Any guide suggestions for a new player?

[UrkTheSlayer]

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

Ohhh ... Meridian 59! I remember that, as my brother played it. It came out before EQ by 2 or 3 years if I remember correctly. I never played it, so no real desire to try it now, but I can see it appealing to those who played it back in the 90s.

It’s heavy pvp and with its low pop it doesn’t work out that great.

[Eredhel]

I would say you can do qeynos gates 1-4. Go for all the decaying skeletons for the cloth armor, there are a lot on both sides of the road. Depending on your class you can move to the next zone, qeynos hills around 5 and fight stuff at the zone line. Then start heading to blackburrow and as soon as you can kill gnoll scouts and gnolls just learn where they are at the entrance and a couple spots nearby. Save the gnoll fangs for a quest turnin in the arena in south qyenos, and save what he gives you for a turnin near the docks. Once the gnolls in qyenos hills are easy you can start trying inside blackburrow. In west karana there are bandits that can drop bronze and red sashes. Those sashes are a quest turnin in south qeynos that give xp and bronze weapons. Depending on your class you can start trying those around 11.

[starkind]

Get lvl 20 on at least 1 Character so u can feed ur alts cb belts, pads. Or deathfist belts, lightstones, and GLS. Fastest way to 15 or so. Then u can skip the slowest soloyest lvls.

Tradeskills are great for when u don't want to grp. And quickly tossing some gear on those alts.

[loramin]

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

Get lvl 20 on at least 1 Character so u can feed ur alts cb belts, pads. Or deathfist belts, lightstones, and GLS. Fastest way to 15 or so. Then u can skip the slowest soloyest lvls.

Tradeskills are great for when u don't want to grp. And quickly tossing some gear on those alts.

Are you deliberately trying to give bad advice? The second to last thing any new player should be doing is getting to level 20 and farming belts for alts ... and the last thing they should be doing is tradeskills!

Stick to a main character OP, have fun playing them (don't "farm" anything), and save tradeskills for when you are rich and have money to waste later on.

[starkind]

lol do what loramin said

its easier to do everything at higher lvl and exp is easier to get than gear and u dont need gear to get exp

but its fun, so if u find urself stalled, take a break and smell the roses, or wolf pelts.

on the side note taking a break at 4 to farm rusty weapons and vendor them and at 16+ to farm bronze weapons or do bandit sashes is always gonna help a lot especially when ya finally hit EC, if uc an get a magic weapon wisps and GLS are the way to go.

[loramin]

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

lol do what loramin said

its easier to do everything at higher lvl and exp is easier to get than gear and u dont need gear to get exp

but its fun, so if u find urself stalled, take a break and smell the roses, or wolf pelts.

on the side note taking a break at 4 to farm rusty weapons and vendor them and at 16+ to farm bronze weapons or do bandit sashes is always gonna help a lot especially when ya finally hit EC, if uc an get a magic weapon wisps and GLS are the way to go.

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Now this is good advice.

[starkind]

To be fare I got all my tradeskills up to 51 for almost practically no money. Except sorta blacksmithing. which was like 45p
pottery like 48p
brewering like 30p
tailoring I actually made money from because I was converting pelts into masks (it puts the lotion on its furrrr or it gets the whip again)
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[Jimjam]

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

To be fare I got all my tradeskills up to 51 for almost practically no money. Except sorta blacksmithing. which was like 45p
pottery like 48p
brewering like 30p
tailoring I actually made money from because I was converting pelts into masks (it puts the lotion on its furrrr or it gets the whip again)
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Masks very much in season atm, good business sense and a prosocial enterprise. I do have to say, it is unlikely your home made masks actually provide any sv vs disease.

[loramin]

Early levels of tradeskills can be done fairly cheaply, but they still take up time and some money (which really means just "more time"). However, they don't give you very good loot, with the possible exception of 10-slot backpacks.

I strongly suspect that if you spend all that time leveling and getting loot off mobs, you'll wind up much better off ... even if it means you have to purchase your backpacks.

[starkind]

I play this game to consume time and a lot of times I don't have time to grp but time to consume, thats why it was my go-to. Obviously everyones gonna have different experiences and opinions.

When I was 19 I ignored everyone's posts about tradeskills. And just begged my lvl 40 friends to make me fine steel armor at cost lol. (they did)

There's no right or wrong way to play an immersive, sandbox, mmo lol.