====== Newbie Guide — Mihey ======

//Category: Guide | Region: Nork | Difficulty: Beginner//

//A comprehensive guide for brand-new players entering the Kingdom of Drakkar. Written by Mihey of PHNX Guild.//

===== Starting Out =====

When you enter Drakkar for the first time, you appear in Nork School. **Read the floor piles.** Take the doors and read the golden floor piles. Don't go anywhere until you finish the tutorial.

You start with simple armor and a crude weapon. To survive, you need better gear, a weapon, and to dedicate to a class.

===== Class Dedication =====

Go outside the marketplace. Nork town has the following trainers:

  * **Fighter** — just west of marketplace
  * **Martial Artist (MA)** — just south of the portal room (east of marketplace)
  * **Mentalist** — next to MA
  * **Healer** — north of the mentalist
  * **Thief** (hidden) — go into the Steel Flower pub (NE of marketplace), walk through the corridor to the end, and walk through the wall (secret door) to find the hidden Nork thief guild
  * **Barbarian** — isolated hut far east of Nork, east of prisons. Take someone bigger to escort you — prisons are deadly to small crits.
  * **Paladin** — island southeast of Yeti Island (south of Nork). Must be level 8 fighter with good/good alignment.
  * **Fighter/Mentalist** — hidden near hally giant and levi lair, very far from Nork. Hardest class to build.

**Recommended:** Dedicate to fighter first — it's the easiest class to start with while learning the game.

Click on your preferred trainer, stand on their hex, then click "Dedicate."

===== Getting Your First Gear =====

With starter equipment, you can survive on N-1 ("Last Chance"), your first dungeon. Enter the big building northwest of marketplace and go downstairs.

Look around — there's plenty of stuff on the floor:
  * Pick up a weapon you prefer
  * Get better armor (leather < studded < chain)
  * You can wear a woolen cloak on top of armor — even two cloaks

===== Weapon Skill =====

Choose which weapon you will use, then **stick with that weapon**. Each time you attack, you gain skill in that weapon type. Using a longsword raises your Longsword skill. Using it a lot increases your skill level.

Check your skills: click Show/Skills on the dropdown menu in the top-left section.

===== Combat Basics =====

  * Move forward until you see a monster (red box = hostile)
  * Click the attack button and press on the enemy's box
  * Watch health bars — enemy health should drop; if yours drops to zero, you die
  * If wounded, you can run and come back later
  * **Mentalists:** Use the ENMISS button and click on enemies (costs 5 EP each, regenerates over time)

===== After Your First Kills =====

  * **Search** the corpse (blue bag button) — get gold, gems, helms, boots
  * **Sell** gems at shops (drag into shop window)
  * **Buy healing potions** (mend bottles — dark blue bottle with red circle)
  * Cheaper mends at the alchemist (west and north of fighter trainer, 20 coins)
  * South of fighter trainer is the **tanner** — bring corpses for armor/cloaks
  * Next south is the **bank** — save your gold

===== Leveling Up =====

Hunt on N-1 until you gain enough experience for the next level. **Rest at full health to advance.** You gain total HP (and EP for mentalists/healers).

Go to your trainer and click **Class Train** to get special abilities. Then click **Train** to pay gold — this **speeds up skilling** enormously.

**Attacks per level:** Fighters & MA every 4 levels, Thieves every 5, Barbarians every 3, Healers every 8.

===== Dungeon Progression =====

  * **N-1** through **N-3**: Easy dungeons to start
  * **N-3.5**: Huge dungeon between N-3 and N-4. Tough for small crits but has good loot (gems worth 1-2k, plate armor, sanquin scales)
  * **N-4**: Accessible at level 10 via the hole SE of east bank

===== Succor Twigs =====

Go to the hidden thief guild, buy a succor scroll (50 coins), hold in right hand. Use ''#form succor'' to get a succor twig. Set it at a safe location. When hunting, drop the twig to instantly teleport back to where you formed it.

**Always have a twig back to Nork. It's a lifesaver.**

===== Social Tips =====

  * Hang out in SF (Steel Flower) — meet friends, get tips, party up
  * Make a party: ''#party create name'' — experience is fairly divided
  * Join a party: ''#party join name''
  * **Be fair** — don't steal others' loot. Player thieves aren't liked.
  * Bigger players often help newbies — ask nicely, don't beg
  * Common free gear to ask for: Rak cloak, Kitty cloak, Steel Shield, Large Yeti
  * Many items **tie** to the owner — if it says "It won't fit you", it belongs to someone else

===== Paladin Dedication =====

If you're a fighter at level 8 with good/good alignment (check with ''#list stats''), consider re-dedicating to paladin:
  * Extra attack
  * +2 willpower
  * Focus disciplines at higher skills (17+)
  * **Don't kill anything non-hostile** (grey boxes) or you lose pallyhood

===== Dying and Restoring =====

When you die, you drop what you were holding and hit the ground. Options:
  * Wait for a healer to **CC** (CritCure) you
  * Use ''#restore'' to restore immediately at the alchemist — costs 1 Constitution and some HP if low CON
  * Buy **3birds** (con pots) at SF shop — raise CON by 1 up to 15
  * **Keep CON above 10** at all costs, preferably at 15
  * Higher CON = more HP gain when leveling

===== Death Piles =====

In dangerous areas (prisons, etc.), when you die, monsters can **search you** — you lose everything. This leaves a **DP** (death pile). Try to recover it yourself or ask for help.

===== See Also =====
  * [[guides:glossary|Glossary / Abbreviations]]
  * [[guides:low_level_guide|Low-Level Guide (ZOE)]]
  * [[guides:hunting_guide_mihey|Hunting Guide]]
  * [[guides:start|All Guides]]

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