Tips on bard and what do do next in EQ

[BlkCamel]

Everquest is notorious for not guiding a player. After turning in your note you should head out of town and just start killing monsters. If you are looking for quests to do I recommend looking on the WIKI for some low level quest guides, because the in game NPC's are very vague and do not give you level appropriate responses.

Once outside of town and killing monsters collect items to sell to merchants, save bone chips and spiderling silk to sell to players + and High Quality animal pelts you find. Use the money to buy songs every time you level. Go back to Class Master you handed note into and pick up skills as you level. In order to use a skill you must have 1 point in it so when you level and gain new skills you cannot use them until you train atleast 1 point into it at your master.

I don't recommend buying any weapons from merchants or any armor higher than cloth or leather from merchants, their prices are way inflated as a plat sink and players can provide items 100x better for lower prices.

Some bard songs require an instrument to work, others gain power by having an instrument. You should be saving up to buy a drum and a lute, later picking up a horn and a flute. You cannot use a weapon while using an instrument so when in battle you will need to make sure to unequip your instrument and equip your weapon, otherwise youll just be punching with your free hand for 1dmg.

Finding other low levels to group with will help you get a feel for what to do and i recommend it, not sure where you are starting from but that will give us an idea of where to recommend you go.

P.S. Don't forget to find a bag/box merchant and buy some backpacks/box's as soon as you can. This will let you loot more so you don't have to run back to town so much. Also Skeletons and orcs/gobos with staffs in their hand may have a cracked staff which sells for 1p so if you see one carrying a staff kill it.