P99 Guides

[Almarsguides]

Greetings everyone! You may or may not recognize my username but for those who don't - I am the guy who owns almarsguides.com and writes a lot of the guides for fellow Everquesters.

Recently I have come back to EQ in full swing and I have been pumping out guides pretty heavily. At some point in the last few weeks it occured to me that I could write some guides for P99 as well (or guides that would be relevant for any future TLPs during Velious as well as P99).

That brings me to this post. As people who play on P99 I was curious if you would be able to tell me what guides it is you'd like to see most and if you find the excessive use of maps to be helpful.

To give you an idea of what I have been working on for P99 here is my completed Velious Leveling Guide with my recently finished Thurgadin Class Armor Guide.

http://www.almarsguides.com/eq/quests/Velious/ThurgadinArmor/
http://www.almarsguides.com/eq/leveling/Velious/

Now, what I mean about the excessive use of maps - I know P99 doesn't have access to maps which I think of as a really big deal. So I have been making guides (that I think) P99ers would find really useful, which are these:

http://www.almarsguides.com/eq/leveling/SoD/Locations/PostMercNoobZones/MoreInfo/DragonNecropolis/ZoneIn.cfm

http://www.almarsguides.com/eq/leveling/Velious/Locations/MoreInfo/Thurgadin/ZoneIn.cfm

http://www.almarsguides.com/eq/leveling/Velious/Locations/MoreInfo/CrystalCaverns/ZoneIn.cfm

I'm very curious if my assumption is right and if these guides would be useful to P99 players or if you all basically know the world of Norrath so well that you don't even need maps if you had them. As someone who doesn't play on your server I am quite ignorant to your needs and wants.


Anyway, this is all I have for right now and I greatly appreciate you taking the time to read this post & check out my guides. I'm working on much... much more and any feedback from this community on how to make guides that are more useful for you all would be greatly appreciated.

[loramin]

I'm very curious if my assumption is right and if these guides would be useful to P99 players or if you all basically know the world of Norrath so well that you don't even need maps if you had them. As someone who doesn't play on your server I am quite ignorant to your needs and wants.


Anyway, this is all I have for right now and I greatly appreciate you taking the time to read this post & check out my guides. I'm working on much... much more and any feedback from this community on how to make guides that are more useful for you all would be greatly appreciated.

It sounds like you might not be aware of the wiki (http://wiki.project1999.com). It has tons of literal guides (http://wiki.project1999.com/Players:Adventure) as well as lots of other other basic information like maps. If your goal is to create truly new content you really should start there and see what people have already done.

Also, I'm pretty sure I drew on your guides, along with lots of other resources, to compile the Per-Level (http://wiki.project1999.com/Per-Level_Hunting_Guide)/Treasure (http://wiki.project1999.com/Treasure_Hunting_Guide) Hunting "guides" (which are really more collections of spots than actual guides). Thanks for all of your effort as a guide-writer; as a fellow guide-writer I know how much work they require.


P.S. You should try creating a character here. It's a whole lot more fun than a MMOG created in 1999 has any right to be and ... we have cookies (http://wiki.project1999.com/Cookies)!

[Lulz~Sect]

Hello friend, I'm just friendly Norrathian prince from Norrath, I have no money please help me move my money and I reward you with 30 million PLATINUM and lots of hookers. I like to fuck wood elves and get platinums, I make many platinums in Norrath. I need CC Information, Social Security Number, Bank Account Info, Kronos Information.

[Almarsguides]

It sounds like you might not be aware of the wiki (http://wiki.project1999.com). It has tons of literal guides (http://wiki.project1999.com/Players:Adventure) as well as lots of other other basic information like maps. If your goal is to create truly new content you really should start there and see what people have already done.

I've seen the P99 wiki, it's a wonderful resource and many of us use it for the TLP servers during those eras... That's actually what made me want to write guides for specifically P99 because it was a very frequent complaint on how much information the wiki was lacking and/or that it had out of date information.

To give you an example the wiki barely shares any information AT ALL about Kael Drakkel, one of the main Velious endgame zones as I am sure many of you are aware. It doesn't say what nameds are there, what they drop, where they spawn or anything like that at all. I'm going to be putting up a guide that covers basically everything that guide doesn't later this weekend or before that.

Also as someone who had never personally experienced the end game of Classic - Velious prior to the Lockjaw/Ragefire TLPs - I found the information the wiki had on Kael armor and Skyshrine armor to be really confusing and needing a total rewrite (which is why I started with those guides). It explains to you the basics of the armor but it doesn't really go indepth about how to get it or how to raise the reputations you need to turn in the armor pieces. I didn't entirely realize that Skyshrine armor was such a pain in the ass to get until I had already grinded all of ToV with my box team and then I realized that i would effectively have to grind kael for weeks to just turn in the pieces of armor I farmed. Obviously a grevious oversight on my part and my own ignorance is mostly to blame but that's the point too; the guide(s) were very unclear on things like this.


I wouldn't mind creating "new" content but those of you on these servers would have to tell me what the P99 wiki is missing - you'd all know best which is what I made this post for! The first poster said he doubts many people would google how to reach Thurgadin which is basically the only original idea I came up with that P99ers might want, maps on how to get places since your server has no maps.


The best I can do in the mean time is rewrite guides that are inaccurate/have holes in them that I have found. Like the velious armor guides and Kael Drakkel's zone guide.

[SunDrake]

Recently I have come back to EQ in full swing and I have been pumping out guides pretty heavily. At some point in the last few weeks it occured to me that I could write some guides for P99 as well (or guides that would be relevant for any future TLPs during Velious as well as P99).

That brings me to this post. As people who play on P99 I was curious if you would be able to tell me what guides it is you'd like to see most and if you find the excessive use of maps to be helpful.

Aside from information that users can piece together on their own, I have always find the wiki guides to be very lacking. Knock yourself out - good work will be used and valued by P99 players. ;)

[skarlorn]

Hello friend, I'm just friendly Norrathian prince from Norrath, I have no money please help me move my money and I reward you with 30 million PLATINUM and lots of hookers. I like to fuck wood elves and get platinums, I make many platinums in Norrath. I need CC Information, Social Security Number, Bank Account Info, Kronos Information.

I'll vouch for Lulz. He loves hookers and platinums. This is a safe bet.

As per your request for guide info, the community has largely been demanding more guides on ideal leveling guides for halflings. We also need guides on how to defeat the Neriak threat to our east. I am the sole funder of the Rivervale Scholarship for Young Hobbits, which seeks to give promising Young Hobbits a helping hand as they make their way out into the world. A guide on how to win this scholarship would be most useful. Finally, a guide detailing the complicated and important factions WITHIN rivervale will be of crucial importance to the development of this server community.

[Lhancelot]

Thanks for all of your effort as a guide-writer.

You should try creating a character here.

It's a whole lot more fun than a MMOG created in 1999 has any right to be and ... we have cookies (http://wiki.project1999.com/Cookies)!

This. ^

Would be cool if you tried the server out it's really almost a whole different game from the present day EQ Live. You'd be amazed how fun it is here.

[Almarsguides]

This. ^

Would be cool if you tried the server out it's really almost a whole different game from the present day EQ Live. You'd be amazed how fun it is here.

Sadly I have an unpopular opinion about Classic EQ. I thoroughly disliked the TLP servers until Planes of Power and even then I still am 50/50 on whether or not I truly like the game during this era. I have a team on Lockjaw which I play every few months and I find myself enjoying my live box team much more since the RoS expansion launch.

I also avoid the "true box" or any servers that doesn't allow multiboxing seeing as I am a boxer at heart.

All that aside though, I still would like to add information to my website for players on P99 and people that play during this era. I'm having much more fun writing and researching the guides than I did playing during Velious =D

[Foxplay]

Some p99 players are fairly normal, they know the game decently but still look at the wiki on the regular

Then there is the p99 players that could get thru a zone while their character is blind without any issues

[Shrubwise]

@OP The Project 1999 wiki is pretty helpful and does contains lots of guides already. That being said, information is key and if you were to add your guides to the wiki that'd be stellar. Welcome to Project 1999.

To touch on Swish's post, Project 1999 is entirely different from Daybreak TLP's and so your guides may not be relevant to the Project 1999 community unless you were to roll a toon here and see what it's like.

If you go that route, let me know and I'll toss you some buffs and coin

P.S. really like your site! :D

[Baler]

P.S. You should try creating a character here. It's a whole lot more fun than a MMOG created in 1999 has any right to be and ... we have cookies (http://wiki.project1999.com/Cookies)!
Live eq said it's cool to play here. :)

OP should totally make some awesome recognizable guides.

[Almarsguides]

To touch on Swish's post, Project 1999 is entirely different from Daybreak TLP's and so your guides may not be relevant to the Project 1999 community unless you were to roll a toon here and see what it's like.

Well, I am taking into consideration P99 when I write the guides. Daybreak hasn't revamped the zones, changed quests or layouts or even changed mob drops. The only major changes are probably how the game plays (which wouldn't play a large factor in the guide writing department unless I started to try and teach people how to play).

I've recently finished by Skyshrine Class Armor (http://www.almarsguides.com/eq/quests/Velious/SkyshrineArmor/) as well as my Kael Drakkel Class Armor (http://www.almarsguides.com/eq/quests/Velious/KaelDrakkelArmor/) guides. They expand on a lot of the information P99's wiki left out and have a more picture oriented easy to read format.

I have also *almost* completed my Kael Drakkel zone guide (http://www.almarsguides.com/eq/leveling/velious/Locations/KaelDrakkel.cfm) which goes over many different parts of the zone and what you can expect to find there. I'm going to do similar for Crystal Caverns and Tower of Frozen Shadow.

Then I think I may cover some more quests. There's this bracer with Affliction Haste(I think haste?) III on it that starts in Velious. Coldain Militia Wristguard something or other. I was thinking of covering quests like that.

Also sorry for the delayed responses, it seems that my posts still have to be approved by a mod.

[zodium]

You uhh, might want to actually play before trying to write any guides. :o

[Almarsguides]

You uhh, might want to actually play before trying to write any guides. :o

https://i.imgur.com/48fZQlb.png

Hi =)

(my team minus one group on lockjaw)

[zodium]

You might want to stick to Lockjaw guides. :3

[Sorn]

Then I think I may cover some more quests. There's this bracer with Affliction Haste(I think haste?) III on it that starts in Velious. Coldain Militia Wristguard something or other. I was thinking of covering quests like that.

Hiya, fellow guide writer! I salute your efforts :) It's hard to keep track of the different versions of EQ out there so good luck!

A few people have mentioned the wiki. It's not always correct but it's good to check on an item's stats, which are typically accurate. I quoted this part of your post as an example because you mention a focus effect, which is a mechanic that is not present on p99. Our items do not have focus effects at all. See: https://wiki.project1999.com/Coldain_Military_Wristguard

Anyway! I like tradeskill guides and faction guides myself :) Those are a bit more difficult than, say, zone guides, because tradeskills have gone through numerous revamps and faction is pretty much ignored these days on live. (P99 also has a faction master, Aalderon, who is pretty much the de facto expert for both p99 and live factions.) For tradeskills you'd have to really organize it by expansion/revamp era for the TLP servers. P99 would be similar, but they'd be a different guide because p99 devs don't match how live does progression.

[Almarsguides]

Hiya, fellow guide writer! I salute your efforts :) It's hard to keep track of the different versions of EQ out there so good luck!

A few people have mentioned the wiki. It's not always correct but it's good to check on an item's stats, which are typically accurate. I quoted this part of your post as an example because you mention a focus effect, which is a mechanic that is not present on p99. Our items do not have focus effects at all. See: https://wiki.project1999.com/Coldain_Military_Wristguard

Anyway! I like tradeskill guides and faction guides myself :) Those are a bit more difficult than, say, zone guides, because tradeskills have gone through numerous revamps and faction is pretty much ignored these days on live. (P99 also has a faction master, Aalderon, who is pretty much the de facto expert for both p99 and live factions.) For tradeskills you'd have to really organize it by expansion/revamp era for the TLP servers. P99 would be similar, but they'd be a different guide because p99 devs don't match how live does progression.

Very interesting I didn't realize you guys lacked focuses! Jeeze! Thanks for letting me know though <3 -- I made this post to learn info just like this =P

Also I totally get what you mean with Tradeskill guides.. even leveling guides I have started to organize "by expansion" due to the TLP craze. I've also had to split the leveling guides in two, before mercenaries and after mercenaries are added to the game.

I actually have Tradeskill guides Classic - PoP on my website and I think HoT - RoF. I'm lacking in that department though and people keep throwing stones at me telling me to write a Tinkering guide which is probably going to happen next after I finish some more Velious zones!


You might want to stick to Lockjaw guides. :3

Riiight - cause they're two entirely different games! Lockjaw guides wouldn't be relevant for Firiona Vie and Firionie Vie guides wouldn't be relevent for Phinigel. It's one big mess ahhhh *pulls out hair*

You might actually want to educate yourself on the differences between the servers before trying to be a smart ass! You might actually learn something new ;)


P.S - Playing on P99 and trying to write guides for that server would be a massive detriment to the guide writing process (since people have asked me to play on the server more than once here I figured I would answer). Trying to ask a raid full of people to 'hold up' as you document a location or experiment for your guide isn't something I really like doing or even feel comfortable doing. Since you guys don't allow boxing that's a major issue for any guide that can't be solo'd. It's also the primary reason I box on live. 90% of the time I am playing it's usually researching or writing a guide. Oddly enough (i guess) that's just how I enjoy playing the game.

I realize my guides won't entirely be relevant for P99 and that's why I am here asking for advice figuring out what the differences are. I want to do my best to make sure that the guides work on both live servers and P99. Learning the little things like the Coldain Wristguard not having a focus on p99 is really helpful and probably something I wouldn't have realized myself unless someone pointed it out to me.

[zodium]

OK. :o

[icedwards]

I will say... one guide P99 could use is a Chardok 2.0 guide with all named mob PHer spots located on a map, their common,uncommon and rare drops listed, and the level/class of the named mob.

That zone is going to release on P99 some time this year probably and P99 fatcats want to know which named mob to sit on to sell the drops.

Hoarding all this information for myself.

WTS halfling illusion mask loot rights, Dead Men Floating loot rights, and Regal Band MQs

[kotton05]

None of the eq severs out there compare to p99. Should just full commit to playing here and writing up guides making the wiki even more badass.

[Almarsguides]

I will say... one guide P99 could use is a Chardok 2.0 guide with all named mob PHer spots located on a map, their common,uncommon and rare drops listed, and the level/class of the named mob.

That zone is going to release on P99 some time this year probably and P99 fatcats want to know which named mob to sit on to sell the drops.

Chardok 2.0, do you mean what we call ChardokB on live? It's the zone right off chardok with a healthy mix of undead enemies and living.

I thought that zone was added in during LoY - I haven't been there in like over a decade though.

I *do* have a zone guide for Chardok with named locations on map, their drops (common,uncommon and rare isnt differentiated yet on my guide but I know enough about the zone that I probably can do that in a moment if it would be that useful)

Here's the Chardok guide i have: http://www.almarsguides.com/eq/leveling/kunark/Locations/Chardok.cfm


Also thanks a TON for all your other info - you taught me something i didn't even know about my own TLP!! I forgot that you had to be the same class to do the ToV armor turn ins, now that you mention it though I do remember looting a bunch of chain on my Druid wanting to do ranger turn ins and it just ate my materials... I didn't add that to my guides though and I have to!


And I wouldn't say so much that I want to make guides "just for P99" but I want to make sure that my guides work for you guys too. I don't want someone who plays on P99 to be googling, find my website and realize that they totally wasted their time cause everything I had to say was irrelevant to them. We share a ton of the same google searches and during velious I was on the p99 wiki daily, it's a great resource but it has a lot of mix-matched info. I just don't want to fall into that same hole.

The only P99 specific "guides" I would provide is pretty much screen shots of my ingame maps which have named locations on them and such (see my above chardok guide for examples)

[Sorn]

Chardok 2.0, do you mean what we call ChardokB on live? It's the zone right off chardok with a healthy mix of undead enemies and living.

It's not Chardok B, actually. The original Chardok zone went through a revamp during Velious (called Chardok 2.0 here) which added stuff like the Spirit Wracked Cord quest and Chokidai Vocal Chords as well as completely changed the various mobs you found. P99's Chardok 2.0 is the current Chardok on live now, roughly.

Currently it's in its 1.0 stage on p99, where we have mobs on that first bridge that proc a huge knockback that tends to throw people off into the bowels of the zone (because EQ loves us!).

Here's the mob for 1.0:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=4975
https://wiki.project1999.com/A_sarnak_caedosaur

Here's a 2.0 mob who usually lives around the very first fort:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=7755
https://wiki.project1999.com/A_Shai%60din_Soultrapper

I can see the wiki's a bit patchy regarding info on 1.0 vs 2.0. This is gonna cause a lot of confusion...

[Senescant]

Can't wait to get me some Gangrenous Touch of Zum`uul

[Almarsguides]

This is the exact kind of guide that would be helpfulf to P99 permacampers.

Not sure if that's good or bad but a lot of my "leveling" guides use that format.

Howling Stones (Although the map's a bit harder to read): http://www.almarsguides.com/eq/leveling/kunark/Locations/HowlingStones.cfm

Lower Guk: http://www.almarsguides.com/eq/leveling/classic/Locations/Lowerguk.cfm

Temple of Droga: http://almarsguides.com/eq/leveling/kunark/locations/TempleofDroga.cfm

If it would actually be of use to people on P99 I can take close up pictures of each wing in Howling Stones (and other zones) that have named locations marked on them. Even if my guide doesn't document those locations per say maybe the maps out there could be of use.

Alternatively I could also just create an entire page on my website for maps of zones by expansion if they would actually be of use to people. Not all of my maps have named locations marked on them but most do. I could try to find maps that have all named locations marked on them though

[Canelek]

Have you perused the wiki yet? Seems most of the maps are pretty accurate, with location markers for notable features (including named).

Of course, there is a daily post (or two) asking about places to level for class S at level U, leveling C for solo on whatever continent (K). IT varies a bit.

[loramin]

Of course, there is a daily post (or two) asking about places to level for class S at level U, leveling C for solo on whatever continent (K). IT varies a bit.

The Per-Level Hunting Guide (link in signature) is actually designed to answer that set of questions. It even has class-based filters now, so you can look for only hunting spots which have been recommend for your class. It also has a level filter so you can easily hide all of the ones which aren't appropriate to your level. (You can't use both at the same time, but in practice if you do the class one there are so few spots you don't really need to also filter by level.)

[Canelek]

Oh, you’ve done a fine job man. I was not attempting to disparage it.

[Almarsguides]

Have you perused the wiki yet? Seems most of the maps are pretty accurate, with location markers for notable features (including named).

Of course, there is a daily post (or two) asking about places to level for class S at level U, leveling C for solo on whatever continent (K). IT varies a bit.

I've basically seen every page your wiki has to offer on each zone =P

All of my guides at the bottom of the guide I link to the P99 wiki entry and allakhazam entry for that zone too - I figure there's a good chance the player is going to use one of our three websites so instead of forcing them to waste their time googling allakhazam or p99 wiki I'd just link to them =P


The Per-Level Hunting Guide (link in signature) is actually designed to answer that set of questions. It even has class-based filters now, so you can look for only hunting spots which have been recommend for your class. It also has a level filter so you can easily hide all of the ones which aren't appropriate to your level. (You can't use both at the same time, but in practice if you do the class one there are so few spots you don't really need to also filter by level.)


I took a look at the guide too and it looks great! I remember you saying you used my guide(s) for a lot of the info and if you did I must ask how long ago? In the last two weeks I have gone back and added basically double the info to my EQ Classic/Kunark leveling guides... I now basically have a couple paragraphs for *ever single zone in the game* .. missing Runnyeye, Najena and Warsliks Woods. I know Runnyeye really well just have been lazy.. Najena and Warsliks Woods I've been to like friggen twice. So I gotta go to that zone and learn it before I write the guide... which takes much more of my time.

anyway - here's a link to the changes I have made to the classic EQ guide: http://www.almarsguides.com/eq/leveling/classic/

Some zones like Everfrost Peaks and Innothule Swamp I went into quite a bit of detail on; others I have notes to touch up like The Feerrott and ironically my favorite noob zone Misty Thicket.

Also if you wouldn't mind I may link to your page on my website a bit for some of the "good location for xyz class"

[loramin]

I took a look at the guide too and it looks great! I remember you saying you used my guide(s) for a lot of the info and if you did I must ask how long ago?

Probably years ago at this point, it was when I first started and got all my spots from other internet sources. I've since gone through every site I could find though, so I don't still actively look for new ones, but if you just added more ... :)

[Pokesan]

would it be possible for you to write a guide on how to seduce Yola Sweetcookie?

lord knows it would really stick in filbert's craw if i landed that bird

[Almarsguides]

So being someone with max level characters on 3 Live servers including 2 TLPs, P99 and TAKP...

They are all different in their own right. To speak on some TLP vs. P99 differences your guides may not catch:

Velious armor on P99 can be MQ'd by any player given sufficient faction (kindly for dwarves and ally for dragons or Giants). This leads to a market where people charge 50-100k for the MQ of certain pieces namely BPs and Legs.

Velious armor on TLPs can only be MQ'd by a player of the same class as the MQer. This change was done to eliminate the above issue where people farm stuff to sell the MQ. So for example a Druid who loots a leather wrist can only MQ the leather wrist to another Druid. It wouldn't work for a Monk or Beastlord's MQ.

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P99 does not have focus effects.

TLPs do and caster gear isn't a total dumpster fire.

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P99 Flowing Thought (mana regen) stacks (unclassically) if the Flowing Thought numbers are different. IE you can have one FT3, one FT2 and one FT1 item for a total of 6 Mana regen. However if you have three different FT1 items you only get one mana regen.

TLP Mana regen all stacks up to the cap of 15 pre-AAs.

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P99 Blacksmithing has some absurd trivials on combines. Banded goes up to 175 and Fine Plate into mid 200s.

TLPs have Banded capping at 115 and Fine Plate at 188.

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P99 Pottery doesn't have any Faithstones, Spiritstones, Golden Idols, Steins. Baking doesn't have Misty Thicket Picnics or Halas Meat Pies. Brewing doesn't have Kaladim Constitutionals or Qeynos Afternoon Teas. Basically this all boils down to Celestial Essences not being released until Luclin.

TLPs have all of those things because of updated Research merchants.... on this topic

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P99 has classic research combines 16-49

TLPs have updated research combines extending into 55 spells on Agnarr

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These are just a few examples. If you don't play here, I don't suggest you make guides for the server. If you like boxing and hate Velious, don't play here. You will have a bad time.

Had to come back and thank you again for all of this info. I just updated all of my Velious Tradeskill Guides today and I added addendums for everyone playing on the P99 Emulator about the differences. <3

[skarlorn]

would it be possible for you to write a guide on how to seduce Yola Sweetcookie?

lord knows it would really stick in filbert's craw if i landed that bird

nice try but you wooudlnt

[Thoman]

Nice, thanks

[jazzman_so_fresh]

I'd like to have guides on how to play my toon in the best way. I bard, and it's tough to know what to do when 4 mobs agro at once, or how to run through several while lulling without getting seen.