Mana increase as you gain level?

[Josh]

New to the game. Just made it to level 1 and HP increased but not Mana? Is that normal?

[Dohi64]

yep, you need to increase it at trainers, like stats and skills, but unlike other stat increases, its cost is constant and is capped at 2000 mana, I think (or not even capped at all maybe).

[Josh]

Thanks dude!

[lionhart]

There are rings and amulets that will give you a big mana boost, plus a special recipe inside Baxter's chest in Harbour Town that also increases mana. If you are a pure mage you should consider using those and save your learning points for spells and crystal magic.

[Josh]

Cool, thanks guys.

[Josh]

Those bores are tough as nails in the first part of the game, guess i shouldn't be fighting them yet or not at level 1.

[Dohi64]

definitely not. if you want the gut animals skill (more loot, more money, and boar tusks are used in a scroll as well), you might want to hold off on killing them (and a bunch of other animals) until you get the appropriate gutting tool from harbor town (and some of them before that). if you don't want gut animals, kill whatever you want or can, but this early it's not gonna be much.

[Josh]

And whats with the 2 paths you can take...something about a Don and the Order?

[SLK]

If you follow the Don, you can learn fencing, axefight and shooting bows and crossbows. If you join the order you can learn stafffighting and magic. The Don is a crime lord, the order is an quasi-religious organisation. The normal people mostly dislike both.

[Josh]

Don it is then, thanks.

[Dohi64]

you can still do some of the order-related stuff if you side with the don, like in the first village, or even in harbor town before choosing a faction. and it's best to finish the swamp/bandit stuff before heading to town, and avoid getting caught by order soldiers.

also, don't bother leveling more than one weapon, choose one and stick with it, but if it's melee, have a crossbow for ranged stuff and activating switches. a bow works too, but crossbows work off strength, unlike bows, which use dexterity, so level either but not both.

and get alchemy at some point and save permanent stat increase items until then (alchemy 3), they're more effective in potion form and aren't wasted on points you could get from trainers, so don't drink them until you reach 100 str or dex. you can eat stuff that increases stats you don't want to put points into (you can only make 20 perm potions and that's only if you find all 20 hero's crowns) and permanent health upgrades, like druid's hemlock.

[SLK]

With potions you can increase stats over 100.
Doing the bandit camp first is really a good choice, you even could level one of your weapons to 10 there and afterwards join the order. In fact there are two orders, the inquisition and the mages. Joining the mages requires doing the order quests in harbour town. Mages can use all magic, including runes. Runes are like scrolls, besides the fact that they aren´t consumed when used.

[Josh]

Too bad you can't join both like in Oblivion where you can join the Fighters guild and the Magee guild.

[Dohi64]

you can, actually: https://www.gog.com/forum/risen_series/risen_1_joining_both_factions

[lionhart]

Originally posted by Dohi64:

you can, actually: https://www.gog.com/forum/risen_series/risen_1_joining_both_factions

Yeah, I once did what is described in that thread. But it's not really joining both factions; rather you are not fully accepted by either and neither one will give you any armor upgrades. So I had to go through the entire game wearing only my recruit armor.

[Dohi64]

Originally posted by lionhart:

Originally posted by Dohi64:

you can, actually: https://www.gog.com/forum/risen_series/risen_1_joining_both_factions

Yeah, I once did what is described in that thread. But it's not really joining both factions; rather you are not fully accepted by either and neither one will give you any armor upgrades. So I had to go through the entire game wearing only my recruit armor.

that must've been fun. can't wait to get my first armor, just hit lvl9 and found a protective ring, about to enter harbor town, not gonna pay 500 to hawkins. I think the piranha bytes games are supposed to be about choices and sticking to said choices (well, rpgs in general, I guess, but I also prefer experiencing as much as possible in one playthrough), so joining both is not an intended thing here anyway.