I dunno. I've been playing eq fairly regularly for almost 3 years now, and still mostly consider myself a newb.
There are areas I know quite well, and things I am utterly clueless about. My highest live char is 36 or so, but I have likely raised more baby trolls to 10 than anyone else playing the game.
I've taken 4 different classes to 30, but never been able to convince myself to level far beyond that. The game just becomes annoying to me after that point.
I am also obsessed with new servers -- I love the mad rush of nekkid trolls trying to claw their way out of the swamp... (I was the very first person to ever kill Forager Grik on Tholuxe :P ) That magic couple of weeks where sand giants overrun oasis because no one can kill them...
anyhoo, I reallllllly like having the emu servers, because it allows me to visit and poke around some of the high level content that I would have never gotten to see on a live server. For me, GuildWars is very near perfect EQ for me. Levelling is easy enough that I don't get bored out of my skull... you can actually do something after level 30 without begging for groups/buffs. And PvP just rounds out the picture perfectly.
eh. this was longer than I wanted. I really just wanted to say, who gives a shit if you are a newb or not, as long as you're having fun????
danm
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