If you have any questions, just ask here and I'll answer them.
WARNING: This guide includes SP Farming, which I found better to do. ^.^
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Sections:
I. Creating your Character
II. Class right for you
III. Choosing your weapon
IV. Mastery Trees
V. Shaping your Character
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I. Creating your Character
-Start off by making your new name and checking it that it is not taken yet.
Right now, if you choose a Melee or Buff choose doesn't matter what armor you choose, Caster choose robes.
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II. Class right for you
-Here is where you must decide what build you want.
There are 3 Classes: Melee, Caster, and Buff.
If you choose melee, then you want a Pure str character or a 2:1 str Hybrid. These are great physical Damage dealers with lots of HP.
If you choose caster, then you want a Pure int characer or 1:2 int Hybrid (Not recommended). These are better at Damage dealing but have lower HP, add str points if desired to make a higher health caster.
If you choose buff, then you want a 1:1 Hybrid or 2:1 1:2 Hybrid, your choice. Great in parties, buff with many spells, which help with attacking.
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III. Choosing a Weapon
-Luckily for us, each class has a range based weapon, that you need in order to use to start off with. Just choose ny ranged weapon for now as it doesn't matter until later.
If choosing 1 Mastery Tree ONLY:
If suggest you want a Meleer then start with a Crossbow, with a caster choose Staff or Warlock Rod, with buffer I suggest you choose a harp.
If choosing more than one:
I suggest starting with your main trees weapon. Lets say I wanted to become a Wizard and Rogue and I wanted Wizard to be my main tree, then I'd pick Staff.
Remember this is to start off with to make starting leveling easy.
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IV. Mastery Trees
-There are 2 Mastery Trees in each Class you choose:
Melee: Warrior and Rogue
Caster: Wizard and Warlock
Buff: Bard or Cleric
Melee:
Warrior- These are the tankers, they take all the damage due to all their spells, armor, and high HP if you choose to do so. They use 1-Handed swords, 2-Handed swords, and Duel axes.
Rogue- The silent but deadly assassins. They are the ranged killers that can use stealth moves, poison people, and use the masks to turn into mob monsters. They use the Crossbow and Dagger.
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Caster:
Wizard- They are the 1 hit killers of the European side if used correctly. They can use spells that give status effects and nuke mob monsters. They are also great at attacking more then one monster at a time. They use the Staff.
Warlock- They are the long term fighters of the casters. They are the only casters that can use a shield. They have tons of status spells that can do great damage over time. They also so a spell to make your self look like a lower level (Dont ask me why
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Buff:
Bard- They Using long range attacks to destroy monsters and get them under status effects. They are more of buffers than healers. They give buffs to their party members. They use the Harp.
Cleric- Last but not least, Clerics. They are the healers of the European world. Stronger out of the Buffers. They are greatly helpful in parties. They have moves to revive people, heal, despell status effects, etc. They use the Cleric Rod.
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V. Shaping your Character
-Now we can start making your character after you have chosen how you want them to be.
First start off with the weapon I suggested in Section III. This is to start making your character and go through the game without worrying for SP.
I will do into detail in how to go through the game if you were to choose either one or two mastery trees.Starting off:
Pick the suggested weapon as mention before. When you start off move into mobs more of your level and kill them using ranged attacks. This was you can gain exp and sp without being damaged. DO NOT USE ANY SP. Keep doing this until you reach about level 5. Get the weapon you desire to use, such as if I picked a crossbow because I wanted a tree in Melee, like warrior, I would choose the one-handed sword. Now choose your FIRST mastery tree that you wish to use. Get the first few skills to help you out.
Now start figuring out how much SP you will need by using the following tools provided.
I Need a mod to approve these so I dont get in trouble.
SP Planner- http://www.nivlam.com/euro/
SP Gap Calculator- http://www.nivlam.com/sp/
Picking 1 Mastery tree guide:
Now that you have choosen your tree, start creating gaps between your level and your skill mastery. As in Chinese Silkroad, this will make it so that you gain more SP as you lose more EXP. This is nothing to worry about.
Now assuming you are using the tools I've provided, you should have figured out how much SP is needed. Since you are using only 1 mastery tree, I think about a 4-5 level gap through out the whole game should give enough SP. If you planned ahead and figure you make more SP with a 4 level gap than needed, go ahead and cancel the gaps whenever you reach your desired SP.
Picking 2 Mastery tree guide:
Now that you have choosen your trees, start creating gaps between your level and your skill mastery. As in Chinese Silkroad, this will make it so that you gain more SP, but you gain less EXP than usual. This is nothing to worry about.
Now assuming you are using the tools I've provided, you should have figured out how much SP is needed.Now this is where you are going to need a lot of patience on gaining these SP points. First start leveling keeping a 5-7 level gap until you hit level 14. Now make it into a 5 level gap and reach level 19. Here is where you should have sufficient skills to kill some mobs about your level. Now read carefully because if you mess this up, there's no going back.
There's a new NPC I never knew about until I was about level 13 that I learned about. Your first quest should be from this guy. Well, anyways he can teleport you back to where you last died. What you do is keep fighting monsters until you're about to hit level 20. Then you just keep killing your self to lose EXP and then once you are about 5% into level 19, resume grinding. THIS IS GREAT!! Why you ask? Because before if you wanted to do this style of grind you had to kill yourself, then run all the way back to a high enough level monster to kill you, then repeat, repeat. IT GETS REAL BORING! Now all you have to do is when you are about 2% away from 20, you just run to the Seirens and let them kill you, then just teleport back (making sure Auto-Poition is off) and let them keep killing you. THIS IS MUCH FASTER. After you are 5% into level 19, then resume grinding, an repeat as needed until you get enough SP. REMEMBER THAT AS YOU LEVEL, YOU GET SOME SP ALREADY! So remove those SP that you already get from leveling from your total SP from the calculated SP needed.
Thanks for reading my first ever guide here with SRF. Enjoy.
