How is P99 today?
 

Was thinking about returning for a few months until teso comes out. Now the questions i want to ask is that how is the raiding scene? From what i have gathered its still pretty much up in the air? Premium items and rare spells still costing anywhere from 20k-80k? Hows the grouping scene? People still only leveling in Unrest - MM - Guk path?

Raiding potentially solved, inflation isn't fixable however... if you want rare spells you need to be guilded and be seeing them drop, and the typical leveling path hasn't changed in 3 years (except maybe CoM as an alternative to Lower Guk) :p

Poor guy the one in the sig lol.

EDIT: Denied lol.

Ya, but he handled it like a champ.

Anyways, p99 is thriving. Welcome back.

I've only been playing for like 6 months, but here are my impressions:

The raid scene got kinda messed up with some hardcore players really curbstomping pretty much all of the other guilds on the server, resulting in one guild getting 90%+ of the raid mob kills. In the recent weeks, much discussion and compromise has taken place to work things out, yet maintain a reasonably "classic" feel.

Premium items do not cost from 20k-80kpp. Premium items cost from 100k-500kpp. It is really absurd, actually. How I (and many other like me) am supposed to start on this server without any help, yet manage to accrue half a million platinum in order to be competitive with other level 60's is ludicrous. I've been saving up since I started, i'm level 41 now, and I can *almost* afford one pair of Golden Efreeti Boots for 5k -- but that is like ALL of my money. Something seems askew.... However, on the lower/mid-end, prices seem relatively fair and negotiable (and dare i say even cheap, sometimes!) and you shouldnt have any problems gearing up a toon with decent enough equipment to get you through your 30's and 40's.

The grouping/levelling scene is where this server truly shines. Crushbone, Befallen, Mistmoore, Unrest, Guk... they are all exactly as you remember: groups looking for favored classes, and players fighting the same mobs from 1999. Yes, there are a lot of twinks, but twinking is classic as hell!

My journey... My adventure from level 1 to level 41 was everything and more that I ever hoped this Project 1999 server would be. In fact, if I get to the end-game and realize it's all drama and favoritism, I'm just going to start a new class from the ground up and experience the part of this game I love the most - the actual playing!

Bah alright guess its time to return, plan on making a mage and yes i will be grouping on the mage. =)

Yeah, either group the mage or do one of these Mage Focus Item quests.

I assume you already know about killing pet right before mob dies so you gain full xp, well with these Focus Items you get an instant-cast 100% reclaim mana from the pet, so you are ready to cast it again immediately. (you will see all types of characters using these - my Shaman has the Stein of Ulyssa which I can click in my inventory and reclaim full mana).

As a Mage, you get the added bonus of the Focus Effect on the item which enhances a specific pet of yours (so obviously you will want to do all of the quests). People seem to agree the Broom of Trilon is the easiest, but i found Stein of Ulissa to be the easiest for me.


And i am so sorry if I just told you a bunch of shit you already knew. I've just been thinking about the Mage class recently and it kinda intrigues me, so i've been reading up ;)

Yeah i mained a mage on povar from 2000-2003 but after camping quillmane for about 6 months i swore i would never do that epic quest again.

Someone hook this noob up with some plat. Ill beg, i have no dignity.

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Hum. You can use those items as a shaman? Think I'd be able to do the quest as a necro?