1. How do I survive 'untwinked'
- Do all the armor/weapon quests you can as well as hunt mobs that drop items you can use, like goblins are good for free bags and backpacks. Do the quests in the tutorial including for the gloomingdeep armor. This site shows quests by zone. Read them. Also there is a zone list by level. Check it out as well. Hot zones are good for a bit better experience. Group in those.

2. What gears should i be searching for
You want to work on both 1hb and 1hs weapons. Look for magic weapons. There are quests and mob drops for them as well as the "Combine" weapons you can buy at vendors in Oasis...or I guess North Ro since zone was revamped. Get a good shield with extra wisdom.

3. What are some Good leveling zone and quests to do
See #1

4. What is a good tradeskill to work on
Since you don't have unlimited plat, you are a leather wearer, so tailoring is good. You can collect your own pelts and make armor.

5. How to I make plat
In the tutorial "open" every barrel you see and sell what you gather. Elsewhere, go for stackable items. Kill wildlife with pelts and stack stack stack. These sell well in the Bazaar.

6. What are the different variations of druid
All druids are the same except for the person at the keyboard. :)

7. What do I specialize in
Not sure what you mean here. Try to get to 200 wisdom as soon as you can since it will help your spellcasting. Get a charisma buff and a charisma item to hold when you're going to go sell your loot at a vendor. It makes a lot of difference expecially with items that are worth more...not so much if they're only worth a few coppers.

8. What are AA's all about and how to use
Once you're level 51 worry about AA's. Too much to wrap your head around now.

9. What would be the perfect wishlist gear selection when I come to the end of leveling
Beyond my capability to answer as my Druid is 48. You want to find magic items with focus abilities on them. Focus items will: shorten your cast time, lengthen your buff time, improve various spell results and others. You can do a gear search under Items/Equipment here and limit it to Focus items to see what is what.

Thats my input. Hope you enjoy the druid. Check out other druid sites, like http://www.everquestdruids.com/.
Also read "Lilli's Walkthrough for New Druids" in this forum.


Edited, Oct 13th 2007 11:26am by MychaelaM

1. For the first 30 or so levels u can prolly handle most mobs with average gear that u happen to come across, so long as u got cleric and if u can get em shaman buffs.
After that (and durring even) u need to learn how to kite mobs if ur not goin to be grouping.
Kiting is a simple process of getting the mob to chase you while damaging it. The most common method is done by casting a "snare" spell on the mob while casting Damage over time spells and nuke's.

Also available to you is quad kiting.
First, you must find and snare four mobs that are of the same species. Then circle around the mobs until they are so close together, the graphics are overlapping. Then use one of your Lightning based spells. The Lightning spell will hit all 4 mobs. Then back up until you are out of range of casting the spell, and waits for the mobs to get in range. Repeat until all four mobs die.

Also u can do root-rotting.
Root Rotting is a technique used by classes who get the Root line of spells. Basically, you root the monster, rendering it immobile and then proceed to damage it via spells. This is most effective with damage over time spells (DoTs) rather than direct damage spells, as DD spells tend to break the root and the monster will come running to kill you. If that happens, you cast your root spell again and continue to do damage until the monster is dead. Also remember to snare the mob so if and when root breaks he wont come at u full tilt.

With the TSS ( the serpent's spine) expansion, u can essentially 'twink' yourself with the quests offered.

2. you want to max ur wisdom stat as soon as u can. If u have a choice in ur gear look for stuff with high wisdom, HP, Mana, and AC...

3. I would suggest checking out crescent reach (CR) for good quests, nice rewards, and while ur doin those u'll get good xp. Once u hit level 20 try out the hotzones for item augments and extra xp.
Link to CR quests - https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/qsearch.html?zone=431&order=min_level
Link to Hotzone info - https://everquest.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=1;mid=117748599721209953;num=15;page=1

4. not much of a tradeskiller myself so cant help much there.

5 - 9. ditto on MychaeleM's post

The druids grove has lots of info

http://thedruidsgrove.org/eq/forums/index.php

Quote: "Also available to you is quad kiting.
First, you must find and snare four mobs that are of the same species. Then circle around the mobs until they are so close together, the graphics are overlapping. Then use one of your Lightning based spells. The Lightning spell will hit all 4 mobs. Then back up until you are out of range of casting the spell, and waits for the mobs to get in range. Repeat until all four mobs die."


Actually, I found Quad Kiting to be a bit too hard on the mana pool until around the early 40's.