Useful Items
This page is aim at lowbies and newcomers and provides a list of useful items they should be aware of:
Spell Items
Low level items 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 |
Functional Items
- Smokeable Mana:
If you're on a lowbie mana-user class, blue (mana) potions from Darkhaven can pose 2 problems:
- They are heavier than other potions (weight 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. Also, 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.
- Tagerte's Conveyances: For characters under Level 25 this store
#3 s, #3 e, nfrom 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.