Newbie Guide

Newbie Guide

By Seregon

This is just to give new players some ideas. I am not saying this is the way to do it, but it is just how I did it and I know it works. A lot of this depends on your playing style so, take from it what you will. I will say this much. I got my derrière handed to me at 8 days trying a champ that was not the newbie friendly. However, I figured it out and soloed my first champ at 11 days. I had a two-handed, partially leveled axe, and a combination of fortune armor and bone daemon armor. You can start earning powerscrolls, tons of regs, gems, tokens, some spell scrolls and GOLD. I was not guilded at the time, The New guild or otherwise, and I asked for NO help. Someone did mark runes for me is all, so I know it's doable.

I wanted to make my own way when I started, but feel free to ask for help if you need it. If someone helps you, be willing to do the work. Some hand holding is available here if you have never played before, but you still need to be open to doing a bit of grinding especially to get skills and stats up!

Training Dummies

First thing is to start pounding the training dummies. Get your skills and stats up. You can train all weapon skills to GM (do not buy these skills - train from zero to gain stats), as well as tactics, focus, meditation, and with cloth or bandages, anatomy and healing as you go. Use the public static moongates in the cities to travel around explore. Also check out custom displays, there is a lot to learn. A great way to finish leveling your strength is mining or lumberjacking. Dex raises by tinkering or lockpicking. You are not limited to these skills to raise stats but it seems some skills raise certain stats faster.

Newbie Dungeon Info

Once your stats and skills are up, try the New Player Dungeon You can collect special green gems and turn them in for pieces of LRC armor and then go back to the training dummies or run around a city (I picked Trinsic) casting until you raise mage, eval, necro, spirit speak, chivalry and so on.

Shop the Vendors

You can shop the vendors and grab Armor of Fortune which gives you 40% LRC 200 luck, is Mage Armor as well as having Defense Chance Increase. It is cheap so do NOT pay a lot for it. You can train the magic skills by just casting, or casting on the training dummies. Magic resist can be trained by letting the Reapers attack you over and over while you heal, right at the moongate at Malas>dungeons>Undead Stadium and other places like this. Get your skills and especially stats first. Watch out the champ monsters can be thick there but if you walk out just a little you will be fine. Training takes TIME but skills can be raised here relatively quickly.

Choose a starting Weapon

You need to decide on a weapon. Most here use the double axe, eventually adding a one-handed deed, so you can also carry a shield. Find a decent one. You do not have to have the best one or even a champ axe to start. New guild usually has some of these or used to, but there are also starting axes on vendors. Don't worry about Spell Channeling (use Chiv spells so the axe won't come off), One-handed or luck on it right away. Insure it!

Toggle your character to auto-renew insurance so you don't have to put it on every time. Find a decent macro so you can attack closest enemy and use whirlwind. There are some macros available in various places on Discord or you can write your own macro in UOSteam or Razor.

Buy weapon repair deeds from a vendor with 120 smithy skill or higher and go to a forge and anvil and repair as you go. Or ask in world chat if anyone is available to repair an axe for you. Do not worry about losing max durability as most of the time you will only lose 1 point on repair. You can add fortification powder later. You first axe will probably never be your only axe and you will make or buy better ones later, but you need a decent triple leech (Life,Mana,Stamina) axe. It doesn't have to have more than that for now, but another line would be nice. You can put lightning, harm, fireball or lowers on it as you go. You could also put on area spells (In what I consider the order: Hit Cold Area, then fire, poison, physical, then energy)

Leveling will get you 2 things fully like lightning or fireball, or 2 area spells. I consider lightning a must on every axe, champ or otherwise. Area spells can also be socketed in later. You will also have a couple extra points to top off a couple of other things already on the axe. But you will be able to level 2 things on your axe to 50 each unless it's one of the leeches which take 8 or 10 points per raise.

Set up your Loot Bag Correctly

Set up your loot bag. Be careful to not include too much as you will get overweight quickly. If you purchase a bank stone that will alleviate much of the weight problems, but at first, you need to be able to carry or drop stuff. You will be killing not to get all the hides, but to get the tokens and especially the gold. If you don't have a gem key you will need to go sell the gems every so often so as not to get overweight. Same with scrolls. The weight adds up quickly. See Loot Bag Setup

Go to the dungeon and hit your macro with attack and whirlwind and with the leeches on your axe (you did buy a cheap triple leech-yes?) you should mostly survive and start to make some money. Go slow. You may not be ready to mow down a group composed of dragons, drakes, wyverns and serpents - BUT you can do exactly that.

Another good tactic is to go to the safe champs. Malas has Mephitis and it is a reasonable starting point. You should be able to do the first row of candles and make a little gold, regs, tokens etc. as well as leveling your axe. Do not worry about doing the whole champ. Go slow - do what you can - wait - do it again.

Take advantage of the Newbie champ as often as you can. Make sure you have some skills and stats first. Do NOT worry or stress if you don't get powerscrolls at the Newbie champ. You WON'T get them at first because you are most likely not ready to take on the champ anyway and you will be DEAD if you run up there and try geared the way you are. Then you will be upset as you are trying to get rezzed when the champ goes down. After a couple of weeks, YOU will be the one up there on the altar getting the scrolls, listening to others in world chat talking about themselves not getting the powerscrolls.

Work on the Storage Key Quests

Get your keys to put stuff in. You can keep your starting reagents in your loot bag. A bank crystal is nice to have at first, but I would argue that the reagent key should probably be your first key. Check out the quests for keys as see if you can get it yourself. Otherwise, you may have to go for a while without one as you make money. Add keys as you go. The adventurer boots hold bandages and lockpicks. The Evo key (not sure how it is available) will hold mage regs, iron, cloth, regular hides, regular lumber. These are nice starting keys to have. You can later add the lumber and ingot keys as well as jewel key for gems. Eventually you will want and need the tool box keys, smithy storage, potion, butchers, fishing, gardeners, powerscroll and the list goes on. see Key Quests

Get Armor

Buy Astro bone daemon armor. One piece at a time if it is the only way you can afford it. The stats on it are amazing right away. It will change your survivability immediately. Go do the whole champ now or clean out a dungeon. There is a quest, but it is hard for a newbie Astro daemon Quest

There are so many other ways to do this. This shard has many play styles. Starting, you can also run bods, and do tasks and the key quests until you get all grown up. Some prefer to get a solid pet and go out into the world. Champs and dungeons can be a quicker way to make a buck, but pets may be a bit safer. Whatever your playing style is you can find it here.

Later you will work on your obi, dragon cloak, kas armor, Vecna armor or battle worn kas and a hundred other things like your crafting suits etc.

The New player fast start package is an excellent value to help get you up and running also and it's cheap. Warning: If you take advantage of this, please do NOT burn your skill ball on easy to raise skills as you will want some of these points for leveling skills from GM to Legendary as you get the powerscrolls and also skills can for the most part easily be raised with just a little training and work. You can always purchase another skill ball later too if you need.

Join the NEW Guild

Join the New guild as you will get a lot of the starting help you need. Just don't expect them to give you everything. Do the work!

These are just some ideas and not really a definitive guide so again take from it what you will. I did it this way when starting out and it worked for me. Remember this game is a marathon and not a sprint. Have Fun! Any questions then ask away...