A noobie in needFollow

Your guildmaster will give you the quests to get a full set of *newbie* armour. These are fun quests and give you quite a nice set to start off with. Also checkout the quests by zone list, there are usually some quests that give exp and pp for handing in stuff. To get quests started you target the NPC and hit H for Hail. Sit down first though so you don't accidently attack them.

Checkout the factions section for Freeport, some interesting things going on there that you need to learn about.

Once you graduate from the Freeport kiddie yard and get into East Commonlands, you will start to get a better taste of what EQ is all about, don't be too quick to pass judgment, give it a bit more time.

Thanks for the quick response.

I won't pass judgement straight away - I just need to see fun things happening because I thought DAoC was very poor with the same thing happening and no variation and sadly this was feeling the same way.

I will attempt the newbie armour quest - gaining something useful at the end is more my cup of tea.

Any more advice on fun from people would be helpful too as I have played this for 5 hours now and am almost level 3.

I don't want to power level - I want fun - to chat with people etc.

Thanks for any advice
Woody

If you want to chat, try IRC. It's free, and no pesky skeletons to kill.

To be honest, a lot of this game will be to kill a_mob_01 (and a_mob_02 of similar difficulty, etc) until you get to a new level, then go to a harder area to find tougher mobs to kill. Yes, it is somewhat dismaying to realize you're killing the same mobs at level 60 that you killed at level 3 (except that it has 10,000 more hitpoints). The social aspect won't come into play much at the very low levels unless you make friends, or join a guild. It's easy as pie to get a new character up to 10-15 within a day or two, after then you'll need to start looking for groups.

If you want some variety, you can hop around to other similar zones. Shadeweaver's Thicket looks a good deal better than the Freeport yard does, and can take you to 20+. Depending on what expansions you have, most of these lower level zones are just a few clicks away.

Thanks again for the posts.

I have IRC and am connected to quakenet.

My version of the game is Evolution but sadly the key had already been taken. Egnaro very kindly gave me an unused key which activated the account as though it was the trilogy pack which makes my men look square.

I am going in game now to try again but sadly on my own as my friend has already got bored of it and temporarily at least returned to Neocron. A game that has died.

Cheers
Woody

Get someone to show you the book to Plane of Knowledge, zone in and take a look around, this is the heartland of EQ, heaps of people there to talk to, have fun and don't give up!!

Unfortunately he said that even though he has Evolutions, the CD Key he has only lets him play the trilogy, so he can't get to PoK.

Game on,

The Oneiromancer

If you're trying to kill a particular NPC for a quest, this is a great time to start some of the social aspect that can make EQ so addicting. =) Unless you're a ranger, you probably can't track yet. So to find the character that you need to kill, you may need to find a ranger to group with for a bit, and ask him to track that mob for you. With luck, not only will you make the kill and get that cool piece of newbie armor, but you'll make a friend that'll you'll level and group with for many, many levels. Or, you can ask for help from some other classes that can track, like druids and bards, though they can't track until higher levels. Or, you can look up the NPC on Allakhazam and see if anyone has posted exactly where that mob spawns, but that cuts out one of the best aspects of the game.

I'd also like to post two different views of the game, from two very different style players I know.

One, the person who introduced me to the game, when he was already lvl 65 and part of the number one guild on his server, told me that the game doesn't really start until you hit level 55 or so. I'm starting to see a little bit of what he meant...the soloing as a newbie, the grouping since then....are all practice for taking down huge mobs that require a raid force. But on the other hand, mastering tactics needed to take down those bigger mobs can help you understand the strengths of your class better, make you a better player, help you take down even bigger targets....

The other told me that he has levelled up almost entirely through questing. He found quests through reading, or through talking to NPCs..found out what he needed to do to complete the quests..and most of his killing has been in pursuit of those ends. Sure, he's levelled slower then someone who goes through the daily grind, but he's made it past level 60 without the mind-numbing boredom that can occur in an efficient grind.

Me? I do a bit of both. But most of the time the fun comes from the people I'm hanging out with more than the kills anyway.

I should also mention that some servers are more role-play friendly than others. I saw that you mentioned that, so you might want to take a look at the guildlist on the eqroleplayer board or just start on firiona vie, depending on how important a factor it is to you. I personally know of a few great roleplaying guilds on Tunare, but it's always kind of a toss-up on whether or not someone would enjoy that kind of thing.

Beyond that, EQ has a leveling treadmill. I don't think it's particularly tedious considering how much grouping is encouraged now, but your milage may vary.

For most people, the enduring appeal of EQ is simply the amount of content the game has combined with the friends they make. The game can change quite a bit as you level up, as the focus slowly shifts into larger and more complicated raid encounters. A lot of players feel that the game only really starts at level 65.

when I first started, I played in Kelethin(GFay. This is where all the newbie action is on my server, Torvonilous. I started playing about 2 years ago, sometime around PoPs release. But, with the release of LDoN and learning tradeskills, I have been in GFay a bit more and the newbies are running rampant. Most of the people in the zone are alts and such so they can help. If Im not mistaken, Gfay is a popular newbie zone on almost every server, because of crushbone and such.
If your Torvonilous, post so here and I'll look you up in game and help you with that npc (I have a ranger). Or I can just show around a bit. Sadly, I agree with the above poster. I went on my first huge raid the other day, in an old world plane, and have quit my small guild to join my raid guild. 55+ is where the game realy starts to rock.
If you want, I used a certain path to get my alt up to 52 in around a month and a half, I can post it for you if you like. Problem is my wife and play together so I always had a partner for some of those places.