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Message ID: 4621
Date: Tue Apr 29 14:50:18 BST 2003
Author: Kent King
Subject: Re: [EverQuest] some encouragement for a humble newb
> Hi__________________________________
> As a newb, its hard not to feel a little intimidated
> by the
> discussions here. I am in AWE of you people even
> though I don't
> understand half of what you say. I long for the day
> when I can talk
> about the finer ponts of EQ like you guys.
>
> For the moment I have a love/hate relationship with
> EQ after playing
> for about two months or so. Its a type of game I
> have never
> experienced before - I am totally fascinated and
> mildly (well, at the
> moment!) addicted. The game boths thrills and scares
> me. I find
> myself nervously approaching the PC every night
> mentally preparing
> myself for the dangers ahead. Once I'm in, I am
> immersed. GET THAT
> LEVEL UP is my only goal.
>
> When I levelled 10 I knew that I was going to have
> to deal with REAL
> dying and corpse retrieval. Boy, that was - and
> still is - a
> learning experience. The first few times I got so
> depressed that I
> vowed to give up and cancel my subscription. But I
> crawled to lvl 11
> and am much more careful about conning.
>
> By nature I am not a team player so grouping is
> still a bit alien to
> me although I realise its the only fast way to get
> xp. But too often
> I find myself in groups that just gung ho for
> everything in sight
> hitting anything that moves (= Excelsis having to
> retrive his corpse
> ONCE more in some weird, out of the way loc).
>
> Can I ask you guys some questions? I reckon a 1/5
> bub a night is
> pretty average to aim for. That would lvl me up once
> a week. Is that
> the norm? How long did it take you in the beginning?
>
> I have tried to solo in Black Burrow but that is
> well nigh impossible
> on your own. Grouping is the only way but I HATE
> that place so much
> it makes me so nervous to go there. I am soloing in
> West Kerana but
> grizzly and giant spider spawns are pretty rare so I
> spend a lot of
> time hanging around and trying to avoid the bandits
> (by the way, they
> seem to be walking all over WK recently, not just
> around their huts.
> Is this new?)
>
> Any advice and encouragement you can give me is
> greatly appreciated.
> I know I'm not alone, but sometimes it feels as
> though I am! I use
> the English server Venril Sathir (I live in
> Amsterdam) and sometimes
> the zones are completely deserted. Is it like that
> on the US servers
> as well?
>
> Hope to hear from some of you anyway, especially
> your experiences and
> feelings about EQ when you first started. I'm off
> again now to that
> HUGE VAST world that we all know and love (and
> sometimes hate...)
>
> Excelsis
> Erudite Paladin 11
>
>