This game is absolute cow shit.

Next time do a longer try-out period instead of just giving up so fast.

My advice: learn to drag itens faster. Other advice: read the “pretty uselles guide” again and again.

With time you learn to click at the use key (F) automatically. That will make you loot faster.

The problem you are having with runing speed problably is that you are using splint and stop to use it. You run clicking at W or using Num Lock. For splint you use left shift. If you don’t mantain left shift clicked you will stop splint. You too will lose splint if your stamina goes to 0. I advice you read the “pretty useless guide” again. Other advice: don’t waste your stamina if you really don’t need it, you will need it if you need splint for escape PKillers

That other spots you see on the map are NPCs that can give quests and sell itens and skills. You will not get their quests while you don’t complete the quests that come before at the sequencial quest line. When you compelte that quests you gain a quest for go talk to that NPCs and then their spots at the map change colors and get marked by arrows.

You can make the quests line at the 3 starting cities from your race. I advice to you do them, you will gain more than one starting armor and more bags. Use the bags only inside the bank, don’t wnader with them, they serve only for separate the itens.

The quest line is the same at the 3 starting cities, so all that quests will send you to kill goblins. I advice to you train your skills first with the goblins before go for the tougher mobs. Remember that goblins scout is the easiest goblin and goblin shaman is pretty hard for kill when you are starting, so go for the goblins scouts and if possible stay clear from the other goblins.

While you are killing goblins, try store some sets of spare armor and weapons you get from goblin loot inside the bank. Armor and weapons will break eventually when their durability get to 0. And you can ever be PKilled and lost everything.

Go to bank frequently for drop your loot. You never know when a player from other race will come for kill you. It is frequent that happens, they know the players are farming goblins and other mobs, so it is faster to get that itens killing the farmers. Take note that that is a reason because this game will give a hard time for the chinese farmers.

Get a weapon and a staff from the goblins for you use. You get no skill up from your starting weapon. And you need a staff for cast spells, because you start with two spells (heal self and mana missile) you cannot use while you don’t have a staff.

Don’t get too much angry when someone eventully kill you and loot all your itens. DFO is not item centric. Gear helps, but character skills and “personal” skills help more. Yesterday I escaped an ork that hunted me, I was on foot and the guy mounted, attacking and hiting me.

I escaped just because everytime it come close for hit me I fought it and hit its mount and because I used the terrain for my defense, trying run between trees and rocks, while I tryed to get near the city. I survived, mantained my loot (from the goblins I was farming) and gear and the guy had their mount lose half hp. I think the ork stoped to attack the farmers for some time after that, it problably don’t wanted to risk to lose the mount.

So, last advice: try run like a mad will make you just get hit from behind and that give more damage and will make you get dead for sure. You cannot escape an enemy on mount, so fight him, maybe you win.

Ah… and of course, after I escaped that ork, I stoped my character some minutes inside the city, because I had to drink something and wait for the adrenaline inside my blood get down a few.

:p