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Hiya guys,

I used to play EQ1 a looong time ago, then eventually ended up on WoW. I played WoW for about 2 years, and I just quit a few weeks ago. Theres that 'something' missing in WoW- in EQ1 I was a dark elf necro, and I was evil, and felt evil when I played. In WoW, no matter what I tried to play, even Undead, I felt like I was playing Rainbow Bright Online, and just got fed up with it.

So I went back to EQ, except this time I'm on a mac so it was the 100% neglected EQMac server that hasn't had a patch since 2004... I played that for about 20 minutes. There was no way in hell I would have been able to get past level 5 anyways, as most of the people are at the higher levels and just raid all day, and plus I don't like the huge grind (going from breezing through levels then back to EQ1 feels like hell).

Anyways, now that my entire boring autobiography is up there (sorry for making it so long!) my question is this- I'm planning on getting a newer Mac (I hear EQ2 runs fine through Windows on Boot Camp), but is it worth it? Are the servers still very populated, and is there a good amount of people on all level ranges? I just dont want to get Windows XP and all the EQ2 expansions and stuff, then end up not using it at all.

Also- I was thinking playing either Necro or Inquisitor (dark elf of course :D ), are necroes wanted in groups in this game? Are inquistors able to solo well (i know every class can solo in this game, but does it take 4 minutes in between mobs to recover?)

Thanks guys and sorry if this post is 3 miles of boring stuff.

Any class can solo, but some classes are more efficient than others.

Inquisitors are primarily cleric style healers, so they take a long time to kill things compared to other classes. The benefit is you're hard to kill with plate armor, buffs and heals.

EQ2 evil/good NPC faction scripts seem a bit forced and shallow. FP side are scripted to be insulting and abusive while the Kelethin faction come off as rose sniffing cry babies.

"I saw a rainbow the other day and cried because it was so beautiful."

/gag

Edit: yeah you'll be picking sunflowers at some point - sorry.

Edited, Mar 5th 2007 3:35pm by Trappin

I am a dark elf necro and I don't feel evil I am evil. I like going into qeynos and soloing the guards as the tree huggers run to find a tree. It only takes a few minutes for me to find a group with my necro if I want one. Plus they solo very well if you do have trouble finding one.

Freeport has the feel of living under the yoke of the opressive Overlord. He's evil, but most of the people really not so much. I have a low level Dark Elf necro think they do feel pretty evil, they hate everyone else and don't particularly want to be in Freeport. Once you're outside your home continent in T4 (EL, Zek, Feerrott on up) it's the same for everyone. I think many more quests have you playing the nice guy than the other way around. I don't feel right doing evil things for quests.

Qeynosians don't hug trees, we cut them down to make weapons to kill the Overlord's pusillanimous sychophants who are trying to take away our freedom.