Things you wish you knew...Follow

I was thinking about writing up a guide for brand new players to help them cope with the expansiveness of the game once you leave the isle.

Still being a fairly new player myself I will need some help from some veterans.

Anyway what are a few things you wish you had known before you started really playing the game.


For me I wish I had known about status points sooner and how you got them.

Edited, Jun 28th 2006 at 1:02pm EDT by Lamnethx

esp coming from WoW, one thing that can become a problem is holding your coin, or at least exchanging it. Unlike WoW, your coin adds weight to your char. While fighters have little problem with this since they have more str, I found my druid would slow down if I had thousands of copper on me and didnt exchsnge them for silver or gold. You can do this at the bank.


Sell stuff on the broker!!!! I can not stress this enough. One of the quickest ways to make cash in the game is to check the broker system and see if any of that "junk" is worth something to others. Those collectibles you get multiples of? You never know if someone is looking for that particular piece.

Writs, heritage quests, and items such as relics, amulets, scrying stones, and documents should be sold to the appropriate people in yoru city for SP. SP is like another kind of money. You get major discounts on certain items not to mention titles when you gain SP.

Examine everything you loot, by right clicking the item and hitting examine. Sometimes things droped start a quest, be it language or other kinds. I didnt know this for ages.

SPamming for groups and guilds is forwned upon in th egame. Most players are used to at least getting a tell prior to an invite and really appreciate it.

Your gear does not lose stats when you die. However you have ten times you can die before you're naked. Literally. Mend each night when youre done playing by finding the local mender in your city.

Stats food and drink, made by players, are a must!!! They can be cheap you just have to look. But crafted food have different stats for different kinds of edibles. This includes drinks. So always get yourself the crafted food and drink for higher stats and regen.

If I think of more Ill post some

common terms for landmarks btw:

Queynos area:

SQ =South Qeynos, known for the mage tower, and where you buy mounts. Mage person for SP selling is in the mage tower

NQ = North Qeynos, known for where the priest and fighter SP can be sold

QH = Qeynos Harbor, the hub of the city. Ports to Nektulos and Thundering Steppes, which are hubs to other lands. Also hub to Sinking Sands the expansion of Pillars of Flame

Burbs= suburbs of t Qeynos, where new players start, depending no their race. These include Willow Wood, Baubleshire, Starcrest Commune, Graystone Yard, and Castleview Hamlet

EG = Eldar Grove, where you can sell your scout SP.

ANT= Antonica

CL= Commonlands

BB= Blackburrow, both a server and a dungeon

EL= Enchanted Lands, where a spire is found

LS= Lava Storm

SE = Soluseks Eye

RE = Runny Eye

SP = Split Paw

SS= Sinking Sands

POF= Pillar of Flame, both an expansion as well as a zone

KOS= Kill on sight but also Kingdom of Sky, the newest expansion, depending on context

lots lots lots more, but I have to run and finish up some stuff before my house showing starts

I think the Sticky covers a lot of things but should be refined aethestically. If someone would copy+paste it and clean it up and add coloured heading and possibly a table of contents that would be great.

A guide to Beginners Isle, to FreePort and Qeynos, new class descriptions, How to Modify UI etc, alls these would be great to see also.

Edited, Jun 27th 2006 at 5:05pm EDT by bodhisattva

Yeah it seems like eq2 is getting more and more new players everyday, it really is growing, ( all the new changes help)

If someone could spearhead these forums that would be great, starting here.

The wow side has a really nice, zone to level link.

You always know where to go, and where your level's quests are. That helps so much.

Also all the class info on this sight still has the idea of old classes, i think, ( i know on other sites it is like that).

2 really helpfull things, would be updated class info, and where to level/go

IMO

thanks allot :)

also at what levels do you gain special abilitys? I have a few so far (racial, and specific mob killing, ect)

really good in-game map system

Anyways, good natured ribbing aside... you may want to talk about the map system and quest givers will have a blinking orange circle outline on the map and people for finished quests (or some step of a quest) will have a blinking solid orange circle.

Also, I've finished the Freeport starter island and am touching it up right now. It will probably be posted within in an hour or so as I still have to forum-code some parts and proof-read/modify some things before I even start working on the forum coding... not that there will be much really.

Edit: also, unless Lydiaele is still (at least semi-actively) posting here and will do it, I can work on re-coding the FAQ, adding some things to it including links to some of the guides/resources we are putting up here like MentalFrog class/betrayel listing and the Outpost of the Overlord guide i'm working on finishing atm.

Edited, Jun 27th 2006 at 9:30pm EDT by Tomec

another thing I thought of last night. Something I wish I knew about before but only learned a few months ago was that the letter F is my favorite letter. If you direct your mouse over mobs to loot, or want to open doors, mailboxes, or hail NPCs, etc, instead of right clicking and hitting the appropriate response, just hit F. Its like hitting shift and right clicking in WoW to auo loot, but it does more

I wrote up a small tradeskill primer for my guild.

However, I'm sure you know more about the system and can elaborate on it more.

Why don't you write up a starter guide and if you have time how about a full blown advanced tradeskill guide for the site as it is lacking in that area.

Hell, yes! Having just started the game, I am completely lost tradeskills-wise.

any questions you have feel free to ask too and we can try and answer them for you