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New Char, New Shard, an Essay.
Toptwo:
After doing some easy research on FindUO I see that Atlantic has more stuff and better prices on most things. Certianly better then I can get on Sonoma (my home shard) Seems anymore there is rarely anything good for sale on Sonoma..and the prices are killer. I said this in another post, but will say it again here...on Sonoma a Full soulstone sells for 25M, on Atlantic I have seen them for 8M. Plus, with all the players Atlantic has there is just overall a LOT more, and Better things to buy.
I could Xfer over one of my guys from Sonoma, with 100M in his pocket and buy a lot up, and bring it back...and even with the price of Xfer tokens possibly make a buck or two...but hey, thats the easy way. Instead I decided to make some new chars there, farm my gold there, buy the stuff I want, and Xfer it back to Sonoma...Its the long hard way to do this, but, since I was getting a little board at times with UO this seemed like a great way to spice things up. Make NEW guys, train em up on a shard where I had nothing (well, something but I will get to that in a min) and generally see what it was like to play a different shard for awhile..a crowded shard.
So in doing this, I decided I might write a little essay, one that I could add to each day, and ppl could see (and give input) to how/what I was doing. You all know that I left the game for a long time, and my way of training/doing things might still be the hard way....and...if anybody else wants to do something like this they can learn from my mistakes, or my success's. Ok..here we go.
Started this char on 6-17 approx 1pm. I started by asking in the shout box if anybody had any presance on Atlantic. 12TimesOver did, so he and I traded 5M gold on Sonoma for 5M gold on Atlantic (told you I didnt start completly emptyhanded) Thanks 12X!!!
My first char will be a gold farming Whammy..I figured I could farm gold (Miasma) and Silver (after I faction up) Silver sells well on ANY shard, and whacking miasma can make pretty good gold, with the chance of marty drops that still sell!
Char Starting Skills:
50 Necro (and thats locked now)
49 Chiv (will take it to 85)
1 Bushido (to get bushido book)
50 Str
10 Dex
20 Int
Char skills when finished: Or until I can afford better scrolls:
120 Swords
115 Bushido
115 Parry
115 Tactics
100 Spirit Speak
85 Chiv
50 Necro
This is only a 700 total, so I might add +20 to Necro for now, or wait til I can afford 120 scrolls in Bushido, Parry, and Tactics.
The first thing I did was to buy my scrolls. Buying 120 Scrolls would have taken more gold then I started with so I settled on 115's (except for one), so here is what I have spent so far:
Scroll of Power +20 1,000,000
120 scroll of Swords 475,000
115 Scroll of Bushido 70,000
115 scroll of Parry 55,000
115 scroll of Tactics 425,000
SoulSeeker 175,000
Boat 10,000
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total: 2,210,000
The swords scroll was a steal as they sell for 4.75M and UP on Atlantic, this one wasn't even listed on FindUO yet or it would have been gone, the player obviously mis-priced it leaving off a 0 when he put it on his vendor tough for him, YAY for me. I also spent about 1500gp training up my skills as far as I could with NPC's
I bought the boat because I do not have a house on Atlantic, nor will I (even if there is space) It would mean I would have to pull one of my Sonoma houses up and I don't want to do that. The boat will be used for some storage, but I mainly bought it to macro my skill on...I figure I will be harder to find at sea, then sitting in some town someplace macroing away.
Currently I am sitting on my boat macroing Spirit Speak, I have Int set to raise (for now) and str, and dex locked. I want to raise Int for now so I can have more mana for working on Bushido and Chiv, once those are raised up I will turn Int dow, and start gaining Str and Dex.
Thats it for now, I will add more to this as skills start to go up, and I start training new things.
mcscooter:
I eat this kind of stuff up. Love the idea. Please keep updating this. As a returning player, it is taking a long time to figure out the best way to do things in what is now a very different game. Most of these forums assume a great deal of background knowledge, and EA have done a stunning job of making an incredibly complicated game with almost no official documentation. Looking forward to future posts.
12TimesOver:
Should change the name of your thread to something like "TopTwo's Starting Anew Blog" :)
Glad to help TT, I owed ya one anyhow.
One of my favorite things to do in UO has always been to start on a new shard where I don't know a soul or have anything but some newb chars and start building my legacy. It used to be easy to make some quick coin buying/selling to/from NPC's but that is all but destroyed now although at times there is still a few k of startup selling bandies to at least get initial skill training money. Another thing I used to do is start temp chars with 49 inscription and quickly get an Undead Slayer spellbook that would sell for 500k+ (sold one for 1.2 mills once). Not sure how that would go nowadays either.
Inscription is another decent way to make gold while training. Hell, even just scribing and selling recall scrolls can get you far because a lot of people don't realize that you can buy them from an NPC cheaper than the going player vendor rate on Atlantic. I used to sell mass amounts of EV scrolls too.
Right out of the gate if I need to build quick $$ on a new shard I start mining. I've never had trouble unloading 60k of iron for 900k+ on just about any shard and that is roughly a one-day haul even with a newbie character. Maybe something to think about with one of your secondary accounts or a temp account while you're building up your Samp.
Anyhow, Atlantic was my first home; planted my first piece of real estate in the desert southwest of Umbra during the AOS launch. I have about 9 or so characters there and a lot of basic crap stuffing the bankboxes. Let me know if you need something and I can see what I have packed away.
XII
Cerveza:
- Moved to where it belongs, and stickied so it stays there -
Toptwo:
Thanks Cerveza, wasn't sure where to put this :)
Ok...going to catch this up some, let everybody know where I am at so far. I took some time off in the last few days for ToT, and was using all my accts to do some farming...I now have this acct back to training.
Used Guadah's Multi-Skill Trainer (Super Bob!).. to train Spirit Speak up to 100, I am SURE there are better scripts out there then this one for SS though, the one thing I noticed with Super Bob is the longer you run the script, the slower it goes...I even went in and adjusted the wait time in SS to 2 (its set at 5) Char starts real fast, and after an hour its like the delay is at 20, so slows WAY down. I didn't realize this until I woke up the first morning of training and had only gained like 4.5 skill, then I watched it and it took it forever between attempts, I could lock a key down and be MUCH faster.
Took 6-19 and 6-20 off from training to use all accts for farming ToT's
Started Training Bushido yesterday afternoon, 6-21. My starting skill was 49. I again went to the shout box, this time KilroyisDead was on and answerd my plea for help..Thanks Kilroy!! I borrowed a LMC/MR set of gear from him in Luna, and recalled back to my boat (not before Kilroy called me a Pollack for the way I was dressed) I used VicVega's script to train up to 65 skill, then switched back to Super Bob and started lightning striking my fine ride that I bought for 507 gold. Skill currently is at 100.2 on its way to 115. I should hit that sometime today, and will switch to VicVega's script to train Chiv up to 85.
Once that is done, I will head out into the world to manually raise Parry (in Yew on Sheep) then off to manually raise swords enough to be able to switch over to a Golem...I will keep you posted as to when Bushido, and Chiv are at where I want them to be and am heading out :)
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