Hubsand and Wife team joining the ranks

[Peevedkitten]

Hail and well met everyone!

My wife and I started playing last night and I wanted to stop in and say hello. We're longtime MMO players but new to Everquest. She is playing a cleric and I am playing a Paladin, these are pretty standard roles for us and we're comfortable with them. Is there anything we should know or be aware of as people with absolutely no experience in the lands of Norrath? Any advice is greatly appreciated and I look forward to seeing you on our adventures!

Madcat & Lassair

[Expediency]

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

Hail and well met everyone!

My wife and I started playing last night and I wanted to stop in and say hello. We're longtime MMO players but new to Everquest. She is playing a cleric and I am playing a Paladin, these are pretty standard roles for us and we're comfortable with them. Is there anything we should know or be aware of as people with absolutely no experience in the lands of Norrath? Any advice is greatly appreciated and I look forward to seeing you on our adventures!

Madcat & Lassair

You picked wisely, cleric/tank is necessary in any group and can duo decently, especially at lower levels or even higher levels vs undead. Find an enchanter/bard and you an take just about any other three people and be solid.

Join a leveling guild until you hit 46.

This game is hard but there is a lot to do. You'll meet some very nice people on the server, accept their help if they offer it.

[Bitie]

P99 Wiki will be your friend - it has all kinds of information if you're new to the game (zones, guides, classes, spells etc)!

Also, monsters will chase you forever until one of these three things happen: you zone, you die or they die.. So make sure you remember which way the closest guards are if you get in trouble in the starting areas. They'll help you out

[mjbcb0717]

Prepare to die alot

Spend countless hours chasing after your corpse and recovering lost XP (if you can't find a rezz)

Gut wrenching agony faction grinding and hell levels

An epic that will make you slit your wrist and drink boiling cow milk

Invis dropping at the best times and lev dropping when your 1000ft in the air

Geting lost in middle of nowhere surrounded by dragons,giants,man eating leechs

Other then that you will love the world of norrath everyone's helpful and fun guilds to join [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Peevedkitten]

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

P99 Wiki will be your friend - it has all kinds of information if you're new to the game (zones, guides, classes, spells etc)!

Also, monsters will chase you forever until one of these three things happen: you zone, you die or they die.. So make sure you remember which way the closest guards are if you get in trouble in the starting areas. They'll help you out

The wiki for P99 is pretty awesome, I've been reading through all the newby guides (slow day @ work).

I learned that about monsters last night the hard way. Also learned to consider mobs at the same time. Rattlesnakes are mean!

[Danth]

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

My wife and I started playing last night and I wanted to stop in and say hello. We're longtime MMO players but new to Everquest. She is playing a cleric and I am playing a Paladin, these are pretty standard roles for us and we're comfortable with them. Is there anything we should know or be aware of as people with absolutely no experience in the lands of Norrath? Any advice is greatly appreciated and I look forward to seeing you on our adventures!

My own wife and I enjoy this game, and for a good many years we too played the Paladin/Cleric combination. You can duo if you need to, but you'll work best as the foundation of a larger group.

If you're new to Everquest, there'll be a lot of adjusting to do relative to coming from newer MMOG's. Most of the present MMOG's built off EQ, so quite a few systems in this game will seem outdated (recovering mana by meditating is an obvious example) as will the graphics. As a rule it's a rather slow-paced game, both in terms of leveling rate and combat mechanics. A comprehensive guide is beyond the scope of a single forum post; the Project 1999 wiki is an invaluable resource in that respect. Some specifics come to mind, however:

Classes in this game don't have the same balance or homogeny that those of newer games tend to possess. You'll notice very rapidly, for example, that your wife's Cleric is almost unable to solo, but nothing else can heal even close to as well as it can.

Monsters don't display their levels, so get used to "considering" them. I forget what key it defaults to, but if you're experienced with gaming you ought to be able to handle keymapping. Past the lowest levels monsters tend to be stronger than equal-level players, so get used to leveling off "blue con" opponents. At higher levels, even "blue" monsters are difficult to solo in melee. Everquest was designed as a group-centric game, and it shows.

You have to go to your skill trainer in the city to obtain many of your skills as you level. This includes some critical skills, like Meditate (level 8 for the Cleric, level 12 for the Paladin).

There's no automatic auction system. Players buy and sell stuff to each other either by using this forum (there's a sub-forum dedicated to it) or by traveling to East Commonlands in-game (if you've been to that zone you've no doubt seen the /auction chat scrolling). P1999 has been around a long time so some surprisingly good equipment can be purchased cheaply.

Finally, a note about setting: Unlike so many newer games, you're not the brave hero setting off to save the world here. You're simply some unknown adventurer striking out into a wild and untamed world. The cities are hundreds or thousands of years old and their fates do NOT depend on anything you do. If you're tired of game settings that portray the player as some great savior right from the start, you should like the change.

That's long enough, I think (more detailed info is what we have the wiki for!). Welcome to P1999.

Danth

[Peevedkitten]

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

My own wife and I enjoy this game, and for a good many years we too played the Paladin/Cleric combination. You can duo if you need to, but you'll work best as the foundation of a larger group.

If you're new to Everquest, there'll be a lot of adjusting to do relative to coming from newer MMOG's. Most of the present MMOG's built off EQ, so quite a few systems in this game will seem outdated (recovering mana by meditating is an obvious example) as will the graphics. As a rule it's a rather slow-paced game, both in terms of leveling rate and combat mechanics. A comprehensive guide is beyond the scope of a single forum post; the Project 1999 wiki is an invaluable resource in that respect. Some specifics come to mind, however:

Classes in this game don't have the same balance or homogeny that those of newer games tend to possess. You'll notice very rapidly, for example, that your wife's Cleric is almost unable to solo, but nothing else can heal even close to as well as it can.

Monsters don't display their levels, so get used to "considering" them. I forget what key it defaults to, but if you're experienced with gaming you ought to be able to handle keymapping. Past the lowest levels monsters tend to be stronger than equal-level players, so get used to leveling off "blue con" opponents. At higher levels, even "blue" monsters are difficult to solo in melee. Everquest was designed as a group-centric game, and it shows.

You have to go to your skill trainer in the city to obtain many of your skills as you level. This includes some critical skills, like Meditate (level 8 for the Cleric, level 12 for the Paladin).

There's no automatic auction system. Players buy and sell stuff to each other either by using this forum (there's a sub-forum dedicated to it) or by traveling to East Commonlands in-game (if you've been to that zone you've no doubt seen the /auction chat scrolling). P1999 has been around a long time so some surprisingly good equipment can be purchased cheaply.

Finally, a note about setting: Unlike so many newer games, you're not the brave hero setting off to save the world here. You're simply some unknown adventurer striking out into a wild and untamed world. The cities are hundreds or thousands of years old and their fates do NOT depend on anything you do. If you're tired of game settings that portray the player as some great savior right from the start, you should like the change.

That's long enough, I think (more detailed info is what we have the wiki for!). Welcome to P1999.

Danth

Thank you for the info. We both have experience in old school MMO's (Utlima, DAOC, Lineage 1 etc.) and it is confusing at first for sure. We've already changed some of the key mappings (WASD for movement) and we are used to and comfortable with keyboard/mouse scripting to make our lives easier. We did briefly venture into east commonlands and I saw the trade spam although I had no idea what 99% of the things being linked were. I was pleasantly surprised to find that after 3 hours of play we had just hit level 3. It's nice to actually have to work for something and not just be running fetch quests for a change. The setting is excellent as well, the hero trope has been played out ad-nauseam.

I honestly can't wait to go home tonight and play!

[Evia]

Welcome to eq! If you see Kellian in game send me a tell. I'll look for you guys as well. Ill hook you guys up with a decent starter weapon and some spell money. It'll help the beginning levels quite a bit.

Being a paladin you get the benefit of playing a class few play and so pally only equipment is generally super cheap for how powerful the pieces are.

Again, welcome to Norrath! Eq is my all time favorite game and there is a sort of magic to it. Hopefully in your time playing you'll see/feel bits of it shine through =)

[Kevris]

Some friendly advice, and no I'm not accusing you of boxing.

Under no circumstance, for any reason whatsoever, no matter how long you're doing it for, no matter what the purpose is, no matter how innocent you think it is, box the characters.

If you do something as simple as log in both characters for a 45 second item transfer, you will be mercilessly banned with no recourse or recompense.

It may take them a year to parse the logs and see it's happened, but if they see it they will utterly destroy you for it.

It's is not something they take lightly.

[Peevedkitten]

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

Welcome to eq! If you see Kellian in game send me a tell. I'll look for you guys as well. Ill hook you guys up with a decent starter weapon and some spell money. It'll help the beginning levels quite a bit.

Being a paladin you get the benefit of playing a class few play and so pally only equipment is generally super cheap for how powerful the pieces are.

Again, welcome to Norrath! Eq is my all time favorite game and there is a sort of magic to it. Hopefully in your time playing you'll see/feel bits of it shine through =)

I will definitely send you a tell! I've always heard how awesome EQ was and always wanted to play it. I'm just glad there's still an active community!

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

Some friendly advice, and no I'm not accusing you of boxing.

Under no circumstance, for any reason whatsoever, no matter how long you're doing it for, no matter what the purpose is, no matter how innocent you think it is, box the characters.

If you do something as simple as log in both characters for a 45 second item transfer, you will be mercilessly banned with no recourse or recompense.

It may take them a year to parse the logs and see it's happened, but if they see it they will utterly destroy you for it.

It's is not something they take lightly.

I appreciate the advice and will definitely take heed. I don't have much reason to box, I met my wife on an MMO and we're both fairly serious gamers. I pretty much married my healer. The pally/cleric will only be played together and I'm sure we'll roll other solo characters, but there's never a time when we won't both be playing together.