Potential new players

[Sirken]

welcome to Project 1999!

[Norathorr]

Thanks again guys for the responses! This sounds very good indeed. I love the idea of a server thats actually policed properly at last! Of course some people are going to cheat, but at least if they are caught it sounds like they are dealt with! I should be popping into this server after the 7th once I get my new comp up and running!

All being well there should be 5 of us playing so im sure we can always find a 6th to come along with us on our silly journeys on a day by day basis! We are going to try and build the group in a useful manner so that we can get alot done. I seem to remember gearing up is not hugely important till lv 35ish if you always have a group so long as you have a couple of key items? The other thing I forget is are clerics the only viable full time group healer for tough content or is a druid a viable alternative?

[Smilkers]

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

The other thing I forget is are clerics the only viable full time group healer for tough content or is a druid a viable alternative?

for tough content... unless your druid has a manastone (and is in a zone where they can actually use it), cleric outshines druids on healing 10x. clerics get complete healing at level 39, after all.
we don't get our superior heal until level 53, and it costs 250 mana to heal roughly 600 dmg.
there is no way a druid can compete with Cheal (400 mana to fill up entire HP bar).

you may want to look into SHAMMY vs. cleric, however, since shamans receive an incredibly powerful Slow (some people say shammy's Slow is more powerful than the entire druid class... and I would agree with this, group-wise). Shammys also receive Torpor at level 60, an incredibly overpowered heal over time spell.

with Torpor and Slow, a Shaman is almost better than a cleric. (minus rezzes [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] )

[Norathorr]

Thanks Smilkers. So under classic rules is superior heal the best druids get until 60? I Seem to remember there was chloroblast too and some CHeal spell to like 75% or were those introduced in luclin or velious. Its been so long everything has become a blur to me! We were thinking the druid would be nice as we would have ports then and we want to mainly be a melee based group with possibly a paladin for a tank as classic warrior despite being a better numeric tank was not the most exciting class to play nor did it have great snap aggro in multiple mob situations. I remember shaman being awesome healers wit torpor and with a knight tank they could still cast their aggro spells and thus the slow and snare would have less effect than on a warrior.

[Toehammer]

Welcome to the server, it is a great place. The way I see starting out on here is that finding groups is the biggest road block, which you already have covered. Gear is dirt cheap really, since all the good mobs are overcamped 24/7. For example, you said that you guys are thinking of a melee heavy group... things like sword of skyfire 10dmg/22dly sell for like 150pp in EC, or a monk could get a cane of the tranquil 11dmg/25dly for free probably. Also, people hand out stuff all the time for free in EC. With 1000pp, you could get buy weapons for the whole group that would last you until level 50.

Also, you are all playing together, and I am sure you can choose characters of different races and can find a friendly druid/wiz to port and bind you all to one place to group together from level 1!

The community here is odd to me. It seems more immature in a lot of regards, such as insults, trolling, etc, but the skill level is much higher than live and there are a lot more friendly people than I remember.

Also, #1 protip: avoid the forums outside of Server Chat, East Commonlands Tunnel, or the bug reporting/tech forum. Ignore all forum drama.

The raid scene is a bit messed up with dirty tactics but don't worry about it, can worry about that when you are level 46+ and the pixel lust is in full effect and you are foaming at the mouth for gear. Also, although I am in one of the raid guilds, I suggest you start out in smaller guilds that do planar clears, leveling groups, etc. once you get into the teens. Check the Guild Discussion forum.

Enjoy it... EQ is 5x better to me than the original was, now that I don't linkdead every hour and take 5 min to zone. Welcome back!

[falkun]

Chloroblast and Nature's Touch are both at 2.445ish hp/mana in efficiency. That's nowhere near the efficiency of CHeal (5k for 400m is 12.5 hp/mana, 5 times as efficient). Torpor is 1200-1500hps (depending on how good the player is at hunting for that 5th tick) for 200m, so 6-7.5 hp/mana, still over twice as efficient as druid heals (which Druids won't see until Velious anyways). Druids are just completely outclassed in the healing department.

However, they are much faster travelers than Clerics or Shamans due to ports (and SoW in a Cler-Dru comparison).

If you are trying to stack melee, the one caster I would suggest is shaman. They have heal, slow, and haste for your melee, as well as SoW. There is a reason the sham/monk combo is commonly recommended...

[Twain]

Welcome to P99. If you're interested in PvP at all, check out R99. The server population is lower but that is because people see it low and don't come build it up. I do not have any interest in blue because everything is always camped. With the lower population on R99, your group would be able to pretty much camp anything. Also, with 5 people you could take out any twinks that tried to pk you. If you decide to play on R99, message Twainz in game. I could help you guys and may level another alt with you.

[Toehammer]

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

Welcome to P99. If you're interested in PvP at all, check out R99. The server population is lower but that is because people see it low and don't come build it up. I do not have any interest in blue because everything is always camped. With the lower population on R99, your group would be able to pretty much camp anything. Also, with 5 people you could take out any twinks that tried to pk you. If you decide to play on R99, message Twainz in game. I could help you guys and may level another alt with you.

I actually think this is spot on. I have a 60 on blue and a 55 on red. If I were starting a group of 5 I would play red99... Exp is much faster and you guys can pound on any one hogging a camp... Maybe I will start again too....

[Twain]

R99 has the potential to be an even better community. If we had 50-100 more people playing, PvP would be a lot more fun. Currently the only PvP is either noobs ganking noobs in Unrest or Castle Mistmoore to Azrael coming into KC and getting slain by Nihilum. KC is really starting to see more and more pvp as of late. I would love for pop to get up so we can have some huge guild battles for raid targets. Raiding is fun but raiding Guild vs Guild is even more fun.

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Also we have an exp bonus until lvl 50.

[Norathorr]

Cheers Falkun! Sounds like a druid is not a viable option for our healer. I guess a cleric + shaman + bard + SK + Monk and a rogue if we could get a 6th would be a good combination! We would not have ports but at least we would have SoW and Selos.

Thanks for the advice Toehammer and Twain, but we would have limited play time and alot of the guys really hate Pvp, especially when it turns into gank fests. We are very much Pve players. Essentially whatever we are doing we dont like to have to watch over our shoulders for some high end zerg guild booting us out of any highly sought after camp or some high end player who just wants to pick on low levels for the sake of it. Pvp would be alot more time heavy if we are forced into CRs by some high end with nothing better to do than easily squash lowbies!