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Let's see. As I recall you could to the Butcherblock quests or head to Thundering Steppes or Nektulos Forest at that phase.

I understand the whole spoon fed concept. Hence why I left WoW. But WoW has several quests from the same Hub that will say "Go help so and so at such and such" for several different zones at once that you could chose to go to.

The new starting zones in EQ2 seemed to be doing this but at level 20 it was kind of like " Cool you defeated these bird people!" and thats about it. I guess it isn't that big of a deal as I am thoroughly enjoying myself. Off to go level my Ranger to experience the Wood Elf city and the good alignment and see which is better for me.

I didn't think of it at the time but there is almost always another option available to you...

Unlike WoW, asking a question like "where should I hunt at lvl XX" in the various chat channels (especially the dedicated levels channel) will most likely result in one or more polite responses as opposed to being told "dood UR so lame"!

Having come from WoW you are probably pre-conditioned against asking for help in chat (much like being a visitor to New York during the 70s... "Can you tell me the way to the Empire State Building or shall I just go ***** myself?") Here in EQ2, you will run into an occasional malignant child but most of the time chat is filled with helpful, friendly adults.

Also, FWIW, the reason the starting area you chose (actually you picked the race and the game picked the zone but I digress) is that from where you were, there is really no contiguous zone that you could shift to. Since that area was added in an expansion and was not in the core game it is kind of an island once you complete the levels that it offers.

Faydwer (where you are now) is also an expansion but was designed as a level 0 through level 70 experience so you should find it a more complete or at least a longer smooth flow.

In any case welcome back to EQ2 and sorry if I seemed snippish before...

I have one of each at low (30s) level. They're both a ton of fun, actually. However, if it matters to you, I understand that in the end game assassins are much preferred at the moment.

Who knows, though? The nerf bat is a fickle mistress.

Butcherblock is a bit lower than Nek or Thundering Steppes, so a good move to go there in between. There are quests on both sides of the zone - the docks and over by Greater Faydark as well, so be sure to pick up both.

Rangers are indeed the quintessential "tissue paper tank" (blame it on the armor) but in all fairness, they're not tanks... they're DPSers and at that they excel.

Now way back when dirt & I were both young, one of the original regular posters to this board (Bodhisatva) crunched the damage output numbers between ranger & assassin and came to the conclusion that assassins do more damage over all. At which point he promptly betrayed his fully tricked out level-capped ranger to begin again as an assassin. And just to impress upon you how serious this decision was, it was back in the day when there was still a complete separation between good and evil... you couldn't mail anything to the other side and there were no shared bank vault slots! In spite of this and along with having to re-gear his toon and completely re-purchase all his spells (which, irrc, were all or almost all AD3s & masters) he was happy with the result and reported here that he parsed higher during raids and that his guildies were generally happier with his performance then they had been when he was a ranger.

Personally, I've always been happy with my ranger especially since I prefer to stand back away from the front line and pew-pew the bad guys from a distance. But to each his own... if you wanna min-max things -OR- if you'd rather stand right next to the boss mob and deliver a dagger up the strap then assassin is the right choice for you.