Tekai's Guide to Charecter Creation (for dummies)
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 9:57 pm
Part 1
Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Tekai, I started uo in 97 with my friends thedood (not from this server, that is a different guy strangly enough.) and duncun. We played on the Great Lakes server, we were one of the brit graveyard crews.
I assume right off the bat, that you are capable of multi-clienting. you only need 2 accounts, and youll only be using the second account some of the time, and at the end of the game (about a 3 week process, no joke! less if your hardcore) you will have a second charecter half done.
The purpose of this guide, is to give a basic step by step guide on how to progress a charecter from nothing, to pure awesome mage/swords pvp guy that everyone wants.
I would assume many people will chime in with better suggestions, but this guide will work, will require the least amount of skill (yay for learning skill) and give you the nessecary wealth to continue.
Step one! Charecter creation.
First make your main charecter, the one you plan to play the most. You will want to pick the advanced tab, and choose Resist magic, and swords (maces or fencing, your choice... but swords is best end game) the swords is to make it easier to get started, you could get healing and save yourself some macroing, but in truth lets just get to buisness. macroing is for sleep, and we all need that.
Start in brit, can't stress this enough. The first thing you do, is put everything you own into the bank. keep your clothes, those are save via newbie laws (someone elce explain this if anyone asks).
Now take a break! (cant stress this enough)
Next create your second account, you can run them both at the same time without any problems. if you can't, someone post how.
Create your main alt, do you want to be a miner? dexer? it doesnt matter, choose and get whatever skills you feel best. but it is VERY important that you give him max STR and DEX, reguardless of even if he will be a mage. this is because it will allow him to carry more and run farther at the start, which helps.
Run him to meet you at the brit bank, and give everything down to your skivies to your main guy, and put that in your main guys' bank.
ok Whew, how long did that take?
Step 2!
now its time to get to buisness. Ask polietly for a gate to the "delucia pass" area. if no one helps you, send me a forum message and ill help you, i'm on a lot. Make sure you also ask for Night sight, you will need it! (you could buy a nightsight potion for 18ish gold from the mage vendor in north brit, and its always a good idea to learn the main city of the game.) reguardless get to delucia pass with just your main guy.
from the pass, run into the cave (i know, dont worry youll make it) go south the whole way thru the maze, you can handle it, your a big boy. There are no monsters, if you do it right. if you go the wrong way and see monsters, it doesnt even matter if you die. find delucia on the south side of the cave, and res at a healer once you get there.
the first thing you do is go to the bank, and get your dagger or whatever you got at charecter creation. if for whatever reason you didnt accually get one, you can buy one at the blacksmith for 20 gold out of your 200. anyway, get the sharp item.
Now, there is an area on the north side of delucia with 4 sheep. go gather thier wool by clickin the sharp object and clicking the sheep. From there exit the town to the east, and head north along the mountian side. 6-12 more sheep. keep sheering. if someone got to it before you, its not really THAT long a respawn time for the wool to return, go make a sandwich and say hello to your girlfriend.
i dont want you to stop this until you have 150 wool, and im not kidding, just do it. get about 5 or 10 and put them in your bank, dont wana die now. there are pks outside the city lookin to kill the tamers that tame the bulls near the sheep.
in the center of Del, is a tailor shop with a loom and a spinning wheel. quickly make a macro by going into the options, its on the bottom left i think, whatever find macros. click New, and make F4 Uselastobject.
doubleclick the wool, and click the spinning wheel. when its done, you get yarn, now press F4 and do this 150 more times. (again, a little at a time, wierd stuff happens when you carry to much stuff. things that make you cry.
after you get all the wool turned into yarn, double click the yarn and click the loom. do this like 1000 times, and youll get a crap ton of bolts of cloth. wow, look you created something awesomely usefull and you havent done really all that much yet!
quickly buy a pair of sissors from the tailor and head to the bank. double click the sissors, and click the bolts, then again cut up the cloth you got from the bolts. you should now have a shovel of bandges. after you gasp at the amount and wonder why you needed to get so many, thats about 30% of what you need to GM healing if not less. Welcome to UO and truthfully i'm glad your here. at this point put everthing you hold dear in your bank and take nothing but your clothes.
Step 2
Ok well theres several things you can do from here. you can - A run back thru the cave, and using UOAM (get this) find your way to the nearest Moongate. Or B- You could also at this point use the "help" feature to get back to brit, but thats cheating! Shenanigans!. anyway, dead or alive it doesnt matter, follow the moongates to brit. the brit gate is south of the city by a little bit, usually littered by pvpers having a good fun time. again it doesnt matter if you die, just find a healer and get alive to the brit bank.
now you and your second account are back together, with a truckload of bandages. now that i've made you get so many bandages, ill explain why. There are 2 ways to heal in UO. magic, and bandges. If you want to use bandages you NEED 2 very specific skills (anatomy and healing). Now i would really suggest that you put the healing on the alt charecter, your main charecter will eventually be a mage. if you have the heart of a dexer, this guide will end for you around halfway through.
So take your alt charecter, and give him the last of your gold, the 100~ whatever. and have him go to the healer area and ask the healer npc to "teach healing" give him all the gold you have left and return to the bank.
very carefully as everyone in UO is out to get you, transfer the bandges from the bank of your main charecter to your alt. do it 400 at a time if you have to, the safer the better, your alt-tabbing afterall.
Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Tekai, I started uo in 97 with my friends thedood (not from this server, that is a different guy strangly enough.) and duncun. We played on the Great Lakes server, we were one of the brit graveyard crews.
I assume right off the bat, that you are capable of multi-clienting. you only need 2 accounts, and youll only be using the second account some of the time, and at the end of the game (about a 3 week process, no joke! less if your hardcore) you will have a second charecter half done.
The purpose of this guide, is to give a basic step by step guide on how to progress a charecter from nothing, to pure awesome mage/swords pvp guy that everyone wants.
I would assume many people will chime in with better suggestions, but this guide will work, will require the least amount of skill (yay for learning skill) and give you the nessecary wealth to continue.
Step one! Charecter creation.
First make your main charecter, the one you plan to play the most. You will want to pick the advanced tab, and choose Resist magic, and swords (maces or fencing, your choice... but swords is best end game) the swords is to make it easier to get started, you could get healing and save yourself some macroing, but in truth lets just get to buisness. macroing is for sleep, and we all need that.
Start in brit, can't stress this enough. The first thing you do, is put everything you own into the bank. keep your clothes, those are save via newbie laws (someone elce explain this if anyone asks).
Now take a break! (cant stress this enough)
Next create your second account, you can run them both at the same time without any problems. if you can't, someone post how.
Create your main alt, do you want to be a miner? dexer? it doesnt matter, choose and get whatever skills you feel best. but it is VERY important that you give him max STR and DEX, reguardless of even if he will be a mage. this is because it will allow him to carry more and run farther at the start, which helps.
Run him to meet you at the brit bank, and give everything down to your skivies to your main guy, and put that in your main guys' bank.
ok Whew, how long did that take?
Step 2!
now its time to get to buisness. Ask polietly for a gate to the "delucia pass" area. if no one helps you, send me a forum message and ill help you, i'm on a lot. Make sure you also ask for Night sight, you will need it! (you could buy a nightsight potion for 18ish gold from the mage vendor in north brit, and its always a good idea to learn the main city of the game.) reguardless get to delucia pass with just your main guy.
from the pass, run into the cave (i know, dont worry youll make it) go south the whole way thru the maze, you can handle it, your a big boy. There are no monsters, if you do it right. if you go the wrong way and see monsters, it doesnt even matter if you die. find delucia on the south side of the cave, and res at a healer once you get there.
the first thing you do is go to the bank, and get your dagger or whatever you got at charecter creation. if for whatever reason you didnt accually get one, you can buy one at the blacksmith for 20 gold out of your 200. anyway, get the sharp item.
Now, there is an area on the north side of delucia with 4 sheep. go gather thier wool by clickin the sharp object and clicking the sheep. From there exit the town to the east, and head north along the mountian side. 6-12 more sheep. keep sheering. if someone got to it before you, its not really THAT long a respawn time for the wool to return, go make a sandwich and say hello to your girlfriend.
i dont want you to stop this until you have 150 wool, and im not kidding, just do it. get about 5 or 10 and put them in your bank, dont wana die now. there are pks outside the city lookin to kill the tamers that tame the bulls near the sheep.
in the center of Del, is a tailor shop with a loom and a spinning wheel. quickly make a macro by going into the options, its on the bottom left i think, whatever find macros. click New, and make F4 Uselastobject.
doubleclick the wool, and click the spinning wheel. when its done, you get yarn, now press F4 and do this 150 more times. (again, a little at a time, wierd stuff happens when you carry to much stuff. things that make you cry.
after you get all the wool turned into yarn, double click the yarn and click the loom. do this like 1000 times, and youll get a crap ton of bolts of cloth. wow, look you created something awesomely usefull and you havent done really all that much yet!
quickly buy a pair of sissors from the tailor and head to the bank. double click the sissors, and click the bolts, then again cut up the cloth you got from the bolts. you should now have a shovel of bandges. after you gasp at the amount and wonder why you needed to get so many, thats about 30% of what you need to GM healing if not less. Welcome to UO and truthfully i'm glad your here. at this point put everthing you hold dear in your bank and take nothing but your clothes.
Step 2
Ok well theres several things you can do from here. you can - A run back thru the cave, and using UOAM (get this) find your way to the nearest Moongate. Or B- You could also at this point use the "help" feature to get back to brit, but thats cheating! Shenanigans!. anyway, dead or alive it doesnt matter, follow the moongates to brit. the brit gate is south of the city by a little bit, usually littered by pvpers having a good fun time. again it doesnt matter if you die, just find a healer and get alive to the brit bank.
now you and your second account are back together, with a truckload of bandages. now that i've made you get so many bandages, ill explain why. There are 2 ways to heal in UO. magic, and bandges. If you want to use bandages you NEED 2 very specific skills (anatomy and healing). Now i would really suggest that you put the healing on the alt charecter, your main charecter will eventually be a mage. if you have the heart of a dexer, this guide will end for you around halfway through.
So take your alt charecter, and give him the last of your gold, the 100~ whatever. and have him go to the healer area and ask the healer npc to "teach healing" give him all the gold you have left and return to the bank.
very carefully as everyone in UO is out to get you, transfer the bandges from the bank of your main charecter to your alt. do it 400 at a time if you have to, the safer the better, your alt-tabbing afterall.