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gypsyprince
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Me and like 4 friends are considering starting eq. I am the only one that has played eq, and am wondering if it is still hard as hell to get a good group at high end. Also, after taking a few years off eq, i was wondering what the best 5 person group is?
-thanks for your feedback
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If you and your four other friends stay in level with each other, their shouldn't be any problem getting a group
My favorite group would have to be:
Cleric, Shaman, Monk, Bard, and Wizard
My personal favorite all-purpose 5 man group would be shadow knight, cleric, shaman, mage and either a chanter (buffs/pacify/CC) or a bard.
My son says warrior, cleric, bard, shaman, and wizard.
Getting a good group at the high end (meaning level 70ish) isn't too hard. Midlevels can be sort of hellish for grouping, since there aren't that many people in those levels on many servers. If you have DoD and don't mind doing a lot of monster missions, it isn't hard to get a group at any level.
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Oh, that would be a pretty good group too! Pretty quick killing, too, I am thinking.
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Oops, sorry this post got doubled
omg i miss playing this game
cleric, Shadowknight, ranger, chanter and shaman. well... thats what i think anyway... rangers own
coooool
SWG is at its final stand. They will try to survive until Christmas ie the TooW expansion. Then depending on whether or not PS3 numbers look good or bad, they will either shut it down or it will live on in console.
If I were a betting man, I would say it fails.
Actually, the servers are quite populated. They may not have as many servers as they once did, but you can't say "hardly anyone plays it" because there are plenty of people who still do. Maybe hardly anyone YOU knows plays, or maybe you logged on at an odd time, but "hardly anyone plays it" wouldn't be my reason for walking away from EQ.
Why am I talking to a troll? WHY?! WHY?!!?!! Someone slap me now!
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You don't need the codes to reinstall if you already have an account that you can reactivate. You only need the codes if you need a new account. You can download the trilogy for free, and then patch the rest of the expansions in. That's what I did recently. I don't even think I own disks anymore.
Monks can tank a lot in regular, leveling up exp groups these days. I've done level 50-60ish LDoN groups with a monk and no tank, and I have done them with no cleric either.
In most situations you'd take a 5 man group into, a SK or a pally is as good as a warrior for tanking. Remember, PoP was the golden age of the knight, when warriors couldn't get a group to save their lives. There's been some rebalancing and now warriors are kings of tanking again, but SKs and pallies are nearly as good. For that matter, in a lot of zones that used to be high level, mage pets can tank as well as a warrior. A level 70 or whatever mage pet with all the goodies and AAs and focus and craziness is a freakin' BEAST. (My husband's main is a level 70 mage.)
Crowd control isn't what it used to be either. Most places just plain don't need it, and people would often rather get a KEI in PoK and use root parking for CC so they can have extra DPS where the chanter would be... and they don't know how to act if they DO have a chanter in the group. (GrrrRRRrrr... on behalf of those of us who enjoy playing enchanters.) Maybe that got started because there weren't enough enchanters to go around. I dunno. I just know that being an enchanter isn't an automatic "in" for a group these days.
Bards are a good choice for sheer versatility-- they can not only CC, and even slow in a pinch, but they can snare also, which is nice, as well as singing mana song, which stacks with that 4 hour KEI you got in PoK. And they actually get up and hit the mob. On the other hand, it isn't the most common class out there, and it is one that is hard to play well. For building a 5 man group from scratch... Eh, chanter or bard. Either is good, and you'll likely have a shaman and a cleric who can root park in an emergency.
These days, also, at the high level, everyone has what would once have been considered an outrageous number of hp, so you see rangers and beastlords tanking from time to time. Just today I was in a group in Wall of Slaughter where they decided that a level 70 ranger in good gear would be a much better tank than my level 64 sk in crappy gear. While I was there, I just got a pretty common ring today that has 105 hp on it. It was going to rot. Everyone else had it or had something better. Of course... they also need those hp just to get by in newer zones.
And then there are shrouds. If you want your monk to be a warrior, he can be a warrior. If you want him to be a rogue or a wizard or a cleric, he can do that too. And then there are the very popular monster missions, where noone is their own class at all. (My little SK went from level 62 to level 64 just today running the Guk mission, and earned an AA too. The cleric I share with my husband hit 63. She was 49 last week. She was in a group in Ssra AND getting the Monster Mission exp today at the same time.)
I'm sorry if this comes off badly. Please know it isn't really directed at you. I have been on this board too long, perhaps. Many people who haven't played in a long time come around and talk about what EQ is and what it isn't, not realizing how much the game changes over the course of a single year.
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Monk not a tank??! Sorry buddy but my level 24 monk can sure tank the crap out of a much higher warrior. So i disagree with your ''Monk isn't a tank'' sentence.
hobbitofhell ,
Well i am sorry if you getting upset at me, i haven't played EQ in several years. From what i recalled a Monk wasn't the best choice for a Tank, especially at higher levels. Sure Monks did just fine at lower levels tanking. i do recall them doing great damage and was totally needed for pulling mobs but if you had them tank, the clerics would be working overtime because Monks have little armor class gear.
And thank you neschria for the CD key advice will try that .
Cleric-always a necessity, best healer in game, nuff said
Warrior- the best tanks, no one has the hp of warriors
Enchanter-crowd control and buffs out the wazoo
Paladin-great off tank and decent back up healer
*Rogue/Monk-melee dps
Wizard/Magician-gotta get the caster dps
*can substitute rogue or monk for a bard depending on the dps of your warrior or paladin, bards offer all the intangibles i.e. hp regen, mana regen, slowing, mezing, a little bit of everything
Id would go with
Sk (Pulling,tank), cleric (duh!), beastlord (Slows, buffs,dps),druid (Buffs, ports, nukes, dots) & any dps class you like Necro, rouge,monk,zerker etc
You can always switch the bst for a shammy if you want abit better slows but I prefer the extra dps that bst gives you.
I like Warrior Cleric Enchanter Mage Beastlord personally can mix it up with several other classes tho
Oh and if you guys do decide to start up Consider coming to Povar and looking up the Knights of the Coffee Table guild 
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