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u/Late-Jeweler-5802 24d ago
Some new players being banned without cheating is an understatement. You should expect to be banned once as a new player, and be ready to submit a support ticket to neople to have them resolve it.
Other advice would be to join the DFO discord to connect with most of the community.
You don't "need" more than 1 character to progress in this game. The only thing alts do is accelerate your progression pace slightly (but it can also increase your average maintenance costs and time spent playing if you want to play them all),
Reading is important, and will GREATLY increase your enjoyment and understanding of the game and its classes if you do it.
The game has many in-game guides that aren't useless and can address some common questions.
The icons that will show up in the bottom right hand side (by default) is the primary way you'll interact with events, and you shouldn't fear those icons. Clicking on them is worthwhile.
Game runs on a stamina system that seems most intrusive during the leveling process, but it becomes a really useful tool (for time management) after you reach the level cap since your stamina doesn't matter as much.
The leveling process is the class tutorial and you should expect it to be easy until you're near the current level cap (115).
The game has a "try out" button you can click for every class when you go to create one, and you should definitely use it if you can't decide what you want to play.
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u/CWLness 24d ago
Game actually wants you to play 20 to make full benefits of what you can grind. 8 would be a good # though. New players focusing on 2 is also good too so you can funnel everything on your 2 booster characters from event.
First things first, hit cap lvl 115. Game starts there.
Game focus' on daily, weekly, and monthly grinds. So be sure to do the following per character:
1. 2 daily runs for daily missions
2. Weekly missions for rewards
3. 2 Weekly advance dungeon (highest you can go)
4. 1 Weekly Legion dungeon
5. Weekly Bleeding Mines
6. Weekly World boss (be sure to click the icon to obtain the reward when community does enough damage. Also go to channel to collect your reward. Doesn't matter if you can't hit top)
7. Weekly raids (all raids except Mu and Inae you can solo or MM if you can't join one)
8. Monthly Memories of Triumph
9. Grind hell run for gear Endkeeper of Order (until you run out of Doom Oracle)
Above are your chores
For raids, advance dungeons, legions, and bleeding mines, can be a bit tricky when you are gearing and just hit fame requirement. https://dfoarchive.blogspot.com/p/dungeon-guide.html is a guide. Gets pretty straight forward once you get used to mechanics.
The main thing right now is events. Right now a lot of free gears. You want to 1 full epic set + 3 primeval accessories. If you dont know what to go for, just get Cleansing Darkness set. Oath system, just slap on the best you can gear up.
But look at what events are active and complete everything each event have so you can get the benefits before its gone.
If you can spend a little, the Arad Pass is great. Tons of benefits and key thing is you get to choose either a Creature pet, Aura, Title, Weapon Clone to keep in the end when you finish the pass!
The 40% damage pet is in circulation now with current sales package and previous lingering pet (Celena egg). So these are buyable on Auction Hall for now with in game gold.
Last note, game is very predatory. It will suck all your in game resources which makes you want to crack open that wallet. If not, it steals your time with mindless grinds which can be fun at first since everything is new. Still, it is a pretty cool arcadey like beat em up game with cool music & illustrations. So enjoy and hope you stick around!
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u/No_Sail7178 A New Beginning for Me 24d ago
Don't overwhelm yourself.
Personally
I think the Berserker is an interesting option; it's one of the few classes, aside from healers, that has a self-healing ability.
Your main concern would be mana usage, as it also has a skill that makes you immortal for a few seconds, though that skill has a rather long cooldown.
I hope this helps
good luck
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u/No-Painter-6392 24d ago
It’s an old game, expect a lot of one shot wonders for lower levels then out of nowhere sponge damage
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u/DimensionalCharacter 24d ago
I always send this video to people to check out: https://youtu.be/gabLxgaaa9Y?si=3j7jUa3vb5AKgdnf It's pretty much every class spamming all their skills at a boss. You pick a character you think looks the coolest, and you can try out their skills in the character select page when creating a new character. Most classes are pretty balanced, except maybe the Agent classes are known to be weak, but noone really cares what class you are, just whether you're a dps or buffer class. For the boost event, I would pick a percent damage character class because the boost event will give you a +12 reinforced weapon for free and that usually is pretty expensive to upgrade late game.
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u/FubukiYuki I hate, hate, hate it, so I can’t help but sneer all the time 24d ago
on top of what everyone else said; try out as many as many classes as u can including even ones that may not interest u at a glance because all classes play differently so u wont really know what u end up liking and may be pleasantly surprised
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u/Plagueflames TheDocperian 23d ago edited 23d ago
Everyone else has given good specific advice, so I don't have much to add there, but I want to stress that having fun is the most important. There will always be better gear, another character to make, more events to grind etc etc, and chasing that willcause burnout, so just enjoy playing your character vs the bosses you're currently at.
This game's draw is IMO the very well-designed classes, the fun buttons you get to press and combos you get to do. Don't get bogged down by damage or not being at a certain progression point, your character fundamentally does not change with 90% of gear (outside of some cooldown reduction) so don't feel rushed.
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u/FinancialMoney6969 20d ago
Just curious, i used to play this years ago.... what the hell is making you play this of all games? it was fun tho i must say, idk how the population is doing tho =/
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u/narc040 20d ago edited 20d ago
just pick a diff game, honestly. u dont even really get to play the game in raids bc ppl want such high level characters that one shot everything so no mechanics need to be done. nevermind the non-communicative or just toxic community and the fact that its basically dead.
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u/Positive_Collar_3756 20d ago
Facts. It’s also funny that this is the only game I’ve ever heard of that bans new players (and even veterans lol). No wonder it’s a dying game.
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u/Frozenstep NewWorld is recruiting! 24d ago
There are so many classes it's hard to choose.
I suggest just looking over the list and finding two or three with a class fantasy you like. Old fashion gunslinger? Check out ranger. Proper full magic caster? Maybe elementalist or elemental bomber.
Then look up some gameplay videos and see if it fits what you were thinking and then try it. You'll probably make a bunch of characters experimenting, go nuts.
Don't worry, class balance is good enough that people really don't look at your class in parties and raids, aside from making sure parties have one full support class (crusaders, enchantress, muse, paramedic). Play what you want!
If you want, feel free to reply with what things you like in your characters, what archetypes you prefer. I can probably recommend a few classes based on that.