Checking it out

[archaeous]

Long term player here. Started in 1999 or 2000. Played in a few small guilds till our entire lowbie guild left for daoc. Came back to EQ got in an endgame raiding type guild in early 2002. Did raidleading after a time through our completion of GoD. Then was a bit more casual. Tried EQ2 didn't like it much and kept playing off and on with the offs becoming much longer than the ons in the past few years. Haven't liked how the game feels in quite some time and really just play for the people (same guild is still together with a good number of the same people since 2002)

Wanted to give this a shot as running through a lot of the old kurnark zones brought back a lot of really good memories and being able to look at the logs I kept from the time too were great! Had months and months of logs from 2002-2003

Velious was by far my favorite expansion and I think this is my best bet for capturing that feeling as the standard progression servers progress way too fast.


Some questions however. I know certain classes always had it easy grouping and leveling up, tanks while needed were always heavily gear dependent. Is there a good balance of twinked out 2nd 3rd chars and new players still? And how patient are people with relearning mechanics (sk aggro generation has changed significantly and not sure I remember all the tricks)