Pet classes are cheap. Beastlords you can spend money on to make beefy. I'd pick beast.

I'd pick beast AND another pet class, cloth rot loot is bad! :-)

Do as Xiggie says, roll a pet class. It will be the best dps until way later in game, and very easy to box. Mages bring COH, which is a nice utility, necros can FD and rez, while offering about the same dps as a mage. Beastlords pets are gimp (hitpointwise) and die easily, but do great damage, and the beastlord itself has great improvement potential once you get to the point where you can spend millions of PP on augs.

Later on you need to either run 4-6 chars or join a guild that regularily group to progress anyway, and you can fairly easily roll up more chars once your have your first two chars established and at epic 3.0+ level if that is your wish.

Welcome

@cyrcrost. I like the UI so far, but the cast bar is not one of my favorites. I'd prefer to have either all 9 gems in a row horizontally or vertically, and not in two rows as it is now.

SoD or Underfoot (I use SoD) should both be good, missing LoH on my pallies mean nothing since you get so much healing from epics anyway. I only keep a Titanium installation around for two things - farming PGT in Highpass and augmenting the items that cant be augmented in SoD (range slots with 1h aug, ninjastrikes on some weapons)

If it did, everyone would be running with a bard

I've tried to update this somewhat, new version : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApPKuxzmULqYdEgtNVA2Wk9PR3A1T0ZZMGpRdXRjZ3c&hl=en_US


Credits to Kuniko for the epic 3.5 info and Hagoth for everything else.

MAG = CG only
CLR = CG first, also FG when you get to epic 3.5+ level and start actually meleeing
PAL = FG - personally I'd only consider CG if I started ROA'ing the char, to get casting skills back up fast.
WAR = only FG, obviously

The ring is just a way to port in, the real benefit is the trainer NPC (guild melee trainer or something) that maximise all your melee/combat skills (needed for all melee chars), and the hitpoints food + resurrect clicky you can buy from guild vendor.

For casters guild the benefit is the CG ring with pet clicky, mana regen food, manastone from vendor, and maxed casting skills at trainer. Also with CG you can hail your pet to equip fireswords which are needed for all pet classes.

And of course, for both guilds, you get access to the hushed bankquet zone for your epic 2.5 books and buffs by hailing your pet.

Grats. It always feels better when you can do it without some epic 4.0 dude killing stuff for you

There's some lifetap weapon aug, cant remember the name. Keep it in bank even after you replace it, eventually you'll need one as a "trash aug" to fit multiple FSV's

As for druids and shamans, unfortunately those two classes are mainly delegated to "buff bot" duty on this server, for the most part. Personally I'd add a second paladin, semi-dps and more heals.

Ugh..Qvic plate legs farm, I am sorry for your loss

MQ2 shows you all mobs on map etc, and players (a bit laggy for players information often). Useful for seeing what mobs are up, finding froglog forager etc etc.  The information on mobs/bosses in standard EQ maps are just placed there by players, and does not show if the mobs are actually spawned and alive, MQ2 does show this.

Once your box army is all level 70, just go straight to Plane of time, no real need to gear up much in BoT if you have tank/heal.