Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered

It occurs to me that I never did follow up my post in December about reinstalling EverQuest 2. Well after the reinstallation which included a full patch up of all the expansions released so far, I decided to start with a fresh view on the world so I chose to make a Human Inquisitor (basically a Cleric/Healer class) named Hinjani, who I began in Timorous Deep. Timorous is one of the old world zones which made a highly anticipated return when the new design team took over and realised that what all EverQuest 2 players really yearn for are EverQuest 1 zones remade. New content would be wonderful but nobody could really accept that Norrath’s citizens would start from scratch and not remember the lands that existed before the cataclysm that occurred between EQ1 and EQ2.

So Timorous Deep it was, which turned out to be a good choice also because the dev team designed it clearly to be a way to progress players quite rapidly through the less glamorous first twenty levels. Before I knew it Hinjani had a nice selection of plate armour, a number of AAs (something I never really got to experience in EverQuest 1) and was able to choose his surname. As a tribute to Richard Lawson’s EverQuest 1 cleric who inspired me to make Hinjani, I chose the surname ‘Lifegiver’. It’s pleasant being a battle cleric, I have ‘reactive heals’ which basically heal me every time I’m hit allowing me to solo quite effectively when I want to as well as making me a promising future Raid healer. I also have my all time favourite spell, Enduring Breath to allow me to breathe underwater, as well as a very nice rez spell.
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