Greetings,

I just started playing Lusternia a few days ago, got bored of WoW and decided to go back to my roots for awhile. I started playing Distant Lands before I ever played a 3d MMO. Anyway, I'm enjoying Lusternia, it's very fun and a 100x more complex then the old mud I played. I'm a Trill and member of the Paladins guild, my name is Merikel. So, to the questions.

1. What kind of underclothing can I wear while using some leather armor (Vest, Bracers, Cap and Leggings). I don't relish walking around "Essentially Naked".

2. What skills should I focus on for the moment? I'm trying to make myself be a Divine Caster/Melee Warrior like the Paladin class in the previous mud I played. Here are my skills and their ranks. I know it probably won't come out evenly.

Common Skills Rank Pool
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Combat Capable Melee
Resilience Apprentice Fitness
Discernment Inept Intellect
Magic Inept Arcana
Planar Inept Mysticism
Discipline Inept Willpower
Environment Inept Communion
Influence Inept Magnetism
Riding Inept Magnetism
Arts Inept Finearts
Highmagic Apprentice Arcana

Trade Skills Rank Pool
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Forging Apprentice Melee

Guild Skills Rank Pool
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Knighthood Adept Melee
Athletics Apprentice Fitness
Rituals Apprentice Arcana

3. I've reached level 20, and I'm incredibly tired of fighting Gnomes/Finks on top of the Smoke Mountain. Are there any other places I can hunt.

4. Are there ways to find out the Statistics of a weapon or piece of armor before I forge it? Can I get commodities in other ways besides buying from a commodities merchant? At what level of Forging can I turn items into their components?

5. Any other general tips or pointers would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Merikel, of the Armies of Light.

~4 or so lessons into combat gets you weaponprobe, to see stats on weapon and armour.
After 20 you can try doing rockeaters and stuff in the Oleanvir Valley just outside of Celest. I believe their are some cityhelps on hunting and your guild might have some, CHELP INDEX and GHELPINDEX to see the lists.
Tips and Pointers...hmm...if your wanting to pvp you might get told to change from Trill to something a bit faster/tankier. For the most part there are alot of useful skills that are rather low in skillsets most people gunfor...namely
-Yesod in Highmagic to be invisable
-Potionlist in Discernment to see all your vials at once,what is in them,how much time is left, etc etc.
*General Rule: Discernment is just useful all the way around*
-Satiation in Disciple to make eating last longer
-Teleport or Astral in Planar so you can teleport to people and the nexus and so you can survive on the astral plane for some latter on high level hunting and pk.
love-mimi

Thx for the info Simimi. I have weaponprobe but will it allow me to see properties on the item before I make it?

Also, two questions I forgot to ask in the original post. Is there mail system? If so can I mail between characters?

Is there a website, that lists the breakdown for all skills, like you get for AB , and list of what each does like the AB ?

Thx again

No, as to my knowledge you can not see the stats of something you would, in theory, forge in the future...being able to do so would just kill forging as a craft/skill, no?
You can message playername blahblahblah to send them an aethermessage which is like email, it goes into their "messages" box, or you can actually go to the post office and get a letter and write on it and put stuff in it and mail it to them.
Not sure if there is a website for that as the divinites kind of discourage it but some basic skilllists can be found on the Luster-Wiki see
lusternia.com>library>player resources and forums>lusterwiki
love-mimi

as far as the whole paladin/healer/caster thing goes, they don't work like that here.

Firstly they don't heal, secondly they don't really have much to cast except a few useful skills in sacraments. You will basically be a warrior first, with sacraments as a nice little back up

1) Stats of forged items are random within a certain range. So no you cannot predict how an item will turn out before you even forge it! However, the higher your skill in forging the better weapons and armour you will be able to produce. So for the beginning I'd suggest hiring a trans forger to make you some nice weapons or armour. Also, ask around what are considered 'good stats' and with which weapons/armour you'd best start off.

2) As Simimi said, you can messge text to other players or send them a letter (funny part is that things as big as greatswords fit into it ) HOWEVER there are strict rules on muliplaying and second characters, so I'd suggest you read through them first. Unlike WoW mailing gear between two of your chars here is not allowed.

3)Guilds can maintain the lists of the guild skills if that's what you want. So maybe try asking around for those.

You can't wear underclothes under armor. Last time I checked, unwear is worn OVER armor , a small bug that hasn't been fixed yet, mostly because most people don't care much about it. You can, however, wear coats and cloaks over armor. Jewelry will also help how fully dressed you appear and how opulent you look.

There is a mail system. Go to a post office, REQUEST LETTER which costs 100 gold, write in the letter at a desk, then go to the post office again and MAIL LETTER TO (player). You can also PUT (thing) IN (letter) before mailing it to mail items. And there are MSGs as other said - letters are more formal and IC, messages are more informal and often used for OOC communciation for those who don't like speaking OOC in tells.

Skills? You really want Diagnose in Discernment (16 total lessons in) to tell what's wrong with you, Rift in Planar (23 total lessons in) to store herbs and commodities which will otherwise fall to the ground when you log out, Teleport in Planar (89 total lessons in) which lets you get home quickly from anywhere, Clotting in Discipline (7 total lessons in) to heal bleeding damage faster, Insomnia (16 total lessons in) to defend against things that put you to sleep (like Dreamleeches), and most importantly, Knighthood to Master asap. Of course, you have to graduate from novicehood for that.

Hunting grounds? At your level, stoats in the Grey Moors, rockeaters in the mountains, seagulls in the toronada tidal flats, sand cobras in the skarsh. For the last two of those, be sure to bring health potion - to cure blindness (caused by cobras) or deafness (caused by seagulls), you can APPLY HEALTH TO HEAD.

I really recommend doing some quests at your level though, especially the Celest Supplicants quest. You can ask your city about it, but it gives a LOT of experience at low levels, over 150% at level 20 for a full set of 10 supplicants, which I could do in about five minutes. Pilgrims and scholars are apparently good too for experience, as are other quests, especially non-Newton honors quests, if you can figure them out and if they are doable at the present (if it's reset and noone has started doing it yet).

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