This server's all about warriors, paladins and clerics. There's no actual raiding or anything like you know from standard EQ. By that I mean there is no CC, or slowing mobs, or any strategy of any kind. A huge chunk of the server population plays a warrior (or pally) with a cleric or pally on autofollow to heal them. Maybe you'll see a druid in the mix on autofollow too. Shaman are nothing more than buff bots as you'll learn (epic 3.0 buff). Guilds rarely NEED anything because like I said there is no raiding. Cloth classes are extremely irrelevant here with the exception of mage for CotH.  BST's are pretty popular, because their end-game pets are stupid OP.

That being said there seems to be more and more people rolling the "useless" classes which are pretty much everything except the aforementioned. I myself play a zerker which is alot of fun. I think playing a dps class or a non plate class in general is refreshing here.

As to what you mentioned - There are some Necros here and there and they seem to have fun. You'll certainly gear up fast since there's no cloth competition around. 99.999% of the clerics you see are boxes of a tank class. You'll always have a group that's for sure. Either way you'll be dependent on warrior and pally friends to get anything accomplished once you hit 70. Make sure you join a guild that does Qvic + for their members otherwise you'll be doing ALOT of LFG or saying "WTB Qvic legs pst" and spend most of your time farming gold.

I tried to go fight Bertox tonight for some nostalgia. I did the flag event in CoD just because. The chair at the entrance doesn't work, but there's some NPC that was not there on live named "Barban Cryptwalker", with "Bertoxxulous Event" under his name. Hailing him does nothing. I tried killing him to see if that did anything but he is like a practice dummy x 100. Resisted all my 3.0 AoE's and everything. Can someone shed light on the whole Bertox thing? If CoDB is broke, what's this NPC doing here?