2-3 is a good start target and very managable regardless of tools you use or experience boxing
After the leveling game then 6 is where its at and then just drop people to add friends
With 6 there are many boss targets you are able to take out if you are well geared, and ability to get geared if you are not well geared.
However.... If Oak stays with the nodrop.... gearing characters is going to be very rough, and gearing is the hard/tedious/nonfun part of EQ.
Mischief is in a perfect era to start up on and i'd strongly recommend going there. It really feels like original everquest with the community and so many people seeing new content.
Basically.... best time to start on mischief was yesterday, next best is today.
- TSS added new level 1-75 leveling path and is considered the start of the 2nd golden age of EQ (1st being classic->PoP)
- TLP's tend to die in the '70 slump' for multiple reasons, mischief stayed strong thru it due to the community and economy being strong
- Tons of guilds accepting casual and hardcore solo players and multiple boxer friendly guilds
- Gearing is a breeze especially as a caster (caster strength starts returning in TSS/TBS). The reason its easy is only the Best-in-Slot item is typically expensive, 2nd-4th best in slot is very affordable
- The random loot has been surprisingly fun/advantageous, not having to camp a specific spawn and getting to see raids and named mobs people ignored during original release is great, basically doubling or tripling the worthwhile content with just this alone.
- Leveling is a breeze when your toon is twinked out, you dont even need to run 6 to quickly level. Non max level gear is abundant in the massive bazaar on mischief and it is pennies if its not Best-in-slot. The bazaar on mischief is just bonkers, there is so much gear available.
This is a really good post that covers more than I mentioned from a non-boxers point of view
TL;DR up front. One of the largest, if not the largest, TLP server/communities is still thriving wonderfully, and we'd like you to consider us as an...
forums.daybreakgames.com
The reasons to NOT play on mischief
- need multiple pc's
- no mq (IonBC is a great and viable option IMO)
- you only like playing content you know for nostalgia reasons (commonly classic+velious+luclin+PoP)
Sadly I doubt they will remove truebox, the population is just too healthy to risk messing with anything so #1#2 are showstoppers for most people in the RG community.
P.S. if anyone wants to get started on Mischief, message me on discord, happy to help you get going and talk thru whatever.