few quick q's from a WR newb

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Veriz

Dalayan Beginner
Hi all,

I spent a few years playing a monk to 65 and 50 or so AA and quit not long after PoP came out. His name was Verizar on brell serilis. I am considering reinstalling eq to play on the WR server (great concept by the way), I just have a few questions to see if this is the right place for me.

My first concern is that I live in Australia and so play very late/early morning in US time. My timezone is GMT+10hrs and I play probably from 10pm. I think that is around 5am PST onwards. If I'm going to be consistently the only person online at this time then there wouldn't be a whole lot of point. So, does anyone know if there are many people online at this time? or conversely, how many people on the server at peak/other times? I visited the irc chat but noone seemed to be awake =)

Second question is, which classes solo best (particularly post 30, and even post 50 and all the way to 65) ? I would love to DC but my comp is an old P3 500mhz, 256mb ram, 32mb nvidia... so my guess is it probably couldn't handle it. Can any classes solo effectively to 65? At the moment I am leaning toward a bard, is this a good choice?

One last stupid question, I have no space on my harddrive and so will have to delete a lot of stuff to reinstall eq. How much space does eq roughly take up with all expansions up to pop?

Thanks for any help guys.
 
peak time populations are anywhere from 70 to 120 online.

bard is probly a good choice, not only are they the most lacking class on the server, but they do solo well all the way up. you may be suprized as to how lag free WR can be, i couldnt DC on live at all, but on WR i DC every day, even at raids and i dont have many lag issues, just a few drops when i zone both at the same time

with EQ and all current expansions, it takes up 3.4 gigs, so just up to pop, im sure it will take up a bit less

hope that helps, welcome to WR :)
 
Don't know what your play time would be in EST but there are usually atleast 30 people on around the clock with the server topping out around 140 at prime time EST on the weekends.

Enchanters are the best solo class by far. One can get 65 in a matter of days if you know what you are doing. Bards have a similar lesser ability due to their weaker charm songs. Everyone else slows down, or it isnt even possible, so much that soloing isnt even worth it as a primary way of getting exp.
 
Thanks for the responses guys.

Seems like there are some people online when I play and that bard is indeed a good class (ench isn't my style).

Zukmar: I still am skeptical about DC'ing with my comp specs, unless you have similar? or know that it is doable with my machine?

I guess it wouldn't be too hard to test out anyway.
 
Hey.


The reason no one talked to you in mIRK is because everyone was prolly playing on WR. I've never been on there when there wasn't at least 90 people on the server.

Also, in my opinion, my favorite classes for soloing are necros and beastlords. Enchanters are quite good too, but I find its risky with them. I find their power is always dangling from a thread. hehe.

Anyways, have fun!

:D
 
Hey Danun,

Been a long time. Are you still playing on VS as well? I see from wanelo you have a lvl 20 sk on WR. How are things going? What lead you to the WR server? How is your friend you live with? I am having a mental blank and can't remember his name. I am going to kick myself as soon as I hear it. He played an enchanter in our PoV cave groups when PoP hadn't been around for too long, before you both transferred. Were fun times.

Raherin,

That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.
 
I quit EQ bout 6 months ago. Had a great time on VS, was guilded with many ex-brellians like Chuey, Tolpan, Aazeroth, Twaggie, Rafael, Vendrengha etc. I started playing on WR just for the fun of it :p Can't say I'm that active here on WR though :)


The chanter you're thinking about it probably Sativas (Savitas, after the GMs changed his name)? He quitted EQ same time as me. He also have a char here on WR. We both are probably gonna check out EQ2, so look us up if you're doing the same :)

Anyway. What about you? How come you're here on WR? Not playing on Brell anymore?

Nice talking to you again Verizar :)


-Danun
 
Danun D'amien said:
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Wasn't that a danish druid? With like way too much money?

And as for dc'ing - On Windows ME I could dc with 320 ram, 550 mhz and a 32 mb TNT2, so... yeah
 
Savitas of course! I knew I would kick myself.

Please say hello to him for me.

I've been retired for a very long time. Would have only been a couple of months after you guys transferred when I quit. Zenith is doing pretty well these days, in the elementals now I hear, but sadly there aren't all that many names on the roster that I know. I'll definitely be looking at eq2 when it comes out, has the most potential out of all the MMOG's IMO.

I'm planning to start on WR, but only in a very, very casual way. Installing as I type and hopefully will get on there tonight. I hope we can meet up there sometime.
 
Just slip me a PM or reply on this post whenever you're good to go here on WR bud :)


And Homogen; Where are you from? Esbjerg? Seems there are many peeps from Esbjerg on VS. Chuey, a real close EQ friend came over from Esbjerg last summer to visit me. And I'm going over there this year to visit him and the others :)
 
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