Necrosaro fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Oct 5, 2019

Velveteen fucked around with this message at 09:37 on Oct 6, 2019

• There is a 4-5 day landlock at launch, so during this time you'll want to get the following in preparation:
  
  • Follow the green (Main Story Quest) markers to 30. Along the way, you'll want to get your glider, mount, donkey, and battlepet.
    
    • These 4 quests are not a part of the MSQ and are yellow markers. Each of these locations are dependent on race choice.
      
  • Both the 8x8 scarecrow and initial 16x16 farm are both level and quest gated.
    
    • Get to level 30 (2-4 hours depending on quest gates/starting race choice) and start the scarecrow quest (Blue Salt Brotherhood, green plant icon above NPC) in Solisa, Halcyona.
      
    • At this point, I advise grouping up as 30+ leveling zones are PvP zones.
      
    • Get to 50 so you can start the farm questline in Marianople.
      
  • For those that are only able to get to 30 and a scarecrow, here's an alternate route for you.
    
    • You will have plenty of Gilda by 30 to purchase 2 16x16 house plans (15 Gilda each).
      
    • You are limited to 2x unbuilt pieces of property before you can place more. This will help with the land grab.
      
    • Place down your scarecrow, build it with the supplied lumber & tax certs, generate 70 tax certs*, and place down both 16x16 houses next to your scarecrow.
      
    • *The trick here is that you are only able to generate tax certs on a built piece of property (yours or someone else's, so you need to build your scarecrow to craft certs) and need at least 4200 labor for both houses. Placing your first house down will require 30 tax certs (1800 labor), and the second house will require 40 tax certs (2400 labor). So, 70 tax certs/5 per craft * 300 labor is 4200.
      

kloa fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Oct 6, 2019

HotBobaloo fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Oct 7, 2019

Huckert fucked around with this message at 11:52 on Oct 7, 2019

• There are peaceful and hostile leveling zones on all continents.
  
• Hostile zones do become Peaceful after a War period for a little over an hour. No PvP can take place during this time period, and is when most people plan to run tradepacks through the zone, or wrap up any quests needed to move on to the next zone.
  
• Hostile zones allow any player to potentially murder any other player. By default, western races are only hostile to eastern races & pirates.
  
• You can, however, flag up as a western race and kill another western race. You will be free game to any player to kill without gaining infamy points.
  
• If you kill your own race, you will gain infamy points. After 50 infamy points, your next death with send you straight to jail, where you can plead your case in front of other players (one of the best things in this game imo), or just accept your time and wait it out.
  
• Once in jail, you may spend labor to reduce your sentenced time. You may also break out of jail, albeit with a Wanted debuff that prevents a lot of actions.
  
• You also receive honor points, and lose some upon a PvP death, which are useful for purchasing/crafting various things like gems and reduced PvP damage necklaces.
  

• Labor is one of the most important things that you generate automatically, both online and offline. Currently in PTS, you generate 20 per 5 minutes.
  
• You are capped to 5000 labor per account - your labor is shared between ALL of your characters.
  
• You use labor to craft, harvest plants/fruits/trees, mine, fish, husbandry, upgrade gear, create certs to pay taxes on your property, run tradepacks, and some other things.
  
• You receive a static %XP per labor spent, so it's always worth it to log in to spend it. If you can only play for a few minutes one day, it's worth burning labor to get XP if nothing else, rather than it capping and going to waste. Buy a bunch of cheap stone/logs/ore and resell the made craft on the Auction House, even if you're just breaking even.
  

• Classes are combinations of 3 different skillsets. You can change any skillset for a small fee at a shrine, but you will need to level it from where you left off, or level 10 if it's something you haven't leveled yet. Leveling other skillsets is real easy once you hit 55 and can farm mobs.
  
• There are 12 skillsets to choose from. https://archeagecodex.com/us/calc/ has 11 to look at, as the 12th skillset is still pretty new and I cannot find any calculators that have it available to play with yet.
  
• There are, of course, "meta" classes, but this is highly subjective and very dependent on what you are doing. Shadowplay is one of the most useful skillsets due to having Stealth for tradepacks/PvP, but you don't need stealth in a dungeon, when you could bring something more useful instead.
  
• It's recommended to pick 3 skillsets and stick with them to 55, then swap 1 or 2 out and level them up via farming mobs/dungeons. You could also swap all 3 and burn a ton of labor to level them up.
  

• You will have a choice of 2x 1-hand weapons (shield included), or 1x box of 2-hand weapons at the start of the Main Story Questline. Some classes are better suited to various weapon types/combinations.
  
• You will also have a choice of Plate/Leather/Cloth boxes of armor to choose from as you progress the MSQ.
  
• They all have their pros and cons depending on what type of class you are playing, and opinions on what to go with on each class is highly subjective.
  
• You will receive infusions and awakening scrolls from the MSQ quest rewards to upgrade your armor as you level. You will want to keep up with these, or you will be slower to kill things/easier to kill as you attempt to fight mobs/players to get your quests done.
  
• You can retrieve any infusions/scrolls put into any piece of upgraded armor or weapon. Don't like cloth as a mage? Go break down all your cloth pieces and buy a set of Plate for a pittance and be back to leveling in a few minutes. It only costs labor and some money to upgrade your gear again.