After about 2 years of walking away from the Game after I just got tired of it after the first few months of playing I decided to return.<
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Well The Combat System has completely changed. I kind of like it actually. It's more "Eq'ish" and from playing EQLive and EQ2 for the passed 4 years I picked up on it and like it better then the prior edition. Of course the CU FUBAR'd the Vets...allegedly but I'm not going to discuss that as I am not familiar with the "High End Game".<
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Anyway, upon returning, my original toon was still in tact. But he was nekkid. No more armor for the fledgling newbie these days... I'm level 14 at the moment and entirely stuck. Everything that cons "very weak" to me owns me royally. It's sick. Right before I hit level 14 I was gaining good experience, credits and actually having some fun learning the new Combat System on the ground.<
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But alas, this whole no armor has me wondering if these recent changes
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Wait level 14? Did they add levels? My account is still active because of the all access thing but I havent played it in a long long time. <i></i>

They still have skill boxes, but now the boxes give you levels. So, if you are 2 master elite professions you will be level 80 (the max level). When you group, the group will have a level based on the highest character in group. So you might have a group of level 20s and have a level 80 join you, and your group can now kill level 80 stuff.<
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Anyway, yeah you cannot use armor until you hit a novice elite prof, so for now if you have money buy Bio-enginereed clothes. Although you won't really need them depending on your profession. Also, I'm afraid most of the exp will come from grouping, soloing for exp in game has become kind of hard for some professions, and nearly impossible for others.<
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I went ahead and bought it since I have the SOE all access thing. I bought a box set of the original plus both expansions for $20.00 at walmart.<
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First ever mmorpg i've p[layed that is too laggy to play on dialup. I can't even get through Mos Eisley. I did struggle out and found some sand people to slay, but on any other p lanets, i've walked forever and saw nothing at all. Even with the free speeder, which is another famous SoE one shot deal, it takes forever to get around for even contact missions.<
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it's laggy and I got bored. I too tried it again, and wrote a post on it pre-ezboard meltdown, and promised I'd keep updating.<
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There are lot's of Jedi now. Actually if you PvP and you have no Jedi you will lose if the other side has Jedi.<
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I unlocked my Jedi right before they changed the unlock system to a quest (I had to master 28 professions)....I played him to around mid-Knight level, then quit cause none of my friends played anymore and I got both my WoW and EQ2 beta invites in the same week.<
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