Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Afking, chatting, standing around doing nothing.
It's a game. Play it. You can gold and chat at the same time. Depending which mob you choose to gold on you can gold as fast and as slow as you prefer which gives you time to chat or whatever you want in between. Efficiency is doing work, giving your brain a break by golding for 5 minutes every say.. 25 minutes, then getting back to work. You are less stressed about getting work done (dont do this with last minute work though) or it makes it less boring at least plus you get gold/items out of it. Good examples... guen/leodegrance. 45 minute repop in kotr. 1mil on the mob (both of em) and a fairly decent item that can sell for a bit (depending on who wants it). 15 minutes every hour to kill, 45 to work. Its a solution that works especially when you get bored with the work. Bring along your friends to chat (or chat with them with tells if you dont want to share). Point is.. you can be more productive even when you are mostly afkish.
Investing, golding, auction.
Auction is a good way to invest in items. Gold doesn't really gain value and for each moment that passes, gold is worth less (people are golding more) On the other hand, items tend to retain a value (especially if it is a good item) or when they go OOG (then the prices for them go up) you can get a substantial amount investing in items just by selling later when someone wants it. For example take Set's ring of power. Auction it tends to go for about 5mil. People are sometimes willing to pay 7m (thats 2/5ths of the price which is .. . 40% if you think about it.) Or even better.. when someone auctions it at 0 value and no one bids you can get it for say.. 3mil. (then you gained 4mil which is 133%) in profits. Thus auction is a good way to invest your money (buy low, sell high). It doesn't really hurt you once you have a financial base thats high enough to support it as well as storages to facilitate the trades. It's the art of investment. Not the art of ripping people off. Ripping people off is telling a newbie the ring is worth 7 when its worth 5. Investing smart is buying the ring for 3, then selling the ring to a buyer who needs it in a hurry and is willing to pay 7 for the immediacy.
Monday, January 15, 2007
Basics of the team.
Thief: All round character. Tends to be the swiss army knife for everything except mobs that dont like thieves or circle. Everything else tends to go to one of the below classes. You should get a full complement just because. Even then, 8 can turn out not to be enough if you need backups and whatnot.
Warrior/Paladin/Ranger: If it isnt a thief run, chances are you use a nasr warrior. Also prefered by alot of people to tank on these as all you do is quaff.. nasr does the damage. You just watch the screen scroll and hit quaff every so often so you dont die. You want at least 2 Dev. maybe 3 depending on what your goal is to run. But 3 is all you should ever need.
Fathomer: The new thief basically. Vindur gives them an offensive advantage (though its rather costly as a) you need to start quaffing manas too which means you spend more time quaffing b) manas cost money. c) they have less hp than a thief (probably) which means you need to quaff more often for lesser amounts d) you need to learn how to get a GOOD ratio so you use heals and manas at a proper ratio which depends entirely on the mob. but running out of either isn't fun, and you STILL only have 500 weight to pack it all in.
On the other hand, the fathomer packs 2 attack skills which compare with circle, both are decent in their own right but both have their limits so it is probably harder to run on a fathomer than a thief. 1 is a good start for running. 2 for when you need backups brings the total to 3... when you get there.
Barbarian: All star hitter really. rend got upped % wise so its now a very decent skill... other than the fact you lose parry altogether, the melee as well as the saves and hp/whatever else that counts on weapons. But it definitely makes for an interesting runner especially when you just aved and dont have gold for weapons... Sweetest thing is you dont NEED weapons for this guy most of the time. Charge is nice too. but anything that involves a tunnel and its worthless. Rend outperforms charge anyways. Now just give me a pacifist mount so stupid mobs can stop killing my mount. 1 to hit, then aim for a second once the rest of the team is done.
Support classes: These tend to be the less important classes. They really can't do the killing unless there are special circumstances.
Mage: Balance, defense, quill. Thats the order you should get em. Its common sense really. Everything else is basically worthless btw. Counter is very limited (and basically to only ONE mob. though its good if you kill that one mob alot) Paradox is outshined by vindur and rend. forget the destruction mages people. They sound good, are crap. You need to take into account the fact mages only have 350 weight and running out of potions is a less than satisfying way to die. Quill mages = awesome scribers/brewers. shadowform takes 400 or so mana to brew. these guys can churn em out. 2,2,2 is what I go by. I'm actually working on a 3rd balance so I have a second backup.
Cleric: You should know why this guy is important. Slightly less so than it used to be because bought heals are cheap enough to not warrant brewing of heals. BUT you still need to brew sancs, cast holy/minor/bene/indig. One tends to be enough till you really have more than a team's worth of characters.. then you need 2-3. Anymore is overkill.
Nephandi: Alot of unique spelldowns and makes gremlins for realigning. Keep just one around as it won't see an awful lot of use with qlip being more costly than vindur (deals less, more lag and eats pentagrams too)
Druid: Kinda an all round character but not excellent for anything. High rescue is nice and has decent elemental defenses. 1 should be all you ever need.
Warrior/Paladin/Ranger: If it isnt a thief run, chances are you use a nasr warrior. Also prefered by alot of people to tank on these as all you do is quaff.. nasr does the damage. You just watch the screen scroll and hit quaff every so often so you dont die. You want at least 2 Dev. maybe 3 depending on what your goal is to run. But 3 is all you should ever need.
Fathomer: The new thief basically. Vindur gives them an offensive advantage (though its rather costly as a) you need to start quaffing manas too which means you spend more time quaffing b) manas cost money. c) they have less hp than a thief (probably) which means you need to quaff more often for lesser amounts d) you need to learn how to get a GOOD ratio so you use heals and manas at a proper ratio which depends entirely on the mob. but running out of either isn't fun, and you STILL only have 500 weight to pack it all in.
On the other hand, the fathomer packs 2 attack skills which compare with circle, both are decent in their own right but both have their limits so it is probably harder to run on a fathomer than a thief. 1 is a good start for running. 2 for when you need backups brings the total to 3... when you get there.
Barbarian: All star hitter really. rend got upped % wise so its now a very decent skill... other than the fact you lose parry altogether, the melee as well as the saves and hp/whatever else that counts on weapons. But it definitely makes for an interesting runner especially when you just aved and dont have gold for weapons... Sweetest thing is you dont NEED weapons for this guy most of the time. Charge is nice too. but anything that involves a tunnel and its worthless. Rend outperforms charge anyways. Now just give me a pacifist mount so stupid mobs can stop killing my mount. 1 to hit, then aim for a second once the rest of the team is done.
Support classes: These tend to be the less important classes. They really can't do the killing unless there are special circumstances.
Mage: Balance, defense, quill. Thats the order you should get em. Its common sense really. Everything else is basically worthless btw. Counter is very limited (and basically to only ONE mob. though its good if you kill that one mob alot) Paradox is outshined by vindur and rend. forget the destruction mages people. They sound good, are crap. You need to take into account the fact mages only have 350 weight and running out of potions is a less than satisfying way to die. Quill mages = awesome scribers/brewers. shadowform takes 400 or so mana to brew. these guys can churn em out. 2,2,2 is what I go by. I'm actually working on a 3rd balance so I have a second backup.
Cleric: You should know why this guy is important. Slightly less so than it used to be because bought heals are cheap enough to not warrant brewing of heals. BUT you still need to brew sancs, cast holy/minor/bene/indig. One tends to be enough till you really have more than a team's worth of characters.. then you need 2-3. Anymore is overkill.
Nephandi: Alot of unique spelldowns and makes gremlins for realigning. Keep just one around as it won't see an awful lot of use with qlip being more costly than vindur (deals less, more lag and eats pentagrams too)
Druid: Kinda an all round character but not excellent for anything. High rescue is nice and has decent elemental defenses. 1 should be all you ever need.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Basic army building 3
Route 2. There are of course.. other ways to get an army up and running. The other way is via fathomer. Level one.. you will find it fairly easy to level. Spells give decent exp and it hits fairly ok while not taking alot of hits. Then you want the mage and cleric (yes .. you really need em or else you will be spending wayyyy too much on shield staves etc) Gold till you eq your fathomer properly. (its boring and slow.. and you dont gain half as much experience about RoD this way btw.. but it works.) Go neutral, its fairly cheap to eq.
the sigil of Keltas
(Humming) Set's ring of Power
(Humming) Set's ring of Power
Scales of Alpha and Omega (neut)
Scales of Alpha and Omega (neut)
(Humming) adamantium plate armor
the shade helm
eltor-hide leggings
a pair of tabi boots
red dragonhide gauntlets
a set of batwings
a huge shield of oak
(Humming) the cloak of Death
(Glowing) the Ice Girth
a spiked leather wristguard
a spiked leather wristguard
the black hilted sword "Shieldbreaker"
the Matrix of Desolution
earring of glasswalker bone
the shades
Most expensive would probably be set rings or matrix. (5X2 or 10X1.) Everything else should be 2 mil max. Then put the mage at the room E of the plunge room in coral depths. the cleric should be placed at the docks of edo. Fathomer should run to mage, get shield, valiance from mage, mage opens portal to cleric, fathomer enters, gets sanc, armor, bless etc from cleric. Both spellcasters log off, fathomer heads into the village broaching through doors. Head to second level of the tower then north to the gradmaster's room. he will summon a guard. feign it to death. go west, spring, disarm, then c vindur him to death while quaffing. about 3mil profit a kill. Rinse and repeat. then follow the steps to build up your army using route 1 paying for things as needed to speed up the process.
Most expensive would probably be set rings or matrix. (5X2 or 10X1.) Everything else should be 2 mil max. Then put the mage at the room E of the plunge room in coral depths. the cleric should be placed at the docks of edo. Fathomer should run to mage, get shield, valiance from mage, mage opens portal to cleric, fathomer enters, gets sanc, armor, bless etc from cleric. Both spellcasters log off, fathomer heads into the village broaching through doors. Head to second level of the tower then north to the gradmaster's room. he will summon a guard. feign it to death. go west, spring, disarm, then c vindur him to death while quaffing. about 3mil profit a kill. Rinse and repeat. then follow the steps to build up your army using route 1 paying for things as needed to speed up the process.
Basic army building 2
Assuming your augurer is done and aved(assuming you are part of GoA.. since thats basically everyone I told) It is time to start your REAL army. Having a core team makes running with other people easier, it makes golding easier, it also makes you SELF SUFFICIENT which means the rest of us can stop supporting you (and you can be useful to the rest of us). Kinda like common courtesy (I've taught you how to fish. So fish already!).
Developmental plans:
Route 1. (Now the less popular route due to spellbots)
Start a trio of chars. A mage, cleric and warrior. Using your auggie to eq them, they should quickly level. The mage and cleric should level up enough to get the important spells. Sanc, shields, leveling spells that give +2 instead of +1. The warrior should then be aved (with the support of the mage and cleric) which allows you a little more firepower as well as storage room. Start on a thief and av it while you work on both mage and cleric.
At this point you have a mage, cleric, warrior, thief and augurer which is a fairly decent team for gathering basics. Get the warrior and thief the basics starting at ocean keep. (navy rings, shark necks, sailor's earring, bloody eyepatch) if you dont already have em, The easy way is to portal deckhand to get onto the merida, kill deckhands till you get the first two. then sit there summoning crewmen and killing them one at a time till you get the eyepatch/earring. Then work on killing shade and Lodd. use the augurer to poison both with caustic, flee and let the poison sit 20ish 30 mins then kill with the group. unravel+ razor+ sword+ burden+lethargy should make both fairly easy to kill. Gather a few shade sets (you need 2 rings for the thief, shades for mage/cleric/thief and shield will work on both mage and cleric while the helm works for mage/cleric/thief again) Lodd will give you lodd swords which are for your warrior. 2 is good enough to up his damage. Enchant them devout of course. Adhere mage to balance revisit ToL to get the filthy loincloth for the mage, then head to icingdeath to get ice tooths for the thief and ice girths for EVERYONE. Ice arms go on everyone as well (other than the auggie).
Go to the forest of of tears and track artemis. kill her (you just need sanc and bless really). Circle with thief, smash with warrior. Spell down with mage and cleric. Spiral if you want with your auggie but you will realize how... useful it is. Moccassins for everyone cept the mage. After this point.. apply shields as needed. match shields on all characters.
At this point you should visit blasted lands by portaling to carpet dealer and paying him 100k per person to get carpets. fly is your friend. keep it on and have triggers to keep it on. Use immoblize on horus and multi him for 2 bracers. kill honor and head up to ra after killing the ramen. Ra is going to be REALLY rough on your team. attack him with the warrior before bringing in the mage then immoblize him till he dies too. You want a cloak for the cleric/warrior. Save your healing potions though and leave your balance mage north of isis (she will kick you down) while others heal. Once you are done, shield up again and tackle the 4 horsemen. you shouldnt need to stun the first two but stun/immoblize the last two. Kill thoth twice (immob doesnt work and you should keep the mage out) to get thoth rings and staves for the mage and cleric. use the cleric to fortify while the others quaff.. its a short but pretty brutal fight for your team so far. After you are done, tell thoth a man after he repops then get out to dh.
The next step is in nevermore. Slightly harder but quite rewarding. Take the first west exit then head north till you get to the diagonal rooms. NW side and open doors as you go. Head north and find the west exit to the western spire. This part after the first western spire room is no recall. Follow the path to the end (DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR.) go south, knock sw, open sw, sw, nw, n to a guard. kill him with the warrior, immoblize and your crew shoudl be able to kill him without much problem as long as you quaff on the warrior. loot the wrist and give it to the thief. go ip2 and keep the warrior and mage on. walk the warrior e, u, w,s,e into the second guard, then the mage in and spring, immob, quaff on the warrior until he dies. Regroup the rest of the team east of where the guard was (the guard is no flee btw. you either die or kill him). Loot the second wristguard for the thief. Here you can kill the mob a few times for nice gloves as well as your cleric's body wear for a while. Back track the way you came to the first western spire room (preferably before repop or you need to kill guards again). Recall!
At this point your group should be fairly eqed though missing a good few slots. Guess what the problem is? You need more characters.. simple as that. 2 more warriors, 4 more thieves and you should be ready. While you level, kill the following mobs. Kraken (crystaline teadrop ALL), cernunos (golden torque warrior), stone golem (maul of stone warrior), mistress of magic (sash of the magi).
Also watch out for the following items on auction Cloak of royalty (thief), Obsidian leggings (warrior/thief), crown of ages (warrior), aegis (all except mage), golden plate (mage) , dragonscale armguards (warrior), millenium (mage).
Once all the new characters as well as old are eqed mostly, pay a visit to the gold dragon on top of the tower in ofcol. you want about 20 orbs. Yes. 20. Finally... mandor. You want a maul wielding warrior to tank, and 5 thieves to hit. Split the job of casting shockshield on all of them between the mage and cleric. (4 mage 2 cleric) then holy and sanc up for probably your hardest challenge yet. Warrior tanks. thieves circle. mage brandishes orbs, cleric casts divinity on warrior while the warrior quaffs. After you kill him take your shieldbreaker (invis) and steel gauntlets. The sleeves are also useful if your warrior hasnt got dragonscale sleeves yet. same goes with girth. Pass the shieldbreaker to a thief (do not use it.) repeat the kill some more. you want 2 sbs per thief. (ugh.. i know). Now the less hard part... of the advanced cycle of mobs. Rez. easy to multi 3 yourself. get a warrior and 2 thieves. tank with the warrior, style down when you get gouged, style up a thief and tank on that while circling on the other. quaff loads. Once you finally kill rez, you have a fate key as well as cobras and a rez light. cobras goes to the mage while the key is the only one you need (it wont dissapear.. phew)...
Now take out 4 thieves. preferablly the best based ones. the cleric and the mage. Map the scourge of time maze and get to the sceptre, push/pull it, unlock the door with your shiny key and bring everyone in. At this point, kahl is west of you, north is a closet with probably some of the worst mobs you will encounter in your time on RoD. Kahl is an ip4 run 4 thieves with thievesblades. do NOT circle with your tank while the others circle SLOWLY watching for gas breaths. Every so often he throws you out so use that time to recoup. Run back in and kill him repeat till hes dead. 2 thievesblade PER thief. wear the spoils as you get em. awesome eq really.
Use the jade cameo for ice while using mage for fire, cleric for shock shields. (cleric has better shockshield than mage. mage needs to pull his/her share of shields). Kahl is rather easy really with 4. Once you get enough thievesblades for the team, its time to face down lord olsen and sindroad.... not. bring in the other thieves for 6 thief, mage, cleric. KEEP FLY ON. from the centre room (where you prep for kahl), open n, n into the closet. get the leader to type hatch to trans down. There is a hellknight here. hes probably a nice break from all the hard stuff you have been doing lately. (or at least alot harder than him anyways). Circle, razorbait, faerie fire, unravel. OOPS! the corpse falls :( type hatch to bring your group to safety. get one thief, rem weapons, sanced and shielded and go to the bottom, get all corpse, supplicate recall/(corpse) as sin and olsen are likely to kill you. Repeat for more godskulls. (which make an awesome income btw.. easily sold for 5m a pair, at 5 minutes a repop... )Anyhow, after a while, you will notice the hellknight doesnt spawn below the hatch and is instead nw of sin/olsen. you need to flee a thief into the room to get them moving, then get him back up and wait for the hellknights to come to you to kill some more.
Anyhow, by this time your army should be substantial enough to gold off mobs properly... go back to lodd and shade and give em a taste of your circles. include feina for cure blind pens and faragut for shock sticks (portal crewmen to get to the valkarie). you should also be able to kill the crewmen with little problem now even when they team up. stun faragut and either get the stick or an avenger (MOOLAH!) After this point.. you really dont need more help on learning how to build your army. Just add more to it as you go according to what you feel you need.
Developmental plans:
Route 1. (Now the less popular route due to spellbots)
Start a trio of chars. A mage, cleric and warrior. Using your auggie to eq them, they should quickly level. The mage and cleric should level up enough to get the important spells. Sanc, shields, leveling spells that give +2 instead of +1. The warrior should then be aved (with the support of the mage and cleric) which allows you a little more firepower as well as storage room. Start on a thief and av it while you work on both mage and cleric.
At this point you have a mage, cleric, warrior, thief and augurer which is a fairly decent team for gathering basics. Get the warrior and thief the basics starting at ocean keep. (navy rings, shark necks, sailor's earring, bloody eyepatch) if you dont already have em, The easy way is to portal deckhand to get onto the merida, kill deckhands till you get the first two. then sit there summoning crewmen and killing them one at a time till you get the eyepatch/earring. Then work on killing shade and Lodd. use the augurer to poison both with caustic, flee and let the poison sit 20ish 30 mins then kill with the group. unravel+ razor+ sword+ burden+lethargy should make both fairly easy to kill. Gather a few shade sets (you need 2 rings for the thief, shades for mage/cleric/thief and shield will work on both mage and cleric while the helm works for mage/cleric/thief again) Lodd will give you lodd swords which are for your warrior. 2 is good enough to up his damage. Enchant them devout of course. Adhere mage to balance revisit ToL to get the filthy loincloth for the mage, then head to icingdeath to get ice tooths for the thief and ice girths for EVERYONE. Ice arms go on everyone as well (other than the auggie).
Go to the forest of of tears and track artemis. kill her (you just need sanc and bless really). Circle with thief, smash with warrior. Spell down with mage and cleric. Spiral if you want with your auggie but you will realize how... useful it is. Moccassins for everyone cept the mage. After this point.. apply shields as needed. match shields on all characters.
At this point you should visit blasted lands by portaling to carpet dealer and paying him 100k per person to get carpets. fly is your friend. keep it on and have triggers to keep it on. Use immoblize on horus and multi him for 2 bracers. kill honor and head up to ra after killing the ramen. Ra is going to be REALLY rough on your team. attack him with the warrior before bringing in the mage then immoblize him till he dies too. You want a cloak for the cleric/warrior. Save your healing potions though and leave your balance mage north of isis (she will kick you down) while others heal. Once you are done, shield up again and tackle the 4 horsemen. you shouldnt need to stun the first two but stun/immoblize the last two. Kill thoth twice (immob doesnt work and you should keep the mage out) to get thoth rings and staves for the mage and cleric. use the cleric to fortify while the others quaff.. its a short but pretty brutal fight for your team so far. After you are done, tell thoth a man after he repops then get out to dh.
The next step is in nevermore. Slightly harder but quite rewarding. Take the first west exit then head north till you get to the diagonal rooms. NW side and open doors as you go. Head north and find the west exit to the western spire. This part after the first western spire room is no recall. Follow the path to the end (DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR.) go south, knock sw, open sw, sw, nw, n to a guard. kill him with the warrior, immoblize and your crew shoudl be able to kill him without much problem as long as you quaff on the warrior. loot the wrist and give it to the thief. go ip2 and keep the warrior and mage on. walk the warrior e, u, w,s,e into the second guard, then the mage in and spring, immob, quaff on the warrior until he dies. Regroup the rest of the team east of where the guard was (the guard is no flee btw. you either die or kill him). Loot the second wristguard for the thief. Here you can kill the mob a few times for nice gloves as well as your cleric's body wear for a while. Back track the way you came to the first western spire room (preferably before repop or you need to kill guards again). Recall!
At this point your group should be fairly eqed though missing a good few slots. Guess what the problem is? You need more characters.. simple as that. 2 more warriors, 4 more thieves and you should be ready. While you level, kill the following mobs. Kraken (crystaline teadrop ALL), cernunos (golden torque warrior), stone golem (maul of stone warrior), mistress of magic (sash of the magi).
Also watch out for the following items on auction Cloak of royalty (thief), Obsidian leggings (warrior/thief), crown of ages (warrior), aegis (all except mage), golden plate (mage) , dragonscale armguards (warrior), millenium (mage).
Once all the new characters as well as old are eqed mostly, pay a visit to the gold dragon on top of the tower in ofcol. you want about 20 orbs. Yes. 20. Finally... mandor. You want a maul wielding warrior to tank, and 5 thieves to hit. Split the job of casting shockshield on all of them between the mage and cleric. (4 mage 2 cleric) then holy and sanc up for probably your hardest challenge yet. Warrior tanks. thieves circle. mage brandishes orbs, cleric casts divinity on warrior while the warrior quaffs. After you kill him take your shieldbreaker (invis) and steel gauntlets. The sleeves are also useful if your warrior hasnt got dragonscale sleeves yet. same goes with girth. Pass the shieldbreaker to a thief (do not use it.) repeat the kill some more. you want 2 sbs per thief. (ugh.. i know). Now the less hard part... of the advanced cycle of mobs. Rez. easy to multi 3 yourself. get a warrior and 2 thieves. tank with the warrior, style down when you get gouged, style up a thief and tank on that while circling on the other. quaff loads. Once you finally kill rez, you have a fate key as well as cobras and a rez light. cobras goes to the mage while the key is the only one you need (it wont dissapear.. phew)...
Now take out 4 thieves. preferablly the best based ones. the cleric and the mage. Map the scourge of time maze and get to the sceptre, push/pull it, unlock the door with your shiny key and bring everyone in. At this point, kahl is west of you, north is a closet with probably some of the worst mobs you will encounter in your time on RoD. Kahl is an ip4 run 4 thieves with thievesblades. do NOT circle with your tank while the others circle SLOWLY watching for gas breaths. Every so often he throws you out so use that time to recoup. Run back in and kill him repeat till hes dead. 2 thievesblade PER thief. wear the spoils as you get em. awesome eq really.
Use the jade cameo for ice while using mage for fire, cleric for shock shields. (cleric has better shockshield than mage. mage needs to pull his/her share of shields). Kahl is rather easy really with 4. Once you get enough thievesblades for the team, its time to face down lord olsen and sindroad.... not. bring in the other thieves for 6 thief, mage, cleric. KEEP FLY ON. from the centre room (where you prep for kahl), open n, n into the closet. get the leader to type hatch to trans down. There is a hellknight here. hes probably a nice break from all the hard stuff you have been doing lately. (or at least alot harder than him anyways). Circle, razorbait, faerie fire, unravel. OOPS! the corpse falls :( type hatch to bring your group to safety. get one thief, rem weapons, sanced and shielded and go to the bottom, get all corpse, supplicate recall/(corpse) as sin and olsen are likely to kill you. Repeat for more godskulls. (which make an awesome income btw.. easily sold for 5m a pair, at 5 minutes a repop... )Anyhow, after a while, you will notice the hellknight doesnt spawn below the hatch and is instead nw of sin/olsen. you need to flee a thief into the room to get them moving, then get him back up and wait for the hellknights to come to you to kill some more.
Anyhow, by this time your army should be substantial enough to gold off mobs properly... go back to lodd and shade and give em a taste of your circles. include feina for cure blind pens and faragut for shock sticks (portal crewmen to get to the valkarie). you should also be able to kill the crewmen with little problem now even when they team up. stun faragut and either get the stick or an avenger (MOOLAH!) After this point.. you really dont need more help on learning how to build your army. Just add more to it as you go according to what you feel you need.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Basic character rolling and building your own army
First the classes and races to choose. You will see alot of similarities and repetition.
Augurer:Dwarf is THE best augurer race. Because of eq mainly.
Barbarian: Evil barbarians dont really have much ontop of a devout so make it devout.. and an Ogre or Orc.
Cleric: Clerics tend to be evil or devout. 99% are devout cause they can cast heal and divinity. Evils are used for scribing poison, casting cloud of darkness. (and they still have cure critical which is still a fairly decent healing spell for the hp/mana cost while still retaining useful spells like holy sanctity which is mass sanctuary as well as minor/major. They do lose benediction though.) Plenty of races for clerics are good. There really arent any "wrong" races for a cleric other than drow (loads of align based spam if you do choose devout), pixie (low str really hurts how well you can eq a character), gnome (suc fire is kinda lame. res energy isnt that useful and no really great eq). Personal preferences are dwarf, sea-elf.
Druid: Pretty similar to clerics really. cept they are somewhat of a tanking class that also doubles as hitters. Preferences are also dwarf, sea-elf.
Fathomer: They are like magical thieves. I exclusively prefer to use sea elves.
Mage: Spellcasters that tend to share the burden of the "spellbot" name with clerics. Again, sea-elf is my prefered race.
Nephandi: Weaker, evil only mage basically with a slew of spelldowns that are unique to nephs. Also prefer drow.
Paladin: Devout only warriors.. well you can go evil but you lose 90% of your spells. Elf.
Ranger: something between a warrior and a druid. They have a fair amount of skills but nothing really awesome. Gash requires a claw and costs 50 mana. Im still trying to decide if they damage is good or not. Halfling, elf are the best choices. Particularly evil halfling.
Thief: The most typical hitting class in the game. They excel at most parts of the game and are probably the most commonly used class for.. everything. 95% dodge 95% tumble (both of which are probably dex and luck based) along with 25 dex, close to warrior standard hp, and circle which is probably one of the most damaging skills in the game (and also can be magic/nonmagic depending on your weapons) Basically makes them THE run class, as well as the standard for learning to run with. Orc or ogre. Do NOT try to roll a bunch of ogres for the devout part of your army. It will take too long and you really want the DR bonuses from orc eq. I do NOT understand why people use trolls. Ogres> trolls. Thats it. OK well halflings can be used too...
Warrior: Orc or ogre. Storage, used for killing mobs that can be stunned and the typical nasr warrior. Again, go with orc unless there is a really big reason not to.
Vampire: Blood sucking... things. Orcs are nice for tanking, halflings are also pretty good, and anything else is probably a waste of time.
The stats:
Augurer: 25 wis, 22 luck. 18 dex >_<. Devouts tend to fare as well as evils as evils tend to lack stats and sacrifice better eq for stats. Aim for 15-18 str , 17-18 wis, 16 int, 11-15 dex, 15 luck.
(These values depending on what you plan to use at av but give you a rough idea of what you should be aiming for when rolling.) If you havent noticed, rolling a good augurer is pretty hard. Make sure you get 9 con and cha or it is very hard to get the stats you really want. particularly dex. Real fast note. Auggie sandals are 0 dex. if you can afford a shroud/essence you have 3 dex to work with but really thats it. So unless you use aegis/golden plate and or eltor hide leggings, you need 15 dex. 13 with aegis/plate, 11 with leggings. Increase each of those values previous by 1 if you can only afford magi robe.
Barbarian: 25 str, 22 con, 18 int. aim for 18 str, 14+ con, 10 cha 14+ dex is nice to eq for. Evils dont really get enough dex. Note barbarian neck has 1 str, shades of light 1 con, layer plate 4 con.
Cleric: 25 wis, 22 int, 18 dex. 12str, 18wis, 16int
Females get 2 str per wrist with guen bracers and typically all clerics wear aegis, templars, memories. Dev eq tends to cover the rest of the stats nicely Males/Neutral require +4 str
Druid: 25 wis, 22con, 18 cha. 17 wis (using trinket to cast +3 sagacity), wis sigil, triffid tendrils. 14 dex, 16 con, 15 int. Steel gaunts, dragonscale arms, cloak of light, are all the str you get. so 15 str... unless you use guens. Cloak of light is kinda crappy though so if you can manage a zhurrkdin cloak... you wouldnt be reading this. <_<
Fathomer: 25 dex, 22 int, 18 con. 14+ dex tends to be enough as no chains no strand tend to give them a big boost. You tend to need 17 str though. 16 int, and get at least 15+ luck.
Mage: 25 int, 22 wis, 18 str. You tend to need 14 str, less with guens (see why gender is important?), 18 int, 16 wis, 15 dex and luck if you plan on using it to fight...
Nephandi: 25 int, 22 dex, 18 luck. basically a mage just evil. stats tend to be the same. but the 17 dex is needed. You can go down to 14 wis though.
Paladin: 25 str, 22 wis, 18 int. 18 str, 18 wis, dex tends to be find with the amount of dex eq on devs. (2 per ring of ancient gods, 3 on moccassins, 3 on cloak of death, optional 1 on teardrop, 2 on aegis, 2 on obsidian leggings). Get plenty of luck with the remaining points.
Ranger: 25 str, 22 wis, 22 dex, 18 cha. Like the paladin, really nothin to it.
Thief: 25 dex, 22 cha, 18 wis. Devouts should be 15 str, 15 dex, 16 luck. Neutral/Evils should be 18/18/18 if at all possible... 17 str is workable but prevents you from using raven guards. 17 luck is workable too.. circle just doesnt hit as well. So try your best to get the stats. Dev and neutral setups tend to be 99% set in stone.
Warrior: 25 str, 22 dex, 18 int. Devs refer to paladin notes. Just you dont need the wis.. so aim for luck instead. Evils and neuts need 18 str, 18 dex.
Augurer:Dwarf is THE best augurer race. Because of eq mainly.
Barbarian: Evil barbarians dont really have much ontop of a devout so make it devout.. and an Ogre or Orc.
Cleric: Clerics tend to be evil or devout. 99% are devout cause they can cast heal and divinity. Evils are used for scribing poison, casting cloud of darkness. (and they still have cure critical which is still a fairly decent healing spell for the hp/mana cost while still retaining useful spells like holy sanctity which is mass sanctuary as well as minor/major. They do lose benediction though.) Plenty of races for clerics are good. There really arent any "wrong" races for a cleric other than drow (loads of align based spam if you do choose devout), pixie (low str really hurts how well you can eq a character), gnome (suc fire is kinda lame. res energy isnt that useful and no really great eq). Personal preferences are dwarf, sea-elf.
Druid: Pretty similar to clerics really. cept they are somewhat of a tanking class that also doubles as hitters. Preferences are also dwarf, sea-elf.
Fathomer: They are like magical thieves. I exclusively prefer to use sea elves.
Mage: Spellcasters that tend to share the burden of the "spellbot" name with clerics. Again, sea-elf is my prefered race.
Nephandi: Weaker, evil only mage basically with a slew of spelldowns that are unique to nephs. Also prefer drow.
Paladin: Devout only warriors.. well you can go evil but you lose 90% of your spells. Elf.
Ranger: something between a warrior and a druid. They have a fair amount of skills but nothing really awesome. Gash requires a claw and costs 50 mana. Im still trying to decide if they damage is good or not. Halfling, elf are the best choices. Particularly evil halfling.
Thief: The most typical hitting class in the game. They excel at most parts of the game and are probably the most commonly used class for.. everything. 95% dodge 95% tumble (both of which are probably dex and luck based) along with 25 dex, close to warrior standard hp, and circle which is probably one of the most damaging skills in the game (and also can be magic/nonmagic depending on your weapons) Basically makes them THE run class, as well as the standard for learning to run with. Orc or ogre. Do NOT try to roll a bunch of ogres for the devout part of your army. It will take too long and you really want the DR bonuses from orc eq. I do NOT understand why people use trolls. Ogres> trolls. Thats it. OK well halflings can be used too...
Warrior: Orc or ogre. Storage, used for killing mobs that can be stunned and the typical nasr warrior. Again, go with orc unless there is a really big reason not to.
Vampire: Blood sucking... things. Orcs are nice for tanking, halflings are also pretty good, and anything else is probably a waste of time.
The stats:
Augurer: 25 wis, 22 luck. 18 dex >_<. Devouts tend to fare as well as evils as evils tend to lack stats and sacrifice better eq for stats. Aim for 15-18 str , 17-18 wis, 16 int, 11-15 dex, 15 luck.
(These values depending on what you plan to use at av but give you a rough idea of what you should be aiming for when rolling.) If you havent noticed, rolling a good augurer is pretty hard. Make sure you get 9 con and cha or it is very hard to get the stats you really want. particularly dex. Real fast note. Auggie sandals are 0 dex. if you can afford a shroud/essence you have 3 dex to work with but really thats it. So unless you use aegis/golden plate and or eltor hide leggings, you need 15 dex. 13 with aegis/plate, 11 with leggings. Increase each of those values previous by 1 if you can only afford magi robe.
Barbarian: 25 str, 22 con, 18 int. aim for 18 str, 14+ con, 10 cha 14+ dex is nice to eq for. Evils dont really get enough dex. Note barbarian neck has 1 str, shades of light 1 con, layer plate 4 con.
Cleric: 25 wis, 22 int, 18 dex. 12str, 18wis, 16int
Females get 2 str per wrist with guen bracers and typically all clerics wear aegis, templars, memories. Dev eq tends to cover the rest of the stats nicely Males/Neutral require +4 str
Druid: 25 wis, 22con, 18 cha. 17 wis (using trinket to cast +3 sagacity), wis sigil, triffid tendrils. 14 dex, 16 con, 15 int. Steel gaunts, dragonscale arms, cloak of light, are all the str you get. so 15 str... unless you use guens. Cloak of light is kinda crappy though so if you can manage a zhurrkdin cloak... you wouldnt be reading this. <_<
Fathomer: 25 dex, 22 int, 18 con. 14+ dex tends to be enough as no chains no strand tend to give them a big boost. You tend to need 17 str though. 16 int, and get at least 15+ luck.
Mage: 25 int, 22 wis, 18 str. You tend to need 14 str, less with guens (see why gender is important?), 18 int, 16 wis, 15 dex and luck if you plan on using it to fight...
Nephandi: 25 int, 22 dex, 18 luck. basically a mage just evil. stats tend to be the same. but the 17 dex is needed. You can go down to 14 wis though.
Paladin: 25 str, 22 wis, 18 int. 18 str, 18 wis, dex tends to be find with the amount of dex eq on devs. (2 per ring of ancient gods, 3 on moccassins, 3 on cloak of death, optional 1 on teardrop, 2 on aegis, 2 on obsidian leggings). Get plenty of luck with the remaining points.
Ranger: 25 str, 22 wis, 22 dex, 18 cha. Like the paladin, really nothin to it.
Thief: 25 dex, 22 cha, 18 wis. Devouts should be 15 str, 15 dex, 16 luck. Neutral/Evils should be 18/18/18 if at all possible... 17 str is workable but prevents you from using raven guards. 17 luck is workable too.. circle just doesnt hit as well. So try your best to get the stats. Dev and neutral setups tend to be 99% set in stone.
Warrior: 25 str, 22 dex, 18 int. Devs refer to paladin notes. Just you dont need the wis.. so aim for luck instead. Evils and neuts need 18 str, 18 dex.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Efficient leveling
Let's face it. Leveling is BOOORING but it needs to get done.
- Have your leveling eq READY, in ONE place.
- Have TWO sets of leveling eq. One set for hp/hr/dr and maxes wis, one set to max basically all your stats to change into before you level.
- Aim for enemies about 5 levels higher than your character.
- Rotate. Do NOT sit in one spot wasting time waiting for repops. Go kill something else. You should never be idle. Rotating between mobs also prevents your buffer from filling up.
- Keep a good stock of potions on you and refill. Use purples for healing (or any other type of healing you like) and kaern potions for mana (you will need to find kaern for this) but having these handy will save you alot compared to violets and blues.
- Know what level mobs are. Hitting mobs too early just puts them in your buffer and nets you less exp. You get best exp from mobs roughly 5 levels ahead. It goes down on both sides of that level.
- MAX YOUR WISDOM. It determines max exp gain. 18 for thieves, 20 for most other classes, 22 for paladins, rangers, mages 25 for augurers, clerics and druids.
- Keep your buffer empty.. rotate. Then rotate some more.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
keeping up with the weight.
Everyone plays and eventually.. you run out of room, the more you play, the faster it seems to happen. Some ways to save space...
a) throw out the trash. should be pretty obvious. sub par eq, anything you dont need should go.
b) sort your leveling eq. that is to say.. get a set of it.. and sell/throw away the rest of it... its not like you can level on 2 screens at once. serious leveling should be attack, move, attack, move, then repeat till av. of course, if the spare eq is any good... sell it. only if it scraps easy or expires.. or something like that, keep a few spares. enchantable weapons... keep 4. one druid, one neph, one evil, one devout enchanted. update as needed if you get better av dams (or if the weapons is just totally awesome and is likely to become OOG like corkscrews... no.. there arent any right now)
c) move your excess weight. level a BUNCH of low level warriors. make em all level 6 first, then as you have higher level stuff, level one up a bit more. toys, treasures and most keepsakes are relatively low level. so keep your toys and stuff on a storage at home. if you want... a nice way to get even MORE storage space out of this...
d) mages and extradimensional portals... ok so there is a catch. mage portals reduces weight of items a little bit. so for every 5 weight you put in, it only weighs 4 while its IN the portal. so you basically get a 20% cut of weight (correct me if im wrong. it might be a little more but for every 5 weight you lose at LEAST 1. ) so what do you do? make a level 13 mage, make extradimensional portals. fill em up on the mage, give em to your warriors = free containers as well. the catch is.. you need to give back the portal to the mage to get your stuff OUT.. this means you need to be HIGHLY organized or do alot of portal searching.
a) throw out the trash. should be pretty obvious. sub par eq, anything you dont need should go.
b) sort your leveling eq. that is to say.. get a set of it.. and sell/throw away the rest of it... its not like you can level on 2 screens at once. serious leveling should be attack, move, attack, move, then repeat till av. of course, if the spare eq is any good... sell it. only if it scraps easy or expires.. or something like that, keep a few spares. enchantable weapons... keep 4. one druid, one neph, one evil, one devout enchanted. update as needed if you get better av dams (or if the weapons is just totally awesome and is likely to become OOG like corkscrews... no.. there arent any right now)
c) move your excess weight. level a BUNCH of low level warriors. make em all level 6 first, then as you have higher level stuff, level one up a bit more. toys, treasures and most keepsakes are relatively low level. so keep your toys and stuff on a storage at home. if you want... a nice way to get even MORE storage space out of this...
d) mages and extradimensional portals... ok so there is a catch. mage portals reduces weight of items a little bit. so for every 5 weight you put in, it only weighs 4 while its IN the portal. so you basically get a 20% cut of weight (correct me if im wrong. it might be a little more but for every 5 weight you lose at LEAST 1. ) so what do you do? make a level 13 mage, make extradimensional portals. fill em up on the mage, give em to your warriors = free containers as well. the catch is.. you need to give back the portal to the mage to get your stuff OUT.. this means you need to be HIGHLY organized or do alot of portal searching.
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
The basics of running.
Running is a rather complicated process on RoD. Let's face it, there is this huuuuuge jump between when you finally finish leveling, and get out there and try to run something. Suddenly mobs have insane amounts of hp and damage and it isn't so easy to stay alive anymore and before you know it you are enlisting the help of your friends to bring down some big mob out there. How do you figure out who should get what, who should lead, who should get loot first etc? Here are some basic principles that groups normally use.
Everyone but the leader:
-config -autoloot/sac unless otherwise instructed. The leader does the looting, not who ever feels like it.
-follow the instructions of the leader. To make it simple, its like a game of simon says. Leader should outline what happens when, people are expected to follow instructions. If it is a new mob, or a hard mob, there are also some do nots. Like do not flee, or do not disarm. Make sure you follow instructions carefully or the run will fall apart.
-PAY ATTENTION. I dont know how else to put it. After the run starts, put life on hold for a few till you are done. Nothing is more annoying than someone who afks on a run which spoils it for everyone else. LEEERRROOOOOOOYYY JEEENNKINSSS.Nuff said really, I am aware it is a parody, but it's less funny when that happens to you. People who constantly pull stunts like leroy don't get invited on runs anymore. Simple, common sense.
-bring spare potions and tankpots. Hi. carry your own sancs and heals please. Just because a mob only takes 100 heals on average doesn't mean you should bring 100. Bring extras in case there are problems on the way in or the mob is particularly nasty that day.
- Remember the rule. no dead mob = no loot. Getting a mob to DYING doesnt get you anything. Killing it does. Reserve the celebration till AFTER the mob is dead.
Leader:
- Know the mob and area better than just tokai.ws lists it. Don't tell people you know how to lead it because you read the notes. Reading and leading are two different things. When exploring, make sure everyone knows what to expect when X or Y happens. Nothing is worse than a leader who suddenly stops leading when there is a problem in the run and he dies or gets transed elsewhere. Make sure people know what is going on.
- Make sure everyone understands where you are going and what you are doing.
- Make sure people are prepared for the mob and what lies between DH and the mob.
- Give a breakdown of the run, how things are supposed to go.
- Have enough weight and inv space to hold loot till the run is over.
Everyone but the leader:
-config -autoloot/sac unless otherwise instructed. The leader does the looting, not who ever feels like it.
-follow the instructions of the leader. To make it simple, its like a game of simon says. Leader should outline what happens when, people are expected to follow instructions. If it is a new mob, or a hard mob, there are also some do nots. Like do not flee, or do not disarm. Make sure you follow instructions carefully or the run will fall apart.
-PAY ATTENTION. I dont know how else to put it. After the run starts, put life on hold for a few till you are done. Nothing is more annoying than someone who afks on a run which spoils it for everyone else. LEEERRROOOOOOOYYY JEEENNKINSSS.Nuff said really, I am aware it is a parody, but it's less funny when that happens to you. People who constantly pull stunts like leroy don't get invited on runs anymore. Simple, common sense.
-bring spare potions and tankpots. Hi. carry your own sancs and heals please. Just because a mob only takes 100 heals on average doesn't mean you should bring 100. Bring extras in case there are problems on the way in or the mob is particularly nasty that day.
- Remember the rule. no dead mob = no loot. Getting a mob to DYING doesnt get you anything. Killing it does. Reserve the celebration till AFTER the mob is dead.
Leader:
- Know the mob and area better than just tokai.ws lists it. Don't tell people you know how to lead it because you read the notes. Reading and leading are two different things. When exploring, make sure everyone knows what to expect when X or Y happens. Nothing is worse than a leader who suddenly stops leading when there is a problem in the run and he dies or gets transed elsewhere. Make sure people know what is going on.
- Make sure everyone understands where you are going and what you are doing.
- Make sure people are prepared for the mob and what lies between DH and the mob.
- Give a breakdown of the run, how things are supposed to go.
- Have enough weight and inv space to hold loot till the run is over.
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