Totally new to EQ2 @_@Follow

Hey, I'm a long time MMORPG'er, going back to UO and spanning alot of other games up to Age of Conan.. and that was a short lived experience. Anyways, I'm d/ling EQ2, and was wanting to get some input on the game. I played EQ1, a bit, but at the time I was an Ultima Online fan. And I just kept putting EQ2 off for some reason.

At the moment, I'm playing FFXI and sitting on various lvl 75 jobs in that game, and I'm just.. bored. WoW isn't for me, I played like right after it came out, and played on and off up to WotLK. Keywords there = on and off. I kept telling myself the game may "pick up" at some point, but in the end, I realized it just continued to suck pretty hard; fyi Alliance on Tichondrius must be the whiniest babies in any mmo I've played to date.


Anyways, between playing mmo's, I've always looked over EQ2 for some reason, but here recently I feel particularly drawn to it. I'm hoping to make a home in it for a couple of months at least, and maybe a few years. It always looked interesting, but my MMO experience goes like this..

UO, solid for years, EQ1-- after I got bored of Ultima, back to UO a bit, then to SWG to get the last bit of Pre-CU even CU but quit shortly before NGE due to people warning me it was going to suck I didn't ever try it after NGE went live I just kinda.. died a little inside and played UO a couple of more months then I started playing FFXI.. and then wow a bit, then FFXI, then wow, and FFXI and dabbled in Age of Conan a bit. I may have missed a few like F2P mmo's but those are kinda forgettable at best, and mildly greivous most of the time. Oh, and randomly played Lineage II a couple of weeks at a time, that game just failed to "hook" me like most pay to play games did. LoTRO somewhere in the mix, but I didn't stick with it long, I made it to 42 I think, before Mines of Moria came out, mostly because i was bored with FFXI back then, but I played this while playing FFXI for the most part. I love MMO's, mostly because there are great communities in them, and lots of just things to kill time doing.

Well, sorry to blow your heads off with this giant block of insanely grammatically incorrect text, but please, any input on classes, or races, or sides.. maybe what server would be good... you know, stuff newcomers ask.
TY and a side note, I don't really -need- pvp, and generally enjoy pve moreso than pvp; but enjoy both just more pve'ish.

Firstly, welcome to the party that is EverQuest II. The player base is awesome for this game. I'm always amazed at what great people I meet here.

What to play, hmmm depends which do you like dps, tank and spank, caster, meat shield? It's really up to you. The classes are quite a bit different than what they were in EQI. I'd suggest that you look over all the class info that you can both here and on the EverQuest II website.

If you want a friend to run with look me up on Befallen... One can never have enough friends!

If you like nice community but not so many people and player verse players then goto Vox am not sure of the others but Vox is quiet in the nights and busy in the day but not over busy I like that I can harvest and not get compeition. Player verse player can be scary though I am still not sure I like that and may try another one that is away from that

I have to agree.

Look over each of the classes and see what strikes you as cool then give it an honust try. Say 20-ish since its really easy to do now.

Try a few others as well till you find one that fits.

Race dosn't matter really, those few points you get at start are worthless end game.

If you have played other MMO's keep in mind what class you liked, then look for a class here that dose something similar to that.

In my experience with any mmo is that a guild will always benefit you (unless it's a drama heavy guild, where then I just controdicted myself). There are guilds in all forms in every guild and from what I've seem in EQII that's no different. On AB I searched through a lot of casual, laid back guilds and a few raiding guilds who are seeking new members. And all of them offered help and training in your class, whatever to choose.

When the time comes how do you identify a casual guild?

The best way to find a guild is to jump into some pick up groups (PUG) and ask the folks that you like playing with what thier guild is like. The looking for a guild tool is OK, but it leaves a lot of information about the guild members to guess work.

I disagree. Since most (if not almost all) PUGs SUCK harder than a brand new Dyson, this approach can leave you wanting to claw your eyes out one by one... better to use the tool and then ask some intelligent questions.