Get the wood elves to block in the enemy then attack with bow or magic. This works well against two guards blocking the Goblin caves.
Act 1: Defeating the head Goblin
When in in the goblin cave, to defeat the head goblin kill all goblins except for him. Run around him to get him to follow you. Then, go to the center part. Run away to the outer edge. If done correctly, he should get stuck. Shoot arrows at him until he is dead.
Act 2: Defeating the Queen Mammothant
When in the ant hill, run past all Mammothants until you reach the portal opening. Leave, save the game, then go back and fight the ants that followed. Then fight the queen, but before you attack her kill all of her servants. They will get in the way. Throw poison potions at her and if you are playing a Shadow Knight, use a level 5 Disease Bolt. Slow her down and attack with a fire weapon She should die easily. To kill the Queen Mammothant very easily, when you walk in the room where you fight her, do not move from the middle. Block her attacks when she does; she has an easy to follow pattern. When she goes away, the ants still will not appear and you will be able to shoot her with arrows. After you defeat her, kill the rest of the ants by slowly moving or they will all attack you at the same time.
Alternate exploit
Utilizing the save method, you can effectively farm cash and items through item duplication. Drop the item on the ground you want duplicated from your map reference save and then import your character. Pick up the item and you now have 2, update your map reference save and then drop both items now. Import your character and pick up both items and you now have 4 of this item. This growth is exponential and over time will amount to insane amounts of cash if your selling, or you can duplicate your favorite weapon to dual wield, or just duplicate augmentations to slot into your armor.
Class Descriptions
If you're just getting into your new EverQuest journey, here are some tips to keep in mind concerning the five character classes.
Barbarian: Barbarians are the tanks of Norrath, and excel at melee combat, specializing in weapons and armor. Unfortunately, barbarians do not recover mana automatically.
Ranger: Relying on their bow skills, rangers specialize in long range attacks and mana usage. They also have some spell casting abilities, but are more focused on their archery.
Wizard: Wizards are very dependent on mana, and it shows in their attacks. Based on the elements, their magic attacks are to be used to keep them out of harm's way, as wizards are vulnerable in close combat.
Cleric: If used correctly, clerics can offer support by way of healing spells. And while they do not excel at combat, they still possess limited weapon use--blunt weapons onlys.
Shadow Knight: Using a range of evil spells, this class can attack with poison, and summon monsters to help in the attack. They can also use melee attacks, though not nearly as effectively as barbarians.
Defeating Bosses
When playing in single player mode, make a duplicate of yourself to distract the Boss. The boss will attack your copy and not your original character.
Duplicate items and easy money
Start a game with two controllers. Press Start and select "Add/Remove Player". Select the slot for player two at the import screen then import the current character you are playing into the player two slot. Select "Finish" and player two will now be a duplicate of your original character, with the same armor, weapons, and items. Sell the duplicated inventory items for money, then repeat.
Faster experience
First, find a Boss that gives a lot of experience points. Before fighting it, save the game. After you defeat the Boss, create another save file and save the game on that file. Load the first file that you saved, then import your character from the second saved game file. Fight the Boss again, then overwrite the second file. Repeat the process until the experience points from the Boss is not longer satisfactory. Remember to not overwrite your first save file.
Level 20 with 999 Skill Points
Hold L1 + R2 + TRIANGLE and hit R3 during gameplay.
Massive Experience
This exploit requires at least two save files (1800+ KB on one card) or for safety reasons, two memory cards with at least 900 KB free (you can take out one card and force save/force load your game from the other card). Again, this exploit is for the Normal (non-Internet) Campaign only.
When you arrive in the final act (Act V: Plane of Air and Plane of Hate), you are tasked to secure lost souls to free Fironia to help you battle Innoruk. Once you free Fironia, you cannot enter the Halls of Despair any more, so create a save game before you rescue Fironia and you can return there any time (import your characters into the campaign) and you can keep earning experience and damn cool equipment. Note that the Halls of Despair prohibits Gate Scrolls from being used, so prepare to fight well to keep your items.
Consequently, once you rescue Fironia, you can use two cards to save your progress after battling Innoruk for massive experience. After rescuing Fironia, she tells you to locate Planar Steel to fight Innoruk. Once you locate Planar Steel, you warp into Innoruk's chamber, so make a save before you do anything stupid.
Yank out the card after you save and stick in another card with free space for a Norrath save game. Pick up all the gear you want to carry with you into the next game (weapons or armor you can't equip yet but would like to keep) and locate the Planar Steel (it is not hard to do since the Plane of Air is rather small and has no enemies). Go fight Innoruk, make him barf out some good items (pick them up as well) and save your completed campaign on the second card.
You can now load the campaign from the first card (before you found the Planar Steel) and import the characters from your completed campaign to make Innoruk pave your way to higher experience levels. As a bonus, you can also sell the extra gear you find. Just remember to save before searching for Planar Steel on card #1, pulling it out and using card #2 to save the results of the battle after Innoruk.
Save exploit
Make sure you have room on your memory card for more than one save. The idea behind the cheat is to import your own character into a map you control. So, if you are after experience fight your way through the game to a boss fight with an easily accessible save point. Fight the boss down to the last hit and then withdraw to the save point. Save the game, this will be the map reference. Now, go ahead and wander back towards the boss and kill him. You gain the xp and loot of the boss fight. Return to the save point and save your game on . This will create a new save that we'll use to import from. Now, exit the game and reload your map reference save (1st save). Once inside your game, hit start and
go to Add/Remove Players... Highlight your own character and hit triangle to import a character. Import your character that already has the boss experience into the map reference save you created and you now have the opportunity to kill the boss again (in one blow no less) and regain his xp and loot.
Ultimate Leveling Cheat
Get to the Boss in the Tower of Clouds (The giant that's right before talking to Lazlo) and Beat him down until he has about 1 or 2 hits until death then press start, go to add and remove players and make a new character that you want to level really fast. After he/she is created, press start and remove your old character from the game, (You probably want to save before doing this). Get the last few hits in with your newly created level 1 character and your level will jump accordingly: on the Adventurous difficulty you'll get level 15 with all stat points and skill points for up to that level. On the Courageous difficulty you'll get level 36. If anyone does this on the Champion difficulty, post your results.
