Everquest 10 tips for beginner or returning players
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- Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2024
- I made a list of ten tips to help players new to Everquest. Hopefully you'll find something on this list that will help you in your Everquest adventures.
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Nicely done, sir. I just poked my head back into EQ after a 20-year break, and really appreciate your vids!
20 year break, just got back on. Truly appreciate the video and information!
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Man, the barter tip saved my life last night. I had made my way down to the AC camp in upper guk with my new toons. Popped lesson of devoted and was getting 50% xp a kill. 12 lvls later I had no play for spells but a ton of trade skill items. Managed to buy the majority of my spells due to barter. Yay, thanks.
I'm glad to hear that. I love barter. It's why I try to remind people every chance I get.
The Barter tip is awesome. I use it now and I learned about it from you. My biggest tip would be to spend a bit of time working on your UI set up before you start playing for the first time. My UI set up looks nice and clean. Looks like the set up from my days in WoW and Rift so I know where everything is. Then I can copy to new characters so no need to mess with the UI again. This video is very informative and helpful.
Thanks for the handy tips! I randomly decided to mess around a bit in EverQuest after 20 some years and everything is changed!
Well, If you been away the whole 20 years then , YES, it's very different. I hope you still enjoy it though.
there's also another easy backpack for beginners to get. in pok, there's an npc that has tutorial quests, the bazaar quest (if i'm not mistaken), reward is a 10 slot backpack with 50% weight reduction.
True. You go to Seclena who is standing right next to a tree tp your right when you zone in from Crescent Reach. You can do it as soon as you start the game in the Gloomingdeep Mines. You don't even have to level. Here are the steps I take:
- beat the intro monster, get to Glooming Deep.
- (Optional) speak to the Troll NPC to get the wand that gives you a Spirit of Wolf (run speed boost). I've personally never needed this.
- run to the tunnel to zone to Crescent Reach
- Follow the path and about half way down go off the path to your right and go into the city.
- (optional) Depending on your class, you can either get a very good weapon, or weapon and shield from a quest line from Disgruntled Boawb on the second level)
- Find the tunnel that leads to the Hollows, Blightshire Moors. It will be marked with signage
- Get to the Hollows (activate your Spirit of Wolf Wand)
- Run across the land to a bridge and cross it, go up the hill and zone to Blightshire Moors. Do not attack anything.
- When you zone, run up the hill, turn to your right and hug the base of the hill on your right. Do not get close to the wildlife, it will kill you!
- You will find a book on a pedestal, that will zone you to POK.
- Find Seclana, hail her, it will bring up a TON of quests. Find the one that mentions the Bazaar. Do that quest line.
- Return to Seclana, hail her, and she will give you an option to SEND you back to the Mines.
I played a necro from 1999 to 2014. Best game I ever played. That said, I couldn't even imagine going back now after being away for 9 years. My necro is sitting on a server somewhere at level 105 with top tier raid gear.
it's free to play, why not try lol
@@macsdf1 As much as I loved the game, I could never go back for multiple reasons. I played for 15 years and the last few were rough. I was burned out and raiding was not fun anymore with all the hoops of fire they make you go through. I've done everything there is to do notwithstanding the expansions that came out after I left. EQ takes a chunk of time and a lot of work to be good. All my friends are gone and it would take me days to get audio triggers and macros and colors etc all set up again. I just don't have it in me at age 55 anymore
What server? I played from 99 til 2015 over on Erolissi Marr. Bard main. My 3 box combo all sitting in guild hall with Aspect of the Brood, and I probably can't even remember how to play right anymore lol
@@GES1985 Heya bud, I was on Bertoxx. I have to say I've been in between games and from time to time get tempted to install it just to look around. I don't have my login info and it's on an email address I don't have access to anymore so not sure what i'd have to go through to get that info. Doesn't seem worth the effort.
Should add the mixing bowl tip. They weigh 1/10th of a regular back pack. Are cheaper to buy. And have two additional slots over a backpack. You can buy them in the starting cities or PoK from baking merchants. Replace all your bags, except weight reductions ones, with mixing bowls.
Finally a helpful guide thank you
Your making a difference, Fez. Looking at the comments, I see I am not alone. That's really cool. Thank you! Sincerely,
Yeverah,
Finally started playing, after my Dad's nudged me for years. Helped me hit the ground running, appreciate it.
Glad to have helped. Thanks for watching.
I played a bard midway up since day #1, when they 'opened the gates' to the EC, and we all ran around and killed massive spiders (which made me scream when one first ran across my screen), and heard a strange sound seconds before we were shredded by a griff (of course we all ran into a building, and it continued to shred us in there!). EQ was brutal, yet so much fun. I was on Mith. Marr, and our GM (Brother Xave?) was always around, keeping us in character. Most everyone was in-character back then, for some reason, by the very nature of seeing ourselves as a sort of creature, in a fantasy setting. Everyone would use some sort of race/setting appropriate "speak", and use the 'hail' gesture, at least. EQ was something so new, that though we weren't on a rp server, the original game creators/GMs liked to see us in-character, and daily would remove people's names that were inappropriate for the setting. The GMs also would create huge events, such as one invasion of the 'evil races' attacking East Commons, and eventually Freeport. They had an insane boss character that would emote 'turns his gaze upon you', and then you'd die. I wanted to go see the fight, zoned in, saw that emote, and leaped into the zone wall again, making it out. Being a bard, I had people 'haunting my dreams' with bribes to go and retrieve their corpses for them. I logged off during that event, and went back after it was all over a couple days later. Our GM would do occasional cruel things like taking the dark elf from N. Ro, and putting him wandering around by the zone to WC. He'd attack my friend and I, and when we'd try to sneak to get our corpses before they decayed, he would come running from elsewhere to kill us again. We each lost several levels (He'd lost level 30, which was quite a 'hell level', I recall), and were still trying to get our bodies 12-14 hours later. It was obvious that.. (is that NPC's name something like 'Kizdjean Gix'?) he wasn't an NPC during that night. He was intelligent, and soooo merciless!! Haha.. he eventually returned, in the morning, to his NPC status in N. Ro. Usually, as a bard, I could outrun most anything.. especially later, when I got my Mistmoor Battle Drums. I loved being a bard, being able to bash on things, if needed, or play my lute, and twist heal and mana and a stun shout. I could run people places twisting speed and levitate. The sheer versatility of the bard was fantastic, which is why I'm so disappointed to find out that they were nerfed to a level of uselessness later on. Do you think that they will try and balance them in the future?
I was unaware that they were nerfed, but they seem to be fine now. I want to do a battle video where I have a bard fight against a warrior, then a rogue, and a monk to see how they do. I like doing experiment videos. Also, Thanks for sharing this story. It sounds like you had fun. I met many who RP'd all the time, I was kinda half and half myself.
@@FezzelwhigsForum Thank *you* so much for answering, and not hollering at me for saying so bloody much. 😆 I adored my bard, my personality gelled with a half-elf misfit as well, and though I had tons of fun hanging out with my higher level buddies, I really wish I would have given Altistin a good shot towards end-game. Later on, I think I got a pally up there. I would love to know how your experiment turns out! I watched a video that said eq2 nerfed bards to death, and they didn't have much to offer any longer. I can't imagine them being *that* nerfed in eq1.
@@suchstrangecandy I'll never hollar at anyone for commenting. Even if someone is rude, i'm more likely to just ignore them. LOL. Oh, maybe EQ2 bards were nerfed, I mostly just play EQ1 now. I played 2 for a bit, but it's just not the same game. Don't think I ever got past level 32 on EQ2.
20 year hiatus. Just started to check out a FTP. I really like the changes that have been mad but man is it overwhelming... What i would like to see is a decent per level hunting guide for live.
Thanks for watching and thanks for the great video idea.
@@FezzelwhigsForum Appreciate the response. Have watched a handful of your videos now, awesome content.
Also, it wasn't so much a suggestion as a thought I typed out but that would be an awesome vid.
I find it weird how there are so many zone level guides/per level guides for everything EQ except live lol.
Thanks buddy. Going to give this a try tonight :)
This was helpful. Thank you
Hey Fezzelwhig, thank you for all your videos. I played EQ when it came out in 99, swapped to WoW and now I'm playing EQ (free version) currently. I was wondering if you could give me some information about servers, that have a lot of people in them to group / guild with. I miss the social aspect a lot. I saw you other videos "Just me playing EQ" and I'd like to be part of that community again. I played a necro back when the level cap was just 60. I'm still trying to get my head around the new progressive servers. Like what happens if you aren't max level when the next expansion opens? I've been away from EQ for 20 years. I keep going through all your wonderful videos for help and tips (especially macros). Thank you again for all your hard work into these videos and keep them coming!
If you're free to play and plan on sticking with free to play for a while, give the FV server a try. It's got a huge player base and it's free trade. It is also our home server where we have our guild and do our live streaming.
Quick heads up....free to play cant get in those progression servers iirc
Just so you know, gotta sub
Thanks for the tips my guy
Very helpful video!
Awesome video man! I had a 50ish Rogue like 100 years ago. I quit right before Planes of Power came out & lost my account. How are Rogues doing these days? I loved playing Rogue but I felt really weak & useless most of the time unless I was doing corpse runs for people. I hope ROG is more essential these days?
I can't speak for others, but in my humble opinion Rogues got a nice boost when they added the new poisons. You use them more like potions that give you poison weapon proc buff. They add a good amount of DPS. Also the Assassinate skill is cool. I have 1 shot killed many lvl 75 gnolls. Rogue gets secondary poison too, the secondary poison adds effects like Slow, Snare, or Attack debuff.
@@FezzelwhigsForum That sounds promising! Thanks!
@@Sandtauruspig Rogues can also craft poisons that they can give to other melee types in their group for added DPS. They too work like a potion buff that triggered DD procs during combat.
@@FezzelwhigsForum I imagine ROG's are still low tier solo? I'm barley soloing through the tutorial lol
@@Sandtauruspig it really depends on the gear that you have and I would suggest getting a tank mercenary instead of a cleric mercenary and set the tank mercenary.
good tips but dude how do you play with your Gamma like that? you hate color? lol
I'm wondering, do you have some kind of mod for your target rings? They look really neat.
I'm not really sure, it's been forever since I visited www.eqinterface.com/ but you can download and install UI assets, but that may all change when daybreak releases the new UI.
Great video!
Thank you.
Should I do the entire tutorial area like the lvl 4 and 6 missions as well ? Or just get the armor and leave
Might as well. One tip I can give for specifically the tutorial zone is to open all the barrels. They sometimes give backpacks. And especially early on, having a full inventory of backpacks is a major QoL boost.
As much as I love EQ, Live EQ doesn't even feel right anymore... I went back and it was a completely different game.. They watered down this game so much its almost ridiculous. I tried Project 1999 and wow, I felt like I traveled back to the o.g days of EQ. I left live EQ in 2015 for P99 and haven't looked back.
P1999 is more about the journey than the end game. Trying to start now is difficult. But it’s end game that makes me not like p1999
@coreyjohnson152 Yeah thats the awful truth man, the end game is toxic as shit but I was simply loving it because j believe I was too young to appreciate classic eq and kunark as a kid back in 99-2000
I tested everquest before its launch back in the day and played for years. I want to return but don't know what version to play and I don't want to play in my own. Dose some one have an active alliance that would take me in and help me get up to speed?
@@coreyjohnson152 yes end game in p99 is horrid. It sucks so hard.
That version of the game only existed for such a small time period it doesn’t feel like classic EQ to me. I was so busy back then by the time the ui was updated and things more simple it was only like 10 months in and that’s around when I had time to really play.
Get a jade mace and a fungi tunic… and don’t forget to eat.
Any tips for finding a guild? i started on the most populated server FV and sorta expected there would be the occasional guild recruiting message. but havent heard a single one in 25 levels and everytime i ask in New Players chat i get no reply. Is this a soloers server mainly?
There are probably some active guilds at the top end but i agree with you, there is nothing at the lower end for new starters and returnee's. Seems everyone just creates their own guild for porting purposes and what not.
@@garyallen7946 thanks Gary. The family decided EQ really isn't for us anymore; the game has become more warcraft than warcraft if ya know what I mean lol. Appreciate your reply
Do you multi box Fezz?
It depends on the server. Some servers allow it, some don't. But I do when it's permitted. I made some videos on it.
Brotha these types of videos need time stamps
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