Newbie TipsFollow

Hey all I think that EQ veterans should aid the newbies we get on the game all the time. Post what you think are useful newbie tips through level 15.

Tip:
Make Edible Goos for baking early. Baking skill is extremely useful for you once you get into raids and dungeoneering. You wouldn't want to have to leave the raid or the dungeon just because you wanted food, do you?

Recipe Info:
1 Fire Beetle Eye
1 Rat Ear

These can be gathered in respective newbie gardens from fire beetles and large rats.

P.S. If you see a mistake just say it and then the true thing. Do not flame. We are human after all

Edited, Fri May 14 16:43:27 2004 by TheMightyMagnu

Edited, Sun May 16 17:50:30 2004 by TheMightyMagnu

Tip 2:
Another skill that is equally useful for late life is Brewing another newb recipe is this:

1 Snake Scales
1 Bottle (storebought for like 6cp)

This isn't as helpful, however, because there is currently no portable brewing device. However, it will save you money in the long run.

Surprised more people haven't posted...but oh well here's another:

Here's a quest that gives mucho exp and faction ratings:

Go to greater faydark at about level 5 and kill orcs till you get like 20 Crushbone Belts. Then go to Kaladim and find Canloe Nusback in the Warrior guild. Turn them in 4 at a time and you should bump up a level! Easy quest for good rewards.

3rd tip:

The *best* item to get for all new players...and even for veterans this is a good item.

PLAUGE RAT TAILS!

Despite the name, Plauge Rat Tails can be found on any rat, including the large rat found in almost all newbie zones.

PRT's sell for 1.7 PLAT and are fairly common. You can get maybe ten of these in twenty minutes of killing an average of 2 rats per minute sometimes more.
Undoubtedly the best newbie item!

Tip: Start your bazaar mule as soon as you can, thus doubling you storage space. Put all points into charisma-choose a race/class combo so you can get at least 100 points to start, later you can buy a 20pp stein to raise it another 25 points. Get someone to bind him to the bazaar, so if he trips over his feet and dies, he stays in bazaar. Trader bags are about 1.5pp each, or less, but VERY heavy. Pass him all your high, medium, low quality pelts, spider and spiderling silk, bone chips, and tradeskill items.

There are two shared slots in the bank, that can hold bags, making up to 20 spaces of items to feed your trader.

Hmm... I wouldn't know about that Bazaar mule thing but I think I have another useful tidbit of information .

Today's new recipe IS:

Metal Bits

2 Small PIECES of Ore
1 Water Flask

This is good until skill level 18 and is a smithing recipe. Metal Bits are the most commonly used smithing ingredient (besides Water flasks) so this will definetely come in handy. Also, make sure to get PIECES of ore instead of BRICKS. The pieces are the less expensive one. Another useful smithing recipe is:

Tarnished _____

1 Sharpening Stone
1 Tarnished (weapon)

You can buy sharpening stones for 3 copper. Tarnished weapons are got off of decaying skeletons. Tarnished weapons are slightly better than rusty weapons because of lower delay. Any rusty weapons can be used for this, but each has a different trivial rating than each other. They are combined in a Forge.

Arrgh thats what I was gonna say . But here's a good one.

Level up to level 12 in Blackburrow or Crushbone. Come back at a higher level to mop up the high level 'boss' monsters in those respective zones for their items. These include Gnoll Commanders, Splitpaw Gnoll Commanders, Emperor Crush, and Ambassador D'Vinn.

Actually this can be significantly less than useful.

Make sure you check out prices before you do this. On MR at the moment Spiderling Silk sells for 5pp, Silk thread for 8pp. Net loss 2pp for doing the combine.

And Silk Thread is not "THE Staple item for tailoring". It is used to make Leather Padding. This is another potential loss-maker if the prices aren't right. On MR you have people selling it for 15pp - less than the cost of the parts. On another server I play it sells for 50pp and gets a nice profit. Study your market first

Apart from that most of the recipes using Silk Thread are for Fishing .

As far as fish rolls are concerned, if you're a lowbie you shouldn't need to actually buy the ingredients. Just save the wings from all the bats you killed at levels 1-3 and spend some of your down time fishing. The trivial on fish rolls is rather high as well (135?), so it might be a while before you successfully make your first one and even longer before you can start making them reliably.

Ahhh...you are right. I must have been thinking about something else... thank you for correcting me.

Hmm...I stick by Qeynos as the best newbie zone. Even if you are evil you can level up quickly there. However before you go out there you should get some bags to carry stuff because if you are evil then you won't be able to sell in Qeynos so you would have to go to your home city via PoK or in the PoK itself.

Plus, the quick cash gained by selling Plauge Rat Tails definetely makes up for the lack of spiderlings.

Edited, Sat May 15 20:52:18 2004 by TheMightyMagnu

While in Qeynos....Gnoll Tooth quest. Now, there are two ways to do this. Give them to the Capt of the guard in Qeynos (located at the local arena), or give them to the female warrior trainer in Halas (also located in the local arena).

Downside to Qeynos one: Bad faction with the Unseen Hand (rogue guild), Corrupt Guards (they are all over qeynos, KOS is BAD here), and with the "Evil" trainers in the Qeynos Sewers

Upside to Qeynos one: Great faction with the merchants and the good guards.

Downside to Halas one: You have to turn in the teeth 4 at a time(though I think 3 might work). Ummmm...that is about it.

Upside to Halas one: Good faction with Halas merchants, guards and I think the White Rose (rogue guild).

Impressive, my thread is turning out to be a massive chatroom .

Heres my next tip:

A Warrior needs gear. Where better than from the bazaar, right? Well, kinda...
I have found smithing to provide gear a little easier than shelling out 100 pp for a full set of Banded Mail. Banded Mail is trivial at 115 and the other pieces are lower.
RECIPE FOR BANDED (insert body part)

2 Sheet Metal
1 Water Flask
1 (mask, belt, boot etc. mold)

To upgrade size get Small, Medium, or Large Molds.

Well, since I just said to use Sheet metal I guess I'd better show that recipe too....
RECIPE FOR SHEET METAL

1 Water Flask
2 Small BRICKS of Ore

Make sure you get the BRICKS not PIECES of ore. Using pieces will get you Metal Bits, a recipe I have already described.

A side note:
NEVER get that chain metal you see for sale by the merchants. Here's why.

A. They are more expensive
B. They weigh more
C. They give less protection than Banded Mail

That about covers it. As most of you can probably tell by now, I adore smithing. Maybe its just cuz my main is a warrior, but I find it extremely useful and extremely rewarding.

Peace Out

-Magnu