Samanna's New Reference Desk!

Welcome to Samanna's New Reference Desk!

When I started playing EQ in 2001, it was a much different world. Information was hard to find, and I wound up with (figuratively) hundreds of little notes about how or where to do what in-game, includind hand-drawn and printed-out maps. As I collected this info, I decided to post it online so that others would not have to reinvent the wheel.

After having raided through Prophecy of Ro (2006) and played casually into The Buried Sea (2007), my work and income changed drastically, and I had to stop playing and eventually even let the site go and the domain expire.

Fast forward to December, 2022, and the urge to play returned. Most of the advice for new or returning players that I could find essentially said:

1. Start a new character.
2. Do the tutorial and beginning quests.
3. Take Defiant Armor as it drops.
4. Get only the most important spells (and later AAs) every 5-10 levels.
5. Get to within ~10% of max level (at this writing, max level is 120 and people are advised not to focus on gearing up until the 90s).,
6. Get to max level and then grind a LOT of AAs (at this writing, there are four characters on Magelo tied with 74,377 AAs).

That's all well and good, and I understand that getting from 1 to 100 may only take a month or two, but there were still many questions not easily answered - to some extent due to updates causing conflicting information.

So, again, this guide will be primarily for myself (and the classes I will be boxing), although others are obviously welcome to read it and apply anything they find useful.

For easy reference, I've created the following categories, each of which lists all the pages in that category:

• EQ General
  • EQ Shaman
  • EQ Shadow Knight
  • EQ Necromancer

Cheers, -Sam