This is just a brief guide to getting started with your new character. There is still a lot you must know, but this will get you started to having fun and going in the right direction.

After you have selected your character, you will appear in the Randol 1st level personal dungeon. You will fight the hordes of skeletons and monsters here. You approach the big doors and fight your way down the hallway to the next room. After all the monsters have been vanquished by your deadly weapon, you appear in the landing pad in Randol. Here is where the fun begins.

You have to do quests to get gold, extra xp, and skills.skills. You press the letter W, to get the Juno map. Then put the cursor or pointer over the town and click, which then you gets you the town map. The Randol town map has the location and names of all the NPC characters you may interact with. What you want to do is to look for a BLUE "Q" which is where you go for your first quest. Now the personal dungeon, located in the south of Randol will have a Blue Q on it, till you reach level 66 at which time it will disappear.

If you look in the top left, there is your first quest with Healer Yabo. When you approache Yabo, you notice that she has a blue glow. So whenever you see someone with this blue glow, you will click the character to see what quest they have for you. When you ever finish with a quest and forget where to go, just go back to the map. A flashing purple "A" will show you where to go to finish the quest.

Up to level 10, if you die you do not lose experience points (xp) or skill points (sp). So starting at level 11, if you die you lose 5% of xp and some sp (usually minimal like 1 sp or so). As you gradually advance later, xp loss goes down to 3%, then down to 2%. Think of it as losing playing time. So how long does it take for you to get that 5% back and hopefully, that may give you incentive NOT to get killed.

When you kill a monster, you may get gold and armor or weapon drops. You can sell the level 5-7 items drops back to the NPC character. You can use armor 5 levels above you and use a weapon 4 levels above you. If you are level 6, you could use level 10 gloves and level 11 shirt and pants. At level 5, is when you could use a level 9 weapon. You can always equip a higher armor or weapon but you will incur a penalty. Even though in your stats it may show your attack or defense higher, you still have the penalty and not as the stats indicate.

I suggest to start at buying your armor at level 10 as you will advance too fast to really utilize armor at level 5-7. And save a little money too. You are not able to go in Merchant Mode until you reach level 10, if you decide to sell items you find. For the lower level drops you should sell to the NPC character.

Before you make level 11, make sure you get a guardian. They are supposed to be able to advise you on any problems you may have. Some will help, some will not. I give mine advice, a pet and herbs and stones to feed. But all guardians are different now as to how they help apprentices. Also if you make level 20 in 10 days, you get a level 21 event weapon. This is a weapon that has the attack power of a weapon two levels above it. Plus what is never mentioned is that you can sell it for 5-20 times more then a level 21 regular weapon of your class.

Do not sell your Heaven Stones or tool aids. People get this idea that you have to have +10 weapons at low levels. If you play the game, you will eventually see that it is futile to waste money on a high plussed weapon if you will not use it that much. Remember how rapidly you made it to Level 10. Well with each level, it will get harder and take longer to level. I suggest you save the Heaven Stones when you are able to get a level 37 weapon for your first upgraded weapon.

If you are wearing level 10-12 armor and say level 13 weapon, you should try to get it to +3. If you have any extra level 10-12 armor, you could use those for smelting purposes. What you do is to go to the Transmuter, located to the right of the Armor Trader (you can locate on map too.) Just click the Transmuter and drag the armor icon you wish to transmute to a smelt. The smelted item must be the same level or higher then the item you wish to use the smelt on. Now if you have level ll gloves, then you must use a armor or weapon, level 11 or higher. Once you get the smelt, then you just drag it over to the equipped item you wish to use it on. Smelts have a high failure rate now. Just get your item up to +3. Reason is, past that if the smelt fails, your weapon or armor is destroyed. Now you should know that weapon smelts give you TWO smelting stones now. Up to level 25, i found it was cheap to buy weapons to use for smelts. Later you will learn more about smelts, Lucky stones, and Heaven Stones.Stones.

Well this is just a basic overview to get you started real fast. There are a lot of things you still will have to learn, like reading the rest of this wiki for one thing, lol. There are still the pets, sp farming, and solo parties, but that is for another chapter.