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You may want to look here to find your toons. You may also want to peruse this wiki about Mercenaries. At the levels you have listed, you might have trouble with finding any groups. A heroic character upgrade might be a consideration. Purchasable through the EQ marketplace, upgrades the character you select to level 85, including a full set of equipment, two large capacity 100% weight reducing bags(can't remember slot capacity), and 15kpp. It also automatically assigns you the task No Heroism Without Fear, which will unlock the Tier V Journeyman mercenaries. That's about all I have to suggest. I am sure others on here will offer up plenty more. Hope this helps.

I come back every other year or so. The world is fantastic. By far, the best gaming environment out. It doesn't take long to realize why i left, but taking a romp through the old world is like looking at your favorite picture album. I am also pleasantly surprised to find my favorite characters there too year after year.

i was looking to spend a few hours today, after being gone for a couple years, and familiarity hit me like a ton pf bricks. Server locked for update. rofl. i cant tell you how many times I used to wait for them to come back up on a day off. hahahaha, it was like a blast from the past.

The higher end game to me is incredibly tedious. Killing anything is like sawing wood with a dull blade at best. The pre AA game is still a blast though. After that, not so much. There are alot of things they could do to make grouping easier and faster, but they apparently do not want to invest the money or time to make it happen. WoW showed us what was possible along those lines.

Getting a group is a no starter. Everyone is in such a hurry to get to the high end game, they are multi boxing their own group or power leveling with another account, which they made easier with the heroic characters. You can blow through the first 50 levels in a few hours if you want. so anything outside of Cresent Reach is a ghost town. the loot tables are bad and no XP bonus = no players.

In the pre aa game, you can still solo a yellow with a merc and it doesn't take 5 minutes to kill a mob. It is alot of fun going through some of the older dungeons and exploring. It offers the best gaming in my opinion unless you are into the multi hour guild events. It is a shame some of the best content every produced in a game goes ignored for the most part. So much time and effort went into those old dungeons. They are a work of art. The later ones lack imagination compered to them.

Glad it is still here to enjoy. Everything past level 50 though is a lesson on tedium. You really have to have no life to enjoy the high end game.

And after all these years, it is apparent there isn't going to be another game like it. Everything is moving to fast twitch pvp games on consoles. The attention span of your average teen these days would sink a game like this the day after it launched. i don't think you will ever find a game with so much art work in it ever again. It is like finding a good cabinet builder. if it cant be glued or stapled, there is no money in it. No craftsmanship. spend as little as possible, toss it out to the fast twitch teens and move on to the next.

i hope when they finally pull the plug, they give us a CD walk through of the zones just to appreciate the art work of what used to be.

I should preface this by saying:

"Hi. I'm Bijou, and I'm an altaholic".


There; I said it.



My highest level toon is an 87 Pally who got there though sheer determination and an unholy partnership with an filthy, horrible Shadowknight. Having said that, I hated playing him at that point. I could go do a lot of content at that point but couldn't molo any content in HoT, even the trash in the front yard. And even with my alliance with my SK friend, my roommate (flatmate for you English types) it was a pain to get past the front door.


OK, so much for that; here's my point.

I really, really like helping other people. It's part of my real life job and is strongly reflected in the game. I like helping noobs meet Boawb in Crescent Reach to get that belt and mask. I like teaching noobs the finer points of politely asking for buffs and help. I like the fact that peeps I barely know I can see months or years later (vastly outleveling the toon who supported them) send me a /tell saying I kept them playing when they were confused and frustrated with the early game.

I also like them giving my lowbie alts cool stuff as a way of saying thanks, but that's just a bonus.

I guess what I'm saying is, is that this one of a few select games that offers that kind of personal reward over time. It's what keeps me playing.

The game is what you make of it. For me it's an opportunity for fun and helping and teaching others (now that I think about it, a shadow of my desire to be a teacher years ago?) but, whatever.

Wanna be an bleeding edge super-toon? You can. Want to be an Tradeskill expert? (Get an RL doctor who specializes in Repetitive Motion Disorder if you go that route, because, holy shyte you will need one. You can.

Want to make the game worthwhile for you and others?

YOU CAN


Having said all that you might want to consider playing in FV. I'm back there after a time away on the TLP Phinny server and I almost forgot how nice (and HELPFUL) people are here.

The following list is for you (and anyone else) on FV who might need a helping hand.

Taterkuk (61 Cleric)
Kkark (27 Beastlord)
Ludvik (35 Bard)
Shamthak (25 Shaman)
Woag (27 Warrior)
Wybol(29 Enchanter)