What do you think the worst starting zone experience of classic/kunark is?

[TarukShmaruk]

My first character in '99 (the time, not the server) was an Ogre Shaman.

Feerrot was dank and empty and frankly boring. The little bit of exploration I had just took me to CT where I got owned by lizards I couldn't kill.

Innothule wasn't much better, and the game didn't really open up until going to South Ro and ultimately Neriak.

Having played other starting character experiences I have to say Faydark and Qeynos were the best.

Never experienced Odus or Halas so I can't speak to that.

[Ele]

Odus easily.

[Tiewon Shu]

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

Odus easily.

^^ This 100%. Paineel however, has a nice 1-5 newbie zone.

[Pint]

Definitely odus, no population and bad lighting aside there is this dumb gap from like 6-11 where they just expect you to magically find exp without traveling across the world

[ObooReturns]

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

Definitely odus, no population and bad lighting aside there is this dumb gap from like 6-11 where they just expect you to magically find exp without traveling across the world

Toxx is underrated. Plenty of mobs, plenty of room, and there are several vendors in houses in the woods.

The real problem with odus, as you have identified, is that once you hit level 6 its hard to find exp mobs, and after 8 it is basically impossible. Before kerra isle was redesigned, it launched as appropriate for lower level players. If you played as an erudite on a new server back then, there were actually people who would group there and camps were set up. It was redesigned in 2000-2001 and the result is the lowest visited exp zone in the old world. Now you need to be mid-high teens to fight the entrance mobs.

Everfrost is really bad. Its about as far as any city can be from a port spot and its confusing and dangerous.

I never tried misty thicket on live, but on p99 I tried two halfing characters and it really is the best newb zone. Town and bank 10 sec away, vendors in area, druid port 30 sec from town, and wall guards to cut the zone in half. It owns.

[Pipip]

Toxx is bad also because a number of the noob quests require faction with the Cleric and Paladin guilds, and you can't raise that faction if you're not part of the Cleric and Paladin guilds. I also remember the zone being pretty empty of mobs back in the day, so empty that I rerolled to another race. But I tried it here, and there are a ton of kobolds. I don't know if my memory is wrong, or if the mob density was increased.

Aside from Toxx, I wasn't a big fan of Innothule. The swamps are hard to navigate. But at least it makes up for that with the proximity to Guk.

[webrunner5]

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

Odus easily.

Yeah I agree. I have never been a big fan of Everfrost either. I know there are a good amount of mobs there but slow going, and a LONG ways away from the EC Tunnel. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[dafier]

So....I disagree. I started a Erudite Mage.

The starting money and xp kills in Toxx right outside the city was beyond awesome, especially when I got my first pet at level 4.

Level 5 was the drop off though. So I got a pity/free port from Toxx to BB and stayed in Gfay until....12ish. (orc belts and shoulders xp is beyond awesome). I am getting off topic.

Anyway, Toxx was the best from 1 to 5. NO one was there. There were TONS of mobs (Kobolds) who drop decent money and items to sell.

EDIT:

Not to mention the random few quests you can do, THAT NO ONE DOES!

[DevGrousis]

I would say that Toxx was actually really good, because of the plentiful mobs, the Kobold camps were breakable at low level, so you didn't need groups, and Erudin is really cool and unique.

Only problem is that nothing can compete with Orc Hill, and CB for that 8-15 grind

[Rhambuk]

The feerrott, no mobs huge open space very dark.