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    Irv
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    Default Things I wish I had known as a newbie!

    Things I'm learning as a newbie I wish I had known! (Please feel free to add to this list! I will edit this posting as it allows me.)

    GENERAL KNOWLEDGE:
    [*]The Consignment vendor wares are globally linked on the community.istaria.com website. You can use the website to see all listed wares. There's no need to visit individual Consignment vendors to see what they have listed.[*]If you are new, click on one of the buttons in the lower right-hand corner of the left-hand chat window to see the available channels. Join the "New Player's Assistance" channel.[*]Play the game in Windowed Mode if you plan on using other applications on your computer while playing (music, e-mail, etc.). [*]You can use %T% and %L% in messages. If you use Coordinated bolt/strike with a group, have the hotkey start with a text message command like "Coord strike on %T%" to announce what you're hitting. Or you can just be crazy and have all your attack keys say things like "Eat hot triple teched mithril you misbegotten %T%". This is extra amusing when you highlight a crafting machine and accidentally press a hotkey. When someone asks where something is, or where you are, you can select the object/person in question and say "I'm at %L%" to give the coords.[*]alt-Q / alt-W for cycling through chat windows. alt-A / alt-S for cycling through chat tabs. F9 to select self. F10 to select nearest enemy. If you like using only a single hotket bar in your UI, then you probably know this. If you're looking to free up space in your UI then consider using shift + number of hotkey bar to switch to that hotkey bar. Then use the corresponding number for the hotkey you wish to trigger. Saves moving the mouse all over the place if you've got ten hotkey bars filled up with spells and abilities.[*]Press enter to activate your chat, Hold down shift and use the arrow keys to cycle through the last things you said so you can repeat them.[*]When in a chat channel, typing andyou want to delete your whole line without having to backspace the whole thing (very annoying sometimes) shift + delete will take care of the whole lot of it.[*]If you use the inventory screens in list mode instead of icon mode you can use shift and control to select multiple items, just like you would in windows explorer for example. Very handy to mass delete, mass hoard, or mass deconstruct if you forgot to check the auto-decon option.[*]/setpref useloadingscreen false - for the faster porting[*]/loadui - to reload your UI if something is messed up with it.[*]Toggle +/= to switch between run and walk.[*]Faster flight for dragons: Hold down the scroll wheel (so it clicks) and rotate the screen so that you are looking down. Then rotate your screen back into a view you like with the PageUp/Down buttons. Now as you fly, you will be in constant desent but will not land when you hit the ground, only glide. Gliding in this way increases your rate of movement (but not the numerical value displayed for Flight Speed). Some mice have conflicting commands associated with the Wheel Button. If you are not able to look around while holding the wheel button, play around with its associations in your mouse config.[*]A command called /availemotes will give you a list of all the standard emotes with movements.[/list]CRAFTING:[*]The training tools are useful only until your current skill is 50. Once your skill surpasses 50, look in the Consignment wares to find a bronze tool (good until skill 250). If you don't find the tool you need, ask politely on the Marketplace or the New Player's Assistance channels if someone can assist you.[*]If you are a bi-ped and ready to begin crafting, buy yourself a better backpack and a flaxen sack from the Consignment merchants. Your default (newbie) encumbrance is 1500 bulk. A better backpack increases it to 1800, and a flaxen sack increases it to 1950. If you don't find any backpacks or sacks available, you may wish to ask around, as crafters will be happy to help you acquire these items.[*]Your base skill rating for each crafting-based skill increases only when you level a relevant crafting school. Your current skill rating is based on buffs (augmentation spells and potions and items) and your tool. Your efficiency at crafting any item is based on your current skill rating, not your base skill rating. As the relevant skill ratings increase, your efficiency will increase proportionally. The more efficient you are, the less component resources are required to successfully craft an item.[*]You can purchase formulae from your crafting trainers. [*]You can purchase techniques from Quartermasters in various cities.[*]Formulae and techniques are also available from Consignment merchants, as quest rewards, and as loot drops.[*]Players will often refer to techniques as "tech" and formulae as "forms"[*]While you use a formula to create an item, you can also use a technique to enhance the item. For example, you can craft the beginner spell "Revitalize I" to heal 11-15 points of damage. If you use the technique "Increase Heal I" while creating the spell, it will heal for 16-21.[*]You always have to manage inventory and encumbrance when crafting. I found it useful from the start to vault adventuring items I didn't need when crafting, and vault crafting items I didn't need when adventuring. Tools also have significant bulk, so you may wish to consider only carrying around the tools you absolutely need. Note: items you have equipped (armor, for example) don't count against your bulk, so there's no need to strip down and wear a simple smock when crafting (unless you're role-playing, of course!).[*]The tasks your crafting trainers offer will change every 10 crafting levels. From levels 1-9, you may be asked to craft 15 sandstone bricks. When you reach crafting level 10, the same trainer will then ask you craft 35 sandstone bricks. XP and Imperial Token rewards increase commensurately.[*]Don't hesitate to switch crafting schools as whim and interest dictate. You can switch back and forth between as many crafting schools as you wish without penalty. Learn what's useful for your character(s), learn what's fun for you as a player![*]Dragons can craft scales on an anvil as well as a scaleforge.[*]You can deconstruct everything you make EXCEPT any item that will count as a stack (bars, bricks, orbs, spools, hide strips, boards, construction units, potions, spell shards, etc. do not deconstruct). To deconstruct your items all you need to do is click the checkbox in the create item interface and it does it automatically for you. I found this after 66 levels of blacksmith and deconstructing from from inventory using list mode andselect --> shift key -->select to highlight a range before right clicking and choosing deconstruct.[/list]ADVENTURING:[*]Dead? Hit the RECALL button to return to your bind point.[*]You can queue up spells. You'll see the spell queue in the window with your health and experience meters. This is useful for buffing and healing, too.[*]Trophy Hunters are merchants in various cities who will accept trophies from monsters from you in exchange for both XP and coin. As a newbie, visit the towns of Kion and Sslanis to see the trophies the Trophy Hunters there are interested in. These forums also have a perpetual thread with a listing of trophies mapped to adventuring levels.[*]The community.istaria.com website has a listing of all class trainers and their locations. Don't know where to go to become a Monk? Look on community.istaria.com for the trainer's name and general location![*]You can go to Town Marshals and get mini "kill tasks" for coin.[*]You can use the command /snc to select the corpse closest to your location.. if there is one.. so that you will be able to more easily loot it... I myself have a hotkey that is set up with the /snc followed by the /loot command as to be able to select the corpse and open the loot window with one fell swoop.[/list]

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    I haven't compiled it all yet, but you can also take a look at this thread for some of this same type of information.

    http://community.istaria.com/Web/Sho...?PostID=111546

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    Eckho
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    More great stuff...thank you

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    Actually... lighning bolt is an auto-repeat attack spell which requires no "button pushing" to cast it again :)
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    Irv
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    Thank you for the replies. I have consolidated much of the information from the other thread into this post. I concentrated mostly on information for newbies, and left out some of the more advanced techniques described there. I also replaced the lightning bolt example in spell queue'ing.[;)]

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    Gantroth
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    You can purchase formulae from your crafting trainers.



    Ok, I must be missing something. I go to my trainer, search for the formula, double click it, and it moves it over to the box on the right "Scalemail Helm" for 7cp (or whatever) in the box below that it shows I am giving 7cp. I check in my inventory and I have 196cp, so that should be more than enough.

    I hit "Accept" and nothing happens. I smashed the "Accept" button all morning on several different vendors (except the consignment) and I was never able to buy anything.

    So what am I doing wrong?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Gantroth
    You can purchase formulae from your crafting trainers.



    Ok, I must be missing something. I go to my trainer, search for the formula, double click it, and it moves it over to the box on the right "Scalemail Helm" for 7cp (or whatever) in the box below that it shows I am giving 7cp. I check in my inventory and I have 196cp, so that should be more than enough.

    I hit "Accept" and nothing happens. I smashed the "Accept" button all morning on several different vendors (except the consignment) and I was never able to buy anything.

    So what am I doing wrong?
    he wants 7c worth of Lore tokens. bignner are worth 1c Each Journmany are worth 5c Each. That is one big thing i wish they would change in thier trade windoes with NPC. Is set it up so it ask for what he wants, lore tokens, Nature tokens what ever. Not c that confuses so many people.



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    This is one thing that stymies many newbies. Trainers accept only lore tokens as payment. Beginner token is worth 1 copper credit (cc) and Joyrneyman token worth 5 cc. Drag them from "Your Items" tab to "Items Giving" and then Accept the transaction. This has been brought up many times before but no reaction from devs so far.

    edit: Gah, Deth was faster.

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    Gantroth
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    ah... didn't realize i had to drag them over to the give area. I did a task 5 times, got 5 tokens, and then found an item I wanted that cost 5, and it still didn't work. I'll try to drag them over when I get home.

    Thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Irv
    [*]A command called /availemotes will give you a list of all the standard emotes with movements.[/list]
    actually i think all you have to type is /emote or even /em



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    JorgNep
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    Quote Originally Posted by dorrin
    actually i think all you have to type is /emote or even /em
    Actually, it is /aem to see the list of available ones and /em to use them.

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    I've always gotten the list by just typing /em. The list will vary depending on what race you are. To use an emote, you type "/em happy" or whatever else the name of the emote is.

    -Levity

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    I wish I had know how to enter the chat channels... took me 1 or 2 weeks... [8-)]
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    Quote Originally Posted by JorgNep
    [img]/Web/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif[/img]dorrin wrote:actually i think all you have to type is /emote or even /em


    Actually, it is /aem to see the list of available ones and /em to use them.
    *ahem* ... like i said. (and levity concurs) try it.




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    Here's another one that took me forever to learn:

    Many computers just cannot handle HZ in windowed mode, and alt-tabbing causes crashes. Yet it's a PITA to completely log out just to look for an email to see if a group member is planning to come in game or not, for instance. Here's what you do:

    1. Click the blue gem and select Options.
    2. Select the Video tab.
    3. At the top, uncheck the box for Full Screen.
    4 At the bottom, click Apply. (NOT Okay. APPLY. You want the options window to stay open).
    5. Your HZ window should shrink down to the right, leaving you the upper part of it only. On my UI, that means I can't reach the blue button any more, or my chat windows, but I can still see the Options window.
    6. Do what you need to on your desktop.
    7. Check the Full Screen box.
    8. Click Apply.
    9. In a moment or two, you should be back to full screen mode and able to dive back into play.

    -Levity Merrel

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    Here is one that some people miss...

    The range tech will change a repeating spell (spirit bolt, lightning bolt etc) to have a delay.
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