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Running for our lives
I am enjoying Darkfall so far,and the freedom it offers,but one thing i am getting awfully sick of is Reds who hunt the noobie areas.Its awfully discouraging for new players.It happens all the time.Its hard for people who want to move away from the goblin spawns that are camped to death.I personally think the world needs filled with more mobs.My main frustration right now i hope to get skilled enough to confront these guys,but right now all i can do is run for my life...
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I joined last week and had the same issue, then I realized there around tons of other NPC cities scattered around the world. If you can urge yourself to leave the noob city then it opens up more. Since I left yesterday I have not seen a red
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-Currently playing FFXIV, and BDO.
Go back to WoW, carebear.
Am I doin it rite?
Well, you could do something about it : )
Organize some red hunting party, and have guards when killing goblins.
Yes, i know this means you have to talk to other players....
Someone wrote here that some races had more reds in the starter towns than others. Maybe changing your race will help.
This map is your friend.
http://www.afraidyet.net/forums/misc.php?do=page&template=Darkfall_Map
Just bookmark it, because you'll need it loads of times. I didn't die very often as a new player, atleast not at the goblin spawn.
-Use the map and find spots with a tower.
-Always fight the mobs where you are closest to the tower.
-When reds appear, sprint to safety with your shield/two-hand weapon in parry position.
-Bank your loot when you feel you have enough
Soon you'll have enough gear to not even bother if you die at the easy camps. When you venture further away from towers, you will die if reds appear, accept it. It's no longer any use to even try to get to safety, so you might just fight and die with a bit of honor. Just don't set the loot from mobs your goal, because loot is a bonus. Your goal as a new player should be skillgain or one more mob down from the new quests. If you want money, harvesting in safety of tower is far easier.
You're never going to catch up with some of the players because the have been using macros to obtain high skills that should have taken months of regular play time to achieve. They are using the flaws in the games design to level their toons even if they re not are not playing the game. So either you learn to macro and cheat, or you'll forever be just fodder for those that do.
or they will just max out and get bored and either leave or cant progress further...either way you will catch up.
Friend just play the game and dont worry too much about 1 v 1's. theres no fun in that
play as you feel is fun and catch up naturally. dont worry about equip...they can't take away your skills! join a clan and take part in a few group battles to get used to multi pvp then go with them on city/village raids.
Find a clan to hunt with or you may as well not be playing the game.
This is not a solo game.
I thought it was a "sandbox" game. A sandbox game would never dictate that you must join a clan.
yes you are you sounded very authentic
You're never going to catch up with some of the players because the have been using macros to obtain high skills that should have taken months of regular play time to achieve. They are using the flaws in the games design to level their toons even if they re not are not playing the game. So either you learn to macro and cheat, or you'll forever be just fodder for those that do.
no you wont stats cap out so does all the skills
Protip:
If you are dwarf, elf, or human go to the dwarf city of Gulgrumir (Hammerdelve). The spawn rates are very fast, and towers cover half of the goblin spawn.
I thought it was a "sandbox" game. A sandbox game would never dictate that you must join a clan.
You're a moron who fails to comprehend the term.
You have the freedom in a sandbox to try anything you want - That's not the same as having a guarantee that it will work.
You're never going to catch up with some of the players because the have been using macros to obtain high skills that should have taken months of regular play time to achieve. They are using the flaws in the games design to level their toons even if they re not are not playing the game. So either you learn to macro and cheat, or you'll forever be just fodder for those that do.
oh wow Taela, I wasn't aware you ever played Darkfall!
Or...maybe you havn't, and are just repeating things you've heard others say, which is par for this forum??
Lots of good advice in this thread, but this wasn't one of them.
I seriously doubt there's many people in DF (or any other game) that will waste much of their time coming to help strangers they don't know. Clan mates, maybe, but players new to the game won't find this suggestion much use.
But I will say some of the other posts had good suggestions, almost much so that I think I could make a go of it.
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Lots of good advice in this thread, but this wasn't one of them.
I seriously doubt there's many people in DF (or any other game) that will waste much of their time coming to help strangers they don't know. Clan mates, maybe, but players new to the game won't find this suggestion much use.
But I will say some of the other posts had good suggestions, almost much so that I think I could make a go of it.
I actually used to chase reds off, and rez the n00bs. Got a lot of good mounts this way :P
Did you ever do that yourself?
Did you ever do that yourself?
No because he probably got PKed by a red hunting party.
Maybe I was lucky, but I haven't been ganked more than 3 or so times in my first 3 days around the newbie towns (I play a Human starting in Monkfield on EU1).
Those 3 times I did get ganked was when I was harvesting naked (harvesting means I'm forced to look at a rock/bush/tree/water and can't look around without stopping for a moment). Other times when I did spot evil reds I was able to run back to town before they got close to me.
Sure, it's a lot of running, and sure, it's not at all a fair fight, but just run away to a guard tower and try a different mob location. Do not waste time trying to find people to zerg evil reds, most new players don't even read chat.
You get used to it after a while. Just remember the golden rule: Bank, OFTEN.
Anyway, once you leave the newbie towns the reds get worse (believe me). Once you go out to other NPC towns you will get hunted even more often. At one point in a busy area in the Human lands called "copperdale" I got attacked by groups of reds 5-6 times in a single day.