Couple Questions From A Potential New Player

CleverName · #1 06-23-2013, 03:29 PM

Hello everyone. I was thinking of playing this server, as I originally played EQ1 when it first launched, and I have realized my entire MMO life has always been about trying to recapture my experience with EQ.

Right now I am playing Vanguard SOH, which is great for the moment, but it still lacks that old tyme feel.

Reading up and getting opinions, I thought I would give this a go. I played an iksar monk originally, well after my Freeport human necro.

My question is, can I roll an iksar monk and expect to be able to solo reasonably well? Will I be welcomed to higher level raids and whatnot?

Thank you kindly for any responses. I am hoping I can recall that loving feeling. I plan to give EQ Next a shot when that comes out, as the team consists of some awesome original devs.

Davardo · #2 06-23-2013, 03:35 PM

Don't count on raiding ever, unless you poopsock.

You can solo as an iksar monk. I do it all the time.

People here are generally greedy and only out for themselves. The occasional nice people will be there. But not as frequent as ForumQuesters would have you believe.

Norathorr · #3 06-23-2013, 03:42 PM

The community seems to be pretty nice to new players. I started not too long ago and am now a lv27 shaman along with my friend who is a monk. We had a few handouts to start with from generous higher players who took pity on us and have done a bit of wheeler dealing in the tunnel. Groups seem ok to find and if not its pretty easy to make them. From the sounds of it the very top end of the raid scene is a bit of a mess with poopsocking and batphones. I think there are more casual guilds who do plane raids and suchlike (discounting the more desirable bosses who are ganked pretty fast).

I think this server represents one of the more competitive servers in classic, where high end raiding was not done by everyone and unless you were in one of the most elite guilds you would not see the very best gear. With Kunark being out for so long the end game seems to be a bit of a stalemate, but one velious is out it should give a bit more options for the less hardcore raiders to have some things to do.

It is a lot more fun than live anyhow which became very insular due to guildhalls and instances. I really did not know anyone outside my own guild. This server has a good feel to it as the community has its heroes and villains and its a nice open environment to group and meet different players on a daily basis.

I guess its up to you to decide what you think of it, but i would say its definitely worth give it a go. Having played live for 11 years this server has certainly renewed my enjoyment of eq.

Tombur

Hailto · #4 06-23-2013, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Davardo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

People here are generally greedy and only out for themselves. The occasional nice people will be there. But not as frequent as ForumQuesters would have you believe.

This is really not true at all, the majority of people on this server are friendly and helpful. As in real life the majority of people are friendly, being a douchebag is not the norm. Keep in mind this guy has apparently not leveled past mid 20s so take his advice for what you will.

liveitup1216 · #5 06-23-2013, 04:21 PM

Every community has toxic players but people are generallu normal here. Just always remember its just a game and RNF is just mostly ribbing out of boredom. We're all here for the same thing, to enjoy old EQ so don't forget it.

gotrocks · #6 06-23-2013, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Hailto [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is really not true at all, the majority of people on this server are friendly and helpful. As in real life the majority of people are friendly, being a douchebag is not the norm. Keep in mind this guy has apparently not leveled past mid 20s so take his advice for what you will.

qft

lots of good people here

Splorf22 · #7 06-23-2013, 06:28 PM

There is a huge overcrowding at 55+ as Kunark has been out for 2.5 years (we currently have *10* semicasual/hardcore raid guilds most of which could take down Trakanon if all the other guilds were wiped from the server) which leads to fierce "competition" err poopsocking for any of the 3-7 day spawns.

I think most of the people here are basically decent, but its just natural human behaviour to fight over scarce resources and the raid spawns here are pretty scarce.

JurisDictum · #8 06-24-2013, 03:25 AM

Most people are pretty nice up until the top of the raid scene. Even then a lot of them are still polite, they just aren't going to let you kill any mobs they can kill instead.
Character progress on this server is really for everyone all the way up until: Gods, Trak, VS, and VP. Obviously this content will probably open up for people once Velious is released, but it may take a long time before the less hardcore player population will be able to tackle top Velious targets (years and years).
As the server stands right now, you could get a full planar geared monk with an epic. A pretty formidable character. Once you're done with that you can make various alts with similar gear attainment. Some classes however, are particularly hard to get epics on for the non hardcore player base. Examples include: bards, warriors, rangers and druids.
If you have a good amount of free-time. You could always join the top guild and experience all the content; assuming you put in the time and aren't completely horrible person to interact with.
That being said. I warn you that Monks are extremely overplayed. A distant second would be shaman. Monks also can have issues carrying vendor loot for sale early on; and Iksar are hated by all the cities around a lot of the hotzones pre-50. Also worth noting is Iksar have a 20% exp penalty and monks have an additional 20% exp penalty.
If you really want to play a monk go for it. Just thought I'd warn you.

thufir · #9 06-24-2013, 04:21 AM

Thirding the lots-of-good-people statement. Grallos the level 20 SK here, just arrived to the server a few weeks ago, and nearly everyone I have met has been friendly and helpful. I find good groups in dungeons across Norrath and I even got some random gear in my single-digit levels from much higher level people who took pity on my untwinked self. Overall my experience has been nothing but positive.

Davardo · #10 06-24-2013, 05:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Hailto [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is really not true at all, the majority of people on this server are friendly and helpful. As in real life the majority of people are friendly, being a douchebag is not the norm. Keep in mind this guy has apparently not leveled past mid 20s so take his advice for what you will.

Been around since the server started. I never get passed the 20s because the awful community always makes me go play something else. I come back to see if it changed every so often, and it never does. The forum always has had people saying that this server has a good community, when in fact it does not.

You might think that I am the odd man out because I am the asshole so no one helps me, but this isn't so. I give away items that are worth less than 100p, go out of my way to buff others, and try to promote a good community.

It's just a matter of people lying through their teeth to add new blood to the server.