Howdy RG folks,
I’ve been back on EQ for about a year after over a decade away. Despite an active server population, pick up groups were hard to come by so I started a small box crew with mercs. Currently, I run SK, SHM, BER using alt-tab on a laptop.
I’m leveling a BARD, MAG, and second BER to round out the crew while I’m doing a bunch of reading and YouTube watching to learn how to MQ.
A couple of questions for the hive mind:
1) What’s the best (easiest?) way to get started? Just buy some of the paid stuff and let it run, tweaking as I go? Jump into normal content I’d hit or play around in a lower-level sandbox a bit? I’ve got the quick-start videos saved already so this is more of a question of how to get proficient and productive rather than how to actually download and run stuff.
2) I’m considering swapping SHM for BST and MAG for CLR, which would line up with what a lot of the crews I’m seeing have (SK, CLR, BST, BARD, BERx2). I’ve read a lot of “play what you like” and “as long as you have the holy trinity everything else is user preference” type of commentary, but I’m curious if a CLR and BST would be worth getting rid of SHM slows and utility plus CotH.
3) Currently, my 3 accts are gold and have NoS. I’m likely to keep 3 accts gold and 3 silver. Other than the tank, are there 2 toons that are better as gold accts compared to the others?
Thanks all! I look forward to elevating my EQ game shortly
I’ve been back on EQ for about a year after over a decade away. Despite an active server population, pick up groups were hard to come by so I started a small box crew with mercs. Currently, I run SK, SHM, BER using alt-tab on a laptop.
I’m leveling a BARD, MAG, and second BER to round out the crew while I’m doing a bunch of reading and YouTube watching to learn how to MQ.
A couple of questions for the hive mind:
1) What’s the best (easiest?) way to get started? Just buy some of the paid stuff and let it run, tweaking as I go? Jump into normal content I’d hit or play around in a lower-level sandbox a bit? I’ve got the quick-start videos saved already so this is more of a question of how to get proficient and productive rather than how to actually download and run stuff.
2) I’m considering swapping SHM for BST and MAG for CLR, which would line up with what a lot of the crews I’m seeing have (SK, CLR, BST, BARD, BERx2). I’ve read a lot of “play what you like” and “as long as you have the holy trinity everything else is user preference” type of commentary, but I’m curious if a CLR and BST would be worth getting rid of SHM slows and utility plus CotH.
3) Currently, my 3 accts are gold and have NoS. I’m likely to keep 3 accts gold and 3 silver. Other than the tank, are there 2 toons that are better as gold accts compared to the others?
Thanks all! I look forward to elevating my EQ game shortly
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