P99 Guides

[loramin]

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

I'm very curious if my assumption is right and if these guides would be useful to P99 players or if you all basically know the world of Norrath so well that you don't even need maps if you had them. As someone who doesn't play on your server I am quite ignorant to your needs and wants.


Anyway, this is all I have for right now and I greatly appreciate you taking the time to read this post & check out my guides. I'm working on much... much more and any feedback from this community on how to make guides that are more useful for you all would be greatly appreciated.

It sounds like you might not be aware of the wiki. It has tons of literal guides as well as lots of other other basic information like maps. If your goal is to create truly new content you really should start there and see what people have already done.

Also, I'm pretty sure I drew on your guides, along with lots of other resources, to compile the Per-Level/Treasure Hunting "guides" (which are really more collections of spots than actual guides). Thanks for all of your effort as a guide-writer; as a fellow guide-writer I know how much work they require.


P.S. You should try creating a character here. It's a whole lot more fun than a MMOG created in 1999 has any right to be and ... we have cookies!

[Almarsguides]

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

It sounds like you might not be aware of the wiki. It has tons of literal guides as well as lots of other other basic information like maps. If your goal is to create truly new content you really should start there and see what people have already done.

I've seen the P99 wiki, it's a wonderful resource and many of us use it for the TLP servers during those eras... That's actually what made me want to write guides for specifically P99 because it was a very frequent complaint on how much information the wiki was lacking and/or that it had out of date information.

To give you an example the wiki barely shares any information AT ALL about Kael Drakkel, one of the main Velious endgame zones as I am sure many of you are aware. It doesn't say what nameds are there, what they drop, where they spawn or anything like that at all. I'm going to be putting up a guide that covers basically everything that guide doesn't later this weekend or before that.

Also as someone who had never personally experienced the end game of Classic - Velious prior to the Lockjaw/Ragefire TLPs - I found the information the wiki had on Kael armor and Skyshrine armor to be really confusing and needing a total rewrite (which is why I started with those guides). It explains to you the basics of the armor but it doesn't really go indepth about how to get it or how to raise the reputations you need to turn in the armor pieces. I didn't entirely realize that Skyshrine armor was such a pain in the ass to get until I had already grinded all of ToV with my box team and then I realized that i would effectively have to grind kael for weeks to just turn in the pieces of armor I farmed. Obviously a grevious oversight on my part and my own ignorance is mostly to blame but that's the point too; the guide(s) were very unclear on things like this.


I wouldn't mind creating "new" content but those of you on these servers would have to tell me what the P99 wiki is missing - you'd all know best which is what I made this post for! The first poster said he doubts many people would google how to reach Thurgadin which is basically the only original idea I came up with that P99ers might want, maps on how to get places since your server has no maps.


The best I can do in the mean time is rewrite guides that are inaccurate/have holes in them that I have found. Like the velious armor guides and Kael Drakkel's zone guide.

[Lhancelot]

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

Thanks for all of your effort as a guide-writer.

You should try creating a character here.

It's a whole lot more fun than a MMOG created in 1999 has any right to be and ... we have cookies!

This. ^

Would be cool if you tried the server out it's really almost a whole different game from the present day EQ Live. You'd be amazed how fun it is here.

[Almarsguides]

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

This. ^

Would be cool if you tried the server out it's really almost a whole different game from the present day EQ Live. You'd be amazed how fun it is here.

Sadly I have an unpopular opinion about Classic EQ. I thoroughly disliked the TLP servers until Planes of Power and even then I still am 50/50 on whether or not I truly like the game during this era. I have a team on Lockjaw which I play every few months and I find myself enjoying my live box team much more since the RoS expansion launch.

I also avoid the "true box" or any servers that doesn't allow multiboxing seeing as I am a boxer at heart.

All that aside though, I still would like to add information to my website for players on P99 and people that play during this era. I'm having much more fun writing and researching the guides than I did playing during Velious =D

[Foxplay]

Some p99 players are fairly normal, they know the game decently but still look at the wiki on the regular

Then there is the p99 players that could get thru a zone while their character is blind without any issues

[Baler]

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

P.S. You should try creating a character here. It's a whole lot more fun than a MMOG created in 1999 has any right to be and ... we have cookies!

Live eq said it's cool to play here. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

OP should totally make some awesome recognizable guides.