Old MMO Vet, starting fresh!

[stylingpat]

Hey guys, I've been playing MMO's since Ultima Online when I was in middle school! I loved UO, was a legit PK. Dabbled around with Everquest classic when it came out. But switched to DAoC when that came out and that was my main for a looong time. I came back to EQ during Planes of Power and played a 33 gnome mage on the team-PvP server which I loved.

I just installed Titanium and everything is up and running. I've been reading a ton on the wiki and I cannot figure out what class I want to play. I'm a very good player. My first that I rolled was a bard since I've never played one and all I've read about them. He's lvl 8 now and I'm kinda bored with him. Especially with this 40% xp penalty.. I'll be in a group at crushbone (a good group btw) for a few hours and feel like I'm getting no where.. I dont want to AoE kite whole zones. I want to group and explore EQ.

What I want to get out of this game is exploration and adventure. I'm too old now (27 hehe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]) to be concerned with being some high leveling e-pro. When I sit down to play I bust out my EQ books and maps and really dig in and enjoy this great game.

So I'm getting turned off from my bard. I'm feeling bored playing it and the 40% xp pen is a bigger turn off.

I look at every class and they all seem so much fun. But I would like to stick with 1 or 2. I made a lvl 5 shaman and really liked it but I didnt like playing barbarian anymore.

I want to play something good-aligned, since I'm doing my own sort of role playing. I had a mid-teens iskar necro on Mith Marr that I really enjoyed that I think would be a good class/race combo for me here but like I said I want to play a good-aligned charactor. I really enjoyed my gnome mage on Live, but the fact that you gotta resummon your pet here everytime you want full xp when soloing is a turn off. And its the same with enchanter pets too?

Maybe I'll re-roll a druid. I've played one into the 20s on live. Can do everything very self sufficient, I can solo or group when I want too.

I want to add I'm pro at CCing and Healing and support classes. My main was a Midgard Lvl 50 Healer in DAoC which was all CC+Healing. So a cleric could be cool, but watched some P99 videos of a cleric and it looked boring as well.

I'm finding it hard to narrow down one or two classes to play. I'm able to find something with them that I'm not really feeling. What do you guys think? Can anyone help someone get back into this great game?