So a frien
d of mine would like to dive into Modpacks, but has no experience outside of Vanilla Minecraft. Can anyone suggest a good pack for a first timer? One that has a good HQM teaching mods would be best.
This depends entirely on your friends motivation for playing modded minecraft.
If they are looking for reasons to fight monsters and explore? Packs involving Twilight Forest, The Atum, Roguelike Dongeons and Zelda Sword Skills (much more than its name implies) should be considered. Ruins, Chocolate Quest, The Erebus and Recurrent Complex are also good to look for.
If they want premade maps that use mods to provide a scenario driven experience, then one of the HQM packs like Agrarian Skies, Crash Landing or Material Energy are good.
If they want the minecraft sandbox experience but with mods providing a technical endgame, then packs using Rotary Craft or Greg tech should be considered.
If the primary motivation is building, but with tech mods to assist, then direwolf20 or any of the RF based tech packs, includingmods such as chisel, ztones, carpenters blocks etc.