Whoever told you to start with an iksar necromancer has long since forgotten what it's like to be a genuine newbie. It's a potent combination--for experienced players. From a new player standpoint, the starting area around Cabilis is confusing, the monsters are generally harder and more aggressive than in other newbie regions, and iksars have horrible factions which means you're stuck there and can't easily re-locate....oh and Cabilis is also really remote. If all that wasn't enough iksars also have a 20% experience penalty.
As a pet class, if you're solo you take a 50% experience penalty if your pet out-damages you, which it frequently will at low levels. Hence you'll level slow, although in truth everyone levels slow in this game, it's just a question of how slow. Leveling a character to max level, if a player is dedicated to it and plays most days, can be expected to take from several months to over a year depending on hours spent and game knowledge. Also get very used to checking the P99 wiki unless you're determined to "go blind." Knowledge matters *a lot* in this game.
I'm not going to suggest you must enjoy the game or it's for everyone, because it wasn't for everyone even in 1999, let alone in 2025. EQ's notoriously hostile to newbies, far moreso than newer games like Warcraft. I do say this, however: If you think the game has some potential but what you picked isn't working for you, try something else. I didn't like or stay with the original character I made (on someone else's recommendation) when I tried EQ for the first time, and I suspect most other players probably don't, either.
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07-12-2025, 10:01 AM
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