[Newbie Guide] Defeating P99 in 14 steps

[Gugg]

In no particular order...

Ding 60 with Enchanter
Ding 60 with Magician
Ding 60 with Necromancer
Ding 60 with Wizard
Ding 60 with Cleric
Ding 60 with Shaman
Ding 60 with Druid
Ding 60 with Bard
Ding 60 with Monk
Ding 60 with Ranger
Ding 60 with Rogue
Ding 60 with Paladin
Ding 60 with Shadow Knight
Ding 60 with Warrior

Congratulations you defeated P99.

Hints...

There's no expansion after Velious therefore raiding at level 60 and spending $$$ on expensive spells is the equivalent of an old aged bald headed man working 18 hours a day to buy an expensive sports car that has no wheels just to rev the engine in front of the neighbourhood kids with. At 60 you reroll, so choose a race which will you enjoy leveling up with not one which is good at 60 because unless you want to be the bald guy revving his engine you're only other choice is to reroll.

There's a finish line which makes everybody obsolete so go slow instead of sprinting towards the finish line like a retard. Competing hurts you in the long run. You don't need to race or compare yourself to others. Whatever you acquire becomes obsolete down the line and that includes your class.

The wiki which "anybody" can edit is not Classic so if you want to be classic then avoid the wiki altogether. The wiki is not an official source either, it's 3rd party.

[Encroaching Death]

an old aged bald headed man working 18 hours a day to buy an expensive sports car that has no wheels just to rev the engine in front of the neighbourhood kids with

And then you get bored after a day of revving the engine.

You stare at the sports car in your garage, struggling to find ways to reignite your passion for fun.

But you feel nothing.

All you see is a hunk of expensive steel. The love is gone.

So you turn the garage light off, leaving the beauty in the darkness.

You sigh in disappointment as you realize your life passed you by as you were working for that sports car.

[Gugg]

And then you get bored after a day of revving the engine.

You stare at the sports car in your garage, struggling to find ways to reignite your passion for fun.

But you feel nothing.

All you see is a hunk of expensive steel. The love is gone.

So you turn the garage light off, leaving the beauty in the darkness.

You sigh in disappointment as you realize your life passed you by as you were working for that sports car.

Picture the scene...

Old bald guy sitting in a sports car that's perched high up on bricks in a basic cul-de-sac. A car he worked day and night for, birthdays, christmases, double shifts, weekends...

The car has two big bore exhausts.

Toothless children passing by.

The bald guy frantically revving the engine to draw their attention to him.

"ENVY ME!" he yells out the car window with each rev of the engine.

But nobody is looking.

The cul-de-sac is full of lots of old bald guys doing the exact same thing as him.

On each dash, a big bottle of viagra but no woman in sight.

Welcome to CuckQuest.

[Encroaching Death]

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[Gugg]

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"I'm going to level a Shaman to 60 and spend 350K on him just so I can kill 'dragons' in WW for a few days before it gets boring. Then people will wish they were me just before I reroll"

[magnetaress]

nuh uh its 182 steps or something like that maybe a bit less cuz some races cant be some classes but u get my drift

[Encroaching Death]

"I'm going to level a Shaman to 60 and spend 350K on him just so I can kill 'dragons' in WW for a few days before it gets boring. Then people will wish they were me just before I reroll"

wqzLoXjFT34

[loramin]

The wiki which "anybody" can edit is not Classic so if you want to be classic then avoid the wiki altogether. The wiki is not an official source either, it's 3rd party.

I love how everyone loves to declare this ... while completely ignoring or forgetting that back in the classic era we had Caster's Realm (https://web.archive.org/web/20010727210527/http://eq.castersrealm.com/), Allakhazam (https://web.archive.org/web/20010627185803/http://everquest.allakhazam.com/), EQ Atlas (https://web.archive.org/web/20010624124201/http://www.eqatlas.com/), EQ Traders (https://web.archive.org/web/20221104222251/https://eqtraders.com/), forums for every single class (I think a couple classes even had multiple), sites or forums for major guilds ... and all sorts of other websites that have since been lost to time.

The wiki puts everything in one place, is more detailed than those sites, and has a few features (eg. the location Xs on maps) they didn't ... but to say it's "not Classic" is to admit you really don't know what classic was like. Today we might look at a map on a second monitor instead of printing it out and putting into a binder (like we did back in the day) ... but it's the same exact map the EQ Atlas guy drew 20+ years ago.

[Encroaching Death]

Yeah, I used Caster's Realm a ton. I remember that

[eqravenprince]

After you have hit 60 with every single race/class/religion/char model combination then you win EQ.

[Encroaching Death]

After you have hit 60 with every single race/class/religion/char model combination then you win EQ.

Sounds like the 7th level of Hell to me

[magnetaress]

nirvana tbh especially if ur one of those ppl who just enjoy the whole journey

[Encroaching Death]

nirvana tbh especially if ur one of those ppl who just enjoy the whole journey

Do you switch to a new class after you hit 60 or do you stay with the same class and hit 60 with every race one after the other?

The latter sounds like pure pain to me.

[magnetaress]

Do you switch to a new class after you hit 60 or do you stay with the same class and hit 60 with every race one after the other?

The latter sounds like pure pain to me.

I would roll a dice for class n race and just reroll if already did

[BigChief]

In no particular order...

Ding 60 with Enchanter
Ding 60 with Magician
Ding 60 with Necromancer
Ding 60 with Wizard
Ding 60 with Cleric
Ding 60 with Shaman
Ding 60 with Druid
Ding 60 with Bard
Ding 60 with Monk
Ding 60 with Ranger
Ding 60 with Rogue
Ding 60 with Paladin
Ding 60 with Shadow Knight
Ding 60 with Warrior

Congratulations you defeated P99.

Hints...

There's no expansion after Velious therefore raiding at level 60 and spending $$$ on expensive spells is the equivalent of an old aged bald headed man working 18 hours a day to buy an expensive sports car that has no wheels just to rev the engine in front of the neighbourhood kids with. At 60 you reroll, so choose a race which will you enjoy leveling up with not one which is good at 60 because unless you want to be the bald guy revving his engine you're only other choice is to reroll.

There's a finish line which makes everybody obsolete so go slow instead of sprinting towards the finish line like a retard. Competing hurts you in the long run. You don't need to race or compare yourself to others. Whatever you acquire becomes obsolete down the line and that includes your class.

The wiki which "anybody" can edit is not Classic so if you want to be classic then avoid the wiki altogether. The wiki is not an official source either, it's 3rd party.

So you are an old bald guy with 14 base GM cars in the garage?

[BigChief]

And then you get bored after a day of revving the engine.

You stare at the sports car in your garage, struggling to find ways to reignite your passion for fun.

But you feel nothing.

All you see is a hunk of expensive steel. The love is gone.

So you turn the garage light off, leaving the beauty in the darkness.

You sigh in disappointment as you realize your life passed you by as you were working for that sports car.

… Sergeant O'Leary is walkin' the beat
At night he becomes a bartender
He works at Mister Cacciatore's down
On Sullivan Street
Across from the medical center
He's tradin' in his Chevy for a Cadillac (ack, ack, ack, ack, ack)
You oughta know by now
And if he can't drive
With a broken back
At least he can polish the fenders
… It seems such a waste of time
If that's what it's all about
Mama if that's movin' up
Then I'm movin' out
I'm movin' out

[Encroaching Death]

… Sergeant O'Leary is walkin' the beat
At night he becomes a bartender
He works at Mister Cacciatore's down
On Sullivan Street
Across from the medical center
He's tradin' in his Chevy for a Cadillac (ack, ack, ack, ack, ack)
You oughta know by now
And if he can't drive
With a broken back
At least he can polish the fenders
… It seems such a waste of time
If that's what it's all about
Mama if that's movin' up
Then I'm movin' out
I'm movin' out

Life is so cruel that it found a way to make succeeding miserable.

You almost have to respect its "Fuck You" attitude in a way.

Oh well, there's always alcohol and hard drugs.

[Gugg]

I love how everyone loves to declare this ... while completely ignoring or forgetting that back in the classic era we had Caster's Realm (https://web.archive.org/web/20010727210527/http://eq.castersrealm.com/), Allakhazam (https://web.archive.org/web/20010627185803/http://everquest.allakhazam.com/), EQ Atlas (https://web.archive.org/web/20010624124201/http://www.eqatlas.com/), EQ Traders (https://web.archive.org/web/20221104222251/https://eqtraders.com/), forums for every single class (I think a couple classes even had multiple), sites or forums for major guilds ... and all sorts of other websites that have since been lost to time.

Those web sites arrived after EQ was released so they aren't classic either and they were all 3rd party too just like your unofficial wiki is. There were no treasure hunting guides or step by step leveling guides during classic everybody was learning the ropes on the fly. Even so your wiki is nowhere near as good as Castersrealm was. Castersrealm was original content, your content is either biased personal opinion presented as facts (example: https://wiki.project1999.com/Shamwowi%27s_Shaman_Race_Guide) or stolen content (the same as all wiki's are). There's no comment section on your wiki either like there is on Allakhazam. The bit about everybody being free to add their own bit is a lie too (the wiki system has woke wiki admins and bots with automatic revert buttons).

FYI, when you say something all I see is your clown-ish forum avatar so everything you say is a joke to me. Because of that, I'm glad you're not representing important causes because if you did they would be a joke too.

[Gugg]

[Protip]

Best Shaman race...

- Pre-60: the fun one
- Post-60: none

Me personally, I'm going for max strength and FSI to avoid being encumbered and stunned for 60 levels before I reroll. I'm not after a darwin award so I won't be raiding at 60 nor spending 100K on a L60 spell just so I can kill a baby dragon. No epics either. Working on epics on P99 is retarded.

Right now though I'm busy playing a blind Human Ranger. I'm about to ding sow, bish.

[Gugg]

Regarding Ranger, I'm loving the 1 point kick, 1 point DS and 33 point heals. Being blind as a bat is fun too.

FU Verant Satan.

[Encroaching Death]

Working on epics on P99 is retarded.

Me, with all my Wiki studying and seeing this:

https://i.gifer.com/PaiY.gif

[loramin]

Those web sites arrived after EQ was released so they aren't classic either and they were all 3rd party too just like your unofficial wiki is. There were no treasure hunting guides or step by step leveling guides during classic everybody was learning the ropes on the fly. Even so your wiki is nowhere near as good as Castersrealm was. Castersrealm was original content, your content is either biased personal opinion presented as facts (example: https://wiki.project1999.com/Shamwowi%27s_Shaman_Race_Guide) or stolen content (the same as all wiki's are). There's no comment section on your wiki either like there is on Allakhazam. The bit about everybody being free to add their own bit is a lie too (the wiki system has woke wiki admins and bots with automatic revert buttons).

FYI, when you say something all I see is your clown-ish forum avatar so everything you say is a joke to me. Because of that, I'm glad you're not representing important causes because if you did they would be a joke too.

It's not "my" wiki, the classic era went from launch to Velious, and you're just flat-out making shit up (eg. there are literally zero "woke admin bots" ... or any other kind of bots for that matter ... and maybe you should just try not vandalizing the wiki in the first place?) ... but:

https://media.tenor.com/rtfJCuHyTewAAAAM/nice-try-saturday-night-live.gif

[cyxthryth]

It's not "my" wiki, the classic era went from launch to Velious, and you're just flat-out making shit up (eg. there are literally zero "woke admin bots" ... or any other kind of bots for that matter ... and maybe you should just try not vandalizing the wiki in the first place?) ... but:

https://media.tenor.com/rtfJCuHyTewAAAAM/nice-try-saturday-night-live.gif

You are correct that it is not your wiki, as it does not belong to you. However, I am not sure how correct it is for you to (seemingly) attempt to objectively state that "the classic era (of Everquest) went from launch to Velious". From an objective standpoint, that woud simply be your opinion. Sharing that opinion with, say, the P99s devs or the majority of the P99 community still does not make it an objective fact rather than just an opinion, and it could certainly be argued that other timeframes such as ONLY launch-era EQ is/was objectively "classic". I am also unsure if you intentionally misinterpreted/are intentionally misrepresenting "woke admins and bots" to "woke admin bots" so as to have something to attempt to retort with/argue against (akin to a strawman) or if that was a genuine slip, but either way I loled.

Who is "making shit up" again? Vandalizing lmao. The poor victim wiki!

[Encroaching Death]

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[Tann]

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[enjchanter]

The real way to win p99 is learning that you can earn bis loot effectively and efficiently by having a character capable of killing mobs that are level or 20 or below for dkp.

Once you figure this out, you win eq.

[Encroaching Death]

The real way to win p99 is learning that you can earn bis loot effectively and efficiently by having a character capable of killing mobs that are level or 20 or below for dkp.

Once you figure this out, you win eq.

I never even learned what dkp is.

It's like a point system?

[enjchanter]

I never even learned what dkp is.

It's like a point system?

elf paycheck

[Naethyn]

Game starts at 60.

[Gugg]

It's not "my" wiki, the classic era went from launch to Velious, and you're just flat-out making shit up (eg. there are literally zero "woke admin bots" ... or any other kind of bots for that matter ... and maybe you should just try not vandalizing the wiki in the first place?) ... but:

https://media.tenor.com/rtfJCuHyTewAAAAM/nice-try-saturday-night-live.gif

Vandalizing, just like anything in your kingdom, is a completely subjective term because chaos is your king. At least that's what you tell people. In reality, people can only edit your wiki as long as you agree with the edits they make otherwise you revert and ban IP addresses like a fascist dictator and call them a troll/vandal.

It's not just your wiki though, it's the wiki platform that's faulty. It's pretending to be something it isn't; care free and inclusive. Wikipedia is also full of lies and has nazi dictators in charge. If you want to create an article on the mother of all wiki there's a committee that must approve it.

Can you imagine intellectuals studying and approving this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_(slang)

But like I said, in your kingdom "intellectual" is subjective so any ass can be one.

[Gugg]

Game starts at 60.

You're supposed to take the fancy L60 raid gear and expensive spells you spent all your time acquiring in NTOV and use them to help you defeat the next expansion but on P99 there is no next expansion.

[Gugg]

[Protip]

Best Shaman race...

- Pre-60: the fun one
- Post-60: none

Me personally, I'm going for max strength and FSI to avoid being encumbered and stunned for 60 levels before I reroll. I'm not after a darwin award so I won't be raiding at 60 nor spending 100K on a L60 spell just so I can kill a baby dragon. No epics either. Working on epics on P99 is retarded.

Right now though I'm busy playing a blind Human Ranger. I'm about to ding sow, bish.

On second thoughts re: shaman race. Extra HP regen means extra mana which can be useful in sticky situations. Snare is also useful because runners are as annyng as stun and being encumbered..

TL;DR You f*ck yourself whichever race you pick.

[Encroaching Death]

Game starts at 60.

Maybe some games this is true.

But I dunno about classic EQ.

I would say 50-60+ is when it gets more interesting.

But I'd say EQ is a great example of "its about the journey, not the destination".

[Gugg]

I love how everyone loves to declare this ... while completely ignoring or forgetting that back in the classic era we had Caster's Realm (https://web.archive.org/web/20010727210527/http://eq.castersrealm.com/), Allakhazam (https://web.archive.org/web/20010627185803/http://everquest.allakhazam.com/), EQ Atlas (https://web.archive.org/web/20010624124201/http://www.eqatlas.com/), EQ Traders (https://web.archive.org/web/20221104222251/https://eqtraders.com/), forums for every single class (I think a couple classes even had multiple), sites or forums for major guilds ... and all sorts of other websites that have since been lost to time.

The wiki puts everything in one place, is more detailed than those sites, and has a few features (eg. the location Xs on maps) they didn't ... but to say it's "not Classic" is to admit you really don't know what classic was like. Today we might look at a map on a second monitor instead of printing it out and putting into a binder (like we did back in the day) ... but it's the same exact map the EQ Atlas guy drew 20+ years ago.

The wiki is like a stock market report. Not classic. There was no web site in classic that people alt tabbed to to check and dictate item prices.

[Cen]

Our spell lists were great back then, castersrealm was very easy to read!

[unleashedd]

There was no web site in classic that people alt tabbed to to check and dictate item prices.

And there it is, ladies and gentlemen. Butthurt over a deal. Why make a thread hating on p99 and the wiki thou? You must be the old bald guys neighbor grumbling behind a curtain about the engine revving

[Spithridates]

This newish trend of all the garbage spilling over into the Starting Zone really sucks. Your list order is even worse. JFC.

[Gugg]

And there it is, ladies and gentlemen. Butthurt over a deal. Why make a thread hating on p99 and the wiki thou? You must be the old bald guys neighbor grumbling behind a curtain about the engine revving

The "Wikimedia Foundation" is not classic and neither are pride bunnies.

[Gugg]

Seller: "800pp"
Buyer: "Wrong. Wiki says 25pp"
Seller: "I think it's worth 800pp"
Buyer: "The Wiki doesn't"
Seller: "The wiki didn't camp it for 8 hours like it I did and die 3 times getting it"
Buyer: "But...but....the Wiki said it's 25pp not 800pp"
Seller: "The wiki isn't classic either and it's a 3rd party web site with skewed data...let's you and I make a deal that's fair for both of us...I camped this for 8 hours and died 3 times getting it...it's worth 800pp to me what's it worth to you?" I'll consider trades...
Buyer: "But...but...but...the wiki has spoken...you can't disobeye the wiki...you will be punished for disobeying the wiki"
Seller: "The wiki can suck my balls and so can you. Thank u, next"

--

Seller: "It's 200000pp"
Buyer: "Woah"
Seller: "Check the Wik if you don't believe me"
Buyer: "Wiki?"
Seller: "Yes, the all knowing and all seeing Infallible One says this item is worth 2000000pp"
Buyer: "Is the wiki classic?"
Seller: "No, and neither am I...muahahahaha...now f*ck off I got work to do"
Buyer: "How long did it take yu to acquire?"
Seller: "I said f*ck off can't you see I'm busy?"
Seller: "/auction WTS Cleric Epic, Shaman Epic, Rogue Epic, AON 350kpp, Torpor 100KPP, Pre-nerf loot sale on Circlet of Shadow, Runed Fighters Staff, Manastone, Elder Beads, Also selling NTOV loot PST"

[Chortles Snortles]

imagine a forum poster in 1999 parroting (x10) times a day to be sure to check castersrealm, allakhazam, eqatlas, eqtraders for all things eq related
(lol)

[Reiwa]

It's not "my" wiki, the classic era went from launch to Velious, and you're just flat-out making shit up (eg. there are literally zero "woke admin bots" ... or any other kind of bots for that matter ... and maybe you should just try not vandalizing the wiki in the first place?) ... but:

https://media.tenor.com/rtfJCuHyTewAAAAM/nice-try-saturday-night-live.gif

I think it's Elfminster again.

Mm3ypbAbLJ8

[Gugg]

I think it's Elfminster again.

Mm3ypbAbLJ8

I am not a fake ruler. You have me confused with somebody else.

[rhold]

What a sad existence your life must be.

[Gugg]

What a sad existence your life must be.

Negative world = negative experience.

[Gugg]

You must be the old bald guys neighbor grumbling behind a curtain about the engine revving

I'm not positive about negative things. What about you?

[unleashedd]

I love cars, engine revving, the smell of burning fuel, and I'm not gonna deny an old man some fun. God knows being old sucks the fun out of life

[unsunghero]

So you are an old bald guy with 14 base GM cars in the garage?

Hey what’s so wrong with bald guys ;)