Starting from Scratch
People sometimes accuse me of not knowing what the new guy starting out or recently (and completely) broke guy has to go through to start over. While the fruits of my labors have paid off and I am considered "Rich", I do know what is required and the pains people go through.
Some time ago, I got bored and stopped playing RotMG for awhile. After a bit of time I started a new character from scratch and had a good time doing it. Yes, it was difficult and a bit painful but it was a blast.
Now, I am doing it again because we have pets with abilities and so many people are having trouble. I wanted to come up with a strategy to help people become an effective players fairly quickly. When I say quickly, its all relative, this will take many days or even weeks depending on how often you play and your playing style.
If you already have a pet and don't need my pet advice then scroll down to the section Got the Pet to level 30 now what?
Things to consider before you are starting out
Future Pet Challenge you need to think about right now
The Plan to overcome our challenges
First challenge, the easy one, which character to use. If you are a new player then we go with the Wizard. This class is a most excellent one. Probably the best class to farm pots. Remember, we are going to be looking for pots to buy feed items for our pets. Perhaps also a few items for equipment. If you have played with other classes and have a favorite use that one. I will be talking about the Wizard in this guide.
Got the Pet to level 30 now what?
Pets change the way you should farm and pot your main character, or at least the way I now farm.
Some time ago, I got bored and stopped playing RotMG for awhile. After a bit of time I started a new character from scratch and had a good time doing it. Yes, it was difficult and a bit painful but it was a blast.
Now, I am doing it again because we have pets with abilities and so many people are having trouble. I wanted to come up with a strategy to help people become an effective players fairly quickly. When I say quickly, its all relative, this will take many days or even weeks depending on how often you play and your playing style.
If you already have a pet and don't need my pet advice then scroll down to the section Got the Pet to level 30 now what?
Things to consider before you are starting out
- If you have played the game then you may know about pets, if not please read my pet page Pets - Our Guardian Angels as there is a lot of information there. Pets are very important in this game now. With the right pet you can heal yourself, you can restore your MANA and there are a few other abilities to select from. In my opinion the 2 most important pet abilities are Heal and MP Heal and that is the order that your pet should have them. Read about pets on my pet page and you will understand why.
- You should decide what Pet abilities you want and then either trade for eggs or find the eggs.
- I am going to find Heal, MP Heal and Paralyze or Decoy. The 3rd ability is not that important and I may settle for something else if I can't find it.
- I currently don't care what family of pet I will end up with but you may. I plan to open every egg I get to find the one that does what I need. If you want a particular family of pet it may take you longer to find it.
- Raising a pet to be useful is going to cost you fame or Gold as well as feed items. On my Bluenoser account I have spent money already to enhance the account be it dyes, backpacks, character slots or extra chests so I am going to play this new account without spending Gold. If you want to spend real money on Gold to raise your pet that is your choice.
- I will use fame to raise my pet. Now I have decided on the Pets abilities I have to get fame to spend and eventually feed items.
- To raise our pets we need fame. A new character account has zero fame.
- To feed our pets we need feed items. Any item you get from a bag is essentially pet food, BUT, we want to maximize Fame to Feed the pets and have the pet level up as fast as possible. I plan to feed items that have at least 200 feed power. This again is a challenge.
- To max my common pet's first ability it will take 2080 feed power, the feeding cost for a Common Pet is 10 Fame.
- To max the pets first ability at 2080 feed power using items that are 200 feed power or better, it will take at least 10 items and 10 fame per item which will be about 100 fame.
- To feed my pets this I will attempt to find items in God Lands and trade for items using the Realmeye.com trading area. See my page on Trading, Buying and Selling.
- In order to trade I need stat pots. Damn, this is a vicious circle we have here. No Fame, unpotted character, pet level 1 or very low, no pots to trade for items, can barely survive in God lands. I have just summed up all the main problems we have starting out.
Future Pet Challenge you need to think about right now
- If you are starting out in this game you have to remember that you only have one character slot. This will pose a challenge to your future pet upgrades.
- How you ask? Glad you asked, now for the scary answer .... If you have no fame then you can't upgrade your pet without your character dying. For this reason only, think about purchasing with gold at least one other character slot. There are bundled packages from time to time that will have a slot and perhaps some chests together which is usually a good deal.
- Upgrading your pet to uncommon, rare or anything else gets really expensive using fame. We must plan for it.
- For this guide I plan to upgrade my pet to Uncommon and max its second abilities over time.
- To make an uncommon pet you need 2 common pets at their max level. See my page Pets - Our Guardian Angels for more information.
- If we feed the pets items that are at least 200 feed power then it will take us 200 fame to make 2 common pets that are maxed to level 30.
- Now to fuse these 2 pets together to make an uncommon pet it will cost 300 fame and our pet yard has to be upgraded which costs 500 fame. This means we need a total of 1000 fame just to get to the base level of an uncommon pet.
- The second common pet we are going to max has to be of the same family but its abilities do not matter, only the first pet's abilities matter as stated above.
The Plan to overcome our challenges
First challenge, the easy one, which character to use. If you are a new player then we go with the Wizard. This class is a most excellent one. Probably the best class to farm pots. Remember, we are going to be looking for pots to buy feed items for our pets. Perhaps also a few items for equipment. If you have played with other classes and have a favorite use that one. I will be talking about the Wizard in this guide.
- First thing is to get the Wizard to Level 20. Some advice can be found on the page Tips, Tricks, Combat and other stuff if you are new to RotMG.
- Once at level 20 we have only 2 choices, farm for Pots or farm fame for the pet.
- I want a pet that can help me farm for pots and survive better as I farm, so I will farm fame first. Head to EUWest2, EUNorth, AsiaEast or any other server that runs Fame Trains. Depending on the time of day you are playing, these servers may not be very busy. If that is the case just find a busy server and go there. You may not find a fame train, but just get in with a group of people that are fighting in Godlands.
- Your Level 20 Wizard should stay between the middle and front of the train but not at the front and try not to fall behind. You will pick up lots of fame fairly quickly if you are in a good Fame Train. You many even pick up some Pots and other good items along the way. For more information see my page on Fame Farming for options on farming fame.
- While in the fame train watch your health, if it gets low then nexus. Always make sure you have HP Pots which can be found at the beach or the /Tutorial. See my Basic Game Information page on using special chat commands.
- If you are in a Fame train and you are lagging (rubber banding) then you should consider fame farming on a train when you are not lagging. When rubber banding you may end up in the middle of a bunch of gods and die, its best to find another server at this time.
- Lets try for at least 200 fame, i will probably go for 300 which will give a bit of buffer for feeding 2 pets as discussed above.
- I bet you have died a few times by now which has added to your account fame. Don't sweat the dying, this game is all about dying and trying to survive. Everyone dies ... over and over again.
- Once you have at least 200 fame, now switch to farming Godlands. Check out my Farming Guide when you are ready to farm for pots.
- Trust me you are going to die many times now. Farming in Godlands is easy and hard depending on the number of gods around you. Fight in groups if at all possible, there is some safety in numbers. Like I said, don't worry about death, just restart, level up and keep farming.
- This is the long part now, farming pots for your pets and looking for eggs to make a pet. Some days the eggs drop easy and some days not so easy, perseverance is required when farming.
- Most eggs can be traded for a DEX or 2 in the Realmeye trading section.
- For every stat pot you get, you can look on Realmeye.com and see if you can find an item being offered for the price of the stat pot you have that is at least 200 feed power or better. Buy that item if the person is online and feed it to your pet. If you have decided on a family then setup your own offers on buying eggs for that family as well.
- At some point as your pet starts to become effective at healing you, you might want to equip some better items to help your character out.
Got the Pet to level 30 now what?
Pets change the way you should farm and pot your main character, or at least the way I now farm.
- You need to make some mules for pot storage.
- As you are farming Godlands store pots in the vault and on mules.
- Please check out Pot your DEF damn it
- This game isn't easy to get rich in but once you get the basics outlined here and keep following them, riches will follow. See my page The Trick to Getting Rich..
- Don't forget to keep maxing your pets!!!!!!