GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS
- MAIN QUESTS - Rex Larsson and Marcus Stone
- MAIN QUESTS - Flint Novak and Alex Gibbs
- MAIN QUESTS - Stan Goodman and Marcos Spida
- MAIN QUESTS - Sarah Greene and Vernon Godfray
- MAIN QUESTS - Lady Sheila/Doctor Mason and Lorelei
- MAIN QUESTS - Vaughn Hammond and ICC HQ
- SIDE QUESTS - Personalized Basic Robot Brain and Patrick Sun
- SIDE QUESTS - Desmond Calitri
- SIDE QUESTS - Antonio Stacklund and Remi Gallois
- SIDE QUESTS - The Shiny Sword and The Leet King
- SIDE QUESTS - The Shady Guy and Emiel Dijkman
- SIDE QUESTS - The Credit Card and The Alien Ship
- SIDE QUESTS - Choosing a Faction
- MISC - Vending Terminals, NPC Shops, and Looted Items
- MISC - Tips and Tricks
- MISC - Guide Updates
- MISC - Dyna Mobs
- ICC HQ - Andromeda
- Map of Arete Landing and surrounding area. Courtesy of HoBS.
- Starting on Clan side? Look here for a Guide!
If you'd like to watch two crazy people run through Arete's Landing, check out my husband's channel and see our play of it!
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Greetings Froobs and others! As some of you may or may not know, Update 18.7 was released on April 21, 2015. This gave a ton of new changes, and a new starter area, called Arete Landing. I thought it would be a good idea to make up a topic here about the isle and the quests and things on it.
Of course, this will always be a work in progress!
WARNING: I found this out the hard way, but do not join the Omni-Tek or Clan before you are ready to leave Arete Landing. It will remove you from the Neutral chat channel (Neu. Newbie OOC) - the default chat channel when you start the game. Neu. Newbie OOC can give you a lot of help and let you ask questions as pretty much everyone is in that channel at the get go. Also, at level 11, you'll be removed from the Neu. Newbie OOC channel. Silly, but you still have /shout and /vicinity to ask questions and look for help.
NOTE: If you want to skip over the tutorial for whatever reason, go to this post and I'll show you how you can do it quickly.
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Okay! So, first off making a character. Everyone starts off on Rubi-Ka (even if you get the expansion for Shade and Keeper, there is no Shadowlands option when you start). There have been quite a number of nano and professional changes to the classes, so please click on the link in the first sentence of this post (it will take you directly to the 18.7 patch notes) so you can see the changes to whatever class you are interested in. It has been suggested that for a very new player, Adventurer or Martial Artist are quite easy to learn and get used to the game with (my first character was an Adventurer). I also won't go over what's the best race, etc, as I feel that is a personal choice.
NOTE: I would suggest reading this post by Phoenix_Hawk to learn more of the basics of the game and how to install AO, etc. It helped me so I hope it will help you! Just know it still talks about the old starter area, so you can skip over some parts.
For this guide, we will be following the adventurers of Nanashai, a female Opifex Martial Artist.
When the game loads up, you'll be greeted by this busy UI. But don't be discouraged or scared! You are able to pretty much move everything around to your liking. There is a great link here with explanations of all the GUI elements.
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Once you get your UI settled, take a look around. There are a number of new things, so we'll go over them.
Check your Inventory (hitting I) and you'll find you have some items:
* 50 Health and Nano Recharger
* 25 Health and Nano Stim
* Blackmane's Belt Component Platform (Computer Literacy needs to be 20 before you can wear it)
* Razor's Polarized Specs
* Colonist Survival Pack (wear on your Back, and you can Right Click on it to give you more Inventory space)
* Nano Crystal (Composite Utility Expertise)
* Weapons and one Nano based on your Profession/Class choice
You can Left click on the Health and Nano items and place them on your hotbar (you target yourself or another person, then Right Click on the health item to use) if you wish. To wear your items and weapons, you need to go into the Wear tab (bottom tab on the left hand bars or Ctrl+1) and either Right Click on the weapon or item, or pick them up with the Left Click and place them in the correct tab. You have a tab for Weapons, Clothing/Armor, Implants, and Social/Clothing. By Shift + Left Clicking on an item in your inventory, it will give you a pop out window about that item.
When you Right Click on the Nanos you have, it will bring up the Programs (fourth tab on left bar or Ctrl+8) with different category tabs. By Left Clicking and holding, you can drag the Nano icon to your hotbar to use. Targeting yourself or another person, then Right Clicking on the Nano icon will 'cast' the program.
NOTE: Can't see your friend? They're probably in a different instance (called a GS). To see which you are in, press Shift+F9. Look for where it says 'GS=#'. How do we fix that? You'll need to find and enter the Alien Ship to be in the same area.
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