Beginner tips I'm not seeing

[Dennis Evans]

This is not an exhaustive list just a few things I know help me. Feel free to leave more tips for people but be polite and helpful if you would please. There are plenty of threads to make complaints and comments about the game but few to actually help.

1) I always go straight to the town and get the gathering tools first that way I can be gathering items right from level 1.

2) Bind to the stone near town as soon as possible and use /stuck to port there any time you want.

3) This is not a sprint its a marathon blah, blah, just grind mobs for a while to at least level 5 or so before you go to far as you will get smoked by a rabbit or a skitterling and wonder wtf.

4) As soon as possible create a macro for /loc this creates a gps coordinate for where you are and if you are about to die you will want this. Take that coordinate and go online and find the Shalazam map of the world, at the bottom it will have a box to input the coordinates (control-v will paste what you already had saved from /loc) it will provide a pin on the map to where your body is. Lifesaver ...trust me.

5) Sell everything you find until you have enough for extra bags ...everything else is pointless without bags you can get enough in the starter areas for 4 bags real quick.

6)Give your minions gear...an offhand lets them hit twice.

7) Put your food and water in the bank to save two slots since you can currently play all day and only need to eat or drink once.

Much love guys and hopefully this helps someone.

[Mutch]

while sprinting, stop before using all stamina, this way you can still sprint in bursts while regaining stamina. instead of being exhausted and being forced to wait for full recovery.

[DiceWrangler]

Originally posted by Dennis Evans:

7) Put your food and water in the bank to save two slots since you can currently play all day and only need to eat or drink once.

This is better advice than it first appears. Until you reach 5th level all of your hunger and thirst meters are reset to 100% (so no need for food or drink) and there is no penalty for dying: no XP loss, no corpse to recover and instant teleport back to your bind point.

[Veeshan]

I don't know if this is intended but I just realized the food thing myself; everyone in a party should not be sacrificing two slots for their food. Instead a single person should sacrifice two slots and feed the entire group.

[Veeshan]

Originally posted by Mutch:

while sprinting, stop before using all stamina, this way you can still sprint in bursts while regaining stamina. instead of being exhausted and being forced to wait for full recovery.

Although at the current time this still does not help you get away from mobs ;)

[Sairek Ceareste]

Originally posted by Veeshan:

I don't know if this is intended but I just realized the food thing myself; everyone in a party should not be sacrificing two slots for their food. Instead a single person should sacrifice two slots and feed the entire group.

Or just have a summoner make food/water for the party, if your party has one.

They don't even need to trade it, they can just spam your inventory with stuff if they want to, which is kinda of funny.

[Tanist]

1) Tools

That is a good point. If you make a point to gather while you are adventuring, crafting becomes extremely easy. That is, you may find that after a few trips of play, storing up what you collected, that you can easily craft anything you want and it levels up quickly without "grind".

[Dennis Evans]

I would also recommend not buying gear at the early levels unless you buy from players. The vendor gear is expensive at that level and the crafted gear is superior anyway.