ULTIME MAGE GUIDE:

GETTING STARTED
Have a friend give you 30 silver and 4 bags. You start with one 12 slot bag, which is fine for starting levels, but the less you have to go back and sell your junk, the better. I now have my original 12 slot and four 10 slot bags. I have to choose carefully what I pick up when looting. My bags are full of potions, quest items, scrolls, etc. This is a small problem in the beginning.



Money is VERY easy to come by. Quests pay extremely well and mobs drop enough loot and cash to keep your head way above water. The game has few money sinks. Training is reasonably priced and travel will cost you next to nothing once you get up in levels. Money sinks become a lot higher when you got to higher levels and are constantly buying the best gear and potions or when you level your trade skills.



Also have your friend give you a bunch of low-level potions. A low level alchemist can give you tons of potions they can’t use because they heal so little for their level but it will be a godsend to you. If you have the luxury of a friend like this, great, but it is by no means necessary. Don’t use potions to reduce downtime, use them to save your life in battle. Downtime between fights are what food and water are for.



This friend can potentially help you level faster but not much if theyre at a very high level. If they’re in your group they will hog all of your xp. If they’re not in your group and just tag along to keep you safe, you risk them completing objectives that you were supposed to do. It's a time suck for them.



FATIGUE



I won't get into great detail on this. Always log out in an Inn so you are resting. Fatigue doen't affect you until about level 10. Afterwards, even fully rested, you will go to tired very quickly. Don't evolve your leveling around this. Quests still pay the full xp regardless of your rest levels.



QUESTS



If you see a yellow exclamation point over an NPC’s head, it means he has a quest for you. Take them all!!! Do them all. Killing something of your level gives you about 100xp. A quest will give you all of the xp you earn killing stuff and a nice paycheck and A LOT of xp for completing it. Even at high levels, 30% of my xp and 70% of my equipment come from quest rewards.



The hardest part of doing quests is navigation. The quest will briefly describe what to do and where to go. The descriptions of what to do is usually pretty thorough but the location might be 'Southeast of Stone Valley'. That’s a lot of territory to cover. Have maps handy. Our map maker at Megatomix is making some gorgeous detailed maps. This will be your bread and butter for questing.



To really take advantage of quests you will need to be ina group, so be very good at A) making friends and B) communicating effectively in public chat.



Open your quest log by hitting L. To send a message in general chat for the region you are in type /1 before your message. /1 LFG to complete the following quests:. Before you hit enter, hold shift and click on each of the quests in your quest log that you are working on in that area, then hit enter to send th


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And part 2.........

Open your quest log by hitting L. To send a message in general chat for the region you are in type /1 before your message. /1 LFG to complete the following quests:. Before you hit enter, hold shift and click on each of the quests in your quest log that you are working on in that area, then hit enter to send the message. I get an exceptional response from this especially when I’m a higher level for the area. Silverpine Forrest is suited for levels 10-20. If I send a message saying 'Level 20 mage LFG to do XYZ quest', I usually get an exceptional response.



In the beginning, most of your quests are easy to solo. Once you get to about level 12 they start getting a lot harder. There’s a level 12 quest I did with a group that I don’t think I could have done as a level 18 solo. More on that later.



DON’T WASTE TIME



We’re not in a race here, but there's a lot you can do that will slow you down.



I wasted a lot of my early levels 8-16 trying to do too many quests solo.



Also, forget about depending on trade skills to help you level. You could fairly quickly become a novice alchemist and start making potions for yourself at a reasonably low level. It’s not worth the investment in time. Mages make their own food and drink and aren’t usually fighting things one on one that can beat them. Trade skills are fun but are an amazing time suck. I know a warlock that was 5 levels ahead of me and is now 5 levels below me because he is obsessed with making enchanted items and potions. He also plays a lot more than I do and his items aren’t much to brag about. I'm sure this is all fine with him but it is a pitfall for those looking to level at a reasonable pace.



In a full day (late morning to early evening) one could very easily get to level 10 with no help. A hardcore power gamer could get to level 20 or higher in one long day if they had people to help them do quests. It's up to you.



Levels (as you might imagine) come slower and slower as you get higher up. You won’t be knocking quests out as fast (unless you have a lot of strong people in your friends list that like grouping with you) and each enemy becomes so tough that you have to rest a lot more often than before as the enemies are a lot more challenging.



Also avoid exploring into areas that are beyond that which is required for the quests in your log. You get a little xp for discovering new areas, but you will find yourself going back to retrieve your corpse a lot for being Curious George. It's also a lot of walking to stuff you can't kill.



Also, avoid selling your stuff. Sell it to npc merchants. They pay well enough. You might find a nice dagger that a merchant will buy for one gold but there’s rogues out there that will pay 2-3 gold or more for it. Trust me when I say it’s not worth the time chatting in the trade channel and making arrangements to do the transactions. Money comes easy without this gigantic time suck.

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