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If you wish to be an Abjurer instead of necro, please
read through to the bottom of this page before creating your character.
NB: These pages
are written to aid a true level 1, 0 hour old newbie who has just entered
ZombieMUD for the first time in learning the initial steps to a successful
Zombie experience.
Before choosing Necromancer as your guild, you must first select a race. Suitable
races for a newbie Necro include, but are not limited to: Sprite, Elf, Thrikhren, Satyr (No Infra), Duck (No Infra). Be sure to type 'help race <racename>' when choosing to see all the plusses and minuses of each race.
As a newbie necromancer guild member, you gain some bonuses
to spell: raise dead. (50%) |
When you log in, you will begin at the
Church of All Gods. The first thing should do as a new player is get
acquainted with ZombieMud's resident protector of newbies, Buju. He
spends his days waiting patiently one east of the Church, and has much
to offer you during your travels. Type 'e' and go visit him now, and
he will give you a gift. Good commands to try in his presence are:
look at stone, say help, say transport, say portal
The next thing you need to do is gain a few levels with the
free experience you have been given.
You must advance in two places for each level you gain. You must go to
the Adventurers Guild and type advance to raise your 'character level'
and then on to the Necro Guild to advance your 'guild level' or 'glevel'.
To
do this and quickly get to level 6 from Buju, type
the following:
e, s, 5 advance, n, w, transport necromancer, 5 advance
As you can see, you have just utilized Buju's power to transport you
directly to your guildhall. He will gladly provide you with this service until
you have reached level 45. He will give you the black teleport stone
up to a maximum worth of 15m exp total, so be sure to visit him
each login for a new stone.
Now that you have a few levels, it's time to advance your knowledge in
skills and spells. If you've followed the information so far, you should
be standing in the Necro Guild,
if
not then use Buju to go there
now. To see what abilities are available to you, try your hand at the
following commands: score, info, sinfo 6 (or whatever your level
is), list spells, list spells all, list skills, list skills all
Now lets get a spell. Of course, everyone must start out small. The
more experience you gain, the better your spells will become. As you
can see, you have begun the game with 30% raise dead. This spell will
help you to summon a necromancer's servant, but first you'll need the
key servant ingreedient of one fresh corpse. To get that corpse, we're
going to get the attack spell 'magic missile'. Try typing these commands
to see what they
do:
10 study magic missile, spells, help spell magic missile
train essence eye, skills, help skill essence eye
You may not be
able to get all you try for due to lack of cash. No worries, that
will soon be remedied, as we go now to kill your first monster and create a servant. To get
to the newbie killing fields from the Necro Guild you can either use the stone
that Buju has given to you by typing: summon, y, (wait), portal, read plate, hero_candidate, equip, enter
Or you can explore a bit of the city, leaving the Necro guild through the mausoleum and out of the graveyard (beware of the undead!), walking
to Buju's location east of che church and
then requesting that he give you a 'portal', equipping, and entering the area.
Within these few rooms should be a few very simple monsters such as
frogs and polar bears. Wander around a bit and get your bearings so
that you can be ready to run if things go wrong. As a one-time preparation
to fight, you will want to type these commands: brief, wimpy 30, sc
on
To begin a battle, simply cast your spell at a helpless
frog (or any other animal). You will need to target the animal by typing
this: cast magic missile at frog
try very slow
The 'try very slow' bit will boost your chances at the spell's success
on the first cast. As you probably assumed, this slows down the speed
of the spell drastically. During the fight you will wish to continue
casting the spell simply by typing: cast magic missile
Hopefully all goes well and your poor frog is now living in mud heaven,
but you're not quite finished with him yet. In order to enslave this minion
into your horde, you need to have full spell points and type this:
cast raise dead at corpse make monk try very slow
And then you wait... and wait... it's a long spell, so sit back and
cross your fingers. Once you manage this, you won't have to do it again
untill your next login, and by then you'll be a more adept necro, and
things will go easier.
Did it work? Great! (If not, have no fear, simply tick back your spell
points and try again.) Look at your servant and you should see the command
'scom'. Typing 'scom' will give you a list of commands you may issue
to your servant. As a one time setup, be sure to type there key commands:
scom follow, scom combatskill fast blow, scom report
Now your servant will do the battling for you. Just type 'scom kill
frog' (or any other poor beast in that area) and the battle will begin.
Servant's kill well, and far faster than your average newbie could,
but they also leech a portion of your exp away.
Don't forget to be looting your kills of gold by typing 'loot', and
also be sure to give them a proper burial by typing 'dg'.
Type 'score' or 'exp' to see how much you have gained. Also, feel free
to type 'pc newbie' to create a party for yourself, and then 'ps',
and 'pk' to see your status.
Don't forget to turn on the necromancer channel by typing 'on necro'. The command 'last necro' will replay the last 20 messages sent to this channel.
Scamper around in this area killing critters untill you have gathered
a nice sum of experience and cash, then head back to the necromancer
guild to up your spell percents and level.
If you are ever lost at this point, simply use Buju's stone to return to familiar ground. Use
this time wisely to explore the world around you so that you can easily
walk it on your own when the time comes.
Good spells to study when you can are...
- Summon Servant: If you happen to misplace the poor minion, this will summon him back to your side to fight again.
- Recall Undead: If you quit the game, or your servant happens to forget you for other reasons ('Your servant does not recall you!') then this spell will refresh its memory.
- Cure Undead: Will heal an undead minion, should it become hurt.
Good skills to train when you can are...
- Essence eye: Allows you to see exactly when a spell will be cast.
- Quick Chant: Increases the speed of your casting.
For further information on the Necro guild, be sure to visit Rakzath's Necromancer Vault.
Don't want to control a horde of NPC's and up to the challenge of controlling your very own horde of real live
players? Then Abjurer is the guild for you! In later life, your abjurer character will be a
master of protection, but you begin the game with the same adeptness at killing as a new Mage would.
Abjurers enter the game with 30% of the spell bright light, and can begin your training with
the more powerful magic missile after gaining a few levels. Before you move on to killing, be sure
to train some 'quick chant', 'skill that saves sp' and 'essence eye'. Since up until about level 20 your character will play much like a Mage, reading the starter info for Mage may help you greatly now.
Don't forget to turn on the Abjurer channel by typing 'on abjurer'. The command 'last abjurer' will replay the last 20 messages sent to this channel. You can access your guild by going through Buju.
At slightly higher levels you will want to start studying 'cure serious wounds' as well as 'ward of stone' which you will use to protect your party members. For better attack spells, study 'acid arrow' and then 'effusion of entity'.
Partying is a key element of ZombieMUD, and those players who learn how to form parties by recruiting tanks and blasters early on in their gaming experience generally move on to become some of the most powerful and knowedgable players on the game. If you are up to a real challenge, then Abjurer is definatly the newbie guild for you.
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