Tales from the Druid newbee Volume 2

[Griffy]

I realized once I came back I never updated my bog "Tales of the Druid newbee" so I figured since i'm not exactly a newbee anymore I would move it from the Starting zone to here in the Priest forum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I had to take a break from the game for a bit due to my gaming rig finally dying. I missed p99 so much I decided to go ahead and load it on my laptop instead. Surprisingly it seems to play just as well there [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] So on to what Saum has been up to since his return.

I spent levels 29-34 in The Overthere. Nearly exclusively root rotting since it allowed me to take care of the pups and do a little side work. The upside is it was a good way to get some work done while I was playing EQ. plenty of down time [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] The downside is it was Slooooooooooow leveling. By the time I hit 34 I was certain my eyes were going to start bleeding if i Saw another darn Cactus, Sabertooth, or Rhino.

Once I dinged 34 I was really stoked. this was for 2 reasons. 1st it meant I could leave The Overthere and head to one of my other favorite zones The Great Divide !!! 2nd I knew I had enough mana to start quading [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
I plowed through 34 and went straight to 36 Quad kiting the Tizmaks [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Now the best part is your really close to Thurg, Its easy to pick up ports and after doing level after level in zones where no loot drops you can even pick up a couple plat per quad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] nice transition [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Till next time [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Saum
level 36 Druid of Tunare
Quad Kiting Neophyte

[Griffy]

Here is the link to the original "tales of the Druid Newbee"

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=168082

The long term goal for this is two fold.
1: to keep track of all the places i've been and people I meet on my journey
2: to eventually put together a leveling guide off where I hunted

[Sorn]

I saw you running around Thurg yesterday. Happy adventuring to you!

[Griffy]

I hit 37 last night at the Tiz caves [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] surprisingly even though a few of them are green now it was still good exp. I average just under a blue per quad. After I dinged as is my normal tradition I spent the rest of the night helping folks out. porting for free and buffing newbies in the commonlands [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Speaking of porting .... When did it become common place for folks to request ports by saying "Looking for a port !" now while that seems ok, it doesn't really tell me where you want to go. Normally I assume you want to go to WL or CS so i am not going to be sending you a tell. Am I the only druid that was wanted to pick these folks up and port them someplace obscure [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also, when did it become ok to spam "porting to everywhere in gods creation every 30 seconds in zone. Anybody else as annoyed by that as I am? If I might offer a suggestion. do what I do.
1: hang out and send a tell when someone asks for a port.
or
2: hit your Porting hotkey when someone asks for a port [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] "this also takes care of the above issue with people not being specific"

Anyway not sure If i will stay at the Tizmak caves much longer. I might move over to eastern wastes to see if that's good quading. hopefully it isn't to camped [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Till Next Time
while you in velious don't eat the yellow snow [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Saum
37 Druid of Tunare
general grumpus and quader

[Griffy]

I havent gotten to play much this past week. I would love to tell you it was due to all the halloween parties i had to attend.... but nope its work /sigh always work

anyway

Saturday i spent the time I was online trying to do the halloween quest. I didn't get to finish it but i was having fun exploring zones I hadn't been to in many years.
Good job on the staff for putting it together [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

the highlight for me was something that would probably make most folks laugh. while looking for the quest mobs i hit track and it went to 51 !!! Squee for higher tracking [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] !

Sunday I decided to level a bit and decided to head over to Eastern Wastes to try my hand at walruses. I had a little difficulty splitting just 4 of them off the heard at first and I got tagged with the death squads twice. but I did finally learn the correct angle to pull from and managed to get a few quads in. really good xp. to bad the loot is crap. Sunday evening I tried to run over and help my little enchanter buddy out. she seems stuck at 23. Unfortunately we didn't get to do as much as I would have liked. maybe next time.

Well i dont think I can hit 38 tonight but i am sure going to try [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] till next time


Saum
37 druid of Tunare

I am the Walrus ku ku cachu

[Griffy]

Well here is a mini update for you. Last night I was finally able to get back online. "Work has been brutal" I beebopped in Great Divide a bit and tried my hand at kodiaks. They are very doable at 37 though a bit hard to gather up for a quad. I also did a bit of porting to try and raise some funds for spells I know I will have to buy in 1.5 levels.

Interestingly enough I met a gent named Bonecollector last night who explained how the tooth flagging for Velious works. Now when I originally started in EQ Velious was just coming out, and it was a long time before I actually made it to Velious. So long in fact that the keys were no longer required. Since I was in Great Divide anyway I went ahead and grabbed the tooth in GD. I also realized I'm going to have to figure out how I am going to get to CS for the last one. I also need to figure out if they are permakeys or if I need to keep one on me at all times. Bone said he would walk me to CS tonight and I hope he does ! Its been years since i went through Skyshrine or Kael or even spent time in CS "where i spent soooo much time quading in my early days

Someone really should do a write up on those tooth keys [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Till next time Ill be out there collecting more teeth than the Tooth Fairy
Saum
still 37 Druid of Tunare
tooth collector?

[Sorn]

There's a write-up on it here.

Getting to Velious by port

There are four zones to which you can port on Velious: Iceclad Ocean, Great Divide, Wakening Land, and Cobalt Scar. All but Iceclad Ocean require a special tooth for porting, both for the porter and the portees. Anyone can port to Iceclad without a tooth of any kind. To retrieve these teeth, you must travel to the zones the old-fashioned way and pick up the ground spawns at the center of the dragon portals. The teeth are soulbound, so if you die, they will travel with you if they were on your person when you died.

These are increasingly difficult to get the further into the continent you go, with the most difficult being the Tooth of the Cobalt Scar. This tooth, because it is the most difficult, will allow you to port to GD, WL and CS. Tooth of the Wakening Lands will allow you to port to GD and WL. Tooth of the Great Divide will only allow you to port to GD.

To get the Tooth of the Cobalt Scar, you must first get a Shrine Key to pass through Skyshrine into Cobalt Scar.

Take care both in porting in and retrieving the teeth. Wuoshi likes to hang out in the dragon portal in The Wakening Land.

The Shrine Key will allow the whole group to zone into Skyshrine, so all you really need is a friend with a key to get into CS.

[Griffy]

thanks Sorn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] knowing they are soulbound really helps [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

now i just have to run through Kael and then Skyshrine Lol [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I'm actually looking forward to it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] "maybe i should do it naked just incase"

[Griffy]

Busy EQ weekend for me [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Friday night I logged in and before I could even get to my first kite spot Bonecollector sent me a tell asking if I was ready to do the CS run. "Sure" I told him ! We proceeded through EW to the entrance of Khael. Being 37 at the time I was more than a little concerned about see invis mobs being a problem. Bone assured me that it wouldn't be one, and if there were any see invis mobs that he could solo them "necros are so over powered"

We made the Kael run without any difficulty and then it was on to Wakening lands. Now I hadn't been in WL in many years. I had forgotten how over grown it was. I kept working working my track button and everything was as red as can be. but we managed to make it through.

The Skyshrine run didn't worry me as badly and we made it to the pot portal without to much trouble. Just like that I had the tooth of the Cobalt Scar in my bag and would be set for the rest of my time in Velious.

A big thanks for helping me with this goes out to my friend Bonecollector. That is definitely A load off my mind.

After that run it was on to grinding. I managed to do a little work at the Tizmak caves and a few Giants from time to time. That was all it took to finally ding 38. Thank god I feel like I have been stuck in 37 for an eon ! I did my usualy celebratory port for free and buff newbees late friday night and got all setup for my saturday morning run.

Saturday I decided to start out trying Walrus and Ulthork's again. I can quad them but my mana pool is just a smidge light still. "To many resists to make it effective". Luckily i got a "Fatty Walrus Meat" to drop off my quad and was able to run over to Iceclad and pick up some new sleeves "Cougarskin Sleeves"

After the armor upgrade I headed back to Thurgadin to do a little banking and med up. I wanted to try giants in the great divide just to see if they would be quadable. As I exited the zone i saw a /ooc from Tissamo asking if anyone was working on Giant faction. He wanted to leach a little faction. I told him what I was planning and invited him along. We headed over to the spires and proceeded to just trash the living crap out of every giant and wolf we could find. I even managed to get the Blood Wolf Harness for the Kromrif Military Leggings. We used the standard snare / Flame Lick method. I kept agro and he would be a walking dot behind the mob.

Eventually after a few hours we went and checked faction. "Finding the turn in mob for the armor quests was a bit of a pain" and Tiss managed to get up to kindly. "Im indifferent" A big thanks to Whitebird who also came over and helped out a bit.

Next it was on to leveling. I decided to do the Cave Kodiaks. mostly due to Tizmaks finally greening out at 38. The kodiaks are an easy kite as long as you know that you are GOING to get hit once or twice while gathering them up. The method I prefer is to go into one of the caves WITH INVIS UP. pass 4 kodiaks and then break invis. as the first agros you. run back to the cave entrance gathering the others along the way. Once you are outside just snare them and begin your quad ! It took the remainder of the day but I did manage to Ding 39 !

Sunday it was a day to do a little exploring and to pick up all my 39 spells. I did some porting and went back to EW to try the Ulthorks and walruses. "still to many resists" I even tried the smaller Rygor camp that has 5 Rygors in it. That was a big mistake as it deleveled me for a min. Those suckers move like greased lightning. the first mob resisted and i couldn't get enough space to clear it. So they are a no go for a bit. Sunday night it was back to the Kodiaks and safty. I managed to do about 1/2 of 39 in a few hours. I think i should hit 40 without to much trouble on the Kodiaks then we will give eastern wastes 1 more go.

Till next time
Saum
39 Druid of Tunare
Kodiak Killer

[fragmaster]

Good work man. It's fun to read someone else having fun with the game. Keep up the good work!