Sekhmet's Barbarian new player guide

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Getting Started

So you want to be a barbarian ey?

First you are going to need to name your character and pick a race. When you log in you will be prompted on how to create your character.

While any race has potential to make a great barbarian when picking a race, its generally easiest to play a race with a strength and/or stamina bonus. Many of our abilities rely on a FEAR contest which leans heavily on Charisma, and Strength. Discipline is also an important ability to consider when picking a race. If you are very new to the game, a Gor'Tog, Human, Kaldar, Dwarf or S'kra Mur will probably be the easiest barbarian out of the gate.

Generally speaking its best to choose the CROSSING as your starting city. There are generally more people in the CROSSING and its a bit more new player friendly than RIVERHAVEN.

Getting to the guild

Now that you've picked your race its time to go talk a barbarian guild leader and ask him to JOIN the guild.

If you are feeling lost remember you can type DIR BARBARIAN and it will begin to give you directions. I'd also recommend taking a look at a map of the Crossing or Riverhaven (if you didn't listen to me and started there), and possibly printing it out for reference.

Lets pause a second

Before we go any further, take a moment and ask yourself.

A. Do you like smashing and breaking things? 2. Do you like crushing and stomping things? d. Do you like to stick pointy things in things?

If you answered yes to any of the above please continue reading. If you answered no, directions from the crossing Barbarian guild to the Empath guild are as follows; Out, North, Go door.

Back to the Guildleader

Agonar (or Mo if you started in Riverhaven) may say certain STATs are lacking when you try to join the guild. If you want Agonar can train these stats for you (it is slightly more expensive to take this route). For now lets just accept Agonar or Mo's training and listen to their words of wisdom.

I'll wait here while you learn what it means to be a barbarian.

Picking your 1st Ability and what is Inner Fire?

All set?

Great so now we get to pick our first barbarian ability! So many choices.... where to start?

Lets first talk a little bit about Inner Fire. Inner fire is our power, its what fuels all our abilities. It is also a trainable skill. Our four main supernatural abilities that we can train are Warding, Augmentation, Debilitation, and Inner Fire. Inner fire replenishes very slowly over time and will never entirely fill in a passive state. In order to get more inner fire barbarians need to fight and kill stuff. Enough about inner fire for now. Lets get back to making this barbarian a skull crushing machine.

Back to picking our first barbarian ability.....

At the start it is best to choose a Berserk or a Form, because this will allow us to train TWO of our four supernatural abilities. The first couple circles (we call levels circles) will go fast and we will be able to choose a roar soon, don't worry.

One of my favorite starting choices is Berserk Avalanche it helps you not get so tired when you are swinging away crushing face. In order to choose berserk Avalanche try to type STUDY AGONAR (or MO if you chose Riverhaven as a starting point).

Did you figure it out?

if no... try typing CHOOSE AVALANCHE.

So we have now JOINED the GUILD and we've picked a barbarian ability! Great work!

Lets power that baby up. Try typing BERSERK AVALANCHE or just bers ava if you are into brevity.

Woa what happened! As long as that berserk is running you will see some messaging to the effect. Also type EXP, look at that! Two supernatural abilities are being learned. Be careful though, running abilities will eat up our precious Inner Fire. The good news is we can get more Inner Fire doing what barbarians do best, and that is killing stuff!

Gear up Young MASTER OF ARMS!

Depending on your race choice you have probably have a mishmash of gear and potentially a funny looking hat. Time to start looking like a proper adventurer.

There are four types of trainable armor, you can look them up in more detail in other areas of the website. The four armors are LIGHT, CHAIN, BRIGANDINE, and PLATE

Generally speaking newer barbarians should consider starting in lighter armor. I'd recommend a few chain pieces and a few leather pieces from good old Tembeg if you started in the crossing. Lets go to the armor shop now. DIR ARMOR, or you can look at that map you printed out earlier.

Lets type INV ARMOR, interesting, this shows what types of armor you are currently wearing. Lets buy enough armor to protect our head, arms, legs, torso, and hands. Now Tembeg doesn't have the largest supply, but what he does have will easily get us by for now. Stick to a chain and leather or a chain leather combo unless you are a more experienced player and want to train Plate and Brigandine. Lets also by a SMALL SHIELD, the target shield should do fine. Now while holding the shield in your right hand type ADJUST SHIELD. Perfect, feels good on your arm no? WEAR your shield. There we go. This allows us to still use the shield in combat but it frees up our left hand. Speaking of combat lets go get tools of the trades, WEAPONS.

Check your map, and find the weapons shop, its right outside the armor shop, and one east. Find it? DIR WEAPON if you get lost.

When you ask a barbarian what weapon to train he might just slap you in the face. The answer is all of them. If you are very new to the game, however I'd recommend picking a nice trusty broadsword and maybe a small edged weapon to start. TYPE EXP WEAPON 0. You see there are quite a few weapon options available, early on we are required to train at least two different types of weapons. Remember WEAPONS are our PRIMARY skill-set this means you learn weapons faster than any other guild in the game. Take advantage and train em. Its also fun to try new things out from time to time. OK time to train our stats.