Skipping Tortage?

[fattony75]

Hey everyone - I remember way back when you could somehow skip Tortage. Essentially the game would spit you out on the mainland as a level 2 character.

Is there a way to do that or am I crazy? Thank you.

[ZDuB]

youre crazy!
you can leave at lvl 16 clicking a note at near white sands boat

[NavFamG]

There's never been a way to totally skip Tortage and I've been playing since it was first released.

You can leave early like ZDub said, but that's it.

Now in DDO you can do what you've described and skip Korthos Island and you'll hit The Harbor.

[Ambassador Phantom]

i think there was a way if you have a boosted level character.

[NavFamG]

i think there was a way if you have a boosted level character.

OK that comment did jar something loose.

IF and it's a big IF - One way to skip (once) is to get another char to lvl 50, and make free lvl 50.

Over the years, Funcom has given away the ability to boost characters at the end of the creation cycle, both lvl 50 and lvl 80. Now if you didn't log in during one of the past anniversary events when they gave accounts those, than I'm not sure if the above works on a normal, made today account.

In addition you can buy out of the store a lvl 80 boost to use on a new character.

[fattony75]

Originally posted by NavFamG:

i think there was a way if you have a boosted level character.

OK that comment did jar something loose.

IF and it's a big IF - One way to skip (once) is to get another char to lvl 50, and make free lvl 50.

Over the years, Funcom has given away the ability to boost characters at the end of the creation cycle, both lvl 50 and lvl 80. Now if you didn't log in during one of the past anniversary events when they gave accounts those, than I'm not sure if the above works on a normal, made today account.

In addition you can buy out of the store a lvl 80 boost to use on a new character.

Ahhh that makes sense - maybe that is what I did way back when. Anyways I ended up powering through and getting out of tortage after a few days. So I am good :)

[NavFamG]

Originally posted by G0rd0n Fr33m4n:

Ahhh that makes sense - maybe that is what I did way back when. Anyways I ended up powering through and getting out of tortage after a few days. So I am good :)

I generally find Tortage to be one of the better parts of the game and will create a new character every so often JUST to play Tortage.

Well enjoy the game.

[Handoiron]

Originally posted by NavFamG:

I generally find Tortage to be one of the better parts of the game and will create a new character every so often JUST to play Tortage.

Well enjoy the game.

Same for me. It's almost as if they invested big bucks in the opening portion of the game to get people hooked then kept story development costs down for the rest of the game.

Plenty of interwoven quest lines, interesting quirky quests, unique voice actors for almost all quests and archetype based differences in the story quest line all make Tortage the most enjoyable area for me.

On top of that, at lower levels you're actually uncovering skills and abilities almost every time you level and it makes it feel like you're actually developing your character more than in later levels where you're basically just getting more of the same every few levels and just filling in what you've already determined will be your end goal build.

However, if it's not that interesting to you, you can always just power through the night time stuff till you're done and leave. If you get blocked by level requirements you can just run a handful of daytime quests to reach that level and go back to pushing the story to get out of Tortage.

Another way is to just run daytime quests and grind XP and choose the skip options for the nighttime quests.

Personally, since I enjoy Tortage so much, I run all of the quest and tend to get out of Tortage in a day and a half at around level 24 if I play consistently.