The repsonse of "help others before you ask for help yourself" is spot on.
If anything, I'd think it would be easier on new players today than it was back then. When I did Qvic, Anguish was the 'top end zone' of the server and was too buggy. So there was solid competition for Qvic Spawn while PoDragons was being coded. And very little rotted, certainly no tokens.
I agree with these statements. Here are my thoughts on getting War, Cler, and Rogue 3.0s back when Anguish was the end game zone versus returning and over the last few weeks getting Druid and Wiz 3.0s. I started righting this with more detail but I'm just going to make it short, well shorter.
I started off with a solo War. I got some help along the way but always helped more people than I got. Which benefited me as I progressed because I had more people to group with when I needed it. I made a Druid for heals and a Mage for dps but I played them solo when groups were around cause I wasn't a big fan of boxing.
Server was alot emptier then so there were pluses and negatives:
Positive:
FG/CG camps were more frequently no wait.
Less bottleneck spawns.
People grouped more because fewer people.
Got to play to progress.
Negatives:
Less help from advanced players.
Slow crawls through PoTime and LDoN.
Longer respawn times (an issue of the era)
I actually took my 2.5 War through Qvic and got him flagged, sometimes grouping with some others who always had 2.5s, or less and healing by my Druid. I made a Cleric and Rogue after getting 3.0s for War because it was requested by a guild I was joining.
I was kind of pissed when someone asked in OOC if a 2.5 War can effectively tank Qvic. I mean thats the way it was intended. That just kind of shows how different the server is. People can go through LDoN and Qvic maybe having to kill only two bosses because other players who were looking for maybe just a set of chain boots killed them and left stuff rotting.
I made the Wiz from scratch like a week and some change ago. I obviously had other toons to help me but for a class as terrible at solo playing as Wizard I didnt really need to use my other toons. People are running partial groups through LDoN all the time and pages are always rotting because they are there for points. In Qvic I could just walk up to a group with less than 6 and say hey I will dps for some tokens or cloth.
As for the CG guild camps the main benefit of my other toons was their abilites, like Druid track and Rogue lock pick. To be honest I help people with those things all the time if they say in OOC or send a tell while my toons are sitting around. With Wiz camping most items himself for CG it took about 1.5 sessions of playing. The worst stuff being crappy drop rates and spawn times, not so much waiting in line. I would think if you have 14 hours to play you could find a time to play that is off hours from the majority.
Zolton it seems like you should spend less time asking for help in /ooc and more time getting to know some people by walking up to them and talking or helping people behind you so you have a group. Keep at it. I see people all the time in zones lfg. I myself sometimes only feel like playing 1 toon and join groups rather than 5 boxing.
You can even send me a tell because I usually have a spot open for dps or will drop one my boxed toons for an actual person because its less hassle.
