Who wants to write a Velious guide?

[JickFromTholuxe]

The Guides (http://wiki.project1999.com/Players:Adventure) page on the wiki has a section for Velious that only says "To do". Do any of you Velious-studying nerds want to take the time to write down what you've learned?

Here are some thoughts:


How the Velious porting system works
Getting around the quasi-linear zone progression
Factions
Quests
ToV
Skyshrine maze
Little-known tips
Sight-seeing, points of interest, exploration guide
Common dangers
How classes are affected by new spells, abilities, re-balancing
The timeline for when things will be released

The wiki is a wiki, so instead of someone creating "Turdman's Guide to Velious", maybe we'd be better off with "The Missing Guide to Velious" that is edited and developed by many people collaboratively.

I am sure there have been some posts on the forum that offer a lot of these details. A guide that centralizes that information would be a lot more accessible.

Who wants to take on the task? Who has something to contribute? Feel free to use this thread to discuss and brainstorm.

[Pipip]

But I want people to remain ignorant so I can keep making money at things that a lot of people don't remember...

[mr_jon3s]

I just want people to go out and explore. I wish I was one of the lucky people who doesn't know shit about velious.

[Smallpoxx]

I don't mind adding content and fixes to the wiki, I just don't know how to fix some things.

For instance, the Class/Race quest list doesn't list Wizard Quests under W: http://wiki.project1999.com/Category:Quests

But I don't know how to fix that, because when I hit edit, that data is pulling from somewhere else.

[JickFromTholuxe]

I don't mind adding content and fixes to the wiki, I just don't know how to fix some things.

For instance, the Class/Race quest list doesn't list Wizard Quests under W: http://wiki.project1999.com/Category:Quests

But I don't know how to fix that, because when I hit edit, that data is pulling from somewhere else.

That is a "Category" page. The wiki's engine MediaWiki has "special pages" that are generated. Some pages are a part of a category so that page simply lists everything in that category.

[jcr4990]

I'm completely lost when it comes to the different factions and armor quests and how all that stuff works. Haven't been able to really find a simple guide explaining it all either. Don't know what I should/shouldn't kill for faction. Bleh.

[JickFromTholuxe]

Ok guys, I went ahead and created the page:

The Missing Velious Guide (http://wiki.project1999.com/The_Missing_Velious_Guide)

I'll start to hack on it a bit but I really don't know very much.

[Smallpoxx]

Jick, I understand it's a category page. However, the Wizard Quests list is a functioning page. What's causing it to not show up For the Class/Race quest list?

http://wiki.project1999.com/Category:Wizard_Quests is a functioning page, that is also a category page. I was able to figure out that it was missing the Categories: Quest on the wizard quest page, and now it's correctly showing up on the Class/Race quest list.

[Sorn]

Added to the guide for porting!

[JickFromTholuxe]

Added to the guide for porting!

I saw that, thanks Sorn! I learned just about everything I know about Velious porting from what you just wrote. :) I kept asking wizards and druids about Velious porting in-game and even they didn't know how it worked.

I also added a section for getting to Thurgadin from Iceclad Ocean and what to do what you get there.

I'm going to keep hacking on the page throughout the day but we could use more contributors!

[Sorn]

Added that the teeth are soulbound, forgot to mention that bit.

I'm learning the zones slowly myself so I'll probably add more later on...I like doing the quests but I've only managed a few so far because I'm too low to do most of them.

[captnamazing]

I could write a guide that was heavily inundated with roleplaying


but i won't

[JickFromTholuxe]

I could write a guide that was heavily inundated with roleplaying


but i won't

Then how about just helping out with the guide anyway? :)

[dnatabar]

Looks good, and im looking forward to more information =)

[Sorn]

Added sight-seeing section!

Some zones not filled out because I haven't been there yet.

I'm going to try adding some quests in next.

[milsorgen]

I could write a guide that was heavily inundated with roleplaying


but i won't

but you should

[captnamazing]

As of yet I haven't been to Velious. I'll add what I can once I finally log on and make the trek :)

[surron]

I don't have the time to edit the wiki (someone else can do it using this info) but these 3 links can do wonders for what faction you wish to align with. Each faction has a plethora of quests to do.

Look at the section that says "Quests you can do to raise this faction"

Giant quests http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/faction.html?faction=189

Dwarf quests http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/faction.html?faction=190
(not much quests from dwarfs besides ring, shawl, and phenocryst's focus)

dragon quests http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/faction.html?faction=191
(these are a lot higher end velious content quests (Luez's Tasks being one of the most famous))

It depends on your play style what faction you want to align with. IMO if you are super casual you might as well kill giants so you get high enough faction to do thurgadin armor turn ins for gear slightly better than PoFear/PoHate. You can also one day finish the shawl and ring. And one day if you decide to join a raiding guild your CoV faction will be set (or maybe if pick up raids ever happen in EToV you will be set, but don't count on that any time soon)

If you are semi casual I would go with giants, why because it's probably less popular and the quests available are 1 groupable content. I also see WToV being farmed more by lesser end guilds (because high end guild wont want to ruin CoV faction)

If you are a high end you will most likely go CoV (most of the quests in CoV are 1 group+ content). You will also probably jump around, which takes a lot more work.