Reiker's Guide to (Newbie) Questing

[Mardur]

Complete Guides: Oggok (Below)
Incomplete Guides: Qeynos, Cabalis
Changelog: Oct 14 2011 added Black Shadow Tunic (Oggok).

This will cover all the best quests available on Project 1999 for young players to make some additional experience and money. I haven't done all of these on this particular server, so if something's not quite how it was on live I apologize for any misinformation. Most of this is available on Allakhazam, and indeed I used it a bit as a resource for exact locs etc, but this should be more presentable.

Also, this is a newbie quest guide. The cut-off that I'm using is level 25 or so, otherwise I'd be listing every quest in the game. Some quests span multiple zones and don't really have a "home" such as Stein of Moggok, that will be listed under a Miscellaneous or Class-based section.

I'm not going to mention factions, since all the quests I list I deem are worth whatever faction hits you may take. The exceptions are quests that are extremely excellent at quickly and effectively raising factions such as the bent playing card quest in Qeynos.

A note on "appropriate" races/classes... it doesn't represent who can actually use the rewards, just what would be reasonable. A dark elf may be able to run to Oggok to do a quest for a level 1 spell, but that would be pointless and not recommended. Speaking of Oggok, we'll arbitrarily start there first.

Oggok
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Location Key
1 Shaman Guild, Merchant selling Spell Components and Various Weapons
2 Ambassador K'Ryn, Beastlord Trainer in tunnel just south of this one
3 Merchant who sells Blunt Weapons, Ore, and Large Chainmail Patterns, Oggok Forge
4 Merchant selling Food and other Goods, Pottery Wheel and Kiln
5 Merchant selling Large Boots and Sewing Patterns, Loom
6 Merchant selling Large Shields, Soulbinder across at tunnel openings
7 Merchant selling Various Weapons
8 Merchant who sells Boxes
9 Priest of Discord
10 Merchant selling Arrows and Fletching Supplies
11 Merchant who sells Food and other Goods
12 Merchants selling Food, Oven
13 Shadowknight Guild, Merchant selling Various Weapons
14 Merchants selling Large Leather and Cloth Armor, Merchant outside selling Various Weapons
15 Merchants selling Large Chain and Plate Armor, Merchant outside sells Large Plate and Shield Molds, and Smithy Hammers, Forge Inside
16 Shaman Trainer, Merchants selling Alchemy Items and Blunt Weapons
17 Merchants selling Food and Alcohol and Brewing Supplies, Brew Barrel
18 Warrior Guild, Merchant selling Various Weapons
19 Bank

Froglok Tadpole Flesh
Appropriate Race(s): Ogre
Appropriate Class(es): Shaman
Appropriate Level: 1

Give 4 Froglok Tadpole Fleshes to Zulort in the Shaman Guild for a Spell: Burst of Flame. Not the best quest, but saves a bit of cash.

Lizard Meat
Appropriate Race(s): Ogre
Appropriate Class(es): Any
Appropriate Level: 1

Give 4 Lizard Meats to Krogna in the warrior guild for a rusty battle axe. Or give 4 to Soonog in the Shadow Knight guild for a rusty two-handed sword. Both are worth about 2 gold, the two-handed sword is worth a bit more. You can combine these with a sharpening stone in the forge (#3 on the map) to improve the delay slightly and upgrade your newbie weapon quickly. Lizard Meat is so common you'll make nice money on this one. I believe you can even buy up vendored Lizard Meat to turn in and turn a profit.

Pickled Froglok
Appropriate Race(s): Ogre, Troll
Appropriate Class(es): Any
Appropriate Level: 1

Bake a froglok meat, vinegar, and jug of sauce (in an oven, #12) to make a pickled froglok. Turn in 3 of these plus 10 gold to Chef Dooga (#17) for:

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I recommend training Baking to the max at your vendor (22?) because skill points accumulate quickly. The trivial is 51 I believe so you're gonna fail a bit. This quest is much better for the PvP server, especially for trolls considering their abysmal starting fire resist.

Deliver Your Meat
Appropriate Race(s): Ogre, Troll
Appropriate Class(es): Any
Appopriate Level: 1

You're going to want to do this quest at least once because the reward is so nice, but it can be quite time consuming especially without sow or ports. It's a very simple quest, tell Chef Dooga "I will deliver froglok legs" and then head to Neriak. Give the legs to The Gobbler at -325, -125 in Foreign Quarter. You get a bit of gold but more importantly you have a small chance to receive these babies:

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These gloves are OP as fucc for PVP and still something you'll want to have around for PVE. Unfortunately 90% of the time you get this instead:

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The upside is you can be a shaman with an axe.

Black Shadow Tunic
Appropriate Race(s): Ogre
Appropriate Class(es): Shadow Knight
Appropriate Level: 5+

Kill Lizardman Scouts, they're most prominently found at the lizardman camps denoted by 1 on the above map. Collect 3 Lizardman Scout Fifes and turn these in along with the tunic you received for turning in your guild note to Bonlarg for an upgraded tunic.

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Lizard Mystic Dolls
Appropriate Race(s): Ogre
Appropriate Class(es): Any
Apporpriate Level: 5+

Lizardman Mystics are found in the Lizardman camps around the Feerrott and sometimes they drop Mystic Dolls. Turn in 2 to Grevak in the Shadow Knight guild for a minor item such as backpacks, large patchwork, SK spells, etc as well as some gold.

Initiate Symbol of Rallos Zek
Appropriate Race(s): Ogre
Appropriate Class(es): Shaman
Appropriate Level: 10+

Keep 3 mystic dolls that were mentioned above, as well as an Allize Volew Medicine Bag obtained from the higher level mystics near Cazic Thule. Turn these in to Zulort in the Shaman guild for:

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Lizard Tails
Appropriate Race(s): Ogre, Troll
Appropriate Class(es): Any
Appropriate Level: 10+

Higher level lizardman warriors and mystics can be found in the Feerrott around Cazic Thule and Rathe Mountains, as well as in the Rathe Mountains themself. These drop tails; turn in 1 to Horgus in the Warrior Guild for a piece of rawhide armor. It's slightly better and more valuable than tattered/patchwork. Or you can turn in 4 to Grevak in the Shadow Knight guild for some various items. I haven't actually done this 2nd quest myself due to rarity of the tails, so if anyone attempts this let me know what you receive on Project 1999. On live you were better off handing them in to Horgus.

Zimbittle
Approrpriate Races: Ogre, Troll
Appropriate Class(es): Any
Appropriate Level: 10

This is mainly a shaman quest and a poor one at that, but I suppose other classes may be able to do it for a small profit. Kill this bitch in Innothule Swamp (warning: you lose Troll guard faction) and turn in her pouch to Marda in the Shaman Guild for a couple low level spells.

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Emissary Glib
Appropriate Race(s): Ogre, Troll *
Appropriate Class(es): Any
Appropriate Level: 15+

Go to Innothule and search for the Slayer Captain:

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He's usually found around Guk. Just kill stuff until he spawns, it may take awhile. Kill him and loot his Frog Eye Necklace. Although your main target isn't the regular troll slayers, they are most likely a PH and you should keep their necklaces as well. Go back to Oggok, to the Shaman guild and tell Marda 'secret mission.' Now, head to the guard tower right before you zone out and find Emissary Glib at the very top. Hand him your Frog Eye Necklaces. The ones from the regular troll slayers will only net you experience and some coin, however you can get some very nice items from the Slayer Captain's necklace. Your goal is this thing:

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Some trivia: this thing was one of the best bags in Classic due to a bug. Normally if you put a 10 pound item in a 50% weight reduction bag, your weight would go from say 150 to 155. Due to a classic bug, it actually subtracted the reduction straight from your starting weight; in this case you'd go from 150 to 145 by placing a 10 pound item in the bag. Alas, it works bugfree on Project 1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Other rewards range from junk (rusty halberds) to sellables (Short Sword) to this thing:

Hopper Spear
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM
Slot: PRIMARY
Skill: Piercing Atk Delay: 31
DMG: 5
STR: +4
WT: 5.0 Size: MEDIUM
Class: WAR RNG SHD BRD ROG SHM
Race: ALL except HIE

It's basically a magic Bronze Spear. Interesting for a new character but generally not very good for the difficulty of this quest.

* One final note, there's a way to do this quest with good characters if you're desperate for that bag. Log your main out at the top of the guard tower, and then log in a level 1 ogre shaman to say the secret mission phrase to Marda. Log back in to your main, and do the turn in to Emissary Glib. He should be indifferent to all.

Update: Bubbles has provided an additional way for someone with bad Oggok faction to obtain a Forager Bag, as well as bringing up the valid point that the Slayer Captain necklaces are not NO DROP, allowing you to hand them off to someone else once you receive your (Lore) bag:

Originally Posted by Bubbles

You do *not* need to have a higher 'rank' shaman to talk to Marda to spawn Glib'... You can do it on a KOS toon with invis (nothing in the entire city of oggok between zone in and shaman guild sees invis).. Simply /target Marda and say 'Where is Emissary Glib?' and he will spawn on the top of the bouncer tower at the Oggok Zone in. So you can have a necro or druid or dress-wearing buddy invis over to marda and spawn him for you to do the hand ins.

Other key point : The necklace dropped by the Troll Captains in Innothule Swamp are *tradeable* so you can farm them on another character and simply trade them to the person you want to get the bag.

In my experience, you get a bag every 3rd or 4th turn in, so it's good to load up on necklaces.. As a bonus, you can turn around and hand any necklaces you have left over after you achieve a forager bag to the next person, who can then try and get a bag, too. But it goes without saying that you'll want a good 4-5 necklaces on your person to make *sure* you get a bag for your efforts. The Hopper/Junk is a far more common quest reward.

Nobles
Appropriate Race(s): Ogre, Troll
Appropriate Class(es): Any
Appropriate Level: 15-20ish solo

Don't go out of your way to complete this one, but if you come across Gwynn Marthank, Hogus Durmas, Jars Legola, or Rell Ostodl in Innothule Swamp (they hang around Guk usually) kill them and loot their crests. Turn one in to Guntrik in the Warrior Guild for a bronze weapon or a crude stein for some extra plat. If you get any high elf or human flesh (not meat or parts) from them, turn it in to Chef Dooga for a little bit of coin.

Gatorsmash Maul
Approriate Race(s): Ogre, Troll
Appropriate Class(es): Shaman, Shadow Knight, Warrior
Appropriate Level: 25ish, possibly with friends.

First you need to kill Ambassador K`ryn in Oggok. He spawns at the 2 on the map. He always spawns at 9 am and despawns 2 hours later and always drops a Dragoon Dirk, but the Black Heart required for the quest is not a guaranteed drop. An Oggok guard despawns in this spot as K`ryn spawns, and it may be possible to kill him twice in one game day if you're fast enough. The courier quest from Neriak requires a turn in with this guy if you want to do that as well. Anyways, he's about level 25. Then travel to Crushbone and kill Ambassador DVinn who spawns at the top of the tower in the castle. He's about level 20. He sometimes drops a Dragoon Dirk and always a Black Heart (confirmation? thought the black hearts were 100% drop on live but it appears K`ryn's is somewhat rare here). Bring both hearts to Lork at 18 on the map to possibly receive a nice weapon:

Gatorsmash Maul
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM
Slot: PRIMARY
Skill: 2H Blunt Atk Delay: 70
DMG: 30
WT: 8.8 Size: LARGE
Class: WAR CLR SHD SHM
Race: BAR TRL OGR IKS

You may get some patchwork armor or a Crude Stein instead, but you can repeat the quest.

Thanks to canardvc for some additional information on K`ryn.

[oddibemcd]

Awesome. Big thumbs up

[Ames]

The trick with the Gatorsmash maul is to equip a Crude Stein before you do the final turn in and you will get the maul instead.

[Mardur]

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

The trick with the Gatorsmash maul is to equip a Crude Stein before you do the final turn in and you will get the maul instead.

What you have in your inventory never has nor ever will affect the reward you receive in any era of EverQuest. This is an old wives tale. If you have a lore item and receive an identical lore item from a quest NPC you will get the standard "cannot have duplicate lore items" and the reward will poof. Please do not add misinformation to my thread. Thank you.

[burkemi5]

i like it. you should post some on the other cities :-D

[Mardur]

Originally Posted by burkemi5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i like it. you should post some on the other cities :-D

Going to post every single worthwhile quest in the game eventually, but something came up halfway through Qeynos. For example, Stein of Moggok is technically an Oggok quest but since Ogres can't normally complete it I've already got it written up under a Miscellaneous or class-based section.

[Vidrata]

How long til Cabilis, Erudin or Kelethin? I like your guide a bit better than most available =P

[DorcasSilverthreads]

Awesome, thanks for posting this. I much prefer actual questing to camping/buying stuff in EC.

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[canardvc]

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

First you need to kill Ambassador K`ryn in Oggok. He spawns at the 2 on the map. He always spawns at 10 am an despawns 2 hours later (P99 confirmation on this?) and always drops a Dragoon Dirk and a Black Heart. An Oggok guard spawns here too, but he won't assist K`ryn

K'ryn spawns at 9AM and he shares the same spawn with the guard. When one spawns the other unspawns. 2 hours up seem to be correct, You should be able to kill him twice an in-game day, if you kill him fast. Dragoon Dirk is 100% drop, got the heart on 8th try

[Bubbles]

Some nice additional info on one of my favorite quests: the forager bag.

You do *not* need to have a higher 'rank' shaman to talk to Marda to spawn Glib'... You can do it on a KOS toon with invis (nothing in the entire city of oggok between zone in and shaman guild sees invis).. Simply /target Marda and say 'Where is Emissary Glib?' and he will spawn on the top of the bouncer tower at the Oggok Zone in. So you can have a necro or druid or dress-wearing buddy invis over to marda and spawn him for you to do the hand ins.

Other key point : The necklace dropped by the Troll Captains in Innothule Swamp are *tradeable* so you can farm them on another character and simply trade them to the person you want to get the bag.

In my experience, you get a bag every 3rd or 4th turn in, so it's good to load up on necklaces.. As a bonus, you can turn around and hand any necklaces you have left over after you achieve a forager bag to the next person, who can then try and get a bag, too. But it goes without saying that you'll want a good 4-5 necklaces on your person to make *sure* you get a bag for your efforts. The Hopper/Junk is a far more common quest reward.