I'm a very happy guy a.t.m after receiving a mail from EA saying they found my 10 year old Ultima Online account!

I haven't played since year 1998-1999 somewhere so I know a lot is changed.
I'm way behind, so any tips and tricks would help me allot!

My thoughts:

First of all I would need to make some cash for house, equipment etc....
I thought maybe I could make a lumberjacker with fletching/bowyer skill.
To sell arrows and bolts maybe? I hear people want this. Any suggestion here?

For main character, I have a human mage I created in 1998, but think I rather wanna try make an Elf Mage. I need a good template setup for this one, also if Necromancy should be considered? My goal with this guy is to become a strong Mage DMG wise.

Any hints and tips regarding my comeback would be greatly appreciated!
Also if you could write it in a noob language so I would understand it, you would rock my world

You could put your Human mage through the HUMAN TO ELF quest, keeping his skills.

You could use this mage character to farm gold to buy a house or sometimes nice people will give you some starting money. You'll probably be able to place your own house so you won't need exorbitant sums ... or sometimes nice people will give you one. The base max storage house runs about 170k-200k.

A fresh character can make that in a short time, gold flows a little easier than it used to.

What shard do you play?

(come to Lake Superior)

welcome back

Im on catskills, because that was the the server I played on 8-10 years ago and My old toons are there hehe

These days, you can actually harvest different types of wood. Frostwood is quite expensive and sells for a premium (adds Velocity and Balanced properties to bows, Balanced lets you drink potions with the bow equipped.) The easiest way to get arrows is by killing Ratman Archers near the compassion gate in Ilshenar.

Plus you get gold!

Human mage is a good choice, since you get the Strong Back bonus (carry more stuff) and Jack of all Trades (invisible 20 bonus in all skills that are at zero).

Elves get some sort of int bonus and tracking whatnot...I dunno, since I have no elves.

If you're doing PvM or PvP, a scribe-mage or necro-mage are both great options, since you can stack on SDI easily....your spell damage will get amped by spell damage increase items...75% in PvM

Necromancy is powerful and lets you do Animate Dead, the animates aren't attackable by players anymore, and can assist greatly in doing serious damage to mobs.

If you do necromancy, remember to lock your Karma at a low level, and also remember Spirit Speak is Necromancy's form of Evaluating Intelligence.

I play cats! Maybe we met in the past?

Let me know when you get on, with a pm or post. I'll try to help you out with some LRC stuff (Lower Reagent Cost) which will circumvent the need for reagents entirely if you hit 100% with items.

Plus, I know a spot for an 11x16 in Trammel...and FAR more in Felucca.