Would any combo be unusual at this point? (2013)Follow

Did you see guild chat tonight? Female frogloks are very rare. Chanters are rare. Iksars that are not monks or sk.

If you box, female and male drakkins that can FD. I have a male monk, wife has a female necro, they FD on top of each other in a 69 position. Seemed unique to races to me.

I've played 2 Iks War, as well as had some friends that have played them too. My Wood Elf War feels a little unique, as no one thinks of him as a War and rather a Bard, and sometimes a Rogue (but I'm wearing plate).

I won't play a Frog, although I think my wife has a female one somewhere, maybe that's just mercs. I've played female Iks. First War was female Iks.

I don't see many female Trolls, and I've played alot of them, but may they stay in illusions most of the time.

Yther Ore.

It's something about them. Not sure exactly what, although I really dislike the floppy watery sounds they make, and don't like the look of them. It's just my least favorite race and really didn't like them coming in and taking over the troll city or many other aspects of their introduction.

I've had lots of frog friends, but I just don't like them myself. Maybe it's due to my love of the Troll race too. /shrug. EQ2 really turned me off frogs as well. As if, I didn't dislike them enough in EQ1!

It's probably something like Snakes, which I wouldn't play a Shissar either, if it was a playable race. Iksar is the only hissing / lots of Sses creature to play!

Yther Ore.

Ok Yther, one downrate for not liking frogloks. Kec Courtin Andidride is a frog cleric there are quite a few of us on Povar. I just started an Iksar female shaman on the Jonwin account. Lets see how far I can Pl her and get some small buffs for my other account. Her name is Patapsco.


Alright I couldnt do it Yther, no rate down no matter how hard I thought about it, my finger would not co-operate.


Edited, Sep 8th 2013 7:57am by Jonwin

yep, it was a good discussion.
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In respects to this entire thread, here's my most-played character history: The two in bold have more combined playtime than all the others together.

male Dark Elf enchanter (main for several years)
male Dark Elf cleric (my oldest character not deleted, has 1.0)
male Wood elf ranger (long term slow levelled alt)
male Iksar beastlord (levelled progression style to 50s before all the changes boosted xp/gear so much)
female Drakkin chanter (main on in a progression guild, now a human enchanter and my current main on Povar)
female Human monk (this was my Mayong server main, lost interest at 65)
female Drakkin necromancer (my main for years, now an Erudite Male, trapped on FV server where I don't want to play atm).
female Barbarian beastlord (level 55 and insanely geared on FV)
male Dwarf rogue (got bored at level 51, has been in <Aude Sapere> for years with other retired alla poster characters)
female Wood Elf Ranger (mayong moved to Zek now on Luclin but I lost interest again lol)
male Wood Elf Druid (rolled him on Vox as I had never played a druid. Got bored at 55)
female Erudite necromancer (my progression server main).
female Troll beastlord (I foolishly moved her to zek, she's level 57 and when I get enough free station cash I will move her to Povar likely).

I have a literal army of alts spread across servers and now-defunct accounts. Most of them are below level 30 (I have deleted level 50s characters in the past). I rolled a pile of characters on Povar anticipating going silver (I did for 3 days... reupped to Gold lol). Froglok shaman, Half elf War, Iksar SK, etc... I can play anything for a while. My personality is that something odd enough might inspire me to get past my usual "retirement" age of the level 55 range.

In my own personal experience, female tanks of any flavor are at least uncommon. I think I've seen one other female Erudite SK besides mine (and we both verbally high-fived one another in tells upon seeing one another). I don't see many frogloks period and they're almost exclusively casters, either arcane or divine.

Troll beastlords were a lot more common when the class launched and their mature pet size rivaled Lockjaw. Having their pets permanently reduced to gecko size took a lot of fun out of it and I think a lot of people dropped the class or changed race.

There should be a sub-category to a race census. Beyond "Female Troll/Ogre" you need "Female Troll/Ogre NOT named Huugemomma Kissesluv, Prettygurrl Wannahumpu or Largefunn Baggsrgreat"

Here's what I have gone with for now (only some will survive to mid level, allowing room for other combos):

female gnome warrior
female froglok paladin
male high elf wizard (I've never played a High elf!)
female half-elf bard
female erudite mage
male half-elf warrior (I know... 2 wars... one is dead for sure)

already have the old male dwarf rogue and female human chanter on the server.
will move the female troll beast there at some point. Also have female iksar necro and male erudite cleric (paineel!) that could get moved in.

It's how I accumulated so many characters/accounts over the years. I'd start a new character to play with some RL acquaintances/friends and then run into one of the 'no groups easily found' level ranges (that varies by class and year) so then I'd make a complementary character on the (then) second account to pair with them. If I grew to like the first character, I'd split them off onto their own account (when the option to do so became available). That, in addition to friends dumping their accounts on me when they quit (like four clerics after SoD launched) is how I wound up with so much redundancy. Plus, Wizard and Rogue are my favorite classes in EQ (and the game was a lot friendlier for those classes in years past) so if rolling on a new server, those were my go-to choices. New servers (like Kane Bayle and The Combine), the first character rolled was a cleric, for obvious reasons. And I've never been shy about splitting a character off onto a fresh account so they can duo with another character on that account.

Been playing EQ for 14 years come Thanksgiving and I've jumped around a lot, class and server wise, so that leads to a lot of toons building up. Add to that some disposable income and friends who trust you ("I don't want some Chinaman stripping my years of work to sell it off or worse, turning my <insert class here> into a bot!"), and you wind up with lots of redundancy.

EDIT: Besides, my firing squad has helped many a person get their epic. Five wizards and a bard in a group, ISBoxer allowing me to synchronize their casts, and five Intertwining * followed by five Ethereal * all boosted by the bard is money - go spend it!

Edited, Sep 9th 2013 12:12pm by Remianen