It's all gone sepia - must be a flashback. Boom! Back on the story train!Ī dizzying twenty minutes of clicking, autorunning, cut scenes, very brief scuffles and a truly incredible amount of utterly confusing backstory later and I was back where I started only five levels higher. I mouseovered all the icons along the bottom of the screen to see if one might be the crafting window, only to find that every one of them popped up a context menu with three-to-five more options.Īt this point I panicked and found myself clicking on the auto-complete for my main questline. Never liked those.īy this stage I was beginning to feel a little overwhelmed. There was also one of those player marketplaces familiar from much older Eastern MMOs, where everyone drops a personal NPC trader in a public square and clutters up the environment. There was a 'Title Manager', who claimed to be responsible for craft skills and sold the tools but she wouldn't talk to me, so I opened the map and clicked on an icon in the nearest large town.Ĭouldn't find a trainer there, either, but I found the tool vendor again along with a host of other merchants and functionaries. I rode my horse around the coastal town where I'd camped for the night in the vague hope there might be a trainer there. Any of those.įor now, though, and since this is a Beta Test after all, I thought it might be instructive to try and figure out what was going on just from first principles. Or I could click on the little helper icon that auto-tabs to the official website. Or I could have used the extensive in-game guide.if I could read Mandarin (I'm guessing it's Mandarin.). When we hit Open Beta, assuming I decide to join in, that's exactly what I'll do. Now, of course, I could have just tabbed out to Dulfy, who has, naturally, a detailed walk-through up already. What I couldn't track down was a trainer or a quest that might offer me the opportunity to pick a craft and raise that skill. I managed to find a vendor who sold gathering and crafting tools but they all required a level of skill I didn't have. I noticed one or two nodes while I was auto-running from quest to quest and something at some stage had prompted me to open the crafting window so I knew they both existed but that was the extent of my knowledge.Īn hour later it's still the extent of my knowledge.

My plan was to try and find out something about crafting and gathering. To the point where I'm starting to wonder if maybe something closer to a formal tutorial might not be a bad idea after all. So, I poked around some more in Revelation Online this morning and I'm more confused than ever.

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