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Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
To be honest, buying lvl1 weapons is the first step of a long ass slippery slope - you’ll end up with a set of lvl 3’s and a lupine and not even realize how you got there.
You're right about Engage and Fury, though.
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
So, I should definitely not get artefacts first is what everyone agrees with.
Instead, I should either trans chivalry or avoidance?
Edit: That includes Miniskills like Frost, Antidotes, Thermology, Galvanism etc - especially if you intend to PK. I believe you get better return for your investment than you do with l1s. To me, Artefacts are for after you've got as much of the regular resistances as you can get. Antidoes reduces arrow damage, Frost reduces fire damage, Galvanism reduces electric damage, etc. Those are all well worth the investment if you intend to PK, imo!
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
You'll want trans Chivalry also. Engage, Swiftmount, and Fury are all very important skills.
Trans Survival, as well. The speed increase on Focus/Tree is important.
As far as quality of life stuff goes, Tattoos up to at least Boar is a huge quality of life improvement.
Riding up to Mountjump is also pretty huge, though you may want to go up to Legendary mounts so you can get a cheap crated mount.
The modern combat environment is full of some very heavy hitters. Engage and Fury are kickass, yeah, but the fact of the matter is that dead people don't win fights.
It also has the side effect of being very helpful in hunting, which is a non-trivial bonus when considering a new player who is hunting their way up.
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
Trans out all class skills, avoidance, survival, learn some vision (farsee so you can actually find people) and riding (to mount jump). I would pretty much invest everything in skills and even miniskills before artefacts (ie ring of magus reduces magic damage and cost 700 credits! That's the same amount of credits as transing all 7 miniskills). There's also resistance rings which most people don't use for whatever reason.
I would also look at buying a collared mount, you can buy them for pretty cheap now (maybe 50 credits?).
So, no artefacts necessary, and focus on Trans Chivalry.
Between Avoidance or Trans survival, which is more important?
Also, are mounts useful in combat? What is their purpose? And why is Squint helpful?
And do I have to wear a miniskirt?? :P
Mounts are very useful, and squint doesn't cost balance or equil to see rooms ahead, great for chasing!
If you don't wear a miniskirt, I'll cry. No one likes when I cry
I have focusing, fitness, and clotting – do I need to spend the bajillion lessons for trans survival?
Dual blunt is my personal favourite spec. Sometimes you just want to smash things. I'm the first to admit I'm not very good at combat and I've only been playing this game for 3 months. I don't think I'll ever reach level 85. But I managed to kill people fairly consistently. This just means the spec has a low entry requirement, it's still going to take skill to excel with.
For the record, transcending Survival's benefit is not in getting new abilities, it's the recovery rate for the important abilities that you get through the transcendent Survival skill. Without it, most classes that tie you up with afflictions will do so much quicker, because you cannot use the Focus skill in Survival as often. That means you'd be reduced to fighting roughly half the classes in Achaea without standing much of a chance.
Avoidance, as mentioned, is very advantageous in cost-benefit: if you have the credits, it's definitely worth it.
As for squint, it lets you see up to five rooms away in any direction, which means you can get a heads-up about what's coming ahead, and at 9 lessons, it's basically a steal. No reason not to have it.
Mounts are incredibly handy, but you'll need like 8-900 lessons to get mountjump, which is the cream of the crop in Riding. Probably not a prudent investment early on, if you don't have enough to transcend Avoidance and Survival both, yet.
I'll hold off on the riding, but I'll trans chivalry for Fury.
Afterwards, immediately focus on trans survival, and then avoidance!
Thank you all for your help!!!!!! \(^_^)/