Part II - The Early Years (LvL 1-5)
I started my career as a battlemage at Leafcull in Rithwic. This has two reasons, one is the newbie beach
close to town near the LS, the other one is the proximity
of my most favorite town, Eastham, just a short run away.
Beginning Statistics: 70/40/10/10/100/100
Speced Skills: Life Magic, War Magic, Loyalty
Trained Skills: None
I have had several thoughts about the stats, mainly about
the 100/10 version. My personal gameplay is heavily
dependent on the STM spell, I found it invaluable to
reduce downtime. I prefer to take fewer breaks rather
than to be able to carry three sets of amuli armor at LvL
50, LOL. Therefor an endurance of 40 is the bare minimum
for me. I tried the 100/10 template for five levels, too
much frustration being slow AND unhealthy. My personal
choice, I know others will disagree. It worked out for me
as I can say now at LvL 37 with 165 strenght base.
After arriving in Rithwic and finishing the training hall
to get my heatlth potion I went into town to buy some
comps and learn some LVL I & II spells that I felt I
needed like heal self, and the beloved STM. Cannot live
without it.
I LSed next to the Soushi portal and then went to the
river bed where I leveled up to LvL5 mainly off drudges
and blue wasps. The latter are great for low level mages
as they are a kill with vuln/bolt/bolt and they never
even get close, just watch the war spells they cast. AND
they drop gold letters. I got to LvL 5 here without
problems, went into the Rithwic Crypt and actually got
the SOLL key and found some Prowlers to get more gold
letters.
At LvL 1 I created a mule with 100/100/10/100/10/10 to
finish the explorer quest and Tokugawa the Mage went on
for an evening off. I got the Live, War and Item Wand,
the Focus, Endurance and quickness jewelry. Alltogther it
was a four hour runaround to get everything. I do not
know if I would call it a quest.
Equipped with the explorer items I felt strong and fast
enough to dare to get to the ultimate town to level to at
least LvL 10, EASTHAM, home of the beaches. I ran there…..and
died. I went to the Rithwic river, got rid of the vitae
and tried again. The first run I made the mistake to stay
on the road, this time I changed my route in a way that
allowed me ever since to run even the slowes mule to and
from Eastham.
When on the horizon the two mountains appear to the east,
the traveler of Dereth on his way to Eastham knows that
the most troubling part of the way lies ahead of him, the
part with the Reedsharks and Banderlings, after which the
road takes a 90 degree turn to the north. I took the road
until I saw the mountains and the first Bandies were
coming up, then I went to the left and ran through the
trees and groups of drudges and hit the road again after
it made the turn. Key is, you run through dozens of
drudges but you avoid the hard hitter, Reedsharks and
Bandies. I lost five out of 50 healthpoints.
There I was, Eastham lay in the west at the horizon.
To be continued…………
Battle on friends, may Asheron look favorably upon your
path.
Tokugawa
Original Post : Diary of Tokugawa the Mage, Part II - Early Years