I played a Necro solely from 1999-2014. Never felt the other classes could compare. I could solo to 105. I can escape trouble with FD, I could rez, mez, kite and do massive damage while i sat and watched the mob die. DMF anyone?
Necro's were insanely OP in EQOA as well, i think one of the main devs had a soft spot for the undead idk... i was a salty Mage lol, i started off Delf Necro but switched to a Gnome Mage later on. But man did we have some amazing pet models. Oh and our 49 epic as Mages was hands down the best in the game idc what anyone says lol.
@@EQOAnostalgia you are right, not sure if it was McQuaid but there was one who loved the necro. Necros did, however, get nerfed badly for a bit but they made a comeback :)
Played in Beta and for 10 years adn finally quit, now 10 years later i am having a nostalgia bug. I watched this and laughed.. Mage, powerful from start to finish.. Man we where CRAP when i played. Necro pet could tank almost as good and fear made them better. COH and mana rods made us useful when they were put in ( they even said it was to make Mage more desirable) but that was nerfed quickly and back to almost any class being worth more in groups. I stuck with that Mage as my main for 10 years.. I leveled all other classes and got groups, but that mage was just unloved back in the early days i find it funny to hear they are good now.. guess i will find out.
Seriously!? They did the same thing with Mage/Necro in EQOA at first lol. Necro was insanely OP. Mage was meh... then we got Call of the hero and we got invites to raids finally lol.
Bards were VERY underrated throughout the game, mostly because so many players failed to fully grasp their mechanics and all the hidden effects of their songs. For a very long time, people actually believed the class itself sucked for groups, refusing to invite them...again because so many people who played Bards sucked at the class. Truth is, many Bard songs broke the rules for the spells they mimicked. Several of the Bard's crowd control songs bypassed magic resistance altogether, and/or had a built-in memory-wipe. We could literally pacify or mez mobs that Enchanters could not. During the Planes of Power expansion, the really good Bards made several of the "zone-unlocking" encounters almost trivial because of these traits. Too bad my own guild leader never figured it out. He was stuck in the "Bards are only good for mana and resistance songs!" mindset, and never gave my Bard a chance to use his full abilities when raiding. It was so bad, that the guild only managed to beat many of the progression content when the guild leader was offline, which freed me to use my abilities. I chain-pulled the entire Solusek Ro Tower zone all by myself for goodness sake, a feat that was supposed to be impossible without a team of 2-3 necros and monks. But, the guild leader never got to see that stuff, and so I was always relegated to standing in one spot playing my mana and resist songs when he was online. But, they were the top raiding guild on the server, so I stuck with up until the OoW expansion, when the guild leader announced we would be doing everyone else's epic weapon upgrades ... EXCEPT for the Bard epic, because it was "useless for raiding".
I was in the top raiding guild on the Phinigel progression server a year or so ago before I stopped playing, was also one of the highest geared bards on the server, and let me tell you, people in the guild FOUGHT over what bard was in what group and if they didn’t have a bard they’d throw a fit LOL. I can’t imagine being in a guild where people think Bards are useless.
At level cap 65 in 2003/4 i had around 255 AA point on my Elder Druid. No idea how eq1 is these days, but back then charming a bad ass animal and farming even more badass mobs with it was what made me farm1 AA point every 10-15min depending on how lucky i got on charm breaks during a fight and if i could avoid getting one shot after getting summoned to the storm giant after my charmed frog died or lost charm. I'm not quite sure if it's a fun or sad fact i remember playing a toon in a virtual world 15 years ago...
Classes I have played are Ranger, Cleric, Paladin, Rogue, Druid, Bard and Warrior and by far my favorite is Warrior. Loved to 2 box with with Warrior/Bard combo.
Playing from beta 1 through 2008 roughly (then not as much for a few years), I was in a raiding guild. The only content we never did was the Sleeper, we weren't able to do it yet when another guild downed him. All the classes you list were well represented in our raids, all the way from the original 2 dragons, through Fear and Hate, through the Planes, and onward. That was the great thing about EQ, class dependency was real, and each had a role to play. My main was an Enchanter, but I also had a Wizard, Monk, and Cleric high enough level to bring to Plane raids depending on what was needed. Loved porting groups up with my Wizard.
My first love and what made me fall in love with a mmo. I hope one day Daybreak looses or sells this licence and a company can pick it up and make the next chapter and really enjoy this legendary title for what it is. Classic
Maybe just someone remakes the game with the graphics of modern games like Black Desert or Blade & Soul as well as the customization of the races and my god it could be awesome.
I played a DRUID when Ruins of Kunark came out. It was fun (portals used to be very important as well as SOW). I left EQ when WOW came out but still miss it and the way the people were in the game there. WOW has become disconnected from the people interactions and everything is HURRY as fast as you can so you can do it again. I played and enjoyed the heck out of Warrior and Monk as well! Nice video, memory lane....
nice video. I"m just starting in eq and I'm gravitating to Magician because of the crazy ability to solo everything. Melee classes just seem too weak, but I'm also poor and new. Still feels like I'm auto attacking for 15 when my mage can cast a spell and hit for 200. Magic is simply OP
1.Ogre Shaman 2.Ogre Warrior 3. Troll SK 4.Gnome Necro , Dark Elf Necro 5. Erudite MAG Runner ups Iskar Beast lord Human Bard Races has to do with starts after AAs it doesn't matter much except Trolls, Iskar - HP regen , Ogre - No Frontal stun
SK could do anything we wanted, We could solo, tank, pull mobs, and be a general bad a$$. Too many mobs for the group? Feign death than death cloud the single mob. Pally couldn't do that. We could also summon our own pets.
@@zaxxon216 I loved playing an SK (pally was my main). SK was the better soloer by far, but pally was the better group tank. Being able to not be stunned (Ogre SK) was HUGE for a spell-casting tank class. That ability, plus feign death, regular invis, snare, levitate, and regular fear were things my pally would have killed to have. Although, when playing my SK, I really missed having the group HP/AC buffs, heals, stuns, pacify, and resurrect spells from my pally.
The aggro thing for pally vs warrior was the reverse in classic. Pally originally had many more aggro abilities than Warrior. I would say they still do in ways by being able to cast spells.
I agree completely with the Bard thing... I started up an Ogre Warrior on Phinigel server like 3 years ago and joined a casual raid guild that barely had like 2 Bards. There was no demand for any specific class but, Bard songs are pretty amazing for group and raids. Our raid leader made sure to have the Bard in his group every raid lol...
Best classes - necro - mage - Druid - wiz Warrior - bard Zeru dark elf sk , povar 1999 - 2007. R.I.P. EQ Sometimes you can’t go home . Had the most fun playing Druid / bard / rogue
one nice thing about pallys is you can pull and tank witch is a really fun and active way to play. liked seeing your pally i don't play anymore but i posted a video of my pally so id remember him
I have a paladin.. he was max level but they recently raised the level cap this last December but I did buy the expansion of what the friends and family for like $250 or whatever
Druid Necro. Nothing says good times like kiting an entire zone behind you with no fear of ever dying. Oh you want to steal my mobs...port away come back 2 minutes later person is dead and begging for help to get their body. Necro FD and watch the person die to the 20 mobs you just dropped on them.
Excellent review, thank you. #1 was a shocker to me. My first and longest was a paladin and found it to be a masochistic route to go solo'ing because they have a spork effect, trying to do damage and heal while doing neither one very well. I didn't find groups to be much friendlier as they wanted a dedicated healer (cleric) or DPS (warrior/wizard). Warrior then became my top favourite, Wizard my second, Magician third, Ranger fourth. I have a high level Cleric that is very useful, but not very fun to "sit and heal at 40%" all of the time.
dude I love the Paladin, I'm Drakkin/Paladin noob just starting and i hope they work on the game more to update it to bring in more folks...playing free right now until they hopefully make a change. Love the vid man, hope to see you inside!
@@dyinhope6840 I think your name exactly explains why it's P99 that's the waste of time. I don't know why anyone would want to continually play in the absolute worst era of the game
Lay hands! It's saved many a life! Look at the epics pallys got in EQOA. They had lance that i wanted so damn bad... never did get it though... :( wiki.eqoarevival.com/index.php/File:EpicPaladin_Lance.jpg
I loved playing my Ranger, yes i know it is a week class but i loved the challenge got him to lvl 95 and boxed with my druid lvl 90. 9at the time lvl 100 was max) But sadly they fucked around with the rangers abilities and head shot. Soloed to get my epics 1.0 I use to pull a bunch of mobs group snare then doted and bow while i walked away slowly and bam they all would die in no time man what fun it WAS...
Shows off what Paladins can do - fights lvl 10 mobs. I was surprised to see Paladin on top of the list, but in starting one up recently (and having started one originally) I was surprised at the huge combat and tanking boost they appear to have gotten in the past few years. Makes them much more enjoyable.
I think you rate classes based on how many powerful compositions they can be a part of. You also rate for either group content, raid content, or solo content. I'm rating for group content. I'm a classic EQ1 player. That makes Enchanter to me by and far #1. It is a straight up OP broken class. Enchanter is literally godmode. A naked enchanter can destroy content 5 levels above it with ease and carry naked underleveled parties. This means that the most powerful compositions all revolve around Enchanter. They enable the Enchanter to be stronger and work around the Enchanter's mechanics. The next strongest class, in my opinion, would be Cleric. It is part of aoe groups and top tier enchanter groups. Cleric is a very good #2. Not only that but it can also, like the Enchanter, mix in with classic parties. Enchanter + Cleric via charm/complete heal is the most devastating duo, though Enchanter does have to rely on Spirit of Wolf potions to pull. Furthermore, clerics can act as pullers if there is no Enchanter in a classic group. #3 for me would be Shaman. They have the strongest slow, sow, and -mr. They go extremely well in practically any party for their slow alone. With an Enchanter mixed in, their -mr is deadly. Yes, magician also has -mr, but they are missing slow and sow, making them less versatile. #4, and this may be an odd choice, would be Ranger. Yes, ranger gate and all of that. That being said, most groups don't actually NEED or even utilize a traditional tank. What they need is a melee class with high DPS that also adds utility. They need something to break mezzes while contributing to DPS and contributing to utility. Ranger has sow + snare. They are highly useful in dungeons with fast enemies like sola and are very powerful in any group with an Enchanter. They also get rid of the need for a shaman, allowing use of Magician instead. I would probably say #5 is Ogre Shadow Knight. They are the best traditional group tank. If a group does need a tank, they want a shadow knight. Aka if you can't build your group around Enchanter, you want to build it around a Shadow Knight = ). My ultimate composition is Enchanter, Cleric, Magician, and Ranger. Last two slots could honestly be two more Enchanters and I definitely prioritize finding 2 more Enchanters over any other class. That'd be a group of 5 DPS and 1 healer. Bonkers ;P. Also, the Ranger can just heal itself from the initial hits of engaging with mobs with a little support from Cleric when needed. Necromancer is definitely absolutely #1 for solo content, but they are meh for group content since their dots are useless and are only good for raid content once velious hits. Obviously in raids Enchanter is the absolute worst ; P. All they really do is buff. Most stuff in raid zones can't be charmed and mez'd, so once they buff they're more or less done =D. I'll also say Enchanter is the most fun to play in groups. You definitely won't be bored. It's not a class you can netflix while grinding on.
Bard, Shammy, Necro and Enchanter. Loved the utility of those classes that were welcome in any party but also let you do crazy things and try fun challenges solo when nothing else was going on. Like who cares if it's effective to do it solo or not, it's fun lol. That's also why no other MMO ever clicked with me where you have zero utility to be creative and everything boils down to "is your dps high enough to burn X before it kills you?" lol
My main was always wizard, so I have an irrationally emotional attachment to that class. :) That said, I also two-boxed an SK and Shaman combo which worked out pretty damn well. They could get a lot done between them.
I prefur shaman here, I've been main healer and main tank before, yah a little slow for group but with a good shaman you still do a decent group. I've even been called to random raids because I was so well known to fill in missing members. Dont have a perfectly full group call in a shaman, shamans can crowd control, dot, nuck, heal, buff and so on, never as good as main classes but as a generalist class they are a good goto class when you cannt get a full group. You just have to get a good player for that class.
You like some basic classes lol. Try these five if you want to do some truly incredible things, with a high skill gap: 5-Shaman, 4-Shadow Knight , 3-Monk, 2-Enchanter , 1-Necro
i have been a paladin since ff2 (IV) days with cecil :) sadly I missed out on the everquest days. but its still going right? so maybe Ill jump on it and giv eit a go :D
I'm a newbie and looking for advice on what to start with. I think i've narrowed it down to Magician vs. Coercer. What are the main differences between the two and what would be optimal for a new player?
Sometimes when I'm feeling cheeky or I'm going after something big I will also box my paladin but the fact is usually I only run one box and if I run more than one box and people know why but you know you can't exp afk but I do a hit and run you know if I do so if I do box a bunch at once I do it for something big real fast so a box like 10 guys at one time and then after that mobs down they all log
That's the difference I'd rather have a monk and an enchanter played by actual players than box my bard but if I don't have the option then I use my bard
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When I started I played a Druid and just stuck to it since it took so much dam time to level up and get good gear. But man I wish I would have chosen a couple different classes as my main. Druids were kinda cool but not nearly as cool as a lot of other classes.
my number one would have to be hard and my 6 box is bard war cler enc wiz then I'll swap in what I need but good picks pally and SK are two sides of the same coin for me both really fun classes
You should have labeled your video, "My Personal Opinion." Of the Classes, from my experience, the best are 1, Rangers, 2, Druids, 3, Rogues, 4, Magicians, and 5, Wizards. It's almost as if we have different tastes, but maybe not that different as three of our favorites are the same.
I started playing EQ back in 99 aswell. By the time i quit the class i was playing most was the ranger, ironically the class i hated at the start. At max lvl with over 15k aa years and years ago his ability to solo for xp, loot or to plvl was unmatched. When 90 or 95 was the max lvl i was able to plvl a cleric for the raiding guild i was in to max lvl with the 2k-2500aa required in about a week from lvl 1.
You've obviously never PL'd with a chanter. With a class that can AE, like cleric, chanter rules. Pull the entire zone (with tash, lowers MR) and chain stun while the cleric nukes em down. And your ranger DS at 50 (max you can use on a noob) isn't much, if any, better than the chanter DS. Plus haste to work on melee skills. And saying that a ranger is unmatched on the ability to solo or loot is just stupid man. Charm soloing is the fastest solo exp there is... so druids, necros and chanters all pwn you. Don't make silly statements that are nothing but your own confirmation bias.
@@basedbear1605 when ranger can aoe root/snare with the same spell and headshot with directional arrows taking down multiple enemies at a time you sir are the one who has no idea what your talking about. In early lvls yes druid/enchanter/shaman sure but im talking about later endgame shit.
@@insufficientfunds5603 Headshot procs a max of twice a minute. Nice try. A charmed mob quadding for 2k a hit does way more dps than 2 headshots a minute. And that's just a level 65 mob, of course it scales. Not to mention 70% haste added to that dps.
@@insufficientfunds5603 Whoopee you and your tiny mana puddle can quad kite once an hour. I don't even have to mention the fact that you suck indoors without room to kite. So yeah, you're not all that, just a legend in your own mind. Point is, you use the term "unmatched" when you're clearly WRONG. But you'll never be man enough to admit you made that mistake, just keep doubling down on your nonsense.
Bard was the best solo class even better than mage and necromance . Remember bard aoe kitting all the mobs in the zone ? Yup! SOE nerf that so mobs now will only take 25% dmg if they are moving , but will take 100% dmg if mob are standing in one spot
Is the game still worth playing? I have a warrior lvl 56 with blade of carnage and a split blade of destruction and a windblade... Had nearly invested three years with my bard farming to gear him up. If the game worth it i might try jumping in again
That's a tough question. If you are just coming back after years of being away, I'd suggest one of the progression servers. If you try to jump back in on your old character, unless you have a group or guild to jump back in with, it will be a rough transition. The game has grown so much, and the population thinned out and now so top-heavy, that if you try to jump back in at the middle you may find yourself not recognizing the game as it is now and having no one to group or play with. However, if you are up for a round on the progression servers or if you have a friend who is willing to jump back into the main servers with you, I, as someone who has done both, can confirm that the game still holds up well and that it is so nice to be back in Norrath!
The progression servers get boring.....are flooded with people like me who play 30-40 Mages at once to farm Kronos. The only live server that's easy to get into is Firiona Vie because of the economy. The other live servers are fine but finding someone on FV to give you better gear than your BoC and Split Blade isn't hard. You can hear a new toon for a few million plat....hell I'll give you a set of Val 1, 75, 85,95,106 gear (15-18million) for free if you actually want to play.
Let me know your name. Unless you want to focus JUST on raiding a shadow knight is going to be the best group content tank. beastlords have been buffed a ton over the years... little monk and shaman and their pets are actually as strong as a 110 SK or Paladin in group gear. Zerkers do the most DPS.... or Wizards... Mages and Necros aren’t bad but I prefer Mages but both classes are behind Zerkers,Wizards and Rogues... Rogues are just a bit behind Zerk/Wiz... casters are less gear dependent... Rangers are great if you’re fighting humanoids and can headshot them ... they are my favorite class but I never use mine just because they really can’t tank and their non human dps is lacking. Clerics are still your best bet for a healer... shamans make good utility and spot healers. Druids aren’t horrible and their DPS has been buffed they are like mini wizards that can heal. Warriors are still solid raid tanks... Monks are sort of garbage... no major guild uses them. I wouldn’t play an Enchanter unless you plan on 3-6 boxing. Honestly it comes down to what you enjoy... in the end a well played is going to be better than a poorly played Zerker. Mercs are a huge thing now.... you want to use a tank Merc starting out they can almost PL you all the way to about 65 then you want to switch over to a healer Merc. Just decide between Tank or melee or caster DPS and then decide... what class interests you... what do you want to be able to do... and we can go from there.
Ryan McGauley I enjoy bard and would most likely consider playing a sk if you think raiding is still a option even if i don't main tank. I am a solid gamer, was a world rank tank and dps in wow and always push myself to excellence. I work from home as well so i have loads of time to game even while working. My question is should i heroic a character or just level one? What are the benefits to pay monthly and how do mercs work and can upgrade them?
My top 5:
5. Human Necro
4. Gnome Necro
3. Dark Elf Necro
2. Froglock Necro
1. Iksar Necro
My top 5 are
1 Dwarf Paladin
2 Human Ranger
3 Iksar Warrior
4 Iksar Shadow Knight
5 Dark Elf Wizard
[I play on p99]
erudite necro?
Thanks for the video, always interesting to see other people's favs. Mine are 1) Enchanter 2) Necro 3) Mage 4) Ranger 5) Cleric
I played a Necro solely from 1999-2014. Never felt the other classes could compare. I could solo to 105. I can escape trouble with FD, I could rez, mez, kite and do massive damage while i sat and watched the mob die. DMF anyone?
Yup, same bro.
Necro's were insanely OP in EQOA as well, i think one of the main devs had a soft spot for the undead idk... i was a salty Mage lol, i started off Delf Necro but switched to a Gnome Mage later on. But man did we have some amazing pet models. Oh and our 49 epic as Mages was hands down the best in the game idc what anyone says lol.
@@EQOAnostalgia you are right, not sure if it was McQuaid but there was one who loved the necro. Necros did, however, get nerfed badly for a bit but they made a comeback :)
Played in Beta and for 10 years adn finally quit, now 10 years later i am having a nostalgia bug. I watched this and laughed.. Mage, powerful from start to finish.. Man we where CRAP when i played. Necro pet could tank almost as good and fear made them better. COH and mana rods made us useful when they were put in ( they even said it was to make Mage more desirable) but that was nerfed quickly and back to almost any class being worth more in groups. I stuck with that Mage as my main for 10 years.. I leveled all other classes and got groups, but that mage was just unloved back in the early days i find it funny to hear they are good now.. guess i will find out.
Seriously!? They did the same thing with Mage/Necro in EQOA at first lol. Necro was insanely OP. Mage was meh... then we got Call of the hero and we got invites to raids finally lol.
Bards were VERY underrated throughout the game, mostly because so many players failed to fully grasp their mechanics and all the hidden effects of their songs. For a very long time, people actually believed the class itself sucked for groups, refusing to invite them...again because so many people who played Bards sucked at the class.
Truth is, many Bard songs broke the rules for the spells they mimicked. Several of the Bard's crowd control songs bypassed magic resistance altogether, and/or had a built-in memory-wipe. We could literally pacify or mez mobs that Enchanters could not. During the Planes of Power expansion, the really good Bards made several of the "zone-unlocking" encounters almost trivial because of these traits.
Too bad my own guild leader never figured it out. He was stuck in the "Bards are only good for mana and resistance songs!" mindset, and never gave my Bard a chance to use his full abilities when raiding. It was so bad, that the guild only managed to beat many of the progression content when the guild leader was offline, which freed me to use my abilities. I chain-pulled the entire Solusek Ro Tower zone all by myself for goodness sake, a feat that was supposed to be impossible without a team of 2-3 necros and monks. But, the guild leader never got to see that stuff, and so I was always relegated to standing in one spot playing my mana and resist songs when he was online.
But, they were the top raiding guild on the server, so I stuck with up until the OoW expansion, when the guild leader announced we would be doing everyone else's epic weapon upgrades ... EXCEPT for the Bard epic, because it was "useless for raiding".
I loved having a good bard in my group. We always made sure to spread bards out in our raids to maximize dps.
I was in the top raiding guild on the Phinigel progression server a year or so ago before I stopped playing, was also one of the highest geared bards on the server, and let me tell you, people in the guild FOUGHT over what bard was in what group and if they didn’t have a bard they’d throw a fit LOL. I can’t imagine being in a guild where people think Bards are useless.
I think he just didn't like you. 😆
Druid, necro, monk, enc, (cleric & warrior tank.. tied for spot)... shammy, bards & mages are notables. Those are my favs and top picks.
At level cap 65 in 2003/4 i had around 255 AA point on my Elder Druid. No idea how eq1 is these days, but back then charming a bad ass animal and farming even more badass mobs with it was what made me farm1 AA point every 10-15min depending on how lucky i got on charm breaks during a fight and if i could avoid getting one shot after getting summoned to the storm giant after my charmed frog died or lost charm.
I'm not quite sure if it's a fun or sad fact i remember playing a toon in a virtual world 15 years ago...
@@abalamdepaimon6891Druid with so many AA points can excel at many roles including healing!
Classes I have played are Ranger, Cleric, Paladin, Rogue, Druid, Bard and Warrior and by far my favorite is Warrior. Loved to 2 box with with Warrior/Bard combo.
I've played every class, and my top 5 are 1) Druid ; 2) Enchanter ; 3) Paladin ; 4) Necromancer ; 5) Wizard
Playing from beta 1 through 2008 roughly (then not as much for a few years), I was in a raiding guild. The only content we never did was the Sleeper, we weren't able to do it yet when another guild downed him. All the classes you list were well represented in our raids, all the way from the original 2 dragons, through Fear and Hate, through the Planes, and onward. That was the great thing about EQ, class dependency was real, and each had a role to play. My main was an Enchanter, but I also had a Wizard, Monk, and Cleric high enough level to bring to Plane raids depending on what was needed. Loved porting groups up with my Wizard.
My first love and what made me fall in love with a mmo. I hope one day Daybreak looses or sells this licence and a company can pick it up and make the next chapter and really enjoy this legendary title for what it is. Classic
Michael Coffey F daybreak.
Opppps, sounds like someone got the ban hammer.
Play project 99
Maybe just someone remakes the game with the graphics of modern games like Black Desert or Blade & Soul as well as the customization of the races and my god it could be awesome.
I played a DRUID when Ruins of Kunark came out. It was fun (portals used to be very important as well as SOW). I left EQ when WOW came out but still miss it and the way the people were in the game there. WOW has become disconnected from the people interactions and everything is HURRY as fast as you can so you can do it again. I played and enjoyed the heck out of Warrior and Monk as well! Nice video, memory lane....
Coomer brain generation took over
nice video. I"m just starting in eq and I'm gravitating to Magician because of the crazy ability to solo everything. Melee classes just seem too weak, but I'm also poor and new. Still feels like I'm auto attacking for 15 when my mage can cast a spell and hit for 200. Magic is simply OP
Mage is easy mode once you get that dmg shield on your pet . My all favorite was the Monk class I had both Human & Iksar , both with epic gloves .
depends on which expac. In classic yeah it's super OP, but it gets nerfed and water becomes better.
You camped Raster twice!? Sadistic
1.Ogre Shaman
2.Ogre Warrior
3. Troll SK
4.Gnome Necro , Dark Elf Necro
5. Erudite MAG
Runner ups
Iskar Beast lord
Human Bard
Races has to do with starts after AAs it doesn't matter much except Trolls, Iskar - HP regen , Ogre - No Frontal stun
Shadowknight ALL THE WAY xD
SK could do anything we wanted, We could solo, tank, pull mobs, and be a general bad a$$. Too many mobs for the group? Feign death than death cloud the single mob. Pally couldn't do that. We could also summon our own pets.
@@zaxxon216 I love my sk with the pre nerfed COS
Shadowknights, when played well are good, sorry, I meant evil, but I just never got into mine.
@@zaxxon216 I loved playing an SK (pally was my main). SK was the better soloer by far, but pally was the better group tank. Being able to not be stunned (Ogre SK) was HUGE for a spell-casting tank class. That ability, plus feign death, regular invis, snare, levitate, and regular fear were things my pally would have killed to have.
Although, when playing my SK, I really missed having the group HP/AC buffs, heals, stuns, pacify, and resurrect spells from my pally.
Magic dps on a tank is the most broken damn thing.
Rare to hear people mention E'ci. Such a small and old server.
The aggro thing for pally vs warrior was the reverse in classic. Pally originally had many more aggro abilities than Warrior. I would say they still do in ways by being able to cast spells.
Necro all the way :P
You GD right!
I agree completely with the Bard thing... I started up an Ogre Warrior on Phinigel server like 3 years ago and joined a casual raid guild that barely had like 2 Bards. There was no demand for any specific class but, Bard songs are pretty amazing for group and raids. Our raid leader made sure to have the Bard in his group every raid lol...
Love that bard was on here. So many people don’t comprehend then power of music.
Best classes - necro - mage - Druid - wiz
Warrior - bard
Zeru dark elf sk , povar 1999 - 2007. R.I.P. EQ
Sometimes you can’t go home .
Had the most fun playing Druid / bard / rogue
one nice thing about pallys is you can pull and tank witch is a really fun and active way to play. liked seeing your pally i don't play anymore but i posted a video of my pally so id remember him
I have a paladin.. he was max level but they recently raised the level cap this last December but I did buy the expansion of what the friends and family for like $250 or whatever
5: Bard anything until Guktan is available
4: Enchanter Guktan or Dark Elf 2nd
3: Warrior Guktan or Dark Elf 2nd
2: Cleric Dark Elf
1: Cleric Guktan
6th would be a Wizard for sure Guktan or Dark Elf XD
Nice unique list! My list consist of (Druid, monk, bard, rogue, and ranger)
I played a mage for many years. I loved it.
Druid Necro. Nothing says good times like kiting an entire zone behind you with no fear of ever dying. Oh you want to steal my mobs...port away come back 2 minutes later person is dead and begging for help to get their body. Necro FD and watch the person die to the 20 mobs you just dropped on them.
Best part about necro was trolling people. Few things were more fun than usual wake the dead on the gigantic boss you just beat for the first time.
Sks can kite too but not as fast as druid or necro but could FD too lol.
1: Enchanter
2: Druid
3: Necro
4: Wizard
5: Bard
Most powerful solo:
1) Necro
2) Mage
3) Druid
4) SK
5) Bard
Excellent review, thank you. #1 was a shocker to me. My first and longest was a paladin and found it to be a masochistic route to go solo'ing because they have a spork effect, trying to do damage and heal while doing neither one very well. I didn't find groups to be much friendlier as they wanted a dedicated healer (cleric) or DPS (warrior/wizard). Warrior then became my top favourite, Wizard my second, Magician third, Ranger fourth. I have a high level Cleric that is very useful, but not very fun to "sit and heal at 40%" all of the time.
dude I love the Paladin, I'm Drakkin/Paladin noob just starting and i hope they work on the game more to update it to bring in more folks...playing free right now until they hopefully make a change. Love the vid man, hope to see you inside!
go to project 99. otherwise wasting your time.
@@dyinhope6840 I think your name exactly explains why it's P99 that's the waste of time. I don't know why anyone would want to continually play in the absolute worst era of the game
Lay hands! It's saved many a life! Look at the epics pallys got in EQOA. They had lance that i wanted so damn bad... never did get it though... :(
wiki.eqoarevival.com/index.php/File:EpicPaladin_Lance.jpg
Shaman is my number 1!
Rogue, Druid, Warrior and Necro follow😎
no shamy
no necro
dude...
was just thinking that!! necro and shaman are my top picks! haha
#1 class? The first class you played to 60 in 1999. Period.
In that case, Bard..I was a king
there was no level 60 in 1999
Kunark came out in April, 2000 ya nob.
You couldn't play to 60 in 1999. Had to wait until 2000.
1) Wizard
2) Rogue
3) Enchanter
4) Ranger
5) Monk
Pali was always a great grp and raid leader--in that same vein, I think SK is a pretty good #1 as well :D
SK was really hard to play in the beginning. The joke was that SK's were given pets to keep them company since no one would group with them.
I loved playing my Ranger, yes i know it is a week class but i loved the challenge got him to lvl 95 and boxed with my druid lvl 90. 9at the time lvl 100 was max) But sadly they fucked around with the rangers abilities and head shot. Soloed to get my epics 1.0 I use to pull a bunch of mobs group snare then doted and bow while i walked away slowly and bam they all would die in no time man what fun it WAS...
Top 5 for group content:
Shadow Knight, Cleric, Enchanter, Monk, Bard
Top 5 for raid utility:
Warrior, Cleric, Berserker, Monk, Bard
No way an SK is better in a group setting than a paladin. Berserker for raid utility? Umm... no.
Shows off what Paladins can do - fights lvl 10 mobs. I was surprised to see Paladin on top of the list, but in starting one up recently (and having started one originally) I was surprised at the huge combat and tanking boost they appear to have gotten in the past few years. Makes them much more enjoyable.
Good top 5! Paladin was definitely #1!
I think you rate classes based on how many powerful compositions they can be a part of. You also rate for either group content, raid content, or solo content. I'm rating for group content.
I'm a classic EQ1 player. That makes Enchanter to me by and far #1. It is a straight up OP broken class. Enchanter is literally godmode. A naked enchanter can destroy content 5 levels above it with ease and carry naked underleveled parties. This means that the most powerful compositions all revolve around Enchanter. They enable the Enchanter to be stronger and work around the Enchanter's mechanics.
The next strongest class, in my opinion, would be Cleric. It is part of aoe groups and top tier enchanter groups. Cleric is a very good #2. Not only that but it can also, like the Enchanter, mix in with classic parties. Enchanter + Cleric via charm/complete heal is the most devastating duo, though Enchanter does have to rely on Spirit of Wolf potions to pull. Furthermore, clerics can act as pullers if there is no Enchanter in a classic group.
#3 for me would be Shaman. They have the strongest slow, sow, and -mr. They go extremely well in practically any party for their slow alone. With an Enchanter mixed in, their -mr is deadly. Yes, magician also has -mr, but they are missing slow and sow, making them less versatile.
#4, and this may be an odd choice, would be Ranger. Yes, ranger gate and all of that. That being said, most groups don't actually NEED or even utilize a traditional tank. What they need is a melee class with high DPS that also adds utility. They need something to break mezzes while contributing to DPS and contributing to utility. Ranger has sow + snare. They are highly useful in dungeons with fast enemies like sola and are very powerful in any group with an Enchanter. They also get rid of the need for a shaman, allowing use of Magician instead.
I would probably say #5 is Ogre Shadow Knight. They are the best traditional group tank. If a group does need a tank, they want a shadow knight. Aka if you can't build your group around Enchanter, you want to build it around a Shadow Knight = ).
My ultimate composition is Enchanter, Cleric, Magician, and Ranger. Last two slots could honestly be two more Enchanters and I definitely prioritize finding 2 more Enchanters over any other class. That'd be a group of 5 DPS and 1 healer. Bonkers ;P. Also, the Ranger can just heal itself from the initial hits of engaging with mobs with a little support from Cleric when needed.
Necromancer is definitely absolutely #1 for solo content, but they are meh for group content since their dots are useless and are only good for raid content once velious hits.
Obviously in raids Enchanter is the absolute worst ; P. All they really do is buff. Most stuff in raid zones can't be charmed and mez'd, so once they buff they're more or less done =D.
I'll also say Enchanter is the most fun to play in groups. You definitely won't be bored. It's not a class you can netflix while grinding on.
Bard, Shammy, Necro and Enchanter. Loved the utility of those classes that were welcome in any party but also let you do crazy things and try fun challenges solo when nothing else was going on. Like who cares if it's effective to do it solo or not, it's fun lol. That's also why no other MMO ever clicked with me where you have zero utility to be creative and everything boils down to "is your dps high enough to burn X before it kills you?" lol
My type top-five have been shaman, shadow night, monk, warrior, necromancer. And the best race of all is ogre followed by Iksar.
Those classes were all great for being solo classes, but if you want to get in groups enchanter, cleric, shaman, bard, wizard
Everyone who plays P99 have a microphone which cost $1
?
This isnt project 99 you idiot
Because its 1999 and thats as good as mic's get
My main was always wizard, so I have an irrationally emotional attachment to that class. :)
That said, I also two-boxed an SK and Shaman combo which worked out pretty damn well. They could get a lot done between them.
No enchanter? Quite an amazing class. Shaman too
I agree. Enchanter is the best class by far.
But if you're in a group of overpowered geared people then they lose their power a lot.
Yep, chanter was my favorite until guild raid time
People don't like to play enchanters because you have to think, and play well with others
Enchanter is easily the #1 class.
What do chanters do in a group besides Mez and give mana buffs? Not a sarcastic question, seriously want to know what makes them so fun
3 of your top 5 are also my top 5. Mage, bard, paladin.
If I had to choose a top 5 for me it would probably be:
5. Beastlord
4. Druid
3. Paladin
2. Shadow knight
1. Cleric
I prefur shaman here, I've been main healer and main tank before, yah a little slow for group but with a good shaman you still do a decent group. I've even been called to random raids because I was so well known to fill in missing members. Dont have a perfectly full group call in a shaman, shamans can crowd control, dot, nuck, heal, buff and so on, never as good as main classes but as a generalist class they are a good goto class when you cannt get a full group. You just have to get a good player for that class.
You and I have very different tastes in classes.
1. Shaman
2. Shadow knight
3. Enchanter
4. Necromancer
5. Druid
i'd go
1.necromancer
2. shaman
3. warrior/cleric
4. shadow knight
5. bard :D
hehe but at least we're in the ball park
I've been on an EQ break I might go back I was playing p99 yesterday
I liked bard. Battles are very involved, which is good. I twisted all songs manually and usedvthe whole bar most battles.
p99 magician number 1, assuming you can get epic pet, which is impossible. still most fun for me
You like some basic classes lol. Try these five if you want to do some truly incredible things, with a high skill gap: 5-Shaman, 4-Shadow Knight , 3-Monk, 2-Enchanter , 1-Necro
Personally i love my warrior, mage, shaman box team. I added a bard to this later but the first 3 are so good for me.
i have been a paladin since ff2 (IV) days with cecil :) sadly I missed out on the everquest days. but its still going right? so maybe Ill jump on it and giv eit a go :D
go to project 99 free server. just try to make friends and a guild quick. gotta be social in this game and also not constant needy
Fefnir Eindraer it’s going like a person on life support . I logged on a few years ago . Was depressing . Sometimes you just can’t go home
Go to EQ Live and play on Test server
Mage, Druid, Shammy, Paladin, Wizard
Minez- 1 bard, 2 wizard, 3 rogue, 4 beastlord, 5 berserker
I remember in raids Pallys have to pop invincibility and eat enrage. Not a bad list. I was a bard myself
Other than bard, all of these are in my lowest 5 haha.
EXACTLY LMAO
Bards Rules !!! yeah baby !
I'm a newbie and looking for advice on what to start with. I think i've narrowed it down to Magician vs. Coercer. What are the main differences between the two and what would be optimal for a new player?
Pokemon4WoT
I never played either of those two classes but the mage with pets always seemed like it would be more enjoyable
I agree with paladin number one. They are great soloing, excellent pvp, and lots of utility.
Druid ftw
Sometimes when I'm feeling cheeky or I'm going after something big I will also box my paladin but the fact is usually I only run one box and if I run more than one box and people know why but you know you can't exp afk but I do a hit and run you know if I do so if I do box a bunch at once I do it for something big real fast so a box like 10 guys at one time and then after that mobs down they all log
That's the difference I'd rather have a monk and an enchanter played by actual players than box my bard but if I don't have the option then I use my bard
1. SK 2. Mage 3. Rogue 4. Shaman 5. Cleric
5 best classes... SK, Cleric, Wizard, Enchanter, Monk...
Why did you put a bard on and not do a train of mobs?
1. druid 2. magician 3. necro 4. enchanter 5 cleric*8P
Thanks for all the views guys! Never expected to get a good response to something I did just for fun. Me and my buddy decided to do a let's play series for the 19th anniversary on our other channel if anyone wants to stop in and watch. Thanks again! th-cam.com/video/xwdnOrD3Azs/w-d-xo.html
how does your wiz run so fast?
I do keep my bard boxed but I like Enchanter Monk combo better in my group
When I started I played a Druid and just stuck to it since it took so much dam time to level up and get good gear. But man I wish I would have chosen a couple different classes as my main. Druids were kinda cool but not nearly as cool as a lot of other classes.
Top three classes are Warrior, Cleric and Enchanter. The remaining two are usually Monk and (Insert any other class)
Warrior = most difficult epic, also, when released, wasnt even the best weapon for a warrior......
Why didn't you describe the class that I play? My life is ....over......oh jesus..........i can't deal with life anymore
my number one would have to be hard and my 6 box is bard war cler enc wiz then I'll swap in what I need but good picks pally and SK are two sides of the same coin for me both really fun classes
You should have labeled your video, "My Personal Opinion." Of the Classes, from my experience, the best are 1, Rangers, 2, Druids, 3, Rogues, 4, Magicians, and 5, Wizards. It's almost as if we have different tastes, but maybe not that different as three of our favorites are the same.
He did
Enchanter, Shaman, Cleric, Ranger, Rogue
Necro, Monk, Shaman, Magician, Ranger.
I started playing EQ back in 99 aswell. By the time i quit the class i was playing most was the ranger, ironically the class i hated at the start. At max lvl with over 15k aa years and years ago his ability to solo for xp, loot or to plvl was unmatched. When 90 or 95 was the max lvl i was able to plvl a cleric for the raiding guild i was in to max lvl with the 2k-2500aa required in about a week from lvl 1.
You've obviously never PL'd with a chanter. With a class that can AE, like cleric, chanter rules. Pull the entire zone (with tash, lowers MR) and chain stun while the cleric nukes em down. And your ranger DS at 50 (max you can use on a noob) isn't much, if any, better than the chanter DS. Plus haste to work on melee skills.
And saying that a ranger is unmatched on the ability to solo or loot is just stupid man. Charm soloing is the fastest solo exp there is... so druids, necros and chanters all pwn you. Don't make silly statements that are nothing but your own confirmation bias.
@@basedbear1605 when ranger can aoe root/snare with the same spell and headshot with directional arrows taking down multiple enemies at a time you sir are the one who has no idea what your talking about. In early lvls yes druid/enchanter/shaman sure but im talking about later endgame shit.
At that point MR damage mitigation hp armor. None of that matters when your headshot downs them in 1 hit.
@@insufficientfunds5603 Headshot procs a max of twice a minute. Nice try. A charmed mob quadding for 2k a hit does way more dps than 2 headshots a minute. And that's just a level 65 mob, of course it scales. Not to mention 70% haste added to that dps.
@@insufficientfunds5603 Whoopee you and your tiny mana puddle can quad kite once an hour. I don't even have to mention the fact that you suck indoors without room to kite. So yeah, you're not all that, just a legend in your own mind. Point is, you use the term "unmatched" when you're clearly WRONG. But you'll never be man enough to admit you made that mistake, just keep doubling down on your nonsense.
My top 5 : enc, sk, wiz clr, bard and to round out my group with six ranger
Best Class/Race/Gender = Female Dark Elf Battle Cleric
Mage/Necro for solo or group.
The most nerfed classes are Druid and Necromancer.
What quest had you smoking Osama bins in the desert?
streetlight manifesto? Good stuff.
Bard was the best solo class even better than mage and necromance . Remember bard aoe kitting all the mobs in the zone ? Yup! SOE nerf that so mobs now will only take 25% dmg if they are moving , but will take 100% dmg if mob are standing in one spot
Nerf was worse than that: mobs take 0% damage from AE dots while moving. Bard still solos okay in key places by charm kiting groups of social mobs
I could do things with my shammy that seemed impossible.
1. SHD
2. ENC
3. RNG
4. BST
5. ???
I used to port people all day long for tips with my Wizzy.
Part of the reason why LIVE ruined EQ
yeah this is your favorite 5 classes, not the top 5 in EQ, plz dont clickbait us.
Hello, from a fellow wizard on E'ci
Is the game still worth playing? I have a warrior lvl 56 with blade of carnage and a split blade of destruction and a windblade... Had nearly invested three years with my bard farming to gear him up. If the game worth it i might try jumping in again
That's a tough question. If you are just coming back after years of being away, I'd suggest one of the progression servers. If you try to jump back in on your old character, unless you have a group or guild to jump back in with, it will be a rough transition. The game has grown so much, and the population thinned out and now so top-heavy, that if you try to jump back in at the middle you may find yourself not recognizing the game as it is now and having no one to group or play with. However, if you are up for a round on the progression servers or if you have a friend who is willing to jump back into the main servers with you, I, as someone who has done both, can confirm that the game still holds up well and that it is so nice to be back in Norrath!
The progression servers get boring.....are flooded with people like me who play 30-40 Mages at once to farm Kronos. The only live server that's easy to get into is Firiona Vie because of the economy. The other live servers are fine but finding someone on FV to give you better gear than your BoC and Split Blade isn't hard. You can hear a new toon for a few million plat....hell I'll give you a set of Val 1, 75, 85,95,106 gear (15-18million) for free if you actually want to play.
Ryan McGauley sounds amazing, i will be joining fv i guess... Need to choose a class
Let me know your name.
Unless you want to focus JUST on raiding a shadow knight is going to be the best group content tank.
beastlords have been buffed a ton over the years... little monk and shaman and their pets are actually as strong as a 110 SK or Paladin in group gear.
Zerkers do the most DPS.... or Wizards... Mages and Necros aren’t bad but I prefer Mages but both classes are behind Zerkers,Wizards and Rogues... Rogues are just a bit behind Zerk/Wiz... casters are less gear dependent...
Rangers are great if you’re fighting humanoids and can headshot them ... they are my favorite class but I never use mine just because they really can’t tank and their non human dps is lacking.
Clerics are still your best bet for a healer... shamans make good utility and spot healers. Druids aren’t horrible and their DPS has been buffed they are like mini wizards that can heal.
Warriors are still solid raid tanks...
Monks are sort of garbage... no major guild uses them.
I wouldn’t play an Enchanter unless you plan on 3-6 boxing.
Honestly it comes down to what you enjoy... in the end a well played is going to be better than a poorly played Zerker.
Mercs are a huge thing now.... you want to use a tank Merc starting out they can almost PL you all the way to about 65 then you want to switch over to a healer Merc.
Just decide between Tank or melee or caster DPS and then decide... what class interests you... what do you want to be able to do... and we can go from there.
Ryan McGauley I enjoy bard and would most likely consider playing a sk if you think raiding is still a option even if i don't main tank. I am a solid gamer, was a world rank tank and dps in wow and always push myself to excellence. I work from home as well so i have loads of time to game even while working. My question is should i heroic a character or just level one? What are the benefits to pay monthly and how do mercs work and can upgrade them?
Heh, none of your top 5 would have made my top 5.
me either except magician.
Indeed. Mine is Chanter, Necro, Shaman, Druid, SK. DOTS FTW!
Bards make the world go around.
Shaman was hands down the funniest for me
I played back in the day, sullen Zek...kinda lookin now
Character name's stza, you a LOC fan?
watching further with a name like keasby nites you're clearly into ska, gonna stop commenting becuase I'm sure I'll see something else that pops out