Returning player looking for advice

Hello , I came back to play on the Teek server after a long absence , and I’m not happy with it. I want to play my old characters again. I have a level 108 enchanter , 107 warrior , and 107 mage that I play as a team with 3 mercs. I own 27 of 30 expansions , so I think I can get to level 110 , but I honestly don’t know. I don’t even remember what I was working on last.

My characters have between 10k-15k AAs , the warrior being the one around 10k. Idk how far this is behind now even.

You can get to level 115 now without buying any expansions. Once you get to 110 the vast majority of exp will come from doing Torment of Velious (ToV) progression quests/missions rather than from grinding kill exp.

What did you not like about Teek?

If it is overpopulation.
Rude awakening on Live server, underpopulated, zeroes. Even with LFGs zero.

If its something else, I'm curious.

Advice 108s 109s?
https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/109.298525/
Heres a 109 with playing with another 109, so a duo, 2 real people.
Can see their struggles and give you idea of what to expect since your around that level too.

Honestly I wouldn't take this advice.

My advice is do your overseer.
Log out.

Log into Teek.

I already know people going to yap.
Look at we dealing with 10k AA.
3 box.
So look here, 10k AA doing ToV missions??? Even if you have the AA those are no cakewalk.
Reminder advice, you lose 2% after a rez so don't be in that going backwards feeling. Or stagnant. That other post, about an hour to get 1% xp. Food for thought. You want to try doing stuff, be mindful once you die thats 2 hours more of catchup, so not really incentive for trying things at this level.

Means you gotta update 3 accounts, $45.
If you look at the thread with 2 real people 109, with updated accounts, they not doing well either. Hence looking advice too.

I not too long went through this.
Result?

Many threads of not good, EQ can do better.
I'm in LS now, and that feeling, didn't improve 109 to 125. Still feel type of way.

My advice is to rethink about why you leaving Teek. Then we can go from there with your why and see if its a good fit for doing Live again.

Also,
another food for thought.
Boxing, why?
Antisocial? No one around?

Big advice is join a guild, but its ok to not want to join one either, but on LIVE its a huge factor especially late game. ZEROes. zero people in zones. zero people in lfg. zeroes.
Instances, part of the factor of why no one in the zone, they in instances.

Hello, and welcome back!
Starting back up again can be hard, especially if you don't remember where you left off. The first thing I would look at are your achievements for the expansion you were in when you left, and look at the mercenary/partisan quests for that expansion. You should have checkmarks next to the ones you have completed. If you haven't started any, then starting at the beginning of the expansion is a good idea. EQResource is a great place to go for quest walkthroughs.

As mentioned above, you can get to 115 without purchasing any expansions, however if you are looking to get to the current expansion, you can buy it and it will open up everything older. Also, as mentioned above, doing quests/missions in Torment of Velious will net the best XP. I would first, however, get to 110-111 before jumping on these.

If you can find a good complimentary group of people to supplement your group so you don't need mercs, especially people who have done the content and can run the missions, that will be a big bonus. There are plenty of helpful guilds, and people, around.

Again, welcome back!

Type /overseer and follow the tutorial quests on all 3 accounts. Once done - focus on recruiting more agents and collect tradeskill materials for RoS via Research quests (You'll figure it out while doing the tutorial).
At 107-108 you should have the full set of Conflagrant gear.
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/wiki/eq:Ring_of_Scale_Armor_Guide
It is player-made and required some materials, hence the Overseer Research.
https://eqtraders.com/articles/article_page.php?article=g1559

FYI, since several valuable items can be made via progressive tradeskill-based quests there is a great many tradeskillers at high levels, they will be helpful to you and will be willing to make combines for you if you provide the materials, so there is no special need for yourself to work on tradeskills and all Conflagrant gear is tradable/attunable.

Once you gear up start working on augments. Type 5 augments provide "Heroic" statistics (different classes need to focus on different Hstats), meanwhile Type 7 provide the basic improvements.
Make class-specific Conflagrant Type 5, like
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=128999
and the full set of Type 7's like
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=128995

To fill up empty Type 5 slots you can do TBM missions for experience grind, TBM expansion currency and purchase augments like (bought from merchant, non-lore)
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=123815
Meanwhile, random trash in TBM rarely drops some nice augs for your warrior:
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=124585
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=124533
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=124532
named drops
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=124562
If you lucky while grinding there you can collect all 4.

Ask some high-level friendly mage to summon (takes some time, they may already have it stashed)
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=145375
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=145411
2 per character.

Also, do the Tower of Tides (current anniversary zone to celebrate 25th EQ anniversary)
The merchant in there sells nice gear (including augs) like
https://items.eqresource.com/items.php?id=111370&aug7=111504&aug25=161286
With improved versions sold at level 115 and 125, like
https://items.eqresource.com/items.php?id=111374&aug7=111506&aug25=161292

Once done all that and hit your lvl 110's, you should head to ToV expansion and start doing progression quests in Eastern Wastes and Great Divide. Mercenary quests are easier - go and kill so many of trash. MErcenary and Partisan Achievements in ToV reward with outsized experience, something in a tume 15-25 % per level. Though, only once per character.
At that time you'll be more familiar with the game to make your own path farther.