Much regret.

[Lyrith]

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

Take yourself to Kurn's Tower and farm one of these:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Solist%27s_Icy_Wand (warning it's pretty rare)

Then when you're grouped you can just click it once a fight (with extremely good timing you shouldn't even miss a med tick) to always look like you're contributing while preserving your mana to save the day.

Also comes in handy if you don't carry weapons and get agro'd by a lvl 1 skeleton or some crap. Don't have to blow 80+ mana taking it out.

I was always wondering why wizards in my group were nuking like 4-5 times a fight but stuff wasn't dying quicker...

I kid... Looks like a fun Item, a JBB for level 12.

[Stonecrush]

I can totally understand this feeling as a new cleric.

I will say this, if you want to rush anywhere in levels. Get to level 12 and start finding active zones to group. You will definitely forget all abut the race and just start to enjoy the pace.

The slow pace is what made EQ great! It made lower zones thrive. I look around at the toons people have and there are a lot ranging from 20s - 40s. That's a perfect gap range to enjoy a MAJOR portion of content.

This game is definitely a tortoise and not the hair.

have a good one!

[HeallunRumblebelly]

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

Take yourself to Kurn's Tower and farm one of these:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Solist%27s_Icy_Wand (warning it's pretty rare)

Then when you're grouped you can just click it once a fight (with extremely good timing you shouldn't even miss a med tick) to always look like you're contributing while preserving your mana to save the day.

Also comes in handy if you don't carry weapons and get agro'd by a lvl 1 skeleton or some crap. Don't have to blow 80+ mana taking it out.

http://wiki.project1999.com/Solist%2..._of_Invocation

Always contribute, always [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Lamil]

I have spent 35+ levels of toons in Kurns and still haven't seen that damn wand

[Hollywood]

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

I really wish I had played here more years ago pre-Kunark. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] so behind the curve of things now. I truly feel pidgeonholed into breakneck leveling one class just to try to catch up.

I wouldn't agree in terms of other people ; EQ has so many ways and areas to level in, that if you can relax and not concern yourself with others, you will enjoy it more.

What I do agree with though is that this server will not last forever, and it's already been several years. There's no way Rogean can commit to anything without a financial backing or legal obligation.

We can hope for the best though and may Velious give us ...

FOUR MORE YEARS!

[loramin]

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

I really wish I had played here more years ago pre-Kunark. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] so behind the curve of things now.

While everything everyone has said so far is totally correct, it's not just about "well you missed the golden period, but just try to have fun now". Rather, I really think it's a glass half-full/half-empty thing.

Here's what I mean: it's true that by missing the early days of the server you missed your chance to be a non-bard/enchanter that can look like a dark elf, or to be a non-necromancer that looks like a skeleton, or to be a non-shaman who can cannabalize a bit. But that's just about it ... well that and time.

But look what you gained: for one thing, there are far more players now than there were in the old days. That means it's easier to find a group, easier to find that item you want to buy in EC, etc.

Also, the players you group with will (on average) have far better gear than the players you would have grouped with earlier. You can view that as a negative ("everyone but me is a twink") but I see it as a positive. Effectively by grouping with twinks you are "getting twinked", or at least "getting power-leveled" in a sense, because you get loot/exp faster than you would grouping with non-twinks.

Which brings me to my next point: the kindness of strangers. I just started a druid the other day, and I breezed through the first few levels because a kind higher level druid was around (foraging for acorns) and they kept buffing me with regen, a damage shield, and wolf form. Earlier on there would have been less players on the server, with a lower average level, making that sort of thing much rarer.

And then there's my final point: the extreme kindness of strangers. A (real life) friend of mine got given a bunch of stuff by an in-game friend he made, and he wound up giving me one item (a Barbarian Spiritist's Hammer). Then, many months later I was sitting in Sebilis and a level 60 shaman (who is AWESOME, but I won't name because I don't want him beset by beggars) just up and gave me the JBB off his back (er wrist). I'd been saving for months and months, and still had months to go before I could afford one, and this kind stranger just gave me one of the most important pieces of shaman equipment. Needless to say, back in the "golden years" I would almost certainly not have my JBB or hammer.

Of course, I can't guarantee that a kind stranger will give you a great item ... but maybe they will. And the point is, your chances of it happening are much better now than they were before, and there are other important advantages to starting on P99 now as well.

Keep that in mind before pining too much for the olden days [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[skipdog]

Excellent post, loramin! Agree 100% [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Tzeriel]

So something I'm gleaning here is that it's important to love what you do and just have fun. So maybe I need to examine what class I'm playing rather than what speed I'm moving at. Soooo... Really hate pulling, a lot. I like tanking but I'm not addicted to it. I hate being one dimensional, with no decision making. Pets are meh, take it or leave it. I like being able to be the center of a group. I don't pull. I don't like it one bit. My only restrictions are I play on a very small notebook, so stuff like swarm kiting, quad kiting and the like is way out of the realm of what I can do on a daily basis. I love the fact that each class is so unique, but maybe I haven't found mine. Hope I will. I meet so many cool people, but a lot are higher level. I want to get up there and group with them. This server is amazing.

[fadetree]

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

So something I'm gleaning here is that it's important to love what you do and just have fun. So maybe I need to examine what class I'm playing rather than what speed I'm moving at. Soooo... Really hate pulling, a lot. I like tanking but I'm not addicted to it. I hate being one dimensional, with no decision making. Pets are meh, take it or leave it. I like being able to be the center of a group. I don't pull. I don't like it one bit. My only restrictions are I play on a very small notebook, so stuff like swarm kiting, quad kiting and the like is way out of the realm of what I can do on a daily basis. I love the fact that each class is so unique, but maybe I haven't found mine. Hope I will. I meet so many cool people, but a lot are higher level. I want to get up there and group with them. This server is amazing.

I'm hearing cleric or shaman in this.

[Tecmos Deception]

Shaman, enchanter, cleric, bard, necro seem like good options (in that order, imo) for you, Tzeriel. There are lots of threads on the forums about the way each of them play if you want to search around a little bit [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]