EverQuest II/Gameplay

One of the first things new players need to know is how to make money in the game. The money you get from monster drops and selling stuff to NPC vendors is not very good, especially at low levels. The easist way to make money is to collect everything you can off of monsters you kill and resource nodes you harvest, and then check the broker in the nearest city to see what you can sell these items for.

As you learn what other players will pay good money for, you can start selling the other (non valuable) stuff to NPC vendors to free up your bag space for the stuff you will sell via the broker. Do not sell anything you find until you know what broker prices are for that item; players will pay more than 100 times what the NPC vendors will for some items. For example, most treasured loot or rare resource items sell for good prices. Also collect: "Leaded Loam" & "Lead Cluster" (mining) and "Root" (gathering).

You might want to ask for help getting to the nearest city, unless you are at least level 5 or so and/or know exactly where you are going, you will probably die a lot trying to find it. Alternativly, you can just level up a little; it shouldn't take longer than a couple hours to reach level 6, and this is high enough you should be able to find the city on your own without dying. Note: if you start out on "Queens Island" you will want to finish the quests here first; you can't get back once you leave.

To facilitate selling items via the broker, you will want to buy a strongbox and several bags from the broker. Don't buy boxes or bags from NPC vendors; player made items sold via the broker are much better (if more expensive). Don't buy ANYTHING (i.e. save all your money) until have at least bought your first strongbox. It may take all of your money, but you will make all that money back and more when you start selling stuff via the broker. The box is needed to hold your "for sale" items on the broker, and the bags are to allow you to carry more stuff (more stuff means more items that might be worth lots on broker). Try to get the biggest box you can afford, and trade up as you sell stuff. Remember, the bigger the box, the more things you can have up for sale, and the more items you have for sale, the more you will sell (assuming you price them correctly). Teak strongboxes give you good value for your money but may be too expensive when starting out. Look to buy one of the following types of strongboxes [Type(slots)]: Teak(24), Briarwood(20), Ash(16), Maple(12), Elm(8). There are also bigger boxes, but they cost much more. (Note: bags can be used for broker sales as well, but cost more per slot of storage)

It's also a good idea to find the bank in town so you can store stuff you want to keep for later but not carry. You can put your smaller bags and boxes in your bank slots to increase bank storage slots when you buy (upgrade to) larger containers. Another storage trick is to store items in your broker box rather than the bank. Just remember to set the items to "not for sale", or else price them high enough so that if they do sell you will be happy with the gold you get.

Once you have gotten through the inital "broke" period of your first charactor (on any server), you can pass on money and items to your other charactors. Once you learn how to sell stuff on the broker you can continue to make money this way, even at higher levels. You'll just find and sell different (and more valuable) stuff.

In general, tradeskills tend to be money sinks; they cost more than they return until you reach high level. The exception is Provisioning. Selling certain low level food and drink on the broker can make you money, and is also useful for your charactor as well.

PVP warning: If you play on a PVP server, stash all (or most) of your money in the bank; if killed you lose money to your killer. On non-PVP servers the only reason to put money in the bank is to share with other chars on the same account or to keep you from accidentally spending all your money on something (room or broker item).