Getting started in Crowfall

[DEV-Tiggs 4,045]

Getting started in Crowfall can be challenging without a guide or a Murder of Crows to support you through those first few hours. For that reason, we wanted to share a few “Getting Started” tips through a series of short news articles to help our new Crows take flight.   We hope you enjoy this first article in the series and we'd love your feedback.   

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[Tinnis 8,367]

Current article/site pages & in game creation don't let you visualise how much race impacts or the *roles* promotions offer

https://imgur.com/a/B0iwnig

Edited September 26, 2020 by Tinnis

[Arkade 4,155]

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The points you accrue are held in your skills bank for 72-hours

Is this a mistake or a coming change? Currently, we earn 8640 points per day and the max we can accumulate is 259200. That's 30 days worth of skill training. Is this something that is going to be based on VIP? If it's not a mistake, you might want to clarify that, and also clarify that the points won't be lost, they just won't accumulate more.

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you can also customize your vessel’s appearance, choosing from a selection of body shapes, hairstyles, and hair colors.

I assume we aren't getting actually body shapes at this point, and that should instead be faces.

[Equinar 9]

Glad I was able to be part of this! Hope to be able to do this again some time!

[PopeUrban 4,338]

Crow Tip: Your passive training is useless without multiple types of loot and equipment. As a new player you have  everything you need to start acquiring important mob drops like disciplines, gold, certain types of consumables, sacrifice items, and many crafting additives. There are no passive training methods for increasing mob drop rates, so killing NPCs is a perfect activity for new players looking to plan ahead, start a trade empire, get themselves some slightly better gear, or support an established guild!

[BarriaKarl 2,393]

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Crowfall has 11 different roles that cover everything from standard MMO classes like Ranged, Tank, Healer, and Magic-user to many unique combinations of classes, sub-classes, talents, and skills that offer extremely diverse combinations of capabilities giving rise to roles like Slayer, Pitfighter, Stormcaller - to name a few.

'Crowfall has 11 different roles...'. 'roles like Slayer, Pitfighter, Stormcaller...'.

The use of the same word there causes confusion. In the first you use 'roles'' to refer to classes (which we have 11), in the second you use roles to refer to Promos too (in which case we have 33 roles).

I would rewrite it as:

Crowfall has 11 different roles that cover everything from standard MMO classes like Ranged, Tank, Healer, and Magic-user to many unique combinations of classes, sub-classes, talents, and skills that offer extremely diverse combinations of capabilities giving rise to archetypes like Slayer, Pitfighter, Stormcaller - to name a few.

Or do the opposite. And use 'Role' to reffer to the 33 promos and stuff. I think this one would perhaps be better but it would be a bigger change...

Edited September 26, 2020 by BarriaKarl

[MacDeath 1,032]

@ACE-TiggsThis a a great start. /salute. It Will be a great help to new players IF we Can get the new players to read the forums.

[Jubenei 75]

8 hours ago, PopeUrban said:

Crow Tip: Your passive training is useless without multiple types of loot and equipment. As a new player you have  everything you need to start acquiring important mob drops like disciplines, gold, certain types of consumables, sacrifice items, and many crafting additives. There are no passive training methods for increasing mob drop rates, so killing NPCs is a perfect activity for new players looking to plan ahead, start a trade empire, get themselves some slightly better gear, or support an established guild!

How do you remove a Disciplin?

[MacDeath 1,032]

3 hours ago, Jubenei said:

How do you remove a Disciplin?

Drag it to the ground. It will be destroyed but then you can place something better in the slot.

 

[Xarrayne 1,156]

@Jubenei You also have to be in a Temple area to unequip Disciplines (to stop people hot-swapping when out in the world).

[Jubenei 75]

Ok thanks.

[ComradeAma 764]

On 9/26/2020 at 10:33 PM, Arkade said:

Is this a mistake or a coming change? Currently, we earn 8640 points per day and the max we can accumulate is 259200. That's 30 days worth of skill training. Is this something that is going to be based on VIP? If it's not a mistake, you might want to clarify that, and also clarify that the points won't be lost, they just won't accumulate more.

It will likely be 3 days and VIP will extend it to 30 days. But we won't get any news about VIP until closer to release, so don't expect confirmation.

[DEV-Tiggs 4,045]

Thank you for the feedback posted.  I'd love to see player contributed articles like this for beginners, intermediate and advanced players.  You do not need to have excellent writing skills, just someone passionate about putting together information for an article. We can pretty it up!