Today’s the day… or Sunday was, really. The servers are going, the queues were long (well, not mine — about 7 minutes) and the newbie areas are flooded. The higher zones, however, are quite nice! I’m sitting on 20 right now, just starting Theobomos. Posting is likely going to be tight, or non-existent, till I hit the max level.
There are some tips that I may be able to impart to new players… lessee what I think of (I’m rather tired…):
- When leveling do not focus on quests alone. Often the quests you’ll be doing, especially at the lower levels, will be heavily camped. If you have to spend an hour to do a simple kill quest — skip it for now. Grinding and gathering are good ways to earn XP and money. If you can find an area that has a number of kill/gather quests and lots of mobs that people aren’t going after — grind out a level or two there and fill up your cube with loot. Doing it this way has allowed me to keep a good pace leveling and a healthy amount of cash — even after buying the best gear I can.
- Make use of the auction house and private stores. Private stores aren’t only for going AFK — set them up in remote areas and you can raise your prices a bit over the auction house. If you make potions or food as a craft — even better.
- Learn to glide. Gliding is a great way to get around a bit quicker, but it takes a bit of finesse. From what I’ve learned, while gliding you can move forward to increase your speed and let off the movement while near the ground to bounce off and gain some more air — if you try moving forward too much while hitting the ground you will land. Make use of hills and timing your movements and you’ll be able to glide out your entire flight time easily.
- There are group areas in zones and group quests — but not all of them state this. For Elyos in Verteron, Tursin Outpost and Tursin Garrison are group areas — you won’t make it solo. And when I mean group areas, I mean group — tanks, healers, DPS, as full a group as possible to make it there. I ran it with two others (my Chanter, a Gladiator and an Assassin) and we could do single pulls easy (not many of those) and pulls of two were harder. Anything more and we wouldn’t survive. I don’t know if I’d want to PUG the place, at least not yet.
Not much else at the moment… I should have some more posts when I can make the time.
