Very old EQ Player starting out!
 

Hi there.. Played EQ from as early on as Kunark all the way through Gates of Discord..

Starting an Iksar Monk on Blue. Looking forward to meeting some people and reliving some old experiences. Anyone have any tips for me starting out? Been a long time since I have played EQ!

Welcome back!

Don't use the boats.

Welcome back, very old EQ Player, from an ancient EQ Player. Welcome back to where time stands still. Tip: bookmark the official p99 wiki.

Unlike live of the era, all the boats work here, even the Bloated Belly... well hasn't killed me yet anyway :D

Save spider silk and bone chips, sell them for a (relative) buttload of cash to other players when you leave Kunark.

Dude, going from Firiona Vie to Butcherblock is a harrowing experience. The shuttles behave very very oddly.

Work is a very loose term. Unless you consider that they do in fact float on the water.

Stay in FoB til you can get to a comfortable level to run to Overthere. Then get a port wherever you want to go.

The downside about being a monk is you can't carry a whole lot, I would focus on exp for now and try to find plat another way.

All the monks I've talked to don't care about weight until they're 50+. There's an AC penalty but it's minimal compared to the benefits of carrying more stuff to sell and so on. I say earn enough money to get a bag of the tinkerers and decent weapons and then kill all the things!

That's odd, I've been on the boats here many times, never had an issue, nothing compared to the long swims on live. People even complained on forums about them pretty regularly, which is rare to see here. Bloated Belly is funky, but it heals the damage... which is lol. Just don't stand near the bow I think, not up on the structure. Stand more center deck closer the the stern but away from the edge.

There was a patch issue here last summer, boats were screwed up for I think a couple months, with pathing issues and such sorts of problems. As far as I can tell all that was resolved by fall (September or so).