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| =Gaining Experience= | | =Gaining Experience= |
| The easiest way to gain experience is to bash denizens; you can also complete quests to gain experience. Most players opt for a combination. When you choose to bash in a certain area and find out about the quests in that area you can gain more experience and a bit of gold in the same amount of time.
| | Your experience determines your experience level, which in turn determines your health, mana, and other characteristics of your character. With each level you gain, you earn five more lessons to spend, and at certain milestones, you gain bound credits that may be traded in for many different things (including more lessons). (See [[Level]] and [http://www.achaea.com/irex/helpview/help.php?q=LEVELS HELP LEVELS]) One of the easiest ways to gain experience is to hunt denizens (also called "bashing"). Successfully slaying a denizen will earn you experience relative to that denizen's strength and level. Another way to earn experience is to complete various [[quests]]. |
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| ==Bashing== | | ==Hunting== |
| Bashing is used to refer to the killing of denizens. Each denizen you kill has an experience value. Of course the experience value you are given for a certain denizen depends on its level. You can estimate the level of a denizen using CONSIDER.
| | '''Hunting''', or '''bashing''', refers to the slaying of denizens. Every denizen has an experience value, depending on its level and strength, and you can estimate this level by using CONSIDER (i.e. ''CONSIDER IMP''). A full list of denizen strengths may be found in [http://www.achaea.com/irex/helpview/help.php?q=CONSIDER HELP CONSIDER]. |
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| If you bash an area not frequented by other players you may kill denizens that have been alive longer. This offers you an experience bonus of up to 50% <<Right?>> added to the base experience gain for a denizen.
| | There is a very useful guide to hunting in Achaea located on the Achaean Forums, at [http://forums.achaea.com/index.php?showtopic=14196 this topic], which lists locations from newbiehood to level 60+. As a newbie, however, you will likely want to stay withing Minia, Lodi, and Mount Gheladan. |
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| ===Where to Bash=== | | ==Questing== |
| | There is a multitude of quests throughout the lands of Achaea. As a newbie, you may want to whet your teeth on the newbie quests in the newbie lands, many of which are listed in [http://www.achaea.com/irex/helpview/help.php?q=NEWBIE_QUESTS HELP NEWBIE QUESTS]. Within this scroll, you will find tips and pointers on many (but not all!) of the available quests in the areas. There some quests not detailed that you will need to discover on your own: try greeting denizens around you, and examining the world around you more closely. Outside the newbie lands, quests may not be discussed by mandate of Divine law, and they become increasingly difficult to complete. Sometimes greeting the denizens is not enough; you may need to ask them about specific things or people you have noticed. |
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| There is a very useful guide to bashing in Achaea located on the Achaean Forums. [http://forums.achaea.com/index.php?showtopic=14196]
| | In addition to these localized quests, honours quests may stretch across large areas of the land. Honours quests are often extremely difficult to solve and are far beyond the scope of this guide. When you complete an honours quest, an appropriate line is added to your HONOURS page (thus the name ''honours quests'') so others may view your impressive deeds. |
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| ====Levels 1+====
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| *Minia - pixies, imps, hellcats, firesprites
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| *Lodi - all except guard pigs, wildcat queen and soldiers
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| *All major cities except Eleusis - baby, young, and normal rats.
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| ====Levels 10+====
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| *Minia - kobolds and pygmies
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| *Lodi - guard pigs, wildcat queen and soldiers
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| *All major cities except Eleusis - old and black rats.
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| *The Great Rock (ophidians, especially warrior ophidians, afflict and team - reserve for higher levels)
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| *Bopalopia
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| *Tasur'ke (avoid sharks till much higher levels)
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| *Actar Valley
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| *Hounds in bog near Ashtan
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| ====Levels 30+====
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| *Manara Burrow
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| *Petra (you can be enemied to the city of Ashtan for hunting here)
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| *The Underground Lake by Blackrock
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| *Jaru (you can be enemied to the city of Shallam for hunting here)
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| ====Levels 35+====
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| *Rheodad
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| *Enverren Marsh
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| *Manusha
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| *Cavemen village in Dun Valley
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| *Garnok and Thalagor, the orc and ogre villages at the foot of Dun Fortress
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| *Sangre Plains
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| *Forestwatch* and buckawns in Northern Ithmia (avoid bottom half of Forestwatch till higher levels)
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| *Green Lake
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| *Ulangi
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| *The Aeraithian Falls
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| *Mhojave Desert (hyenas, rattlesnakes, sidewinders, foxes, monitor lizards)
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| *El'Jazira
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| *Genji
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| *Polyargos (harpies, lepers - lepers cripple you)
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| *Dwarf and orc camps within Siroccian Mountains
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| *Western Vashnars
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| *Shala-Khulia
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| *Riparium
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| *Aran'riod
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| *Kamleikan
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| *Inbhir Ness
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| *Dun Fortress (not topmost level till higher levels)
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| *Manticore Caverns (not queen manticore or ferocious manticores)
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| *Maze beneath Maim's mansion*
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| *Scorpion pit*
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| *Azdun (except the graveyard, Lachesis, vampires)
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| *Goblin village
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| *Arcadia
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| *Thugs in sewers of Ashtan, Shallam, Hashan. Bloodleeches in Cyrene's sewers (may be more difficult than thugs).
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| *Black Forest (do not attack Treekins unless you want to be enemied to Oakstone)
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| ====Levels 60+====
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| *Kasmarkin*
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| *New Thera (you can be enemied to the city of Ashtan for hunting here)
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| *Darkenwood
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| *Aalen forest (including Tsol'aa village and grizzly bears if careful)
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| *Moghedu (not keepers, knights, bodyguards, or Great Mhunna till higher levels)
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| *Shastaan
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| *Harae*
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| *Southern Vashnars
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| *Sea Lion Cove
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| *Mysia
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| *Tomacula
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| *Parts of Belladona's Keep*
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| *Shala'jen Monastery*
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| *Confusia
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| *You're big enough to explore and find hunting spots for yourself!
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| '''*''' If an area is listed with a '''*''' behind it that means it has a lot of denizens that afflict. This is a good place to bash if you want to practice curing, but make sure to have cures on you if you attempt to bash this area.
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| '''NOTE:''' Remember that aside from your level your ability to fight, heal, and your skill levels determine the right place to bash. If you find an area is getting to easy, attempt to explore another area that may offer more experience, if it is too hard try to go to lower level area.
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| ==Quests==
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| For the quests in Minia and Lodi you can refer to HELP NEWBIEQUESTS. In it you will find pointers about how to complete a scope of the available quests in the areas. There are also quests not listed in that file that you may find out about by greeting denizens and finding out about items lying around. In the other areas quests are not described and they are increasingly difficult to figure out. Sometimes simply greeting the denizens is not enough; you may need to ask them about specific things or people you have noticed in and around the area.
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| In addition to these local quests, there are a few quests called honours quests. Honours quests are extremely difficult to figure out and are far beyond the scope of this document. When you complete an honours quest you will get a line added to your HONOURS reference so that others can see you have successfully completed one of these illusive quests. | |
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| =Making Gold= | | =Making Gold= |