Thanks for the input all, lots of mixed feelings out there. But I pretty much played every single class in EQ, had two accounts, duo boxed a post Luclin Shammy and Ranger, I was invincible, Slows with Haste and my AAs were unstoppable.
My bard was solo kiting oh crap I can't remember that zone in PoP, but Rangers being a shitty bard??? I don't get it, Bards were unique and I've seen some amazingly great bards, and some god awful twink bards. I'm on the higher end of the good bards, wouldn't consider myself great, I nearly wiped some raids, because of my bad timing on hitting FM while pulling.
I had fun with the necro, but it got boring, was too easy to play. Druid was very similar to necro as far as ease in soloing, DoTs and Root, sit and med. Sure made tons of cash farming, but there was no challenge. Pally was a tough class to solo, even with a 2H, I never had a good technique with them. SK was fun to solo, pet and HT helped a lot. Beast Lords were also fun. I never got used to Zerkers, they are great dps, but solowise, my mind was set was not used to their class. Clerics, definitely was a challenge in soloing, burned too much mana on DDs, so only hit the undead zones.
Now I don't want to start playing a Bard again on Classic EQ, even though it was my first love, Ranger was my second, loved the DW and DA combo, but I'm definitely looking for a fun class to play with my wife. She never had any experience with EQ, she started playing MMOs way after WoW and EQ2 times, so she's not going to be used to hard core gaming. My thought is probably make a Shammy and let her decide on what kind of role she wants to play.
Though I might go with the Ranger, just going to be sad I won't be a Bow Ranger in this incarnation. I can't remember how many times I've died in Fear back in the days, and 6+ hours on CRs.
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