-For the most part, Quest Items carry over but are not usable. NPC's that need turn in's will not accept most (all?) copied items, so finish your epics and various quests before you test copy.
-Money does not carry over, this includes LDoN points, Radiant/Ebon crystals, Dubloons, Orux, Phos.*, Faycitum.
-Personal faction DOES carry over so head to your home town and tribute whatever you need.
-All gear, inventory and bank slots will copy along with your character, however SHARED BANK items will not copy.
-If you have a group of people copying over, remember it makes a duplicate of your character at the time you hit /testcopy. Feel free to pass around food/drink, reagents, non no-drop clickies and anything else your group could find useful between each character before you copy.
-Pre buy any spells, reagents or other items that you will need before you test copy, it's a big carp in the face when you go to buy a 60pp spell and realize you need to go kill a couple of giants first.
-Test server offers a few cool extras including free expansion usage, permenant double exp (stacks with potions, etc.) and full veteran AA's for all characters. You can also use skill trainers in the Arena to beef up melee and casting skills.
-The bazaar is basically dead, if you're big into trading you might want to look somewhere else.
The Return of /testcopy
Some Test Server information from EQLive:
Great News! The /testcopy command has returned!
What is the /testcopy command?
/testcopy allows a character to be copied from a live server to the Test Server. To get your character copied to the Test Server, simply log into your character on a regular server and type /testcopy and that character will be copied to the Test Server.
In an effort maintain and preseve the stability of the economy on the Test Server we bring back this command with a few adjustments:
- Since this is a copy and not a transfer there is a time limit to how often this command can be run.
- All forms of money will be removed.
- As the same with transfers, your guild will not carry over.
- All items copied will ONLY be usable by the character that copied them over.
- Copied items cannot be sold or given to anyone.
- Stackable items that have been copied will not stack with items that haven't.
- Combining items that have been copied will mark resulting items as copied.
Additional Notes:
- With this command, characters are copied not transferred so you character on the Live servers are not affected.
- Test Server characters are still under the no transfer restriction, meaning they cannot transfer off the Test Server.
For more help on the Test Server read the Getting Started on the Test Server article. Or visit the In Testing Discussion over on the EQ Forums.