The easiest and simplest class to play?

[Jibartik]

There are a lot of arrows and screencaps in this thread so Idk what is going on but I think rogue is the most simple class to play. Log in, shout LFG, invis walk to it, join, stab, log off.

It's a lot of fun! But you do gotta wait around sometimes because there isn't much you can do alone.

[Evia]

Yeah, I love my rogue for lots of reasons,
but that laid back and non-stressful gameplay
action with minimal responsibility and big
dick numbers is really enjoyable.
Honestly besides needing a group most of the time, there aren't a lot of cons to the rogue class for me. Idk if if it's the simplest class in EQ but its definitely pretty easy and straight forward.

[pivo]

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

Yeah, I love my rogue for lots of reasons,
Honestly besides needing a group most of the time

Well I will be playing without groups most of the time, So Rouge is not viable for me.

[BlackBellamy]

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

Well I will be playing without groups most of the time, So Rouge is not viable for me.

When you get on do a /who all dial. It's a trade association for porters but they'll take any level even naked. You'll have a druid chat channel and tons of great advice for leveling spots. Talk to anyone about joining, most everyone can invite.

Druid life is all about catering to the lazy coward.

As a lazy coward your druid experience will consist of rooting something then sitting down and watching it die slowly. You'll stare right into it's eyes as it sways there and makes the noises and then falls over. It never gets old. You would think but it doesn't. I mean you can kite and charm and quad and blow stuff up and be very very active, but that is all optional.

Your ports and speed buffs maximize laziness by lessening travel time. You are right there all the time and the bank is almost a single button press.

You won't waste time asking for a rez because your cowardice and escape methods means you will die by choice and besides hello halfling bonus.

As a premier plat farmer, you will minimize time spent in EC trying to haggle out a price by just paying top dollar for the gear you want which means a pair of +55 hp rings and I guess nothing else. People will tell you to buy wisdom gear but those guys are liars in cahoots with the equipment cabal because all wisdom does is increase your mana pool and that means you can be more active and this goes against the whole lazy coward ethos. I mean do what you want, just sayin those extra 110 hp will allow you take one more frost bolt up your ass while you skeddadle that's all you need.

You won't waste time looking for a group because before a very precise point in your druid life other people will be like yeah come we need a healer and after that precise point it will be just radio silence but either way again there's no time wasted here cause you'll know what's going on.

[pivo]

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

When you get on do a /who all dial. It's a trade association for porters but they'll take any level even naked. You'll have a druid chat channel and tons of great advice for leveling spots. Talk to anyone about joining, most everyone can invite.

Thank you for all the tips!!!
Ahh, Druid channel, never thought of it!

[Izmael]

If you patched the files but it says spells file is outdate, you probably did someting wrong when patching.


The best is to put the P99Files53.zip in your P99 directory, then run the following commands in a terminal:

cd <p99 directory>
unzip P99Files53.zip

Enter A when asked to overwrite files.

Then you should be good to go.

[pivo]

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

If you patched the files but it says spells file is outdate, you probably did someting wrong when patching.

First, SUCCESS!!!! Yay! Thanks EVERYONE for help!!!

Not sure what I did. Installed new Linux, repeated steps, same result. But then after some more fiddling, don't know what did it, now it works. There was some error in the terminal about ncurses so I reinstalled it among few other things.

Very nice thing about Linux MX is, I will now with 2-3 mouse clicks create installable ISO file and after that, I can install MX with the game in it into another computer. Perfect!

Back to the game, got into the game, choose Druid, Halfling, talked to nearest NPC, gave him note, got my first armor and xp points, I put two spells into spellbar, so i'm ready! Outside I talked to NPC who is helping young Druids. Good, that's exactly what I need. Well hi disappeared while I was looking around. I saw some vegetable on the floor, I sold it for a few silver and he was gone. My help gone! How cruel is this!?! Not fair! A bug report!!! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So I went to look for him. I run around few corners and now I'm properly lost. Already, who would of think so lol. After 15 minutes running around, still lost. Mostly running in the same area but that starting area disappeared on me. Another bug he-he. I have read somewhere, that Druids get spell 'gate' at level 5. This will be my most important spell! Boy I already need it. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Two players asked/shouted in chat for transport. I could already be making some money if I would know what I'm doing. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Anyway, fun start. I hope one day I get out of this maze lol

But the most important, to everyone, thank you all again for all of the help and suggestions. Will try for a few more minutes, I'm ready to kill something with lvl 0.1-0.2. Then I will log out and create iso file and install everything on another computer. Tomorrow I will try to get out of this maze. If I'm next week still here, [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] ten someone will have to come and pick me up and for free on top of it lol lol lol

Take care everyone and thanks for all the help!

[aspomwell]

There are a couple options you can use for in game maps, but I'm not sure how well they work under Linux. They both operate by reading your log file so you'll need to enable logging and bind one of your movement keys to do a /loc (and optionally sense heading).

The maps will display in a different window other than your game window, and will put a little arrow on the map and your orientation based on where you are and where you're pointing. It sounds like this might be helpful for you.

One is called nparse, that one has spell timers built in as well so you can see when your buffs/dots are wearing off. The one I prefer is called ZLiz as it uses the old EQAtlas maps which just look better.

I'll leave it to the Linux nerds to explain if it can be done with your setup though, I don't know. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

edit: oh, and I concur on the halfling druid, it should fit your playstyle nicely, there are also several player guides that explain some of the more nuanced things you can do, just search the wiki for "player guides" and scroll to the druid ones.

[pivo]

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

There are a couple options you can use for in game maps, but I'm not sure how well they work under Linux.

One is called nparse, that one has spell timers built in as well so you can see when your buffs/dots are wearing off. The one I prefer is called ZLiz as it uses the old EQAtlas maps which just look better.

Maps! Thank you, will check this out, yay! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Yep, found guides, will start reading soon.

[Chinetter]

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

There are a couple options you can use for in game maps, but I'm not sure how well they work under Linux. They both operate by reading your log file so you'll need to enable logging and bind one of your movement keys to do a /loc (and optionally sense heading).

The maps will display in a different window other than your game window, and will put a little arrow on the map and your orientation based on where you are and where you're pointing. It sounds like this might be helpful for you.

One is called nparse, that one has spell timers built in as well so you can see when your buffs/dots are wearing off. The one I prefer is called ZLiz as it uses the old EQAtlas maps which just look better.

Hey, a big thank-you for posting this! I've got ZlizEQMap installed now and it's great.

(Tried nparse first, but Webroot antivirus flagged its executable as compromised and deleted it with prejudice.)