New player saying Hi with some questions

Hammurabi · Sep 23, 2023

Greetings beautiful TAKP people!

finally its time for me to be able to spend decent amounts of hours into playing games again and i choose the mother of all actually followed TAKP on and off for quite some time but never played myelf. So hyped!!!! Looking forward becoming a part of this community! which btw so far held up to all the good vibes i always got watching/reading TAKP content big time! Being a casual boomster that always hated the p99/tlp hardcore/asshole attitude im very certain this was a great choice!

Whats bothering me ingame is the american keyboard settings. I tried searching the forum for posts about this but couldnt find anything. Alot of keys im used to pressing on european/german settings have different things on em ingame.... drives me crazy. Is it possible to change this?

Also i have a question about Sisters camp in Lfay. i started there being level 8 and leveled to 10.5 where i currently stand got 5 Bronze weps in that time and made only 34p on the camp so far. I remember the coin to be way better. I actually struggle keeping up with spell costs. Not fishing for handouts here i like to get my stuff by myself but would be happy for some suggestions where to stock up on some early pps with limited playtime.

Devour_Souls · Sep 23, 2023

There was a post on Discord a few days ago with something to fix the European keyboard problem. Try searching TAKP Discord or perhaps someone will post the fix here.

There are players that hand out plat as a pseudo quest reward for anyone that completes the newbie quest armors. That may be a good start.

Mukk · Sep 23, 2023

Welcome to the server!

If you want to keep up with spell costs, you can supplement with low end tradeskill components. It means leaving a trader up, but will help if you're able.

Darchon's guide for new players, stickied at the top has this section:

Darchon said: ↑

Money Making (for new players)

No Level Requirement Money Makers:

Almost all of these methods are farming/creating tradeskill components for people skilling up their tradeskills. Typically it is a safe bet that some one will be in need of these often enough to buy out your stuff in a week or two. But if you are concerned with spending time to not find a buyer always just put out a feeler in Alliance checking if anyone is looking to buy mass quantities of something that lower level players can easily make.

Celestial Essence Combining:

Celestial Essences are made by combining 1 x Celestial Solvent (1 gold~) and 1 x Scent of Marr (1.5 plat) in a Mortar and Pestle (internet posts will say Mixing Bowl but that is incorrect for our era of EQ). These are all sold in PoK at the far west trader building (10/12 on EQAtlas Map). This costs about 1.6 plat per combine and they are usually sold at around 5 plat per (100pp per stack).

You probably want some starting plat to try out this money making method. About 300~ platinum would allow you to make 10 stacks which you could convert into 1000 platinum. If you are brand new to the server and don't have the start up plat, a tradeskiller may offer to give you the start up plat to buy the combining stuff and then pay you the difference between cost of materials and final price at the end. I'd check in alliance to see if any tradeskillers are interested in this.

Spiderling Silk Farming:

Spiderling silks are easiest farmed in Field of Bones in the spiderling crypt (D on EQAtlas Map). These spiderlings are all level 2 and have a fairly fast respawn time. People will typically pay around 5pp per spiderling silk.

Outside of some newbie armor quest combines, the only real use for Spiderling Silk is to create Silk Threads, which are then used in a number of different combines. The Silk Thread combine is no-fail so it may be profitable for you to combine the Spiderling Silks in a tailoring kit as you go and sell these Silk Thread for 10-15pp each. I know myself and others have paid a slight premium to get the Silk Threads premade as it saves us many clicks and there's really no downside for the farmer to do this as they farm.

Heady Kiola Crafting:

Heady Kiola are a component in some mid-level Tailoring combines people often use to skill up their trade. Each combine requires 4 of these, so people need bulk quantities as they skill up.

These are made by combining 1 x Bottle (5 copper), 1 x Water Flask (1 silver) and 2 x Packet of Kiola Sap (1 gold each), so about 2 gold per combine, 4 plat per stack and you can sell each stack for around 100pp. You cannot find all these components in PoK so its best to do these combines in your home city as most home cities have a brewery with these components sold. The combine is a trivial 46 brewing combine.

To reach 95% success (max) on this combine you actually need to skill your brewing up to 78. The easiest way to skill up to this point is by doing Fetid Essence combines, see here for more information

Low-Mid Level Requirement Money Makers:

Enchanting Clay:

You may want to secure a buyer before going this route, but if you have a level 8 enchanter you can enchant clay. A player attempting to go from 188 Pottery to 220 for Aid Grimel could use over 800~ Enchanted Clay trying to skill up. Someone aiming to go for 240 could use upwards of 2000 clay.

We don't have any Mass or Greater Mass Enchant options so each clay has to be enchanted one by one which is very time consuming. Some players may opt to buy enchanted clay from a new player and pay them for their time.

Again I would suggest you offer up this service in Alliance to try to secure a buyer before spending your time doing this but as a level 8 enchanter it could be a good money maker.

Spider Silk Farming:

Spider Silks are easiest farmed in East Karana from carrion and crag spiders. These spiders are level 10-20. Typically you want to be in high teens low 20s to farm these while you EXP. They can drop anywhere from 0-7 spider silks per kill. People typically pay 5pp or 100pp per stack of spider silks which are needed for many tailoring skill up methods.

As with Spiderling Silks, Spider Silks are almost exclusively used in Silk Swatch form which is a no-fail combine. So it may be more profitable to combine them yourself into Silk Swatches and then sell those.

**Bonus** If you happen to have a Tunare Druid/Cleric 29+ and you happen to find a very lazy and wealthy player, you may be able to sell Sacred Tunare Silk. Each one of these requires 1 Silk Swatch, 1 Celestial Essence and 1 Blessed Dust of Tunare (Pottery combine requiring 1 Celestial Essence, 1 Imbued Emerald thus the 29+ Tunare Druid/Cleric, and 1 Jar of Acid). This method requires you have Pottery in the 120s~, Tailoring around 130~ and the Tunare Druid/Cleric.

These are used in a combine people use to get the highest skills of Tailoring done, as such you may be able to get 25-50pp per Sacred Tunare Silk. Before adventuring on this path I would definitely line up a buyer as it is pretty time consuming but could be a good money maker for someone looking to eventually do their own tradeskills/shawl.

Hill Giants:

In Rathe Mountains at 19 on the EQAtlas map are Hill Giants. They roam and you probably want a trio in the mid to upper 30s to kill them with any sort of regularity. They drop 0-50~pp per kill and fine steel and are okay EXP.

Swirling Shadows:

The only really feasible way to skill your smithing beyond 188 in our era is Shadowscream. One of the components for these combines is Swirling Shadows which drop from shade mobs in Luclin. The best camp for them is in Twilight Sea. There are about 20~ level 30-35 shadows on island #6 on EQAtlas in Twilight Sea. This is directly South of the Druid/Wizard teleport location and Southwest of Katta.

People will often buy these for 10-20pp/each and in very large quantities. For a character with access to a teleporter you are hard pressed to find a camp with a shorter run distance from a teleport location.

Rockhopper Hides:

In Dawnshroud at #3 on the Map is the rockhopper cave. These guys are all in the high 30s low 40s. You typically want to be in your low 40s to start out here. They are animals so druids can charm/fear them, and for Enchanters there is an overpowered charmable gnome named Ryklo Rykes in the zone you can charm who eats through these rockhoppers.

Flawless Rockhopper hides fetch around 250pp/each or 5k/stack to high end tailors These are the bulk of your money from the camp.

Superb Rockhopper Hides maybe you can get about 20-50pp/each out of (these tend to be harder sells) to mid-level tailors.

High Quality Rockhopper Hides you can get maybe 5-10pp/each for (these make Hand Made Backpacks with just a Backpack Pattern added, 88 Tailoring trivial combine. It is not a bad skill-up path after you exhaust the vendor sold 1-76 Woven Mandrake/Picnic Basket route).

Medium and Low Quality Hides you can maybe sell around 3-5pp/each. Or if you did the Spiderling Silk farming from above and have some spare silks, you can combine LQ Hides with 1 Silk Thread to make Leather Padding. This can go for around 25-50pp/each to a mid-level smith. The MQ hides you generally want to combine with a Skinning Knife to make more LQ hides which can be used for Leather Padding as mentioned above.

Damaged Hides aren't really worth much. If you want you can skill up to 26 tailoring yourself by using these to combine with any pattern to make some Tattered Hopper Hide, or you can just vendor them.

Rockhopper caves have a unique mechanic where if someone kills the Age Old Rockhopper in the back right cave the Rockhoppers will all be replaced by Goranga. Generally people are aware of this and don't do kill him, but if you arrive and there are no Rockhoppers that is why. To flip it back you have to kill a similar mob in the same spot location to respawn the Rockhoppers.

The EXP in this camp stays quite good until low 50s.
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Hammurabi · Sep 23, 2023

Thx alot for the ideas! havent joined the Discord yet but will do

pivoo · Sep 25, 2023

Hammurabi said: ↑

Also i have a question about Sisters camp in Lfay
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They are not money camp on this server.

Keeping up with spell cost is a little harder, until you can start looting Hill Giants in Rathe Mountains.

At lvl 4-5 you can go after spiderling cave in FoB (left of Cabilis ZL) for spiderling silk. Although I don't know how is market for them now a days. They usually sold good especially if you offered them cheaper. You could get few 100 plat in an afternoon.

At your level, around 10, you could go all the way North in zone Shadeweaver's Thicket and farm Swirling Shadows, mentioned in Darchon guide. They don't drop often, but you should get a few as you get few levels there. They sell between 25-50plat a piece. They drop of some kind (aggressive and social) skeletons, can't recall their name.

Later, when you can go after lowest level guards in HHK, you can get some decent plat with their weapon drops. And bank is right there also.

After that, Hill Giants. Good luck

Golligolli · Sep 25, 2023

When you get a little higher in level the skulking brutes in warsliks woods have gem drops that add up. Same thing with geonids in crystal caverns.

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