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Check under class forums for the ideal "job" for you. If you plan on soloing look at druid, necro, bard, beastlord, mage, wizard, ranger, or shammy. Classes that are primarily group dependant are warriors, clerics, enchanters (I think, never played one), rogues, shadowknights, paladins, berserkers. Some of these classes can solo, but it would take a very long time to get experience.

You should also be careful about buying EQ over ebay. The disks and manual itself might be of some use to you, but the liscence key associated with the game can only be used once to open up the expansions on an account. If the person who sold you the game already used the liscence key, then it will not be usuable by you to open an account with SoE. I would hate to see you turned off on the game because of some unscrupulous canadain.

Edited, Oct 5th 2006 at 7:33am PDT by fhrugby

Pffft, you don't know what hawt is. Hawt is a Vah Shir bard. We make the little drakkin chicks swoon. Those cute little dark elves also find us unresistable (when we're agnostic and illusioned at least :) ).

Really, this just brings up an important thing about asking which class or race to roll. There is no right answer. Everybody has their favorites for whatever reasons. More then likely, you'll mess up at first. Most people make several toons before they find "the one" that they really like to stick with. Some never find that toon and enjoy playing many of them or all of them equally. I leveled 2 toons to the mid 50's (Luclin time frame, several years ago) before I fell in love with my bard.

Go ahead and shoot your questions to us. Answering them makes us feel important and smart. ::grin:: And welcome to "their world".

you can start a character at any time on any server, however if you want to move one character from the server they started on to another server you have to pay a fairly hefty price (think its something like $50) and it can take a week or so to have the char swapped over.

if you have someone you know on that server its probably a good idea you start there.

oh and your allowed a max of 8 characters per server (10 if you do station access - which you probally dont need right now)

It's been mentioned already, but I'll reiterate that you should play several different classes to ge a feel for what you like. Try a Monk, Rogue, Barbarian, or Warrior to get a feel for strictly melee classes, a Paladin, Shadowknight, or Ranger for hybrid classes (melee + casting), and a Magician, Cleric, Wizard, Necromancer, Druid, or Shaman for casting classes. Or any combination of the above.

What hasn't been mentioned is that you shouldn't get too attached to your first puppet since you'll likely end up playing something completely different than what you eventually decide will be your "main" puppet. It may seem like slow-going at first, but remember that you'll have many weeks of playing that should be thought of as a learning experience. In the overall scheme of things, the first month or two of gameplay is just training to see what sort of class you like best. There's plenty of time to develop what you decide is the best fit for you, so don't feel like you have to immediately decide on something and maniacally work towards getting that puppet to 75. There's an unbelievable amount of content available to all levels and classes, and you should take the time to enjoy the journey :)