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EQ2 Plat guide is all you need to profit while having fun. Learn how to get 50 gold in 3 hours without leaving the starting area! On the Isle of Refuge, you will spend level 2 through 6 here. There is some merchants, trainers, and other NPC's you need to talk to. Talk to every NPC you find. This will fill your quest journal up or give you much needed information. As you complete quests, you should have a complete set of starting armor and good weapon, before your adventure on Isle of Refuge is through. You will start out killing goblins, and other creatures then progress to areas where you need to group up to defeat the encounters. Looking for a group is as simple as clicking on your LFG button near the top of the screen. You can also type "shout LFG" This will broadcast to a large area that you are looking for a group." Conversation with other players is paramount to an MMORPG. Hitting the "Enter" key once, then typing a phrase, then hitting "Enter" again, is how you talk to people close by. Hitting it name of other player will send him or her a private message like telepathy. You can hit the "R" key to reply to a most recent "tell". The g command lets you talk on a group channel.
EQ2 Plat for talking on a guild channel, and to broadcast zone wide something that is not within Role-play characteristics. You can also click on the little conversation balloon icon by where you enter text to talk, to set a default for the "Enter" key. For instance, let's say you group up with a couple of players. Once grouped you can click the little balloon icon and choose "Group", so when you hit enter to type a phrase, it will automatically use the group channel. Once you are done grouping set it back to Say. Since grouping is a major part of this game, you need to know how to create, join, and leave groups. Creating a group is as simple as right clicking on another player and choosing "Invite to group" on the menu that pops up. Accepting an invitation is as simple as clicking OK if the dialog pops up.
When grouping with other players, be sure to go after monsters that are specified as "Group Encounters". You will get very little progression for killing monsters marked as "Solo". There also will be something called a "Combat Wheel" that comes up. You will need to learn the association of the icon on the wheel vs. the icons of the combat arts you have, on whether you can trigger a "Heroic Opportunity" for some bonus damage to the encounter. The Combat Wheel will also come up when you solo fight, and you must learn the order of combat arts to execute to trigger that bonus damage.
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