Quickstart Guide Regular
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Quickstart Guide
It's pretty easy to get started in EUO. EUO is a 2D, top down, sprite based, keyboard controlled MORPG.
Just download the .exe file, create an account and fire up the game. The general gist really is to get on with some friends, have a laugh and stop when you're sick of it. This was the motivation for writing the game originally.
So having said that, here's some pro-tips for playing the game.
Character Generation
Enter your account name and password in the appropriate fields. Pick a name, an avatar and 2 starting skills, then enter the world of EUO! It's not critical which skills you pick. Any skills can be worked on (and some even bought) ingame. The skills you pick however affect your starting equipment, and also slightly affect your initial stats.
Starting Equipment
The equipment your new character starts with varies depending on which two skills were picked during creation.
Weapons and Armour:
If you picked a weapon skill, you will get a sample of that weapon to begin your adventure with. Additionally, if the weaponskill you picked belongs to the fighter class, you will get some ringmail. If the weaponskill picked belongs to the rogue class, you will get some padded armour. Press r to ready arms and armour.
Provisions:
- Torches: press i to ignite a torch
- Food: press e to eat some food
Potions:
- Red potions cure poison - press p to use potions
- Yellow potions restore health points.
- Blue potions restore mana points.
Scrolls:
- Town Portal - press R (shift-r) to Read scrolls
Tomes:
If you picked any of the schools of magic as starting skills, then you will get a small sample of spell-tomes that you can study and learn, to allow you to then cast those spells. Press C (shift-c) to study and learn any tomes that you have in your inventory.
Entering Nordhaven
Everybody starts in Nordhaven. With the little money you start with, you can either choose to spend it on armour or extra potions, though it may be advisable to buy extra healing (yellow) potions.
Talk to NPC's
Characters ingame with white names above their heads are other players, characters with blue names are good aligned NPC's and characters with gray bars above their heads are neutral aligned NPC's. Make a point of talking to any NPC with a blue name - you'll more than likely be sent on a quest.
When your done looking around town, you might as well head down to the Jail. Exit town by walking south, then head due east, until you see a cave entrance - that would be the Nordhaven Jail, a.k.a. the Newbie dungeon. Stand on the entrace to the cave and press 'space'.
Nordhaven Jail a.k.a. the Newbie dungeon
The newbie dungeon is a place where you can go kill some rats and other low level monsters to get aquainted with the game. Collect all the treasure, sell the stuff you don't need, then spend the money on equipment. When you're feeling tougher and better armed, you can head down to levels 2, 3 & 4 of the newbie dungeon. Beware - opponents get tough pretty quickly though, it would be wise to have some decent armour and plenty of healing potions at the ready.
Pro tip
- use (u) empty flasks on fountains to create clear potions, which will usually have an effect not unlike a yellow potion
Leveling up
When you get the blue "You feel experienced" message, head to a shrine and meditate (press m) near the flame to increase your stats. Each shrine has a different effect on your stats (strength, dexterity and intelligence).
You should increase your strength if you want more hit points (HP) and power with fighter weapons, increase dexterity if you want to move faster and power with rogue weapons, and increase intelligence if you want more mana, magic resistance and increased power with spells.
A rough guide for stat point distribution while progressing through the levels might be:
- Fighter - increase strength until you get 80-100 STR, then increase dexterity until you get to 100 DEX
- Rogue - increase strength until you get to 60 STR, then increase dexterity until you get to 150 DEX
- Mage - increase strength until you get to 60 STR, then increase intelligence until you get to 100 INT and then increase strength again until you get to 100 STR
You don't have to follow this guide, however it will give you strength (and thus more hit points) early on to help make your adventures go smoothly.
Shrines
To locate a shrine, either study the map of New Sosaria online, or look in your EUO folder for the "MAP-Shrines.jpg" file.
Meditating (after you get the You feel experienced message) at the different shrines have the following effects:
Compassion: Dexterity+6 Valor: Strength+6 Honesty: Intelligence +6 Sacrifice: Strength+3 Dexterity+3 Justice: Dexterity+3 Intelligence+3 Honor: Intelligence+3 Strength+3 Spirituality: Dex+2 Int+2 Str+2 Humility: Nothing
Humility does not add any stats but will increase your level if you meditate there. Unless you are actually feeling humble, it's best not to level up at the Humility shrine!
Humilty does have a use however - meditating there reduces your criminal status time more quickly than normal.
Dying
Just hit ! (shift + 1) to respawn in the town to which you are bound (the default town is Nordhaven). Doing this will give you resurrection sickness however, which requires you to meditate at a shrine to cure. Alternatively if you're playing with other people, they might be able to resurrect you with a scroll or spell on the spot. If you are in a party with the person who resurrects you, you will not get resurrection sickness.
Sometimes you cannot respawn, it is most likely because you are on a non magic tile, if this happens simply move off of the tile and try again.
The goal
The goal is to have a bit of fun. Talk to the other players. By all means ask questions, but this manual isn't that bad, nor that hard to read. Try and read it all first before asking 'how to I sell stuff' or 'where do I hunt?'. Get out there and find out for yourself. It's not that hard.
