Lich:New Adventurer FAQ

The following are common questions asked by new players and attempts to answer them.

How can I lower my roundtime?

There are many ways to reduce your encumbrance. In order of ease of access, they are:

• If you're carrying boxes, get them opened at the locksmith pool, and make more frequent trips to get them opened
• Make sure you're properly trained in Armor Use for your armor
• Ask a wizard to cast Strength (509) on you
• Find "a white crystal" (casts Strength (509)) either as loot in a pawnshop
• Find a "black crystal" (casts Floating Disk (511)) and use it for your boxes
• Find a Warrior and ask for Armor Support
• Make sure your Strength and Constitution statistics are reasonably high, keeping in mind you can change your attributes 5 times before level 20
• Find lighter containers
• Drop excess inventory
• Ask someone to help you lighten and/or deepen your containers with "notes," or purchase them yourself from adventurer shops (they look like, e.g., "a pale blue note")
• Buy "a silvery blue potion" from adventurer shops or the SimuCoin store (reduces encumbrance by 100 lbs for 30 days, stackable)
• AIM CLEAR to ensure you aren't targeting a specific part of your opponents

How can I get XP faster?

• Short answer: Do bounties at the Adventurer's Guild!
• Long answer: Check the Experience Guide.

Where can I find guides for my profession?

There is a list of Professional Guides, but beware, many are outdated. Your best bet is to ask other adventurers of your profession on ESP Help, or on the official Discord, which contains a channel for each profession.

What are: ensorcel, sanctify, grit, enchant, and so forth?

A Player service is a profession-specific service which can provide a benefit to other players. They all follow the same template:

• Beginning at either level 20 or level 30, you'll begin to automatically accumulate a profession-specific resource, such as Essence (Wizard), Nature's Grace (Ranger), Devotion (Paladin), and so forth.

• You gain 1 point for each 1 point of XP you gain, up to 50k each week, and 200k maximum at a time.

• You can then spend your resource to provide a "service" to another player, which has a specific, permanent benefit for them, varying by profession.

• You can check your progress via RESOURCE. For information about specific professional resources, see the page above.

• Your professional service resource is valuable, often in the realm of 1-3 million silvers per full week (50k), as of the time of writing this article. Use it wisely!

• Spending your resource will have tiered difficulty, with subsequent tiers requiring higher levels or even specific builds to achieve. Adventurers who can accomplish these higher-difficulty tasks can sell their resource at a higher premium.

How should I set my skills and statistics?

Unfortunately, the worst thing you can do is use the automatic placements. You're better off using the guides above for skills.

For statistics, I recommend:

1. Use a stat calculator, e.g. if you use Lich then try ;stat-maximizer, otherwise, try https://www.nitefallz.com/
   1. Place your stats to maximize at level 20, focusing on LOG (XP gain), STR (attacking), AGI/DEX (lowering roundtime and other benefits).
   2. At level 19, change them to maximize for level ~60. Do not forget to change them at 19 -- this mistake would cost you about 16 million silvers to fix.
   3. Run bounties as you level up and save your bounty points. Then, at level ~80, you'll be able to afford a fixstats potion, which allows you to reset your statistics, and set your stats to maximize at level 100.

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