Help non soloable classes

[stormlord]

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

Back in early 2001 (I think) I leveled my Ogre Warrior to 31 mostly in groups in Kunark. Sometimes, when I didn't get a group, it would try to solo a blue sarnak (light blue didn't exist then). About half the time I'd get my ass handed to me, especially when they ran and I had no way to stop them but a lucky bash.

I eventually got fed up with my roommates (or at least, people I was playing in the same room with) watching TV instead of healing while my warrior died, so I rolled a Wizard. I leveled the wizard at least in part by finding single spawns where I knew the exact paths of walkers and the spawn time, and I could just nuke one down and med to full while doing homework in the six minutes between spawns.

The moral of the story is that soloing has historically sucked ass in EQ. Even when it was supposedly good, like quadding raptors in TD, it was still tedious, sucky, and dangerous.

I'm sure my story wasn't all that encouraging, and I really don't mean to jump on your case and be mean. Just wanted to point out that the Vision[TM] has fucked a lot of orifi in its day, but somehow we all come crawling back to it....

I try to focus less on leveling and more on just experiencing it. Going over the differenct quests in qeynos is kind of fun. Makes me wish there was more detail, more movement, more things going on. Makes me wish fishing had more progression - more detailed, more fish, etc. I like to do all sorts of things in EQ, not just kill things. Ironically, I actually artifically try to level slower because I like to appreciate the small things. It ends too quickly. Just the way I am. I like the lower levels. I love the home cities so much. I really do wish mmorpgs focused less on combat and instead did expansions for unrelated things. It seems everything revolves around killing something.

Anyone else out there not like to level too fast? Like to take it slow?