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| - **Don't Get Analysis Paralysis** You are going to get overwhelmed by everything you can do when you first get past the newbie island. After the newbie island, the game really opens up super wide and you get overloaded with loot and quests and NPC favors and possible skills very easily. This can lead to "analysis paralysis" as you attempt to save meats, organs, skins, wood, mushrooms, food, and everything else that you find in the game in order to craft everything you can in the game. Don't. Save two of either meats, organs, skins, food, mushrooms, or wood, for crafting but not all of them. Later on you'll be able to save more, but not as a brand new player without inventory gear and without getting Favor. MOST of the early game items can be gifted for Favor, so gift the stuff you aren't going to use that would otherwise take up space in your inventory. I recommend focusing on meats and fruits early on to get Cooking skills higher because these are an early way to get a lot of NPC Favor which you need for inventory space. This doesn't mean you can't forage for more or other items, but you should probably sell or gift everything but fruits and meats early on unless you have something specific in Alchemy or another crafting skill you are saving things for. It is worth noting that the community chest in Serbule will give you a ton of extra inventory space for all the other things you want to save for crafting later. Specifically, skins and mushrooms might be worth putting there for the time being so you can later come back to craft with them. | - **Don't Get Analysis Paralysis** You are going to get overwhelmed by everything you can do when you first get past the newbie island. After the newbie island, the game really opens up super wide and you get overloaded with loot and quests and NPC favors and possible skills very easily. This can lead to "analysis paralysis" as you attempt to save meats, organs, skins, wood, mushrooms, food, and everything else that you find in the game in order to craft everything you can in the game. Don't. Save two of either meats, organs, skins, food, mushrooms, or wood, for crafting but not all of them. Later on you'll be able to save more, but not as a brand new player without inventory gear and without getting Favor. MOST of the early game items can be gifted for Favor, so gift the stuff you aren't going to use that would otherwise take up space in your inventory. I recommend focusing on meats and fruits early on to get Cooking skills higher because these are an early way to get a lot of NPC Favor which you need for inventory space. This doesn't mean you can't forage for more or other items, but you should probably sell or gift everything but fruits and meats early on unless you have something specific in Alchemy or another crafting skill you are saving things for. It is worth noting that the community chest in Serbule will give you a ton of extra inventory space for all the other things you want to save for crafting later. Specifically, skins and mushrooms might be worth putting there for the time being so you can later come back to craft with them. |
| - **Favor Is The Whole Game** Focus on increasing Favor with the NPCs that give you inventory space in Serbule. While this seems like a repeat of the point in the top ten list, I will get into specifics here. The two most important and easiest NPCs to get Favor with first are Joeh and Marna for their inventory space. Marna will take your skins and Joeh will take sausages, both can be made or obtained from killing Pigs around Serbule. Fainor in the inn has the recipe for Sausages and early Fruit-based foods and it's pretty easy to get to the point of making them so you can easily get favor with Joeh and Marna. Mushroom Jack likes Mushrooms, but he doesn't give inventory space. Therese doesn't give inventory space. Fainor doesn't give inventory space. | - **Favor Is The Whole Game** Focus on increasing Favor with the NPCs that give you inventory space in Serbule. While this seems like a repeat of the point in the top ten list, I will get into specifics here. The two most important and easiest NPCs to get Favor with first are Joeh and Marna for their inventory space. Marna will take your skins and Joeh will take sausages, both can be made or obtained from killing Pigs around Serbule. Fainor in the inn has the recipe for Sausages and early Fruit-based foods and it's pretty easy to get to the point of making them so you can easily get favor with Joeh and Marna. Mushroom Jack likes Mushrooms, but he doesn't give inventory space. Therese doesn't give inventory space. Fainor doesn't give inventory space. |
| - **Focus on only Two Combat Skills after level 50** Focus on only two major combat skills that you like after level 40-50. You can mix and match and play around with different combat skills, but if you are still "experimenting" at level 60, you're only hurting yourself, in my honest opinion. You should know by level 35 or at most level 50 if you like a skill enough to take it to level 90+. For a quick Youtube video explaining how to get Fire and Psych to level 50 quickly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgNun1gQYAI|check out ProfessorCat's guide on Youtube]] | - **Focus on only Two Combat Skills after level 50** Focus on only two major combat skills that you like after level 40-50. You can mix and match and play around with different combat skills, but if you are still "experimenting" at level 60, you're only hurting yourself, in my honest opinion. You should know by level 35 or at most level 50 if you like a skill enough to take it to level 90+. It's also important to just get two combat skills to level 50 if you want to be able to powerlevel some other skill. For a quick Youtube video explaining how to get Fire and Psych to level 50 quickly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgNun1gQYAI|check out ProfessorCat's guide on Youtube]] and then for powerleveling two other skills using one of the skills you've powerleveled (like Psychology) consider [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YFebAqutBo|watching his video on powerleveling two skills up to level 25 in 90 minutes]]. |
| - **Focus On Specific Crafting** I picked only three major "Crafting" skills I wanted to be an expert at while leveling my two main combat skills and went with them: Gardening, Cooking, and Tailoring. You may do well to focus on the same three or maybe include Leatherworking instead of Tailoring and Carpentry instead of Gardening. If you don't mind doing Surveying compared to Gardening, or especially if you plan to go Werewolf or Cow, I would recommend Surveying/Mining/Geology (Lycan/Werewolf), Blacksmithing (Lycan/Werewolf), and later, Toolcrafting for barding (Cow), too. Cooking is pretty much a must-have skill for everyone due to Favor questing, and it is imperative for solo players. If you are in a duo, one person should probably focus on Gardening and Cooking. | - **Focus On Specific Crafting** I picked only three major "Crafting" skills I wanted to be an expert at while leveling my two main combat skills and went with them: Gardening, Cooking, and Tailoring. You may do well to focus on the same three or maybe include Leatherworking instead of Tailoring and Carpentry instead of Gardening. If you don't mind doing Surveying compared to Gardening, or especially if you plan to go Werewolf or Cow, I would recommend Surveying/Mining/Geology (Lycan/Werewolf), Blacksmithing (Lycan/Werewolf), and later, Toolcrafting for barding (Cow), too. Cooking is pretty much a must-have skill for everyone due to Favor questing, and it is imperative for solo players. If you are in a duo, one person should probably focus on Gardening and Cooking. |
| - **Money Is Just a Resource** NPCs will run out of gold, it has nothing to do with other players getting the vendor's gold, though. It sucks big time to not have an NPC buy anything from you early on. Everyone notices the money problem with Marna and Cleo Conyers running out of money right away, too. __You simply must get Favor increased with NPCs, not just for their inventory space, but also so that they will spend money buying your items__. That first pig snout for Joeh when questing is essential to gaining Favor with him. Keep in mind that every player has been through this, too, you are not a unique person to have run into this problem. Eventually these merchants will have so much money for you on a weekly basis that it will not be an issue unless you are grinding particularly hard. | - **Money Is Just a Resource** NPCs will run out of gold, it has nothing to do with other players getting the vendor's gold, though. It sucks big time to not have an NPC buy anything from you early on. Everyone notices the money problem with Marna and Cleo Conyers running out of money right away, too. __You simply must get Favor increased with NPCs, not just for their inventory space, but also so that they will spend money buying your items__. That first pig snout for Joeh when questing is essential to gaining Favor with him. Keep in mind that every player has been through this, too, you are not a unique person to have run into this problem. Eventually these merchants will have so much money for you on a weekly basis that it will not be an issue unless you are grinding particularly hard. |
