Everyone who watched this knew this but couldn’t resist.

After 40 years of playing all forms of video games and after retiring EQ around 17 years ago, my Barbarian Shaman is still the only character I'm nostalgic about.

Warrior: Portable wall. Often paid in booze or cookies. Frequent members of alcoholics anonymous. The good ones remember to wash their armor. Paladin: Sparkly Stunboi. Palatability depends on religion; some come with Pegasus, others with White Vans. Good touch can make you tingle. Shadowknight: Orginal Edgelord. But often amusing. Comes with extra bone shards for the necro. Has uncle festers bad touch. Does NOT make you tingle. Mage: Diet Coke Wizard. Can summon you crackers and flat tea. Elemental pokemon trainers. Must be Gnomes by default. Ranger: Shootyboi. All the pew pews. Often gets lost. Easily distracted. Still don’t have translocate. Beserker: Angryboi. Speaks loudly and carries big axe. Often throws axes and party members. Halitosis optional. Intoxication is not. Cleric: Healer’s healer. Often AFK. Often record keepers of /gem scores. Must wear plate mail made out of cardboard. Druid: Natureboi. SoW dispenser. Never lost but often pretends to be. Some come with fleas. Has the only DOT in the game with a HP bar. Shaman: Slowboi. Frequent wingman of melees. Most often the designated driver. Comes with wolf pupper. Questionable diet practices. Wizard: Big Kaboom. Sometimes forgets to Med. Never forgets to Evac. Might be AFK and you would never know. Current record holders of most bodies in zone. Necromancer: Spookybois. Always first to FD. Always last to show up at the raid. Doesn’t always have pet discipline. Often summoned. Sometimes throws coffins over bridges. Enchanter: Prettybois. Big of mouth but slow of foot. Blue juice to spare. Comes with big timeout spells. Comes with resurrection punchcard. Beastlord: Beastybois. Is often a pet with their own pet. Sometimes housetrained. Has nice blue sparkle juice. Pets often the smarter of the pair. Bard: Singsongboi. Quick runner. Some are very good. Some are also very bad. Always first to call for Evac. Prone to panic before your mercs. Rogue: Stabbybois. Good at buttstabbing. Also good at face planting and dirt eating. Racially indecisive. Rarely brings snacks. Will steal everything. Even your girlfriend. Monk: Kungfubois. Can kick high. But has small pockets. Are not bulletproof despite claims. Expert body draggers. Especially their own.

A necro can solo to 60 naked.

I like the categories you setup to explain and compare the classes. Well done. You keep making really great content!

That cheesy classic EQ intro music... hits me everytime!

Hey man I’ve been watching your videos for a few months now. Just wanted to thank you for putting this video together. I come back to it a lot! I recently started playing EQ again from not playing since 2005 haha! Your videos are very helpful

Good video. You have some finger waggers on here, but I find for the greater most part your breakdowns are good for preparing any new player on what to expect as a new hero

I like your EQ2 starting zone music while talking about EQ1.

Nice video! I’ve done most of those (other than the chardok ones) - the crusader (sk) quests end up with the Greenmist sword. When I got mine it was still Iksar only. I still remember the shock after they changed it to all races at seeing a human SK in Cabilis 😁

I miss playing this game.

Thank you to everyone who came by to the stream and to Midnight Rations who helped make this video. If you disagree with what I put down, please make a case for it. I can be persuaded 😄 Some of the information in the video is lacking. Thanks to everyone in the comments section.

The struggle was real, you invested hours in your toon ! Death penalty was brutal ! A classic game that will forever make me smile.

Terrific video. Will share. Thanks for posting.

I was a Bard main, so much fun!

Every class in classic CON: mana regen

Rogues are highly sought after for Groups and Raids. Monk DPS starts to match and surpass the Rogue around Velious

I'd like to add that Necro soloing might not be the absolute best for just XP, but no one else can kill raid old bosses quite like a Necro. I solo'd Trak with PoP gear on my Necro.

Started playing just before Velious was added. Loved the game took me a few weeks of rerolling classes till I latched onto the bard. Made it to 63 just as Planes of discord launched and I fell off. Amazing memories, play time bordering obsession. So many raids, so many good pieces of gear I earned, a guild that appreciated my efforts. Getting the epic holy hell that was a prideful moment. The comaraderie with randos in dangerous areas. The community was good. People willing to help with corpse retrieval at least I did as a bard with good invisibility. Revives. Porters for cash pre-luclin

Great summary. I played an Enchanter and my GF at the time was a Shaman. We never had problems finding groups and we could play just the two of us without issue. Fear and DoT with crowd control was unbeatable.

I played a troll warrior back in the day, had top end gear on server up through PoP. In groups (when I wasn't boxing) I would often fight berzerk (had a huge hp pool and with a bunch of stacked regen small heals were enough because the mobs didn't last long), using some crazy 2 hander usually (fewer ripostes when fighting berzerk = good)... My favorite (and there were many), was at the start of the SoL expansion when I got my Dathor Great Hammer and killed an entire guild with it, in one swing... Nobody lived. 25 or so were all sitting tightly together in the arena going over some raid planning. I ran out of town to let a mob get me berzerk, ran in, jumped in the middle of them all and said "Sup", popped my crit damage disc, hit rampage, and landed instant max damage crits on it all of them because they were sitting... think they were hits for 3,500 or so (87,000dps isnt bad, my best log was 250k dps but that is another story). I then camped their corpses... for like 15 minutes... and when they finally got organized, dawned summoned mage armor, and finally killed me, I was their raid lol How I miss those old days.

Special Talents of a Rogue is basically having no responsibility and just showing up and pressing a single macro. Compared to playing a Cleric, Tank, Healer, Puller, pet class, hybrid etc.. it's extremely chill and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to play, but doesn't want to apply themselves at all.

Group: Low for wizard is insane. I wouldn't even know what to do if I couldn't zap around at insane speeds with ports and burn things down fast.

I agree that named should have a much higher percentage of dropping normal loot table (like your exemple of DE mask) and a small percentage of dropping random stuff. Its gonna be super hard to get specific items that I really want Im afraid. Well see I guess ! its gonna be a great server, im jumping back in the game !

Great job man, cool to watch even for a vet.

Rogues might not be the best of soloers, but it can be done if you get good at solo backstabbing. But that entirely depends on your own talents. Some people just can't seem to do it. Also, they can be pretty desirable in The Hole, cause if you make a Halfling Rogue and worship Brell Serilis, some of the mobs con Dubious to you, so you can retrieve people's corpses for ressing, in case they can't make it there. Not to mention just general information gathering from not being KoS

Nice video. Bards can link songs now so no more sore hands and you can talk too.

Actually got back into the game because of his videos just a month ago lol

Important note, Ogre shamans can tank and heal themselves quite well before torpor and even better after. They just need a corner to allow mobs to push against them and they clear cast. If you need aggro just disempower. By spamming it you make shadowknights look like warriors trying to take aggro from wizard who nukes before they get there.

Oh man I'm so so glad to see people finally making stuff like this for good ol EQ! I feel like between P99 green and newer TLP's, especially this one coming out with the unique ruleset, the interest in the game is the highest it's been in a long time. I think this all seems pretty accurate though I'd say Rogues are at least moderately wanted in groups if they're not woefully undergeared and are, in my experience, very closely-regarded to MNK and MAG as a good DPS class, and enhanter being the only thing you'd 'want more than 1 of' in a group being a bit of an odd assessment as I can think of all kinds of situations where multiples of various classes could range from acceptable to even especially efficient (i.e. fighting undead w/ clerics, fighting outside w/ rangers/druids, 2 WARs to bounce enemies back and forth and do decent DPS etc)

You need to revisit the Rogue my friend, there dps is sick they have an awesome ability to pull the get probably one of the best

Where are you dude, just started watching your Chan a couple weeks ago and playing p99. Love the content….give us an update of some sort

Group Tank Ranking: Ranger > SK > Pally > Warrior

Classic pop and before, it was rare to find a chanter running solo. Necros of course were a dime a dozen. Every class is gear dependent. it is a core part of the game.

Although druids were not particularly good at anything, I enjoyed the travelling and exploration, solo, and grouping with friends who appreciate a skilled druid who supports healing, DPS, crowd control, teleport, travel support, and occasional evac. Miss my EQ days

It's interesting how the devs of EQOA chose to make some minor differences to some classes comparatively to EQ1, but some MAJOR ones compared to others. Druid on the other hand seems 100% the same in EQ1 as EQOA, Mage is also very close, in fact most classes are. We never got Beastlord, and Berserker was part of our Master Class (Alternate Advancement) tree. I think it was a Warrior Master Class.

Back in the day, my main group of players consisted of a monk for tank, shaman, cleric, rogue and myself as Necro. The 5 of us would take on stuff even 2 groups were having hard time clearing. Great combo if everyone knows their class. I know the group pains as Necro, but few ppl realize how much utility they bring to a group. I used to joke, as solo I would fear kite with just my pet hitting the mob. But in a group, I would fear kite with more pet 'friends' haha

Ranger. God I miss playing Ranger in PoP. Back in the live PoP days, I was leveling in PoJ and the WAR was having problems keeping aggro from me, so I kept nerfing myself weapon-wise (eventually going to my 2H blunt training weapon). After the party broke, he asked for me to stay and was gonna get on his SK and wanted to compete with me for aggro. Suffice to say, I went ham with spell triggers, spell shields, damage shields, and, oh yea, Earthcaller's slow proc. Even with a 6-7 level advantage, he lost aggro every time. Gave me a ton of plat for impressing him, so I'll take that win.

So ive been looking at rolling a zerker on mangler when they unlock on july 7th, ive been trying to find any info on if ther is other people leveling or will i be alone? id love to raid and see content passed when i quit in pop.

As a necro Main, I despise being treated as a Mana Battery. I was literally told, in some raids, to just load all 3 Twitch spells and not to DPS. I DPSed anyway, and nobody noticed, since Necro mana regen is through the roof. Also, the Cons for Bard should have included: 11223344112233441122334411223344, and Anti-social. :B

I love being support classes especially healing ones

I recently started playing EQ, I played EQOA on ps2 for years and this is very similar especially when you learn how to play lol ..i am sad to see the only way to easily get a group is to be a puller lol ..back in my day tanks pulled :p. I tried enchanter and it was really hard ..I used a heroic boost for one and that was clearly a mistake..

Very useful resource

The video is about EQ, but the music is the EQ2 newbie zone music.

Bards till the end!!

I feel like a necro can do a bunch of things. I dont play one, but when they feed mana and slow plus dps it is cool.

As someone who used to main a necromancer, I can tell you while they may not be the most powerful solo class, they are far and away the easiest class to solo high-end content with. Shamans and enchanters require you to be on the ball 100% of the time. But necros? Click, click, and watch the pet slice through mobs like butter.

this is a great video and as a EQ player from 2000-2004 as a Paladin main i kinda have to disagree with you saying low solo ability. I'd argue that because I remember people begging to join me as I just destroyed zones with undead. People in my guild used to ask me how I had so much AA points. At least I think that's what they were called, it's been so long. And it was cuz I would everyday be soloing like crazy. I even remember when Planes of power was out. There was a couple undead plane where I would be in all by myself killing undead, I would get messages asking me if what I was doing in a plane zone (which were mainly raid zones) without anybody else... well I was soloing random enemies for XP lol.

I think you miss spoke when you said Paladins are a good off take because of the hammer. You cant "OFF" tank with the hammer you can rampage tank which is a different thing and is the point of the hammer for paladins. Paladins are for those that want to feel important but arnt really important. You can get by with one in a raid force through pretty much all raid content.

interesting vid, shaman and monk, the most fun to play by far. Ya, you can not be a lazy sod and play a shaman, if you do, you would never get a group.

Berzerker are changing from wich expansion is out because at some point they got a nerf before they got dps has high as a wizard but constant, but a zerk is like warrior and rogue very very gear dependent and it sucks that you only can play them only when gates of discord is out later!!!

I think a good Druid is 2nd best solo class behind a good bard. Charm Animals and kite ability

Very spot on ayo, one thing tho zerkers tanking is actually realitively high... chain armor that gets a bunch of AA's in defensive traits, also snare and stun throwing are not AA's they are 15 second reusable discs that they get. Zerkers crit chance matches a warrior when the warrior goes into berserk which is why they are highly valuable when it comes to dps. As AA's later they get some pretty gnarly stuff to buff the raid and put out ALOT of damage. Zerkers do not get taunt, but their raw damage they put out essentially lets them tank in dungeons. So far thats all i know of a general basic thought about zerker, wish you woulda reached out to me first coulda gave u some more info :D Much love ayo, great video

My first class on P99 Green when it opened was a Wizard, but it became depressing when I realized literally no one wanted to play with him. I even found out that no one would have wanted his ports either because I can't send them on their way with a SoW like Druids can. It was a pity because I genuinely liked the classical magic fantasy (robes and wizard hats and all that) and it just happened to not be well represented in EQ. I did end up rerolling to Magician simply to be more desired, but I wish that didn't have to be necessary, hehe.

Would monk and beastlord be a good duo? I read that beastlord is basically a monk shaman hybrid that can tank a little and buff/haste/slow/heal almost as good as a shaman. I’d buff both up and melee with both and a pet. Pull w slow, dps race. As an alternative to monk/shaman.

The only disagreement I have is the rogue's low group desirability. I would say that's actually quite high because of their high DPS. Backstab helps take down mobs quickly. I've only played EQ classic though so I'm not sure if the expansions made them worse.

If I want to use crossbow, am I best off choosing a ranger? Can I be a tank class and use a crossbow for playing solo?

I miss my Wood Elf Druid, saved so many asses on Raids with that dude.

Quon the Cleric's explanation of the classes was best.

Just made a Wizard on the p99 green server, i hear its a bad class to use, but im having fun nuking things

Moderate soloing ability on the sk? Only in classic. I've soloed zones. Not a mob or two at a time, whole zones that still give xp.

I earned my 1.5 epic on my Rogue and initially started in 1999 to 2004. It may not be much, but I raided my ass off with my guild on E'ci and helped with progression. We went far! It was an awesome 5 years of every day play till the early morning hours. Long live Misty Thicket.

No joke. Me and my friend started warriors when we first started playing in 99'. He was always soloing the craziest mods and i was gett slaughtered all, the , fucking time. Xegony server, wood elf warriors.. lol miss those days sooo much

great vid dude, could we get a copy of your UI.ini? lol

Shaman are arguably the best DOT caster in the game. Poison and Disease stacked with the proper equipment and you never run out of mana and can finish in the top 10% of DPS on boss mobs that are weak against Dis/Pois in raids all while playing the healer for a group and maintaining raid responsibilities.

I’d love to go back and play EQ again but sadly I have a Mac

great info, im a noob and you helped a lot

Very nice 👍

Now a days on eq I would have to say monks are less likely to get groups if you do newer side of things but I have to say I miss the days of LDoN I use to get groups all the time until the bards killed our pulling game and tried to out do us in everyway...

I’d disagree with the Druid portion though especially from SoF/SoD onward, druids are probably more favorable for groups while clerics are for favorable for raids

Great game if have a good guild, played it all though high school. I found wow more fun, more solo friendly.

I played a wood elf ranger from 1999 launch to around 2007. My life was hard lol.

Enchanter have to be up there in most deaths by far. So strong but a charmed hasted pet with weapons will kill you in seconds.

Such a great video. It's so useful for anyone wanting to learn about the game.

So I played some 20 years ago (got to mid 20's),and I've got the itch to go play on p99. What should I play as a filthy casual who finds spending time with my wife and kids more important than playing 8+ hours a day?

I've found that groups w/o chanters like my necromancer when fighting a swarm of blues and yellows at once; the fight lasts long enough I can dot all of the mobs at varying levels and have my pet threat asses. I play with aggro like I play with my life.

People make jokes about Ranger just because they're jealous when they see us out in the wilds headshotting mobs for easy exp and pp 🤣

Shaman can get Mass Group Buffs also

Sounds like every class is highly desired on raids, I'm not sure what it means?

Why do rogues have a low group desirability? I'm always super happy to have a rogue in the group because they do so much dmg.

Which Server would you suggest a new player to join?

Beastlords Can Feign Death to. You forgot that. Its an AA.

What would you say is the best auto attack dps class overall? With the best dps to low maintenance ratio

id like to compare them to wow classes. See how it evolved.

If we say wiz are needed for AE groups what about ench lol ? Specially since chain AE stun is nerfed (2021) you need 4 enchs to be safe doing it. In the deep doing it with 2 ench is mathematically impossible, with 3 it will break often. 4 ench 1 wiz 1 puller (cleric or pal, and this player MUST know how to play it and how to park mobs) Before the AE stun nerf 2 ench were often enough (i prefered 3) then we had more pullers.

Man that EverQuest ll music.

WTF I thought there was a tinkerer class!!!! My uncle played this game when I was a kid, and I have a distinct memory of seeing his characters and one of them was a gnome tinkerer and it really intrigued me. Is this the Mandela effect or what?

I'd put the wizard as the least desirable class over the rouge for groups. Rouges have good sustain damage and wizards don't. Wizards tend to cast one spell take off a good chunk of damage and sit back down for the rest of the fight in groups of that era. Most live raid forces only seem to run one, if any that I've seen. They have needed to revamp wizards for as long as I can remember playing. Their spells just cost way too much mana and their port ability they get just isn't worth what the sacrifice to the druid(healing, buff and porting), the mage (better sustain, buffs and pet) and the necro( mana regen, pet and dead man floating).

Beastlords have feign death as well

Lmao why did you do the rogue like that haha.

Only reason to look for an Enchanter is for KEI. Worthless otherwise with their shortbus pets.

you just need 2 monk and shamy

Enchanter Major DPS? Ubless they have specific charm pets situationally I doubt they have any good DPS.

Rogue4Life.

Forgot about the best thing about shaman best spell in game Grow. makes there /beastlord pets the size of a truck. shrink worst spell.

Everyone forgets grow. Yeah shrink is practical but grow is amazing. Giant gnomes. I'm done I'm getting myself worked up

pump up a ogre to 150 strength with an sk

Whats the hardest roll to play? Enchanter? Cleric?

I play a MEAN enchanter

I loved my Enchanter until they nerfed the AA skill point to weaken its durability spent month saving up PP to buy the 64 charm spell off a guild who had copy for sale spent 3 weeks trying to solo with said spell spent 18 AA to max out the duration to have it become a 30 second death trap. Roled a Rogue and never looked back became one of top 5 on Fennin Ro loved how I was able to Tank in exp groups with my GF as Cleric and shaman friend for slows. Played so many Games but none will hold up to the memories of Everquest for challenge and comradery. Core of Legends guild was so Militant in execution of Planes of Power boss fights to this day dont recall seeing anyone else clear so many zone boss's or plane of Time so quickly. Sacred Frye became my new home and progression into new expansions up till I left.