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Post by Pan Sun Mar 14, 2021 6:54 pm

Top Tips for New Seekers


1)  Use all of your stamina each day.  Stamina is your most precious resource: you get a certain amount each day, and anything not used before the daily reset is lost.

2)  Vote 3x each day to get all 3 rewards.  Go to your [Character] screen and look in the bottom right corner of the screen for the icon of a hand holding a voting slip.

3)  Eat food each day.  Go to your [Town], go into the Restaurant, and then into the Soup Kitchen, where you can get a free bread.  Being hungry at reset results in reduced stamina.

4)  Get your mood up to 1,000 at the end of each day; this will give you some additional stamina each day.  During your first week or two, completing tutorial quests will often give you a bonus to your mood.  However, after your Grail day is done, make sure you are at 1,000 mood before the day resets.  If you are at less than 1,000 you can get 5 mood per beer drunk in [The Grail Tavern].

5)  Contact the 30-day program about a journal and a bed.  The 30-day program helps new seekers with a journal and a bed, both of which will help increase your daily stamina.

Strategies to start your adventuring off right (click to expand):

The Tutorial Quests (click to expand):

Buying, Selling, and Trading in the Grail Economy (click to expand):

How to Earn Coin as a New Seeker (click to expand):

Leaving Town and Exploring the Grail Realms (click to expand):
 
Combat for New Seekers (click to expand):


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Revised Beginner's Guide - updated for 2022 Empty Part 1 - Strategies for Success

Post by Pan Fri Apr 29, 2022 11:15 am

1)  Start with the beginner's quests.  The beginner quests will be your best use of stamina.  In addition to introducing you to the basics of the game, the quest rewards are better than anything you could earn by just going out and working on your own.  See the section below for more detailed information on Tutorial Quests.

2)  Get yourself a journal, and max it out every day.  Every day that you wait to start using a journal will cost you approximately 97 stamina in the long run, so - don't wait!  You can write in your journal each day, using up to a maximum of 12 stamina, which increases your Learning skill by .12 points.  You get an extra stamina each day for each point you have in the Learning skill.  Over time, this adds up to a huge amount of stamina: just 1 extra point in Learning skill would give you an extra 365 stamina a year!  Since you can increase your Learning skill .12 each day by writing in your journal, that means you can increase the amount of stamina each day every 8.33 days, so don't put it off - at all!  Get a journal as quick as possible, and spend 12 stamina on it each day.  The quality of the journal does not matter.  A better quality journal will last longer, but you can worry about that once you have a little more coin in your pocket.  Many of the towns have programs to help new Seekers acquire both a journal and a bed, so be sure to ask your town leaders.  For now, just get a journal: any journal you can, as cheaply as you can, and fill it up every single day.  Trust me on this one: you will thank you later.

3)  Get yourself a grail-quality bed.  Beds give you additional stamina each reset that you spend in town with the bed equipped.  For a bed, quality matters: a cheap bed only gives you an extra 4 stamina each reset, while a grail bed gives you an extra 24 stamina each reset.  If somebody is willing to give you a bed for 1 bronze, go ahead and take it ... but your ultimate goal is the grail bed.  Many of the towns have programs to help new Seekers acquire both a journal and a bed, so be sure to ask your town leaders.  You also can get a used grail bed - it'll have fewer days left on it than a brand new one, but it will help you get thru until you can afford a new grail bed.

4)  Don’t start out trying to craft yourself a grail-level bed (or any other grail-level piece of equipment, for that matter).  The amount of stamina it will require from you as a beginning Seeker will probably take months in real life.  Most skills under the “Profession” tab on your skills page are more like expensive hobbies in this game: you won’t really generate any income from them, especially at the beginning with a low skill.  Once you have a steady stream of income, then you can join a guild and start seriously working on becoming a crafter.

5)  Buy things from the market as little as possible.  You can often get a much better price by talking to people in the [The Grail Tavern], and you really can't afford to waste coin at the beginning of your adventures.

6)  You have all day to spend your stamina, so don't rush.  Take your time, plan your day carefully, and take advantage of good paying jobs in the Labor Hall when they appear (which might be several hours after reset, it all depends on when people post the jobs).  Rushing to spend your stamina quickly will gain you nothing, but mistakes will cost you stamina and slow down your progress.  Learn from your mistakes ... you can always come back and do better tomorrow!


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Revised Beginner's Guide - updated for 2022 Empty Section 2 - The Tutorial Quests

Post by Pan Fri Apr 29, 2022 11:15 am

Note: The order listed in here is the recommended order of starting the tutorial quests.  Just begin the quest, work on it until you either complete it or you have to wait to proceed (like the next day), and then begin the next quest in the list.  Each day after reset, you can start back at the top of the list of quests and see which (unfinished) quests you can advance some more.  To get to your quest list: go to your Character page, click on the image of your Quest Book, and the list of quests will be displayed in the right-hand part of your screen.


Caution!  Some of the tutorial quests give you additional stamina as a reward for completing the quest.  Make sure you remember the #1 tip for new seekers: use all of your stamina each day!  One option is to do most of a quest that rewards stamina, but wait to turn in the final step, essentially 'saving' that extra stamina up so you can have a lot of extra stamina one day - this can be useful for some projects.


1)  [Bandalf's Quest I: The Tutorial] is a basic introduction to the game.  You can check out Halcyon's excellent guide here.  Caution! Completing this quest will give you 100 additional stamina.  
Spoiler - Rewards for Bandalf's Quest I:

2)  [The Scrawny Chicken] is an introduction to ranching.

3)  [The Ruined Farmer] is an introduction to farming.  For tips on 'What crop should I plant?' see the Farming discussion below in the section "How to earn coins as a new Seeker."

The order of beginner quests isn't critically important, but the order jump starts your ranching - which is probably the most profitable use of stamina for a beginning Seeker.  Following those three, you can just go down the list and knock out the others as quickly as you have stamina.  A couple of other useful notes about the beginner's quests:

4)  [Wanna's Quest I: Recognition], [A Taste For Games], and [Damatheus' Grail Community] quests all require no stamina, and have useful rewards.

5)  [Wanna's Quest II: Victory Starts Here] is an introduction to basic combat mechanics in the game.  Caution! Completing this quest will give you 100 additional stamina.
Spoiler - Rewards for Wanna's Quest II:

6)  [Wanna's Quest III: A Courier's Task] is required to leave the town gates.  Caution! Completing this quest will give you 100 additional stamina.
Spoiler - Rewards for Wanna's Quest III:

7)  [A Weight on your Shoulders] also requires you to leave town.
Spoiler - Rewards for A Weight on your Shoulders:

8: [Bandalf Quest II: Tool of Desire] requires you to be 10 days old to begin it, but you can skip right over it, work on quests below it, and come back to it when you are old enough.

9) [The Weathered Fisherman]
Quest Rewards:


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Revised Beginner's Guide - updated for 2022 Empty Part 3 - Buying, Selling, and Trading in the Grail Economy

Post by Pan Fri Apr 29, 2022 11:16 am

1)  The less coins you spend acquiring resources, the more coins you'll have.  Buying directly from other players will often get you a better price than buying from a stranger on the market.  Ask around in [The Grail Tavern] when you need a particular item.  Veteran Seekers can point you toward a reputable supplier, who might even be willing to give you a deal as a new Seeker.


2)  Trading item for item (such as one milk for one egg, or two eggs for one potato) is another way to save money.  Trading item for item (instead of paying coin for an item) will significantly reduce the town taxes you pay, which adds up over time.  Of course, this isn't an issue if your town doesn't charge taxes (each town sets their own tax rate).

3)  If you must purchase an item from the market, at least double check with other Seekers in [The Grail Tavern] to verify that the listed price is a reasonable one.  Often items just sit on the market for weeks because the price listed is higher than experienced players are willing to pay.


As wise old Frenjamin Banklin once remarked: "A bronze saved is a bronze earned."


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Revised Beginner's Guide - updated for 2022 Empty Section 4 - How to Earn Coin as a New Seeker

Post by Pan Fri Apr 29, 2022 11:17 am

1)  Ranching can earn you 4.7 bronze per stamina at animal skill 1
Pros:  Ranching your own animals is the most profitable thing a new Seeker can do.
Cons:  Ranching spots are limited, especially at first, so you will still need to find other things to do with your stamina.  Animals require feeding every day, making leaving town a little more difficult (though not impossible).
Caution!  Breeding animals for the town is NOT the same as ranching, even though it uses the same skills.  The section on breeding animals for the town is just under Farming, below.

Ranching Tips - Click to expand:


2)  Cooking can earn you 2.5 bronze per stamina at cooking skill 1
Pros:  Pays very well, even at skill 1.
Cons:  Requires interaction with other Seekers to truly maximize your earnings.
Cooking is quite possibly the best career choice for new Seekers: veteran Seekers are almost always willing to have young Seekers cook simple meals in return for coin or items.  The best way to make coin from cooking is to arrange a deal with another Seeker, player to player (in the tavern, or via letter).  You can cook meals and place them for sale in your town Restaurant, but that is a much more 'hit or miss' (i.e., unreliable) way to earn coin.
CookingTips - Click to expand:


3)  Wood Chopping can earn you about 2 bronze per stamina at skill 1
Pros:  Pays moderately well, even at skill 1.  Requires almost no interaction with other Seekers; wood commonly sells on the market for around 8b.  Every town has forests close enough that you can can chop wood and be back in town every reset.  The quality of your Wood Axe does not affect how much wood you chop. 
Cons:  You WILL lose life points (probably an average of around 5 life points most trips).  Requires a Wood Axe, which is moderately costly.  For Wood Chopping, you can only use stamina in multiples of 20 at a time (20, 40, 60, etc). 
Wood Chopping Tips - Click to expand:


4)  Farming can earn you roughly 0.8 to 1.2 bronze per stamina at skill 1 (this various widely from town to town, more so than other skills discussed here)
Pros:  Meh, it pays something.  Requires almost no interaction with other Seekers.  Virtually never run out of work as a farmer.
Cons:  At skill 1, a unit of farming is 40 stamina - you will often be able to do just 1 or 2 units per day, initially at least.
Farming is a slower, but still reliable way to earn coin.  It is also possibly the most solitary path for a new Seeker, if you wish to limit your interactions with other players.  You can farm your own farms, and you can have as many fields as you are willing to cultivate (each one gets harder to cultivate, so only plan on having two fields at first, or maybe three fields if you focus on farming).  You can almost always earn coin by looking in the Town Labor Hall and working on other Seekers farms.  Farming is a slower path to character advancement than some careers, partly because it involves several distinct skills (the Laborer, Ploughing, Sowing, Harvesting, and Farming skills all play a part).
Farming Tips - Click to expand:

5)  Breeding Animal for town
pays about 0.5 bronze per stamina at skill 1 (depending on the town, and the animal).  Now, after you spend about ~6000 (roughly one year of doing nothing but breeding a single type of animal all day, every single day) and get an animal skill raised to 50+, then you can start making some decent coin for breeding animals ... about 2.0-2.5 bronze per stamina (again: depending on the town, and the animal).


6)  Crafting skills (alchemy, blacksmith, carpentry, and tailoring) are generally less profitable for a new Seeker, though not impossible if that's what you really want to do.  These crafting skills better serve as 'hobbies' for a Seeker, once you already have a reliable income in the game.  Other "expensive hobbies" in this game include: making cheese, making bread, and milling. 


(editor's note: more career options coming as info is provided.  Mining?  Please send me a letter if you have suggestions/info)


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Revised Beginner's Guide - updated for 2022 Empty Reserved - Leaving town and exploring the realms

Post by Pan Fri Apr 29, 2022 11:19 am

Note: You'll have to at least begin the quest [Wanna’s Quest III: A Courier’s Task] (see section 3, Tutorial Quests, above) before you can leave the town gates.  

1)  BEFORE you leave town:  
     ● Pay your town taxes - it's hard to advance your skills while the town guards have you locked up.  
     ● Ride a horse instead of walking.  Ask around in [The Grail Tavern] and see if you can catch a ride with another player who has a horse, this will save you lots of stamina compared to walking.  
     ● Have bread on your table at home, one for each day that you will be gone (bread magically follows you on the road, everything else needs to be in your backpack, or on your person).  You can't bring any other food while traveling, and going hungry is bad for your stats.  
     ● Hire any [followers] you will need, since you must be in town to hire them.  [The Pathfinder] saves you stamina while walking and costs only 20b; the stamina saved is worth it for almost any trip you will be walking as a beginner (unless you are only going a few steps outside of town, and then back to town).  If you are going fishing, wood cutting, mining, etc ... there's a follower for that, and hiring them is well worth the benefit.  
     ● Make sure that any tools you will need are equipped.  You cannot equip tools once you are outside of town.  Almost every Seeker has done the 'walk of shame' at some point: walking back to town after they forgot to prepare properly before leaving town.  
     ● Bring the right things with you.  Anything you don't need, take it out of your backpack - leave yourself room to bring back things you collect on your travels.  Extra things you should bring, in case you run into certain random encounters on the road: 40 bronze, a piece of meat, and make sure you have a few extra pieces of bread on your table at home.  Finally, double check to make sure you have all the goods you need to accomplish the purpose of your trip.  See comment above regarding the 'walk of shame.'  
     ● Equip the right weapons and armor before heading out.  For us beginners, that pretty much means equip everything you can get your hands on.  If you can get a piece or two of cheap armor from somebody in town, that can significantly help your performance in combat.  A little armor goes a long way, at our level.  Perhaps the best piece of armor for a beginner is [Fur Boots] because they help you conserve stamina while walking.  As with most things: simply asking in [The Grail Tavern] can be of great help.  
     ● Feed your animals, and hire [Porkard] to feed your animal if you will be gone more than one reset.  If you are away for one reset: you can feed animals now, and then feed them the next day upon return - if leave yourself the stamina to do so when you get back!  
     ● Make sure you have enough stamina to get wherever you're going in one day.  While it is entirely possible to spend reset outside of town, it will result in less stamina the next day because you won't have access to your bed.  If you're not sure how much stamina that will take, as always: ask in [The Grail Tavern].  

2)  While outside of town:  
     ● You should be catching rides for most trips as a beginner, but you will have to walk by yourself the first time you go out of town for [Wanna's Quest III: A Courier's Task].  Make sure you keep an eye on the world map, so you don't get lost.  Also, there is a forum discussion here showing which routes are shortest between certain points.  It doesn't cover all possible routes you might need, but reviewing it will give you a good idea of what kind of route you should look for.  
     ● When riding with another player, make sure you have enough stamina to get to your destination.  While riding will reduce the stamina cost, it won't eliminate it.  When riding with somebody, you spend the same stamina for movement as the rider does.  In other words, how much stamina you spend depends on their Riding skill.  Most riders have a good idea of how much stamina it will take them to get to a location, if they travel it frequently.  If you are riding with somebody and run out of stamina, they have two choices: carry you (by paying extra stamina), or kick you out of the group and leave you at that spot.  Make sure you have enough stamina for the trip ... if you're not sure, ask for an estimate on how much stamina the trip will require.


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Revised Beginner's Guide - updated for 2022 Empty Section 6 - Combat for new seekers

Post by Pan Fri Apr 29, 2022 11:20 am

Note: The quest [Wanna’s Quest II: Victory Begins Here] (see the section above on Tutorial Quests) will give you the basics of combat in the Grail Realms.  Below you will find practical information if you want to get better at combat.  

1)  Framer Ted's excellent forum post: Beginner's Tip For Combat  

2)  Cpt Coot's excellent forum post: Guide to Combat Events  (the two main combat events each year are the spring event in March, and the Halloween event in October)[/spoiler]


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Revised Beginner's Guide - updated for 2022 Empty Section 7 - Reserved for future additions

Post by Pan Fri Apr 29, 2022 11:26 am

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