New to P99

[Alwaysdying]

Greetings all! Just wanted to stop in and introduce myself. Longtime EQ player, first time P99'er. Had a Troll SK on Sol Ro back in the day, and just rolled up a High Elf Mage. Vincendieri is the name if any other newbs want to get together on Faydwer.

Are there any suggestions for guilds for new players/lowbies?

[Safon]

Hey, welcome to the server!

Check out the guild section of the forums for a potential guild.

[NegaStoat]

Welcome to the server. I'd like to toss you a few suggestions that may or may not be useful for your new mage.

The server correctly has it so that a mage will get 100% experience in killing a target if they outdamage a pet. If a target takes 20% damage from a damage shield (considered neutral source damage), you will need to do 41% or more and the pet 39% or less for you to get the full amount. Otherwise, you get 50% experience which sucks.

Until level 8 when you get some actual nukes, you will have to melee to beat the pet out. Find a higher level mage and politely ask them for a Mod rod, and use that to fight with and you'll have an easy time getting the damage in over your pet. Drop the rod on the ground, have a level 1 alt pick it up, have the alt provoke a guard and die, and the rod will be stored on the corpse. No Rent bags can be stored this way too.

You can get by without Magician Pet focus items from the Temple of Solusek Ro for leveling, but the moment you hit level 24 - go to Najena (earlier if you are not solo). At 24 you can solo to level 27 killing the two magician spawns that lead up to the Crystal room which has 3 more magician spawns. Use Cancel Magic to carefully single pull the magicians on either side of the crystal, and then kill the one at the far side of the wall at your convenience. Spawn timer for the dungeon is 20+ min, so you can kill all 5 and work in the harder skeleton at the spiral stairway leading down to the goblins as part of your route for max experience.

Save every bone chip. Don't use them to Exp. As a magician handing your sub level 16 pet a rusty halberd to fight with, you'll exp very quickly. Sell the bone chips instead either in East Commons Tunnel or in Thurgadin or the Great Divide. They will sell much faster in Velious at the moment.