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A Great Guide For New Players In Spiral Knights! :)

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Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:11
Skarmol's picture
Skarmol

So, you start out in the tutorial, get to the rescue camp, and you wonder, "Now What?" Well, start talking to NPC's! They will tell you where to go, but I'm not making this topic/thread to just tell you to talk to NPC's! NOTE: If you don't want to go through this part since you probably already did all this you will soon read IF YOU CHOOSE to read this part, go to the next paragraph) You see, you do the next part, which is the training grounds, its the first elevator you see, next to the merchant (The Brown Robot With The Covered Box Shaped Thing Behind It). Now, there are some items from the merchant but you are better saving up your crowns. So head on to haven! "Now Wheres Haven?" You ask, well keep going north and you will see another elevator, go into it and adventure your way to haven.....Ok, now your at haven, "Now what do I do?" you say, well first, look at how much crowns you have, you should have at least 200-400 crowns or maybe even more. Well next, walk north to the Arcade, and go to one of the elevators in the arcade, anyone of them is fine, now here, It would be more fun to join a party and go with other players, or go solo, but i suggest to go with other players. Then you go through a few or a lot of depths. If you goto Moorcraft Manor, somewhat like haven, and you see a forcefield wall, so you try to go through it, but it won't let you. And you are like, "Why can't I go through??" Well you need to reach Tier 2, read this next paragraph for the answer to get to Tier 2.

ANOTHER NOTE: If you don't want to read this part and someone told you all about tier 2 in game and all that, go to the 3rd paragraph!

Well you go back to haven, and you wonder, "How do I get to Tier 2?" Well you need 2 Star (2*) items! Now, how do you get those? Well you need to buy items that have 2 stars out of 5 stars colored WHITE. Well, you could have a choice of 3 (ehh kinda 4) classes. Here are the classes, Swordsmaster (Swordsman), Gunslinger, Bomber/Demo Person, AND (If you want...) Shieldbearer. (Shieldbearer allows you to take all the damage and defend your teammates and survive better. So you need to focus on Shields more than weapons.) Or you can make a mix of your weapons, for Expample: Lets say you wanna be a Swordsmaster and...a Bomber. You can decide to get 1 sword and 1 bomb, get a shield, and now, for the helmet and armor. So theres an armor and helmet called, Wolver Coat and Wolver cap, you can buy like a wolver cap or wolver coat then buy like a spiral demo suit or a spiral demo helm. And you might say/ask, "Why do I have to get these??" Well, the wolver set gives you a sword damage bonus while the spiral demo set also gives you a bomb bonus. You don't need to wear the full set to get the bonus, so mix em up!

This is a good guide to get crowns to save up for better items! For Tier 1 and 2!
1. Well if your tier 2 and only have 2 star gear and items, don't just start off in the tier 2 depths right away, they are very challenging, so do BOSS runs. The tier 1 boss is Snarbolax (Snarby for short). Boss runs mean when you do an elevator type to fight snarby and get to him. So if you do the Snarby boss run, you can get up to about 3k-5k crowns! Doing this daily is a great way to save up.

2. Auction house! Well you might stumble across the Auction House, it sells LOTS and LOTS of different varieties of items! Well, you can AUCTION up items. I would buy like Vitasuits, Fencing Jackets, and all the items at the Bazaar (West of Haven) that cost 150 crowns. Now, you bought them, now what do you do to auction them? Well go to the Auction House (Obviously), then click the button at the top of the Auction House Screen that says, "My Auctions" So click it and you will see some things that MIGHT look kinda boring, well, next, you will see that your inventory also opened up. Click on the item sections (Armor, Sword, Gun, Bomb, and such) and click the vitasuits, etc. Then do the Bid Price as, 100 Crowns, and the Buy Now Price as, 400 crowns. This is a good way to get crowns because you see, other new knights LOVE to get these items in the auction house, here's a hint, they don't really like to lose. So they will bid bid bid bid up until they get it or buy it now instantly.

Well that's all I have for now, Wait for more in the same topic (This one)!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:50
#1
Demonicsothe's picture
Demonicsothe
wall of text

Categorize. Or, even better, add links from stickied threads. Do it. It'll make this thread 20% cooler.

How does one find the gate with a boss? Answer it.

Shieldbearer is probably one of the bad suggestions of possible classes to play. Besides the fact that anyone can tank t1, theres a myriad other reasons why shielding for teammates isn't such a great idea for a class totally dedicated to that.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:28
#2
Xiaobay's picture
Xiaobay
Boring...

There was a lot of guide which help newbie with their gameplay but none is helpful(not in full details),gate always change once its change(like today) >.< jk run bcome more useless..give a little cr only..

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 14:37
#3
Aemicus's picture
Aemicus
Asking all the questions then

Asking all the questions then answering them a second later gets reeeaaaally annoying. Also, telling this in story format didn't help my interest level at all. Basically, all you need to do is search "Guide" and a million better posts will pop up.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 15:25
#4
Demonicsothe's picture
Demonicsothe
lolwut

Yandao, the arenas is a bonus. Jk is still the best moneymaking for t2 players, and a faster alternative to fsc.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 22:03
#5
Xiaobay's picture
Xiaobay
O.O..

Hm..not agree,u cn test it ur self solo.on monday b4 the gate change i net about 10k from jk(solo) then..yesterday i only net about 6k..>.<

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 23:59
#6
Demonicsothe's picture
Demonicsothe
Pre basil stratums are almost

Pre basil stratums are almost never worth it. Bottom half of a tier is worth it. Thats why I said the arenas were bonuses. They made running full runs decent. But the moneymaking stages are still the pre boss RJP levels.

Wed, 01/11/2012 - 02:06
#7
Xiaobay's picture
Xiaobay
Hm..

That's correct,i know arena is bonus level but jk run only left 1 arena now so only 3k can net in the depth9-12.>.<

Wed, 01/11/2012 - 14:15
#8
Demonicsothe's picture
Demonicsothe
Those were never worth

Those were never worth running. Profit is lower levels. It was lower levels before gate change, and still is lower levels after gate change.

Really, don't make your own party for farming jk gates. If you get lucky, you can jump to basil twice and make two RJP dives for about the same energy cost as a full dive, and make more money per energy used.

Thu, 01/12/2012 - 17:04
#9
Xiaobay's picture
Xiaobay
O.O

Possible for that to happen?:P

Fri, 01/13/2012 - 00:40
#10
Demonicsothe's picture
Demonicsothe
Jump to basil. 10 energy for

Jump to basil. 10 energy for clockwork, 20 for RJP, 10 for jk, 40 energy total. We get 100 energy a day. Thats 60 energy left. Assuming you go on a full run, you use 20 ce. Still profitable.

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