New Player - Where do I begin?

[Unaleyas]

Been out of the game since classic Everquest back in the day, never had a chance to play Kunark. I am currently installing the game and would like to plan out a bit of my adventure. I'm going to be playing an Iksar Shaman or Iksar Monk, leaning towards Monk so a lot of my time is going to be spent on a continent I've never seen before. So what are your suggestions?

What places are must see?

Is it feasible to go 1-60 on Kunark alone? I'm aware that its possible, but either route I go id like to group with some folks at some point. Are there enough people still playing in Kunark with Velious being out there?

Any guilds out there? This is a social game - it gets lonely soloing all of the time.

I've been reading some of the guides and have found a lot of answers already but would like some input from the current state of the game. Keep in mind I haven't played this game for something like 17 years.

[timeflux]

Look us up in Legends. We will help where we can. Micro guild, awesome people.

[Sonark]

Is it feasible to go 1-60 on Kunark alone?I won't speak for Shamans (though to my understanding they're a great solo class) but you absolutely can get to at least 50 solo as a Monk.

Work your way through Field of Bone until you hit 10, then do Kurns to 15-20, then head to Warslik's to 30 and yadda yadda yadda. I'm aware that its possible, but either route I go id like to group with some folks at some point. Are there enough people still playing in Kunark with Velious being out there?Yup

[Jimjam]

I rolled a barbarian shaman with the plan to do 1-60 in everfrost and permafrost alone.

Can only visit those two zones and Halas.


It's a back burner project, only 25 so far, but basically a full set of banded crafted!

[Lhancelot]

I rolled a barbarian shaman with the plan to do 1-60 in everfrost and permafrost alone.

Can only visit those two zones and Halas.


It's a back burner project, only 25 so far, but basically a full set of banded crafted!

Proof you are a masochist.

[Baler]

EVERY NEW PLAYER SHOULD START HERE
https://wiki.project1999.com/

Then add lhancelot to your ignore list.

[Nuggie]

Welcome to our slice of the Internet. Enjoy it, but don't fall down the rabbit hole.

[Sillyturtle]

I strongly, STRONGLY suggest that since you plan on Iksar Monk (best class ever!) that you watch the Youtube series Everquest Classic Adventures by Reptox, an Australian player who documented his travels.

Here is the first episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqYdv_Bh0xM)
It starts off slow, but after about 3 episodes he really gets great at telling a story and taking you on an epic journey. I was a completely new player when I saw these videos and they are what made me try P99 for the first time. I cannot stress just how much information and help I learned from these videos.

(Just a word of warning, he does change youtube accounts about halfway through the series. The series continues on the new account with this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdodPvF7dwk))

[Swish]

I strongly, STRONGLY suggest that since you plan on Iksar Monk (best class ever!) that you watch the Youtube series Everquest Classic Adventures by Reptox, an Australian player who documented his travels.

Here is the first episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqYdv_Bh0xM)
It starts off slow, but after about 3 episodes he really gets great at telling a story and taking you on an epic journey. I was a completely new player when I saw these videos and they are what made me try P99 for the first time. I cannot stress just how much information and help I learned from these videos.

(Just a word of warning, he does change youtube accounts about halfway through the series. The series continues on the new account with this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdodPvF7dwk))

These could be a good watch! Bookmarked, ty sir ^^

[Kesselring]

Learn how to sneak vendor, and learn how to FD bank. Sneaking around/training guards in cities or using invis rings to navigate around as an iksar is a must pretty much. You'll eventually get good enough to where you know where all guards are spawned/pathing and be able to completely avoid them in some cities where that's possible (most cities always have 2 front guards though so it has to be after you flop past them).

Alternatively you can figure out how to use sewers in freeport to navigate around underground. I suggest staying in Kunark til 30-35 though. FoB > Kurns > WW Giants > Sarnak Fort > FM Giants.

[kotton05]

Don't try to grind plat when you could just be leveling at least in the mid levels imo.

[skarlorn]

Don't try to grind plat when you could just be leveling at least in the mid levels imo.

agreed, i recently met a young level 52 ranger who had fungi, epic, yadda yadda... and I was like "wow who's your main?" and he said

"This is my main?"

and I said :confused:

Apparently he bought it from plat earnings from Goblin Gazhugi rings. That's some SERIOUS yikes. he coulda hit 60 and joined a raid guild and gotten all that junk easily.

Just be smart about where you exp, ask around and always hit the zones that have valuable droppables. Bone chips, spider silk, bronze weps, HQ ore, crafting mats, it all adds up... but most importantly you're exping. As long as you're pocketing a little plat every level ur doin fine.

tl;dr New Players should Begin at Character Select

[Sillyturtle]

agreed, i recently met a young level 52 ranger who had fungi, epic, yadda yadda... and I was like "wow who's your main?" and he said

"This is my main?"

and I said :confused:

Apparently he bought it from plat earnings from Goblin Gazhugi rings. That's some SERIOUS yikes. he coulda hit 60 and joined a raid guild and gotten all that junk easily.

Just be smart about where you exp, ask around and always hit the zones that have valuable droppables. Bone chips, spider silk, bronze weps, HQ ore, crafting mats, it all adds up... but most importantly you're exping. As long as you're pocketing a little plat every level ur doin fine.

tl;dr New Players should Begin at Character Select
These words are excellent advice. So many people get caught on the hangup that you need to have the best gear to progress and it's absolutely not true. They grind themselves out on platinum and burn out because they're not leveling and having a good time. Never lose focus that you can always farm more money at a higher level.

However, I am one of the people who really does love farming stuff. I enjoy building my character and gearing it more than I do playing it, to be honest. I mean, the first thing I did as a new player was farm 1000 spiderling silk in the Bonebiter warren cave outside Cabilis, and that sure was a grind. :D

@Skarlorn gives excellent advice when suggesting to level in areas that have lucrative drops. Now, lucrative means different things at different character levels, but being able to sell bronze weapons for like 1-3 platinum each at level 13 is amazing money for that level.

Another good item to watch out for is Lightstones and Greater Lightstones from those little willowisps. You can hand them in for 1 and 10 platinum each respectively. It's such good money that often high levels will farm them, grabbing up all the willowisps in an area.

[Swish]

agreed, i recently met a young level 52 ranger who had fungi, epic, yadda yadda... and I was like "wow who's your main?" and he said

"This is my main?"

and I said :confused:

Apparently he bought it from plat earnings from Goblin Gazhugi rings. That's some SERIOUS yikes. he coulda hit 60 and joined a raid guild and gotten all that junk easily.

Just be smart about where you exp, ask around and always hit the zones that have valuable droppables. Bone chips, spider silk, bronze weps, HQ ore, crafting mats, it all adds up... but most importantly you're exping. As long as you're pocketing a little plat every level ur doin fine.

tl;dr New Players should Begin at Character Select

60 is where characters go to die, the fun is in the journey... I back the guy for taking his time, particularly on a ranger.

[Sonark]

I always see people recommending you horde bone chips and spider silks but wow is it ever hard to actually unload those nowadays.

"But Sonark, I know like 100 people in this game and can always find buyers!"

Yes

"Silly Sonark, you just have to spend 12 hours a day in EC tunnel for a few weeks and you'll be fine."

Yes

[branamil]

I wonder which single zone it is possible to level 1-60 in.

[Canelek]

60 is where characters go to die, the fun is in the journey... I back the guy for taking his time, particularly on a ranger.

Agreed. Much more enjoyable to be casual filth sometimes. I do have to question someone's sanity if they are doing that particular camp hours on end though.

[loramin]

Don't try to grind plat when you could just be leveling at least in the mid levels imo.

Amen. I always put it this way: at level 30 you can farm what, tens of plat per hour? At level 50+ you can farm hundreds (if not 1k+) an hour. But if you're leveling your leveling rate is (prety much) the same regardless of gear. With a few exceptions (eg. goblin ring or fungi) it won't matter what your gear is: whether you have 1k AC or 2k AC you're going to kill mobs at pretty much the same rate.

So you can spend (say) ten hours farming plat to get maybe 500 plat, or you can spend that time leveling up, and when you get higher you can earn that same amount of plat in a single hour (ie. an order of magnitude more efficiently).

There are totally legit reasons to focus on plat over leveling anyway (eg. to delay leveling up, or to get an affordable item like the goblin ring which you know will increase your leveling speed), but in general if you're trying to get the "best" character in the shortest amount of time you should devote that time to leveling.

[loramin]

I wonder which single zone it is possible to level 1-60 in.

Maybe Everfrost? It's got a newbie area on one end, but it also has ice giants and barbarian guards on the other, and it has stuff like mammoths in-between. However, there are probably some gaps that would make it hard if not impossible to level all the way there.

[mcoy]

Maybe Everfrost? It's got a newbie area on one end, but it also has ice giants and barbarian guards on the other, and it has stuff like mammoths in-between. However, there are probably some gaps that would make it hard if not impossible to level all the way there.

Lake of Ill Omen would be close I think - although I'm not sure if the Chancellor gives xp to a 59. I vaguely recall him being high green (xp) when I killed him at 56-57. There's a wide variety in between. Maybe some of the Cabilis guards, if they're not super buffed?

-Mcoy

[Tuurin]

I wonder which single zone it is possible to level 1-60 in.

Butcherblock?

[indiscriminate_hater]

I wonder which single zone it is possible to level 1-60 in.

Technically any zone with at least one level 40 or higher mob

[Sillyturtle]

I always see people recommending you horde bone chips and spider silks but wow is it ever hard to actually unload those nowadays.

"But Sonark, I know like 100 people in this game and can always find buyers!"

Yes

"Silly Sonark, you just have to spend 12 hours a day in EC tunnel for a few weeks and you'll be fine."

Yes

It may be hard to find a buyer for a stack or two every now and then, but be on during the evening US time and offer 1000 Spiderling Silk and yo will get a bunch of whispesr.

[Crashking]

EVERY NEW PLAYER SHOULD START HERE
https://wiki.project1999.com/

Then add lhancelot to your ignore list.

Actually Baler that is a handy link but I would say that is more like the #2 spot.

#1 place to start is https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=159515

Learn the server rules, learn how to protect yourself, ie turning logging on to start when client starts.

I'm not going to make any presumption about your upbringing but being polite/courteous and communicating with others will take you much farther then just rushing in after mobs -- ie just basic manners -- Its how I remember players of EQ community which made things great, but there are the bad apples too.

I'm sad to say learning how to protect yourself shouldn't be the first thing expressed to a new player but I'm of the mindset ... better to know ahead of time. I'm not trying to scare you or anyone else off, but I want you to be aware the bad fruits can be really bitter and leave a nasty taste if you happen to bite into the wrong piece.

Otherwise Welcome to 99 - the memories will come back even if you restrict yourself to kunark where you don't know a lot. Actually not knowing might make it an even better experience because you get to learn things like it was back in the day. Wiki is nice even if not 100% accurate, but make a nice reference point. However at the same time, the wiki can spoil the chance to discover things without it the way the game was originally meant to be played, learning though communication with others, including the whole host of NPCs in the game designed to send you racing off to far away places and getting lost or killed along the way.

I agree that soloing when just starting out fresh on the server can seem very rough, but let me just say.... do your homework on guilds - they are not all created equal.. biggest doesn't mean best but larger can offer more potential to have others around to get the xp bar headed in the proper direction.

[Sonark]

It may be hard to find a buyer for a stack or two every now and then, but be on during the evening US time and offer 1000 Spiderling Silk and yo will get a bunch of whispesr.It takes 1000 as the baseline to get you anywhere?

Good gravy

[Sillyturtle]

It takes 1000 as the baseline to get you anywhere?

Good gravy

Note I said 'every now and then'. Silk and chips always sell.

[Sonark]

Your "every now and then" applied to the stack or two part.

Or at least that's how English works.

And they don't always sell.

The only reason I ever unloaded any bone chips is because I got lucky one time when an Erudite Necro was WTBing in East Cabilis as I was running through.

Every attempt on my own to sell them always ended in failure.

IRL RNG is a lot crazier than in-game. And in-game is pretty crazy.

[Sillyturtle]

Your "every now and then" applied to the stack or two part.

Or at least that's how English works.

And they don't always sell.

The only reason I ever unloaded any bone chips is because I got lucky one time when an Erudite Necro was WTBing in East Cabilis as I was running through.

Every attempt on my own to sell them always ended in failure.

IRL RNG is a lot crazier than in-game. And in-game is pretty crazy.

Yes, I know what my phrasing referenced. Every now and then it may be hard to move a stack or two. However, it will sell.

Necro's aren't the only ones to buy chips. You have SK's as well as people wanting to hand in the bone chips in places like Kaladim, etc.

I remember when I pushed a toon from 1 to 16 at Kaladim, I couldn't find enough people selling bone chips. I overpaid at like 15p per stack.

[Sonark]

Yes, I know what my phrasing referenced....even though you tried to change the subject of its reference retroactively. Every now and then it may be hard to move a stack or two. However, it will sell.At some unknown point, sure.Necro's aren't the only ones to buy chips. You have SK's as well as people wanting to hand in the bone chips in places like Kaladim, etc.At what point did I say Necros are the only ones who are willing or able to buy bone chips?

I just said I got lucky with one one time, after months of fruitless searching from classes of all shapes and sizes.I remember when I pushed a toon from 1 to 16 at Kaladim, I couldn't find enough people selling bone chips. I overpaid at like 15p per stack.And how far back does this memory stretch?

I held onto mine for 3+ months, and even made a thread in the Commonlands forum on this board and got nothing.

And as my forum join date suggests, I joined and started playing here Feb 2017