Getting Started - New Player Guide

**Starter Town - Yanshi**

* Upon exiting the Training Academy, you will arrive in Yanshi instead of any of the other starter towns. Within the town, you can find the following.
	+ Frostcull Initiate (Pathwarden) Chest - Starter Robe with Major cantrips, MMDs, and more.
	+ Vendors with beginner-level, no-wield requirement Rended weaponry for all attack skill types.
	+ Vendors for Workmanship 10 common Salvage types. (Steel, Iron, Green Garnet, Mahogany, etc.)
	+ "World Boss" cosmetic vendor that accepts Event Boss Coins in exchange for unobtainable items, such as Pre-Patch GSA, Olthoi Helm, Nexus Armor, and more.
	+ Advocate Buffing Shrines can be found in Yanshi, as well as most other towns. Using them will instantly buff you with full Level 7 buffs. Traditional Buff Bots are a thing of the past on Frostcull!

**Setting Forth - Arwic**

* Once you are ready to leave Yanshi, head to Arwic to pick up your first Stipend and use it to get your **Creature Level 8 Spells.** Level 8 Spells on Frostcull buff you for 10,000 of the appropriate attribute or skill, and can quickly take you into retail-endgame content almost immediately. **NOTE:** Stipends are on a 14hr timer, since all quest timers are reduced by 90%.
* Now that you have your Level 8 Creature Spells, you'll need lower level Magics too. Still in Arwic, inside of the building next to where the Professors of Magic are is Master Yado. Speak to her and hand her back the Talisman she gives you. She will teach you all Level 1-6 Magics from all schools.

**Facility Hub**

* Head to the Facility Hub, and go down both sets of stairs to where Curmudgeon the Drudge hangs out. Next to him is an NPC named Captain Cheater, that sells all of the Facility Hub turn-in items for cheap. Buy them all and hand them into the appropriate NPC. This should get you to around level ~70.

**Hitting Level 100**

* The level cap on Frostcull is 10,000,000, but your first major milestone comes at level 100, specifically. Once you hit level 100, you will be able to hunt in areas where mobs will begin to drop Ancient Empyrean Trinkets. Turning in these Trinkets at Casino locations to the Trinket Collector NPCs will net you 1,000,000,000 XP per Trinket. This should get you to Level 275 very quickly, and that's where Frostcull begins to shine.
* Each version of the Asheron's Raiment quest rewards 100 MMDs per completion beyond the normal reward and and can be repeated every 2 hours. The upper 3 dungeons are also a great source of Ancient Empyrean Trinkets.

**275 and Beyond**

* Stop by New Roulea and exchange some MMDs for Pieces of Eight (inside the tavern) in order to buy a great starter set of legendary gear from the various vendors throughout town.
* Visit the Luxury Merchant in the center of the Town Network to acquire some excellent items such as 102-slot bags!
* After getting Luminance Flagged, speak with Lum Hoe (Nalicana) again to increase your max Luminance pool to **9,999,999,999**!
* From here, acquire Legendary Keys from traditional end of retail farming areas to get T9 loot at the legendary chests in Arwic and visit the growing number of custom content areas that Frostcull has to offer!