New To Server, Have Community Based Questions

[thufir]

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

Hello everyone!

My wife and I just started playing P99 and it is everything I remember, minus a couple things I had forgotten. We absolutely love it. I do have a couple of questions for the community though.

1: Average spell cost at Level 8 is four plat per. (I know they go up fast.) NPC cash drops around this level seem a bit weak compared to the costs of gearing a caster and affording spells. Other than farming bone chips or engaging in the endless search for HQ pelts, how did other players breach this massive price gap?

There are a lot of good places for newbie cash right now, actually. The Warrens can be explored below level 8 and the kobolds drop great little bronze items worth 1-2p a pop. Crushbone belts and pads have been mentioned and only require some time in gfay/cb. Bone chips sell very well, as you pointed out. Deathfist belts also sell for reasonable prices in ec. Mobs in Befallen also drop bronze.

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

2: My wife and I are crafters. While she's settling into the idea of Jewelcrafting and Tailoring, and I settling into Blacksmithing, we have found there is a massive start up cost to crafting. Just to make metal bits is pricey. When should new players start crafting?

This is a tougher question to answer. I don't favor crafting in eq at lower levels because of the high cost of entry. That having been said, getting in on the ground floor for things like Tailoring and Blacksmithing can provide benefits early and help you later on if you decide to go forward with it. I wouldn't try any other tradeskills right now, and would consider holding off until you had a fair amount of cash on hand (several hundred plat).

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

3: How do we deal with bards who swarm kite entire leveling areas? I asked my guild, and they told me it only gets worse later on. I know we all are under "play nice" rules and they are technically not doing anything wrong, but this has happened to us a couple of times now and it literally shuts down our exp grind. Sending tells is met with silence. Now I am not here to bash any one class and I'm sure it's not all bards, but I would like to know in general how is this dealt with.

Surprisingly, I don't see this happen very often. You can just pull off their train, though; the GMs will back up anyone pulling mobs off a train that's more than 4 mobs large. I think if I was in a zone where the bard was swarm kiting that's how I'd handle it. (Ignore their veiled threats about how they'll drop the whole zone on you if you do that, etc. They'll get banned if they do.)

[Ignight]

Thank you for the response everyone.

I probably should have mentioned that we were trying to stay closer to EC and the constant market running there. Thank you for all the suggestions on where to exp.

Travel becomes the only issue. Travel time vs. Lost exp.

Perhaps we will focus on only one of us crafting for now. Due to initial costs.

Thank you all.

[rikustrength]

Consider having one of you roll a druid or a wizard. Druids especially are great first characters, and as you gain group ports you gain a way to reliably make money at no cost to you. If you do wind up pursuing tailoring they're also great for that since they can track animal targets.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

1. Time. AKA: Time-sink. This may be one of the aspects of eq you forgot [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

2. Doing tradeskills as you level up your first char is always going to make that time-sink bigger. But this server is not going anywhere! So there is no rush! Take your time!

3. Oy. Bards. Nerf bards. But it's classic eq, there are a hundred ways players used to be "annoying," and frankly p99 is tame compared to the shenanigans that used to go on, and the basic rule of thumb for a good time in eq is, "avoid hassles." There are places bards can't bother you -- dungeons.

[Ignight]

Love all the ideas, thanks everyone!

[Swish]

Good luck OP, may your adventures be epic

[Uuruk]

It's nice to see new players here. If you are planning on playing here seriously and raiding I would recommend another game. If you are just playing to relive the leveling part and casual part I think you may enjoy it. But don't play this server for the raiding. It is the worst raiding experience you can possibly have from any mmo out there.