Yet Another “What Class Are You Rolling?” Thread

[solidious77]

At the risk of being overly repetitive, with a fresh server always maybe looming, I know I’m not the only one staring at the character select screen in my head like it’s a chess board, or a slot machine about to hit.. or maybe just a midlife crisis haha.

I’m curious though how people are actually approaching their class decisions this time around, beyond the casual “I’ll play whatever I feel like”

Are you finally rolling that race/class you’ve always said you would, but never actually do?

Or are you going back to an old main, convinced that this time you’ll be smarter, richer, and definitely won’t burn out before 60? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Do you plan ahead like a NASA launch, or an evidence board full of connections; or is it more of a just 'wing it' experience?

Does anyone go full on ocd and get their XP routes mapped, groups pre-planned, epic/quest milestones planned along the way, camps already claimed in your imagination?

What about alts?
Anyone planning a main + alt combo like you’re building a retirement portfolio? Is this the server where you specifically plan to use a legacy items like Manastone on both your main & your alt? Are you specifically playing a larger race at the start to get your Guise? Is it all part of the strategy, or are you one of the few who just constantly runs around with lucky dice in your pockets? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

When you're planning, is it for classic-only and then re-rolling? Or does your main already exist mentally in Velious from day 1? Or is just the zerg plan to guild up fast and sprint toward raid content like it’s a server-first Olympic event?

Basically: What race/class are you going to play and why? Are you min-maxing? Role-playing? Future-proofing? Or just hopping on the ride knowing full well it’s going to derail somewhere along the way [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Goregasmic]

I played wiz/shaman/monk on live, did ench/ranger here.

I think I'd go halfling/WE druid at release and then iksar necro when kunark hits since I never played those. Then I'll see how I feel.

I missed blue/green release so it is hard to plan exp routes, everything will probably be a clusterfuck for the first few months so it will be whatever works I guess. Usually I try to plan a route to get the drops and epic parts I want along the way while it still gives exp, which is easy to do on our servers at this point but with a loaded server I don't think it will be possible.

[wuanahto]

might skip it or tune in after a year or so has passed

[Jimjam]

Halfling Warrior.

[CrazyPro]

every raid's comp is going to be MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/MAG/
anyways so might aswell mage an ogre disguised as a gnome mage if you naam sayin'

[OriginalContentGuy]

I see no reason to reroll classic with any other EQ community.

[Cecily]

I've never played classic EQ except on Quarm and it was exactly as shitty as I imagined it. People are pricks to rogues, damn near impossible to get a pickup group on one and yeah way too many pet classes. I got a necro to 50 for the first time and I do not like that class at all.


My time has solidified my opinion on Kunark being the best EQ has to offer. Velious is snowy aids. You think you want it, but it's not a good expansion.

[Castle2.0]

There is only one answer: magician or necro until the manastone bag is full and that ship sails.

Then, whatever can use a manastone.

[Duik]

Tesh Val scrolls (using mumerous mules and suckers) to 50 then claim fastest to 50.
Just Lulz and Lolocaust.

The actual correct answer is to have 5 IRL friends who wanna relive D and D adventures who pick a core of the holy trinity (tank clr and ench) with DPS and a porter.

So (frigsample) War Clr Enc Rog Mnk Wiz.
Adventure. XPing. Quest a few items (especially clr and war quest armor) equip war1st, then clr and ench.
Tank dies we all die. (Unless wiz has evac so clr can rez)
Clr dies we all can. (No rez)
Ench dies? Depends on mobs in camp. Hope wiz evacs and/or clr rez.

Then Weapons for dps. Until armor upgrades back those bitches off until war has agro. You know. Proper "classic" gameplay.

This wont help the tragic min/max brigade.

[MageBlue]

On RED 2.0 I will play dark elf enchanter

Just looking for duos or trios