ZOE'S HINTS FOR LOW LEVEL CHARACTERS
If you expect to find info to help you when you first start the game, sorry. This isn't it.
This section is for those who have played, gotten the hang of it, and now want to start over or build a new crit or skill a new skill, and are tired of working 5 days to get to skill 5.
EXPERIENCE:
Go S from Nork and swim across to what is known as 'yeti island'. Stay along the edge of the water, away from sharks and alligators, and use a distance weapon to kill wolves and bears. They are each worth about 1000experience points which really adds up quick. be ware of the bears for they can swim. If you don't have a distance weapon, jump on and off land to kill and get out of range, though this will be risky. This should get you to experience level 6 or 7 within 30 minutes (when no red crits in sight, move to another alt.)
Now get protstun (maeling twig) and wear a large yeti and run down to n-4. Don't stop along the way until you get to n-3 and you have a zoo of 10 or more crits you can kill. Once in n-4 roam the entire level killing crits. They are pretty easy and give 1000-2000 experience points each. This get's you to experience 10 within a day.
Allthough the above works fairly easily, most prefer to spend some time coining (see below) and buy the exp up to level 10 from the gambler in the E of nork town. This does work faster and is recommended, but requires an hour or two of hunting the same area, which quickly becomes a drag.
If you don't like taking risks keep killing large zoo's in the nork dungeons(n-4,n-5) and gambling.
If you do like to take a chance, move to the frore icefloes. Be sure to wear a kitty or at least 250points worth of ice prot, and minimum a set of scales and skill 8+. Carefully start at the edge of the snow covered area in the NE of frore town. With a weapon concentrate on killing iceworms and bears, with psi attacks concentrate on iceworms and snowtigers. Stay 4 hexes away from tigers at all times, they charge and can hit for 150. Each is worth 11.000 or 12.000 experience points.
Upon reaching experience level 13, you may, experiencewise consider yourself a 'medium character'.
SKILL :
Don't bother paying the trainer yet. The skill will come so fast it will only slow you down to twig back and forth.
Wear a large yeti or better. Bring some prot stun (buy a twig in maeling), bring the weapon you want to skill in, a sack of heals and a succor scroll.
Click the add and make a party.
Go to n-4, up to the Northern most corridor (leading W) and kill each zoo you find while heading W.
All the way W in the N room you will see stairs (you will be about skill 5 at this time). Go up the stairs (n-3.5), out the room and head all the way N to the picture of bones on the floor. Go through the secret wall E, further E to the set of double doors. Go in those double doors and fight the 'Ogrechief'. He may push you around a bit, not much damage though. When he is dead (skill 6-7 now) set a twig and go pay the trainer from the coin and gems you picked up from the zoo's in n-4. Twig back and the Orgechief will be back in a few minutes, Start killing him again, this time stop just before he dies and drop an IH to heal him to double skill gain.(do this no more than twice with one crit, all skill will be gone after the second time).
Repeat the process until you make skill 8 or 9.
This all shouldn't take more than 1.5 hours.
When at skill 8 or 9, wear a large yeti or any scales and a kitty. bring a shield if available.
Go to VT, head S and climb down. Swim E and a little N and climb up to get to the single griffon lair. Swim E and S to the hole next to red dragon lair to drop down and open W wall to go to twin griffon lair.
Click the add and make a party.
Kill the griffon(s), IH when comfortable. After no more than 5 or 6 kills you should be skill 10 or 11.
This may take several hours depending on the damage your skill does and the availability of the griffons.
Skillwise you may now consider yourself a 'medium level character'.
COIN:
In my experience n-3.5 provides the fastest and easiest coin at lower levels.
Bring some 'cure blindness' potions and up to 12 heals.
Go to SW of nork town. A guard there stands by a set of stairs. Go down and into the door S SW. Kill the orcs and shamans and take their coin and all the long green (barrel shaped) gems. They are each worth 900-1100 coin. A full sack should get you about 20.000coin per trip in about 15 to 20 minutes.
Also loot the frore lair piles for diamonds and other gems. At times 150.000 coin from them isn't unusual.
GEAR:
Basically looting the frore piles is the best way to go. Loot for items while hunting too. There is always the possibility.
As for armor and robes, you will need some help obtaining those required for the hints above. Most will be easy to ask for. Scales however may be more difficult. Untied silver dragon scales should be around in a fair amount.
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