Hello DAoC'ers!

I was quite excited when I saw the 10th anniversary video Mythic put together and decided to give it another go .. I have been away for around 9 years so I am pretty much a new player at this point.

I loged into Gaheris and couldnt find anyone ... which was rather disheartening. I play on west coast time, it was around 7pm and couldnt find a soul.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to make it as a new player on Gaheris who is unwilling to run a second account to use a "buffbot" (I think thats what you guys are calling them)

Also what class arch-types are in demand ... I am assuming either tank or healer and am having a hard time deciding which one I will enjoy more ... help me tip the scales

Luckily, it is easier than ever for a non botted player to get going.

The tutorial will get you started, and even better the rewards as you quest from 1-35 will keep you very close to capped on the non toa stats and skills. You'll get a couple of mounts, a merchant summoning stone, and about a plat or so by the time you are 35 doing the questline. From there look into a guild (heck you could look sooner if you want honestly always nce to have someone to blah blah at while leveling) and also do tasks, or task dungeons, or other quests, or just grind till you hit 45. Then it is time to visit CV where you can get to 50 in quick measure. As you level from 35-50 the borderkeeps have merchants that sell gear to get you from 35-49.

A good starting class that is always welcome on almost every raid is the rejuve/enhance heretic. They have hefty dps and can toss a heal now and again.

Archers are also a good solo class to level, as are friars, vamps are good but some people hate them and they are not considered useful in raids (though they rarely have their claw damage resisted, which seems a useful dps skill to me)

 

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Pent is right.. start with a tic (friar is good too but tic's are much more popular fer groups)

Then make one spec buffer (druid and cleric seem to be more popular than shammy due to ease of making endo pots), one tank and one pbaoe.. after that would recommend a thuergist (earth fer gaheris).

When exploring new areas I use my archer (any will do but ranger or scout are better fer pve imho than the hunter) with high enough stealth to sneak past higher level common mobs I don't feel like killing.

Have fun and hope to see ya out there

 

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Pentegarn, thanks for the info!

So far I made a paladin (figured tanks might be needed at some point) and am just cruising through the levels (played about 3 hours so far and am almost level 20)

I tried to play a Heretic and kinda got stomped on (compared to the paladin anyhow). It seemed to me that the only decent damage skill they had was useless if you were soloing and had to take any kind of damage and loose concentration on the spell. Does this improve with level at all?

At what point do you think I will start seeing people? This place is totally devoid of people at the moment, which kinda concerns me

BTW is your avatar from that movie "The Last Dragon"?

I will answer the most important question first. Yes my avatar is Sho'Nuff

With a tic, you need to pull from max range, and make very sure you go full enhance and the rest rejuve. Without those spec buffs you are like paper. With them you have plate equivalent defense.

The people tend to all hang out in Labby and frontiers honestly, the trip to 50 is a lonely one these days. I really suggest you find a guild. You may not see bodies on your screen, but you will at least then see chatter, which does cut into the monotony of soloing.

 

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slam ftw

 

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This thread is now about The Last Dragon and Blaxploitation!!!





This I found out the hard way .. after dying several times on noobie island (so embarising)I have been putting all my points into Rejuve for the Focus DPS spells .. so I will switch it around to Enhance as main, and rejuve as secondary. Any need for a weapon style? Looks like the flex weapon style has some nice life steal attacks.





The only guild invite i have gotten so far is from some weirdo named Commanderjobo or something like that .. and he just kept asking me if I was a girl ... very creepy!

So just put enough points into shield for Slam? Or keep going with it at some point?

If you need a guild LM can invite you, you seem OK, just do a /who LM and ask for me, likely it is me you will contact.

I advise going crush instead of flex, and as for melee styles your champ levels will cover those at 50 and just auto swing will finish off mobs other than that on the way to 50

Also, never listen to anything Password says, he is a creature devoted to chaos and misery. Just ignore anything he says in regards to the game as his advice is designed to mess your toon up.

 

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but you like slam tic

also that made my day time to change the sig

 

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