The Iksar

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Yes if u are going to group with a shaman be a monk.If u wanted to try a SK be a iksar they seem to me GOOD.

Hmm...

From my experiance i'd have to say a SLIGHT edge goes if you play the SK.

See her DoT spells are the strongest in the game, and her debuffs with that will get ALOT of agg. If your going to be duoing alot, it would really help to have a taunt capable class for her to be able to unload with more of her mystical ********

Since both SK and Monk have a feign death ability (admitadly the monks is a little better) from a pulling standpoint with her SoW's your both good.

From a Tank standpoint though a SK makes a MUCH stronger tank then a monk, and since she is playing a class that can cast Regens and heals...

Both choices are very good, but as a final reason, you already HAVE a monk, diversify if for nothing else then novelty.

evils control east of antonica so you can still go to orc highway if you really want to but most of the mobs in blunark do drop plat.

Zeal <Sanctus Lumen>
Erudite Cavalier, Sullon Zek

Kurns Tower, off a jester or something i think.

Not sure on value. check www.eqprices.com

Okay...yes Iksar are KOS at the outpost and yes you can safely take the boat, you'll just have to get a little wet. When waiting for the boat in OT, stay by the wall along the shore until the boat zones in, then swim out to it...this way, you'll stay out of aggro range of the skellies/guards at the docks. Once you get on the Bloated Belly, just sit tight 'till it docks in Timorous Deep. Once it docks swim around the giant rocks next to the dock to get to where Barrel Barge/Muckskimmer dock (This is the raft you need to take to get to Antonica). The most dangerous part of the trip is gettin' from Cabilis to the Outpost. Oh, and make sure to get bound at the wall before gettin' on Bloated Belly, just in case. =0)

Raybliss
Level 37 Necromancer
Midnight Tempest
Tholuxe Paells

well im a iksar war and i tank good but a sk would be just as good but can cast spells too, so think about it

as to banded, yes 40 plat is more than enough for leggings and Helm. Banded goes for on average about 1 plat per ac on Xegony. I should think similarly on other servers. for helm and leggings that would be 16 plat. a full suit goes for 91 plat roughly. Sometimes you can talk the smith down a little in price. However 40 plat is definately enough to net you several pieces of banded.

Hey.

Why are you getting into loop deaths? You really shouldn't be getting yourself bound anywhere close to where you're fighting. That's just asking for trouble.

My recommendations might be a little off, since my Iksar is a necromancer,which means I have generally solo'd and I'd guess you won't be doing that. (Bear this in mind, but hopefully, it might help a little.) I'd guess you'd proably want a partner, who can heal. Personally, I like hunting in a small group. Maybe just one, or two other people. ***** ups seem to happen a lot less.

You could hunt at the base of Kurn's tower. There are creatures at around L20. (Give or take two levels.) Even better, if you're brave, you can go NE from Kurn's and hunt in the treed hills, opposite the open area where everyone hunts. This is a little more dangerous, but it gives you first pick on the creatures. (And you only want the highest level creatures there.) This is where I hunted from and it worked just great. Lesser Icebones, Lesser Charbones, Burynai Sappers, Iksar Manslayers and Scaled wolf prowlers should all be the right level for you.

Another very popular option is the fort in LoIO, but I haven't been there.

Also worth considering are the brutes in the caves before Dalnir's crypt. I hunted these from about L25, to L30. They're completely non-aggro, which is wonderful. No worrying about adds. The only thing you have to watch is that they sometimes run into the walls and escape. (If you trained in the pit in FoB, you know all about this already, no?) You'd probably want a pretty strong group to take these guys at L24, but they're well worth it. (Save any HQ brute hides to sell to halfling tailors for disgustingly high amounts. *Grin*)

And my final suggestion....
I think you probably want a few levels before you do this, but... I spent L30-L35 on Sister's island in OoT. The sisters start at about L18 and go up to L35. Excepting the smallest ones, they're fixed spawns and are sufficiently far apart that you can solo pull EVERY time. There is one sister (Antinime) who is L22. You could ptobably hunt her with a partner. The one on the dock and the one by the tree at the end of the dock are L25. (Can't remember their names.) With a good group, you could probably do these. The only downside to this, is that you'll wreck your Qeynos faction. But, if your group are evil races, they may not mind this.

Well, hopefully this will help you a bit.

AlAaraaf.
"Death is coming..."

Train up your ssssstaff sssskill, it will be rewarding in the end, I think...
'bout the hammer I don't know

What equipment and quests you should be looking at is really VERY dependent upon whether you're twinked and who you know.

Either way, some things will be a constant:
**The value of INT items. You will always be told that you should get as much INT as possible. This is both true and slightly misleading. INT will have two effects for you. Firstly, it will control how quickly you learn skills. In this respect, more INT is always a good thing. As an INT based caster, your INT will also determine how much mana you have. (Here too, extra INT is a good thing.) But...
The mana you get is based upon your INT and your level. A simple version of the equation is:
mana = INT x (Level / 5)
This isn't necessarilly precise, but it's a good approximation.
The significance of this is that the extra mana you get, per point in INT, at low levels is pretty poor. It is therefore worth considering that it might be better to buy +mana items. (For example, you can buy a gold jaded bracelet for about 25PP, which gives you +15HP/Mana. An approximately equivalent INT item is a bracelet of woven grass. (+3INT/+8HP) But, this will cost you almost 100PP and is not as good until you reach about L30.)

It seems very likely, that if you're not twinked, that when you read, 'for about 25PP' you wondered where the hell I think you're going to get that kind of coin. It is worth bearing in mind that very soon, you can go hunt in Kurn's tower for pretty good exp and loot. (For your level.) A very important consideration here, is bone chips... Firstly, you want these, for your pets. But, if you hunt here until you have exhausted the place you will have shedloads of bonechips and you can sell these, to buy yourself some nice goodies. If you have the storage space and are patient, you can often sell these for way over the regular privce in the field of bone. This is because high level players will buy loads of bonechips to gain Cabilis faction. (I was offered 50PP for a backpack full of bone chips on several occaisions in FoB.)

**The best place in the world to shop is East Commonlands.
You may, or may not know this already. But, as an Iksar, you're not exactly wanted throughout most of the world and until you have the spell Gather shadows, travelling is gonna be a pain. (Personally, I'd recommend you stay close to home until about L30!)The Lake of Ill Omen zone is a pretty good alternative however. It has a nice balance of levels and you will generally be able to make most purchases you need there.

**Buying spells is going to be painfully expensive to you for a long time.
You're probably going to spend virtually every copper you earn for a long long time on spells. The upside to this, is that being a necromancer, you don't REALLY need equipment quite so much. That's not quite the same as not needing it, but I'd gamble real money that a naked necro with spells memorised, would wipe out the equivalent level naked melee class without much hassle.

As far as quests go, there are only two reasons for questing. Firstly, you can get some REALLY nice items by questing. Second, if you like the adventure aspect of questing.

What you will find, is that if you quest alone, any quest for an item you really want will be damned hard. To be honest, I wouldn't worry about questing too much for a goodly while. (However, if you're sly, you can do quests in a devious manner, to make them easier.) If you research the quest beforehand and know what you need to do, you can often get in a pick-up group at the location an item drops. (This is much easier than getting a group to run all over the world for you, believe me!) Otherwise, if an item is NO DROP, people will often let you have it, if it's no use to them. This is always worth considering.

I hope this helps you a little. (Sorry if it's a bit garbled, I need to sleep.)

AlAaraaf.
"Death is coming..."

L15 is probably a bit low to hunt in OT. There IS stuff you could hunt in a group. But mostly there is stuff that will use your group as toothpicks.

If you're feeling ambitious, you could get a group and hunt at the base of Kurn's tower. That's probably slightly more suitable. (Or hunt in the tower, of course...)

As for directions:
Go to Warslik's woods.
Either:
Follow the zone line to your left, as you leave Cabilis and eventually you will come to the OT zone.
Or, follow the path. But beware, it goes right through the middle of the giant fort. You'll want invis and SoW for this one.

Hope this helps.

AlAaraaf.
"Death is coming..."

I'm gonna be sorta vague here, simply because I don't play a monk. So, the exact details might be a bit fuzzy.

1. You can get wolf form. But, you'll need someone else to cast it on you. (I think this is true for everyone, unless you're a druid, is it not?)

2. From what I have read, the faction system for wolf-form is pretty complex. It seems almost like it puts you on a whole different faction chart. But, that anything you do that causes a change in faction will affect you whenever you're in wolf-form. Not just at the time. (I could be wrong, but this is the impression I have gotten.) I'd recommend asking a fairly high level druid about it and asking them for their opinion, to be sure.

Anyhow...

I think you'll find the reason monks are picked out for special attention when quests are being discussed, is that they have the HIDE skill. By going behind and NPC and hiding you can set your faction to 'indifferent'. (You're effectively invisible to the NPC!)

This means that you can slink behind an NPC who wants a quest item and hand it over relatively easilly, since hide doesn't drop, when you hand the stuff over. The equivalent for a noo hiding class, is this:
**Invis.
**Put all the stuff into trade windows with the NPC.
**Have someone else invis you.
**Hit Trade.

I'm sure you'll agree that hiding makes this a whole lot easier.

You other choice, when trying to fix faction standing, is killing stuff. But this is a pain in the ***, at lower levels.

Hope this helps.

AlAaraaf.
"Death is coming..."