Enjoying myself again
I've recently been playing live the past few months. Four boxed to level 76 in about a month. Started a new Shadow Knight and Shaman and attempted to eschew defiant gear and hotzones. Unfortunately I still got them great weapons and even while attempting to quest (still no hotzones) and not focused on leveling hit 40 in about a week.
About a week ago I decided I was tired of blowing past the majority of the game. I knew of Eqemu but otherwise this has been a slightly confusing learning experience. As of a couple days ago I'd tried 5 servers here. I can see benefit of choosing any server but I'm making my home on Dragons of Mist (HC). It's the closest to class(p99) that I've found while allowing dual boxing and no corpse runs. I enjoyed P99 and was hoping to stay there but unfortunately after dieing and realizing I had to track down my bags/pp and weapons. I realized I didn't want to spend that much time chasing down my gear after every death.
I certainly don't plan on dieing a lot but with low level (proper) gear and a low exp rate I've died more times on one character than the sum of my 12 in live. At the same time I'm having a blast. It feels like I'm actually playing my character. I've hit level 10 on a gnome paladin and barbarian shaman. The gnome is working on tinkering only around 30 and the shaman is up to 40 smithing. Every new spell is a treat. On live I was leveling so fast I'd buy at least 6 levels worth of spells at a time. I probably never cast 75% of the spells I'd bought.
It's like old eq without the hassle. Or at least as I see it. Others will no doubt have differing views and that's great. We play what we enjoy.
If anyone is interested in grouping I"ll be very happy to log my box out and focus on one character.
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