Alright, I've applied to the guild, so now I just need someone to accept that blasted application and I should be able to join in on your endeavours. A couple of newbie questions, though:
A: How on earth is the regular party advertisement syntax set up. A party recruitment window displaying "B>Battle/Sword nm -color" does not contain any useful info. Please help me decode this strange and arcane language.
B: What on earth am I supposed to do on my own. So far I've done some trading, but it's tedious and basically boils down to "Walk to that city on foot while being forced to walk around certain random spots in the terrain". I did try to do some solo runs, which was rather difficult and fun, but one dungeon started to kick my ass with red skeletons and the other with the end boss. What else can I do only by the company of myself?
C: Why the flying fuck does this piece of armor lack pants?
A: Like SirAaron said, that particular guy was trying to sell something. They use the party channel for this, although you do occasionally see people advertising dungeon runs. They'll be much easier to decode. Just wanted to get that out there too.
B: G1 is good to get started earlier, again, as SirAaron said, as it gives you AP, thanks to the recent revamp. It's the quest line in the "goddess" tab. Aside from that you might look into crafting or try to get into a public dungeon party. The community around mabi is usually pretty nice, so it shouldn't be too painful. With that said I am logging on right now to get you into the guild, so you shouldn't have issues finding people to do stuff with.
C: Yeah, some armor lacks pants. I'm also gonna take this moment to say, armor in this game is mostly cosmetic. I don't mean to say heavy armor has the same armor points as clothing, but there are three classes, clothing (1 defense), light armor (4 defense and 1 protection), and heavy armor (6 defense and 2 protection). So if you see some armor you like the look of, just use it! Chances are it'll have similar stats to another armor of its level. There's some mid game armor you can get through hardmode dungeon runs and such but that's a ways off, and even then they mostly provide set bonuses. Also of note is if you craft a weapon/armor / someone else crafts it, it will probably get bonuses, mostly to durability, but sometimes to def and prot, so if the stats seem a bit off, that's probably why.
(Defense lowers damage by 1 point, protection lowers damage by 1 percent, and reduces critical chance by one percent. Just sayin it now.
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