Hi folks,

So I've returned for about a month as a F2p player. I am enjoying it, but I am only playing part-time when I need a little fun. Which is fine, works out great.

I'm a lvl 6 warrior. I admit to being a bit overwhelmed with the changes in the game still. Also a bit disappointed at how few players are in the game. Whenimer used to be loaded with players when I played. It seems a bit of a ghost town now.

Anyway, I am past my 30 days. I skewed my stats for hunting based on the cheatyface article. (https://gswiki.play.net/mediawiki/index.php/Cheatyface_30_days). I'm fine with how it's working out.

I tried to do some of the bounties, it ended up being a real pain. Either I could not skin the creatures I was given, could not find the gems (I spent TWO weeks trying to find a certain gem before just giving up) or some other problem, and the rewards seem so low. Maybe I am doing it wrong.

So right now I am stuck solo fighting burrow orcs, and not getting much in return. I would love to get a magical Claidh, but prices on stuff like that is insane. I have like 20k in silver, which is nothing.

I'm not sure what else I could be doing to make things move a little faster, or have more fun. Is it too soon to join a society? Am I missing anything obvious?

>I tried to do some of the bounties, it ended up being a real pain. Either I could not skin the creatures I was given, could not find the gems (I spent TWO weeks trying to find a certain gem before just giving up) or some other problem, and the rewards seem so low. Maybe I am doing it wrong.

>So right now I am stuck solo fighting burrow orcs, and not getting much in return. I would love to get a magical Claidh, but prices on stuff like that is insane. I have like 20k in silver, which is nothing.

>I'm not sure what else I could be doing to make things move a little faster, or have more fun. Is it too soon to join a society? Am I missing anything obvious?

You're going to find yourself severely limited when it comes to doing bounties on an F2P character. Here is the link to the F2P page on the wiki that describes all F2P restrictions, including the fact that you're limited to gaining the first rank in any society:

https://gswiki.play.net/mediawiki/index.php/F2P

Using a claid would do very little for you, as F2P does not get the benefit of any weighting higher than somewhat without a pass.

If you're looking to progress faster, you can purchase access to Gift of Lumnis

>People never wait months before doing anything in the Adventurer's Guild, they start doing bounties as soon as they're done with the level 0 runaround and visit to the respective town's Raging Thrak character.

I don't even talk to the sprite until after getting the first bounty. I've probably done 3 before seeing Thrak.

However, game knowledge does help a lot with that as does a gem trading alt. It'll take time to work out which bounties are worth sticking with and which you should turn down if you are new to the system.

>I tried to do some of the bounties, it ended up being a real pain. Either I could not skin the creatures I was given, could not find the gems (I spent TWO weeks trying to find a certain gem before just giving up) or some other problem, and the rewards seem so low. Maybe I am doing it wrong.

Apart from the experience, the rewards are tied to level and will be trivial to start with and meh for quite a long time.

The way gems work is that if you have a task for a green sapphire, all gems you get of the same value as green sapphires will be green sapphires. So no violet or yellow sapphires until you've had your quota of greens. If you have a diamond task, then no emeralds until you have had your quota of diamonds. If you aren't hunting a critter that drops gems of the right value, you won't find the gems and the critters that have low value gems drop gems infrequently so it can take forever to acquire a quota of zircons. If you haven't got a hoard squirrelled away, you don't find any on a decent length hunt, and there's no one responding to your offers to buy, turn the task in and get another one.

The ways skins work is that the more heavily trained you are for skinning (first aid and survival) the higher quality skins you get asked for.
Less than 0.5x task not given, 0.5x-0.999x, 1x-1.499x, 1.5x-1.999x, 2x-, steady increase in the quality asked for. However, you won't actually be able to get the higher quality till higher level, no matter how well you are trained. Only the ranger skinning spell is capable of giving a character a chance at a high quality skin at low level. I'd start out in one of the bottom bands and work my way up to my long term training (which should be 1x in both as a warrior) over the 10-25 level range or hire a skinner or ditch the task when the quality seemed too hard to acquire.

The thing to do is try a task, and if you aren't making progress, remove it and get a new one. Don't stick with the same one or you'll spend forever not doing virtually impossible tasks.

> I would love to get a magical Claidh, but prices on stuff like that is insane.

Its not going to be affordable on loot acquired by level 6, but you should be able to acquire a minimally magic claidh before level 20, or a 2x claidh before level 40. Loot scales quite fast with level to begin with. What you get before level 10 is small change compared to what you'll have at level 20.

>Despite the documentation, claidhmores work just fine for F2P.

Maybe not for much longer ;)

Claidh seems to work fine for me, that's not the problem. I've avoided doing the bounties for now. What is Gift of Lumnis? If the price to play were reasonable, I would do it. 5 bucks a month? No problem. 15? It's ridiculous.

Any other tips on just what things to do at my level? Or is it just grind until I get higher?

>5 bucks a month? No problem. 15? It's ridiculous.

Many a DAY I spent more than $15 playing pinball, with nothing to show for it except some fun and perhaps a high score.

It's all relative, good luck and have fun.

Askip