Any guide suggestions for a new player?

[ALTitis]

Hello! I just discovered Project 1999. I've never really gotten into EQ in the past, but for some reason I am finding the low poly look very nostalgic.

Anyone have suggestions on guides to follow so I am not endlessly wandering around Qeynos or wherever my starter zone is. I am not sure what I should be focusing on as soon as I am plopped into the world.

Thanks!

[Gustoo]

type in "qeynos project 1999" and click the wikipedia page and look at the maps.

Nice job getting the game to load up dude, thats the hard part.

Not knowing WTF to do is kind of the best part of the game, relish it.

/c or /con or /consider will tell you if you can kill a given enemy. You're going to be looking for the newbie yard with rats and things and to start killing them and getting experience points.

I guess its a steep learning curve I can't remember its been a zillion years. Welcome to the game!

[loramin]

https://wiki.project1999.com/Players:Adventure

There are guides for specific classes, guides for specific starting areas (including Qeynos), and so on. If you're completely new, I'd start with the "Newbie Guide", https://wiki.project1999.com/Players:Newbie (and then maybe look at the Qeynos starting guide and a guide or two for your class).

[ALTitis]

Thanks for the replies guys. That wiki is super helpful. Exactly what I needed. I will probably start as something simple like a fighter/warrior type while I grasp the game.

I remember owning the game around when it came out but I didn't get too much further than the first few levels. I probably ended up stopping because of the learning curve. These days I miss having a learning curve when starting a game. Everything is too familiar.

[UrkTheSlayer]

If you get the hang of eq and want an even earlier experience check out m59 on steam. Two of the original devs still run the three active servers and it hasn’t changed in almost 30 years.

[Eredhel]

I would say you can do qeynos gates 1-4. Go for all the decaying skeletons for the cloth armor, there are a lot on both sides of the road. Depending on your class you can move to the next zone, qeynos hills around 5 and fight stuff at the zone line. Then start heading to blackburrow and as soon as you can kill gnoll scouts and gnolls just learn where they are at the entrance and a couple spots nearby. Save the gnoll fangs for a quest turnin in the arena in south qyenos, and save what he gives you for a turnin near the docks. Once the gnolls in qyenos hills are easy you can start trying inside blackburrow. In west karana there are bandits that can drop bronze and red sashes. Those sashes are a quest turnin in south qeynos that give xp and bronze weapons. Depending on your class you can start trying those around 11.

[starkind]

Get lvl 20 on at least 1 Character so u can feed ur alts cb belts, pads. Or deathfist belts, lightstones, and GLS. Fastest way to 15 or so. Then u can skip the slowest soloyest lvls.

Tradeskills are great for when u don't want to grp. And quickly tossing some gear on those alts.

[loramin]

Get lvl 20 on at least 1 Character so u can feed ur alts cb belts, pads. Or deathfist belts, lightstones, and GLS. Fastest way to 15 or so. Then u can skip the slowest soloyest lvls.

Tradeskills are great for when u don't want to grp. And quickly tossing some gear on those alts.

Are you deliberately trying to give bad advice? The second to last thing any new player should be doing is getting to level 20 and farming belts for alts ... and the last thing they should be doing is tradeskills!

Stick to a main character OP, have fun playing them (don't "farm" anything), and save tradeskills for when you are rich and have money to waste later on.

[starkind]

lol do what loramin said

its easier to do everything at higher lvl and exp is easier to get than gear and u dont need gear to get exp

but its fun, so if u find urself stalled, take a break and smell the roses, or wolf pelts.

on the side note taking a break at 4 to farm rusty weapons and vendor them and at 16+ to farm bronze weapons or do bandit sashes is always gonna help a lot especially when ya finally hit EC, if uc an get a magic weapon wisps and GLS are the way to go.

[loramin]

lol do what loramin said

its easier to do everything at higher lvl and exp is easier to get than gear and u dont need gear to get exp

but its fun, so if u find urself stalled, take a break and smell the roses, or wolf pelts.

on the side note taking a break at 4 to farm rusty weapons and vendor them and at 16+ to farm bronze weapons or do bandit sashes is always gonna help a lot especially when ya finally hit EC, if uc an get a magic weapon wisps and GLS are the way to go.

:) Now this is good advice.

[starkind]

To be fare I got all my tradeskills up to 51 for almost practically no money. Except sorta blacksmithing. which was like 45p
pottery like 48p
brewering like 30p
tailoring I actually made money from because I was converting pelts into masks (it puts the lotion on its furrrr or it gets the whip again)
etc.. :D

[Jimjam]

To be fare I got all my tradeskills up to 51 for almost practically no money. Except sorta blacksmithing. which was like 45p
pottery like 48p
brewering like 30p
tailoring I actually made money from because I was converting pelts into masks (it puts the lotion on its furrrr or it gets the whip again)
etc.. :D

Masks very much in season atm, good business sense and a prosocial enterprise. I do have to say, it is unlikely your home made masks actually provide any sv vs disease.

[loramin]

Early levels of tradeskills can be done fairly cheaply, but they still take up time and some money (which really means just "more time"). However, they don't give you very good loot, with the possible exception of 10-slot backpacks.

I strongly suspect that if you spend all that time leveling and getting loot off mobs, you'll wind up much better off ... even if it means you have to purchase your backpacks.

[starkind]

I play this game to consume time and a lot of times I don't have time to grp but time to consume, thats why it was my go-to. Obviously everyones gonna have different experiences and opinions.

When I was 19 I ignored everyone's posts about tradeskills. And just begged my lvl 40 friends to make me fine steel armor at cost lol. (they did)

There's no right or wrong way to play an immersive, sandbox, mmo lol.

[Xer0]

type in "qeynos project 1999" and click the wikipedia page and look at the maps.

Nice job getting the game to load up dude, thats the hard part.

Not knowing WTF to do is kind of the best part of the game, relish it.

/c or /con or /consider will tell you if you can kill a given enemy. You're going to be looking for the newbie yard with rats and things and to start killing them and getting experience points.

I guess its a steep learning curve I can't remember its been a zillion years. Welcome to the game!


????? who the hell types /C when you can literally just press C?

[Tyrant82]

If you get the hang of eq and want an even earlier experience check out m59 on steam. Two of the original devs still run the three active servers and it hasn’t changed in almost 30 years.

105/112 are the best servers ;)

[Tunabros]

whatever you do

do not min max

[UrkTheSlayer]

What exactly is min/max? Like a ogre warrior is min/max so I should roll a halflings warrior and that’s max/min right?

Is min/max even the opposite of max/min?

Screw it, I’m playing a Druid anyway��.

[starkind]

halfling warrior is actuall minmax

were as ogre warrior is 'on paper min max'

gnome pretty close to minmax2 cuz of certain things like bullshmasher in classic, high dexterity etc

admittedly its fun to solo ogre warriors till about 24.. but then idk, troll warrior kinda takes over as being something, by 50 they are all kinda got their pros and cons

maybe rather than thinking in terms ofmin max ppl should do /pro/con lists

[Gustoo]

I never understood the terminology min/max or the terminology "twink" I always thought it was Tweek like the character was tweeked out with gear..when I was 11.

I think it means choosing optimal pathway for your goal. If you want to be a warrior I think min/max is an ogre, all points to dexterity. Ogre because FSI, weighted axe, throwing boulders.

A weird one is like the paladin, where if you are going to get all best in slot gear, a high elf paladin with all points to Charisma is the min max choice, because the charisma stat is going to be lowest and non maxxed when you have all the best gear in the game.

But unless you get all the best gear in the game, that is a pretty terrible way to play a paladin with way too low strength and stamina and that charisma does nothing for you unless you lull way too often.

For the most part it never matters, because really min/maxing is pretty rare and you can see there are some debatable points about best race to choose and best stat to allocate.

[Nervaaz]

If you get the hang of eq and want an even earlier experience check out m59 on steam. Two of the original devs still run the three active servers and it hasn’t changed in almost 30 years.

Oh, I put "m59" into the search bar on the Steam store, and got "0 results match your search". What am I missing?

[Xer0]

halfling warrior is actuall minmax

were as ogre warrior is 'on paper min max'

gnome pretty close to minmax2 cuz of certain things like bullshmasher in classic, high dexterity etc

admittedly its fun to solo ogre warriors till about 24.. but then idk, troll warrior kinda takes over as being something, by 50 they are all kinda got their pros and cons

maybe rather than thinking in terms ofmin max ppl should do /pro/con lists

Thats what minmaxing is. Getting a list of the pros and cons and opting to go with the route that offers the most (or the most effective) pros

[starkind]

Oh, I put "m59" into the search bar on the Steam store, and got "0 results match your search". What am I missing?

meridian something

[Nervaaz]

meridian something

Ohhh ... Meridian 59! I remember that, as my brother played it. It came out before EQ by 2 or 3 years if I remember correctly. I never played it, so no real desire to try it now, but I can see it appealing to those who played it back in the 90s.

[UrkTheSlayer]

Ohhh ... Meridian 59! I remember that, as my brother played it. It came out before EQ by 2 or 3 years if I remember correctly. I never played it, so no real desire to try it now, but I can see it appealing to those who played it back in the 90s.

It’s heavy pvp and with its low pop it doesn’t work out that great.

[Shrimapan]

Yeah just started playing myself after hearing great things about this game. Wish me luck.