Thank you, Maze. Excellent points.
In a holding pattern atm before I can play tonight (which is why I'm posting instead of playing) but I've been sitting here contemplating all of this and I think my problem is this...
After a month of floundering bored with multiple toons on blue, I'm finally stoked to sink into something, get levelled up, and dive in. VERY excited about red....
I've found on blue, despite being quite the twinker during my time in EQ, that I have vastly more fun with untwinked chars....If you twink, all there is left to do is grind and I don't get much of a sense of accomplishment from that. And it's one dimensional and dull. I've found I enjoy not twinking, lately.
Paladin, all things considered, is probably not the best choice of classes for this, at least for a main toon. Exp penalty + bugs + eye of the tiger levelling = frustration, I think, and I think I may be better off taking my time with the pally and playing it as an alt and having fun with it, rather than getting frustrated because I'm trying to advance asap....This is more about what I want to do than the class, really. I knew it would be slow, but with the issues here it's a bit much. I can get it done and scratch that itch better on another toon, basicly, I think.
Think I might roll a cleric. Ive played several over the years, highest being 70ish with like 600AA. With no exp penalty (not to mention, root at level 5), I think I'll be happier. Class has soloability, obvious groupability, melee issues aren't really an issue, is more forgiving as a first toon than a melee....and, if memory serves is one of the better classes for group pvp, but not so much 1v1? Am I missing anything?
Pops are low...Realisticly, how bad or not is it soloing up a cleric old world if one had to? Anything a bluebie should know about clerics in pvp that are way outside of the blue norm?
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