Quick Tutorial
start game, read intro until you end up in the Tavern. Save game
Game Play-If you die, its game over. When questing, each task takes a portion of the day to complete. You have 30 days before you go against the LIch King (Queen) again. For some odd reason, instead of having a 20 hour day, and saying a task will take X hours, they say a task will take 1/20 of a day, 1/10 of a day, 1/4 of a day, 1/2 a day, etc. checking your time left in the day only gives you a vague answer to the time (morning, afternoon, etc). For this tutorial, I am going to assume 20 hour days
Look at your quests in the tavern. Grab any collect quests, and any kill x monsters in an area you have a collect quest for. You can have 10 quests running simultaneously, but don't get more than 8 for now.
explore the town- Notice you can unlock mercs/companions for 100 gold (of which you start with 0). DO NOT do the practice fight against dummies in the guild. Contrary to the explanation, You CANNOT run away, you have NORMAL health, and you DIE if you don't win. Do talk to the knight, and look at your current and possible skills. you can get a description of your two starting skills- defense and interrupt.
Go back to the Tavern, save your game, and "Travel" to a place you have a gather quest in (forest, grasslands or forest path, usually). When you get there, you'll have 4 choices - explore, forage, area (pick a discovered sub zone), and return to tavern. Explore will take 2 hours, and you'll look for a subzone. Success is based on luck and subzones still to be discovered. Each Subzone has at least 1 point of interest (which you also have to spend time looking for), and a "search for monsters" option. Since you have NO weapons and are first level, choose "forage". Each session will last one hour, and you'll either find something (hopefully 1 or more of your quest items), be attacked, or have nothing happen.
Battles - you will start against 1-3 opponents. YOUR damage gauge looks fairly accurate, their damage gauge/health remaining is NOT (several times, I killed an opponent that looked like it was over half health, after it had already taken 20-30 damage). Also, for some reason, you are not told the damage on your killing blow. If you have 2-3 opponents, raising your defense is helpful at the start of the battle (doesn't help a lot with their "special" attacks, but greatly reduces normal damage). Winning fights gives you exp, and sometimes gold, items and quest advancement. Monsters with "steal" abilities WILL take your items, I don't know if they can steal your gold.
While in the tavern, be aware that some quests use up a lot of your time (IE, rescue kidnapped daughter- It takes you 5 hours to get to the new town (you leave from the "city", not the tavern's "travel"). It then takes 5 hours to talk/investigate the crime. It then takes 10 hours to rescue the daughter. Finally, the next day it will take an additional 5 hours to ask for a reward, and ANOTHER 5 hours to get the next quest from the daughter to progress in her affection)
start game, read intro until you end up in the Tavern. Save game
Game Play-If you die, its game over. When questing, each task takes a portion of the day to complete. You have 30 days before you go against the LIch King (Queen) again. For some odd reason, instead of having a 20 hour day, and saying a task will take X hours, they say a task will take 1/20 of a day, 1/10 of a day, 1/4 of a day, 1/2 a day, etc. checking your time left in the day only gives you a vague answer to the time (morning, afternoon, etc). For this tutorial, I am going to assume 20 hour days
Look at your quests in the tavern. Grab any collect quests, and any kill x monsters in an area you have a collect quest for. You can have 10 quests running simultaneously, but don't get more than 8 for now.
explore the town- Notice you can unlock mercs/companions for 100 gold (of which you start with 0). DO NOT do the practice fight against dummies in the guild. Contrary to the explanation, You CANNOT run away, you have NORMAL health, and you DIE if you don't win. Do talk to the knight, and look at your current and possible skills. you can get a description of your two starting skills- defense and interrupt.
Go back to the Tavern, save your game, and "Travel" to a place you have a gather quest in (forest, grasslands or forest path, usually). When you get there, you'll have 4 choices - explore, forage, area (pick a discovered sub zone), and return to tavern. Explore will take 2 hours, and you'll look for a subzone. Success is based on luck and subzones still to be discovered. Each Subzone has at least 1 point of interest (which you also have to spend time looking for), and a "search for monsters" option. Since you have NO weapons and are first level, choose "forage". Each session will last one hour, and you'll either find something (hopefully 1 or more of your quest items), be attacked, or have nothing happen.
Battles - you will start against 1-3 opponents. YOUR damage gauge looks fairly accurate, their damage gauge/health remaining is NOT (several times, I killed an opponent that looked like it was over half health, after it had already taken 20-30 damage). Also, for some reason, you are not told the damage on your killing blow. If you have 2-3 opponents, raising your defense is helpful at the start of the battle (doesn't help a lot with their "special" attacks, but greatly reduces normal damage). Winning fights gives you exp, and sometimes gold, items and quest advancement. Monsters with "steal" abilities WILL take your items, I don't know if they can steal your gold.
While in the tavern, be aware that some quests use up a lot of your time (IE, rescue kidnapped daughter- It takes you 5 hours to get to the new town (you leave from the "city", not the tavern's "travel"). It then takes 5 hours to talk/investigate the crime. It then takes 10 hours to rescue the daughter. Finally, the next day it will take an additional 5 hours to ask for a reward, and ANOTHER 5 hours to get the next quest from the daughter to progress in her affection)
