Newbie running/retrieval guide

[Davairus]

"But he didnt have an RP REASON!!!" This wont save your butt from getting pked. The following tips might.

1) Avoiding the reaper

- Don't lounge around in unsafe places. There are few safe places outside of guildhall. Mostly just Seringale with Justices on, and the Tavern in Timaran with Heralds on. Use these when they're safe.
- Use your "Where PK" and when you see people who can hurt you, assess the threat. If its an evil, you should leave. A lightwalker is probably ok.
- Use your guildhall. Especially in low levels, guild guardians are difficult kills
- Play a ranger and you get a camouflage skill that'll let you hide in the woods from nearly all fights.
- Play a ninja and you get invis & hide skills in town, thieves with detects may see you though.
- Try to keep detect invis items (the eddies in the elemental canyon carry magic dust for this, and some classes like ninjas learn the spell)

2) Defending yourself and your belongings

Failing avoiding it, place ALL effort into self-preservation.

- Never stop moving, if you have mv, you can still run
- Find a hiding place to run for sleep
- Find a second hiding place for when that fails
- Use RECALL POTIONS (Echuir in Seringale) to escape aggressive players, mobs, and no-exits
- Use PURPLE POTIONS (2 large hobgoblins in Moria) to lower damage from attackers
- Use GYVEL POTION (get dusk of gyvel and give money to the druid north of Seringale) to cure blindness
- use the catapults on the battlements for desperation flee. type: catapult
- Use spotted purple pill (pill shop in Seringale) to teleport as a last resort
- You MUST wear saves vs maledictive. You will need it vs players especially with no gyvels.
- Replace potions soon after you use them, so you stay prepared

- Put all spare gold in the bank
- Make your sack heavy with spare eq so its hard to loot
- Avoid dying too far from your recall point
- GET ALL CORPSE to get your stuff from your body

3) Getting new stuff

Try to avoid letting things get to this point, of course, but you need to know how to replace your eq.

- Use OUTFIT command in guildhall to recieve set of random equipment
- Get a sack from Griff in emerald
- Use your bank gold to buy new gyvels/recall potions/boat ASAP
- If you power ranked, go back and explore those old areas, learn how to get your same stuff in the event it is destroyed