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CDittric77 · Feb 10, 2007, 11:35 PM // 23:35

Good luck - feel free to message me in game if you ever need anything. My in game name is Talen Pikunda.

Lotrfish · Feb 10, 2007, 11:42 PM // 23:42

One big piece of advice for you that I extremely reccommend you to do is to read the manual. If you would have done that in the first place it would have answered most of the questions you asked here. It should also answer most questions you should have later.

CDittric77 · Feb 10, 2007, 11:45 PM // 23:45

^/ignore

These forums are here for you for your questions and concerns. I say, ask away!

R1kk1 · Feb 11, 2007, 12:45 AM // 00:45

lol, Thanks alot! Just got a message on Guildwars telling me I've been playing for 4 hours and I should take a break, but I'm still going. Talk about addictive!!!

The only thing I'm confused about at the moment is the fact I have loadsa items with +energy on them, but I have no idea what to do with them! If I try to equip them they go in my shield spot and I'm slightly puzzled about that.

Also, I wonder if anyone knows how to make the game run faster. When I get into a place with alot going on it takes ages to load and I move quite slowly, whereas other places I run rather smoothly. I tried setting everything to low, but it still takes it's time in busy areas.

I'm an E/Mo! Emo... hehehe... Sorry, I suppose that's an old joke here, but I laughed for a while.

Also, wn I to after the 'pre' section, please tell me that monster drops will sell for more then just 3 gold at the most. I managed to scrape together 250 gold by selling wands that went for 3 or 4 gold each. took ages, but I did it!

Thanks for all your help, you are all really great people. I would have added you all, but I've been to busy playing and getting to know the game to add people, killing those weird cocroach things is so satisfying...

Also, when it comes to armour and robes etc., will I be getting more of them when I leave Ascaron?

thanks for all your help!

=HT=Ingram · Feb 11, 2007, 01:17 AM // 01:17

yea you got to be careful though, before too long you star seeing "You have been playing for 24hours!!! Take a break." lol

I always wanted them to add "Your gonna hurt something." to that 24hour message lol. But yea, you'll be surprised how quick a weekend can just vanish when your having such a good time online in GuildWars.

By now I'm sure you've picked up most of the mechanics of the game... Several missions and quests under your belt, May have tried out an arena or 2 in PvP... Before you know it you will be one of the die hard Guru fans!!! lol Hey we were ALL there at some point... So its always great to see new people in game, learning for the first time everything we have come to love (and in some cases hate [not many]) in Guild Wars.

Takes some of us back to that first time we got into Tyria and started wailing away at each other having no idea what skills to use or how to find new ones. lol Or even better when we first started fighting that first monster mob around lions arch and no matter what we killed from lev 1 to lev 25 it always only dropped 1 gold coin. hahahaha Ahh yes those sweet old beta days. lol

Kern Wolf · Feb 11, 2007, 01:34 AM // 01:34

LOL..yes, the drops from omnsters wil get you more than 3 gold when you leave Pre-Searing.
The best advice I can give you while you're in Pre-Searing now?
If Black or White dye drops for you---KEEP IT! NEVER sell Black or White dye!
When you leave Pre-Searing, you'll understand....

Coridan · Feb 11, 2007, 01:38 AM // 01:38

Well, to chime in with my input. i would stay in Presearing until you are atleast lvl 7 or so. Also try out as many different secondary classes as u can...and just remember u can't hardly go wrong with a monk secndary for your first character...Don't worry about gold to much at this point...just try not to spend any gold until u get atleast to "post" Old Ascalon and buy some armor...just use whatever weapons you find....also thier are "caster" offhands that casters such as yourself use. They show up in the inventory panel as if they were in the shield slot...

If you happen to find a black or white dye don't sell it to anyone they are worth a few thousand gold..i think black is around 8k and white is around 5k. You can usually sell these to other players in post ascalon..or sell them to the DYE trader in old ascalon.

I don't think anyone addressed the issued of groups vs soloing...Alot of people like to solo (by taking henchman in place of other people) I wouldn't recommend that until you are fairly comfortable with the way the game works...because you can learn alot from other players...but you take the risk or getting idiots in your groups too :P

Like many others have suggested I would suggest you get in a guild. Remeber that if you don't like it you can always leave and join another...also be careful of accepting to much help from high lvl characters...no matter how good of intentions they have it can/might hurt you. Its better since this is your first character to kind of learn things the "hard way" rather than the easy way..it will benefit you in the later stages of the game.

You have done about the best thing you can to begin with and that is becoming a member of this forum and getting the address to the guildwiki.

Well thats enough rambling...have fun and good luck.

Coridan

R1kk1 · Feb 11, 2007, 01:59 AM // 01:59

Enough rambling? Never! Ramble more, I'm interested, honestly, lol!

Well, I'm level 5 now, E/Mo and I did the 2 quests for each class, so now have about 10 skills, mainly healing and offensive magic. I have a nice skill setup I think, it works for me at least!

Haven't tried any PvP yet, I'm not really into the whole player killing thing, but I guess I had better practise up if I need to defend myself later on...

Did lots of quests, can't find the bloody kid's flute for the life of me, he says it's on the other side of the river, but I think he's lying. Meh, he can go without it for the rest of his life I guess.

Everytime I team up with someone they leave before I get the chance to do the quest for the Resurection Signet, but I'll work on that.

Not much else to do really, I'm just going to try and slaughter some good mob's and get level 7 then, as suggested. Don't really know what I'm doing with the whole Skill Setup thing, just been making all my skills pretty even at the moment, but I think I should start cncentrating on some more then others.

Also, when you get level 20, is that it for skills and skill points? Do you stop gaining them? And how do I make my skills better?

Also, on some of my skills there is a little yellow triangle in the top right corner, but I don't know what it means, if it means anything...

Thanks alot, I hope to be joining the ranks of The Eleet soon xD

BTW, are there any 'well-known' players out there, maybe players I should steer clear of, or maybe people who are well known for being so uber. If so, could you tell me who they are?

Thanks for all your help! I feel like such a kid asking all these questions!!!

Rik

PS: Some questions I keep forgetting to ask! How do I get more room in my backpack? I remember getting a message about it in game but cant remember what it said.

Also, I know someone answered my thing about the +energy items in my shield slot, but I still don't understand what they are there for. They don't seem to be doing much at all.

And is it normal for my character to be all white and not have any armour on?

And finally: Weapon sets, I try putting a different combonation in a different weapon set slot but it just doesnt want to know, that's confusing me aswell...

Thanks for all the help! Sorry if I'm annoying you. The answers to these questions are probably really obvious...

Tark Alkerk · Feb 11, 2007, 02:05 AM // 02:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by R1kk1

Cool, in that case I wont be ut off by the huge amounts of loading that it's going through now then! 33% and counting...

I don't know my comp. spec. How can I find out? I'm not a whizz when it comes to that kind of stuff.

Also, after reading these forums abit I've been reading alot about level 20 completing the game. Is there a level cap on the game or something? Will i need to buy the other expasion packs to lift that cap?

well if your running Xp, press start, select help and support, then select the last in the list of "pick a task" on the right hand side, then "my computer information" on the left hand side, View general system information about this computer, which will tell you details about you processor. then after you have the information about you processor from under the processor box on the right, post that here along with you graphics card details that you can find under "Find information about the hardware installed on this computer " which is the third one down on "my computer information menu.

if it is performing slowly, it may be time to upgrade, and if your download speed is slow, you will need a better internet connection

.

anymore questions, PM here on the forum or whisper me in game.

Quote:

Originally Posted by R1kk1

Enough rambling? Never! Ramble more, I'm interested, honestly, lol!

Well, I'm level 5 now, E/Mo and I did the 2 quests for each class, so now have about 10 skills, mainly healing and offensive magic. I have a nice skill setup I think, it works for me at least!

Haven't tried any PvP yet, I'm not really into the whole player killing thing, but I guess I had better practise up if I need to defend myself later on...

Did lots of quests, can't find the bloody kid's flute for the life of me, he says it's on the other side of the river, but I think he's lying. Meh, he can go without it for the rest of his life I guess.

Everytime I team up with someone they leave before I get the chance to do the quest for the Resurection Signet, but I'll work on that.

Not much else to do really, I'm just going to try and slaughter some good mob's and get level 7 then, as suggested. Don't really know what I'm doing with the whole Skill Setup thing, just been making all my skills pretty even at the moment, but I think I should start cncentrating on some more then others.

Also, when you get level 20, is that it for skills and skill points? Do you stop gaining them? And how do I make my skills better?

Also, on some of my skills there is a little yellow triangle in the top right corner, but I don't know what it means, if it means anything...

Thanks alot, I hope to be joining the ranks of The Eleet soon xD

BTW, are there any 'well-known' players out there, maybe players I should steer clear of, or maybe people who are well known for being so uber. If so, could you tell me who they are?

Thanks for all your help! I feel like such a kid asking all these questions!!!

Rik

PS: Some questions I keep forgetting to ask! How do I get more room in my backpack? I remember getting a message about it in game but cant remember what it said.

Also, I know someone answered my thing about the +energy items in my shield slot, but I still don't understand what they are there for. They don't seem to be doing much at all.

And is it normal for my character to be all white and not have any armour on?

And finally: Weapon sets, I try putting a different combonation in a different weapon set slot but it just doesnt want to know, that's confusing me aswell...

Thanks for all the help! Sorry if I'm annoying you. The answers to these questions are probably really obvious...

well firstly pvp isn't like wow, you have a choice to fight or not fight, so don't worry about that just yet, also you have to go into the arena for that

.(so no reason to avoid well known players unless your in a arena)

yes when you get to level 20 you stop gaining attribute points, but you can use runes at any time to boost you abblites, but they come with draw backs, ie you lose health when you apply them.

well the plus energy thingy in you shield slot?

that is called you off-hand, you apply it like shield, instead tho it gives you energy not armour.

also to get more inventory room, you can purchase belts and extra bags but you are going to have to wait for that.

about skills, the yellow triangle indicates that it is an enchantment spell.

if your character is white all over this is prob because you have an geforce graphics card like me, try downloading the latest drivers from the nivida site. if that doesn't solve the problem, they should revert to normal Armour textures in a few seconds.

also on the weapon slot thingy, make sure you inventory isn't full, for example if you take two items out and one in that leave you with a deficit of one.

one last thing, Gwen is a girl and the flute is there:P

R1kk1 · Feb 11, 2007, 02:14 AM // 02:14

Windows XP

Processor
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz
Version: x86 Family 15 Model 1 Stepping 2
Speed: 1794 MHz

Video Card
Model: NVIDIA Vanta/Vanta LT (Microsoft Corporation)
Driver: nv4_mini.sys
26 March 2006
Supported

IS that what you needed? I dunno if that will be enough, lol

Tark Alkerk · Feb 11, 2007, 02:22 AM // 02:22

yeah that should be enough, 1.8 ghz isn't great, but its a start, also try what i suggested in my last post of downloading new nivida drivers, that may immprove performance, but if you are slow at the loading screens, it may be because you have a poor internet connection. and the only way to solve that is by getting new service provider, Eg broadband, or getting a better router or wireless connection.

and if you do have a Wifi connection try moving your adaptor, so that you speed on wireless network connection status is high.

this is if you have a wireless connection just so you know, but aim to have the speed as high as possible, and as many bars of the signal strength full.

also if your running anything in the back round such as Internet explorer try turning those of as well.
also you can downgrade your graphics to suit your machine and increase your Frames per second.

Villager · Feb 11, 2007, 02:38 AM // 02:38

While it sounds like a problem with the graphics adaptor, should point out that if you are running a female elementalist, the early "armor" is pretty much all white and does not look as though it would provide much protection.

CDittric77 · Feb 11, 2007, 03:48 AM // 03:48

I would suggest buying an updated graphics card that will work with your motherboard. Either that, or make sure drivers are all up to date. Good luck!

R1kk1 · Feb 11, 2007, 02:00 PM // 14:00

I think it is just a case of my computer sucking real bad. I should try to sweet talk my dad into getting me a new one.

Thanks for all the help, everyones really gone out of their way t help me get started and I thank you all for it!

I'm going to log on again now and try to get level 7 and move to the secondry area... Should be fun!!!

Lord of Fiery Doom · Feb 14, 2007, 09:02 PM // 21:02

Yep, tis fun.

Just keep Aura of Restoration on, and spam flare. Buy firestorm and use it if a lot of monsters have ganged up on you and surrounded you.

(BTW, I'm a level 6 E/Me, IGN Lord of Fiery Doom, Old Ascalon.)

shanaya · Feb 15, 2007, 03:23 AM // 03:23

Rik, I'm amazed no-one has suggested that you might need more memory in your computer to speed the game up a bit. My own experience is that you need at least 512 mb for an acceptable frame rate. I have 1 gb in both my computers and am seriously thinking of going to 2 gb.

I think it is unlikely that the speed of your internet connection is slowing things down significantly, though when you go through a portal a slow connection may result in a long loading time. GW runs very well indeed on a slow dial-up connection once it has loaded.

Sofonisba · Feb 15, 2007, 04:16 PM // 16:16

Hey Rik, welcome to GW.

You will not have much money til later in the game. But it's ok, you don't need it! Make sure when you go to every town, and every zone outside town, hold down ALT key to look around. You'll see people with [Collector] after their name. Talk to ALL of them!! You just might find an item or even armor that you can use for just giving them some worthless junk you pick up while questing. (Eg, 3 Baked Husks will gain you better shoes from a collector outside Ashford Abbey.)

Holding down ALT key will also help you find loot such as the flute you're looking for

.

I'd like to reiterate, KEEP any white or black (even red is valuable now) dye you find, until you go through the Academy to post-searing.

hooge · Feb 15, 2007, 04:51 PM // 16:51

hey ill be as much as a newb as you are as soon as i get the game :P (today or tomorrow), so wiki is a good source for help? ive played similar games like lineage etc. but i have no idea what to expect except a really fun pve game

billypowergamer · Feb 15, 2007, 05:31 PM // 17:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by R1kk1

I think it is just a case of my computer sucking real bad. I should try to sweet talk my dad into getting me a new one.

Thanks for all the help, everyones really gone out of their way t help me get started and I thank you all for it!

I'm going to log on again now and try to get level 7 and move to the secondry area... Should be fun!!!

Here is something that might help speed up the game and stop it from loading every time you get to a new area.

go to your start menu and select the run command, put in the following line:

c:\program files\guild wars\gw.exe -image

this is assuming you did a default install, otherwise just point it to where the gw.exe file is.

this will download all the possible updates for all areas(usually you only download the updates when you enter an area and it will download in the background while you play). this will stop the game from taking up more bandwith while you play.

Do this after you are done playing, because it won't load the game while it's downloading. I would suggest possibly doing it right before you go to bed and letting it run overnight, because it's going to take a little while, but will save you some grief in the future.

Lord of Fiery Doom · Feb 15, 2007, 07:41 PM // 19:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by billypowergamer

Here is something that might help speed up the game and stop it from loading every time you get to a new area.

go to your start menu and select the run command, put in the following line:

c:\program files\guild wars\gw.exe -image

this is assuming you did a default install, otherwise just point it to where the gw.exe file is.

this will download all the possible updates for all areas(usually you only download the updates when you enter an area and it will download in the background while you play). this will stop the game from taking up more bandwith while you play.

Do this after you are done playing, because it won't load the game while it's downloading. I would suggest possibly doing it right before you go to bed and letting it run overnight, because it's going to take a little while, but will save you some grief in the future.

What will this do? Will it stop us from needing to load anything in Guild Wars ever again, or will it load everything at the start of Guild Wars so we don't need to load anything again as long as we don't quit Guild Wars?

Feb 11, 2007, 01:59 AM // 01:59	#28
R1kk1 Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Feb 2007	Enough rambling? Never! Ramble more, I'm interested, honestly, lol! Well, I'm level 5 now, E/Mo and I did the 2 quests for each class, so now have about 10 skills, mainly healing and offensive magic. I have a nice skill setup I think, it works for me at least! Haven't tried any PvP yet, I'm not really into the whole player killing thing, but I guess I had better practise up if I need to defend myself later on... Did lots of quests, can't find the bloody kid's flute for the life of me, he says it's on the other side of the river, but I think he's lying. Meh, he can go without it for the rest of his life I guess. Everytime I team up with someone they leave before I get the chance to do the quest for the Resurection Signet, but I'll work on that. Not much else to do really, I'm just going to try and slaughter some good mob's and get level 7 then, as suggested. Don't really know what I'm doing with the whole Skill Setup thing, just been making all my skills pretty even at the moment, but I think I should start cncentrating on some more then others. Also, when you get level 20, is that it for skills and skill points? Do you stop gaining them? And how do I make my skills better? Also, on some of my skills there is a little yellow triangle in the top right corner, but I don't know what it means, if it means anything... Thanks alot, I hope to be joining the ranks of The Eleet soon xD BTW, are there any 'well-known' players out there, maybe players I should steer clear of, or maybe people who are well known for being so uber. If so, could you tell me who they are? Thanks for all your help! I feel like such a kid asking all these questions!!! Rik PS: Some questions I keep forgetting to ask! How do I get more room in my backpack? I remember getting a message about it in game but cant remember what it said. Also, I know someone answered my thing about the +energy items in my shield slot, but I still don't understand what they are there for. They don't seem to be doing much at all. And is it normal for my character to be all white and not have any armour on? And finally: Weapon sets, I try putting a different combonation in a different weapon set slot but it just doesnt want to know, that's confusing me aswell... Thanks for all the help! Sorry if I'm annoying you. The answers to these questions are probably really obvious... Last edited by R1kk1; Feb 11, 2007 at 02:03 AM // 02:03..

Feb 11, 2007, 02:14 AM // 02:14	#30
R1kk1 Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Feb 2007	Windows XP Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz Version: x86 Family 15 Model 1 Stepping 2 Speed: 1794 MHz Video Card Model: NVIDIA Vanta/Vanta LT (Microsoft Corporation) Driver: nv4_mini.sys 26 March 2006 Supported IS that what you needed? I dunno if that will be enough, lol Last edited by R1kk1; Feb 11, 2007 at 02:17 AM // 02:17..

Feb 11, 2007, 02:22 AM // 02:22	#31
Tark Alkerk Krytan Explorer Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: In a Black Hole Guild: less Profession: E/	yeah that should be enough, 1.8 ghz isn't great, but its a start, also try what i suggested in my last post of downloading new nivida drivers, that may immprove performance, but if you are slow at the loading screens, it may be because you have a poor internet connection. and the only way to solve that is by getting new service provider, Eg broadband, or getting a better router or wireless connection. and if you do have a Wifi connection try moving your adaptor, so that you speed on wireless network connection status is high. this is if you have a wireless connection just so you know, but aim to have the speed as high as possible, and as many bars of the signal strength full. also if your running anything in the back round such as Internet explorer try turning those of as well. also you can downgrade your graphics to suit your machine and increase your Frames per second. Last edited by Tark Alkerk; Feb 11, 2007 at 02:41 AM // 02:41..

Feb 11, 2007, 02:38 AM // 02:38	#32
Villager Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Sep 2005 Guild: Lunar Templars Profession: Me/A	While it sounds like a problem with the graphics adaptor, should point out that if you are running a female elementalist, the early "armor" is pretty much all white and does not look as though it would provide much protection. Last edited by Villager; Feb 11, 2007 at 02:46 AM // 02:46..

Feb 10, 2007, 11:35 PM // 23:35	#21
CDittric77 Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: A Famous Small Town in PA Guild: Saints of Avalon Profession: R/Mo	Good luck - feel free to message me in game if you ever need anything. My in game name is Talen Pikunda.

Feb 10, 2007, 11:42 PM // 23:42	#22
Lotrfish Krytan Explorer Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: 1337ville, California Guild: Generic Name [Tag] Profession: R/	One big piece of advice for you that I extremely reccommend you to do is to read the manual. If you would have done that in the first place it would have answered most of the questions you asked here. It should also answer most questions you should have later.

Feb 10, 2007, 11:45 PM // 23:45	#23
CDittric77 Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: A Famous Small Town in PA Guild: Saints of Avalon Profession: R/Mo	^/ignore These forums are here for you for your questions and concerns. I say, ask away!

Feb 11, 2007, 12:45 AM // 00:45	#24
R1kk1 Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Feb 2007	lol, Thanks alot! Just got a message on Guildwars telling me I've been playing for 4 hours and I should take a break, but I'm still going. Talk about addictive!!! The only thing I'm confused about at the moment is the fact I have loadsa items with +energy on them, but I have no idea what to do with them! If I try to equip them they go in my shield spot and I'm slightly puzzled about that. Also, I wonder if anyone knows how to make the game run faster. When I get into a place with alot going on it takes ages to load and I move quite slowly, whereas other places I run rather smoothly. I tried setting everything to low, but it still takes it's time in busy areas. I'm an E/Mo! Emo... hehehe... Sorry, I suppose that's an old joke here, but I laughed for a while. Also, wn I to after the 'pre' section, please tell me that monster drops will sell for more then just 3 gold at the most. I managed to scrape together 250 gold by selling wands that went for 3 or 4 gold each. took ages, but I did it! Thanks for all your help, you are all really great people. I would have added you all, but I've been to busy playing and getting to know the game to add people, killing those weird cocroach things is so satisfying... Also, when it comes to armour and robes etc., will I be getting more of them when I leave Ascaron? thanks for all your help!

Feb 11, 2007, 01:17 AM // 01:17	#25
=HT=Ingram Forge Runner Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Anchorage Alaska Guild: Haz Team [HT] Profession: R/W	yea you got to be careful though, before too long you star seeing "You have been playing for 24hours!!! Take a break." lol I always wanted them to add "Your gonna hurt something." to that 24hour message lol. But yea, you'll be surprised how quick a weekend can just vanish when your having such a good time online in GuildWars. By now I'm sure you've picked up most of the mechanics of the game... Several missions and quests under your belt, May have tried out an arena or 2 in PvP... Before you know it you will be one of the die hard Guru fans!!! lol Hey we were ALL there at some point... So its always great to see new people in game, learning for the first time everything we have come to love (and in some cases hate [not many]) in Guild Wars. Takes some of us back to that first time we got into Tyria and started wailing away at each other having no idea what skills to use or how to find new ones. lol Or even better when we first started fighting that first monster mob around lions arch and no matter what we killed from lev 1 to lev 25 it always only dropped 1 gold coin. hahahaha Ahh yes those sweet old beta days. lol

Feb 11, 2007, 01:34 AM // 01:34	#26
Kern Wolf Krytan Explorer Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NJ Profession: W/E	LOL..yes, the drops from omnsters wil get you more than 3 gold when you leave Pre-Searing. The best advice I can give you while you're in Pre-Searing now? If Black or White dye drops for you---KEEP IT! NEVER sell Black or White dye! When you leave Pre-Searing, you'll understand....

Feb 11, 2007, 01:38 AM // 01:38	#27
Coridan Forge Runner Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: US Guild: Old Married Gamers {OMG} Profession: W/	Well, to chime in with my input. i would stay in Presearing until you are atleast lvl 7 or so. Also try out as many different secondary classes as u can...and just remember u can't hardly go wrong with a monk secndary for your first character...Don't worry about gold to much at this point...just try not to spend any gold until u get atleast to "post" Old Ascalon and buy some armor...just use whatever weapons you find....also thier are "caster" offhands that casters such as yourself use. They show up in the inventory panel as if they were in the shield slot... If you happen to find a black or white dye don't sell it to anyone they are worth a few thousand gold..i think black is around 8k and white is around 5k. You can usually sell these to other players in post ascalon..or sell them to the DYE trader in old ascalon. I don't think anyone addressed the issued of groups vs soloing...Alot of people like to solo (by taking henchman in place of other people) I wouldn't recommend that until you are fairly comfortable with the way the game works...because you can learn alot from other players...but you take the risk or getting idiots in your groups too :P Like many others have suggested I would suggest you get in a guild. Remeber that if you don't like it you can always leave and join another...also be careful of accepting to much help from high lvl characters...no matter how good of intentions they have it can/might hurt you. Its better since this is your first character to kind of learn things the "hard way" rather than the easy way..it will benefit you in the later stages of the game. You have done about the best thing you can to begin with and that is becoming a member of this forum and getting the address to the guildwiki. Well thats enough rambling...have fun and good luck. Coridan

Feb 11, 2007, 03:48 AM // 03:48	#33
CDittric77 Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: A Famous Small Town in PA Guild: Saints of Avalon Profession: R/Mo	I would suggest buying an updated graphics card that will work with your motherboard. Either that, or make sure drivers are all up to date. Good luck!

Feb 11, 2007, 02:00 PM // 14:00	#34
R1kk1 Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Feb 2007	I think it is just a case of my computer sucking real bad. I should try to sweet talk my dad into getting me a new one. Thanks for all the help, everyones really gone out of their way t help me get started and I thank you all for it! I'm going to log on again now and try to get level 7 and move to the secondry area... Should be fun!!!

Feb 14, 2007, 09:02 PM // 21:02	#35
Lord of Fiery Doom Academy Page Join Date: Feb 2007 Profession: E/Me	Yep, tis fun. Just keep Aura of Restoration on, and spam flare. Buy firestorm and use it if a lot of monsters have ganged up on you and surrounded you. (BTW, I'm a level 6 E/Me, IGN Lord of Fiery Doom, Old Ascalon.)

Feb 15, 2007, 03:23 AM // 03:23	#36
shanaya Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Nov 2005 Guild: Scouts of Tyria Profession: R/	Rik, I'm amazed no-one has suggested that you might need more memory in your computer to speed the game up a bit. My own experience is that you need at least 512 mb for an acceptable frame rate. I have 1 gb in both my computers and am seriously thinking of going to 2 gb. I think it is unlikely that the speed of your internet connection is slowing things down significantly, though when you go through a portal a slow connection may result in a long loading time. GW runs very well indeed on a slow dial-up connection once it has loaded.

Feb 15, 2007, 04:16 PM // 16:16	#37
Sofonisba Desert Nomad Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Tucson, AZ Guild: The Black Hand Gang [BHG] and The Black Helm Gang [BHeG]	Hey Rik, welcome to GW. You will not have much money til later in the game. But it's ok, you don't need it! Make sure when you go to every town, and every zone outside town, hold down ALT key to look around. You'll see people with [Collector] after their name. Talk to ALL of them!! You just might find an item or even armor that you can use for just giving them some worthless junk you pick up while questing. (Eg, 3 Baked Husks will gain you better shoes from a collector outside Ashford Abbey.) Holding down ALT key will also help you find loot such as the flute you're looking for . I'd like to reiterate, KEEP any white or black (even red is valuable now) dye you find, until you go through the Academy to post-searing.

Feb 15, 2007, 04:51 PM // 16:51	#38
hooge Pre-Searing Cadet Join Date: Feb 2007	hey ill be as much as a newb as you are as soon as i get the game :P (today or tomorrow), so wiki is a good source for help? ive played similar games like lineage etc. but i have no idea what to expect except a really fun pve game