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Holy paladins are Gods in Arena PvP right now, but they're toning down (read: nerfing) one of their main Holy talents in the upcoming patch, as I'm sure you're well aware.

Pretty much any class with a healing spell will do well with mages. Priests have the added benefit of Shield spells, but if you want true versatility, roll a druid.

I'd agree with this. By the time I got to Orc Highway I ws already keeping a list of people to never group with again. So while a group-oriented game may not make it impossible for bad players to reach high-level, it affords you more opportunities to meet these retards and avoid them in the future, and also to meet folks you mesh well with, and continue to group with for many levels. This sort of community self-policing is one of my favorite things about MMO's, wherein one gains a reputation and is actually remembered for it. It's actually facilitated by a smaller, tight-knit population and a hesitance to just throw toons away and start from scratch.

In close to five years of pretty much daily EQ playing, I had some low-level alts, but mainly played my ranger(who ended at 55, but had his epics, wewt) and my bard who I started later and was level 65 when I left for WoW. Both of these characters had great reputations, people outside of my guild knew me as a leader and a good player. Why? Because we played together, and we enjoyed it, instead of grouping with folks only when it served our own selfish wants.

I absolutely hate that about newer games where soloing is so prevelant. People get together to do a quest or two, an instance, and when it's over they disband and go their seperate ways without more than a few words. It's the opposite of community.

I'm rambling and I don't care, but what I'm saying is that for the most part I really don't dig this genre anymore because of how watered down and accesible it has become. I'm an elitist prick and I thought everyone else here was too. I want to ostracize people and have it mean something, that's what I need out of my gaming.

Too bad you didn't really make it to end game in EQ, then. You'd have loved being in a raid guild. (How's that for elitist? Snippy enough?)

Some people in my guild along with a couple of other end-game guilds created an alt guild called "Legions of Ducks and Bunnies". The tag line on our server was, "No, you can't join." Daily loot postings included whatever Emperor Crush dropped, along with rusty daggers and small cloth caps.

Good times, and good times in a way that most WoW players would not appreciate, at all.

To be honest, I've never played one past the late teens, but I've grouped with several very good druids. The standard leveling build is undoubtably feral, but that doesn't mean you can't shift out of cat/bear form, heal up, then shift right back and get to business. Plus, you actually regen mana while in feral forms!

The soloing (and therefore duoing) efficiency is simply ludicrious.


"Ludicrious speed? Sir, we've never gone that fast before. I'm not sure if the ship can take it."
"What's the matter Colonel Sanders? Chicken?!"

The problem is? Feral Druid at low lvls reminds me too much of the pally grind...


It burrrrrnnnnnnnsssssss!


ok fine what's your frelling mage's name - but you should know, PvP makes me all askeert Oh that and I'm trying to get my 66 pally to 70...

Demea, on the Anetheron server. Alliance side. I'll even hook you up with a guild invite to TFS, the Allakhazam guild (although I warn you that they're mostly WoW Main Forum posters, with Aadyn and myself as the only regular Asylumites).

So... you'll also paint a target on my back? :-P

I know you guys, I've been on the class forums enough!

They're in the middle of Kara, and fielding two groups at the moment. They should be pretty solid when they get to the 25-man content, since there are several people quickly approaching 70, and others that don't show up 100% of the time due to RL issues.

Priest? No felhound?

That's it I'm deleting my toon there.

I absolutely hate that about newer games where soloing is so prevelant. People get together to do a quest or two, an instance, and when it's over they disband and go their seperate ways without more than a few words. It's the opposite of community.
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it is the casual community. i have played both. the community wasnt really that much closer in EQ. in any guild you had a hand full of people who joked around alot and were memorable, but for the most part, people helped each other because they HAD to or they were not going to get help with their quests. not because they WANTED to.

dont get it confused that just becasue people were more helpfull, it was because they were a better group and WANTED too.

same players. i would bet 90 percent of the people who USED to play EQ are or have played WoW. same people. only differance is....they dont HAVE to any more. bang, a quest is done, off to another. no more 4 ot 6 hour playing sessions because they HAD to if they wanted their epic. anyone remember the necro epic plane of sky part? rofl. i guarentee you not a one person who completed that quest WANTED to do a 8 to 10 hour raid.......for one person......

same people. just less restrictions on how you HAVE to play.

the same people who played EQ are the same people playing WoW. yes, WoW has more, but the people you found in EQ can be found in WoW too.

i see alot of whinning about the players in WoW, but you know what? i read alot of whinning about players in EQ too when it was new. not to mention the intentional training, kill stealing, camp stealing, and a whole lot of GM petitioning.

funny how quickly we forget the bad stuff.

it is people in general. i joined a guild for older players, and they play several games. same people, a whole lot less grief and "leet duddez" in chat. it fits me. you just have to find a guild that fits you. they are out there, just have to look. and they wont be the ones spamming you with guild invites, they will be the ones that invite you after playing with you a few times.

but you can find the same community in any of the online games out right now. just have to look. you can find the same griefing in any of them too, unfortunatly, you dont really have to look very hard for that.

the guild im in plays WoW, EQ2, now Vanguard. we did D&D online for a couple months too.

as long as your guild has its own web site, and not one sponsered by sony, you dont have to loose your guild when you leave a particular game.

but alot of people expect to get into a great guild right away, and expect them to help them eny time they might need something. then, they dont bother to visit the web sites, or sign up for dungons or raids, or dont show up when they are posted, or are too busy "dpong their own thing" when it happens and they are on line.

you get what you give with a good guild. you give and give and give and get nothing in return from the "everyone is welcome" guilds. just been my experience anyway.