Best Caster Class for a returning player?

[Gnomish Elite]

Thanks again all. I've done some homework and landed on a high elf mage. Are there any advantages of worshipping a god or should I just go agnostic?

[NegaStoat]

There might be some Velious quests (plane of growth?) as well as cultural blacksmithed armor pieces a Tunare High Elf could access. It's not like High Elves will be welcome in any evil zones or outposts regardless of what they do so you might as well go for a god.

[Gnomish Elite]

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

There might be some Velious quests (plane of growth?) as well as cultural blacksmithed armor pieces a Tunare High Elf could access. It's not like High Elves will be welcome in any evil zones or outposts regardless of what they do so you might as well go for a god.

Good point. Tunare it is!

[wisenhemier]

generally being agnostic is a good call, but if you follow Tunare you will be able to use
http://wiki.project1999.com/Chord_of_Vines

[Gnomish Elite]

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

generally being agnostic is a good call, but if you follow Tunare you will be able to use
http://wiki.project1999.com/Chord_of_Vines

Oh that looks pretty nice

[JurisDictum]

Tunare wouldn't be bad. It's nice not to be KoS in Plane of Growth and to be able to do those easy quests. I don't think there is anything that hates Tunare worshipers but is cool with agnostic high elves. They tend to overlap.

Edit: I think there would be very few situations it would matter. But Tunare would probably make you unwelcome to all evil casters. Where as if you were agnostic, you could probably go to any non-Dark Elf evil caster hub like Paineel or East Freeport just fine. Its far more convenient to be good anyway.

[Gnomish Elite]

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

Tunare wouldn't be bad. It's nice not to be KoS in Plane of Growth and to be able to do those easy quests. I don't think there is anything that hates Tunare worshipers but is cool with agnostic high elves. They tend to overlap.

Edit: I think there would be very few situations it would matter. But Tunare would probably make you unwelcome to all evil casters. Where as if you were agnostic, you could probably go to any non-Dark Elf evil caster hub like Paineel or East Freeport just fine. Its far more convenient to be good anyway.

Alright I'll likely go Tunare then. Thanks!

[wisenhemier]

all in all you should play what you enjoy

[Izmael]

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

all in all you should play what you enjoy

This.

Give then price of a P99 account subscription, just go ahead and try every class until you like one enough to stick with it. Sounds obvious but still.

As for mages, I played one to 60 so I suppose I have a fairly solid view of the class. Truth be told, mages aren't very useful at higher levels in a group context (the whole item summoning crap is barely ever used except maybe for a couple spells such as mask and daggers for necros/encs). A couple seconds of looking away from the screen to change the TV channel and your pet just brought a train and is wiping your group out. On raids you're basically a CoH / rod bitch. If you can find any fun in it, props to you.

But the one single deterrent to play mage is that their epic quest happens to be 1) the hardest epic in game, and 2) is pretty much class-defining. Many other classes don't have this problem because their epic is either 1) not hard to get - rog, enc, sham or 2) not class defining (nec, war, wiz, )...

There are a ton of places you can't even get around as a mage, while as an enc or necro you can just solo farm it for loot. I dunno, I might just suck at mage, too. Can a mage sucessfully farm HS? What about Seb?

But hey, as I said.. takes a minute to roll one and see for yourself [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Jimjam]

Is there a particular reason you want to roll dark elf instead of iksar?