GUIDE: New Player Guide by a New Player

[a_llama]

So Im getting close to my first 7x GM on the server. Im up to:

GM Eval
GM Provo
GM Music
99.1 Magery
98 hiding
97.8 Med
83.2 Resist

So I thought it would be a good idea to share what I have learned and my experiences with the share. Ill start from the beginning. I started playing UO back in the late 90s. I think about 6 months before UOR came out. I played for about 2 years. I would say I was mostly a carebear by todays standards. I started out in Del with a tamer mage and was given my fist spell book by a helpful player right from the start. I spent my time in the hills east of Del killing the orc camp spawns. I would agro them run to the hills and telaport up onto them than fire field them to death. It was a magical time. I had never played a game like UO before and everything was new and amazing to me. I remember the first time some one tried to PK me by going into my fire fiend to agro me. I managed to get a recall off before he killed me. A few minutes later some one explained why he was able to kill me in town without the guards coming. I loved starting out in UO. I dont think I have every had the same experience again in any other game. Eve Online was probably the closest. Well now back to the future.

Dont expect your new UO experience to be like this. It wont have that same magical new feel to it. Killing monsters with fire field to scrap by and buy regs will not be fun. But luckily we have new rules and new tools to are advantage. AFK macroing makes life alot easier and alot faster. Now the first few days you play UO here you really wont be playing UO. You will be AFK macroing so just get threw the first week or less than it will start to be fun again.

So this is what I did and what I would recommend to any new player.

Starting out.

Character creation.

I think a bard is your best bet. They are very powerfull with even minimal skills and are easy and cheap to make. Go with Eval, magery, med, resist, music, provo, hiding or wrestling. Start out with 50 magery 50 resist.

Head out to moonglow and go down to the zoo. Set up this macro and start working your music and provoke.

Say: Guards
Double Click (instrument)
Use Skill Provocation
Wait for Target
Absolute Target <--- target the monster
Wait for Target
Absolute Target <--- target self
Pause .5 sec
if (sysMessage "succeeds")
Pause 5.1 sec
Say: Guards
Pause 5 sec
Else
Pause 5 sec
end if

This macro will work your music skill and work your provo skill at the same time. Once you GM music you can take the double click instrument part out if you want. Once your Provo gets into the 90s you will want to move over to the Brit stables and use the same macro on a bull. This will be some what of a drag. People are going to kill, Tame and entice your bull. So you might have to restart this a few times.

Now that you have GMed music and provoke its time to have some fun. Kinda.. Head back to moonglow and go to the grave yard. Provoke and kill all the undead loot everything sell and bank. Dont let your gp build up too much as a 500 gp loss at this point really hurts. Once you kill all the monsters you can also head over to the Jhelom grave yard for a fresh spawn and just bounce back and forth.

You are wanting to save up about 3k gold ish. If you dont like monster killing you can also collect wool to make bandaids, mine, or lumberjack. Once you have your 3k godl you are gonna wanna buy your skills up to 700. Dont forget to buy up those skills your gonna train to GM first.

Now that you have 700 skill points its time to get your stats up. Go back to the Brit stable and macro your herding up to 10, than switch to spirit speak. Keep going back and forth untill you have 100 str 25 dex 100 int.

Now its time to get gold again. You can keep doing what you have been doing or head on over to the terathan keep to kill ophidians or terathans. Just be carefull of the avengers as they are really fast and will kill you fast.

Once you have a few thousand in gold its time to buy some Regs. You will macro lightning untill 62 ish than e bolt untill 82 ish GM off fire strike.

This is my macro:

If (mana >= 50)
if (hits >= 90)
CastSpell ....
Wait for Target
Exec: Target Self
Pause 1 sec
end if
else
UseSkill Meditation
Pause 10 sec

You have 2 options on where you wanna do this. In town takes no healer but you gain no resist.

Out of town takes a healer and a house but gains resist. There are many nice and friendly people on the share that will help you out with the house part if this is the route you would like to take.

Once you get your magery up into the 70s you can finally really start to have some fun. I recomend going to the cyclops valley to make gold. The monsters give good loot. There is a nice steady spawn. And best of all they are easy to kill they are big and slow so its easy to run around and provoke them onto each other. Keep doing this and working your magery.

Once you get to this point your pretty much there. You can make more than enough money to GM your magery and once that is done there is no limit to what you can PvM.


Hopefully this guide will be helpful to some one. And if anyone sees that I have made a mistake in anything or if they have better ideas or want to link over to other posts that are helpful to new players please do so.

[Warrior monk]

New players might want to do something while their bard is macroing. I had my crafter run around collecting cloth, wood, & ore while the bard was afk macroing. I made bows & tailored fancy shirts for extra cash & made about 20K.

This will help people new to UO learn how the game works, have something to do while waiting for the bard, & also have a big chunk of cash to purchase regs when the macroing is done.

[applejack]

Once your Provo gets into the 90s you will want to move over to the Brit stables and use the same macro on a bull.

Couple things here. First, provocation is not difficulty based so moving to a bull isn't going to make a difference. Provoking is provoking. Second, I would never ever recommend macroing in Brit stables to anyone, let alone a new player. Macroing provo in a stable is fine, but there are plenty of stables in towns that are frequented far less often by griefers. In fact I would never recommend afk macroing anything in Brit to anyone. Ever.

[chumbucket]

Once your Provo gets into the 90s you will want to move over to the Brit stables and use the same macro on a bull.

Couple things here. First, provocation is not difficulty based so moving to a bull isn't going to make a difference. Provoking is provoking. Second, I would never ever recommend macroing in Brit stables to anyone, let alone a new player. Macroing provo in a stable is fine, but there are plenty of stables in towns that are frequented far less often by griefers. In fact I would never recommend afk macroing anything in Brit to anyone. Ever.

I, on the other hand, recommend that you always macro just outside the Britain guard lines, preferably along a road and with at least 10,000 gold in your backpack.

[applejack]

Once your Provo gets into the 90s you will want to move over to the Brit stables and use the same macro on a bull.

Couple things here. First, provocation is not difficulty based so moving to a bull isn't going to make a difference. Provoking is provoking. Second, I would never ever recommend macroing in Brit stables to anyone, let alone a new player. Macroing provo in a stable is fine, but there are plenty of stables in towns that are frequented far less often by griefers. In fact I would never recommend afk macroing anything in Brit to anyone. Ever.

I, on the other hand, recommend that you always macro just outside the Britain guard lines, preferably along a road and with at least 10,000 gold in your backpack.

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