Levelling (Player Guides)

Levelling is the main goal of your character on The Two Towers. The levels for your character range from 1 to 22. When your character is created, it enters the world as a level 1 character with no experience, 20 points of each stat, and 10 of each skill.

In order to view the status of your stats and experience, type 'score'. This presents a nice tabulated view of the state of your character. To see your skill level, type 'skills'.

In order to 'level up' your character, you must gain enough experience and improve your stats to a certain level. To view the experience and stat thresholds needed for each level, see 'help levels'. For example, to reach level 2, you need to have 501 experience points, but you do not need to train any stats above the 20 that are already given to you at character creation. But to reach level 3, you need to train your stats so that they reach an average of 25.

Experience is almost solely obtained through killing monsters (non-player characters). You will be awarded a small amount of points for each hit you score, and a larger amount when the monster dies. See 'help experience' for more details on that. Typically, a more powerful monster will give you more experience points, so as you grow in power, you should seek more powerful enemies. However, do so with reason and always 'consider' what you are about to kill. It is always good to earn more experience, but a death can set you back quite a bit!

Gold can be gained from multiple sources; quite often the NPCs you kill carry some or at least carry a piece of equipment that can be sold in a shop. Quests are also a good source of income. If you need some tips about earning money fast, see our guide in 'help golding'. Using the gold, you can visit various trainers throughout Arda who will train you in various stats in exchange for gold. The prices shown at the trainer when you type 'cost' is the amount it will cost you to train 1 point of that particular stat.

Once you have the experience and average stats needed to attain the next level, you should go to a trainer and type 'advance' (or whatever command the particular trainer uses - looking at the trainer usually gives you the right commands). The trainer will advance you to the next level.

However, levelling does not continue this simply all the way to level 22. In order to achieve levels 5, 10, 15 and 19, and all levels above 19, you must complete certain 'level quests'. Even if you achieve the experience and stat requirements for the next level, but have not completed the appropriate part of the 'main quest', you will not be permitted to advance in level. You will receive a message similar to 'Not enough questing done.' See 'help level quests' for more details.

Another example of special requirements to level is that in order to become level 4, you must:

• Give yourself a description using the 'describe' command.
• Read 'help rules'.
• Read 'help comm policy', in order to familiarize yourself with the standards of behaviour that we expect from our players who use the global chat lines. When you reach level 4 you will be given access to the 'main comm' - a channel line like the newbiecomm, but available to all players who are level 4 and above.