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 gnome concoction	5	Sanctuary	Shattered Refuge	A Scientist
an icicle staff	5	Create Spring	Darkhaven Town Hall	Roichlen (ground floor)
a brightly coloured kite	5	Fly	Darkhaven Art Gallery: Meadow Painting	the happy little girl
a grey wool robe	8	Hide	Ezard's Fields	Tahla
a frilly blue pinafore	7	Hide	Lake of Tich'Pyga	Molly O'Hare
black cloak	3	Sneak	The Sentinel	Redec
a tiny forest green cap	14	Sneak	Dunhill	Brownie
a woolen blanket	2	Detect Hidden	Isle of Monkeys	Capt. Eldyr
a Faerie Trefoil	1	Detect Invis	Dunhill	Area Pop
a multifaceted diamond earring	1	Float	Sunless Sea (newbie area). Searchable.
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 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

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.