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Archeon Incorperated is proud to present its latest in-sight into the world of dark age of camelot. This beautifully hand-written masterpiece can be yours for the price of one computer, an internet connection and the sense to read these forums.
Just a brief Fore-note, i didn't test this one on my guild 1st (thats right, they'd finished laughing at the mis-adventures a good few weeks before you knew about them. And they'l know about my other little pieces before you as well you non-Tiwaz bums
) Soo i'm not sure what kind of responce to expect. Feel free to let me know how it feels, personally i'm not conviced it fuly measures up to the mis-adventures. but then i didn't think the mis-adventures were that funny either
The Official Archeon Strategy Guide To Dark Age Of Camelot
Welcome one and all to Archeon's guide to DaoC; this comprehensive guide is aimed to tell you what’s what in the DaoC universe.
To start with a general disclaimer there to save my neck if anything bad happens. Don’t worry it’s a legal thing
General Disclaimer: As with all Archeon Inc. brand products this is pure fun, anyone trying to blame their bad behaviour on this guide will be hunted down and shot repeatedly
That out of the way, lets ‘rap’ in many ways the DaoC world is very similar to the earth. Both have Grass; what I would assume is an atmosphere, and people. On the other hand we don’t have mythical dragons, Flaming hand-to-hand weaponry and an over-whelming urge to kill each other… I’ll err on the last point but the rest is fundamentally true.
DaoC is a game that takes you to a fantasy realm where you can kill somebody and not be called a PKing bastard. On the other hand people still find ways to abuse each other. People die and you can bet there will be a
“FFS, I hate radar users!!” or something along those lines, people just don’t like to face the fact that they suck compared to some people at games. Of course the people that are good don’t like to admit that the last time they saw the sun was 2 years ago when they forgot to reset their watch for daylight savings. Go with what works for you.
So, live long and eat pie!
Part 1: Character Selection
“Regardless of what anyone tells you about player skills some classes are more equal than others”
Archeon Soulfire
When picking your class you might be thinking “What’s best for my realm?” this is wrong!! The first thing you should think is “”which class is uber and will make me a god?” when picking your character I would suggest looking at patch notes, no one class is god forever they all receive a nerfing sooner or later.
This is a great advantage to us because we receive patches a month or two later than the Americans, use this time to level and spec your god character so when it becomes uber your there to kick ass with it.
<Note: Base Tank Is The Phrase Used To Replace Each Realms Starting Warrior Class, E.g. – Base Tank For Midgard Is Viking>
Base Tanks: Waste of time, go to the character select screen and hit the delete button as quickly as you can, failure to do so will result in a life of being cannon fodder while the casters do all the work. Bad choice, BBBAAAADDD choice!!
Base Caster: A respectable choice, as a caster the key to successful grouping (where by your alive) is to do nothing, pretend you have a PBT on and the tanks all have a graphic bug that doesn’t allow them to see it. You nuke harder than a tank can hit so for gods sake don’t put a nuke on your cast bar or you’ll get aggro faster than a zerka in an arms man Zerg
Base Stealthier: Yeah, Uber dude class. Levelling will be easy if you follow the instructions later given in this book and when you get into a bad situation slam down on that vanish button and run for it. Your group will forgive you as long as you live
Base Healers: Do you like taking abuse? Do you like being pestered for a res every other min? Do you enjoy being interrupted mid-fight with some little bastard begging for buffs? If so the base healer is for you! Hours of abuse taking is worth is though as this is one of the most heavily nerfed character types in the game. Smite? Pacification… Moving on
Part 2: Stat Points & Speccing
“FOR THE LAST TIME, YES!! PURITY OF MIND IS THE BEST I HAVE!!”
Archeon In Emain
When you choose your base class the stats that Mythic think you should spec in go yellow, this is actually a hidden nerf. There is only one stat that you need to increase, all others will simply make you a weakling, and that stat is…
Intelligence!! It is by far the most important stat to go into, remember if you have a high intelligence you can wave it in peoples faces. The easiest way I found to settle an argument is like this
Archeon: What’s Your Intelligence Stat?
Gama: 60
Archeon: HA 61, Shut Up!
Gama: AGHH!! I Bow Down To Your Superior Int Stat
<Gama Bows Profusely>
Archeon: Ain’t It The Truth, You Skaldie-Pops Get Me Lemonade!!
Jerelyn: Yes Sir
<Runs Away At Mach 5 To Get Lemonade>
When speccing put points in what you want to be good at WRONG AGAIN! Put your spec points into what everyone else does! See a level 50 healer and ask him his spec, then copy it. you don’t have to tinker away with a character builder working out an effective spec, its as simple as 1-2-3.
Most people will say healers need an AE mez, that’s bollocks with all the AE damage spells that fly around its much easier to give Pac your dregs after all the 6sec AE stun is Pac level 1, that’s all the CC you’ll ever need.
You’re a tank; you get more spec points than you know what to do with per level. What do you put them in? Well not a weapon skill, that lowers your chance to survive. Shield and parry all the way. Any dregs you can slap into throw its better to have a ranged attack than a point blank one.
Right, another one done what’s next?
Part 3: Levels 1-5
“I Hate Beggars, The Piss Me Off To The Nth Degree. Ahh Shan, Can You Make Me An MP Arcranium Hammer? Plzzzzzz! No I Don’t Have Any Money, Is That A Problem?”
Archeon Trying To Find An MP To Blow-up With Overcharge
Levelling from one to five is possibly the hardest slug in the game, the first thing you need to do it get some money. How’s the easiest way to do this? Simple, be annoying. When you first start create the following buttons in your cast bar
‘/Macro Stick /Stick’
‘/Macro Beg /S Giv Money!! Giv Money!! Giv Money!!!’
Click on a suitably rich looking purple con player, use the ‘stick’ macro then Spam the ‘beg’ macro until you get some money. Once you have the money Spam it a few more times then move onto somebody else.
The second step in the 1-5 slug is similar to the first step. Change your cast bar to cast bar #2; you’ll need the begging macro’s again later. Create these new macros
‘/Macro Stick /Stick’
‘/Macro Invite /Invite’
‘/Macro Plvl /S Plvl Me!! Plvl Me!! Plvl Me!!’
Again, use the stick macro on a suitably looking purple con player. Once the guy has grouped with you, you should be level 5 within a few minutes. Add the person to your friend list, he is weak and will be useful at later levels for more Plvling.
Don’t forget to get some cash off him, and don’t say thank-you or good-bye just leave when you want. Go afk when you want. He exists solely to make you uber, fuck him.
Part 4: Choosing Your Class (Again)
“You Know There’s A Problem With The Class You Play When You Suddenly Realise You Have A Spell List”
Tao, The Master Runie
If you’ve followed the guide so far then there is a good chance you know nothing about the sub-class you are playing. Fear not, just run up to each trainer and click on him/her until your promoted to a proper class.
Nuff said
Part 5: 5 – 40
“The Person Is Smart, People Are Dumb, Stupid, Panicky And You Know It”
Agent K, MiB
Return to the Plvl macro, rinse and repeat until level 40, easy!
Note, by this point you might have a bad reputation. Register on the main forum and post the following –
===============================================================
Subject: I’m Sorry!
Post:
Hi, as I’m sure you’ve heard I’ve been acting like a bit of a loser. I’m really sorry about this my account was hacked by the incredible hulk. Don’t worry though, I kicked his pansy ass and got my account back.
Repeat, I was not playing my account from level’s 1-40, please disregard everything I have done up to this point as it is no fair on me.
Thanks
===============================================================
There, now everyone feels sorry for you. Its like pressing an ‘Insta-forgive’ button. Once you’ve done this register another forum account under a well liked/popular alias, as a few examples
“Archeon”
“Archeon”
“Archeon”
“Archeon”
“Archeon” and
“Archeon”
Note: this name might actually be taken by somebody (bastards, registering under their own name!) so you can add a _ or a . Or any other small hard to notice detail that will make you look like you’re that person
Then post a reply saying
===============================================================
Post:
Hi,
Don’t worry. All is forgiven
===============================================================
The majority of DaoC forum posters will simply put one worded responses to such letters, thus if you can influence them your more likely to be forgiven. Or at least to the point where people aren’t actively abusing you. Don’t worry about abuse your 1337, they aren’t what do they know?
-- Posting the rest of it in a second, just had the problem of the character limit BAH!! --
Just a brief Fore-note, i didn't test this one on my guild 1st (thats right, they'd finished laughing at the mis-adventures a good few weeks before you knew about them. And they'l know about my other little pieces before you as well you non-Tiwaz bums
) Soo i'm not sure what kind of responce to expect. Feel free to let me know how it feels, personally i'm not conviced it fuly measures up to the mis-adventures. but then i didn't think the mis-adventures were that funny either The Official Archeon Strategy Guide To Dark Age Of Camelot
Welcome one and all to Archeon's guide to DaoC; this comprehensive guide is aimed to tell you what’s what in the DaoC universe.
To start with a general disclaimer there to save my neck if anything bad happens. Don’t worry it’s a legal thing
General Disclaimer: As with all Archeon Inc. brand products this is pure fun, anyone trying to blame their bad behaviour on this guide will be hunted down and shot repeatedly
That out of the way, lets ‘rap’ in many ways the DaoC world is very similar to the earth. Both have Grass; what I would assume is an atmosphere, and people. On the other hand we don’t have mythical dragons, Flaming hand-to-hand weaponry and an over-whelming urge to kill each other… I’ll err on the last point but the rest is fundamentally true.
DaoC is a game that takes you to a fantasy realm where you can kill somebody and not be called a PKing bastard. On the other hand people still find ways to abuse each other. People die and you can bet there will be a
“FFS, I hate radar users!!” or something along those lines, people just don’t like to face the fact that they suck compared to some people at games. Of course the people that are good don’t like to admit that the last time they saw the sun was 2 years ago when they forgot to reset their watch for daylight savings. Go with what works for you.
So, live long and eat pie!
Part 1: Character Selection
“Regardless of what anyone tells you about player skills some classes are more equal than others”
Archeon Soulfire
When picking your class you might be thinking “What’s best for my realm?” this is wrong!! The first thing you should think is “”which class is uber and will make me a god?” when picking your character I would suggest looking at patch notes, no one class is god forever they all receive a nerfing sooner or later.
This is a great advantage to us because we receive patches a month or two later than the Americans, use this time to level and spec your god character so when it becomes uber your there to kick ass with it.
<Note: Base Tank Is The Phrase Used To Replace Each Realms Starting Warrior Class, E.g. – Base Tank For Midgard Is Viking>
Base Tanks: Waste of time, go to the character select screen and hit the delete button as quickly as you can, failure to do so will result in a life of being cannon fodder while the casters do all the work. Bad choice, BBBAAAADDD choice!!
Base Caster: A respectable choice, as a caster the key to successful grouping (where by your alive) is to do nothing, pretend you have a PBT on and the tanks all have a graphic bug that doesn’t allow them to see it. You nuke harder than a tank can hit so for gods sake don’t put a nuke on your cast bar or you’ll get aggro faster than a zerka in an arms man Zerg
Base Stealthier: Yeah, Uber dude class. Levelling will be easy if you follow the instructions later given in this book and when you get into a bad situation slam down on that vanish button and run for it. Your group will forgive you as long as you live
Base Healers: Do you like taking abuse? Do you like being pestered for a res every other min? Do you enjoy being interrupted mid-fight with some little bastard begging for buffs? If so the base healer is for you! Hours of abuse taking is worth is though as this is one of the most heavily nerfed character types in the game. Smite? Pacification… Moving on
Part 2: Stat Points & Speccing
“FOR THE LAST TIME, YES!! PURITY OF MIND IS THE BEST I HAVE!!”
Archeon In Emain
When you choose your base class the stats that Mythic think you should spec in go yellow, this is actually a hidden nerf. There is only one stat that you need to increase, all others will simply make you a weakling, and that stat is…
Intelligence!! It is by far the most important stat to go into, remember if you have a high intelligence you can wave it in peoples faces. The easiest way I found to settle an argument is like this
Archeon: What’s Your Intelligence Stat?
Gama: 60
Archeon: HA 61, Shut Up!
Gama: AGHH!! I Bow Down To Your Superior Int Stat
<Gama Bows Profusely>
Archeon: Ain’t It The Truth, You Skaldie-Pops Get Me Lemonade!!
Jerelyn: Yes Sir
<Runs Away At Mach 5 To Get Lemonade>
When speccing put points in what you want to be good at WRONG AGAIN! Put your spec points into what everyone else does! See a level 50 healer and ask him his spec, then copy it. you don’t have to tinker away with a character builder working out an effective spec, its as simple as 1-2-3.
Most people will say healers need an AE mez, that’s bollocks with all the AE damage spells that fly around its much easier to give Pac your dregs after all the 6sec AE stun is Pac level 1, that’s all the CC you’ll ever need.
You’re a tank; you get more spec points than you know what to do with per level. What do you put them in? Well not a weapon skill, that lowers your chance to survive. Shield and parry all the way. Any dregs you can slap into throw its better to have a ranged attack than a point blank one.
Right, another one done what’s next?
Part 3: Levels 1-5
“I Hate Beggars, The Piss Me Off To The Nth Degree. Ahh Shan, Can You Make Me An MP Arcranium Hammer? Plzzzzzz! No I Don’t Have Any Money, Is That A Problem?”
Archeon Trying To Find An MP To Blow-up With Overcharge
Levelling from one to five is possibly the hardest slug in the game, the first thing you need to do it get some money. How’s the easiest way to do this? Simple, be annoying. When you first start create the following buttons in your cast bar
‘/Macro Stick /Stick’
‘/Macro Beg /S Giv Money!! Giv Money!! Giv Money!!!’
Click on a suitably rich looking purple con player, use the ‘stick’ macro then Spam the ‘beg’ macro until you get some money. Once you have the money Spam it a few more times then move onto somebody else.
The second step in the 1-5 slug is similar to the first step. Change your cast bar to cast bar #2; you’ll need the begging macro’s again later. Create these new macros
‘/Macro Stick /Stick’
‘/Macro Invite /Invite’
‘/Macro Plvl /S Plvl Me!! Plvl Me!! Plvl Me!!’
Again, use the stick macro on a suitably looking purple con player. Once the guy has grouped with you, you should be level 5 within a few minutes. Add the person to your friend list, he is weak and will be useful at later levels for more Plvling.
Don’t forget to get some cash off him, and don’t say thank-you or good-bye just leave when you want. Go afk when you want. He exists solely to make you uber, fuck him.
Part 4: Choosing Your Class (Again)
“You Know There’s A Problem With The Class You Play When You Suddenly Realise You Have A Spell List”
Tao, The Master Runie
If you’ve followed the guide so far then there is a good chance you know nothing about the sub-class you are playing. Fear not, just run up to each trainer and click on him/her until your promoted to a proper class.
Nuff said
Part 5: 5 – 40
“The Person Is Smart, People Are Dumb, Stupid, Panicky And You Know It”
Agent K, MiB
Return to the Plvl macro, rinse and repeat until level 40, easy!
Note, by this point you might have a bad reputation. Register on the main forum and post the following –
===============================================================
Subject: I’m Sorry!
Post:
Hi, as I’m sure you’ve heard I’ve been acting like a bit of a loser. I’m really sorry about this my account was hacked by the incredible hulk. Don’t worry though, I kicked his pansy ass and got my account back.
Repeat, I was not playing my account from level’s 1-40, please disregard everything I have done up to this point as it is no fair on me.
Thanks
===============================================================
There, now everyone feels sorry for you. Its like pressing an ‘Insta-forgive’ button. Once you’ve done this register another forum account under a well liked/popular alias, as a few examples
“Archeon”
“Archeon”
“Archeon”
“Archeon”
“Archeon” and
“Archeon”
Note: this name might actually be taken by somebody (bastards, registering under their own name!) so you can add a _ or a . Or any other small hard to notice detail that will make you look like you’re that person
Then post a reply saying
===============================================================
Post:
Hi,
Don’t worry. All is forgiven
===============================================================
The majority of DaoC forum posters will simply put one worded responses to such letters, thus if you can influence them your more likely to be forgiven. Or at least to the point where people aren’t actively abusing you. Don’t worry about abuse your 1337, they aren’t what do they know?
-- Posting the rest of it in a second, just had the problem of the character limit BAH!! --
