I'm not familiar with being an evil race or a wizard. Like has been said, you're going to have a hard time around "good" cities and races like Freeport (FP). FP has a tunnel system where evil characters hang out and you could use that (I think it can also get you to the boat if you need to take that to Faydwer continent - no fast travel in this game, the boat travel time is like 30 minutes round trip, but Druids and Wizards can port people around instantly but they usually expect money for this service), but it's probably best you stick to Neriak much more so than Freeport. I imagine wizard is a harder class to play in this game, but I don't have much experience with them so check out class guides.
If you've played newer MMORPGs you need to know that EverQuest is very oldschool, does not hold your hand at all, and can be quite masochistic at times. It can also be nice, unique experience though (at the same time, it can also be super frustrating at times).
- You send tells by pressing enter in a chat box and typing "/tell {name} {message}" - without the quotes
- You can make multiple chat boxes and filter what type of messages go where (right click a chat box for options). Typing "/chatfontsize {1-6}" in the box will change text size for you.
- Find your wizard trainer in Neriak, right click him and train up at least 1 point in the skill "Sense Heading" (also put at least 1 in swimming and some in whatever weapon type you're using). Then make a button for Sense Heading and/or bind this to a movement key so you keep spamming it and eventually your character will get better at it over time and it'll tell you which direction you're going. Pair this with maps on the wiki (
https://wiki.project1999.com/)
- As a caster, getting your spells when they become available are high priority. Vendors selling these will be around your trainer usually. Look at a guide to know which for wizard are priority spells. Spells in this game are expensive.
- You regen faster when sitting. Starting at level 4 to regenerate your mana faster not only do you need to be sitting, but you need to keep your spellbook open AND press the meditate button. As a newbie caster you're probably going to be supplementing your spell DPS with melee. You rely less and less on melee DPS as you get higher in level, though.
- Learn the "con" system (short for consider -
https://wiki.project1999.com/Game_Me...ngs_with_Level), target a mob and press C (I believe this is default button). Color will tell you difficulty. For your first 5 levels or so you'll probably just be soloing in Neriak forest and you generally want to stick to killing blues and whites. At later levels you could try to move out and find groups or other places to solo. Trying to solo reds will almost surely get you killed.
- You'll want to learn about the /loc system as well. First number is North/South coordinate and second number is West/East (third is Z axis, not as important usually). Make a button for this like sense heading, but this doesn't need to be trained it just always works and can be spammed. You want to press this if you know you're about to die so you can use it to locate your corpse.
- There is a faction system which alters how mobs will treat you in the game (you can see your current faction standing to something by conning the mob;
https://wiki.project1999.com/Faction): if it says "glowers at you threateningly" or "scowls at you ready to attack" - it will attack you if you get into range it so be careful. When selling to a merchant, you want to sell to someone who is "indifferent" to you or better.
- My character is Tianya. You can "/friend tianya" then type "/who all friend" to see if I'm online then /tell tianya {msg} and I can see if I can help you out some in game maybe. Typing /who in a zone will tell you who else is there. You could try asking some higher level chars if they have like a fine steel staff or something you can have as that'll help your damage when you're meleeing still during low levels.