New player questions about gear

[eqgmrdbz]

Jimjam

Just gave you the Blueprint right there, if you are killing disease wolves and turning in their pelts, (without sharing kills) you should be able to build up enough plat to buy what he said. I stated earlier, that i used that plat to work on smithing and make banded for myself. Killing for GL or HQ bear pelts, is a great way to make money, but he should of mentioned that they are very rare drops. Once your in your 20's with at least a suit of banded and a decent wep, you should make nice plat from kill drops.

[paladin1118]

All those who took some time to respond with helpful advice and suggestions, thank you very much, I appreciate it. I've already learned a lot from this thread.

@eqgmrdbz - I wasn't doing much with crafting yet because, from what I could remember about it, I figured it was way too expensive to get involved with in the early levels. I've been reading through the tradeskill guides on the wiki though and some of the tradeskills don't seem as pricey as I thought they were. So, I'll probably start working on some of them now. I already bought a set of banded armor for my paladin some time ago but I still plan to work on smithing whenever I have the money for it.

@xnolanx - I had no idea the P99 wiki would have recorded market prices for items sold in game recently. I guess, these days, I should've expected as much. Thanks a lot xnolanx for letting me know about that, should make buying and selling much easier for me.

@Tecmos - Thanks for all the tips. From what I saw on the wiki, a flowing black robe seems somewhat affordable for me, so maybe I'll go with that for the Necro, to start with. Whenever I get him out of kunark. As for the druid, I just made him not long ago so he's still below lvl 8 and if there's one thing I do remember from live EQ... it's the pain of trying to solo level a priest class in the first 10 or so levels. So I was mainly just wanting to get the druid a decent weapon and shield that he could use... until he gets some useful offense spells and higher mana levels/meditate. Guess it's not that big of a deal though. Was really hoping prices for starting gear would be a bit lower on P99.

@Sadre - I've actually already been leveling as you suggested exactly. I've never liked rushing through levels or content. If I wanted the early and mid game to be irrelevant, I wouldn't be here, I'd be playing... pretty much any official MMO out there these days. I ended up on a private EQ classic server because I like to experience MMO's this way. I did several untwinked groups in blackburrow, not befallen yet, but yeah, it was loads of fun. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Lots of trains lol

@BarackObooma - Thank you for this most informative post. You definitely made some points I'd never thought of really, like using spell research containers as bags. My main was a iksar necro on live and I think I use to store stuff in his spell research book when I wasn't using it, just never occurred to me to get more than one, I guess... or maybe I just preferred the extra slots from backpacks. Rotbone bracelets sound ideal for my Necro and druid to start off with and they do sound vaguely familiar to me, I might've used those on live for a while. From what I can see on the wiki, most any armor that's better than banded is well out of my price range right now, so I guess I'll be stuck with banded armor on the paladin for a while. Green Jade Broadsword seems like a pretty nice weapon I might be able to afford though, so maybe I'll look for one of those... and some of those HP rings, whenever I can afford them.

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

Well uhh. #1, just cause he wants to spend 100pp or less per item doesn't mean he has that much money...

Yes, what Lecompte said. I've managed to save up... almost 100 plat now total, which I've made from selling stuff. I thought it might be enough to start collecting a few better pieces of gear but I guess not really. So yeah, it's pretty funny that people want to accuse me of RMT lol. I actually hate RMT and cash shops, another reason I've ended up on a classic EQ private server.

@dragonmist - I remembered bone chips, pelts and spider silk selling well and that's where I've been making most of my money so far... totally forgot about morning dew and Cinnamon sticks though. Guess I need to start foraging in Gfay.

@Jimjam - Thank you! This should help me out a lot. I left the Qeynos area a while ago but I might make my way back over there eventually. Will check out lesser fay and ocean of tears too, never did much in either of those zones before.

Thanks again, everyone, for the great advice. If anyone else has some good ideas they want to share, please feel free to do so. I'll check back with the thread from time to time.