Quickstart to 275+

Stip/Zeno's Lazy Guide to 275 and Beyond on Frostcull

## Character Creation

I suggest Empyrean as there's no need for a Life Foci/Backpack. But this doesn't matter much. Starting skills don't matter as much either, as you'll be able to spec everything pretty soon. So I suggest starting a basic Void Mage. It syncs well with the equipment in the Pathwarden's Chest.

* 30 End, 80 Coord, 100/100 Focus/Willpower
* Spec Void
* Train Creature, Item, Mana Conversion

## Starting Out - Yanshi

1. Leave Starting Area
2. Regardless of what starter town you selected, you'll be dropped in Yanshi.
3. Talk to Alcott
4. Click Advocate Blessing to get full buffs
5. Give Pathwarden Token.  Loot everything.  Equip Robe, Gauntlets, Rare Nether Wand, XP Trinket
6. VirindiTank(VT):
	* Add Rare wand to Items tab.  DONT SKIP THIS
	* Set VT to no buffs.  You won't need self buffs for ***any*** of this.
	* Optional: Set VT ranges to 10, 5, 5, 2
7. Talk to Buckminster in the Tavern
8. Head to the mage tower, up the inside ramp, sell 1 MMD and buy ~500 tapers.  Tapers weigh zero here.
9. Use the Town Network(TN) portal and head to Aluvian/Arwic

## Arwic

1. Head up the road into town, on the left side of the intersection, go in and talk to Master Yado.  They will give you a talisman.  Hand it back to get all Level 1-6 buffs.  You can leave as soon as you start learning (takes a few minutes, and it won't break the process)
2. Talk to Monroe.  Gives Stipend.  Talk to person next to them and buy a Creature Spells voucher.
3. Give Agent of the Arcanum the Creature Voucher.
4. Use Lifestone in Arwic.  You'll be coming back here a few times.

## Facility Hub

1. Use your Facility Hub Gem.  Head down two levels to Cheater NPC.  Buy one of everything they have \*except\* backpacks - we'll get better ones.
2. Head back up one level, go down each hallway and turn in the bought items to each NPC.  If you click on them, they'll say what they need.
3. After all of that, you should be able to train Life Magic and Melee Defense.  If not, MeleeD is more important right now.
4. NOTE!: If you unequip that rare wand, you're going to spend a while trying to regain health, stamina, and mana.  So don't.
5. Add ~12 +10's to all of your \*attributes\*.  Then add about the same to MeleeD and Void magic.
6. You might want to put Lifestone Recall, Lifestone Sending, Portal Recall, and the various ties on your spellbar at this point. Most will be in your spellbook at Level III

## Spell Components and forcing streak spells

1. Lifestone recall back to Arwic, Head to the Town Network and head to Khayyaban (Najmima up on the hill) or Ayan Baqur. We need spell scarabs of at least level 6 (Pyreal)
2. Buy ~25 scarabs of level 1,2,3,4,5,6. You can likely buy about 10 Platinum Scarabs as well if you'd like, but level 6 spells will do fine at this point.
3. In VirindiTank, in the Monsters tab, I uncheck "A" and leave "S" checked.  That changes attacks to just Streaks.  Far faster fighting as you can one-shot everything.

## Arwic to the first Matron Hive

1. Lifestone Recall to Arwic, use the Advocate Blessing to rebuff.
2. Use the Town network and head to Sho/Nanto.  Head up the hill and enter the Matron Hive.
	* **NOTE!:**  **All hives are identical in design.**  Once you get the hang of the path, you can follow it on all four. Map: http://acpedia.org/images/2/26/6346.gif
	* ***Run*** down to the bottom, kill the Matron and loot the piece. You can fight if you'd like, but there's no point.
3. Lifestone recall to Arwic.
4. Run down the south road to the Olthoi Hunter (30.9N 56.3E).  Turn in piece.
5. Lifestone Recall
6. ***REBUFF*** at Advocate Blessing.

## Arwic to the second Matron Hive

1. Use the Town Network and head to Gharundim/Khayyaban.  Hive is in the middle of town.
2. ***Run*** down to the bottom, kill the Matron and loot the piece.
3. Lifestone recall to Arwic.
4. Run down the south road to the Olthoi Hunter (30.9N 56.3E).  Turn in piece.

## Arwic to Third Matron Hive

1. Lifestone recall to Arwic.
2. ***REBUFF*** at Advocate Blessing.  We'll be fighting in this hive, so make sure your buffs are topped up.
3. Use the Town Network and head to Gharundim/Uziz.  Hive is fairly close to drop.
4. ***Fight*** down to the bottom.  Take your time(but mind your buff timers).  Loot everything (including Matron piece).  You're looking for Ancient Empyrean Trinkets and unknown scrolls. Trinkets drop on nearly half of the mobs.  You want about 65 of them.  More is better.
	* 60-65 Will take you to about level 230. 230 is what you *need* to equip the first set of good equipment.
	* 100 Will be level ~255
5. Lifestone recall to Arwic.  ***NO REBUFF*** (We have other tasks).
6. Run down the south road to the Olthoi Hunter (30.9N 56.3E).  Turn in piece.

## Arwic to Luxury Vendor

1. Make sure you have nothing in the \*extra\* pack that you got at character creation and drop it on the ground.
2. Lifestone recall to Arwic.
3. Use the Town network. Use the Luxury Vendor(Obsidian Golem) in the center.
4. Buy as many packs as you can.
5. Buy an Eternal Mana Charge.  Add it to your Consumables tab in Virindi Tank.
6. While still in the Town Network, head to the Sho wing and go to Shoushi.

## Shoushi Casino

1. Take the SouthEast road out of Shoushi and the first building you see will be the Casino.
2. Turn in all the Trinkets to the Collector.  You should get 1.2b per.
	* The Virindi Item Tool(VIT) is your friend here. Click the Trinket stack in your inventory and then click "Set Item" in VIT. Then click one of the two Collectors then click "Set Target "in VIT and then click "Go"
3. Your Rare wand should be leveling like crazy.  Your MeleeD should be in the thousands as well.
4. Lifestone recall to Arwic.  ***REBUFF*** at Advocate Blessing.

## Arwic to Fourth/Last Matron Hive

1. Use the Town Network and head to Sho/Baishi.  Hive is on the far opposite side of town (49.8S, 62.0E)
2. This is where it gets fun.  You're basically going to level on every kill.
3. ***Fight*** down to the bottom.  Take your time(but mind your buff timers).  Loot everything (including Matron piece).  You're looking for Trinkets and unknown scrolls again.
4. Do not leave until you're at least level 230.  Stick around as long as you want, but mind your buffs.
5. Lifestone recall to Arwic.
6. ***NO REBUFF*** (We're done fighting). Run down the south road to the Olthoi Hunter (30.9N 56.3E).  Turn in piece.
7. Lifestone recall to Arwic.

## New Roulea

1. Use the Town Network.  Head to Annex/New Roulea
2. Head to the intersection, then right.  At the tavern/bar find "Needa The Black".  You will need *at least* 50 "Pieces of Eight".
3. Head back out...right to the intersection.  "Sulayman" has basic upgraded armor for 10 Pieces of Eight/per.  The armor looks similar, but the last items are the level 230+ and are what you want.  Unless you're going melee - then wander around and find the proper vendor for that.
4. Turn around and head to the shop behind the Arcanum Vendor.  "Diabolito" will sell you Mana/Platinum Scarabs and tapers.  Remember that tapers weigh zero, so buy lots. Also keep in mind that because your skills are so high, you won't eat through spell components. So buying 10k/20k of tapers will last a long time.
5. Max All of your attributes and skills

## DONE! Next Steps

Next tasks.  I do them in this order.  Remember, you basically one shot everything and are very hard to kill on any old content.

### Aetheria Quest (Critically Important)

* http://acpedia.org/wiki/Aetheria\_Quest
* Easy. Takes about 30m.  "Obsidian Rim" at the bottom of Sub drops you a 5 minute run away.

### Bobo/Recall Aphus Lassel

* Nearly every Meta uses Aphus Recall as a starting point.
* https://asheron.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Legend\_of\_the\_Tusker\_Paw
* Get the v2 Meta in Discord.  Turn off combat and buffing for the run.
* https://discord.com/channels/794665536247037972/825020016185442355/825021670410158100 and/or https://discord.com/channels/794665536247037972/794665537987936328/1090462366933716992

### Augmentation Gems

* Insatiable Vault and Augmentation Realm are at bottom of Sub.

### Luminance

* There's a Virindi Tank nav floating around, but it's probably easier to manually run it.
* Remember to talk to Nalicana (Lum Hoe on Frostcull) twice at the end so you unlock the ability to bank \*a lot\* of luminance XP.

### Next Steps/Ideas

* For the next few days, make sure you remember to get your daily Stipend and then Life, Item, War, etc spells. After those, the Augmentation Gem is useful.
* Maybe go back to the Baishi Hive once you've unlocked your Aetheria. Slot some Sigils of Destruction in each spot until you know what you want. Level them up.
* Serpent's Grasp is a good place to test out your skills. Talk to the guards on the platform to get your kill tasks. You should be oneshotting the creatures around there. If not, work on upping your damage through Aetheria and the /raise command.
* Golem Beach is another good early place to level. Diamond Scarabs galore.