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There's a lot of stuff to learn in this game. You need to read EVERYTHING in the game, go slow, check rodpedia, read help files, etc. 
 BUT WHO WANTS TO DO THAT? 

My advice is to give NO shits and just dive in and power through to at least like level 10, then you'll have an easier time fucking about and learning wtf is going on, maps, areas, how to level, skills/spells, all that jazz without dying so much. This page gives you the direct commands to dive in head first slappin your own ass.

'''Related Pages:'''
*Questions ABOUT the game? What type of game is it? What will you be doing? See [[General Game Facts for Newbs]]
*[[Newb Frequent Asked Questions]]



 '''Update:''' This guide gave too many shits! I've condensing it down EVENNN FURRTHERRRRRRRR

=Step 1: Character Creation=
*I'm making the calls here, you don't even know wtf you're doing so trust me. Seriously. When you connect to the game, pick one of these: 
 Paladin       Cleric
 dwarf         gnome

If you think you give a shit read [[Class Info]] and [[Race Info]]. Pally and Cleric are the easist. You'll need to make a ton of characters so your first one doesn't matter honestly, just pick whatever you want and get into it. Don't overthink it.

=Step 2: Sunless Sea (entry area)=
*'''Set Stats:''' Train your stats however you want. See [[Stats]] if you give a shit. Max str/con at least. Then wis/dex.
 stat  (display current stats)

 train str 3  (adds 3 to your str base stat - should raise to 18)
 train con 5  (same as above)
 train wis 3
 train dex 3

*'''Set Name:''' You can try to set a real name if an immortal is on, or use 'name random' to get pre-auth'd names.
**Once your name is authed or you've picked a random one, just copy/paste this shit:
 help start;experienced;get all sac;wear all;up;say I desire to walk the lighted path of the peaceful;nw;pull cord

=Step 2: Get Gear=
*Go all east and sit there for a minute until you transport to a new room where a statue yells at you. 
*Then go 'down' and then go into each of the 4 directions and kill everything in sight, do 'wear all' after each. 
*Once those are all dead, from the central room punch this in:
 d;n;n;w;kill dragonsnak;#20 strike;

*Once that thing's dead, do 'wear all' again. Then jam this whole fucker through: 
 open u;u;op e;e;drop sac;u;e;buy dragonskin;buy 5 meat;w;n;w;w;w;s;s;w;w;w;n;buy 5 recall;e;buy 20 maroon;s;e;e;n;n;#6 n;#3 nw;w;n;#3 e;#3 n;w;vis;buy chest;empty 1.shop chest;empty 2.shop chest;empty 3.shop chest;put dragonskin chest;drop shop;drop shop;drop shop;get recall chest;recite recall;s;fprompt &Y%h/%Hhp &C%m/%Mmn &G%v/%Vmv &P%Xxp &c(%c) &w.:%L:.;prompt &Y%h/%Hhp &C%m/%Mmn &G%v/%Vmv &P%Xxp;exa chest;


*That's it, you're ready to go. 
**To view your inventory type "i" (short for.. "inventory")
**To view your equipment type "garb" or "sur" (short for "survey" - its "garb" but adds in the condition of your gear)
**To view the contents of your chest type "exa chest" (short for "examine chest")

*Here's how you use your shit. (Make aliases in your client)
   heal:  q maroon chest
 recall:  get rec chest;recite rec
    eat:  get meat chest;eat meat
  drink:  get drag chest;drink drag;put drag chest

*Your main "hit" when fighting is 'strike' for now. Jam that a bunch when fighting. Heal when needed.

=Step 3: Orientation=
 Type 'help map'

*You are currently at Darkhaven Square. The dead center of the main town and basically the whole game.
**Feel free to explore this space now if you'd like, you'll want to know it well. Know where to buy potions and recalls.

=Step 4: Go Grind=

*Walk this path, but do it one step at a time cuz shit will jump you. Kill that shit and keep going:
 #9 s;w;#3 s;#4 w;nw;w;w;n

*You're now here: [[https://rodpedia.realmsofdespair.info/wiki/Shattered_Refuge Shattered Refuge]]
**In the section just south of "The Receptionist" (in the nw portion of that map)

*Explore around there and kill all the Assistant Scientists (first) then the Scientists (second)
**When you kill a Scientist, get this potion from their corpse, you need them: 
 get concoct cor;put conco chest

*When you get your first one, do <code>quaff conc</code>
**This gives you the 'sanctuary' spell (reduces damage by 50%). Always have this on when fighting.
**Type 'score' or 'affects' to view your current spells.

=Step 4: Learn how to fight=
*Enter 'strike' to see how the additional attacks work. 
**You'll see your 'wait-state' bar in the prompt tick up when you use strike and you have to wait for that to clear before you can take another action

*Type 'score' or 'affect' to observe your current spells. 
**Make damn sure you have 'sanctuary' it halves the damage you take. If you don't have it on, quaff one of those concoctions you get off the Scientists
**If you see the yellow message "The luminous aura about your body fades away." then sanctuary has just expired. ReDo it.
*When your spells starts expiring, recall and get new spells in DH
**Either ne or nw of square and say 'all' and hope some player has bots running
**Return #3 e; s; d to Academy to get Blessing of Thoric basic buff spells
**You can buy additional stat increasing potions right near there, at #3 e;s;e from the square, if you want.

All you gotta do is keep resetting to get new spells, restock heals, and then return to Shattered Refuge and grind it the fuck out to level 5 or so.


OK that's it you're up and running. So now here's some shit you should actually know:

=Stuff to kinda give a shit about=

This ENTIRREEEE game is based upon two mechanics: The attack/command wait-state, and drinking potions.

*'''The wait-state''' is the bars in your fighting prompt. You can't do shit until those resolve back to nothing.
**As melee combat rolls, interject your own hits (strike/kick/etc), wait for waitstate to clear. Heal if needed. Repeat.
*'''Healing''' You get full. To clear fullness you need to drink from a magic spring. Can get a staff for that at lvl 5:
**'''Spring Staffs:''' (From Darkhaven Square) <code>e;s;s;w;buy staff;put staff chest</code>
***Nice to set an alias for that in your client:
****ALIAS {spring} {get staff chest;hold staff;brand staff;rem staff;put staff chest;wear guide}


If you get in trouble, flee and quit. This will cause mobs to leave you alone when you log back in.

Eat and drink when you get the messages about it. Don't overdo it or you can't quaff potions.


==Death==

If you die under level 10 you keep all your shit, which is nice. 

You'll spawn inside Notre Dame in Darkhaven. To get back to Darkhaven Square:
 #5 s;#2 e;se

You do lose any spells that were affecting you, so go get those again.

===Deities===
After level 10, if you die all your shit stays in the corpse. So, you want a deity.

This will allow you to 'supplicate corpse' if you die. (Your deity just brings you your corpse)

This requires having "favor" with the deity, there are 2 deities that offer super easy favor that you want to use: 

*For Devout characters: https://rodpedia.realmsofdespair.info/wiki/A%27enari
*For Evil characters: https://rodpedia.realmsofdespair.info/wiki/Vl%27aresch
**Go to the deity and use the command 'devote deity'. 

To gain favor, simply visit them and walk in/out/in/out/in/out of their room until your favor is at "praised". 
*Type 'score' to view your favor

If you die, 'supplicate corpse' and get all your stuff, then go refavor.

=Step 5 - Leveling Spots=

There's a lot of areas to explore, but most aren't worth it. You can always rely on these areas as a basis: 

*Level   2-6: Shattered Refuge: assistant scientists and scientists
*Level  6-20: Coral Depths: eels/lampreys at first. Then crab guards. Then Young Merman and Little Mermaids.
*Level 15-28: Spectrum painting in Darkhaven Art Gallery
*Level 28-50: Temple of the Moon, Darkhaven Art Gallery, (ask people at this point)

See here for all of the Area pages with directions and maps:
 https://rodpedia.realmsofdespair.info/wiki/Category:Areas

===Leveling Notes===

1. Monitor how many potions/recall you have (exa chest) and recall and buy more potions when you need. 

*'''Potion shop:''' #2 s;#2 w;n        (On Market Street - "2" in 'help map' diagram)
**Buy the highest level pots you can. Violets are full heals (100hp) at level 10. Don't buy blues, those are mana.
**You can buy 50 at a time, for example: buy 50 purple;empty shop chest;drop shop
*'''Recall shop:''' West of the potion shop, if you need more of those, same deal.

2. As you level, you'll learn some new skills/spells. You learn those back inside the academy. 
* #3 e;s;d;n;e   
**Type 'prac' to view your list and do: practice 'skill name' to learn.
**Type 'slist' to view your fullll list for all 50 levels (can do 'slist 2 10' for just those levels)

=Step 6 - What next?=

So at some point you'll be leveled up a bit and want to actually 'play the game' more properly. 

*Next step would be to learn some equipment and improve yourself.
**I have some sortable eq tables available here that I use a good bit: [[Lowbie Eq]]
***Search for those on rodpedia, go to those areas and try to find the gear.

*Get a better weapon!
**Class weapon progression info coming soon.

*I'd suggest trying to stock up well and heading into '''The Sentinel''' for some good gear.

*If you're playing a Cleric, at level 14 you'll need to change your align to evil and start using mana potions to cast necromantic touch
**Kill happy nice people in Shattered Refuge to turn evil
**Buy some Mana potions or Herbs to smoke. See the note about Smokeable Mana on [[Useful Items]] page.
**Necro your face off and marvel at your power


I'm going to try to add a list of 'shit to do as a lowbie' here at some point, can send me ideas if you got em dyrdex @ gmail.com






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