New to EQ, playing a gnome wizard!

[Bluu]

I've always played warriors but I'm giving a gnome wizard a try. Any advice? I've died a lot and things are pricy! Thanks!

[Skinned]

Good luck lol. Brutal class to level early on.

[thebutthat]

My first class on live back in 99 was a wizard. I stuck with it for 2 years. Was miserable, until that first time I ice cometed something. Then I loved it.

[Skinned]

Originally Posted by thebutthat [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My first class on live back in 99 was a wizard. I stuck with it for 2 years. Was miserable, until that first time I ice cometed something. Then I loved it.

I had the same experience on live. On p99 my wiz is 42. I just took his stuff off and put it on a mage...to try the class.

[mgriff02]

Standard advice is to keep things like bone chips, spider[ling] silks, and animal pelts (esp high quality bear pelts) to sell to players. That's some of the best newbie money you'll find. If you feel adventurous around level 8 or so take a trip across the sea to East Commonlands and start fighting there. You can get groups at the orc camps, get buffs from friendly traders, and be right in the middle of the market hub of the whole server to sell your wares and look for items to buy or save up for.

Check the wiki about everything. The wiki is your best friend in this whole brutal world.

http://wiki.project1999.com/Players:Newbie

And welcome to the game! It starts out on hard mode but eventually it settles into... hard mode with more severe consequences!

[Jimjam]

North Ro decaying skeletons are a good place to get started. Not too many dangerous mobs nearby, and you can vendor their bags/weapons/armor at the local inn. Make sure to get a bind in the East Freeport zoneline though to keep any corpse run short. A druid can take you from steamfont to north ro to save you the boat ride.

Save bonechips to quest in kaladim or sell to players in EC for spell money. Spare platinum can be saved to pay for jboots later. Most equipment is a marginal upgrade for low level wizards, I wouldn't waste much money on it.

One item I found useful at low levels on my wizard is a Lost Staff of the Scorned. I got one for 20pp. At low levels, before skills start to differentiate casters from melee, this 11/20 weapon is pretty sweet dps. Later on you can use it to cast a free group port to nek forest (great for vendoring and banking in Neriak, or transporting people who are paying for a lift to the commonlands area).

I tore my way through befallen with this staff, then went on to quadding scarabs (they run slow).

Something to do quest-wise is the staff of temperate flux. This item has been great use to me, and if you want to quest j boots it is an invaluable tool for getting first hit in on the ancient cyclops, ensuring kill/loot rights.

Once I was high enough level I went to South Karana to kill gnolls. These were good xp. I saved the scrolls with a rolled up icon to take to a quest npc at my bind point in Qeynos for bonus xp. When the zone was quiet I also farmed myself a Pegasus Feather Cloak for levitate. The scroll quest is actually really good xp until the gnolls green out, so to finish off levelling here I facetanknukespammed the gnolls to ensure I could max out my defensive skills.

After Gnolls (40s) I went to Oasis to kill spectres. In advance of 9pm game time I would visit South Ro to try my luck for the Ancient Cyclops.

My wizard now is generally found hanging out in Ocean of Tears, quadding gargoyles (which were also good xp/cash early 20s), spectres and seafuries or in Cobalt Scar quadding Cobalt Drakes and Wyverns for tradeskill and quest drops.

That's the highlights of the wizard I levelled to 51. I still play him fairly often, but don't focus on XPing him anymore as he already has the capabilities I require from him to play in the way I want him to.

Don't forget, if you want to group respond to /OOC asking for a dps slot, but avoid mentioning your class. Gear yourself to look like a monk and hope that gets you the job!

[Scoojitsu]

Hope you picked Solusek Ro as your deity so you can equip these great rings:

https://wiki.project1999.com/Imbued_Platinum_Fire_Ring

Good luck! Enjoy the game! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Shodo]

1. Don't get discouraged by dying a lot early on. Wizard is a class that starts to shine a little later than many.

2. Invest in a Netflix subscription or several books. Because if you end up needing to solo (which is likely), you're going to spend a lot of time AFK between mobs.

3. Don't let people tell you wizards can't get groups. They're definitely shunned by many 50+, but just make some friends in your 20's and 30's and you'll be set to form your own groups.

[Expediency]

Wiz is hardest class to get groups. At least you can solo some by root/nuke or quadding unlike melee chars but many exp groups do not care for wiz.

[Necabo]

Know the path of a child of Solusek is quite frustrating and painful; however, the rewards of Solusek's favor are great!