Greetings! My name is Kahto, a mage from Montt city. I’m here today to teach you about the tutorial zone.

The tutorial zone is the best place for a newbie to learn the basics of playing the game. It will teach you about using your inventory, talking to NPCs, trading with NPCs, and killing monsters.

You will start in the Hall of Revelation. Approach the blue orb in front of you and with the right click button, click the blue orb to talk to the Light of Revelation. The Light of Revelation will teach you about using your inventory and will give pointers about questing. You will receive 2 novice health potions and 2 novice mana potions when you’re done reading. Continue to the next blue orb to learn more about hunting monsters. Your first real quest will be killing a young varg that can be found just outside of the Hall of Revelation. Don’t forget to equip your weapon by opening your inventory and double-clicking the weapon in your bag or dragging the weapon from your inventory to your weapon slot in the character window. Young vargs are easy to kill and will only take 2-3 hits. Also, don’t forget to pick up the crones and equipments that the monster will drop when they die.

Proceed to the Teacher of Progress (Skill) after killing 1 young varg. You will get a reward for completing your first quest. The Teacher of Progress (Skill) can be found northwest of the first chamber. It will teach you how to increase the level of your skills. Move forward and talk to the next blue orb NPC, the Teacher of Progress (Stat).

The next part of the tutorial area will teach you more about trading, forging and refining equipments. The first NPC you will encounter is the Teacher of Trade. This NPC will teach you about NPC trading. It will also show you the icons that represent different merchant NPCs when you open your map.

Let’s continue with the next NPC, The Knowledge of Forging. Forging has three kinds: Weapon forging, armor forging and potion mixing(alchemy). Forging is available to all players and doesn’t require additional fees. The NPC will reward you with 3 types of weapons and 2 for each type. By talking to the master weaponsmith, you will be able to forge using the materials given to you.

We move on to the Teacher of Refine. Refining is a technique that lowers the requirements of equipments, excluding accessories. There are two types of refining: Level refining and Stat refining. If you choose to refine your freshly-made weapon, talk to the Level Refiner. You can reduce your equipments level by 1, 2 or 3 levels. The price will depend on the option you choose. You can also talk to the Status Refiner but since your weapon has no stat requirement you can’t use it right now.

The final part of the tutorial zone involves killing. The first NPC you’ll see is the Light of Split Path. This NPC will give you a quest depending on your race. Humans, Elves, Half Elves, Dark Elves, Giants and Halflings will have a different path from Dhans and Dekans.

Your next quest is to find the Teacher of Battle Strategy. The Teacher of Battle Strategy will teach you about the monster kill bonus experience. Monster kill or M.kill indicates the number of monsters you have hunted. The M.kill bonus experience is an additional experience award you will get for every 20 monsters hunted. Your first task is to kill ten young vargs and 10 young imps. After that, return to the Teacher of Battle Strategy to receive a new task. This time you will have to kill 10 more monsters. Submit the Proof of a Swift Hunter to the Light of Dispatch.

The Light of Dispatch will award you newbie accessories, adventurer’s talisman and a fishing pole that will help you with your adventures outside the tutorial zone. This ends your adventures in the Hall of Revelation. You can go outside by talking to the Gatekeeper of Hall of Revelation.

This concludes my lecture about the Tutorial Zone. Your journey to the world of Rohan will lie on your choices and your dreams will start to unfold.

As promised, here are the steps with screenies on character creation.

Since I have already posted stuff about how to get inside the game, I’ll start with this screen – character selection/creation.  This time, click on the <Create> button.

You will then have this screen after you click on the <Create> button.  Click on the image of the character you wanna create and then click on the <Next> button.  I’ve selected Human (male)  for this tutorial.  The image/character you selected gets highlighted after you click on it.

You may now choose your desired Face and Hair for your character.  Click on the <Next> button when done and you’re back to the character selection/creation screen.

Here’s a video on character creation as well.

Enjoy!

Some of you might be curious on how to get inside the game so I’ve posted here the steps and screenies for each step.

First, click this RohanOnline icon on your desktop.

And then it will load this screen.  In this stage; the system will scan the game files, check for new patches and optimize data.  The <Play>button is enabled as soon as its done with the process.  Click on it when you’re ready to play the game.

GameGuard will do its thing, securing the game, after you click on the <Play> button.

After GameGuard had made sure that everything’s OK, the next image that you will see is the YNK screen.  YNK is the developer of Rohan Online.

This is the log in screen.  Just enter your ID and Password and click on the <Login> button.  You may opt to tick the <SaveID> box if you don’t like typing your username everytime you log in.

After the server has authenticted the account info you’ve provided, it will then ask you to choose your server.  Rohan International has 5 servers: Torian, Silva, Syrephis, Marea and Ahkma. Click your desired server and then click on the <Confirm> button.

Then you will see one of Rohan Online’s loading screens.

You will see character selection next.  Just click on the character you wanna play (it will move forward after you click on it displaying the basic character information as well) and then click on the <Start> button.

And then another loading screen.

And Voila!  You’re now inside the game!

I will be posting about character creation soon so stay tuned!

I was told to finish the tutorial because aside from learning a lot about the game and the different NPCs,  I’d get a lot of freebies after the tutorial most especially the talisman which could give me a 20% EXP boost for 8 hours.  I’d also have reached level 10 by the time I got out of the tutorial zone.

Since Chino’s character was a Dekan, meaning a damager, I wanted a “support” character so I could help him out. So my first character was a Human would be Defender.  I took the tutorial, got into level 10, did some quests, and I got bored.  I was even thinking that time that Rohan’s kinda not so nice.  I deleted this character.

And then I opted for a Dark Elf would be Wizard. I loved it.  I realized that I was more into wands and gowns than swords.  Dark Elves wore gowns.  I took the tutorial again, got into level 10 and partied with Chino’s Dekan.  And then I realized that even though playing a  Dark Elf character was cool, it didn’t feel good to be a damager too; I wanted to help Chino.  So I gave up this character as well.  Enough for gowns.

Finally, I created an Elf would be Priest.  I also enjoyed playing this character because it was a wand-user one.  Character build was 3 psy and 1 vit per level.  Yes, a very dedicated full support healer in the making.  So I took the tutorial and made it to level 10 and graduated in Vena.  I often referred to this town as vena sausage because I happened not to like this town that much, that with its small bridges.  An FYI to those RF Online players out there, the female elf would surely give Cora’s female a run for her money.  Really.  Just click on the dance emoticon and you’d know.

Did I ever get tired of the tutorial? No.  As I’ve already mentioned, it wasn’t boring.  I still got lost around it and it seemed like there was always something new to expore.

kahto will be posting about the tutorial soon so stay tuned!

This is kahto’s character in Rohan Online.  A level 1 Dark Elf would be Wizard.