Some questions from a noob..

[Johamburger]

Howdy, all you beautiful people. I'm planning to start playing the game with my girlfriend tomorrow (the download is f-ing 8 hours for me), and of course I have a few questions. I've tried looking around the Wikis and stuff and it's kind of hard to know what is from before this game went f2p, and what is not.

1. I read something about good and evil classes, which decide your starting area in the game. When creating a character, is the starting location determined by the class you play?
This is very important considering that we're going to play through the game together, and need to know which classes are going to allow us to do that.

2. I know there's something called a Silver membership in the game, which from what I've heard costs 5 dollars. What is included in this package?

3. From what I've seen you can aquire houses in the game. Is anything like that included in the Silver membership, or is it something you have to purchase seperately, and if so, what does a decently sized permanent house cost you?

4. I've heard you can get free mounts in the game as part of quests, and also buy them using the in-game currency. Where is the first available mount in the game, and how do you aquire it?


Sorry if these questions seem redundant, I just kind of want to be prepared going into the game.

Thanks in advance.

[SaBR]

I am pretty new to the game so I will try my best here. I might not be 100% on all of these those. 1) Your starting area are dependant on your race and where it is good or evil. I think that there are some classes that can only be played by one alignment or the other, but I am not sure. You definintly both want to be a race of the same alignment if you want to start and stay together. 2) I dont know for sure about this for sure, but I do not think it exists anymore. 3) You can accquire a house in your startig city, and in the cities of matching alignment using nothing but in game currency (the gold etc you get by questing). You pay a weekly upkeep to maintain them. The basic house in New Halas (good city) is only like 5 silver per week to maintain and is free to buy. 4) I have only started in New Halas and you can get a horse mount there around level 20.

Hope it hlps a little

[Ferji]

I'll try and answer your questions:

1.) There are some classes and races who have a set alignment. If one of the two is good, you can only start in Kelethin or New Halas. If one of the two is evil, you have the choice to start in Neriak or Gorowyn. The races are clearly marked as good, neutral and evil and with a neutral class and neutral race you can start anywhere. The aligned classes are Paladin (good), Shadowknight (evil), Mystic (good), Defiler (evil), Conjurer (good), Necromancer (evil), Swashbuckler (good) and Brigand (evil).
However you can betray your home city in the game through some quests (takes a while) and change your alignment, but the classes that are good will change into their evil counterpart and vice versa (e.g. a Paladin will change to a Shadowknight).
You should also know that there are no restrictions when it comes to ingame languages or the ability to group with each other.

2.) There is no silver membership anymore. You are either F2P or you can get SOE All Access wich gives you some minor boosts, allows you to move the AA slider and sell stuff on the broker (the auction house) freely without the need to buy broker tokens.

3.) You can get houses in every of the 7 cities and you don't need special requirements for the smaller ones. Some bigger houses (but not all of them) require you to be in a guild that has attained a certain level. And you need status points for most of the bigger ones (but not all of them), which can be aquired through doing certain quests.
There is also so called Prestige Housing, which are special houses or areas you can freely decorate as you can your house. These houses cost Station Cash to buy, but don't need any form of upkeep.
The first small house you get for free and it costs only a few silver a week. In most cities it should be like a 2 room house I think.

4.) Doing the quests in your starting zone, which should take you to level 20ish, will get you a mount. I'm actually not sure if there is a mount in Kelethin or Gorowyn, but there is one in Neriak and New Halas.
Other mounts can be aquired through quests or even tradeskill (crafting) quests on level 30 (leaper mounts), level 60 (glider mounts) and level 85 (flying mounts). And here and there you might find other quests where you can get a mount (like a warg or a flying carpet).

Hope that helps :)

[Johamburger]

Thank you guys so much, that really cleared up things! :-D

[Earthling Z3R0]

Ferji, thank you. If I could I would +1 your post :)

[LordSierocki]

Ill guide you around if you ever need help. I play on butcherblock so add Lyosha is you need help okay ? I might be able to help you with money and running dungeons.