Easiest way to travel to Qeynos from Freeport?

[DinoTriz]

Hey guys, I just started playing EQ again and it's been about 10 years so my memory is a little rusty, but I wanted to know the quickest and safest way to get to Qeynos from Freeport. Can a druid or wizard port me close there? I'm a level 5 Monk and East Commons is already wearing on me (too low for orc camps and all the other mobs con green) plus I want to do my headband quests and maybe group in Blackburrow. Any help/advice is greatly appreciated! :D

[Barkingturtle]

At your level the quickest course of action might just be rerolling in Qeynos.

Otherwise, safest bet is to find a port to Toxx and take the boat from Erudin.

[Itap]

Hey guys, I just started playing EQ again and it's been about 10 years so my memory is a little rusty, but I wanted to know the quickest and safest way to get to Qeynos from Freeport. Can a druid or wizard port me close there? I'm a level 5 Monk and East Commons is already wearing on me (too low for orc camps and all the other mobs con green) plus I want to do my headband quests and maybe group in Blackburrow. Any help/advice is greatly appreciated! :D

Honestly, Qeynos is a desolate area on P99. EC is going to be your best bet for leveling and group interaction. Ask a friendly druid for some thorns/regen and you will be level 10 in no time

[diplo]

what are you guys smoking. qeynos 1-4 and then kill gnolls outside BB for fangs until lvl 20....rookies.

[Barkingturtle]

what are you guys smoking. qeynos 1-4 and then kill gnolls outside BB for fangs until lvl 20....rookies.

Yep. I start in Qeynos every chance I can because gnoll fangs are the best. Also, I know it's kinda early but I'm smoking pot, since you asked.

[Theta]

Yeah.. Qeynos is a mixed bag. Relatively desolate (good, good thing for newbie zones in P99. More competition when soloing = bad). The bad part of Qeynos is that you will feel incredibly isolated from the rest of the player base. Also, I will warn you now: It may be easy to get a port FROM EC/WC to anywhere else in the world (including NK/Toxx), but getting a port FROM Qeynos if you're not in a guild is such an undertaking. Very, very few high levels pass through Qeynos Hills (unless they're camping Hadden, in which case, they're not able to port you). It's a trade-off, but what in EQ isn't?

Gnoll fangs are objectively the best.

[Briscoe]

what are you guys smoking. qeynos 1-4 and then kill gnolls outside BB for fangs until lvl 20....rookies.

Agreed, although I think that once you get to about level 14 or so the gnoll fangs start to give diminishing return rates. But you can definitely race into the mid teens off of gnoll fangs, and then your options open up.

[DinoTriz]

Alright, some good advice in here. Seems to be pros and cons to both Freeport and Qeynos...I wish I could do the Gnoll fangs but I guess I should stop whining and bear down and tough it through a couple levels and then start grouping at Orc 1 and Orc 2 camps in EC. Modern MMOs probably have spoiled me with the fast leveling and I've forgotten how to stick it out. I'll probably farm East Commons until 10 - 11 and then ease my way into North and South Ro and Oasis.

[eqravenprince]

Eh what fun is the easiest, try to get there on your own. Path 4 would be the only one you could do with zero outside help... I think.

Path 1
Commonlands, Kith, HighKeep, Karanas

Path 2
Commonlands, Kith, Rivervale, Misty Thicket, Runnyeye, Gorge, Karanas

Path 3
Desert, Innothule, Feerrott, Rathe Mtn, Lake Rathe, Karanas

Path 4
Oasis, Timorous Deep, take pot to Erudin, boat over to Qeynos.

[Picked]

If you are a monk then you are obviously Human or Iksar. Why don't you just reroll and start the monk in Qeynos. You are only level 5. Don't humans have the option to start at either Freeport or Qeynos?

[Itap]

Also, I know it's kinda early but I'm smoking pot, since you asked.

lol

[DinoTriz]

If you are a monk then you are obviously Human or Iksar. Why don't you just reroll and start the monk in Qeynos. You are only level 5. Don't humans have the option to start at either Freeport or Qeynos?

I've thought about it, but someone has given me a Wu's Quivering Staff and some plat, and I don't really have a way of transferring that over :P

[fadetree]

Real EQ players take path #1.

[agdros]

Go to West Commons.

Get a Wiz to evac you to West Karana. Run to Qeynos Hills. Run to Qeynos. Done.

[Bleui]

Go to West Commons.

Get a Wiz to evac you to West Karana. Run to Qeynos Hills. Run to Qeynos. Done.

This is your best bet. I would say run it if you were higher, but the mobs in Highkeep, and the undead/gnolls that guard the zone entrance to SK in Rake Rathetear may cause a problem.


Path 4
Oasis, Timorous Deep, take pot to Erudin, boat over to Qeynos.

I've never taken this route for that jouney yet tho.

[phobus]

I've never taken this route for that jouney yet tho.

The firepots are awesome, but if you have no swimming skill that will probably take longer than any of the other routes.

[eqravenprince]

Oh I agree that going through HighKeep is the path I would probably take as well. But I have generally had to recruit help from a higher level to get through. Sometimes I was lucky and someone was already camping orcs and gnolls and breezed through.

[eqravenprince]

The firepots are awesome, but if you have no swimming skill that will probably take longer than any of the other routes.

But you get the added benefit of maxing out swimming, might come in handy in blackburrow anyhow.

[Cippofra]

1-15 is going to be miserable anywhere you go. Just tough it out until you reach oasis. From there on you can just group.

[Purdee]

if you need a port send me a PM, I'll take you

[Coridan]

I just did gfay to qey on my level five bard. Highpass was the only issue, I stopped into rivervale and got a bind/sow/invis from a druid (thanks Goldii!) which lasted to WK (EK was sketchy too with all the lions). Port woulda been faster, but I did mail quests along the way.

[runlvlzero]

Path #1 is doable at level 1 if your have jedi training skills and can wait till the mobs path into the guards in HHK.

Path 3
Desert, Innothule, Feerrott, Rathe Mtn, Lake Rathe, Karanas is perfectly safe as long as you dont get agro, its pretty easy to run through the harder zones like rathe mountains and entirely avoid the deadly stuff, lake rathe is probably the worst with the water goblins. All the rest of the zone are wide open. (dark assasin in fearrot) but hey what can you do he one shots level 30's...

Gorge and RE also take some mad training skills.

Tim deep is nice if you can swim lol. Dont bother waiting on the barge.

Watch out for griffins and SG's and just about everything else at level 5, I remember diong it on a level one a few different ways just to challenge myself back on live.

[HawkMasterson1999]

Don't listen to the haters. Qeynos area is great for lvl 5 - 15 or so. Fang quest, rabid pelt quest, GLS quest.

It takes like 5 or 10 mins to run from NK portal to qeynos. Just do a /who all druid 29 60 and start sending tells. You'll have a port before you even make it to the wc druid ring. Look for druids who have /LFG up or druids that are in a zone with a portal or ec, none exp zones, ect. They will be less likely to be busy. The closer they are to 29 the better. Porting is still sort of new to those people so they're not sick of doing it yet. It never hurts to offer cab fair either. You can always ask a wizard too but no sow. If you're worried about getting lost in the karana's just follow snake river all the way to barbarian village then follow the zoneline north till you find the inlet to q hills.

I make this trip on a whim whenever I feel like it. It never takes more than 10 or 15 min.

[Slave]

Heh, you guys do know there is a portal in Toxxulia Forest, right? Or are the boats still busted?

[eqravenprince]

Heh, you guys do know there is a portal in Toxxulia Forest, right? Or are the boats still busted?

Where is this portal? I used it when the server first opened, but don't remember where it is located.

[Slave]

South and a bit east of Erudin.

[pharmakos]

portal in toxx? huh?

[runlvlzero]

Real men walk naked through the woods.

[shooteneq1]

Dont discount going to Gfay and then crushbone. Theres always people there leveling and grouping and you can then head straight to unrest after your done with crushbone.