👏🏽

Haha. I've never been much of a rule-breaker.

In what manner did Lord Cazic-Thule cleanse your soul? Gradual real-life enlightenment, some kind of talking-to from the staff, other?

[Videri]

i forgive u

I'm glad to see you two at each other's throats less.

[Chortles Snort|eS]

IRL enlightenment

Forgot about 30 NEC 2016-2017
Fun enough but it made me miss playing SK

[White_knight]

I've been playing Gatmanno my druid pirate almost continuously since I started P99. almost three years in I have one alt that isn't just adventuring infrastructure for him to use, and most of the time I play her I'm wishing I was playing Gatmanno instead.

druid is a very creatively and socially demanding class. they're designed as a "jack of all trades" class, but effectively scale to "sufficiently good at all trades," and their gearing choice between a support druid emphasizing mana versus a charm druid emphasizing tank is probably the most dramatic in everquest. so is their power ceiling. your average joe druid is basically a port-and-potg bot, scaling up with appropriate gear and tactics to where a druid can solo the entire Kael arena or out-dps a rogue while performing multiple other roles. it's hard not to fall in love with that kind of raw potential.

as a druid you need little to nothing while people constantly need things from you. small and big. you also have incredible quality of life. get bored, or everything is camped? port somewhere else. group need a rep? pick them up. poor? money rains like manna from the heavens relative to your level and power almost immediately: selling ports, binding in camp and porting to vendor, powerleveling.

the main downside is really that seven years of Kunark, an expansion where druids objectively suck relatively large amounts of ass, has created an attitude that druids just suck relatively large amounts of ass in general that you need to overcome on a personal reputation basis. which isn't really that hard since velious druids are objectively very powerful, but it's somewhat demotivating at first and an obstacle all the same.

This very much.

Druid is a fun, fun, fun class.

Esp. once you get their clickies going.

[Chortles Snort|eS]

DRU especially fun on PvP
saved me from perma /rquit after hitting 31 on Troll SK and not seeing XP bar go up back in 2012

[Jlpstrtkng]

More than I am with your spelling

[mattydef]

I have 6 epics with access to 4 more, safe to say I'm content with my time spent on p99.