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Newbie
Helping: A guide by BleedingSoul
First of all, walking is done by clicking the
ground. (This might seem a stupid thing to mention but I’ve known people who
were to stupid to understand. ;-P) Chatting is done by just typing your text
and pressing enter. There are several ways to chat. There are channels, you can
talk in local, guild chat or personal messages.
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1 – This icon will usually be
selected, it is used to walk.
2 – This is the ‘sit’ icon, click it
to sit down. When sitting, click it again to stand up.
3 – The ‘look’ button use this on
items and you will get a message saying what you see.
4 – The ‘use’ button this will change
your cursor into a pointy finger, use this cursor on useable items in orders to
use them, for example use it on a fruit or vegetable and you will use one.
5 – The ‘use with’ icon, this icon
isn’t used a lot, personally I don’t use it very often, you can use it to put
logs or branches on a heap of wood and then use a Fire Essence on it to light a
fire. You can try this on Isla Prima.
6 – The ‘trade’ icon, use this icon
and click other people to initiate trade with them.
7 – The ‘attack’ icon, obviously you
will use this one to attack monsters, players. Normally your cursor will
automatically change to a sword on monsters and animals. This icon will
probably only be used when you are in PK maps. On players your icon doesn’t
automatically change itself.
8 – The ‘inventory’ button, this will
open up your inventory, click again to close it.
9 – The ‘magic’ button, this will
open up your magic window. Here you can select sigils you bought and cast
spells.
10 - The ‘mixing’ button, this will
open up a window in which you can mix several items to creature a new item.
(More info on this further in the guide.)
11 – The ‘status’ icon, clicking this
button will open up a window with info about your characters levels, your
material and ethereal points, your amount of pickpoints etc.
12 – The ‘help’ button, opening up a
window where you find A LOT of info about the game. Under more an encyclopedia.
13 – Clicking this icon, the ‘map’
icon will open up the map of the place where you currently are, clicking on the
upper-left small map will show you the map of the full continent. You can also
press TAB, which is easier.
14 – The ‘console’ button, clicking on
this button will open up your recent chatlog. You can also press F1, which is
easier.
15 – The ‘buddy’ icon, clicking on
this icon will open up your buddy list. Here you can see which of your friends
are online. You must add them to the list to be able to see this though.
Right-clicking on a friends name opens up some options.
16 – The ‘options’ menu, this will open
up your options window, here you can put your settings on video, sound and
such.
3. Basic skills
knowledge
First of all, we have 9 skills in
Attack and defense, harvesting, alchemy,
potioning, crafting, manufacturing, magic and summoning.
Here I will explain all these skill a little
bit and give you the basic things you can make with them.
Attack and defense.
Obviously, attacking and defending is all about
fighting. As you level these skills your fighting will improve and you will be
able to beat bigger animals and monsters, perhaps players too if you train
enough. Training attack will increase your damage and raising defense will
increase your chance to avoid damage. As you start to train this, follow this
order of animals to get a good start.
First you take on rabbits, second you can go on
rats, and third place would go to beavers and then up to deer. After this is
fox.
Harvesting.
This skill is the most basic of all and is one
you will surely need to help supply your other skills. This skill is trained by
mining ores, picking flowers. You will need this skill no matter what you want
to do in EL. Start this off by picking flowers, which are easiest to harvest
then go up to minerals like quartz and sulphur, and then you’re up to ores and
the advanced minerals like diamonds and rubies. You will get experience for
your first 120 successful harvests in an hour.
Alchemy
This is also a very basic skill. You use this
to mix essences and bars. Bars can be used in other skills like crafting,
manufacturing. Essences can used to make your bars, armors or for casting magic
spells.
The most basic essence is the Fire Essence and
this is the formula to make one.
1 red snapdragon, 1 red rose and 1 sulfur.
You can find other formulas for more essences
in your encyclopedia. It will be under the category: Alchemy.
Potioning
This is the skill that allows you to make
potions. Potions have different effects, they can boost stats, restore your
mana or health. The most basic is the Mana Potion.
Mana Potion: 1 empty vial, 1 wine and 1 blue
lupine.
Crafting
With this skill you can make rings and
medallions. You have different rings: teleportation rings and fighting rings.
Medallions boost something like armor level, accuracy etc.
The most basic ring is the Gold Ring.
Gold Ring: 2 gold bars, 3 fire essences. Ring
molder needed
Manufacturing
This skill is used to make clothing, armor and
weapons. Nothing much to explain really.
Starting this skill off might take quite some money
though. Leather is very expensive, I advise you to do the leather quest if you
would like to manufacture.
The first item is Warm Fur Gloves.
Warm Fur Gloves: 3 brown rabbit furs, 2
threads. Needle needed in inventory.
Magic
Aaah yes, magic. This is quite an interesting
skill. It can be a very useful skill if you level it up abit. With this skill
you can heal yourself after you fight a monster or an animal. Or players, off
course. This can also be a very useful skill if you want to help some people in
PK maps. The most basic skill is (small) Heal.
Heal requires the sigils: Increase and Health
and 1 Health Essence.
Summoning
Summoning is a skill you can use either for
violent slaughter in PK maps or you can do it for fun because you like to call
dead things to life, or you can do it to help weaker people train by summoning
them small animals.
As the brown rabbit is weakest animal in the
game, it is off course also the easiest to summon it. A brown rabbit requires:
1 Life Essence, 1 bone, 1 raw meat
and 1 brown rabbit fur. Requires 5 mana. (2 mana if you are wearing a conjurer
cloak)
So far on the skills. Now I shall present you
with some general hints and tips and then a small guide of things you could do
to get a good blastoff ingame.
4. General hints &
tips
When harvesting, random
events can occur.
This can be either good or bad. Bad things are when bees sting you, Mother
Nature hits you or you hit a radon or a wall drops on your head. Those things
can do huge damage. It is suggested when you harvest that you do it at full
health. Heal yourself if you get hit hard. Good things are when you find gold
(yay) or find a serpent, enrichment, binding or rostogol stone, you can also
receive some extra experience points.
With the cooldown
system, the clock on the useable items after using it, it can be hard to
make things if you use fruits or vegetables. I would advise you level your
potioning abit and make feasting potions. They have a short clock time and
boost your food level by 50.
When you have places you often go to, try and mark them on your map. Right-click that
spot and then type #mark <markname> to undo this type #unmark
<markname>. That way it will be easier to remember where everything is.
Storages are very handy things. You can use
them to store your most valuable items. When you just started playing and you
earn a few gold coins, it would be wise to put those away in your storage. That
way you can’t lose the money if you would die because of harvesting or
fighting. Also if you went fighting and you are going to do something else, put
away your armor, I speak from experience when I say it sucks to lose things you
need and that are valuable to you. The storage in Valley of the Dwarves is very
popular to many people, it is always crowded. There are also storages in Desert
Pines,
Monsters attack you, watch out when you see
one. They stop attacking at certain levels though. Goblins stop attacking once
you reach level 21 defense, 26 for Skeletons. The most feared monster for new
players is most likely the Goblin in
They named that Goblin, Bob. Bob the Gob. Also
you have two different kinds of white rabbits. The normal white Rabbit and the
Fluffy Rabbit. I beg you, if you see a rabbit with the name Fluffy Rabbit, RUN.
It is one of the strongest monsters ingame.
Player Killing maps. They are dangerous maps as there
are on most PK maps: Monsters AND players. (Players can act like monsters too
but I’m not going to explain thatJ) If you enter it, it is at your own
risk. Many new players enter PK maps and often get killed by some high-leveled
freak. They complain about it, I ask you not to complain. People will just tell
you that you entered at you own risk. Try to level before entering PK maps and
perhaps don’t take any valuable items if you don’t want to risk them.
Getting lost? Not really much of a problem. There
is always the option to do a #beam command when you’re lost. Or you can use
your map (TAB button) to get out. There is off course an option that you went
exploring and realize to late you don’t have a certain map yet. If you need a
map, go to www.el-cel.com they have many
maps there that don’t come along with your client.
About your health,
I know that often new players are having a pain when they get hit by a
harvesting event or an animal/monster. And its risky to run around with low
health so you should, as soon as you are able to, attempt to raise your magic
level a little, the Restoration spell is VERY handy when you get hurt, it
raises your health to the maximum right away! Off course it will take awhile
until you can cast it though.. Until then you got the following options:
- Go check at the beam for any healers around.
Just type #beam me
- You go to market channel and buy a few
healing potions with some spare money.
- There is a super healing spot on IP, 5hp/mana
every minute at coords ??,??
Or you can just sit around for awhile chatting
while you wait to get healed up by 1hp/mana every minute.
Beware of scammers
etc. Check the outlaws section on the Eternal Lands forum often and know who
you should be careful with. Some people will try to get things of you for an
unfair price and such or tell you to come with them and they lure you to some
dangerous monster and will jump your deathbag. To know the names of such
people, check the outlaws forum. And also don’t fall for character scams. Some
people will offer to train your character for you or such but will just steal
your items or delete your character for their own amusement.
A small starting
off guide for new players.
(Request from me: Read the rules when you
create a character and when you’re ingame press F5 to re-read them. Please do
not break the rules.)
When you start, you will end up on Isla Prima.
This is where you must learn the game. You will see 2 NPCs. (Non-Playable
Characters) They have blue names. The wraith and the Tutorial NPC, I recommend
you start by talking to the tutorial NPC. He will give you some info about the
interface. He also gives you 3 quests, try and do his 3 quests. If you can
finish them, he’ll have a little present for you. If you get stuck somewhere,
ask people near you to help you out. There are always people on Isla Prima
helping newbies.
Did the quests? Great! I hope you like the
little reward you got for your work. Now lets get on with the game. Press TAB
to open your map and click near the docks. Your character will walk there, this
is called mapwalking. At the docks
you will see a boat. Here you can go on to the next map. Do so by clicking the
flag on the boat.
Good, you entered WhiteStone. Now go on to the
next boat, take it and you will end up in Desert Pines. Again you take a boat,
but there are 2 this time, make sure you take the correct one. Take the first
one you see and you will arrive in Valley of the Dwarves.
Walk into the city and then a little bit west,
you will see the NPC Molgor. Molgor is a storage NPC. Click him and open your
storage. Store your rewards from the Tutorials quests. Open your map and go
east, click about where the arrow ‘To Tarsengaard’ is.
Do NOT enter Tarsengaard though. Dangerous
monsters are there for newbies.
You will see a bush of flowers, Red
Snapdragons. Click them to start harvesting them. Harvest 20.
OK, now go abit north towards the water, you
will see red roses near the rocks. Harvest 20 of them also. Good, now go to the
docks and take the boat. Back in Desert Pines, open your map. In the west you
see a black hole. An entrance to a cave. Click there and enter the cave when
you arrive. Remember you have a map of the cave, use it in case you get lost.
Now follow the wall along the north side of the cave and you will end up near
the sulfur. I assume following this guide you might not have levelled your
harvesting a lot yet, so you probably can’t harvest sulfur yourself yet. Ask if
anyone there could hand you 20 sulfur. If you can’t get any return to Valley of
the Dwarves. Harvest some flowers to raise your harvesting level and sell the
flowers for some money, I suggest you harvest lilacs south of the flower shop.
Store your roses and snapdragons first though.
Once you have some money store it. Ask around
if anyone can sell you a pair of leather gloves. I suggest you buy 3 pair. You
can also use channels. The Market channel is channel 3. (#jc 3 to join the
market channel type @<message> to talk on that channel)
If you can don’t have enough money yet, keep on
harvesting flowers and selling them.
Ok, now you got some gloves, return to the cave
in Desert Pines. Go to the sulfur and try to harvest it until you have 20
sulfur. Good, now return to Valley of the Dwarves. Once you return store your
sulfur and go harvest some vegetables, they are just across the river in the
east. Eat the vegetables until your food level is positive. Then grab 5 sulfur,
5 red roses and 5 red snapdragons and open the Mixing window.
Select 1 of each and press ‘Mix’.
Congratulations, you just made your very first Fire Essence. Now keep
mixing until all your ingredients are used up.
To continue the game, there are several ways. I
suggest you keep making Fire Essences still for awhile. Once your level is high
enough in Alchemy you can try harder essences and other skills. You have
learned the basics on the skills earlier in this guide. This was just how I
help new players out if I meet any on Isla Prima and they ask me for help.
If you have any questions that you can’t find
an answer to here, please feel free to send me a PM (Personal Message) ingame.
Also do this if you would like me to add something to it that you think just
has to be in here. Thanks for wanting to read through my guide and I hope it
helped you out a lot.
Note: you could try printing this so you have all
of your info just next to you when playing and you don’t have to keep switching
screens. I know how annoying that is.
Anyway have fun playing the game!
Frequently Asked
Questions
Almost forgot this section, not sure what to
put here though but I’ll come up with something.
How do I earn money fast and easy?
Well, there are several ways of getting money.
For new players it’s often easiest to harvest things and sell them. For
example: harvest flowers in Valley of the Dwarves and sell it to the flower
shop. You could also repeat my starting guide and make more Fire Essences,
those sell for some gold too on market channel. Also check bags when running
through a map it might hold some meat and bones and furs. You can also sell
those to other players.
If you find a deathbag of someone on the way
try and return it to the rightful owner though. Almost forgot to mention, there
really isn’t a way to get easy money but there is for fast money. J
I often see players use abbreviations that I
don’t understand. What do they mean?
Here’s a small list:
PK map: Player Killing map
PC (mostly on market channel): Price Check
Map abbreviations:
IP: Isla Prima
DP: Desert Pines
VOTD: Valley of the Dwarves
PL:
TG: Tarsengaard
MM: Morcraven marsh (don’t confuse this with
Monster Magnetism cape)
GP:
SKF: South Kilaran Field
KF: Kilaran Field
TD:
WS: WhiteStone
I died and I ended up in the Underworld, I used
to come back at the beam. What do I do?
Easy, just go north to get out, I hope you’ll
find your deathbag back also. Once you reach level 8 or 9 overall (not quite
sure its one of both) you will go to the Underworld instead of the beam. You
will also have 50% chance to lose an item in your inventory. This chance works
per slot.
How do I get most experience out of fighting?
Not hard at all, fighting is usually quick exp
anyway. Don’t use a sword and make sure to use armor. A sword will cause you to
do more damage, so less hits and less hits means less exp, so better go store
that sword. Armor will not reduce your defense exp but just reduce your damage
taken. Try other skills as well, its not just fighting that gives a lot of exp.
And try to level your magic too, you’ll need it if you want to be a good
fighter.
What is the best way to spend my pickpoints?
This is always a difficult question and I can’t
really answer it either. The best way depends on what you’d like to do in EL.
Take nexuses to according what you’d like to be as the nexuses are bound to
skills. Make sure you get yourself some physique and coordination though,
you’ll need it to have some carry load. It’s easy to be able to carry abit
more.
I’m trying to cast a magic spell but it doesn’t
work. Why?
There are several possibilities, first of all
check if your sigils are in the correct order. Yes, the order matters. Second
option is you don’t have the needed essences on you. The third option is you’re
out of mana.
Advanced
information for higher leveled players.
A list of
animals/monsters a/d.
(Thanks to the IRON guild)
Male Ogre: 70/50
Cyclops: 80/80
Fluffy Rabbit: 95/95
Desert Chimeran: 100/100
Mountain Chimeran:
Arctic Chimeran: 130/130 (Mufossa told me,
these have 150/150 p/c, beware. ;-))
Yeti: 125/125
Giant: ?/?
How the attack/defense
experience becomes calculated.
For atk exp: def lvl monster*2 - own atk lvl +
1/3 rationality (optional +xx% from god, rounded down to last number)
For def exp: atk lvl monster*2 - own def lvl +
1/3 rationality (optional +xx% from god, rounded down to last number)
Example of me fighting Fluffy Rabbits:
Atk exp: 95*2 = 190 – 94 + 12/3 (4) = 100 exp
per hit
Def exp: 95*2 = 190 – 94 + 12/3 (4) = 100 exp
per dodge
When you’re calculating with a god boost in exp
and you have like 16.9+ exp do NOT count it as +17, but round it down to +16.
I’ve tested this with someone who had +17.8 when fighting me, and I calculated
it as +18 but he only had +17.
Experience for other skills is easy. You take
the base exp (found in encyclopedia) and then add the following:
+rationality when harvesting (optional +boost
from god)
+1/2 rationality when mixing/spell casting
(optional +boost from god)
How success rate can
be calculated when mixing.
(Thanks to LochnessLobster)
Your own lvl in the skill you’re using +
potion/manu (optional) divided by the recommended lvl of an item that you are
mixing * 2.
For example: you’re mixing health essences at
lvl 24 alchemy. Not using potion/blessing.
24 / 18*2 = 0,666% or you have a success rate
of 66.6%
NOTE: There is no
perfect level, you will never have a 100% success rate.
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