Please read the WIKI new players guide.
http://uoex.net/wiki/New_Players_Guide
The only issue that I saw with the guide is that the spellcaster keys are in the Public->Minoc moongate. I spent 2 days looking for these keys at the regular Minoc moongate.
This is a pet server. At least starting out. You will need to max out Animal lore and Taming ASAP. Then get a level 40+ drake/dragon and head to Destard. Wil is a great tamer and usually has nice cheap pets for you. He is located by going to the moongate and choosing Public->Britain.
Seriously...max those out first then focus on other stuff.
You can AFK macro a lot of your skills. Start with hiding.
I have the luxury of working from home and I have ran several macros (using Razor) to max out my skills.
You can buy regs and blank scrolls from a vendor..but they only have 20 of each. If you buy all of them off of that vendor and wait 20 minutes, it will restock with twice as many as before. Up to a max of 999.
If you are training Magery/chivalry everyone will tell you to get a 100% reduce reagents suit. As a new player, you cant afford that. If you are training Necromancy...get a suit. I have not found Necro regs in any quantity so far.
You will want to know where to go to get the most gold. I still dont know the best places to go or how to get there. Right now I camp a couple guys in this one place. They drop about 1400 gold and sometimes drop a key that I can sell for about 10k. I don't even know what that key is used for. I don't know where these guys are. I was taken there one day by Ranrock and he showed me the ropes there. PM me and I'm sure that I can do the same for you.
This leads me into the next part. The people here. They are awesome. Not once have I been bullied since I have been here. Chat is real clean too. Everyone is super helpful unless a Champ spawn is up
. Vendors: If you want a vendor, better set one up that has a moongate. Contact PHX people and they might be able to help you out...on a personal note..I need to contact them about letting set up a vendor there.
[EXEX dont use this to sell anything. If you have some thing to sell put it on your vendor or sell it to someone who might be able to resell it. Using this method charges fees. However EXEX is quick. What you do want to use EXEX to do is to store your gold and other resources so that they do not take up as much bank space. Bank space is limited to 125 items and ~1000 stones.
The +60 skillball. As a new player you will have one of these in your bank. It will raise any one skill by 60 points up to its maximum. Everyone will tell you to save it until you have used a powerscroll to raise your cap to 120. If you can do that, please do so. I did not. I saw early on that taming was going to be needed to do anything starting out and used it to get taming to 100.
Dex and healing. You will want to get your dex as high as you can starting out. This will let you heal faster. When I made my heal macro, I had about an 80 dex and set the pause for 8 seconds. Now I have a 128 dex and the timer is down to 5 seconds. That decreased heal time has made a load of difference.
Cleric spells. Macro Spirit speak to 100 while you sleep then make macros for Touch of life, purge and sacred boon. These are the most powerful heals in the game. They will keep your pets alive.
Fencing: The guides tell you not to use fencing. I don't know why. I'll have to try it out.
Levelable weapons: You can either save the outrageous amount of gold needed for a 4x46 or wait it out. I used one on a 3x46 maul. I like it. 3x46 means the weapon has 3 properties at a 46% chance of proc. Apparently, you can change these items to different slots and gain the bonuses there.
Excelsior Dollars. For a donation, you can get some Excelsior Dollars(ED). You can use these to purchase some in-game items and enhancements. These are expensive. You get 10 per Euro. This is expensive because Paypal charges you for the conversion rate. To donate 50.00 US and get 500 ED, it costs ~58.00. You can buy them in game for gold. ~50,000 gold for each ED. 10 ED would cost 1 million gold.
For 400 ED, you can get a bag of holding that will hold up to 20 items (stacks count as one). This is a great item...but cost more than $40.00. But hey..you get the benefit of financially supporting the server. I would recommend lowering the cost of ED.
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