Useful Items

This page is aimed at lowbies and newcomers and provides a list of useful items they should be aware of:

Useful Equipment

Low level gear that can get you some useful spells:

Name	Level	Spell	Area	Mob
a multifaceted diamond earring	1	Float	Sunless Sea (newbie area). Searchable.
a Faerie Trefoil	1	Detect Invis	Dunhill	Area Pop
a woolen blanket	2	Detect Hidden	Isle of Monkeys	Capt. Eldyr
black cloak	3	Sneak	The Sentinel	Redec
a brightly coloured kite	5	Fly	Darkhaven Art Gallery: Meadow Painting	the happy little girl
a frilly blue pinafore	7	Hide	Lake of Tich'Pyga	Molly O'Hare
a grey wool robe	8	Hide	Ezard's Fields	Tahla
a tiny forest green cap	14	Sneak	Dunhill	Brownie
a reef wraith vial	17	Detect Hidden/Invis	Ocean Keep	a reef wraith
an osprey feather	25	Fly	Lake of Tich'Pyga	an osprey

Useful Items

Low level items that can get you some helpful spells:

Name	Level	Spell	Area	Mob
a scroll of detect invisibility	5	detect invis	Darkhaven	Poshir's Scrolls
a gnome concoction	5	Sanctuary	Shattered Refuge	A Scientist
an icicle staff	5	Create Spring	Darkhaven Town Hall	Roichlen (ground floor)
a rounded, flag stone	4	Stone Skin	Shattered Refuge	a gnome child
a fang filled with venom	8	Poison	Tull Manor	Python
a glowing beaker of liquid	9	Bless, Refresh, Cure Critical	Shattered Refuge	an assistant
a vial of fizz	10	Ogre might	Shattered Refuge	a gnome guard
a tablet of effervescence	11	Aquabreath	Coral Depths	Coral Depths Beach Shoppe
a phial of darkness	17	Protection, Detect Invis, Infravision	Tower of Zenothir	A creature of darkness
a flask of gutbuster	25	Cure Poison, Remove Curse, Heal	Mithril Hall	a battlerager

In Dragon Cult, there is a Candy shop that is useful to know about once you are level 15-25 or higher:

Candy	Level	Spell
Dragon candy	24	dragon wit, create fire
Beholder candy	18	detect hidden, detect invis, detect magic
Death candy	18	sanctuary
Lich candy	18	poison... don't eat this one..
Troll candy	18	cure light x2
Vampire candy	17	energy drain x3 - this is used to make your align evil
Zombie candy	16	teleport - will send you to a random location
Ogre candy	14	ogre might, stone skill

Misc Items

• Smokeable Mana:

If you're on a lowbie mana-user class, blue (mana) potions from Darkhaven can pose 2 problems:

1. They are heavier than other potions (weight 2)
2. They are expensive

• To address the weight issue:
  • If you go to your Race's hometown they sell their own mana pots that are weight 1.
  • If you get into a Guild, all Guild's sell their own Mana Potions that are also weight 1.

The real issue is the cost. A good alternative is to smoke 'a nip of nooracht' instead. I suggest setting up an alias to pack your pipe, light it, and take some drags to replenish mana rather than quaffing mana pots at low levels. See https://rodpedia.realmsofdespair.info/wiki/A_nip_of_Nooracht

This is somewhat 'more annoying' than quaffing potions, but, it can save you a ton of money. Set up some aliases/triggers/macros in your client to make pipe smoking more convenient.

• Tagerte's Conveyances:

For characters under Level 25 this store #3 s, #3 e, n from DH[] sells transportation tickets to 17 different areas, including a free recall scroll. Simply 'buy <area>' to be sent to the area, and 'recite return' to recall back to DH.

• The Skeleton Key:

There is a quest available inside Darkhaven Art Gallery which will get you a Skeleton Key to the Darkhaven Gates. It is tagged to your player specifically, and is a permanent key item that saves when you log out.

This quest has 4 stages that are available at level 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, and 40-50. Completing each stage gets you a key modification that unlocks 1 more gate. So, at level 10, you can get the key and it will open 1 gate for example. Every 10 levels you can do another task to modify that key so it unlocks another gate. Complete all 4 tasks and your key unlocks all 4 DH gates.

To begin the quest, go #4 s;w;n;n;give 5k coin recep; un n; op n; n;open w;w to meet Damian

I won't spoil how to complete this quest here, but it's fairly easy to follow Damian's clues and is worth doing if you find the locked DH gates an annoyance.