Items

Weapon types

The weapon types correlate exactly with the weapon skills. The weapon types with some example weapons are:

• Fighter class weapons
  • Longswords: longsword, broadsword, bastard sword, scimitar, falchion, claymore
  • Maces: club, flail, mace, morning star, war hammer, great maul, lucern hammer
  • Axes: cleaver, axe, hatchet, tomahawk, labrys, 2-headed axe
  • Polearms: halberd, spear, scythe, glaive, hoe, trident
• Rogue class weapons
  • Ranged: short bow, long bow, crossbow, sling
  • Shortswords: dagger, shortsword, main gauche, rondel, machete
  • Foils: rapier, kryss, epee
• Monk class weapons
  • Unarmed: bare hands, gloves, neko-de, katar, brass knuckles
• Unclassed weapons
  • Staves: crooks, staves, gnarled staves and shillelaghs

All of the above weapon types are Melee weapons, with the exception of ranged.

When you look at a weapon in your inventory, or are buying one, the weapon type (ie the weapon skill) is displayed in the window with all the other weapon information, such as required strength, damage range, damage type, speed, etc.

Different weapons have not only different damage ranges, but also different speeds. Just because a halberd does more damage than a dagger, doesn't necessarily make it a better weapon: as the dagger is faster (this statement also does not imply the dagger is better than the halberd, it is purely an example).

Weapon damage types

Different weapons also do different damage types: ie slashing, piercing & bludgeoning damage. Some monsters are vulnerable to certain damage types.

• Undead: vulnerable to bludgeoning damage
• Hellspawn: vulnerable to slashing damage
• Dragons: vulnerable to piercing damage

Also, The fighter class weapons (axes, swords, maces and polearms) as well as unarmed attacks can be used to bash open locked doors or chests, but watch out for traps. See Chests, Locks and Traps for more.

Unarmed-Combat Weapons

This oxymoron actually describes a class of weapons that while equipped, will increase your skill in unarmed combat. While these weapons increase the average non-critical damage per hit, your attacking speed may be slowed somewhat, and the rate of criticals will be reduced.

Armour

Armour can be equipped in the following slots:

• Head: caps, helms, coifs
• Body: mail, gi
• Legs: greaves, leggins, gi
• Hands: gloves, gauntlets
• Feet: boots

There are 4 basic armour weights, or classes:

• Unarmoured: cloth (or not wear anything at all)
• Light: padded, leather
• Medium: ring, chain, scale
• Heavy: splint, plate

In general, the more armour you are wearing, the higher your defence. Wearing armour is subject to strength requirements.

For unarmoured fighters (monks), they must be fully wearing nothing or armour of the unarmoured grade in order to receive attack & defence bonuses.

Armour weights and classes

Gaining defence by wearing medium or heavy armour is subject to having skill points in fighter. Light requires points in rogue or fighter.

Eg, if your highest fighter skill is say 50%, and you have 10 def worth of medium and heavy armour on, then you only gain 50% x 10 def = 5 points worth of defence. If you had 100% in a fighter skill, then you would get the full 10 points of defence from that armour. For light armour, you need 100% in either a rogue skill or a fighter skill to get the full defence from that armour.

Rings and Neckwear

Apart from being decorative, rings and neckware are often enchanted with magical effects such as nightvision enhancement, stat boosts and defence enhancements.

Provisions

• Torches: useful for creating light in a dark place, torches will be automatically extinguished when you enter the daylight
• Keys: usualy obtained for quests - used for unlocking doors
• Gem: view a gem to see a birds eye view of your location
• Pocket watch: useful for telling the time, if you have one the current in-game time will appear in the status area
• Pocket knife: use on logs to carve items (see thread on woodworking)
• Mining pick: used for mining ore
• Fishing pole: fishing
• Smiths hammer: blacksmithing (see thread on smithing)
• Tongs: used for making metal items (see thread on smithing)
• Woodsman's axe: chopping trees to obtain logs
• Lockpick: picking locks on doors and chests (not all locks are pickable) (press j)
• Probe: used for disarming traps (press J)
• Sextant: will inform you of your position on the current map - if you are outdoors
• Grapple (grappling hook): use to climb mountains (press k). Mountain climbing is dangerous!
• Raft: for water travel.
• Sewing kit: for tailoring
• Mortar and pestle: for making potions and other alchemy
• Magnifying glass: used to identify objects: requires skill in item identification
• Skull key: used to open locked doors (key is destroyed after one use)
• Polypile wand: put 3 items of similar type on the ground and zap them with the wand. Maybe something will happen, maybe something won't.

Potions

Stock up on plenty of yellow (healing) potions. Blue potions restore mana, and red potions cure poison. All potions are used via the p key, but it might be a good idea to bind them to one of the numeric hot keys. Press CTRL+number when in the potion menu to bind the selected potion to the selected number key.

• Yellow : restores health
• Blue : restores mana
• Red: cures poison
• Green: poisons target
• Brown: Increases your speed
• Orange: puts the target to sleep
• Purple: adds extra attack strength
• Lime: full nightvision
• Pink: cures disease
• Black: invisibility
• Cyan: blinks
• White: transparent sight
• Clear: bottled fountain water
• Khaki: 10 seconds of full rage bar

Scrolls

These are scrolls that any type of player can use, & which are invaluable to you surviving EUO. They are as follows:

• Town Portal Scroll: Creates a town portal at your location which will transport you back to your chosen bind town when walked into. Useful for restocking during adventuring & allowing people to travel to you to party with. You can set your 'home town' by typing /bind in many of the towns around the land of New Sosaria. Nordhaven, Izumi, & other Townes further afield can be used as your home base . The player who creates the portal determines its life-span: it exists for a two-way trip only before disappearing; thus if you are partied, you should always go last if you created the portal!

• Identify Scroll: Unless you invest in the identify skill, these scrolls allow you to identify unknown (orange) magical items. Drop the item on the floor, (u)se the scroll in its direction.

• Resurrection Scroll: Unless you have a high level mage with you, this is the best way to restore lost party members! Bear in mind that the freshly risen character will be very weak, and prone to returning to the grave if they are in a dangerous area!

• Uncurse Scroll: Obvious, really- uncurses magical items. The item has, like with the identify scroll, to be on the ground!

• Unweld Scroll: This is for when you either wield a cursed item by mistake, or have your items cursed (it can happen!). Using this scroll removes any cursed items from being (R)eadied- it does not, however, uncurse the item.

There are quite a few more scrolls to be aware of. See the Inscription page for more information.

Tomes

When you want to learn a new spell (i.e., gain the ability to cast that spell), go to a Scribe Shoppe (the shops marked with a scroll like sign) and buy a Tome containing that spell.

To learn that spell read the tome like any other book with r, select the Tome and the spell will be learned. You only need to learn a spell once. To then see the chance of casting that spell, press z until you see the list of your known spells - success rates of all the spells you know will be listed here.

More on Magic and Spellcasting here.

Books

Books are scattered throughout the world of EUO. For the most part they cannot be bought - however after some particular quests, there is a set volume of written articles that can be purchased as reprints from the Library. After obtaining a book, it can be read at any time with the "R" (SHIFT+r) command.

Here are a couple of visual examples of works that may be seen in the world.

Background

Roughly a year ago (January 10, 2010 to be exact), Egg held a forum-competition for writing literature for euo to be read in game. Many members participated. The winner was Grue, who wrote an epic tale of a "Journal of Gunter the Lost," divided into several parts. The competition had many other books and writers that were accepted, but there was only one winner.

Food

Food can be found or bought. Food includes meat, cheese, bread and fish.

Reagents

Knowledge of reagents is not necessary unless you have an interest in Alchemy. Some reagents can be bought, and some can only be found. Reagents include blood moss, sulphurous ash, black pearls, ginseng, garlic, spider's silk, mandrake and nightshade. More on reagents here.

Weapons and Armour

Weapons

Melee Weapon	Where Sold	# of Hands	Skill	Weight	Req. Strength	Speed	Damage Type	Base Damage	Price	Resale Value
Staff	Provisioner	1	Staves	2.0	16.8	2.3	B	1-4	100gp	33gp
Gnarled Staff	tba	1	Staves	2.0	14.0	2.3	B	1-4	100gp	33gp
Shillelagh	Provisioner	1	Staves	2.0	16.8	1.7	B	1-3	150gp	50gp
Crook	Provisioner	1	Staves	2.0	16.8	2.1	B	1-4	250gp	83gp
Brass Knuckles	Weaponsmith	1	Unarmed	2.0	16.8	1.5	B	1-3	500gp	133gp
Katar	Weaponsmith	1	Unarmed	2.0	16.8	1.5	P	1-3	600gp	200gp
Neko de	Weaponsmith	1	Unarmed	2.0	16.8	1.5	S	1-3	700gp	233gp
Club	Weaponsmith	1	Maces	2.0	16.8	1.8	B	1-5	100gp	33gp
Mace	Weaponsmith	1	Maces	4.0	33.6	2.4	B	1-8	300gp	100gp
Flail	Weaponsmith	1	Maces	4.0	33.6	2.3	B	2-8	350gp	150gp
Morning Star	Weaponsmith	1	Maces	4.0	33.6	2.1	B	1-9	600gp	200gp
Lucern Hammer	Weaponsmith	2	Maces	7.0	58.8	2.9	B	2-12	700gp	233gp
War Hammer	Weaponsmith	2	Maces	6.0	50.4	2.8	B	2-14	950gp	316gp
Great Maul	Weaponsmith	2	Maces	8.0	67.2	3.5	B	3-18	1,200gp	400gp
Dagger	Weaponsmith	1*	Short Swords	1.5	12.6	1.5	P	1-4	100gp	33gp
Main Gauche	Weaponsmith	1*	Short Swords	2.0	16.8	1.5	P	1-5	350gp	116gp
Short Sword	Weaponsmith	1*	Short Swords	3.0	25.2	2.0	S	1-6	550gp	183gp
Rondel	Weaponsmith	1*	Short Swords	3.0	21.0	2.0	P	1-7	800gp	266gp
Machete	tba	1	Shortswords	3.0	21.0	2.4	S	1-8	800gp	266gb
Cleaver	Weaponsmith	1	Axes	1.5	10.5	1.6	S	1-4	100gp	33gp
Hatchet	Weaponsmith	1	Axes	1.5	12.6	1.8	S	1-5	250gp	83gp
Tomahawk	Weaponsmith	1	Axes	1.6	11.2	1.8	S	1-7	500gp	166gp
2H Axe	Weaponsmith	2	Axes	6.0	50.4	2.4	S	1-11	900gp	300gp
Labrys	Weaponsmith	2	Axes	6.0	42.0	2.8	S	3-12	850gp	283gp
Kryss	Weaponsmith	1	Foils	3.0	25.2	1.6	P	1-6	550gp	183gp
Sabre	Weaponsmith	1	Foils	3.0	25.2	1.5	P	1-6	650gp	216gp
Epee	Weaponsmith	1	Foils	3.0	21.0	1.6	P	1-7	850gp	283gp
Rapier	Weaponsmith	1	Foils	3.0	25.2	1.5	P	1-7	950gp	316gp
Hoe	Weaponsmith	2	Polearms	2.0	16.8	2.3	S	2-10	100gp	33gp
Trident	tba	1	Polearms	2.0	14.0	2.3	P	2-10	100gp	33gp
Glaive	Weaponsmith	2	Polearms	5.5	16.8	2.2	S	2-10	550gp	183gp
Spear	Weaponsmith	1	Polearms	5.0	42.0	2.2	P	1-9	700gp	233gp
Scythe	Weaponsmith	2	Polearms	5.0	42.0	2.4	S	3-12	1,050gp	350gp
Halberd	Weaponsmith	2	Polearms	8.0	67.2	2.8	S	3-18	1,100gp	366gp
Long Sword	Weaponsmith	1	Long Swords	4.0	33.6	2.2	S	1-8	400gp	133gp
Scimitar	Weaponsmith	1	Long Swords	3.5	33.6	2.2	S	2-8	400gp	133gp
Falchion	Weaponsmith	1	Long Swords	4.5	31.5	2.1	S	2-8	450gp	150gp
Bastard Sword	Weaponsmith	1	Long Swords	4.5	37.8	2.4	S	1-9	550gp	183gp
Broad Sword	Weaponsmith	1	Long Swords	5.5	46.2	2.1	S	1-9	750gp	250gp
Claymore	Weaponsmith	2	Long Swords	6.0	50.4	3.2	S	2-16	1,000gp	333gp
Sling	Bowyer	1	Ranged	1.7	14.3	1.8	B	1-3	100gp	33gp
Short Bow	Bowyer	2	Ranged	2.0	16.8	1.5	P	1-4	200gp	66gp
Long Bow	Bowyer	2	Ranged	3.0	25.2	1.9	P	1-6	400gp	133gp
Crossbow	Bowyer	2	Ranged	4.0	33.6	2.6	P	2-10	600gp	200gp
Musket	N/A	2	Ranged	2.0	???	8.0	?B?	1-8	N/A	N/A

A weapon with a 1* Indicates weapon can be dual wielded.

B is Bludgeoning, S is Slashing, and P is Piercing

Armour

Item	Where Sold	Protected Area	Weight	Req. Strength	Grade	Defense	Price	Resale Value
Gi(Torso)	Tailor	Torso	0.5	4.2	Unarmored	0.0	70gp	23gp
Robes	Tailor	Torso	0.5	4.2	Unarmored	0.0	70gp	23gp
Padded Shirt	Tailor	Torso	1.0	8.4	Light	1.0	90gp	30gp
Leather Armour	Tailor	Torso	1.5	12.6	Light	1.5	180gp	60gp
Leather Tunic	Tailor	Torso	2.0	11.9	Light	2.0	220gp	73gp
Ringmail	Armoury	Torso	2.0	16.8	Medium	2.5	250gp	83gp
Scalemail	Armoury	Torso	3.0	25.2	Medium	3.0	400gp	133gp
Chainmail	Armoury	Torso	2.5	21.0	Medium	3.5	600gp	200gp
Splintmail	Armoury	Torso	4.0	33.6	Heavy	4.0	800gp	266gp
Platemail	Armoury	Torso	6.0	50.4	Heavy	5.0	1,000gp	333gp
Field Plate	Armoury	Torso	4.0	33.6	Heavy	6.0	2,000gp	666gp
Gi(Legs)	Tailor	Legs	0.5	4.2	Unarmored	0.0	15gp	5gp
Padded Leggings	Tailor	Legs	0.5	8.4	Light	0.5	60gp	20gp
Leather Leggings	Tailor	Legs	1.0	8.4	Light	1.0	100gp	33gp
Chain Leggings	Armoury	Legs	2.0	16.8	Medium	2.0	300gp	100gp
Greaves	Armoury	Legs	3.0	25.2	Heavy	3.0	450gp	150gp
Cap	Tailor	Head	0.5	4.2	Unarmored	0.0	35gp	11gp
Leather Helm	Tailor	Head	1.0	8.4	Light	1.0	70gp	23gp
Chain Coif	Armoury	Head	1.5	12.6	Medium	1.5	150 gp	50gp
Full Helm	Armoury	Head	2.0	16.8	Heavy	2.0	250gp	83gp
Horned Helm	Armoury	Head	2.0	16.8	Heavy	2.0	280gp	93gp
Gloves	Tailor	Hands	0.5	4.2	Unarmored	0.0	25gp	8gp
Leather Gloves	Tailor	Hands	1.0	8.4	Light	1.0	45gp	15gp
Chain Gloves	Armoury	Hands	1.5	12.6	Medium	1.5	160gp	53gp
Gauntlets	Armoury	Hands	2.0	16.8	Heavy	2.0	190gp	63gp
Swamp Boots	Provisioner	Feet	1.0	8.4	Unarmored	0.0	300gp	100gp
Padded Boots	Tailor	Feet	0.5	4.2	Light	0.5	70gp	23gp
Leather Boots	Tailor	Feet	1.0	8.4	Light	1.0	80gp	26gp
Chain Boots	Armoury	Feet	1.5	10.5	Medium	1.5	130gp	43gp
Plate Boots	Armoury	Feet	2.0	16.8	Heavy	2.0	350gp	116gp
Buckler	Armoury	Shield	1.0	8.4	Light	Block	120gp	40gp
Small Shield	Armoury	Shield	1.5	12.6	Light	Block	160gp	53gp
Large Shield	Armoury	Shield	2.0	16.8	Heavy	Block	250gp	83gp
Kite Shield	Armoury	Shield	3.0	16.8	Heavy	Block	260gp	86gp
Heater Shield	Armoury	Shield	2.5	21.0	Heavy	Block	300gp	100gp
Tower Shield	Armoury	Shield	4.0	25.2	Heavy	Block	400gp	133gp
Spiked Collar	Jeweller	Neck	0.5	3.5	Light	1.0	150gp	50gp
Necklace	Jeweller	Neck
Amulet	Jeweller	Neck
Ankh	Jeweller	Neck
Ring	Jeweller	Finger