Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Tips for Newbies

This is a 2018 compilation of tips for a strong start in DotD. It is mostly focused on things that are not obvious or relativly new. I do not intend to re-write basic guides which were already written five times.
For more detailed information how the game works, and some "what-is-what" / glossary, see this 2016 guide on the official DotD forum: Guide for new players, which I recommend reading as well.

If you have additional questions, or don't get something explained here, please go ahead and ask your fellow guild members, they'll do their best to help *^_^*
For feedback PN tam_tamashii.


A) Use all your SP during the first few levels to increase energy.

Later, some hours after doing C), you'll have enough SP to increase all your stats. More about this further down.

B) Join an active, private guild

The Wayfinders guild is an active, private guild. so ... Grats^^ You already did this one!

C) Tag raids and campaigns

To tag usually means to do one hit with one honor or one stamina or one energy and not care how much damage you did. There's a number of raids giving out loot or other nice stuff for only 1 damage. You will take up one spot of the max. participants of the raid, as soon as you do any damage. For most raids that's not a problem, but some small (white) and medium (yellow) raids tend to actually reach the maximum participants. Keep an eye on it.

C.I) Tag all* guild raids. In the Wayfinders, everyone can summon all raids. Most of us think it's annoying to summon guild raids, so if no raids are summoned, ppl probably were lazy. Be a nice fellow and summon a few raids for us! Stay away from the bottom most ones though, approximatly the last 10.
(*Whitepelts, Collector, Unholy Rite, Dreadmaw, Xax'zisz and Elite Devourer won't give you anything for tagging, so you can skip these)

Also find the shield hanging to the left in the guild room, join all campaigns and tag all* active nodes. This will give you lots of reputation and some loot when the campaign is completed, as well as lots of AP. Having higher reputation will increase the amount of loot you get in the end of a campaign and unlock the guild shop.
(*BHH, CC and IH non-golden nodes don't yield any reward for less then 100m damage, however better be save then sorry and tag every node for now)


C.II) At the time of writing the best public raids to tag are Qwyngyl, Craenaestra, Terracles Beetle, Void Queen, Clockwork Destroyer, Echo Raider, Firecracker Golem, Yule Workshop, and least of them Underworlds as well as Infernal Skeletons.
When you're a returning player or after you aquired some strenght, you can also hit Gloom Colossus for 500m. Be mindful that this is a tier, not a tag, so you will get 0 SP if you do only 499m to any Gloom.
Ask in guild chat whether there's any newer raid then Infernal Skeleton you should also tag. You can use search tags with the or sign | like r(ae|ra|ec|ai|w|na)|oid|c\.|ks|gy to find and join them all.

D) Quest. A lot.

Mostly you wanna progress through the zones with whole numbers. Only change the difficulty if required or you need to farm for items (these drop best on L or NM). Usually finish only Normal for now, then move to the next zone.
Along the way, you should find the quest zone Dahrizon asap and complete it on NM (Nightmare), then farm the General Dahrizon from it.
You will want to pick up The Winter Warlord and Dokthannon when the respective zones become available.

E) Inquire whether there's currently a PC legion on sale, which is worth bying

Legion damage is the lion's share of your overall damage. Often the newest set on sale includes a golden legion for 10 PC. In November/Dezember 2018 this is the Charred March legion, but the sets get replaced every 2-3 months and sometimes do not have any legion. Do not buy any brown legion for PC, those are really, really, seriously weak.
You can craft Spirit Walkers after you looted a few Firecrackers, if you want a special versus Magical Beings legion. You may also tag a few Shackled Spirits to craft Gourdageddon, a vs. Undead legion. Stop tagging this raid after you crafted the item.

In general, do NOT spend PC without advice from guild members or another reliable long-term player. Keep your PC and save them for a nice one week only premium.

F) Install scripts

You can of course just play the game, but to look up essential information and have a nicer game experience, I strongly recommend getting a user script manager and fetching mutiks raid catcher and the Inline Tier Charts.
  1. User script manager of choice currently is Tampermonkey, search your browsers add-on section.
  2. https://github.com/mutik/drmng
  3. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/12484-new-inline-tier-charts

G) Log in daily

There's great rewards in the daily login chests. Some gens and currently the best free gear set available.



More about Stats

To progress fast in the game, you want to be able to autolevel.
If you read this guide before reaching lvl 100, you have the luxary of adding lots of energy and stamina after doing C.II)
I recommend getting 3k-4k energy and 1k-1.3k stamina. Until lvl 100 your LSI is capped at 60, while from lvl 101 onwards, the limit is 7.
If you're already lvl 101+, keep your LSI/energy/stam at the maximum.

Health: The most common concept is to get more health then you spend in one level. Resulting in zero gold spend for healing at all, as you heal by level up. About 5k is a good amount to start of. If at any time you run out of heath, you can spend SP to immediatly gain the added HP.

Attack/Defense/Perception: Get 16k attack before raising def, ignore perc. The main use for perc is extra drops. Don't loose your head over stat allocation as long as you keep ene+stam maxed.

More about raids

Always summon your raids on NM to get AP.
Hit your raids before sharing them. For most other players a billion damage is one attack, so these die instantly. Sort the public raid list by "Health max" and have a look at our guild's shared raids, if you need to burn some stamina. You can always ask us to share you this or that raid, and maybe we will ~_^
Stay away from anything "Elite" or "Deadly". Do not add any magic to any public raid. Unless you bought some magic for PC, the magic you have are sh.... ...weak. Let others add magic until you aquired some good ones. You can freely add magic to guild raids, as everyone has the right to remove any magic from our guild raids.

Some raids have a cyan border. It indicates a stats swap, a different damage formular. All none stat swap raids use 4xatt+1xdef+legion, in the cyan raids the used stats are indicated in the top right.

You also might notice some raids with a cyan-bordered magic slot. That is an extra magic slot added by the premium general Grimoire.

If you need a specific low HP raid, eg. Kerberos, for one of it's drops, do not ask for it to be shared in public. You probably won't make the hit before it's dead. Best ask in our guilds' kongregate chat first, then in the in-game guild chat in the guild room. If you ask in WC, ask for it to be whispered via kongregate chat, and post your kongregate username alongside the request. If you have mutiks script, in the chat tab next to the game a clickable link will appear when you get a whispered raid.

More about crafting

Hopefully you already know that most of the stuff you get in the game, can be crafted into SP in the Craft/Stats tab. Some things can also be crafted into other items.
After getting some end loot of the DC camp, you should craft a few Devouted Spearmans. They are as of November 2018 the best free troops in the game.
From lvl 300 onward, you get daily assignment tokens for your three daily tasks. If you have high LSI from before lvl 100, in Craft/Misk first craft the generals Vrak'aul the Spirit Binder II, Samara the Dutiful II, Commander Bellghast II, then the Felpur unique troop. If struggling with autoleveling, consider the Wild Warden set first, then Vrak'aul the Spirit Binder II. AND Vrak'aul the Spirit Binder. When upgrading the Warden Set later on, go directly from Wild to Worthy. All pieces in one go cost 69 tokens to upgrade.

More about Achievements

Focus most of your gaming on getting AP.
Why? Well, of course you can spend AP for whatever you want to buy, but most likely the thing you want is lots of King's Bounty bags, as a means to free PC.

One of the minor things you can get AP for is your Army, which is also your friend list. Therefor some players might send you an army request, which you can accept in the "Flag"/Army tab of WC (World Chat).

More about gear

Don't fuss too much over character gear for the first few weeks. Just use what you get. Most influencial is your mount. For starters you can get SotWW. It's a mediocre mount, but it's easy to get. Let gay or tamashii or our guild chat know that you need it and we will set one up.

Gear in the legion ONLY provides its "proc" (programmed random occurrence), that is anything saying "increased critical hit chance" or "chance to deal extra damage", not its stats, not its bonus energy/stam/honor. It's possible to use a gear item both on your character as well as on your commander / in your legion, but you need to have two pieces of that item. If you own only one piece of gear, placing it in both your legion and on your character is the same as placing it only on your character and leaving the legion empty. So if you're a returning player and got an Abyssal Illusion Squid as a welcome back gift, you still need another decent mount for your legion, eg. SotWW.

Some of your first good stuffs will come from camps end loot, so take C.I) to heart.

Don't try to get rid of gear you don't need any more. This game is collection based. You will soon discover that a lot of items are boosted by owning more other or same items. The ability to be boosted without limitation, eg. by 8 attack per owned main hand weapon, is what makes a general strong in the long run. "for each Mainhand item owned" type of boosts count only the types of items - owning one, two, three, ten or a hundred Song Blades counts as one item - and also counts items you once had but crafted into something else and now own zero copies of***. Get used to using the searching and sorting options provided for your inventory as well as most other areas of the game to find items, raids, crafts.

More about Events

The best items are of course always the newest PC items. Apart from that your best weapons, armor, mounts, generals, troops, armaments, legions (in short: your best items) will come from
EVENTS!

To find out about current and future events:
- have a look at the Home tab
- read weekly Patch nodes on friday noon PST, which is 19:00 or 20:00 server time
- read Monthly SotG (State of the Game), published during first week of each month

It's usually worth focusing a lot of your ressources on an event, but it depends on the specific rewards.

More about Free Generals

I wanna list here a very few items, mostly generals, that might be worth focusing on, or that one may find later then the time these can be aquired.



ressources:


THE DotD Wikia

Insurgis neat tier table

mutiks extensive tier sheets: older raids + BoB-NMQ camps, newer raids + RT-DC camps

Tier sheet for Inline Tier charts

Gear Procs tables

Log analyser green-dragon.systems/form


really random things


If you have a very old account, you probably do not have the Beginners Chest every player gets when reaching level 8. Let the support know and they'll add it to your inventory: http://support.5thplanetgames.com/contactus.php

Looted consumable do not show up in the inventory until the game is reloaded. Eg. if you loot some heavy stat bags from Vathik, you have to reload the game to open them for SP.

Looted buffs, incl. passive abilities of gens like Dahrizon, take effect only after reloading the game.

Buffs do not expire until the game is reloaded as well.

*** essences you don't have any more do not count for buffing other items

On-hit drops usually don't scale, so normally a 1-stam hit has the same chance of a drop as a 20-stam hit for most raids/items. But WR on-hit drops scale! So always do 5x20 on WRs.
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