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Trijhaos -
(and by the way I've just realised I know nothing about your screen name's origins and that I've always meant to ask)
I love the environments, I love the little touches like my night elven warrior's stance looking somewhat different from my human warrior.
I'm not sure, but I think your elf can also do a completely gratuitous sommersault in the air when you jump forward, which no other race can. Just to make everyone jealous.
I've looked through the manual and I can't figure it out. How do you get the little chat bubble deal above your head
Typing /s will give you a text box to write in (hit enter to utter what you've typed) and it appears over your head. /help gives a list of the commands which can be accessed like this, but it's a bit gnomic, you'll have to experiment. Briefly, though: /p will send a message to everyone in your party and no one else; /g will send a message to everyone in your guild; if you click on someone, a little portrait of them appears next to your in the top left corner of your screen - right click (or apple click) on it and a menu appears including 'whisper', which allows you to talk to just that person. Clicking on a name in square brackets in the chat panel at the bottom left of the screen willl also bring up a 'whisper' box, and the speech bubble at the top of the colummn if yellow icons on the left of that chat panel gives access to all sorts of things like emotes (/train makes a really annoying noise.) HINT: don't talk during combat unless it's well in hand - you can issue keyboard commands while you're typing in the chat box. If you get attacked while talking, hit enter, leave the conversation half done, and live to finish it.
Last useful command - auto-run: number lock on your keypad sets you running forward so you don't have to hold the w key down. If you're on a keyboard without it, you can remap from the main options screen.
Is it normal for paladins and priests to run by, cast some sort of spell on you and then run off?
If not normal, it's certainly not abnormal. Mages and warlocks sometimes do it too - and no doubt shamans, druids, and anyone else who can. Warriors have a habit of helping passers by out in tricky fights. If they're around your level, click on them as they zoom by, and whisper to them to check if they want to hang around and join you.
Part of my issue with this game is I don't know how to train my character, I don't want to just dump points in skills that do ok for me at this level, but become completely useless later on down the line.
My main (until yesterday, my only) character is now lvl 18, and I haven't encountered a choice I made yet which was a mistake (apart, possibly, from selecting a gnome-warrior combination; I just can't take the damage monsters deal out toe-to-toe - but maybe that will change); it seems to me that you don't make pivotal choices until you're high level. Don't neglect your professions - as you rise, they become central, and they're a good source of income. I'm starting to think my gnome is primarily an engineer/marksman, and secondly a hand-to-hand guy - great once you figure it out. All I need now is a few more target dummies and a bigger gun, and I'm totally rock and roll... |
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