Some newbie questions

thejadeemperor wrote: »

(1) What do I do with all those lowbie equipment I got from mobs? Should I sell down to shops? Decompose them? Auction? Or Keep? If I auction them how much is a reasonable price for a blue 1* item that players will pay for?

Sell them if you can't use them. No one will (or should) buy gear at low levels since you change it every hour or so. Decomposing gives you chi stones for aerogear post-level 30. Not worth it now.

(2) What do I need to make sockets for my gear? The interface asked for a "Stoness" but what Stones? I found a few socketed gear from mobs so apparently socketed items in PW aren't as rare as other games... so shouldn't waste my material and money on socketed things, right?

Socket stones are cash shop items. Don't socket equip until very late in the game; it's expensive. If you want to know more about sockets, check Here. Actually, that link is very good for many questions.

(3) How should I spend my money? I don't have much... like 120k only. Conventional wisdom from other games told me not to spend on anything other than potions and mounts and pets only. Same goes here?

Mounts are optional. Pets are necessary to feed for a Veno, otherwise ignore them. Your money will go primarily to skills and repair costs. At 20, you can make life powder from the apothecary and some other goodies. Choose those over pots. Meditate when you can tolerate it. If you find yourself with tons of coin...feel very very lucky.

(4) When I decomposed some gear I got something related to chi. How do I use them?

Specifically, flying gear. Wings for the elves, swords for the humans, various animals for the Untamed. They have a "normal" mode that costs nothing to use. They have an "accelerate" mode that goes faster but consumes fuel. Chi stones are that fuel.

(5) Is it possible to have a pure skiller? That is a combat level 1 character with maximum levels in all the 4 manufacturing skills?

No. You need to do a quest to get to level 4 of the manufacturing skills, and it requires combat level 50. There is another check point at 80 and a third at 100. So even if you buy all the mats (since you can't harvest them either at low levels) you will be unable to progress far.

(6) How do I know the hunger level of my pets? Where do I find food for them? Will they run away if I don't feed them?

In addition to the visual cue mentioned, you can hover over the yellow bar next to the pic when it is summoned, or open your pet bag and check it's stats. It will also tell you the next time it will lose loyalty and what it's current penalties are, but they will never just run away. Feeding your pet can get pretty expensive.

Food will drop from mobs, but pet trainer always sells the basic water.

(7) Can I have more than 2 pets as a free player? I got a quest which requested me to find either a cage or 20 fodders? But where do I get a cage or 20 fodders?

Cage is cash shop. Fodder is also called Hay and is a drop. It drops most frequently from some level 30 antelope pups near silver pool. They are mutually exclusive, so if you get the cage, you cant do the fodder. You *can* do the fodder, then the cage.

You can use coin to buy "gold" which is used in the cash shop, even as a free player. Nothing is out of reach.

(8) There is a blessed book. Where do I find blessed books?

I'm gonna guess this is the cash shop book that means you dont have to feed your pet for a week. It is, of course, in the cash shop.

(9) How to look for a party? I only saw people broadcasting for FB parties... but where else for regular grind parties?

Regular grind parties, especially at your level, are almost all pick-up. Go out to where you need to be, ask politely in the local chat if anyone would like to squad to kill X.


Hope this helped. Be sure to browse the begginer sticky and the sticky for your chosen class. Lot's of great information out there.

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Just to add some on the fodder question, every thing else has been answered already:
The longhorned carapest (lvl20 mob that can be found if you follow the road leading south from gate of antiquity) also drops them, but not as often as the antelope pup. If you really want to extend your pet bag, try it there, because it's at your lvl.

For your pet bag, just click "p". From there you can drag your pets to a shortcut bar.

You pet sometimes disappears when stuck in the terrain or something, and you get to far away. For instance, pets can't pass the bridge at the entrance of the wolf totem valley (at least mine can't). When I pass when they are summend, they will disappear, and I have to resummen them once I passed the bridge.

For your pets, I suggest 2 land pets, or a land and a air pet for now. The problem with water pets is that you hardly have any quests to do in the water. After lvl8 turtles, you'll have to wait till lvl23 for the elder tortoise, and then till lvl36. When you have a water quest, just grab the nearest water pet available. Air quests are also more rare then land quests, but at least you can use flying pets on the ground. If you go for 2 land pets, try to pick 2 different kinds: like mag tank + phys tank, tanker + a faster and more offensive one (handy agains archer types, or when you have a barb in the squad), etc.