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Originally Posted by Tyrith
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Since coming back I've had my own struggle with this. At first I wanted to play a cleric, like I had on classic, but I pretty quickly realized that when RL can call at any time, it doesn't make sense to burden other people with my schedule. Having a wife/kids/other household obligations is definitely a limiting factor on what you can do.
But EQ is also a good game for us casual people because of the pace. EQ is a much slower paced and less concentration demanding game than modern MMOs, because there's so much time medding/waiting for mobs to spawn. I rerolled as a soloing class and love it, because I can step away whenever I need to, and often it was time I was just going to spend sitting there in the game anyway.
The great thing about EQ is that since so much of the game is in the leveling process, you can always log in and do something that has long-term meaning for your character. In a game like WoW, if you don't have time to do all the dailies/gear grinding for any given patch cycle, you will just be behind until the whole thing resets - the value of the casual amount of playtime gets wiped away every six months. Here, even if you can only chip away at the leveling grind 45 minutes a day, that 45 minutes a day of XP will always have value to your character.
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This is especially true for necromancer,druid,magician/hybrids/etc. Anybody that can solo, really. I think the necromancer has to take the shiny, though. They're kings at this. FD is insta-afk too. Only downside to the necromancer is their lore. I wish there was a good-aligned class with their overall abilities.
You're right that downtime in the game actually enables things like going to the bathroom and taking the garbage out and/or cooking something. You don't lose anything by going AFK when medding. Whereas, in most modern games, if you walk away then you lose something since there's no downtime.
A good point you make is about the expansion cycles with new games. They're always adding more levels and progression and mudflating at rapid rates, so it's easy to fall behind in them if you take long breaks.
I'm sure this game, assuming no disaster or SOE smackdown, will go on for a few more years, at least. And the most it will have is velious. So mudflation and increasing numbers of levels is minimal here. What the OP fails to notice is that he/she is almost 60, the highest level. The OP is effectively in endgame content. I really don't think the raid content in this game is all that impressive. But that's just my opinion. Even in a game like EQ2, there're a lot of players that never do any raiding. Grouping and soloing is their whole game.
And btw my highest level character on p1999 is lvl 23. Most of them are under 19. I made it my goal to not go into my 20's and 30's but to instead reroll so that's why most of them are so low. Weird? Ya, sure. But that's just how I decided to play. I wanted to be a actual part of the new player community. Why should it matter? I got to level 85 on live and over 1000 aa. I don't care as much as others do. Plus, I like familiar places.