I tried to like it... I really tried...advice?

[Kope]

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

Well, it's funny you comment this because you are one of the reasons I started feeling this way Guido.

I duo'd with your Necro killing Aviaks. Very friendly btw not blaming you for anything.

However, it seemed to put me in the mindset that even if I grind out for the next few months and level to 60 I still won't be 1/50th as elite as most of the people playing this game due to the fact that I'm coming in so late. And what's the point of playing everquest if you cant show off a little.

When I started playing again I had such a nostalgia burst, my biggest motivation was leveling to 50 so I could kill Nafagen again. I get on these forums and read about how pretty much everything is perma-camped and there is really no room for casual players end game at all.

Hey, maybe I am mistaken but that's the perspective I have gained this far and it's holding me back.

I realize I do kind of sound like a bitch, but it is what it is.

It's truly up to you as to what's important in this 14 year old game. If you want to be the 1% you need to put the hours in (just like on live). If you want to enjoy the casual scene, you can do that without putting those hours in but you won't be "the uber 1%."

I have a couple of main perspectives you should take into account:

1) Everyone came to this server to do their own thing, relive the EQ experience and in one way or another do things they weren't able to do. For a lot of people this means raiding high end stuff, so yea the end raids are overcamped right now.

2) No one knows when velious will come out, but Kunark has been out for...2...3? years now? When on live it was out for like 8 months? Don't worry about "how far you're behind" or "how uber everyone else is." You can get incredibly uber gear compared to what you had on live incredibly easy. Because this server is so weighted towards the high end everything else is next to worthless for people. Comparatively every character I have is 200X more geared than I was on live.

Enjoy the game for what it is imo, but play it how you want. Don't worry about what every other person is doing, get groups and enjoy dungeons.

I make new characters and yea I gear them out pretty well but I only do that to go enjoy the dungeons with people again. I know others do as well (may not be a majority but just keep grouping and you'll find a good group of like-minded individuals.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

No one knows when velious will come out

Sirken said Velious beta should be this year.

[webrunner5]

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

Sirken said Velious beta should be this year.

I think someone said the same thing last year. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] As u can see from my picture I am pretty old. I would like to live long enough to see it happen.

[quido]

Hit me up if you wanna team up with my necro again sometime! I really hope his extreme twinkieness didn't discourage you... most people don't have 3 million plat twinks =P

[Safon]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think someone said the same thing last year. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] As u can see from my picture I am pretty old. I would like to live long enough to see it happen.

Shuddered a bit at the prospect of ending up like you

[Honest]

If you don't enjoy it, don't play. Seems like there are a lot of you out there more concerned about items and lvl 60 as opposed to enjoying the game with other like minded people. A lot of you are more concerned about what you dont have, as opposed to enjoying the game. Get a guild, make some friends, have some laughs. Ive been playing a year and a half and don't have a lvl 60, or a fungi, or millions of plat, hell I dont even have thousands of plat at this time. But the journey has been fun.

[quido]

/shrug

Not everyone can be the 1% I guess =P if you need to be to be happy, I don't know what to tell ya!

I wasn't for a long time.

[quido]

Furthermore, it is true that there's a lot of people for too little content... you're probably never going to find a pickup Naggy raid during Kunark here... but there are plenty of quality guilds with good folks all of whom kill some stuff.

Give it a try bud =) you might like it

[Swish]

Nobody can level your characters for you. Groups in the 30s arent easy, just today someone else a few threads down was saying his monk couldn't get a group started.

Are you a healing class? We may have just killed 2 birds with one stone...could be the start of something awesome, PM the guy and find out when he plays, or do you want me to do that for you? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[eqravenprince]

I agree with the OP, It's a flaw in EQ design. Instancing would be one way to solve the problem with people competing for resources. I don't want to compete with people, if I wanted that, I would play on a PvP server. Twinking is fun, but equipment should scale down to the level a person is. For instance, on a Fungi tunic, at level 1 it shouldn't even regen, by level 10 maybe has a regen of 3, by level 20 it has a regen of 6, etc.

Unfortunately nothing will change here because the intent of this server is to be as close to classic as possible flaws and all. Good luck on finding a custom server that fixes some of EQ's flaws.