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Note for the real n00bs who may not get the point: This whole guide's point is to demonstrate what you shouldn't do if you don't want to be a gaming n00b, or be considered one by your fellow players. That said, nope, I don't quite stand n00bs and I'm trigger-happy around them, and one of the points most players miss (for a mile, too,) even if a player has fifty levels above you and their gear's godly, doesn't mean they won't be n00bs. N00bness is in your attitude, not in your character's level.

Also, here's a glossary on terms used within this guide that may not be known by neofits.
- MMORPG: Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. Yep, just what you're playing.
- PK/PKing: Player Killer/Player Killing. The act to murder another player character, when you're the one attacking first.
- PKK/PKKing: PK Killer. These are the guys who'll fight PKers when seen. Some actively search for PKers, others just fight back or avenge fallen comrades.
- KSing: Kill Stealing. The act of being the last to hit a creature you did little (or nothing) to weaken. In most games, that'll mean you get any loot the creature drops, along with the experience from killing it. This is considered an offense by some players (and I agree with them) and some won't hesitate to PK anyone who KSs them (and I again agree.)
- Plvling: Power Leveling. When a high level player teams up with one or more low level players and helps them level faster by sharing his/her kill experience with them. Some high level players consider this a helpful tool, as high level players often get rewards for plvling, while others consider it an annoying waste of time (hear hear!)
- Looting: Trying (and sometimes actually succeeding) to get items that dropped from monsters killed by other players. Some players will be 'smart' enough to sit on someone else's items, oftentime ending up with a fight between both players, or if the item owner's level is too high, it ends with a dead looter.

Okay, enough of that, let's start with the real guide.

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Section 1 - Naming your character.

- Gibberish like "sfafhafafsaf" is one of the options, and a very popular one, since it doesn't let others remember your name easily, and will annoy experienced players. If that doesn't work, try naming your character after any fanwhored anime/manga/videogame character you know (using names from unknown, obscure and better anime/manga/videogames is forbidden. It would mean you know more than the basics of either field.)

- Of course, the fanwhored names are always taken. Try something amazingly keen like K4g0m3 or Cl0vd, or if you're not into leet, there's always Naruto343322. Let your name show your n00bness to the world with pride... lolz.

Note: Those listed above are actual names seen in several MMORPGs.

- Also, deformation of obscene words are as funny as Ferrel, and most experienced players will kill you if you use them. So why not try them? Giving your character names like fvckjoo or p00siel33k3r will keep your gaming experience interesting.

Note: Again, using real examples.

- Last but not least, try always choosing a name that implies the opposite to the class you'll use. Everyone loves seing a sword-wielding Kagome, a white mage Sephiroth or an archer Naruto. And don't forget to name your Chaotic Evil Male Necromancer "Usagi Tsukino."

Note: Yep, you guessed right. Seen those too.

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Section 2 - Choosing A Class.

- First off, consider your skills. If you favor ranged combat, choose a meelee-based class. If you love meelee, choose a mage class, preferibly a healer*. If your thing's using spells, choose warrior, fighter, or whatever name the near-zero-mana class is in the game you're joining.

* Not a bad idea in Flyff Online, actually. Stat boosters that can melee = neat.

- You can also choose a class that goes with your skill, but only if you follow one of these paths:
1) Get one skill point of every damn skill/spell your class can use (and those the class can't use, if possible.)
2) Focus in the most useless, random and/or mana-consuming skill/spell you find, and abuse it as your one and only way of fighting both mobs and players. If any skilled player beats you down with better skills even tho they're way lower level, you can use the infamous "f** u n00b!" comeback. They'll laugh it off because they're n00bs... No wait, you are.

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Section 3 - PKing

- Remember, n00bs suck balls when fighting monsters, so your main way of playing must be PKing. However, PKing someone who agrees to battle you, or who's visibly stronger than you but still killable, is a big no for n00bs. N00bs only attack the level 1 new players, or kill high level players by waiting for them to be AFK. A direct, honorable confrontation would mean you're doing it right, and we don't want that, do we?

- From the above statement, we can say killing characters who have no way in hell to fight back is fun for n00bs, but more seasoned players are boring and lame so they will see such issue as a chore rather than a thing to enjoy. Hence, if you PK their friends and they come beat your weak a** all around the map, you can be sure they won't enjoy it. Watch out though, since there's some assholes out there that don't enjoy killing players for fun, but can and will enjoy killing a n00b, repeatedly. (I'm one of those, so bite my PKKing a**.)

- PKing can also be a source of gold. Go PK those level 5 players who carry about five gold pieces each! It's funnier than hunting, even though hunters make a thousand times more money than PKers.

- When you PK too much, most games will "tag" you as a mass PKer, either by changing your name's color, or adding a symbol besides it. When that happens, go sit in the middle of the most crowded city you can find, go afk, and when you come back to find your character dead, b***h at everyone for doing the right thing.

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Section 4 - Leveling/Partying.

- The game you're playing is multiplayer which means everyone must and will join any parties available. Solo playing is for shitheads, really. Also, leveling yourself is something you must only do when you're out of high levels to babysit you up to a higher ground. It's not like they need to level too, right? They're high levels, so they must let anyone, no matter how annoying, into their parties.

- The best place to try leveling on your own (remember, this is just a last resort thing) is wherever monsters are big, bad, and have a few dozen levels on you (in some games, this is actually true for mages and rangers, but not for meelees.) Go axe down those lvl 200 Doom Trolls with your lvl 5 Warrior, and never give up! Nevermind those leveling in areas where monsters are the same level level up ten times faster than you.

- The best way to ask for plvling is by using the worst grammar possible. Things like "plz plvl me!!!!!!!111" are just what those big bad high levels with axes three times your size want to hear. If they don't plvl you, they're lame. If they kill you after the twentieth time you ask 'politely' to get plvled, they're f'ing PKers.

- While in a party, constantly try to be the leader, even if you're not. After all, the high level mage that just accepted to plvl you is now your slave. He must go to the monsters you tell him to (no matter you've been playing for two hours compared to his two months, ) let you pick everything the monsters drop, and protect you at any cost even tho you're drawn to monsters a hundred levels above you like a moth to a flame. Wait, what's that? The game has a "kick" button? Oh well, time to go look for another plvler.

- If the party you're in consists of people around your level, try to always be the last one to hit the monsters, even if you didn't hit it more than once. Surely all other party members won't mind losing all that gold and items.

- KS everyone and everthing, even if they're in the same party, or even guild/clan. It's the only way to make money!

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Section 5 - Guilds/Clans

- Being part of a guild or clan is a base requirement for online games. Only lamers are guildless. Also, taking part in any activity of the guild, be it PKing parties, wars with other guilds or just standing around doing nothing is something all members must do, nevermind if they're fifty levels too low to be of any use for PKing.

- Ten minutes after you join into the guild, you must start bothering the leader with requests to have a rank (ranks vary from game to game, but mostly imply nothing of real importance.) If the leader rejects, keep on trying. He'll either give up or kick you out, so chances are fifty/fifty, right?

- If that fails, wait until your level is high enough to make your own guild. Then you'll be the king, the best, the man, and most likely, due to your n00bness, the only member.

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Section 6 - Trading/Moneymaking

- The rule of gold of trading: Your prices are always right.

- If you, by any chance, find a rare item, try selling it for three or four times what you see other players sell it. Sure, you have to stay 'marketing' your item for twenty times what they need, but you get more money than them! Hah! N00bs! Oh wait...

- Scamming, spamming and bullshitting at market areas is not only allowed, but needed. Some games have non PvP market areas, which makes all that even easier to pull out. Just remember, some players can't stand your kind, so keep all your items safe somewhere.

- People with godly gear will always have tons of gold, and will always want to buy things they already have, or that are lower in level and/or quality than their gear. So if they don't, you can b***h and spam them to hell and back... Then hide somewhere until their n00b hunting party gets tired of looking for you.

- Related to this, recent studies have also observed an increase, in the last few years, of the Charity N00b sub-species. What's their speciality? They go and kill monsters to level up, as normal players would, but they don't pick up a single damn drop from monsters, focusing only in killing crap. You could try being one of them, then b***h once you're level 30 on shitty gear, at all those 'n00bs' who are only level 10 but have twice as much gold as you, and full gear for their level.

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Section 7 - Gear

- If you're meelee, buy magician/ranger clothes. If you're a magician/ranger, buy meelee gear. With only this, you'll be considered a n00b by many, if not all, high level players.

- You reached level 30 and have level 30 gear? Man, what's wrong with you! The level 1 gear is the one that looks the cutest in the game, so stick to it! Because if it's cute, it's good, right? Oh, did that monster twenty levels below you just kill you in two hits? Stupid monsters, who needs them, go PK some level 1 'n00b.'

- And last but not least... Upgrade/buy what you need the least. Meelees need better armor and weapons, so buy them some mana-boosting necklace. Mages need more magic, so buy some gear that cuts their mana down and adds strength. As for rangers (archers, ninjas, whatever,) they mostly base in speed and dodge, so... Buy speed/dodge reducing gear which add to their... Uhm... Strength!

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There you go. Follow each and every one of these tips, and you'll be a n00b in no time. Though if you do follow them... You were a n00b from the start, and you didn't really need the guide at all.

Congratulations on your n00bness, and if you see me in a game, run. razz 

I may post my "Razor Kills Games" thing... Something I wrote for another site's forum where I gave a half-serious review of good or bad games, complete with sarcastic remarks and evil simils with other games.

But not right now. I be tired.

N00b =/= Newbie. Please be using the right term. Newbies are those that, like you, want to learn, not just "OMG I PLAYZ ONLIEN!!!!111" N00bs are like described above, idiots that think they're doing the right thing and keep on doing it without researching at all.

But about your question: no, because there's several kinds of skill/class/gear mechanics depending on what game you join in, different ways to level up, different ways to make gold in games, and so on.

In fact, that's what creates n00bs in most games. Imagine someone coming from World Of Warcraft and faced with a game like Conquer Online, where you don't need to buy gear every five levels (you upgrade it instead,) where quests are secondary, and where teaming up/joining a guild isn't really going to help your leveling that much (unless you get plvled.) Their reaction isn't pretty, most of the time.

One question. What MMORPGs allow general PKing?
Most have it organized, like inGuild Wars, and I know WoW allows the butchering of opposing factions. At least I think it does. Not played it that much.
But is there any where you can kill pretty much anyone who crosses your path?

Sadly, there's a few out there that do allow free PKing, or somewhat restricted (in ONE map out of twenty the world has, you can safely go around hunting... Level 1 mobs...) And one of the reasons why I despise guilds/clans with all my heart, is that if you join up a guild and they have enemy guilds, you'll be PK-fodder just for being there (even if you don't fight at all.)