New Player Saying Hello, with Observations and Questions

[Vikterion]

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

I joined Live 5/6 months during SoV. Definitely had to eat and drink. Obviously am unable to state if this was the same as 1999.

It's just that I don't remember, so it took me by surprise that I had to find and buy food. My memories are foggy to say the least. I finally found and bought a stack of bottled milk and chunks of meat and promptly forgot about eating for the rest of the night. I guess that's why eating didn't stick in my memory from 15 years ago.

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

What class are you? Did you plump for Human Necro in the end? What zone are you in? Guessing Freeport i.e. bats, fire beetles, and thinking Human Necro. It also took me a while [Neriak] to locate the vendor selling food / water supplies. Starting out is a challenge - however, having played before (albeit many years ago) provides a huge head-start compared to brand new players.

I started in Qeynos, and I spent more time running around relearning the city (especially the Aqueducts) than I did grinding. I'm now a level 4 human necromancer. I'm still hoping someone who is a level 60 non-Iksar necromancer will come by and reassure me that I'm not horribly gimping myself once I finish leveling, but rather will just be slightly sub-optimal (say on the order of 5% less effective is what I'm hoping for). I agree that it's a LOT easier to have a slight idea of what to do, even if it's very slight in my case, than it would be to start with no knowledge whatsoever. But of course a large part of the nostalgia I have is due to the struggle to figure out how to play the first time. I'm trying to reconstruct that now, and so far this server is succeeding in spades.