Is it possible to get my non-gamer girlfriend into EQ?

[Swish]

Start up as a duo on red, if she can handle that... she can handle any game you can throw at her [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Zeonick]

Haha she doesn't want other people to attack her because she barely knows the basics of the game. She kept asking all worried if people could attack her.

So far she was digging the monk, she liked being able to dual wield and kick stuff, haha. But she only got to level 2 (and a half) so really just barely ventured out of WFP and got her first sash.

We will be duoing pretty much all of the time. She says she wouldn't be comfortable grouping at the moment because she doesnt want people to get mad at her for sucking, heh. I was thinking I may have to play a priest class. Cleric really doesn't interest me and I dont think it brings much to the table besides heals. Maybe druid is the way to go.

It will be my first time playing a druid though, anyone have tips for me? Once we hit around lvl 20 I will probably switch back to my shaman full time, unless I fall in love with the druid!

[Growlers]

Kite things, hit the mob with snare and flame lick (flame lick is great agro) and have her dps.

[Zeonick]

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

Kite things, hit the mob with snare and flame lick (flame lick is great agro) and have her dps.

That sounds like a solid plan!

[Zyn]

Why would he want to hold aggro as the druid? She will be the one tanking as the monk.

Flame lick is amazing for aggro, but rangers should be using it, not druids.

I mained a druid on live, and let me tell you, they are super easy to fall in love with. As I mentioned earlier, they can fulfill a lot of roles. They don't really drop off until later in the game, hence why there are so few 60 druids. Ports are amazing, and they have surprisingly good DPS.

It almost makes me want to restart my druid on P99. I have serious altitis.

If you love priest classes, go with the druid. If you want to switch it up, since you already have a Shaman, I'd say a necro would work well for your duo. You can heal, DPS, fear-kite, etc. etc.

[Lyra]

14 years ago, my boyfriend at the time asked me to play Everquest with him. I love games, but had not played many video games. He had already been playing Everquest, but started over on a new server with me. When he described the classes, bard jumped out at me because of the musical aspect. Two weeks later, I switched to cleric. The bard was not a good first class. He leveled a warrior with my cleric until 14, but he got tired of holding my hand and started leveling on his own.

I kept playing, but I'm pretty sure I am a minority. I've had plenty of friends try to get their girlfriends to play, and it doesn't stick. I was attracted to the social aspect as well as the goal orientated gaming aspect. I like meeting new people, and learning about where they live and what they do. I like having small goals within the larger max level goal. One of my first goals here was to obtain the Shiny Brass Shield. Fairly simple goal, but kept me focused until obtained. A recent goal was to obtain the Goblin Gazughi Ring, which I did.

I think one of the things that kept me playing after my boyfriend gave up on me is a 15 year old boy I met in butcher block. He was very patient with me and became my EQ friend. He was such a brat, but I grew to love him (in a platonic way). I found him here a few weeks ago and he's still a brat and I still love him.

I played EQ for 6 years, long after my X-boyfriend played. I always play healers, but I have enjoyed a rogue to mid 50's and recently a charming druid to 50.

I wish you luck, but I doubt you have much control over the outcome.

[Estu]

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

Why would he want to hold aggro as the druid? She will be the one tanking as the monk.

Flame lick is amazing for aggro, but rangers should be using it, not druids.

If you can choose between the monk taking damage or no one taking damage because the druid is snare kiting while the monk beats on the monster, why would you have the monk take damage???

[Zyn]

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

14 years ago, my boyfriend at the time asked me to play Everquest with him. I love games, but had not played many video games. He had already been playing Everquest, but started over on a new server with me. When he described the classes, bard jumped out at me because of the musical aspect. Two weeks later, I switched to cleric. The bard was not a good first class. He leveled a warrior with my cleric until 14, but he got tired of holding my hand and started leveling on his own.

I kept playing, but I'm pretty sure I am a minority. I've had plenty of friends try to get their girlfriends to play, and it doesn't stick. I was attracted to the social aspect as well as the goal orientated gaming aspect. I like meeting new people, and learning about where they live and what they do. I like having small goals within the larger max level goal. One of my first goals here was to obtain the Shiny Brass Shield. Fairly simple goal, but kept me focused until obtained. A recent goal was to obtain the Goblin Gazughi Ring, which I did.

I think one of the things that kept me playing after my boyfriend gave up on me is a 15 year old boy I met in butcher block. He was very patient with me and became my EQ friend. He was such a brat, but I grew to love him (in a platonic way). I found him here a few weeks ago and he's still a brat and I still love him.

I played EQ for 6 years, long after my X-boyfriend played. I always play healers, but I have enjoyed a rogue to mid 50's and recently a charming druid to 50.

I wish you luck, but I doubt you have much control over the outcome.

This story makes me really happy.

Can we be friends?

[Victorio]

I got my girlfriend to play EQ because I was away from her for 3 months (although the longest we went without seeing each other was 6 weeks). She loved talking to me on teamspeak. I made us both mages since we could duo very well with our two pets and nukes, she likes having a pet. Unfortunately she likes to play in bed on her small laptop so she doesn't use a mouse. Luckily she can use assist hotkeys. She's gotten more into it since then, she likes the challenge.

Anyway the point is that she'll start playing as a way to get more interaction with you (Teamspeak/Ventrilo helps a lot in this regard.) After that you don't really know if she'll get into it or not. I wish you the best of luck!

[Ciel]

No.