[LAW]

Bashing 1 is not the way to go. When you hit an ability key (like 1) a little bar will show up on your screen. The default position is somewhere in the middle-right-ish. It will turn blue and you will see part of it looks more like a rectangular bubble than a bar. When the ability fires, some of that bar will go away, decreasing the amount that is filled in with color. It then immediately begins to fill back up again.

The more you bash 1, the more that bar gets overloaded and you just keep doing your basic attack, which may not be what you really want to do. Fight something really weak, hit 1 and wait while you try to find the bar on the screen. Then experiment with moving a little more slowly with your attacks while watching that bar. It will help you understand what Tak was saying.

The leve counter is literally a counter in the adventurers guild with two people standing at it. One of them will issue you regional leves, which consist of tutorial leves, battle leves, faction leves, and fieldcraft leves. The other will issue you local leves, which involve crafting. These are essentially quests of different types. You may accept 8 regional leves and 8 local leves every 36 hours.

This 36 hour period is a specific time period. It does not start when you take the leves or when you complete them. When it is up and new leves are available, that is referred to as leve reset. The most recent reset was about 4.5 hours ago at the time of this post.

[Aistaraina]

At this moment I got some new skills that i am using. So not only 1 that i keep bashing.

What I dont understand is when I press 1 it shoots my arrow, then if I wait I sometimes see other abilities that I can do pop up at the stamina gauge, even though I'm not selecting them. Even when I am bashing one sometimes I see other skills popping up there. They dont get executed though. I am not sure why it does that.

I find the stamina gauge very very confusing aspect of the game. All games I played before, I press a button, it does the assigned skill. Here I really have no clue, So i keep pressing 1 or sometimes when I can use another skill I use it.

My archer is lvl 8 at the moment, and I just got this windarrow or something. So I use that. I find that I can kill stuff easily now. So thats not the problem. But I just still dont get the stamina gauge. Sure I can see I need stamina for certain skills and that it replenishes. But Like I said, why does it sometimes show up other skills. Why is the text of the skill I use sometimes green?

[Takhimar]

I believe I addressed why the skill's name turns into green text.

I know that moving your mouse over your skill bar will highlight the selected ability on your stamina bar as well. If you are not moving your mouse around, the random abilities that are highlighted may just be glitches. I do not know why else this would be occurring.

I really hate to say it like this, but its best to think of the stamina bar as a rogues energy bar, if you played WoW. A fast replenishing resource. Unlike WoW, regular attacks use it as well. If you have not played WoW, it would be best to think of it as real life stamina. You perform an action, and it tires you. Obviously you wouldn't only act once, but successive actions would tire you more, eventually making you unable to lift your weapon.

I could put a little more work into my explanation... but I'll only bother if you still don't quite grasp it.

[Mezegis]

The powers you see flickering up there is just a game glitch, it usually happens when you mash the buttons a lot trying to do something (usually Second Wind for me) It doesn’t do anything to the stamina bar or game play, so it’s just a minor nuisance. Though I do get an adrenaline rush when I see it showing an AoE skill right after three Billies wandered over to watch me kill a Dodo.

[Aistaraina]

Okay I am getting it now. Thank you. It is confusing cus i saw all these abilities and I was like wtf I didn't press them.

I get the stamina now as well. Thanks that was a good explanation.

I am gonna lvl my archer to 10 and then I'm gonna try some melee class. Do you guys have any advice for a good class?

Also I have lots of these crystal, should I sell them to a vendor or something?

And the bazaar thing, Is that the same as those retainers? I am gonna focus on leveling first, but I got all those drops and I am concerned I might get more money for them selling them to other players. If I do can sell them to other players, how would I best be doing it? Some form of auction house in the game?

[Takhimar]

I'm partial to Gladiator, but I'm attempting to tank, so that may not be for you.

If you plan to craft at all, hold onto those crystals for yourself. Crystals are the fuel for crafting. If you do not plan to craft, you can use them as payment for other peoples synths (or syntheses, which is just crafting with a different word). They are rather valuable. I believe that NPCs give you 1 gil for them, while players may pay up to 200 gil per shard (depending on the kind you are selling). I'm not the best person to ask on what you should sell your crystals for, but look around and you'll see what sort of prices they are going for.

There are two kinds of bazaars. Your personal bazaar, you can set up in the field, and is probably what you are thinking of. This functions as a sort of personal market, and you can add and subtract items from it at will. Other players can browse this freely.

I'm not familiar with the retainer bazaar. I don't really sell anything. Someone else is going to have to answer that for you. You can look on the lodestone for an explanation of the market wards. (Or you ought to be able to, I still haven't looked.)

You can put things in either of your bazaars, to sell them to players. You can of course shout that you have items to sell. I wouldn't do this unless you have a good amount of useful crafted items, though. You'll probably just annoy players. There is no Auction house at present.

[Siali]

Aistaraina, on Oct 20, 2010 - 1:05 PM, said:

And the bazaar thing, Is that the same as those retainers? I am gonna focus on leveling first, but I got all those drops and I am concerned I might get more money for them selling them to other players. If I do can sell them to other players, how would I best be doing it? Some form of auction house in the game?

I've been playing around with the retainers this week. You can sell items on yourself which I find for misc drops does not work so well, your personal bazaar does work for items you need repaired and one day you'll be able to sell consumables when people start buying those regularly (food, potions). For your drops you can put them in your retainer, you hire one at the adventurer's guild. Then make your way to the market wards, before you select a category of wards figure out what your drops are good for. Straw for example is good for tailors, so if you have that, moko grass and cotton bolls you'd sell them at the tailor ward.

It all requires a bit of planning but once you do it a few times you get the hang of it.

[Aistaraina]

Siali, on Oct 21, 2010 - 6:35 AM, said:

I've been playing around with the retainers this week. You can sell items on yourself which I find for misc drops does not work so well, your personal bazaar does work for items you need repaired and one day you'll be able to sell consumables when people start buying those regularly (food, potions). For your drops you can put them in your retainer, you hire one at the adventurer's guild. Then make your way to the market wards, before you select a category of wards figure out what your drops are good for. Straw for example is good for tailors, so if you have that, moko grass and cotton bolls you'd sell them at the tailor ward.

It all requires a bit of planning but once you do it a few times you get the hang of it.

I constantly see these people running by with like a shop i can browse? How do I do that?
Secondly. I am almost lvl 10 with my archer and gonna change class pretty soon. If I change class I am obviously lvl 1 with it, but would I also need to change my armor cus my armor is lvl 9. Or does armor restrictions apply to your physical lvl and not rank?

This post has been edited by Aistaraina: Oct 21, 2010 - 7:25 AM

[Mezegis]

It’s not an armor restriction, it’s a recommended level (and classes for some gear). Your level 1 Conj can wear the biggest, baddest, plate that only rank 50 gladiators should wear. Only it won’t offer him hardly any protection at all, because he isn’t skilled enough to wear it.

Stat wise, there are two things that impact how your gear affects you: If you are a favored class, and what your class rank is compared to the level of the item. Lets use something like Bronze Haubergeon. It’s a rank 27ish item that prefers gladiators (and others, but that doesn’t matter for this example) If you are a rank 27 Glad, you get full benefit of the item. If you are a level 1 Conj wearing the same Bronze Haubergeon, You suffer a penalty from not being a favored class, and another penalty for not being close to the rank 27 desired by the item. As such, the 80 defense your Glad gets for wearing it gets reduced to like 10 for your Conj.

I wear a few pieces of the Bronze chain set, even though I am vastly under leveled for it, and every time I level (thus getting closer to the appropriate level), I gain about 10 defense. Since I’m 10 levels below the item, that roughly translates into me playing 100 defense down.

So that is a really long winded explanation to tell you: Wear what you want, it’s better than nothing, but for best performance, wear things designed for your class at the appropriate level for your class.