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[JayDee]

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[Elendae]

Bone chips sell better in bulk. Buy what you find from vendors and resell to players. It's about 2g profit for each chip.

Alternatively, the Kaladim bone chip quest is excellent experience before Crushbone Belts become available. Much better than Felwithe/Qeynos bone chip quests.

Erudin Tower has two very nice quests for new wizards. One nets a potent level 1 ice spell, the other a +mana 1h staff.

[Tallenn]

Leveling up for good money on Faydwer:

First, BBM in front of Kaladim is by FAR a better starting area than GFay. I don't know about Steamfont, but it's hard to imagine it being better than BBM. You can kill nothing but skels and goblins easily, which all drop coin, and in some cases, rusty weapons and cloth armor. If you can use leather or better, you can get patchwork/tattered from vendors (that players have sold) for essentially the same you sell the cloth for. It's often on the vendors right there in the newbie area, but if not, you should be able to find plenty of it on vendors in the warrior guild.

For the bone chips, you can either sell them for plat (4pp or more players), or use them to get those difficult levels quickly. For example, I leveled a char to 4 there, and then used the bone chips I had collected to get about half way through 5.

At 5, head back to GFay, and look for orc hill or Crushbone groups. Crushbone can get you all the way to 15 or even 20, with some pretty decent money. If you go the soloing route, and have some form of lull or harmony, starting around 5 you can do the bandit camp in GFay (#3 on EQAtlas map) up to about 7 or 8. After that, I recommend the goblin warrior camp in BBM (#11 on EQAtlas map) to 11 or 12, then the bandit camp in LFay (#4 on EQAtlas map) from 12 to 16. The bandits in LFay drop bronze weapons, and there is a nearby ranger camp to sell at. An alternative is the Nybright sisters, also bandits (#14 on EQAtlas map).

I've done that soloing path twice now on P99, and ended up with over 400pp by the time I was 16 on each char.

[eqdruid76]

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

Leveling up for good money on Faydwer:

First, BBM in front of Kaladim is by FAR a better starting area than GFay. I don't know about Steamfont, but it's hard to imagine it being better than BBM. You can kill nothing but skels and goblins easily, which all drop coin, and in some cases, rusty weapons and cloth armor. If you can use leather or better, you can get patchwork/tattered from vendors (that players have sold) for essentially the same you sell the cloth for. It's often on the vendors right there in the newbie area, but if not, you should be able to find plenty of it on vendors in the warrior guild.

For the bone chips, you can either sell them for plat (4pp or more players), or use them to get those difficult levels quickly. For example, I leveled a char to 4 there, and then used the bone chips I had collected to get about half way through 5.

At 5, head back to GFay, and look for orc hill or Crushbone groups. Crushbone can get you all the way to 15 or even 20, with some pretty decent money. If you go the soloing route, and have some form of lull or harmony, starting around 5 you can do the bandit camp in GFay (#3 on EQAtlas map) up to about 7 or 8. After that, I recommend the goblin warrior camp in BBM (#11 on EQAtlas map) to 11 or 12, then the bandit camp in LFay (#4 on EQAtlas map) from 12 to 16. The bandits in LFay drop bronze weapons, and there is a nearby ranger camp to sell at. An alternative is the Nybright sisters, also bandits (#14 on EQAtlas map).

I've done that soloing path twice now on P99, and ended up with over 400pp by the time I was 16 on each char.

Nice post, Tallenn! An excellent guide for newbies.

3 things.

1). What were the two classes you levelled using this strategy? If they were casters, then this is incredibly impressive, because I've made about the same amount on my druid, but it ALL went towards buying spells.

2). BB newbie garden is top notch for everyone BUT dwarves, who are KOS to the rampant number of higher level aviaks that spawn there. Still very doable, but a lot of training to guards or zone for dwarves.

3). Grats on finding mobs in the 10-20 range that actually drop bronze weapons on this server. I looted a grand total of 1 bronze weapon from 10-20 levelling at derv camps and orc highway, all the others were rusty.

[Malrubius]

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

- Before you become filthy rich, a good way to reduce some of your weight is to replace your backpacks with large sewing kits. They're about double the cost of a backpack but weigh significantly less. Backpacks are like 3-4 stone whereas a large sewing kit is 0.4. That reduction in weight will be handy when you start equipping your character with a bunch of brunch and start hurting when you're constantly at or near your weight limit and are tempted by lots of booty to loot.

Medicine Bags sell in Grobb (near the bank) for less than backpacks. Weight 0.4; eight slots; Large capacity.

[Tallenn]

Originally Posted by eqdruid76 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Nice post, Tallenn! An excellent guide for newbies.

3 things.

1). What were the two classes you levelled using this strategy? If they were casters, then this is incredibly impressive, because I've made about the same amount on my druid, but it ALL went towards buying spells.

They were a druid and an enchanter. The druid I actually ran from Misty at level 5 and got a bind,but the ench is High Elf. These were both done before the spell price increase, so the money will be less. Important note: you don't need ALL of your spells each level! Pick and choose, and skip the ones you don't need.

Originally Posted by eqdruid76 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

2). BB newbie garden is top notch for everyone BUT dwarves, who are KOS to the rampant number of higher level aviaks that spawn there. Still very doable, but a lot of training to guards or zone for dwarves.

That's true, but at least for melees (I've been sloooowly leveling a dorf paladin here) you can fight them sometimes, and they are really good XP!

Originally Posted by eqdruid76 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

3). Grats on finding mobs in the 10-20 range that actually drop bronze weapons on this server. I looted a grand total of 1 bronze weapon from 10-20 levelling at derv camps and orc highway, all the others were rusty.

I've leveled literally dozens of characters on the bandits in LFay. Good exp, tasty bronze. They also drop gems like Jade from time to time, too. The Nybright sisters also drop necklaces for a quest in Kelethin (the drunkard) which also nets a decent item that sells for about as much as a bronze.

[Elendae]

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

I've leveled literally dozens of characters on the bandits in LFay. Good exp, tasty bronze. They also drop gems like Jade from time to time, too. The Nybright sisters also drop necklaces for a quest in Kelethin (the drunkard) which also nets a decent item that sells for about as much as a bronze.

Took my bard and monk there. I haven't really had much money trouble because of it.

[Swashbuckler]

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

Same goes for Blackburrow exp combined with the fang/moonstone quests.

Unless you absolutely have to raise your faction with Qeynos I like turning the fangs into the warrior lady in the arena pit in Halas. Still gives you lots of xp (think it's the exact same as Qeynos) and 5 gold per fang (!!!) which can really add up fast. You also get a random item such as iron rations, large lanterns and such which can be sold to the vendors for even more money. This (and the fang quest in Qeynos too) turns Blackburrow into basically a farming ground for fangs as groups don't seem to form much there. Kill even those green conned gnolls for their fangs!

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

Bone chips sell better in bulk. Buy what you find from vendors and resell to players. It's about 2g profit for each chip.

Definitely make it a habit to check primary-ish vendors (the ones where you pretty much know people will be selling stuff too and not ones hidden somewhere in the zone that no one uses) for bone chips and I think even spiderling silk can be bought fairly cheaply off them. Spiderling silk goes for something like 20pp a stack I believe.

[Swashbuckler]

I don't know the price of the following items but perhaps someone knowledgeable can chime in. Was browsing merchants in Grobb and came across some items I think would be nice in helping you reduce weight.

Collar of Undead Protection. Has 1 less AC than bronze but weighs A LOT less and gives you some resists for what it's worth. Merchant price was about 16pp.

Fine Silk Turban. Same AC as bronze helm and some fire resistance and once again, weighs A LOT less than the bronze. Probably doesn't have the cool plate look though. Merchant price was 80ish pp so not sure what people ask for it.

Azure Sleeves will probably be nice to replace the bronze ones as they have even more AC than the bronze but they will be pricier. Seen them go for like 75pp or so so perhaps something to look for a bit later on.

I checked out the skele/zombie camps that Brut was talking about in NW Feerrott and did lvls 8-10 there. Good stuff but then again troll regen helps a lot too. Got me nearly a full backpack of bone chips too [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

[Swashbuckler]

Unfortunately I'm not too familiar with mid/high level thing so maybe somebody can add some useful info that us lowbies should look for later on as we gain lvls.