New, Looking for advice

[SoekiWiz]

Dear all new players,

Project 1999 and any other variations of EverQuest are known to cause addiction. Pixel hoarding, although widely undocumented in the medical field, has been known to have stronger effects than both sugar and heroine combined.

Will power will not save you once the addiction has stricken you.

New? Want some advice?

Delete the game. Run for the fucking hills. Save yourself.

Wanna create a well-rounded group with your broskies?

Tank (War/Pal/Shd)
Heals (Shm/Clr/Dru)
DPS (Rog/Mnk/Enc)
+1 (Rog/Mnk/Enc)
+1 (Dru/Wiz)
+1 Whatever

I've bolded my personal recommendations - I would have honestly gone Cleric over Shaman, but OP says you really don't feel like cleric'ing and I advocate play what you wanna play.

From similar posts, you'll also find that many people recommend you pick up a core class as starting with buddies is great, but inevitably people fall off.

Maybe one of your buddies can be the healer and Cleric if you don't want to do it? Cuz Enc/Clr charm killing duo is beast as fuck. You can slingshot to 60 compared to the other folks if you're duo'ing, or you can find groups very easily.

PS: To help you out with "play what you wanna play" - Don't worry about starting cities. There are plenty of folks who will port you if you ask nicely and enough times to catch someone when not busy. I will do it myself if I am online, my names are below. You can also try /who all Dial for a guild called <Dial A Port> - they're very nice people who do ports and such for CR's for free regularly. I'm sure one of them would be happy to help.