Well I didn't play for long last night but I did get a couple of hours in. One of the things I noticed was that my Enfeeblement (or whatever it's called...) skill was at 1/3 of what it should be. It was at 12 and should have been at 36. That explains why things weren't staying bound. Last night I was able to get it up to 17 using the following spell cycle. Bind, Poison, Aero, Water, Stone. This killed most mobs and the ones it didn't kill I would melee to death and if poison wore off I repoisoned. So if there are any other newbies who are reading my posts. You might want to start from level 3 when you get poison and use it in every fight. It might make leveling slower as you'll use more mana but at least when you get surprised by a mob sneaking up on you, you'll have a better chance of binding him so you can run away. Not to mention when you get in a PT and start fighting mobs that aren't Easy Prey the PT will love you if you can Bind a melee add.
Another suggestion I have is make sure Manafont is on a macro, the one time I died last night was because this big ugly goblin spawned behind me just as I started resting. I was at 2 mana or something like that. I frantically browsed for manafont then tried to cast bind at a time just before he was going to hit me and died a few seconds later while waiting for my casting timer to cool off. Had I had Manafont on macro I would have been able to pay more attention to the goblins attacks and perhaps timed bind at a better time that would have allowed me to run away.
Since I'm giving advice I might as well keep going... Hopefully newbies will actually read this post. Worst case people can respond and let me know whether I have the right idea or not. Anyhow, one more piece of advice before I get to questions. As you pick up items run the items through the search on this site. That way you can find out what quests that item is used for and what skills use it as well. That way you can decide whether you should keep the item, sell it on AH or turn it in for a quest.
I only have a couple questions today since I didn't play for too long and didn't do anything new. First is, are my above suggestions good? Secondly, can I get some more information about PVP. So far I saw you have to have a pass to do it. What else is there to PVP, any incentives to do it?
Thanks,
Twadd
Edited, Dec 12th 2007 9:50am by Twadd