Yet another returning player postFollow

You will be under-geared, but should be able to get by keeping yourself to healing groups. You might not be able to throw as much offense at the mobs as you're used to until you get some upgrades, but you'll get by. Heck, my cleric still has one or two pieces of LDoN steel.

The game will seem populated as long as you take your cleric to the highest two hotzones (currently Halls of Honor available for level 62+ and Nobles Causeway), zones from The Serpents Spine expansion, and the guild lobby (which has replaced PoK as the place to meet and do buffs due to the suspension of buff timers there).

Get a bazaar trader ready. Try to accumulate tradeskill drops while you group and sell them in the bazaar. There is a whole new breed of tradeskill drops that are common to level-appropriate zones across norrath. Look for types of ore, loam, skins, and silk you didn't see when you last played. They are fairly common drops as well. You will have a few K or more before you know it.

Nobles Causeway will be the best experience and groupage for you as a moderately-geared 56 cleric. While there are usually only 2-3 full groups and a few solo'ers in Nobles Causeway, when you ding 62 and head to HoH it will be so crowded you will barely have a mob to kill. In addition to tradeskill items, look for quest items while you're there to sell in the bazaar. Identifying those kind of items is easier now since they are tagged as tradeskill, quest, etc.

It is worth coming back.

Another great way to get yourself some upgrades to your current equipment is through tradeskills. I takes a bit to get them high enough, what with farming the drops, doing the cultural quests to get your books, but in my opinion is it worth it. Group as normal, but watch for those tradeskill drops. Cultural Armor is a great way to go, until find something better on a raid. Jewelcraft will provide several pieces that can suffice till find something better on a raid. As I said though, it does take some time to get to the point to where you can make these items. While you are leveling, there are some good quests in the newer expansions that can net you some good gear, and experience as well. Once you are high enough level, head to The Buried Sea and do the Dagmire Hand Augment quests. LOL, there are 39 of them to complete, I think, but it is a very nice augment, and you will level several times, probably, while doing it. Anyway, thats my take on it. Just something to do to level, other than the ole routine way. Definitely check out the hotzones for groups.

What server did you roll on if you dont mind me asking?

edit: pselling pwoned me

Edited, Jan 11th 2008 12:53pm by rosleck

I would say that it would be best to go out and buy the SoF discs. It would catch you up on all expansions to date. That way you will not be limited in where you are able to go and get XP and/or loot. I recently had to reinstall EQ (HD went boom), and with the SoF discs + a 26.4 dialup, I was back up in about 12 hours. With a broadband connection, that would certainly make it fairly quick.