If you are new playing DaOC, don't overplay it, 3 consecutive straight 18 hours sessions burned me so bad in august that I couldnīt get myself to play until just tonight. It can get extremely annoying if played that way. It takes dozens/hundreds of hours to get to 40, then you are only in fact halfway to 50 and it's better not to get obsessed. I only managed to get 1 char to 50. And I hated it and deleted it.
Play on the Mordred PvP server after you get the hang of the game on a "carebear" server. The game shines there, you can have fun since level 10 instead of having to spend months leveling before you can see an enemy. You will get ganked. A lot. But you will get revenge.
. After playing there for two months, I went back to a regular server and found it really boring and stupid... when you saw a really obnoxious and annoying guy from your own country your options were.... ignore him or /wave to him. Sheesh
And last, do yourself a favor and join Shadowclan in the Mordred server. It's a roleplaying guild, but not THAT kind of roleplaying guild. You roleplay a savage bloodthisrty kobold. The most exhilarating online experience I have ever had, on pair with AH special events maybe. The squeaking can be priceless, when a bunch of l33t lvl 50 gankers go after 2 lvl 10 little kobolds only to top a hill and find their 40 angry cousins. Hoowah!. That saved the game for me when i was ready to quit altogether, and that is what has got me back in.
So go to
http://www.shadowclan.org, lookup the Mordred info, read it carefully, those rules are harshly enforced, learn a few words of the "kobo blah" (broken english +tolkien blackspeech), make your kobold on mordred with a proper orcish name and ask some shadowclan to get you in. New kobolds have it better than anyone on the unforgiving PvP server, you'll always have someone to group, someone to give you a few gold coins or to make you armor and weapons, regardless if you can pay for them.
There I'm Lurbuzh, futh'zuth rank Shamun ob da Trokakh-Hai, Shaddurklan.
