back in the day... starting all over againFollow

Once an addict... ;-)

Welcome back, I'm sure you'll find EQ a completely differnt, but hopefully still very entertaining experience. As I play on a regular server (not couting the phreaks, of course...), the only real answer I can provide to your questions is about 'boxing': You start up EQ as you normally would. Then you Alt+Tab out to desktop and start the patcher again. This lets you open another instance of EQ, although you have to have a second account, of course. Once that second character is up and running, you can Alt+Tab back and forth between them, effectlively playing a two-man group by yourself. (The command /follow is your friend!) You can of course just have two computers side by side and run EQ on both - that would also constitute two-boxing (maybe even in the original sense of the word).

The problem with two-boxing is, imo, the response time (your keyboard only 'works' for the active instance); I know people (well, one person, but if there's one, I'm guessing there are others) who can six-box effectively! (not sure how many computers he uses, though.) I find it difficult enough to play ONE character at a moderate level of efficiency. The time it takes to switch from one toon the the other makes it very dangerous to enter combat imo.

Boxing is very useful for getting a friend's toon with you into a raid or whatever, if your friend is unable to be there from raid start.

"Everfrost" and "shaman" sounds like you're planning on making a barbarian. Barbarians have the easiest newbie armor quests so you should be fine between the tutorial and the newbie quests to gear yourself. My major issue has been that I picked a non-solo friendly class in a race/religion combo that has ridiculously hard newbie quests.

I haven't seen a large newbie population in the outlying city zones (QHills, Blackburrow, Steamfonts, Warrens, etc) but Barkingturtle says that the hotzones are active. I've never seen the tutorial with less than 13 people in it so all those new characters have to be going somewhere.

Edited, Jan 30th 2007 8:33am by Jophiel

thank u for all the input!

feel free to keep posting!

im trying to figure out how to re activate my account. the e-mail i orginially used got cancelled awhile back. any ideas?

im wondering if i can call the station and give them the cc # i used for my previous account in order for them to look it up

Barkingturtle your guild sounds like a grand time! still raiding nagafen and vox? dear god endless fun

If you're brand new to the game, I wouldn't play on the Progression servers (Combine/Sleeper), nor Firona Vie. The "established" servers will benefit you more with trickle-down gear, extra quests, etc. If you just bought one of the bundle packs such as Titanium, you won't even be able to use all of the expansions on a Progression server.

If you used to play EQ and left years ago, you might find yourself more comfortable on a Progression server since it's content is currently at about 2004-05 standards. But, if you're new to the game entirely, go for one of the normal servers and dive on in. Especially if you bought the Serpent's Spine expansion which supposedly makes the lowbie-level game much more enjoyable and productive.

Gold sellers and buyers are scum. Don't stoop to their level.

My advice: Don't start on Firiona Vie. Haven't tried the Progression servers myself, but the language barriers alone on Firiona will make it incredibly difficult for you. Not too many lower levels on FV either; I'm only managing because I'm a beastlord with friendly guildies. A good server to start on would probably be Stromm; there are tons of people on that server, so it's easy to get a group. If you do choose FV as your first server, feel free to send me a tell, my toon's name is Jurrel.

As for plat buying, I think it lessens the gaming experience, not to mention it violating the EULA. Do what you want, but you won't make too many friends by advertising that you buy plat. One last thing, this isn't WoW, so try not to spam the general chat with nonsense. ^_^ That drives me nuts when the general chat is filled with random noises and song lyrics, so I end up leaving that channel half the time. Have fun!

actually if you still have access to the email address you had back then, you can go to the station site and use the station name recovery tool to get your station name, and then the password reset tool to gain access. Granted, this doesn't work if you no longer have access to the email address that you had on your account back then.

I'd check out the normal servers, while there isn't a real lowbie population on many, there are still alot of people who help out new players and alot of "family" type guilds who play low lvl alts to group with people on a regular basis. make a level one on a few regular servers and progression and get a feel for the atmosphere, see what you like best.

Also, if you're rerolling racial exp penalties are no more, and since you mentioned shaman / necro as classes you might consider, some races are ideal for that and (read: regen) and no longer have the downside of the exp hit for that benefit.

If you happen to make an iksar on povar, shoot me a tell!