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| For those of you who don't want to read the whole guide, I've tried to put the most important things down that were completely "I wish I would have known this sooner" | For those of you who don't want to read the whole guide, I've tried to put the most important things down that were completely "I wish I would have known this sooner" | ||
| - You can right-click and select [[anagogeisland# | - You can right-click and select [[anagogeisland# | ||
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| + | - Once you have about 6-10k in councils saved up, ask for a high level Tailor to create you some Cargo Gear WITHOUT pockets. Or join a guild and ask your guild' | ||
| - You need to level up your Death skill by dying in unique ways early on in the game. Yes, you read that correctly. If you are one of the main races and not an animal or Fae, you need to die a lot early on to get your Death XP high enough to use a very powerful mechanic in the game. **Enter The Light** can be used to portal to Serbule or Rahu every 8 hours. I often recommend using it at the start and end of every gaming session to position yourself what you are doing that gaming session or for the next time you log in. When your skill in Death reaches level 10, you can use portals in the Death Zone to go straight to Serbule or Rahu once every 8 hours. Words of Power or drinking Fuel Oil can be used to give you instant deaths or to otherwise make going here easier. Regular Iocaine Powder (not Practice) kills you and is also fine to use. Both portals have a separate 8 hour cooldown. You can also buy a Gemstone Hammer and a few other useful items in the Death Zone if you need them. | - You need to level up your Death skill by dying in unique ways early on in the game. Yes, you read that correctly. If you are one of the main races and not an animal or Fae, you need to die a lot early on to get your Death XP high enough to use a very powerful mechanic in the game. **Enter The Light** can be used to portal to Serbule or Rahu every 8 hours. I often recommend using it at the start and end of every gaming session to position yourself what you are doing that gaming session or for the next time you log in. When your skill in Death reaches level 10, you can use portals in the Death Zone to go straight to Serbule or Rahu once every 8 hours. Words of Power or drinking Fuel Oil can be used to give you instant deaths or to otherwise make going here easier. Regular Iocaine Powder (not Practice) kills you and is also fine to use. Both portals have a separate 8 hour cooldown. You can also buy a Gemstone Hammer and a few other useful items in the Death Zone if you need them. | ||
| - There is a secret entrance to the Casino that you can get to by jumping on the rocks to the right of the Casino back door in Eltibule. You are expected to find this on your own, but it's pretty important to know about this employee entrance early on. By combat level 30 you should be regularly using it and starting to get Favor with many of the Casino NPCs. | - There is a secret entrance to the Casino that you can get to by jumping on the rocks to the right of the Casino back door in Eltibule. You are expected to find this on your own, but it's pretty important to know about this employee entrance early on. By combat level 30 you should be regularly using it and starting to get Favor with many of the Casino NPCs. | ||
| - Click on the animal face icon to bring up a pet menu. A lot of people won't talk to you if you bring necro pets into town and oftentimes you'll want to change your pet strategy. This menu lets you change how your pets interact in the world. Most players either forget this from having a rat pet on tutorial island or do not see this icon or understand what it is till they become a pet class of some sort. | - Click on the animal face icon to bring up a pet menu. A lot of people won't talk to you if you bring necro pets into town and oftentimes you'll want to change your pet strategy. This menu lets you change how your pets interact in the world. Most players either forget this from having a rat pet on tutorial island or do not see this icon or understand what it is till they become a pet class of some sort. | ||
| - | - Go through settings and keybinds under Graphics settings. To reduce graphics lag during large events, go to **Settings** then **GUI** and uncheck the **Show Combat Numbers** option there. This is a nigh-mandatory setting to change for when zone events are taking place (large numbers of players). While there, also turn on **Always Show Interactable** so you can see everything on the ground while playing. To make Gardening and Looting very much easier, you are going to want to go to **Settings** then **Keys** and change **Select Next Non-Combatant** to a key. Then set **Use Selected** and set it to another key. Be sure to adjust your camera while Gardening to look straight down on your plants only. In the Casino, watch out for wandering Cows that may steal your focus while rotating through your plants using these two keys or you'll replace empty bottles with Milk. Also there are now (Spring 2022) binds that you can use to auto loot, auto butcher, auto skin, and auto bury corpses. | + | - Go through settings and keybinds under Graphics settings. To reduce graphics lag during large events, go to **Settings** then **GUI** and uncheck the **Show Combat Numbers** option there. This is a nigh-mandatory setting to change for when zone events are taking place (large numbers of players). While there, also turn on **Always Show Interactable** so you can see everything on the ground while playing. To make Gardening and Looting very much easier, you are going to want to go to **Settings** then **Keys** and change **Select Next Non-Combatant** to a key. Then set **Use Selected** and set it to another key. Be sure to adjust your camera while Gardening to look straight down on your plants only. In the Casino, watch out for wandering Cows that may steal your focus while rotating through your plants using these two keys or you'll replace empty bottles with Milk. Also there are key binds that you can use to auto loot, auto butcher, auto skin, and auto bury corpses. |
| - | - Speed potions are learned from **Ignite the Fire in Your Legs** sold by Yetta in Eltibule. These are early Alchemy recipes that only require a few relatively easy items to make: a Bottle of Water, Fire Dust, Clownfish Fillet or Perch Fillet, and Sugar. They are imperative when doing Surveying for fast surveys and maintain their importance in the mid to late game as well. Horses, or more specifically the Riding skill, can be learned by paying money or doing a quest with an Elf in Hogan' | + | - Speed potions are learned from **Ignite the Fire in Your Legs** sold by Yetta in Eltibule. These are early Alchemy recipes that only require a few relatively easy items to make: a Bottle of Water, Fire Dust, Clownfish Fillet or Perch Fillet, and Sugar. They are imperative when doing Surveying for fast surveys and maintain their importance in the mid to late game as well. Horses, or more specifically the Riding skill, can be learned by paying money or doing a quest with an Elf in Hogan' |
| - You can use Rubywall Crystals in your crafting recipes for armor and weapons. In fact, you'll almost certainly need to use them in your crafting recipes if you are doing a bunch of Work Orders. They are great for making gear without combat level requirements, | - You can use Rubywall Crystals in your crafting recipes for armor and weapons. In fact, you'll almost certainly need to use them in your crafting recipes if you are doing a bunch of Work Orders. They are great for making gear without combat level requirements, | ||
| - | - You can run from Rahu to the Ilmari Desert Portal somewhat safely by hugging the northern border of the map. You will still run into Evil Beggars sometimes just outside of Rahu on your way to the Rahu desert entrance, but they can be handled pretty safely at level 40 and avoided safely at earlier levels, too. Once in Ilmari (you' | ||
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| - Complete Work Orders for money. While the early Work Orders may seem like a complete waste of time and resources (especially all the Oak Wood recipes), it is essential that you level your Industry skill to handle the later Work Orders as these can eventually become the primary way you can make money from your crafting skills. They are great for justifying the leveling you are going to be doing just to level these skills anyway as well. I've heard all sorts of comments from players that say they never do Work Orders and I disagree that completely forgoing Work Orders is the proper route to play the game. There is one exception to this, however, and that is if you never do crafting whatsoever in any MMORPG you play. If you never plan on being any sort of crafter, then maybe that's viable, but if you are going to do any form of crafting, you might as well do Work Orders for what you are crafting. Not only do high level work orders get you the best money gains in the game (especially late game) but they also train you. I personally love crafting in the game and love how each of the different combat/ | - Complete Work Orders for money. While the early Work Orders may seem like a complete waste of time and resources (especially all the Oak Wood recipes), it is essential that you level your Industry skill to handle the later Work Orders as these can eventually become the primary way you can make money from your crafting skills. They are great for justifying the leveling you are going to be doing just to level these skills anyway as well. I've heard all sorts of comments from players that say they never do Work Orders and I disagree that completely forgoing Work Orders is the proper route to play the game. There is one exception to this, however, and that is if you never do crafting whatsoever in any MMORPG you play. If you never plan on being any sort of crafter, then maybe that's viable, but if you are going to do any form of crafting, you might as well do Work Orders for what you are crafting. Not only do high level work orders get you the best money gains in the game (especially late game) but they also train you. I personally love crafting in the game and love how each of the different combat/ | ||
| - | ==== TL; | + | ==== Okay I Lied, There Are More Than Ten Things To Know ==== |
| You can think of these as " | You can think of these as " | ||
| - | - You absolutely need to get a set of no-level-requirement pocketed Tailor gear with at least +20 or more inventory slots on it. If you have to buy it in the player vendor stalls or join a guild or do favors outside of the game, you simply need a set of this gear in order to seriously play the game, otherwise most of your time will be spent just ferrying items or you will have to store your buff items mostly in your base instead of on your person. Just join a guild and ask for +inventory space gear now. Any guild should be happy to do it for new players. If not, beg in General chat if someone will craft you some for 18-22k councils or so. | + | - You absolutely need to get a set of no-level-requirement pocketed Tailor gear with at least +20 or more inventory slots on it. If you have to buy it in the player vendor stalls or join a guild or do favors outside of the game, you simply need a set of this gear in order to seriously play the game, otherwise most of your time will be spent just ferrying items or you will have to store your buff items mostly in your base instead of on your person. Just join a guild and ask for +inventory space gear now. Any guild should be happy to do it for new players. If not, beg in General chat if someone will craft you some with your specific combat skills |
| - | - You are going to get overwhelmed when you first get past the newbie island. After the newbie island, the game really opens up super wide and you get overloaded with loot and quests and NPC favors and possible skills very easily. This can lead to " | + | - The Riding skill is very important as an early level traversal ability. Consider getting it early on if possible in Eltibule by heading to Hogan' |
| - | - Focus on only two combat skills that you like after level 20. You can mix and match and play around with different combat skills, but if you are still doing this at level 40, you're only hurting yourself, in my honest opinion. You should know by level 20 or at most level 30 if you like a skill enough to take it to level 80+ | + | - You can run from Rahu to the Ilmari Desert Portal somewhat safely by hugging the northern border of the map. You will still run into Evil Beggars sometimes just outside of Rahu on your way to the Rahu desert entrance, but they can be handled pretty safely at level 40 and avoided safely at earlier levels, too. Once in Ilmari (you' |
| - | - I picked only three major " | + | - You are going to get overwhelmed |
| - | - NPCs will run out of gold, it has nothing to do with other players getting the vendor' | + | - Focus on increasing Favor with the NPCs that give you inventory space in Serbule. While this seems like a repeat of the point in the top ten list, I will get into specifics here. The two most important and easiest NPCs to get Favor with first are Joeh and Marna for their inventory space. Marna will take your skins and Joeh will take sausages, both can be made or obtained from killing Pigs around Serbule. Fainor in the inn has the recipe for Sausages and early Fruit-based foods and it's pretty easy to get to the point of making them so you can easily get favor with Joeh and Marna. |
| - | - Flia in Serbule will trade an Aquamarine gem for a Tuft of Fur and a Beak. You can get Tuft of Fur from the wolves in Kur and you can buy Beak from Way in the Mushroom Cave. Both can then be Bartered with Flia when she is at Best Friends (or Like Family?) Favor level for the gem, which lets you combine it with a Rubywall Crystal when making gear (armor or weapons) to make Equipment or Gear that doesn' | + | - Focus on only two major combat skills that you like after level 40. You can mix and match and play around with different combat skills, but if you are still doing this at level 60, you're only hurting yourself, in my honest opinion. You should know by level 35 or at most level 50 if you like a skill enough to take it to level 80+. |
| - | - You can obtain easy Favor with Nightshade using Heartshrooms by converting them to Gur-Hortas in Sun Vale. Heartshrooms can be farmed in the Mushroom Cave early on. Store them and you can later turn them into Gur Hortas via bartering at Sun Vale with Yagreet. Enchanted Holly Seeds can also be bartered for them which is important for Toolcrafting and maybe Druids | + | - I picked only three major " |
| + | - NPCs will run out of gold, it has nothing to do with other players getting the vendor' | ||
| + | - Flia in Serbule will trade an Aquamarine gem for a Tuft of Fur and a Beak. You can get Tuft of Fur from the wolves in Kur and you can buy Beak from Way in the Mushroom Cave. Both can then be Bartered with Flia when she is at Best Friends (or Like Family?) Favor level for the gem. This makes Aquamarines and Rubywalls two of the best crafting gems for Work Orders and early gear if you aren' | ||
| + | - You can obtain easy Favor with Nightshade | ||
| - The Sidebar can be used for a lot of good skills. You can pull many good abilities to your Sidebar for use. Most important of these are First Aid, Armor Patching, and Dig Deep, but there are plenty more (even Combat skills) that belong here for most loadouts. Stake the Heart is a particular handy one to have for mobs that need stunned. | - The Sidebar can be used for a lot of good skills. You can pull many good abilities to your Sidebar for use. Most important of these are First Aid, Armor Patching, and Dig Deep, but there are plenty more (even Combat skills) that belong here for most loadouts. Stake the Heart is a particular handy one to have for mobs that need stunned. | ||
| - | - Using a Shovel early on to bury corpses is important for learning Priest. This is somewhat of a major spoiler, but I feel like it should be mentioned or " | + | - Using a [[https:// |
| + | - In addition to the Shovel, a good Skinning knife and a good Butchering knife [[https:// | ||
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| + | - Early players should avoid Angling, IMHO as this form of fishing is NOT a good use of your time. You can get a fishing pole from Roshun the Traitor in north Serbule, however. | ||
| - Mineral Nodes can be mined in south Rahu to get Copper and other mining materials that you need mid-game. I think it's probably one of the best places to get Copper, too. The caveat to this is that the mobs here are super annoying to deal with and will kill you. Also, you will die of thirst, but death is just an annoyance compared to benefit you get from mining out this area once you are at mid-to-high level mining. | - Mineral Nodes can be mined in south Rahu to get Copper and other mining materials that you need mid-game. I think it's probably one of the best places to get Copper, too. The caveat to this is that the mobs here are super annoying to deal with and will kill you. Also, you will die of thirst, but death is just an annoyance compared to benefit you get from mining out this area once you are at mid-to-high level mining. | ||
| - Once your Industry skill is high enough, you can " | - Once your Industry skill is high enough, you can " | ||
| - Speaking of renting shop spaces, have you ever wondered how so many high level players have their shops for so long? The trick is to pay the 20k to get Retail Management on an alt and then bring that alt or log into it while the Poetry Jam is running. You will get drunk, sure, but your alt can then get the Savvy Shopkeeper buff, which HALVES the cost of running a shop. Most players are going to hate me for explaining this, but it's important that you know about it. Then, you only need to log on as your alt every day to re-up the cost of the vendor stall and for like 1k-3k per day you can keep your shop going. Just be sure that you are selling enough loot and items that you can cover the cost of running the stall. | - Speaking of renting shop spaces, have you ever wondered how so many high level players have their shops for so long? The trick is to pay the 20k to get Retail Management on an alt and then bring that alt or log into it while the Poetry Jam is running. You will get drunk, sure, but your alt can then get the Savvy Shopkeeper buff, which HALVES the cost of running a shop. Most players are going to hate me for explaining this, but it's important that you know about it. Then, you only need to log on as your alt every day to re-up the cost of the vendor stall and for like 1k-3k per day you can keep your shop going. Just be sure that you are selling enough loot and items that you can cover the cost of running the stall. | ||
| - | - Once you get into Brewing, for the love of everything holy, please do not make the same mistake I did and craft with hard liquor barrels or beer barrels to level. You simply will never have enough Barley to level the skill up at any reasonable speed this way. The "one glass" skills are the only serious way to level Brewing as of right now and you will be wasting your time doing anything else. Also, don't level Brewing, just don't even bother with it till you are end game and have stacks of items for it. It will drain your money and requires tons of Gardening. | ||
| - The Teleportation Skill " | - The Teleportation Skill " | ||
| - There are two NPCs that give quests for free loot. One is Pennoc in Serbule, who gives " | - There are two NPCs that give quests for free loot. One is Pennoc in Serbule, who gives " | ||
| - One important thing I've noticed in this game is sometimes you need to type and repeat the same or similar commands like / | - One important thing I've noticed in this game is sometimes you need to type and repeat the same or similar commands like / | ||
| + | - Once you get into Brewing, for the love of everything holy, please do not make the same mistake I did and craft with hard liquor barrels or beer barrels to level. You simply will never have enough Barley to level the skill up at any reasonable speed this way. The "one glass" skills are the only serious way to level Brewing as of right now and you will be wasting your time doing anything else. Also, don't level Brewing unless you know what you are doing. Just don't even bother with it till you are end game and have stacks of items for it. It will drain your money and requires tons of Gardening. It's not a skill for newbies. | ||
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| - High level gear from events (like Kraken appearances in Serbule) is actually mostly pretty worthless, don't take up too much early-game precious NPC inventory thinking that you need to keep it all. | - High level gear from events (like Kraken appearances in Serbule) is actually mostly pretty worthless, don't take up too much early-game precious NPC inventory thinking that you need to keep it all. | ||
| - Don't focus on min/maxing your gear right away. You will level faster than it is worth the materials to spend. (UE Note: In my experience, crafting anything under level 40 for other players isn't worth it unless you are leveling the crafting skills) | - Don't focus on min/maxing your gear right away. You will level faster than it is worth the materials to spend. (UE Note: In my experience, crafting anything under level 40 for other players isn't worth it unless you are leveling the crafting skills) | ||
| - | - Transmutation is still recommended early on if possible to learn (NE section of Illmari | + | - Transmutation is still recommended early on if possible to learn (NE section of Ilmari |
| - Endurance has +1 inventory skill gains. If you can safely take a fight, let the mobs hit you a bit to increase this causally. Otherwise you might have to do a few sessions where you let bears hit you in Eltibule, Gazluk Mountains, or the Fae Realm to "catch up" your Endurance to where it really should be. | - Endurance has +1 inventory skill gains. If you can safely take a fight, let the mobs hit you a bit to increase this causally. Otherwise you might have to do a few sessions where you let bears hit you in Eltibule, Gazluk Mountains, or the Fae Realm to "catch up" your Endurance to where it really should be. | ||
| - | - Cooking Sausage and Bacon early on are great money makers. Bacon is even a great early heal ability if you have the Metabolism. | + | - Cooking Sausage and Bacon early on are great money makers |
| - At level 10 in Death you get a very important skill, be sure to die to lots of different mobs whenever you enter a new area. | - At level 10 in Death you get a very important skill, be sure to die to lots of different mobs whenever you enter a new area. | ||
| - Faction focus early game is in getting Joeh and Marna to Soulmates, save up your equipment and skin tons of hides solely for the purpose of gaining favor with these two. When your weekly reset happens you will be so, so, so much happier than if you just tried to sell such things to them instead of using them to gain favor. | - Faction focus early game is in getting Joeh and Marna to Soulmates, save up your equipment and skin tons of hides solely for the purpose of gaining favor with these two. When your weekly reset happens you will be so, so, so much happier than if you just tried to sell such things to them instead of using them to gain favor. | ||
| - | - Civic Pride is underrated if you just go by the wiki stats alone. Light candles after 7pm and snuff lit candles out after 5am. | + | - Civic Pride is underrated if you just go by the wiki stats alone. Light candles after 7pm and snuff lit candles out after 5am. You can do this in Serbule and Hogan' |
| - | - Having both a food and snack going during combat is essential to surivability. | + | - Having both a meal and snack going during combat is essential to surivability. |
| - Item usage goes in this order Craft > Favor > Barter > Sell. . If you can Craft with it, keep it, if you can use it to gain Favor, keep it, if you can't reasonably do either, then Barter or Sell it. | - Item usage goes in this order Craft > Favor > Barter > Sell. . If you can Craft with it, keep it, if you can use it to gain Favor, keep it, if you can't reasonably do either, then Barter or Sell it. | ||
| - You can find where you are storing items using /isearch "< | - You can find where you are storing items using /isearch "< | ||
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| - Surveying is easier with this link: http:// | - Surveying is easier with this link: http:// | ||
| - Mushroom Farming is easier with this link: https:// | - Mushroom Farming is easier with this link: https:// | ||
| - | - There is a Poetry Jam at 2pm EDT, 1pm CDT, 12pm MDT, and 11am PDT every Saturday. Avoid using AoE spells and, if possible, get rid of your Ursula curse for the sake of the others participating. You will want to drink alcohol from the kegs that are set up and pay attention to how your dancing skills switch around on your skill bar as you follow the dancing directions. You can get some massive buffs from this event that will last a long time. | + | |
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| - Kib the Unkillable in the Casino only holds " | - Kib the Unkillable in the Casino only holds " | ||
| - | - Most people who like or love flowers can also be gifted Flower Arrangement items like bouquets. Keep this in mind (especially for Fazzi and Poe). | + | - Most people who like or love flowers can also be gifted Flower Arrangement items like bouquets. Keep this in mind (especially for Fazzi and Poe which are hard to get Favor with otherwise). |
| - You can type "/who near" in any zone to get a list of other players in the same zone at any time. You can also type "/who all" and "/ | - You can type "/who near" in any zone to get a list of other players in the same zone at any time. You can also type "/who all" and "/ | ||
| - You can " | - You can " | ||
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