LINEAGE II · PRIMA GUIDE · 2004
Hints, tips and strategies
Get comfortable with your first steps, essential controls and everyday game functions before heading into the world.
Hints, tips & strategies
When you first arrive in your homeland, it will take a while for you to become familiar with your surroundings and comfortable with venturing beyond where you begin.
As a new player, you can benefit from the wisdom of others. Take a look at the tips in this chapter. A little preparation can go a long way, and your early levels will pass more quickly once you understand the basic principles of the game.
First steps
As soon as your character is created, equip your items (double-click on them in your inventory; you have upper armor, lower armor and a weapon or two to choose from).
Talk to one of the masters around your starting point and get the map quest. The master asks you to kill Keltirs and get Keltir Fangs. Keltirs should be very easy to kill, and completing this quest gives you 50 SP (skill points, used to learn skills) and a map (Elmore for Orcs and Dwarves; Aden for Humans, Elves and Dark Elves). The 50 SP are a decent step toward your first new skill (at Level 5 for Fighters, Level 7 for Mystics), and the map will be useful throughout your entire stay in this world.
By now, you should be Level 2 or so. Hunt more Keltirs and nearby creatures until you reach Level 4.
After this, go talk to the guide in your village (marked with G on each village map in this guide) and listen to the advice he offers. Especially pay attention to the details he gives on quests — questing is nearly always more profitable than regular hunting until at least Level 10 — to find what NPCs give quests near your level.
Keys & game functions
Any mouse with a thumbwheel can give you a quick way to check for enemies while you're running away. Click the thumbwheel to switch to a 180° rear viewpoint that looks over your character's back. Click it again to resume your original view.
If you like to switch weapons in combat, put all of them on hotkeys. This makes it much faster to switch in mid-fight.
If you like to hunt mobs that aggro (that is creatures that attack you first, rather than waiting politely for you to attack them), you definitely want to put several hotkeys in easy order. Many players use F1 (Next Target), F2 (Powershot, Mortal Blow, etc.), F3 (Attack). That way, you can press F1, F2, F3 in sequence each time you kill your current target. It's much faster than clicking on the new target, but only works when the mobs are practically on top of you.
Use the Pick Up action instead of visually finding and picking up items. Put it on your hotkey bar. Use it early, use it often, and keep using it after each kill until you're sure the area is looted. This way, you can pick up things other characters miss, or something a mob is obscuring.
Try using Pick Up when you're traveling — hit brushy areas where people may have missed loot, or died before they could pick it up.