New Barb Shaman, great to be back!

[DrKvothe]

Originally Posted by mgellan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Nah, EF is a great starting zone - start near Halas ramp when you're young, get skellies and polar bear cubs for cracked staffs and pb skins. Save the skins and sell them to people making Leatherfoot Raider Skullcaps for 10pp ea, they're the hardest piece to get or turn them into Cindl for pathwork armour if no one is buying. Once you get to 5 start on the Gnolls at the BB entrance - you can spend a lot of time in BB collecting gnoll teeth to hand in to the barb war GM in Halas for xp and coin.

See the guide linked below, a lot of it is shaman centric since thats my main. Have fun, you just chose the best race and class combo in game IMHO (screw the min/maxers)

Regards,
Mg

Very much agree. Especially for someone returning after a ~15 year break from live, EF is a fantastic newbie zone. You've got a relatively large variety of stuff to kill (spiders, bear cubs, goblins, skellies all in the same place). There's ridiculously stupidly higher level wanderer that will beat you dead out of nowhere (total classic feel!). There's short term cash for bags from rusty weapons and a lot of high pp stuff from bears (I found 4 HQBS from 1-6 in EF) for when you make that first trip to EC to buy a weapon and 5/55 rings.

Having recently played a troll warrior alt, I have to say that I definitely prefer innothule to EF, but I'll take either of them over WFP and EC by a long shot.