Thread: Hey Arkenstone

It seems like this is a nice server, so before I make a character, I was wondering. Is this server low on any certain classes?

I don't see many burglars about, and very few minstrels. Lore Masters however, well, you can't walk more than a few paces without stepping on a bear's paw or being blinded by feathers.

My suggestion though is just go with what you like playing.

HTH

Originally Posted by dgn-master

I don't see many burglars about, and very few minstrels. Lore Masters however, well, you can't walk more than a few paces without stepping on a bear's paw or being blinded by feathers.

My suggestion though is just go with what you like playing.

HTH

I agree with this except for the minstrel part. But maybe that's because I am biased. I rolled a minstrel for two reasons... the RP characterization that I wanted my character to have and... I love to heal. I love playing the healer in groups. However, as of late, I have seen minnie after minnie pop up. Now, I don't know how it is in the upper levels, though because I tend to log on and get distracted by playing music for 2 hours. :-/ Yeah. It's true. hehe... so I am only level 39 (maybe I'll make that 40 tonight).

But I couldn't agree more with:

My suggestion though is just go with what you like playing.

Burglars tend to be on the low side from what I've noticed, but it's not by a lot. Just play whatever class appeals to you the most and have fun at it. There's plenty of groups these days to keep you busy no matter what class you are.

Originally Posted by PiperPilot

However, as of late, I have seen minnie after minnie pop up. Now, I don't know how it is in the upper levels, though because I tend to log on and get distracted by playing music for 2 hours. :-/ Yeah. It's true. hehe... so I am only level 39 (maybe I'll make that 40 tonight).

I saw this same trend in the months after the game first launched a few years ago. At first Minstrels were scarce and if you had one you had no trouble finding groups. As soon as I logged in I'd start getting /tells from people wanting me to join their fellowships. Then after a few weeks I saw a lot of new Minstrels running around, which I took to be people raising their own in an attempt to make up for the shortage.

However, while it's easy to roll a minnie it's quite another thing to stick with the class and raise it up to it's full potential. And so even today, if you monitor /glff more often than not you will still see lots of groups looking for a healer.

Bored and I'm a bit of a geek, so here's what I put in another thread, where someone was complaining about too many guardians running GB on Arkenstone:

As of this afternoon, levels 20-26:

hunters 24
champions 14
guardians 12
minstrels 11
captains 6
burgs 5
loremaster 4
runekeeper 3
warden 3
Total 82

Seems like a pretty normal distribution to me. I think if you have access to it, roll a runekeeper, if not then roll a burg. If you're worried about being able to get groups at level 65, roll a captain.