New to Project 1999... would like some advice

[fishingme]

I think if i were to start all over again, I would be a mage, I'd get my focus items asap. I originally started out as a druid, but have played nearly every class on p99 55+.

[Silo69]

you will also get that unique special snowflake feel

if you play a ranger,wizard

so many necro's, monks, usually see 3-4 of each in a populated xp area

[Silo69]

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

I think if i were to start all over again, I would be a mage, I'd get my focus items asap. I originally started out as a druid, but have played nearly every class on p99 55+.

prob with most pet classes post nerf

is pet stealing your xp, when i first started here i had to do 1 point of dmg, and my pet could tank and grind for me

now i have to compete with my pet for xp wich makes grinding less effective because i have to burn more mana to secure full xp

things were different 2 years ago, you have to adjust with the meta game

so much melle gear good melle gear and the prices are reasonable now is the time to gear your hybrid, melle, alt for vel

with months to spare if not half a year or more, doubt we will see vel till oct of 2013

[fishingme]

Originally Posted by Silo69 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

prob with most pet classes post nerf

is pet stealing your xp, when i first started here i had to do 1 point of dmg, and my pet could tank and grind for me

now i have to compete with my pet for xp wich makes grinding less effective because i have to burn more mana to secure full xp

things were different 2 years ago, you have to adjust with the meta game

so much melle gear good melle gear and the prices are reasonable now is the time to gear your hybrid, melle, alt for vel

with months to spare if not half a year or more, doubt we will see vel till oct of 2013

true, the mage i played here was pre-nerf all of those dumb nerfs. But I hear the recast pet works well, would even bet it would be damn nice to use the earth pet, reclaim right after a root and summon pet.

[Splorf22]

95% of your experience on 1999 will not be decided by your class. If you want to 'succeed' here and I use this term very loosely then:

1) Know game mechanics. EQ is a simple game with very little micro. You don't have to be the fastest jav in the west, you just have to basically know what you are doing. Read guides, talk to players, etc.

2) Be nice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTh5JzRziHE

3) Play a lot.

Those three things matter far more than being X powerclass.

[fishingme]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

95% of your experience on 1999 will not be decided by your class. If you want to 'succeed' here and I use this term very loosely then:

1) Know game mechanics. EQ is a simple game with very little micro. You don't have to be the fastest jav in the west, you just have to basically know what you are doing. Read guides, talk to players, etc.

2) Be nice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTh5JzRziHE

3) Play a lot.

Those three things matter far more than being X powerclass.

I agree with everything but what is in bold

[Yaolin]

I just started a week ago. I currently have a 15 monk named Yaolin. I farmed EC for a few days xping and getting pelts, I made a lot of money and the gear I was able to buy is making things a lot easier for myself. If you need a group or have any questions /t me.

[Elements]

If you can learn how to aoe kite on the bard you will have no trouble soloing, even naked. At higher levels bards bring a lot to the table such as kiting, pulling, mana regen for caster/cleric groups, stacking resists for specific encounters, and have little to no down time. If you are considering playing up a hybrid I'd suggest bard.

Any caster/priest you play is going to have down time. Chanters probably have the least downtime once you learn charm solo, and shamans/necros after that.

IMO the biggest deciding factor when chosing a class is: What do you want your end game to be? what are your goals, and what is your play style?

Groups? Raids? Solo farm? Once you figure that out take a serious look at what your list of classes does in those situations and decide if that is what you really want to do.

[Resheph]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

95% of your experience on 1999 will not be decided by your class. If you want to 'succeed' here and I use this term very loosely then:

1) Know game mechanics. EQ is a simple game with very little micro. You don't have to be the fastest jav in the west, you just have to basically know what you are doing. Read guides, talk to players, etc.

2) Be nice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTh5JzRziHE

3) Play a lot.

Those three things matter far more than being X powerclass.

This is why I came back to EQ. This has been the case in this MMO, but not in others. We all know who to blame for that.

Anyway, I was told Enchanters are needed so rolled one. The thing is, I'm seeing conflicting information and really don't want to level my first character and be useless. At this point I'm looking at Enchanter, Wizard and Shadow Knight. Does anyone think Enchanter was a less-than-optimal choice?

[Lagaidh]

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

...even up to leveling to 100...

Jeez! I quit playing in 2005 (Secrets of Faydwer? Shards of Destruction?) and I came back to look at the next expansion that expanded players to L75. I think I logged in, dinged 71, but the landscape was what I abandoned, so I abandoned it again, hehe.

Just prior to finding p99, I had found all the joy that existed for me in WoW. Wondering what to do about my MMO habit, I began to look at EQLive boards. This was mid summer 2010. I saw signatures boasting stupendous personal stats... wizards with 40k mana, healers with over 800 wisdom... clothies with over 25k hitpoints! When I quit in 2005, I was a lower-rung "decent" raiding paladin proud of 16k hitpoints...

I wonder what that mudflation looks like now with two more full years' worth of expansions.

This has always had an odd effect on my conscious mind: the same game I'd cut my teeth on looked nothing like what bears its name. There's no non-bullshit way to reconcile a 5STA bump being something to really shoot for in gear to becoming such an insignificant increase that it isn't even missed at all; or even considered...

So weird. Maybe this is the digital version of aging without grace. Think of Jocelyn Wildstein or Joan Rivers... more and more newer-looking crap smeared across the same aging skeleton until the end result cannot be reconciled as a descendant of the original.

Mudflation makes perfect sense in a vacuum ("on paper") logically, but if you take out a big chunk of the history, the end result just seems alien.

Case-in-point, since I had been present for mudflation from vanilla through DoD/SoD... the increases were small enough that seeing my L71 self, I understood how I'd gotten there from L1.

Gah! I pulled something in my head! AckackackHEEEEELP!!