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 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 |
Misc 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.
- 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.