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

[Nordenwatch]

I started later than everyone else and felt exactly the same, my friend who had a 30 char gave me some flayed skin and told me to roll a human necromancer so i would be able to wear said flayed skin.

I farmed spectres, seafuries, HS, droga, crypt... anything i could for plat to gear my necro. Eventually I was able to buy a few things and get a monk geared up to camp king.

Everyone has to start somewhere. Reputation is still extremely important in this server even if people are twinked. and yes, some people are still going to be richer than you but this is going to be true for the vast vast vast majority of the server.

[rsloans84]

He aint lying

[Odeseus]

I don't raid, only play a few hours a week and I'm having fun. Your only problem is your mindset. It isn't the server's fault your expectations are screwed up.

From your posts, you said you wanted to raid and more or less be the most awesomest ever, and seemed jealous of people who were already super awesome. But here's the thing, you have the exact same opportunities they did, regardless of when you started playing. People got to the top by playing, a ton. They joined one of the top raiding guilds (and there are normally at least 2 that push each other, even if one has a decided advantage from time to time) and got a bat phone. When not raiding, they farmed gear to sell. Rinse and repeat. Very simple.

Best part is, you too can do all of that, just like them! Get to 60 and join one of the (or the) raid guilds. Start raiding. Earn DKP (if that is even still used) and get all your super awesomest pixels. Spend time not raiding farming. There is nothing in this game that prevents you from doing this.

[Malphite]

It seems like starting now would be easier than in the beginning. Hand outs are always there, maybe not raw plat, but decent items that were better than shit alot of us had to get in the classic era. More casual players in better gear, so they don't care what yours is like eliminating the elitist only groups. Honestly, what are you crying about? You can't log in and have a fungi / hasted melee? Then no one can do anything for you, and this server isn't for you.

[azxten]

Being twinked isn't going to really make things that much more enjoyable. If anything once you've accumulated too much its hard to even get excited about playing anymore.

People who are super twinked have already leveled to 50+ on multiple characters. We all did our first grind, man up you bitch.

I honestly can't remember the last time I even looted anything in this game because I just don't care anymore. Be happy you can still get excited about an item dropping from some shitty dungeon.

Also someone just handed me an RBG the other day while I was playing an alt in MM. Around 60k just for being somewhere at the right time. People like me who don't rally care do stuff like this all the time.

Be cool and people will help you out. I enjoy giving level 20 Ogre Wars a nice item and then months later I see them in their 50s still using it.

[billpaleq]

I hate to tell you but this is how live was for me as well. One group will always be number 1. This is a game with competition. The reason I played was the connection to players and the enjoyment of setting goals and completing them.

[xCry0x]

I just started in Feb, didn't know a single person on the server and managed to level a cleric to 53 and counting just fine. Just finished my epic, am apping rapture.. in past 2 weeks i have done sky,fear,hate,hole,naggy,vox.

Leveling up was a ton of people on the same page as me, just found out about the server etc. A few twinks hear or there but every single one of them that wanted to actually group were more than happy to be social, answer questions etc. Level 30-40 suck because the grouping options are really few and far between but I made friends with a couple of DPS and ended up duoing with them. From day 1 I was going out of my way to make friends with monk twinks, rogue twinks, enchanters etc so I could duo/trio with them and that is eventually what I ended up doing. As you mentioned, EQ is about networking and it sounds like although you acknowledge that you failed to do it.

As far as rich people and twinks; I don't know what people are expecting, as soon as kunark came out and people started farming fungi's the monk twinks started coming out of the wood work on live. If someone has been playing since the server came out consistently of course they have a lot of money and/or multiple 60s. If twinking is your goal then level an account to level 50+, sell it for a fungi and start over, now you are a twinked level 1 without spending any time farming, congratulations.

I also think almost across the board there was always 1 uber guild who controlled everything unless you played on some sunshine and rainbows server; that is what made EQ EQ. If you have people on at 3am to kill the boss, you get the boss, if you don't then the chinese guild that does gets the boss.

[Done]

I started playing in February, first week of February to be exact. I'm level 57 now, I did very little soloing, and I feel I have geared myself up a pretty decent bit. I'm by no means rich, and I am just now starting to get "throw-away" plat. Up until now I was scraping every little bit I could to buy that next piece of gear.

Leveling a monk from scratch, and getting into groups, was a daunting task for me (as it seems Monk is everyone's favorite twink class and there's sooo many around). I still managed to get it done. It just takes dedication and the desire to do it. I've made a lot of good friends along the way, and a good number of acquaintances who I would call upon when I needed their specific role filled, or they would call on me.


This is a social game; unlike the MMOs of the current generation. You need to get out there, you need to make friends, and you need to do decent in the groups you do end up in.

No groups asking you to join? Okay...just do a / all LFG for your level range, grab who is there and go do something. You'd be surprised at the amazing things people can pull off with a less than "perfect" group make-up.


As far as raiding goes, and the current "monopoly" on raid content....all I can say is welcome to EverQuest? It's been like this since 1999. You wanna do a good amount of raiding? Cool! Get your ass some levels and app to one of the raiding guilds. If you're good and consistent I'm sure they'd take you.

[mike90]

Hard to sympathize with all the players complaining on here. It feels like they're playing on a different server or something. Since I've started its been a blast and most of the people are amazingly nice that I run into.

I'm only level 14, but I'm already an officer in a guild and have a bunch of friends, and I make new ones almost every time I log on. Thanks to donations from guildies, friends, but mostly complete strangers I have almost a complete set of gear and enough money to buy all my spells, which is a hell of a lot more then my 1st character on live had.

Is my gear elite? Of course not. do i see people with waaaaaay better gear then me every day? You better believe it. but none of that stops me from enjoying the game. Who cares what other people have, and do you think they were just handed that fungi? Why are so many people so upset that people that invested a lot more time and energy at something then they have done have more to show for it? Isn't that how its supposed to work? Just do you and stop worrying about everyone else.

[mike90]

Oh and another thing. all the people complaining about inflation are nutso. Are high end items really expensive? Hell yes, but they were on classic too and most of the complainers are NOT really high level. Low level equipment is dirt cheap. I managed to equip myself and 2 friends for under 500 plat. If you really cant buy gear you need to learn how to farm or learn how to trade and do research on prices to get the best deals.

If you can't manage to do ANY of that then its on you. There's a wiki with prices for just about ever item in the game for gods sake which sure wasn't around in classic.