What will be your primary class on Green?

[Deathrydar]

I don't know yet. Playing with classes on blue that I never even touched before. Probably either Magician or Necromancer....maybe a Druid....I will vote once I have more experience with the Mage and Necro.

[gilfaethwy]

I'm in the same boat as Deathbyradar. Haven't played in about 17-18 years but worked both as a cleric and shaman back in the day (enchanter in beta which was brutal). Not sure what direction I'll be going here.

I'd love to go enchanter again but don't have the time/patience to be so group-reliant to level. 20 years later limits your time to play for many of us!

I'm thinking mage/necro just because it's the easiest to jump on and off as time allows. Can't go druid because the special snowflake inside of me won't allow it.

[Deathrydar]

Shadow Knights get no love! Can't believe that poll has more Paladins and more Rangers than Shadow Knights. Weird.

[soronil]

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

Shadow Knights get no love! Can't believe that poll has more Paladins and more Rangers than Shadow Knights. Weird.

Guise of the deceiver.

[Vexenu]

The most surprising aspect of this poll is we currently have more declared Warriors than Magicians. Meaning that literally the worst class in vanilla is slated to have more play than the best class. That strikes me as extremely unrealistic. I predict at least 50% of the declared melees and hybrids will re-roll casters within the first two weeks, once they get reminded how awful untwinked melees are and how ridiculously strong a naked Mage/Necro/Druid can be in comparison.

[Danth]

Shadow Knight showing appropriate classic popularity.

Danth

[Gustoo]

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

The most surprising aspect of this poll is we currently have more declared Warriors than Magicians. Meaning that literally the worst class in vanilla is slated to have more play than the best class. That strikes me as extremely unrealistic. I predict at least 50% of the declared melees and hybrids will re-roll casters within the first two weeks, once they get reminded how awful untwinked melees are and how ridiculously strong a naked Mage/Necro/Druid can be in comparison.

Dude there's going to be 6 up groups everywhere. Now is the time to pick the class you like.

[Vexenu]

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

Dude there's going to be 6 up groups everywhere. Now is the time to pick the class you like.

I hope you're right. I plan on rolling a melee. But I think a lot of people who got used to playing their melee twinks on Blue are in for a rude awakening on Green. It's a night and day difference playing twinked vs untwinked melee. I'm talking literally it might as well be an entirely different game. And that includes even modest twinking with HP rings, Banded-tier armor and cheap Kunark weapons. The brutality of classic EQ on untwinked melee classes cannot be overstated. Those early levels are hellish. A 10/22 Sword of Skyfire is literally a throwaway item on Blue. On Green that is Planar-level gear. That is the level of difference I'm talking. It's gonna be very rough going for awhile.

[Sonark]

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

I hope you're right. I plan on rolling a melee. But I think a lot of people who got used to playing their melee twinks on Blue are in for a rude awakening on Green. It's a night and day difference playing twinked vs untwinked melee. I'm talking literally it might as well be an entirely different game. And that includes even modest twinking with HP rings, Banded-tier armor and cheap Kunark weapons. The brutality of classic EQ on untwinked melee classes cannot be overstated. Those early levels are hellish. A 10/22 Sword of Skyfire is literally a throwaway item on Blue. On Green that is Planar-level gear. That is the level of difference I'm talking. It's gonna be very rough going for awhile.

This is also true of Tanks, and especially Warriors, for all you min maxers out there who want this slow as snails game to be a slightly less slow as snails game.

[Kanuvan]

its comical that people think there will be fewer monks because no iksar, when thats not even the reason at all, playing any melee even if it was iksar or not on a fresh server with no twink gear is basically saying "i dont care about how fast I level or how rich i get, i just want to experience nostalgia" because a iksar monk without gear is soloing exactly nothing and will be doing basically shadowknight pet damage like every other melee on green right out of the gate

and yet FD pulling is going to be even more in demand when every rogue/melee isent rocking fungi's plus 22% haste minimum and pulling slow and steady duo or single pulls is going to be the diffrence between you geting exp or running back to your corpse and wasting your whole day

even on blue as a human monk i was always geting tells to pull, i dont have fungi or anything and only had basic haste and did just fine, FD pulling is something that the average group is going to worship on green where the melee's gear is so trash that fighting more than 1 red mob at a time without a enchanter will probably spell death for atleast one person, "no monks because no iksar" is just the most hystarical thing ive read all day, no melee because no twink