Brand new player - what should i expect for grps?

[Coridan]

I like Blackburrow, it is almost always packed by people getting fangs and the first 12 levels fly by.

[fadetree]

BB is nice, but I don't notice a lot of groups there. Its mostly people soloing for fangs.

[gzg]

Thanks for all of the great responses everyone. I guess i'll go with the warrior and push through the lower levels with nominal gear. I am a vet of EQ so the knowledge will help even if it may be frustrating at times. I was afraid of playing the DRU route to twink a character because i don't want to invest time just to get burnt out from the same grind twice. I'll be rolling a warrior later tonight! Thanks for all the advice and if anyone can recommend a new player (albiet vet) guild i'm all ears. I'm a mature (31yrs old) social player and would love groupage (especially being a warrior [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]) I'm usually online from 1030pm - 2am central. Cheers!

[baalzy]

I fired up an iksar necro when I returned to the game (week of thanksgiving or so). Ended up grouping a couple times with a iksar warrior who was brand new to the server. Last time I saw him (around christmas) he was level 42 and looked to be doing reasonably well for himself gearwise (nothing crazy, but he held his own).

Just an anecdote of it not being that hard. However, if you find yourself at times not able to find groups then you could start a druid and solo it during those times and just periodically do searches and try to put together groups for your warrior while leveling the druid.

3 birds, 1 stone (always something to do, group with your warrior as much as possible, generate income to feed the warrior).

[Tecmos Deception]

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

your first priority on starting on a server as aged as this one is is to get some cash flow. Play a decent solo class that can either finance what you need or get it another way (druids are excellent for this via ports and PL, necro for farming drops, etc). Then use that cash flow to twink yourself on the character you'd actually like to take to the end game based on your preferred play style

I don't like this advice for anyone. The time it would take to level a class to the point it can make a decent amount of money + the time required to make that money is not worth the twinking you can get done with it. You'd spend DAYS /played just to make like several thousand pp. That kind of money isn't going to buy a warrior better gear than he could get handed down to him just by playing and making an honest effort to be good, informing people he's brand new and untwinked as a consequence, etc. Plus if you go right into the warrior in this case, you'd already be playing what you really like and earning xp on it and etc.

[SamwiseRed]

we are so far into kunark, decent gear so easy to get. i met a brand new warrior the other day. had donated pieces of crafted, hp rings, and decent kunark weapons. the random shit that drops in kunark is completely overpowered compared to classic loot and warriors didnt have a problem leveling then. so dont worry about farming or gear like tecmos said, itll come. alot of times there will be a fungi twink in group anyway carrying the whole group pre 30s hehe

maybe ill prove my point sometime. make a dark elf/gnome warrior completely naked and see how fast i can get geared by just people feeling sorry for me.

[Tecmos Deception]

Half-elf female warrior for maximum white knight gifting!

[August]

Make what you want to play.

Find me on any char in my sig and I can throw you some starter weps / gear. For a war I believe I have like a kunzar ku'juch, shimmering partisan, couple of HP rings, etc. You should never make a character to twink another character, unless you legitimately like both classes.

Personally, I don't play gear dependent classes unless I can twink them - but that's because my favorite classes are not gear dependent, and the others are only fun to me if I am nigh invincible.

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

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

Half-elf female warrior for maximum white knight gifting!

Half-elf female is miles behind a wood-elf female. They look like prissy dykes, however they do have a coolness factor to them. Dat robocop helmet.

Hey I heard you like wood-elves so I made a wood-elf to play while you play with your wood-elf.

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[gzg]

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

we are so far into kunark, decent gear so easy to get. i met a brand new warrior the other day. had donated pieces of crafted, hp rings, and decent kunark weapons. the random shit that drops in kunark is completely overpowered compared to classic loot and warriors didnt have a problem leveling then. so dont worry about farming or gear like tecmos said, itll come. alot of times there will be a fungi twink in group anyway carrying the whole group pre 30s hehe

maybe ill prove my point sometime. make a dark elf/gnome warrior completely naked and see how fast i can get geared by just people feeling sorry for me.

Le sigh, no bullshit - i was planning on making a DE warrior. I know their stats are broke but damn that plate looks nice on 'em.