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[slashmus]

Hello to all,

I'm a 2 day old newbie to Ryzom. I've read a lot of the questions and responses here and it's helped me to understand a lot of the things that were confusing about the game.

My 1st question is: Do I HAVE to become a crafter to make headway in the game in the long run? Currently I'm concentrating on fighting, magic and harvesting.

And secondly: Where is this MP3 player I've heard about...what window do I go to in order to access it ingame?

[katriell]

My 1st question is: Do I HAVE to become a crafter to make headway in the game in the long run? Currently I'm concentrating on fighting, magic and harvesting.

Nope.

And secondly: Where is this MP3 player I've heard about...what window do I go to in order to access it ingame?

In the panel on the right side of the screen, click on the WINDOWS tab, then MORE... at the bottom. Then check MP3 PLAYER (I think).

[sprite]

In the panel on the right side of the screen, click on the WINDOWS tab, then MORE... at the bottom. Then check MP3 PLAYER (I think).

Yep, thats how to do it. Sadly its not possible to bind a key to show/hide it, but most keys can be found/changed by pressing "k" to bring up the Keys window

[acridiel]

Welcome and enjoy your stay

Acridiel

[desertt]

Welcome and enjoy your stay

everything is said with that

[slashmus]

Thanks to all for the help. I appreciate it!

One more thing. I just got myself the root 1 spell. However, it seems pretty useless in that it doesn't hold the creature in place long enough for me to do any good damage at range with my magic. Is this due to me using the spell for the wrong reason? Is Root more a spell that buys you time to escape rather than an offensive hold? Or do I need to wait for Root 2 to get any good effect from this spell. Since I'm currently concentrating on magic, I really need some way to hold or impair a creature's ability to attack so that I can damage it.

Thanks again for the help folks.

[vguerin]

One more thing. I just got myself the root 1 spell. However, it seems pretty useless in that it doesn't hold the creature in place long enough for me to do any good damage at range with my magic. Is this due to me using the spell for the wrong reason? Is Root more a spell that buys you time to escape rather than an offensive hold? Or do I need to wait for Root 2 to get any good effect from this spell. Since I'm currently concentrating on magic, I really need some way to hold or impair a creature's ability to attack so that I can damage it.

Root spell (all afflictions actually) breaks it's lock when you do another action. For the most part afflictions are used in teams, though later you can mix elemental and off aff stanza's together.