Demon hunter walkthrough and maps (part I)

Oct 162011

Demon hunter walkthrough and maps.

You need internet connection to be checked only, then you can disable it. The game runs with frozen ADs and don’t consume your traffic, and also – you are not constantly bugged with questions to write review or participate in something… in all cases – if you want to support the game creators and you are not annoyed by ADs – let them stay.

The game is worth your time. If you have not already – go to Android market and get it.

The Introduction Quest is quite long. Takes about 20 minutes to read. Be patient. You may learn something useful.

There are 3 mainstream skill types with sword, guns and magic, leading to 6 main builds. 3 Clean and 3 mixed. There is 7-th main build with all 3 mainstream skill types.

World map is quite ugly. It shows corridors only. The regional maps show as boxes and green/blue/magenta doors. Green doors lead to other rooms, magenta doors lead to camps and blue doors are portals. If you are not supposed to go somewhere yet – the blue door is blocked by a skull.

Anytime you get to meet someone for new assignment you will be given 100 xp points for just meeting him/her. And that is happening almost in all newbie quest beginnings, So I’ve skipped telling about them 😉

Most of You may also ask “How to mine ore in Demon Hunter” … just read below.

First quests (quite linear and easy)

Kamael West

Your first assignment is to “Become one of them.” The first quest after introduction is to find ore for the anvil. 150 xp. 300 gold. Go west from Dubaq camp. It is on a ridge, 2 maps west of the Dubaq camp (see the map) Use double-jump to go there. SQUAT over the ore with down arrow. That’s how mining is done. If the rock still remains you may mine it again. Same for herbs. The bad part is, the pickaxe can mine 20 times and breaks. Then you need to buy another for 500 gold. Herbs can be collected without tools.

The next quest needs “5 x Slime liquid.” Gives 200 XP and stamina potion recipe. Get them from the slimes. Kamael west of Dubaq camp has dozens of them. Just go and kill.

While on this easy map, go on the upper platform where the ore is and collect it again (it respawns), then go west 2 more maps but stay on the upper platforms. There is a herb deposit. Collect it for later. You will soon learn to make lots of HP potions to help you survive the fight. One HP potion (stamina portion) needs a bottle, liquid and herb (all collectible here from slimes and herb deposit). Give it a try. You already got the recipe from the “Slime” quest.

Feel free to return to Kamael West every time you have returned to Dubaq. For few minutes of walk and slash, you will get some ore, some herbs, liquid and bottles.

Now we need to go to

Kamael East.

Map of Kamael East

“Show me what you got.” You need to kill 10 sickle-holding Varian. Just one map east of camp. 500 xp. And you are accepted as hunter.

“Encounter with Ace.” is supposed to be an assignment but you are given the “Lost item” quest from Emil instead. While walking to execute the quest, do a side step to the secret room. There is a lone shooter on a platform and behind him there is no pillar to close the map. Just some water. Walk there and you will get to the secret room. The ores in the secret room are rich – can be mined ~10 times each. Than go and complete the quest – 300 xp, small mana potion recipe and some gold. Then he tells you to…

“Kill Zeromash” It is quite the walk, until you reach the place. 300 gold and 400 xp. After you kill Zeromash – You see big switch that does not move. Maybe back in Dubaq someone will know 😉

… ahem … “First mission” is to defeat water dragon. First you need to make some oil to grease the switch. Go to Nina and buy bottle if you don’t have yet. Slimes west of camp drops them. Mix the stuff. It does need 5 pieces of masks. You probably have more than 30 already from killed Varians. While beside Nina be sure to buy or mix 10 health potions. Go back to where Zeromash was. The road east is open with the greased switch now. You need to go to the easternmost room of the canal. The gate opens if you press the blue floor button on the 2-nd floor. There is a chainball on the ceiling which you can pass with 2 quick dashes (right+right). The fight is not hard. The mini boss can be killed with a sword and fire spells. Be sure to have about 5 potions to keep yourself alive. 1000 xp and 1500 gold for completion ;).

“Inferno investigation” is the quest that opens after you get the key to Dayl. You go to the inferno and see huge pillar of fire. Get back and tell Dayl. 400 xp. Then

“Protect Dayl” while he investigates the fire pillar. There will be 2 portals from which level 1 Varians will come to hit Dayl. About 20. All of them will ignore you and head to Dayl. 600 xp and Burn potion recipe. It is easy quest. Don’t overdo it 😉

“Misterious fire” 100 xp. Just return to Dubaq base and speak to Dayl.

“Collect Sample” Dayl wants you to get water from the central canal. (need to stand beside the waterfall and click “A”ction button). The waterfall is actually on map Upriver of suffering regardless the quest giver claims otherwise. 500 xp, 200 gold, purified water potion.

It is time to go to Inferno to keep questing.

If you feel ready, Talk to Evan and choose “Quest” – the following Hunter quests can be done for sport in one long walk from Dubaq camp to the altar of Tetenga (see Kamael east map):

Target	Description/place	Hunter points	Gold
Kill Gunshow	kill Mambaora in Garden of suffering	110	130
Kill male Kuro	Kill male Kuro in main road of canal 3	110	130
Kill Zeromash	See the map above	110	130
Kill Tetenga	Altar of Tetenga	160	230
Totals		490	620

You can participate in another level 0 Hunter quest taken from Evan, but this quest is in the easternmost map of Inferno, so either go there or wait.

LoTRO crafting quartet

Gam3s Comments Off

Oct 122011

First of all, what is crafting?

There are a lot of items that can be collected or mined in LoTRO. They are dropped by killed monsters and mobs or mined from ores, branches and ancient sites scattered in the world of Arda (this is the name of the world the LoTRO game takes place). From those drops and collectibles, you can make useful things your chars may use. When you chose Vocation, such as Tinker or Armourer, you will have a set of 3 professions that you may use.

This is where the things complicate a bit.

If you choose to be Armourer, you will have Prospector and Metalsmith that cover each other, but your Tailor skills will need Leather which you can’t make. Leather is made from skins of fallen monsters and is needed to be processed by a forester.

The same is valid for all crafting vocations:

Vocation	Professions given	Needs help from	Can help
Armourer	Prospector, Metalsmith, Tailor	Forester to make leather	Jeweler and Weaponsmiths
Armsman	Prospector, Weaponsmith, Woodworker	Forester to collect wood	Jeweler and Armoursmiths
Explorer	Forester, Prospector, Tailor	–	Jeweler, Arm- and weaponsmiths
Historian	Farmer, Scholar, Weaponsmith	Prospector to mine ore	Cooks
Tinker	Prospector, Cook, Jeweller	Farmer to plant crops	Armour and Weaponsmiths
Woodsman	Farmer, Forester, Woodworker	–	Cooks and Tailors
Yeoman	Farmer, Cook, Tailor	Forester to make leather	–

So, what we need to craft EVERYTHING?

This is the bad and tricky part. You need 4 characters. You need to be VIP or if you are F2P – to have patience of a saint to make the ~1200 Turbine Points needed to enable 2 more chars in your account. If you don’t have the patience – use my guide to make 290 easy free Turbine Points. It takes time, so it is not entirely free. And this guide will barely take you half way there. The other way to get 4 chars is to become Premium. This means, you need to buy and spend Turbine Points at least ONCE. Buy lowest possible bundle – 500(600) Turbine Points and then use them to buy 1 bonus character slot for 595 TP. When you complete the buying of the bonus char slot – you become Premium. Becoming Premium automatically unlocks one more character slot, so you are set with 4 characters in the best possible way. If you don’t have international credit/debit card – There was a possibility to buy 500 Turbine Points with an SMS to your Cell phone service provider, but It is not enabled in all countries world wide. So if you want to play as F2P or can’t afford to become premium – you need godly patience, as I told you already. Follow the rest of my guide to make 110 TP from as many chars, created on as many servers as your patience allows. The 45 quests I mention in my TP guide are doable for one afternoon and given you have x 2 chars on all 29 servers, you may collect more than enough in 10 days. Try it. But remember – TPs are not free and you better support Turbine for hosting this excellent game at least once.

If you already have 4 characters, have a look at the diagram below:

4 self supplying craft vocations

This is of course NOT the only way to do it. There are other combinations that will also work. The three consistent vocation for all of them will be Historian, Tinker and Armourer because they are the only Scholars, Jewelers and Metalsmiths in the game. So we may produce another combination: Tinker, Armourer, Historian, Explorer. If you are never going to use Heavy armors – you may skip the Armourer and use any vocation that has Tailor profession for Medium and light armour making. But in all cases, if you have 4 char – at least one of them will be using them.

Think of what suits you. And If you have already started Yeoman or Armsman – don’t worry. Vocations can be deleted and forgotten and started over. It takes time and ingame money though.

The best places to set an alt-chars for profession only are

Profession	Easiest City/place
Cook	Michel delving – superior Oven
Jeweler	Esteldin in North downs – superior Workbench
Metalsmith	Thorin’s hall – east hall – superior Forge
Scholar	Mathom society at Michel delving – superior Study
Tailor	Esteldin in North downs – superior Workbench
Weaponsmith	Thorin’s hall – east hall – superior Forge
Woodworker	Esteldin in North downs – superior Workbench

Esteldin is good stop for another reason. There is a vault keeper beside the workbenches and also 3 vocation master guilds outside the hall. Tailors, Jewelers and Woodworkers. And Thorin’s hall has the Armour/Weapon guild near the superior forges. Placing cook in the Michel delving is also good because the master guild is in front of the oven.

This is of course just a suggestion. Your 3 alt chars that you don’t currently play but use only for luggage and crafting can be placed everywhere. I suggest those places only because they are close to superior crafting facilities and Post office. And this is the best way to transfer items between characters in LoTRO. (in case you can’t afford the mutual storage solution, which costs lots of turbine points)

290 free Turbine Points for LoTRO

Gam3s Comments Off

Sep 262011

… or more likely

290 “free” Turbine Points

I put the word “free” in quotes, because they are not exactly free. You need to work for them a bit. The trick?

Log into the game. Disable the “Enter last world” check box and have a look at the server list and Its count:

Withywindle
Laurelin
Snowbourn
Dwarrowdelf
Firefoot
Windfola
Silverlode
Meneldor
Arkenstone
Nimrodel
Crickhollow
Riddermark
Vilya
Imladris
Gladden
Landroval
Elendilmir
10 Turbine points

Brandywine
Belegaer
Vanyar
Evernight
Eldar
Anduin
Sirannon
Maiar
Gwaihir
Gilrain
Morthond
Estel

Now. There is One specific quest, that can be done ONCE on every server. That specific quest gives 10 turbine points (TP). You need to login to Every server once, create a hero from the race of MAN, SKIP the introduction quests (Un-Check box on Hero creation) and make the quest. The quest giver is east of Archet. About 1-2 minutes of walking (see picture).

The path to Hunter's Lodge.

Doing this quest gives Turbine Points only ONCE per server. If you complete it on all 29 servers (there may be more after some time, when I wrote this article, they were 29) you will be unable to make this trick again.

There was (probably a bugged) possibility to delete your char in the server and start over. That possibility could have given you a steady unending stream of +10 turbine points every time you create new char on a server, make this quest and delete the char. But the folks at Turbine Inc. are not stupid and fixed this.

So If you are out of servers in which you can create new chars and do this quest – the easy “free” Turbine points are over for you.

There is another possibility for

Free 110 Turbine Points

… but it takes 6 hours to complete.

This is how It is supposed to work after all. You simply need to play the game to earn Turbine Points. BUT! There is a bunch of deeds that are very easy to make. They are all focused around the villages Archet, Combe and Staddle. The deeds that you need are as follows:

Breeland's easy deeds

Bree land adventurer – 45 Quests = 35 Turbine Points
Sickle fly slayer + (advanced) = 15 Turbine Points
Spider slayer + (advanced) = 15 Turbine Points
Neeker-breeker slayer + (advanced) = 15 Turbine Points
Brigand slayer + (advanced) = 15 Turbine Points
The history of Dunedain = 10 Turbine Points
Ruins of Breeland = 5 Turbine Points

Those deeds take about 6 hours to complete. Grab a char that is damage per second (DPS) oriented for faster kills. Focus on the quests in Archet. It takes less than 20 minutes to complete them and finish the Intro quest in which you lose the mayor’s life and Carguls steal Amdir. Now the deeds can be started. Complete all quests in Archet and you will have half the easy spider and brigand deed done.

Move to Combe. Complete all quests and you will have done the 15 quests for 10 TP and the easy Spider and Brigand slayer deed. While in Archet and Combe – get the positions of the few places for the History of Dunedain and Ruins of Beleriand. The first easy ones are in Archet’s brigand place. One on The stone on which you were tricked to go to be ambushed, one hanging on a wall in the brigand’s den (also a location). Combe gives quests in Chetwood north that can get both your Brigand slayer deeds done and most of the advanced Spider slayer deed too.

When done with all Combe quests – go to Staddle. There are the rest of the quests you can do to complete all the 45 and get the rest of the 10 and 15 Turbine points for the deed completion. While doing the quests you will need to go in the Midgewater swamp with dozens of Spiders, Neekerbreekers and Sickle flies. That’s where the rest of the slayer deeds can be done if you are patient. If not, feel free to explore around – there is the possibility of another easy 10 TP when you reach level 20 if you are tired of killing and prefer questing.

And a piece of advice regarding…

“Free” turbine points

There is no such thing as free lunch, remember? (TANSTAFL) The folks in Turbine Inc. are hosting the servers and data bases, make frequent updates and bug fixes. Apparently they are okay with you to cheat a bit with creating 29 chars once on every server for 290 turbine points or creating and deleting characters for easy quests and deeds to make some free TPs. Why then you don’t support them with at least 1 month subscription?!

The advantages? You will keep most of the good stuff from the VIP after it is over:

500 Turbine Points are included.
All your bags will be unlocked (and stay that way)
All traits unlocked (95 TP per trait)
All virtues unlocked (95 TP per virtue)
Riding for free (costs 95 TP per char)
No gold Cap (395 TP to unlock)

Even if this is not exactly what a Free2Play player wants to hear – the one month Subscription is worth It. There are a lot more things that can be done easily when you are VIP or Premium. One of them is Crafting everything 😉

Baruk Khazad, and don’t forget to share this article 😉