Affordable Lowbie Monk Weapons

[matjettta]

Heya,

Just started up on P99 after 10 years away from EQ. Pretty rad to be back!

Level 9 monk here, have managed to save up about 45pp from selling bone chips and random rusty swords. I currently have full cloth and a staff / club as weapons.

I'm assuming investing the money in a weapon would be the best decision. What would be the best 1hb purchase around that price range?

Cheers.

[Pimecone]

fighting baton should be affordable at that price with some haggling -- its 8/20 and will serve you well for a long time :)

[matjettta]

thanks bud, i'll start looking for one.

Cheers.

[Qualvin]

for offhand, you could probably get an essence of dol for extremely cheap.

http://wiki.project1999.org/Essence_of_dol

I think I paid like 40pp for mine and I'm still using it intermittently at lvl 33 (at 35 I'm switching back to wu's trance sticks)

[gotrocks]

To be perfectly honest, i would use whatever you can find until level 20, then take the plunge and spend 200p on wus quivering staff. its by FAR the best cheap monk wep you can buy. its a 2hb, 23/28, and thus isnt very useful until 20 when damage cap comes off, but its totally worth the wait. until level 20 you dont *really* need fighting batons or dols essence or anything like that.

then again, if you feel like you can spend the money on some lowbie weapons AND get to 200p by lvl 20 go ahead. but either way i would have the 200p rdy for when u hit 20, it is so, so, so worth it (cant stress this enough)