Everything I've learned

[Platinum Bastard]

I'm done with the game so far, I have every rare item, and have done every quest that I've found. Here's what I've figured out.

IMPORTANT
DO NOT PLAY PUBLIC, THERE IS 0 GRIEF PROTECTION AND PEOPLE WILL DESTROY YOUR BASE AND LOOT ALL YOUR STUFF. They can do it so fast you will lose half or more of your stuff before you can open the menu to kick them. Play on a private world and venture out into public with items/effort you're willing to lose. 80% of people joining public lobbies are here to do that. I've seen one lobby get 3 people in a row who did this.

1. Combat:
-Ranged Counters Mages, they stand still and don't block their heads when casting unlike archers.
Magic (Using fire runes) counters melee entirely with its right click charge.
Melee kills everything, but struggles with groups.
-The Two handed sword special attack is the best anti-group attack there is and slaughters wolves and low level hunting parties.
-There are Enhanced armor set recipes by interacting with the statues in the vaults.
Ranged in Bloodblight, Melee in Fractured Plains, and Magic in Stormtouched.
-Melee weapons are BiS in different scenarios.
The Abyssal Whip is BiS against High HP single targets like the Dragon or Garou King.
The Thane's Authority (Rare drop recipe from Thanes) Is the best single target for normal enemies, Every hit is a stagger.
The Iron 2h Sword is the best AoE melee weapon.

2. Gathering:
-Never stop grabbing Flax for course thread, it is the bottleneck to most late game cloth recipes.
-Cheese construction to get personal storage. While its not huge, it doesn't care about weight and trivializes gathering stone and metal. I recommend building long lines of walls then using 1 ash plank to build shelves, the more at once the better, once you destroy a built item there's a long CD before you can get xp from it again. Destroying the wall destroys all shelves attached so it's quick cleanup.
-Hold on to meat, thats your bottleneck for late game food. Rush the cooking range. The "Delicious" foods are very much worth it. 1100 second buffs that can be refreshed to full with internal alchemy.
-Swamp weed can be found in the vault in bloodblight swamp. One trip through was enough for every item I built and they're a lot more obvious to see.
-Blightwood respawns quickly, and you need a lot of it. A LOT of it.
-You need a lot of antlers for late game weapons. Save at least a stack.
-The end game rare drop weapons from the Garou are great, but only one drops as a recipe that you need to use.
Killing Berserkers can randomly teach you the Dagger recipe.
Killing the Hunters can give you the Bow recipe.
Killing the Druids can give you the Staff recipe.
To be clear, you just learn the recipe by killing them randomly, not as a drop. Only the 2h axe which drops from thanes comes as an item you need to right click to learn.
-There is a cave on the Northwestern part of the Whispering Swamp with tons of mushrooms which you need for Anti-poison potions, Kebabs, and Hearty meals. You can get a ton if you take the western entrance to the swamp, then just turn left and keep to the cliff side and wall.
-Suicide rushing into an area to gather resources and teleport out is entirely worth it while you're progressing early. Just make sure you set up teleporters, the Vault Cores respawn quickly enough that the first two dungeons will give you enough for 6 teleporter pads and the items you need to build with them.
-Redberries are for healing potions, never stop grabbing them.
-You don't need that much adhesive, don't overload your inventory with swamp tar. In total I think I used about 60 adhesive.
-If you don't want to gather Essence now, still shoot the stones down as you pass. They stay on the ground and when you're ready you can get all the stones you knocked down at once.

Miscilaneous:
-Build your base in a level 1 area so the Dragon doesn't paint it green while you're working on stuff.
-Never afk in your base. Raids just burrow through your walls breaking everything to get to you.
-Sleeping consumes buffs. Drink/eat in the morning. On the other hand, sleeping over night also processes all the items in stations instantly.
-All potion effects share the same buff. You can't have anti-poison and attack buff up at the same time.
-Poison resistance does nothing in the Bloodblight. You need anti-poison. All poison resistance from food does is increase how many attacks are needed to poison you, and has no effect on the damage it does.
-Keep anti-poison at your base. Don't bring your whole stack in case you need to run to get your body. Its the only place you can be soft locked off your corpse.
-Bones + Water at a cooking station gives you a cheap great drink that makes melee combat so much better.
-Antlers + Water make a brew that reduces stamina while sprinting. Great for running back to your corpse.
-There's a ghost speak amulet in the well of the first village, get it to do the ghost quest.
-The dragon still ruins your farming after you kill him.
-Lightning will target you if you try to cast a spell, this has a cooldown, so bait it out by opening your inventory for a few seconds to bait the lightning then cast your spells.
-Trees take a long time to respawn. Keep that in mind if you like the trees around your base.
-Whetstones are not worth the effort or weight.
-You accrue experience past 50, so when they release 51-99 you will auto level up when they launch. The current max is 100 million.
-Finishing the main quest gives you level 20 in ranged and magic. This can't be repeated even with more dragon heads.
-"Comming Soon" in the recipe list means it doesn't have a picture, not that it's not in the game.

Things I'd like to see:
-Some method to Process excess materials or sell them or something. You get so much wool its insane.
-Home defenses
-A sheathing animation.
-An increase to total stamina and HP.
-The ability to pick up items without directly looking at them.
-A spell or perk that increases gathered items off the ground.
-A spell that lets you run faster or a mount.
-Some kind of loot from the dragon that's worth a damn. The visage is cool, but you don't need to repair your shield that often, or really at all, why are you using a shield?
-The ability to dodge out of spell casting.
-Faster spell casting or longer weapon buffs.
-A mining storage box.
-A processing speed buff for other stations.
-Change the special attacks of the Gmaul, and dragon dagger to match OSRS. Cmon man.
-Buff the special weapons. The Gmaul is just worse than half the weapons you will have by the time you get it.

[Ryan]

This is very interesting, thank you for sharing

[dknopfomega12]

Why am I not surprised that the second a game implements multiplayer the rats come out of the woodworks to get their little power struggle they can't strain in real life.