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[Swish]

Originally Posted by Cribanox [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

taking the plunge /tell ihealyou (Cleric obviously)

Other excellent names still available....good luck Ihealyou, if I get to play Thursday and see you I'll whip up some +6 wis rings/+3 earrings and shit to help your mana pool [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also be sure to check out the Swish 1-50 Cleric solo guide in case you're playing off peak or want to do some solo work [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Fame]

Right on man, hope to see ya on red soon. msg iady if ya need any help, I dont have much for coin atm but I might have something in bank ya could use.

Thought I would leave this here too, this is a very very basic set of noobie tips for playin on red.

Originally Posted by Fame [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Didn't feel like necroing a thread, noticing lots of new players, thanks to Knights Who Say Ni, and other eq mac players coming aboard. Hope to see more of you come the 18th. Tell your friends.

Tips for players new to the pvp scene, feel free to add more, I'm novice at best. Will edit good ones into list.

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Noobie tips
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When you can, buy gems with extra money. People can't loot your gems when you die. Best rate (when turning them back into platinum) is carnelians I think but those are like 8g each. Gems have different exchange rates and faction/charisma can make a huge difference on larger exchanges. No real pref here, I use peridots, they are ~10p each which makes for easy trade and tipping money along the way. Beware of shady vendors.

Use the environment. Much easier to spot a noob in a field medding than a noob next to a tree medding, With levitate and the right incline, you can face it, hold down run and slowly climb (works great with trees) some trees have a change in angle mid way and are impossible to climb using this method. Instead, run to a point of higher elevation and levitate over to the change in angle, climb. You can sit and med in most of these spots if you find a point where you no longer sink while just standing there. The further away from a wall the better. Expect hackusations.

Gate. Use it as a escape, not a doctors note to avoid pvp. Meaning, I see too many people gate out of zone. You're gonna have to travel anyway. Set up a bind in zone, shit gets rough, gate and recoup for a counter attack, don't just take your ball and go home. Use critical thought here, this method can be disastrous vs a competent and tracking class.

We have a shit load of heroes. Like everyone, almost every player here was botb or glad, pimp shit, emp whatever. Doesn't mean you can't be too, but let's be real here, it's gonna take time. While you're on your personal journey to greatness, don't forget the simple shit like tash and malo, heals, cures, whatever it is that wont get the KB/YT but will help the grp is worth doing. 9/10 times you wont kill that twink, but banded together, you just might.

Words/pages/runes - low pop and rare drop. Shitty mix for new players, I would suggest as a general practice, save the words and pages till ya hit a city and then sell them at the guild vendors. Don't know who did it, but lvling up, I happened to see almost every research spell I needed at the mage vendors along with mage specific words. Fuckin amazing to say the least. I try to do this now too. Do this on the reg and respond to other players looking for words and tell them to do the same. Could be gold. The wiki has a good spread for seeing what pages are for what class, noobs get thousands of collective plat thrown at you, do your part.

Not getting ganked - what the fuck are you smoking? It happens. Learn to live with it, in the worst case, alt for a bit. 90% of the time if you get corpse camped, you had it coming, the other 8%, bronson, the other 2, random gang violence.

How to avoid that - be a decent human. Shit actually goes a long way. Making friends is the only thing that will really help you on red. The downside to this is that with too many, you end up missing out on a lot of pvp. But, further down the road, you can even have pvp with these friends and still have fun. It's a game. I play the wild card. If I don't attack you now, one day I might later, but probably not.

Know your zone, nothin surgical, but at least have rough bearings and know where your out is, your decoy safe spot, a real safe spot, a place to avoid track, vendor ect. All this goes a long way when the big moment comes. You do not want to be caught in a moment of "oh shit!" or "oh fuck!" Those will get you killed.

"Over here" doesn't mean a god damn thing. "To the north!" works. And fuck a loc, who the hell actually has a grid layout in their mind? Takes a little bit of time to get used to but well worth it.

Someone sittin smug in a city? Taunting you? Been a while on this one, not sure if they patched it, but, harmony the guards. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Buy Crystallized Pumice and Cloudy Potions if you can't disspell or invis yourself. they might not have been worth it on blue servers, but on red they can save your life.
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Lot's of other basics along the way, would do the senseheading and /who bound to movement keys and shit but I'm hoping most of you already know those tricks. Gonna try to keep it red. Will add more when I think of em, most are almost very basic tips. Add your own!


Good luck out there

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[Sidelle]

Lol. Gonna play on red a bit more. You all make it sound fun. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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[murcielago200]

This is the first post in my 2 years ish that has every given me desires to play on red. Most red posts make me think these guys hate the world.

[Fame]

Awesome, hope to see ya there

[Fame]

Numbers during peak hours, meeting more players from blue every day. Thanks for reading and giving it a shot!

[Swish]

Originally Posted by Fame [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thanks for reading and giving it a shot!

If you're one of these people be sure to post your experiences so far [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Genedin]

I started on blue and got to about lvl 34 then moved to Red. Was a lot different because of low pop but actually got geared and leveled a lot faster. If you are friendly and decent, chances are you can fall in with a crew. Since there are so few players, there is a large supply of gear just sitting in people's banks that no one would want to buy.

Just yesterday someone gave my warrior cobalt boots and jewel crafted all of my empty slots for free just to help out.

True you will get killed, and some people are dicks. But the forums and the actual server are very different I came to find out, and I would suggest giving it a shot to anyone bored of blue or tired of being just a low lvl no one cares about.