Hey there, and welcome to p1999!
My first bit of advice to you would be to go read some of the guides on the p1999 wiki, located here:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Players:Adventure
Since you haven't played Everquest before, I also highly suggest reading the newbie guide :
http://wiki.project1999.com/Players:Newbie
A few other small points to make:
- Everquest is above all, a social, community-based game. Talk to people! Group with others! Your experience will be far better than it would be killing blues by yourself all the time.
- Be patient - you will die. A lot. You will lose experience. A lot. You will also take a long time to level (depending on class), but this is half the fun, so enjoy the experience.
- Despite the name, quests are not a focus of Everquest - they are useful for some minor coin / decent experience at low levels, but the majority of your time will be spent just killing monsters, so don't feel like you're missing something if you only do a few quests in your first few levels, because that's normal.
- If you have questions, ask people, either here in the forums, or in-game by typing /who. By default /who only shows people in your zone, to find all players in the game, you can type "/who all", or to narrow by name, "/who all tayen", or zone "/who all Qeynos"
I'm playing a Barbarian Shaman named Korovin at the moment, so if you have any questions, feel free to send me a tell in game by typing "/tell Korovin <your message here>".