New Monk, saying hi and asking advice

[krforrester]

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

Well guess I am going to have to just beg for a port. I made it to highpass but there were tons of gnolls blocking the path. Ugh...

Take the southern route and hug the zone walls: NK - SK - LR - RM - TF - IS - SoRo - Oasis - NoRo - Freeport.

At level 4 I made it twice from Erudin (accidentally hit gate in NoRo so had to run again).

ETA: Oops, I see you made it. Good job.

[jolanar]

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

Take the southern route and hug the zone walls: NK - SK - LR - RM - TF - IS - SoRo - Oasis - NoRo - Freeport.

At level 4 I made it twice from Erudin (accidentally hit gate in NoRo so had to run again).

ETA: Oops, I see you made it. Good job.

I had thought about that route, but I assumed high pass was better. I will keep that in mind though.

I was just lucky enough that there happened to be a high level druid in Qeynos. I wasn't going to beg a druid to come pick me up, but since he was already there . [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[jolanar]

Well after all that work I ended up accidentally selling the staff to a vendor and the GMs won't return it.

Guess this game isn't for me after all. Thanks everyone for the advice, don't think I'll be logging back on though.

[webrunner5]

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

Well after all that work I ended up accidentally selling the staff to a vendor and the GMs won't return it.

Guess this game isn't for me after all. Thanks everyone for the advice, don't think I'll be logging back on though.

Wow, talk about a bad way to start. Been there done that. Wait till you drop 2 bags of uber stuff on the ground to transfer to a alt and the server goes down. Done that twice over the years on here. Talk about wanting to QUIT lol. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.][You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This game and server is hard as hell and that is what makes it a challenge and for the most part fun to play. Man against the Machine thingy. Hope you come back. Playing a easy game, WoW comes to mind, is really not that rewarding as here. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[jolanar]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wow, talk about a bad way to start. Been there done that. Wait till you drop 2 bags of uber stuff on the ground to transfer to a alt and the server goes down. Done that twice over the years on here. Talk about wanting to QUIT lol. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.][You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This game and server is hard as hell and that is what makes it a challenge and for the most part fun to play. Man against the Machine thingy. Hope you come back. Playing a easy game, WoW comes to mind, is really not that rewarding as here. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

For what it's worth the GM was very nice about it and gave me a nice little pep talk. Still, it really took the wind out of my sails.

I might take this opportunity to re-roll now that I'm back to having nothing again. We'll see.

[Spyder73]

I just started on P99 as a monk probably 3 weeks ago. I started in Qeynos as well! No twinking, no friends, no money, completely fresh start.

Iskar may be better down the road, but when you have no cash and no friends, leveling more quickly definately has its appeal. Plus when your getting back into the game, being an agnostic monk is nice because you can go almost anywhere (OverThere for example). I dinged level 30 last night in HHK, and i dont think I have solo'd more than a handful of mobs, you can always find groups and then the Iskar bonus disapears.

Dont worry about your gear to much - use your fists if you have to - you need levels or you wont get anywhere.

Here is my advise on leveling a monk when brand new to the server.
Qeynos/Black Burrow (1-12) - Dont turn in ANY gnoll fangs untill AFTER lvl 11, and youll reach 13-14 no problem just from fang turn ins.
Oasis (12-18/19) Orc camp and crocs - always lots of people
Highpass (18/19-22) Orcs - Sell the Orc scalps for 10pp - The Shiny Brass Idol sells for 500p, the bag sells for 200p. I made 1.5k in PP from this place. You can finance your entire operation off one Idol drop.
MistMoore (22-25) Pond is good XP but crowded - Guk is close to Oasis
UpperGuk (22-25) get MESH armor from the Frogs, its very good and free.
HighKeep (25-31) Sell the Goblin Ears for 30-35pp each, good money to be made here. I have what i would consider above average "starter" gear from following this path.

Following this route it took me only a couple of weeks and I have almost 4kPP, and a pretty good set up on gear.

The 55hp rings are the best investment there is. After that buy Wu Trance Stick 2x, Wu Quivering Staff, and then start saving 9k for FBSS.

I made a trip over to Lake of Ill Omen and WarSlik woods somewhere between 20-25 because I hate Guk. Good XP over there also. Plus I got Iskar Scaled Gloves and a Lumber Jack helm from WW.

Ohhhhhhh - And the good think about WW is that Dalnir is right next to it and there is a chance to catch a high lvl doing a Cresent Armor run!!! Enjoy

[eqravenprince]

Skip the spiders if soloing, I think I did them with a healer. HHK guards as long as they are named which most are, they only hurt your faction with HHK guards and the guards roaming HighPass. There are a couple unnamed guards on the upper floors, but even if you do kill them, I don't think it's a big faction hit. I hunted there for 10 levels and I'm not KOS to freeport or qeynos guards. Corrupted guards in qeynos, I believe I am KOS, but that could be from turning in gnoll fangs back in the day. You can start hunting them around level 25, I did, but it gets a hell of a lot easier around 28. When I first started hunting there, I was so paranoid about being KOS to guards, that when I got close to being KOS, I would go out and hunt gnolls and turn in scalps until I got my faction back up. I occasionally got experience on a gnoll, ringmail to sell, and money too.

[jolanar]

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

Skip the spiders if soloing, I think I did them with a healer. HHK guards as long as they are named which most are, they only hurt your faction with HHK guards and the guards roaming HighPass. There are a couple unnamed guards on the upper floors, but even if you do kill them, I don't think it's a big faction hit. I hunted there for 10 levels and I'm not KOS to freeport or qeynos guards. Corrupted guards in qeynos, I believe I am KOS, but that could be from turning in gnoll fangs back in the day. You can start hunting them around level 25, I did, but it gets a hell of a lot easier around 28. When I first started hunting there, I was so paranoid about being KOS to guards, that when I got close to being KOS, I would go out and hunt gnolls and turn in scalps until I got my faction back up. I occasionally got experience on a gnoll, ringmail to sell, and money too.

Nice, sounds like with a little effort I don't have to worry about being KoS.