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   - **Inventory Space** The people/locations in Serbule that provide you with inventory space at higher and higher Favor levels are: [[serbule#favor_npcs_and_inventory_management|Joeh, Marna, Tadion, Ivyn (specifically his Chest), & Charles Thompson]]. In Serbule Hills, you get inventory with Baroness Marith Felgard, Julius Patton, Sammie Grimspine, & Tyler Green at higher favor levels. At the Casino it is: Kib the Unkillable, Otis, Qatik, Ragabir, Tavilak, Mandibles, & Willem Fangblade. Nearby in Rahu it is: Ashk the Answerer, Ichin the Ice Master, Daniel Murderdark, and Nishika. There are others that have space as well, but given that the demo is in the first two areas and the combo of Rahu/Casino gives the biggest space in the game, I feel it's necessary to focus on these locations first.
   - **Cargo Gear** Once you have about 6-10k in councils saved up, ask for a high level Tailor to create you some Cargo Gear. Or join a guild and ask your guild's Tailors to make you some Cargo Gear for a small donation. This is essential gear to use till you have enough Favor with the NPCs listed above to provide storage space. If you have another 6-10k ask to have them add pockets to cloth combat gear, or offer 12-20k for a new pocketed set. Most Tailors don't mind helping newbies, but the ones in your guild are going to be far more responsive and will likely even do it for free if they aren't inundated with requests.
-  - **Level your Death Skill** You need to level up your Death skill by dying in unique ways early on in the game. Yes, you read that correctly. If you are one of the main races and not an animal or Fae, you need to die a lot early on to get your Death XP high enough to use a very powerful mechanic in the game. **Enter The Light** can be used to portal to Serbule or Rahu every 8 hours. I often recommend using it at the start and end of every gaming session to position yourself what you are doing that gaming session or for the next time you log in. When your skill in Death reaches level 10, you can use portals in the Death Zone to go straight to Serbule or Rahu once every 8 hours. Words of Power or drinking Fuel Oil can be used to give you instant deaths or to otherwise make going here easier. Regular Iocaine Powder (not Practice) kills you and is also fine to use. Both portals have a separate 8 hour cooldown. You can also buy a Gemstone Hammer and a few other useful items in the Death Zone if you need them.
+  - **Level your Death Skill** You need to level up your Death skill by dying in unique ways early on in the game. Yes, you read that correctly. If you are one of the main races and not an animal or Fae, you need to die a lot early on to get your Death XP high enough to use a very powerful mechanic in the game. **Enter The Light** can be used to portal to Serbule or Rahu every 8 hours. I often recommend using it at the start and end of every gaming session to position yourself for what you are doing the next gaming session. When your skill in Death reaches level 10, you can use portals in the Death Zone to go straight to Serbule or Rahu once every 8 hours. Words of Power or drinking Fuel Oil can be used to give you instant deaths or to otherwise make going here easier. Regular Iocaine Powder (not Practice) kills you and is also fine to use. Both portals have a separate 8 hour cooldown. You can also buy a Gemstone Hammer and a few other useful items in the Death Zone if you need them.
   - **Casino Backdoor** There is a secret entrance to the Casino that you can get to by jumping on the rocks to the right of the Casino back door in Eltibule. You are expected to find this on your own, but it's pretty important to know about this employee entrance early on. By combat level 30 you should be regularly using it and starting to get Favor with many of the Casino NPCs.
   - **Pet Menu** Click on the animal face icon in the lower center left of your UI to bring up a pet menu. A lot of people won't talk to you if you bring necro pets into town and oftentimes you'll want to change your pet strategy. This menu lets you change how your pets interact in the world. Most players either forget this from having a rat pet on tutorial island or do not see this icon or understand what it is till they become a pet class of some sort.
   - **Change Keybinds** Go through settings and keybinds under Graphics settings. To reduce graphics lag during large events, go to **Settings** then **GUI** and uncheck the **Show Combat Numbers** option there. This is a nigh-mandatory setting to change for when zone events are taking place (large numbers of players). While there, also turn on **Always Show Interactable** so you can see everything on the ground while playing. To make Gardening and Looting very much easier, you are going to want to go to **Settings** then **Keys** and change **Select Next Non-Combatant** to a key. Then set **Use Selected** and set it to another key. Be sure to adjust your camera while Gardening to look straight down on your plants only. In the Casino, watch out for wandering Cows that may steal your focus while rotating through your plants using these two keys or you'll replace empty bottles with Milk. Also there are key binds that you can use to auto loot, auto butcher, auto skin, and auto bury corpses.
-  - **Travel Fast** Speed potions are learned from **Ignite the Fire in Your Legs** sold by Yetta in Eltibule. These are early Alchemy recipes that only require a few relatively easy items to make: a Bottle of Water, Fire Dust, Clownfish Fillet or Perch Fillet, and Sugar. They are imperative when doing Surveying for fast surveys and maintain their importance in the mid to late game as well. Horses, or more specifically the Riding skill, can be learned by paying money or doing a quest with an Elf in Hogan's Keep in North Eltibule, but you'll still want these speed potions for getting around early-mid game and inside dungeons. They are also very much needed for Hardcore mode corpse retreival.
+  - **Travel Fast** Speed potions are learned from **Ignite the Fire in Your Legs** sold by Yetta in Eltibule. These are early Alchemy recipes that only require a few relatively easy items to make: a Bottle of Water, Fire Dust, Clownfish Fillet or Perch Fillet, and Sugar. They are imperative when doing Surveying for fast surveys and maintain their importance in the mid to late game as well. Horses, or more specifically the Riding skill, can be learned by paying money or doing a quest with an Elf in Hogan's Keep in North Eltibule, but you'll still want these speed potions for getting around early-mid game and inside dungeons. They are also very much needed for Hardcore mode corpse retrieval.
   - **Get Crafting Gems** You can use Rubywall Crystals in your crafting recipes for armor and weapons. In fact, you'll almost certainly need to use them in your crafting recipes if you are doing a bunch of Work Orders. They are great for making gear without combat level requirements, too. If you are a newbie, doing Surveying for Rubywall Crystals is probably the best way to make money early on because of how well these Crystals sell and how easy they are to farm. Mid-to-Late-game crafters still need these crystals for their Work Orders and can't be bothered to run around Surveying so they are oftentimes willing to buy them, sometimes even at a significant premium to their real price. This has changed somewhat over time, but basically everyone needs cheap crystals so either Survey for your own or use those spare Rubywalls for your own crafting.
   - **Complete Work Orders** While the early Work Orders may seem like a complete waste of time and resources (especially all the Oak Wood recipes), it is essential that you level your Industry skill to handle the later Work Orders as these can eventually become the primary way you can make money from your crafting skills. They are great for cost justifying the leveling you are going to be doing just to level these skills anyway as well. I've heard all sorts of comments from players that say they never do Work Orders and I disagree that completely forgoing Work Orders is the proper route to play the game. There is one exception to this, however, and that is if you NEVER do crafting whatsoever in any MMORPG you play. If you never plan on being any sort of crafter, then maybe that's viable, but if you are going to do any form of crafting, you might as well do Work Orders for what you are crafting. Not only do high level work orders get you some of the best money gains in the game (especially late game) but they also train you. I personally love crafting in the game and love how each of the different combat/crafting skills have synergy buffs with other combat/crafting skills. The total package is what makes the game unique and fun and work orders are just a part of that fun and help you build money.
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   - You can type "/who near" in any zone to get a list of other players in the same zone at any time. You can also type "/who all" and "/guild who" to see who else is online really quickly. There's also more info in the Social tab on the right side of the screen. (original tip from Herbary in-game)
   - You can "Vendor Lock" inventory folders. If you don't know what these are, don't worry yet. You'll get one after you get a few more skills unlocked or to certain levels. I would highly recommend using these and having at least one for equipment that is "locked" so you can't accidentally sell stuff you know you want to hold onto to a vendor.
+==== Videos to Watch ====
+  - MissTake has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7enwILSAUak|an excellent video on Transmutation and Augmentation and Shamanic Infusion]]. The video is under 15 minutes, but it generally covers all the basics you need to know when it comes to these abilities. A lot more is learned from actually doing experimentation yourself, but the video provides a great overview. Demo players won't get into this side of crafting, though.
+  - MissTake also has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeotHC20o3k|biped combat skills video]] that goes over the general combat abilities available to non-animals. For animals, there is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoVPT_SKeRk|an animal combat skills]] video.
+  - Professor Cat's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgNun1gQYAI|video on powerleveling to level 50]] is pretty good at showing how viable it is to level Fire/Psych quickly. It also kind of dispels the notion that Fire Magic is too expensive to build as a combat skill. I think it's not too expensive, it's just more expensive than players from other MMOs might expect. Other skills require straight up money and you're also inevitably going to run into a situation where you want to learn a skill but can't afford it just like what happens with Fire Magic.