What should I buy next.

[Tobius]

https://wiki.project1999.com/Magelo_Blue:Tobius 57 Warrior
https://wiki.project1999.com/Magelo_Blue:Cenwood 50 Bard
https://wiki.project1999.com/Magelo_Blue:Chebazer 40 Shammy

Other than a few good DKP bits on my warr from the old days, I feel like all 3's gear is trash especially the shammies.
The shammy is a firepot bound faction quester, so he's interested in illusions and shit.

I love clickies, and have a lot of masks and stuff on the bard. Got the neriad and werewolf guitar. Got the cheaper cobalt and singing steel bits.

I don't really play the warr because I don't really have time to raid, and I was loving the bard till 50 now I don't know a good chill dad camp that offers plat or faction on the bard so I've plateued with him, I refuse to learn to swarm.

I've broken through a plateau with the Shaman and got him to 40 and now he has a good run at paineel guards again where I'm happiest.

As I've been spending money on clickies and stuff it's compounded the gear issue and making levelling harder.

I'm not sure what to buy next.

1. I need a dad camp for the Bard, any suggestions?
2. I wanted to buy the following items for the bard:
https://wiki.project1999.com/Iksar_Hide_Mask
https://wiki.project1999.com/Mask_of_Obtenebration
https://wiki.project1999.com/Desiccated_Halfling_Mask loot rights once I get the faction (is it better to grind faction or grind plat to buy skins and stuff for faction?)
https://wiki.project1999.com/Singing_Steel_Greaves
I like feat kiting so this is a perma extra spell slot in effect.
https://wiki.project1999.com/Singing_Steel_Breastplate
3. Looking at the Magelo, I'd be interested in buying some upgrades that while not cool or fun are serious power jumps for a decent price, allowing me to farm plat faster for the silly items.

1. For the Warr, there's no way to level except grouping I guess, where do the few remaining players do that at 57?
2. I wanted the following items for him:
https://wiki.project1999.com/Cobalt_Bracer
https://wiki.project1999.com/Cobalt_Breastplate
https://wiki.project1999.com/Truncheon_of_Doom (I had before but sold it when I was broke, regret that now)
3. Looking at the Magelo, I'd be interested in buying some upgrades that while not cool or fun are serious power jumps for a decent price.

1. For the Shammy, I should probably save for like Torpor or something or Canni III I guess? But He's too low level maybe I'll go off him or get back into the bard, don't really want to buy stuff he can't use right away.
2. His gear I feel is the worst, taking suggestions on items, also suggestions on dad camps (ideally that give good faction or coin as well as exp) for when he outlevels paineel guards.

Finally, I asked a question here, but if these are still in game and recharge is cheap I guess I wanna buy two of these for the shaman:
https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3771239#post3771239

[kjs86z2]

Park the War in KC for XP to 60. Join a raid guild and get some DKP for a Z heart or something else you can sell and then you can pimp out your shaman and bard.

Dad camp and bard don't go in the same sentence.

Find giga twinked war / monk alts to duo with on your shaman.

[cd288]

When you say dad camp for the Bard are you asking for like single 6:40 spawns that you can AFK between? Not really sure there's a lot of plat/faction options there.

Does the War have a seb key? Seb could also be a good option to pick up some sellable loot here and there, especially if you join a larger guild where you can easily form pick up groups. The only downside on Blue is that the economy is stale so it's going to take you awhile to move things, sometimes even for big ticket items.

[Wakanda]

IDK if Karnor groups are really a thing on Blue anymore. Even on ENC I will turn LFG on while solo'ing there and never get invites. I mostly see ultra twinks and level 60s solo'ing around.

[Snaggles]

Do you have a fungi? If not, best investment in the game. Can twink avoid a dozen toons with the same piece of gear…

[Tobius]

Do you have a fungi? If not, best investment in the game. Can twink avoid a dozen toons with the same piece of gear…

Fungi is like 40k, it'd take me a loooong time to save up. I could buy basically everything except cobalt bracer and AON for that money even if after having it I could farm cash faster.

[Vivitron]

I got some good answers when I asked for bard levelling suggestions 50-55 including non-swarm starting on this page and later in the thread posted my experience at some of them: https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=430422&page=5 . Charm killing CS wyverns was one of my favorite non-swarms that should be good at 50. They don't give a faction hit. I don't recall how it compared to guards plat wise, maybe decent from velious gems?

I bet you can get a halfling mask lr seller to rez you to the camp to loot without faction. Likely an expensive LR though, it can be rare.

Farming the iksar mask probably isn't the most efficient use of time, but in case you prefer self farming items, bards are as good at this camp as any class and you could get some exp while you're there. Not sure what level you could efficiently start that at, my gut guess is at or before 55; the forager is only a 45 melee but some of the placeholders cast and I think one of them is 51 and summons.

I agree with the Singing Steel pants if you continue to non swam bard solo. Singing Steel helm can be fun including for pulling in groups and proccing your OT hammer if there's nothing around to hit. (And you can go charm the foreman and give him a jade for a free ot hammer now if you haven't already.) I think the Singing Steel bracer would stack with your ring 8. If you don't have decent weapons already there's some affordable options like https://wiki.project1999.com/Di%27zok_Wristsnapper, https://wiki.project1999.com/Guardians_Mace or similar. The https://wiki.project1999.com/Breath_of_harmony effect is an instant click not a proc, and can be useful but tedious.

I agree a fungi would be useful, I think especially on the shaman. Lots of fun everquest in front of you, it will take some time to get to all of it.

[Snaggles]

Fungi is like 40k, it'd take me a loooong time to save up. I could buy basically everything except cobalt bracer and AON for that money even if after having it I could farm cash faster.

Nothing is going to affect leveling like a Fungi. Even on a Druid the passive healing saves so much mana it’s OP.

[Wakanda]

If you do 40-50 on in EFP on your Iksar Shaman you will make a lot of $ and it will simultaneously fix your faction in NFP, making it much easier for you to bank. Serious advice ;) you also get a lot of drive-by buffs from high level enchanters or druids. At least I did on my Shaman.

[Tobius]

If you do 40-50 on in EFP on your Iksar Shaman you will make a lot of $ and it will simultaneously fix your faction in NFP, making it much easier for you to bank. Serious advice ;) you also get a lot of drive-by buffs from high level enchanters or druids. At least I did on my Shaman.

Chebby is firepot bound, I'm actually working on a guide, iirc he has NFP and EFP faction.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aJSBpevG1-sFQI6IugbY1CZU6Xz_s5HFKOJ0XZyalUU/edit?tab=t.0

One of the problems of firepots is it kinda prevents you enjoying guard camps.
I suppose you could do qeynos or something but yeah...

[Crede]

Nothing is going to affect leveling like a Fungi. Even on a Druid the passive healing saves so much mana it’s OP.

I would say the root necklace is equally as good for saving mana while charming keeping the other mob parked for free. At least until 56 or so when I switched to engorging roots.

[Wakanda]

Chebby is firepot bound, I'm actually working on a guide, iirc he has NFP and EFP faction.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aJSBpevG1-sFQI6IugbY1CZU6Xz_s5HFKOJ0XZyalUU/edit?tab=t.0

One of the problems of firepots is it kinda prevents you enjoying guard camps.
I suppose you could do qeynos or something but yeah...

I'm one of those people who runs to the Firepots regularly because there aren't that many people on Blue available for teleports anymore unfortunately. I generally just invis myself before clicking on the portal and have never died. I presume as an Iksar that Chebby is prob KOS most places already anyways, and likely uses a similar tactic?

I'm also not sure if it's possible to have good EFP and NFP faction simultaneously as an evil character, but perhaps there's a trick I'm unaware of? I initially tried turning in DF belts to make the Freeport Militia like me more, but it made the Paladins and Priests in NFP hate me more. When I tried turning DF belts into the guy in NFP to correct that it made the Freeport Militia hate me more. I generally opt to side with the NFP as an evil player because easy and safe access to a banker near EC tunnel is super convenient.

While farming guards in EFP I just vendor in the sewers since I'm not KOS down there. As an Iksar you may have to turn in 4 bone chips to Xelha in order to gain access to the vendors, but I can't remember the amount off hand.

Also I've seen you in-game before. I've buffed you near the specter cave in Feerrott a couple of times, but I think you were afk :D

[Vivitron]

As you have to click to interact with the [firepot] altars, you will lose any Invisibility buff you have on.

Wait a sec, I just double checked and this is not the case; you keep your invis.

I believe I do run into some see invis guards in EFP unfortunately, but my toon without faction is sturdy and they haven't killed me. I do get that some have a faction goal for its own sake.

[Ennewi]

Resist shield on the bard combos well with the mainhand lute if you pull for indoor groups a lot. Sarnak Battle Shield is a good all-arounder, otherwise one of the kunark dragon shields. Can't remember is Skyshrine is on the restricted list for bard "dungeon kiting" but regardless, you already have a few guardian armor pieces, might as well honker down and get the all-important leggings. If nothing else, sapphires drop regularly enough there, so that's some decent compensation for the time/effort.

Flayed Paebala Gloves have resists and high dex, but requires at least a small group to camp/crawl DN. If going that route, definitely bring a melodious truncheon or two and swing like mad when those bastages get towards low HP.

Also update the race/class/stat details for bard and shaman! At the very least their class, because the animated icons aren't showing.

[Tobius]

Wait a sec, I just double checked and this is not the case; you keep your invis.

I believe I do run into some see invis guards in EFP unfortunately, but my toon without faction is sturdy and they haven't killed me. I do get that some have a faction goal for its own sake.

I've never kept the invis, and got killed due to it. Die every time I enter Halas that way for example.

[Wakanda]

I've never kept the invis, and got killed due to it. Die every time I enter Halas that way for example.

I almost wonder if a keybind is interfering with your invis because I use invis to travel via firepot a couple times a day on average. I had to reinstall P99 recently to install Duxa, and it messed up my keybinds. I couldn't figure out why my invis was breaking non-stop, and then I realized I accidentally had an clicky item key-bound to my auto-run key, and it suddenly made sense. At first I thought I was just having terrible RNG.

[Tobius]

I almost wonder if a keybind is interfering with your invis because I use invis to travel via firepot a couple times a day on average. I had to reinstall P99 recently to install Duxa, and it messed up my keybinds. I couldn't figure out why my invis was breaking non-stop, and then I realized I accidentally had an clicky item key-bound to my auto-run key, and it suddenly made sense. At first I thought I was just having terrible RNG.

I think a patch broke it, in a good way for players, because it ALWAYS dropped invis for YEARS for me. Now it's not dropping it for me either, clicking or pressing U is the same

Gonna look up online...

[Wakanda]

I think a patch broke it, in a good way for players, because it ALWAYS dropped invis for YEARS for me. Now it's not dropping it for me either, clicking or pressing U is the same

Gonna look up online...

It wouldn’t surprise me if it did used to be that way. To have a blue character bound at fire pots is pretty rare in 2025. Idk how long ago that even was, but imagine the game has been changed a lot over the years. Lemme know if you need help breaking the EFP guards ! I would prob avoid Hirazen until 44+. The rest are easy peasy, can split them to where you always have a few minutes to med in between, very afk friendly :D

[Tobius]

Millitia are Apprehensive as are north freeport guards
(and bards)

[Wakanda]

Millitia are Apprehensive as are north freeport guards
(and bards)

Interesting. Guessing the strategy was to kill a bunch of orcs for Knights of Truth faction, and then using Wolf Form to turn in a lot of DF belts to the Freeport Militia? (Which will also make the Priests in NFP hate you, not sure how to fix this without becoming KOS with the Militia or the Evils in EFP). Might want to check your Bard faction too if you haven't already - I've accidentally aggro'd them in NFP before. It's really easy to fix because every mob in Mistmoore grants bard faction.

[Tobius]

Interesting. Guessing the strategy was to kill a bunch of orcs for Knights of Truth faction, and then using Wolf Form to turn in a lot of DF belts to the Freeport Militia? (Which will also make the Priests in NFP hate you, not sure how to fix this without becoming KOS with the Militia or the Evils in EFP). Might want to check your Bard faction too if you haven't already - I've accidentally aggro'd them in NFP before. It's really easy to fix because every mob in Mistmoore grants bard faction.

Nah the overlooked Highpass factioning, was a good spot to level him at the time, highpass was his first foothold in the old world really, and earned FP guard faction as a bonus, then just had to raise knights in any way that didn't get FP guards mad too.
The only ones I really have to look out for is to not go too near the Robe-casters guilds.

[Wakanda]

Nah the overlooked Highpass factioning, was a good spot to level him at the time, highpass was his first foothold in the old world really, and earned FP guard faction as a bonus, then just had to raise knights in any way that didn't get FP guards mad too.
The only ones I really have to look out for is to not go too near the Robe-casters guilds.

Which mobs can I kill in Highpass for Militia faction? Very interested in this. Have a character that I want to have good faction everywhere in FP.

[WarpathEQ]

Which mobs can I kill in Highpass for Militia faction? Very interested in this. Have a character that I want to have good faction everywhere in FP.

Kill orcs in WC and turn in the deathfist belts is the way.

[WarpathEQ]

@OP - The bard has everything he needs. As far as spots for leveling 50+ my favorites (as a fellow non-swarmer) are:
Hill Giant Hill in Rathe mountain (can fear or charm kite)
Geonids in WL (charm kiting)
Ice Giants in Everfrost (Fear kiting)
Spectres in Ferrott (Fear kiting)
Bloodgill Goblins in LOIO (can use pretty much any strat)

Most of those start to die off at 51/52 but are incredible at 50. I've done mostly Geonids on my bard because the exp is insane, plat is really good (even if you hoard all the velious armor gems) but they are a little tougher at 50, especially if you're just learning charm kiting.

The Warrior shows reaver as weapon, I'm assuming you have some 1 hand agro weapons, if not that would definitely be a need as you'll basically just group to 60. Frostbringer is a super popular, cheap, common choice for pre-epic warriors. Wavecrasher a pricier but effective option as well.

The Shaman - I don't think you specified but someone referenced the shaman being Iksar, if not then I would put JBB as your #1 item to acquire accross your toons. If it is Iksar then I would focus on getting a fungi staff if you don't have one already. Same regen as fungi tunic, replaces the spell slot/mana cost of casting regen on yourself and works as a built in GCD clicky for faster casting.