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I went back to south qeynos to make minataur hero's brew, its the best zone for it. i havent been to qeynos for around two years, my first char was a half elf pally, i stayed in north qeynos hunting till i was lvl 10 (i know i could have zoned into qeynos hills now, but i didnt want to risk getting lost) and havent seen the zone since, between then and now i have got my pally to 44, started a halfling druid and got him to 58 with 6 AAs and half an epic, totally from scratch, thats a long time.

Anyhoo i zoned in and there was a level 2 half elf druid in the zone i did /shout hello <whatever her name was>, no reply, i tried ooc and then tried tell, no reply, obviously afk, running to my brewing point i saw her, hailed her and <whatever> says "hail dracoid", she had obviously typed hail and didnt know that the H key does it, maybe this was a veteran player pretending, but something told me she wasnt. The not replying in ooc and tells must have been because she didnt know how, maybe i spend to much of my time in relatively high lvl zones and pok, but i realised i hadnt spoke to a real newbie for ages, we were standing outside sneed galliways trading post, which i remember selling snake skins at and making my first plat! thats like 10 gold, man i was loaded, i had 15 plat on me so i gave it to her, <whatever her name is> says "WOW".

I sprinted to the south qeynos zone line, the thought of anonymous strangers hading out colossal sums of money and running away (i was pretty sure she didnt know how to speak to someone if they wernt face to face) and sure enough i didnt get a tell about it the whole evening, i can imagine a level 50 druid a year from now thinking, i wonder who that stranger was that gave me 15pp when that was a fortune to me, wish i could remember their name. After that i strted thinkin about my newbie days, i remember going just inside the qeynos gates and seeing an elf (i didnt know what sort, but im pretty sure wood elf now) sitting cross-legged and floating, bouncing up and down, that amazed me and i instantly wanted to get my charecter to a high level so that i could do it some day. Another distinct newb memory was running around qeynos hunting gnolls and snakes and the like, an anonymous stranger came up to me (im pretty sure this was before i discovered /tell because i remember wishing i could contact them after they left, gave me an ice paw war claw, i didnt understand the stats, the damage or the delay, but i do remember thinking i was uber, i no longer had a sword but a claw! oh man i was excited. I now make regular trips to qeynos and freeport to hunt down real newbs and give out 10-20pp, so much fun to see their reactions!

Anybody else do this? Anybody remember their first twink?

Being a newbie myself, I just have to say a great big "THANKS!" to those, like you, who help us out when we least expect it.

I always try to make sure to send a tell to the person if I can catch their name to say a quick "thanks !". I can't wait until the days when I am upper level and am able to return the favors to newbies myself !

i would love to say "what server are you on? ill give ya a hand"

but then it wouldnt suprise ya and wouldnt be fun, and anyway your not a proper newbie, one that dosent know that H is hail and T is tell hehe, but i have helped out people as high as 40 (someone in nadox the other day struggling for XP, so i let them come with me for a solo trip to nadox and they go taround 3 bubs in a tenth of the time it would have taken them solo, thats always great too, helping anyone in EQ hwo si lower level than you is always a great feeling, at lvl 20 you can go to qeynos and hand out 5pp to REAL newbs, much fun

That's funny, but it makes me wonder if that was my fiancee... she was just complaining to me the other day how she had nobody on her friends list. I told her to find a group and put the few that aren't crazy on her list, but she didn't want to group. I'll have to ask if she's doing drive by friends list adds.



Off topic also, but I guess now it's on topic... I lived in Chicago myself for a while. Once off of Lawrence and Western, and then up by Loyola University off of sheridan (another little baby child is born..in the ghettoooo)

TY oneprime, ill check that out, you have to run between two building in qeynos, theyre only about 10yards away from each other but TY

and my secret to levelling to 10 is - only kill the hardest named gnoll when he spawns and kill klicknik nobels, and i think the king is blue aswell, took me a few hours to do it (terrible i know) but i was seriously pleased with myself, but dreaded the prospect of having to move zones or loot my corpse (wasnt sure if other people could loot it aswell as me, didnt want to lose my precious warclaw, and i had only EVER been in north and south qeynos in my whole week or two playing time).

If you really want to help a newbie get going in the game, stop what you are doing when you meet one, create a suitable newbie alt and group with them for a few days.

You may find a life long friend!

I have done that, well i didnt creat a new toon, but i spent around week with them, was more of a project than the kind of help i was talking about, still fun though, plus it takes AGES, and part of the fun of dropping 15pp and zoning is knowing that they will think "i wonder who that guy was" when they are higher, and with the type of help you mentioned they will remember you, and you may discover they are a really bad person, but even if the newbies i help are idiots, i will never know, i can imagine theyre exactly like me and never have to learn the truth.

Isnt half of the fun knowing that people are amazed at how kool you are? Even though getting a dru to lvl 19 to get lev and kill a bat isnt the hardest of challenges, i ALWAYS have lev, to make myself look cooler, hehe

1) take 100pp out of bank
2) cast lev
3) run to qeynos gates or BB entrance of PoD lift in GFay or wherever im gonna be twinkin
4) summom drogmor
5) wait for the newbs to come so you can hail em, give me SoW and skin like nature and 10pp and just generally look cool.

If i started a lvl 1 toon and transfered 100pp onto him the event nowhere near as fun to me, the best part is still seeing the newbies reactions though hehe

I like to enter a Newbie zone and setup a triage center of sorts...
I send out an /OOC stating that heals and buffs are free for those under level 10.
Then the line starts to form, and eventually the newb's like to try and hand me items as a donation so I start to ask them to leave them on the ground near me. Once the items start to acrue I start telling them to donate if oyu can but please feel free to help yourself if you can use an item.

Once I start rollin it can be pretty tough on the mana so luckily I have a DeepWater Helm, BreastPlate and Greives so the buffs are all clicky.

It turns into a social event and the lower levels get a chance to really advance their XP.

I would recomend trying this, it can be very rewarding in a non XP or Plat way..hehe

Yeah, I actually had someone offer me 3 copper when I was doing my buffing rounds at blackburrow yesterday. If I wouldn't have been completely broke I would have taken the 3 copper and gave hima lot more money.
I like a lot of the ideas here I'm going to give some a try, like the give plat and dash and the trivia.
How many times has it backfired on you though? I was in blackburrow about a month ago and saw a lone guy in the middle of it, so being bored I sat down to keep him healed up. We started to get a little arrogant though and I told him to go take on Lord Elgnub, well I went oom and burned a lay hands trying to let him get the exp and Elgnub started to run. The guy went chasing after him and I didn't have mana to root or stun so I went running ahead to med and wait for him. So up over the hill comes the guy and the entire elite guard room and then like half of blackburrow.
I'm trying to smack the gnolls and taunt them off of him and he just drops like a rock.
D'oh!
I ended up rezzing the guy and giving him some sow potions, cloudy potions and then finished off elgnub and let him loot the baby.
I guess that's the downside to the whole thing, I ended up helping him out anyways... but he probably thinks I'm a total nutjob.

yeah there can be some problems doing it, but its worth ot, cause when it works its great

Don't want to be a grammer **** since it's a great post but... Minimaxx Paragraphs are your friend and will make it much easier to read.

So please hit Edit and press return at the end of each sentance to split them up, it makes it far more readable.

Again good post and not a flame just gentle advice, please come again.

My first character was the recommended warrior who never made it past level seven. But she was given hand-made patchwork armor at level 3 or so by a 27 ranger that looked like a God at that point in time <g>. He taught me how to fish and patiently explained how to tell a good weapon from a bad one. I will never forget the day he caught me hunting with a Splintered Club and carefully explained why I was too good to use such a weapon. He made (good) fun of the fur hat I was wearing and then began to patiently answer my second character's questions when I bothered him again. She is probably the saddest bard in all of Norrath, but I sure have had fun with her and will never forget my kind benefactor. I still hold my very first piece of banded armor in my bank (shoulder slot) made, also, by him for my little bard and I try to be as kind in my travels. Of course, I have my bad days too, sorry to all in the path of one of those :).


sorry, no neat sig ~Leai-33 Bard~