Game Tips

• Blunt Damage
  • caused by hammers
• Chaos Damage
  • caused by Mesmer canes and staves
  • no known resistance
• Cold Damage
  • caused by cold or ice attacks
  • slows down movement
• Dark Damage
  • does not ignore armor
• Earth Damage
  • caused by earth wands, staves and weapons with an 'ebon' upgrade
• Fire damage
  • attack involving heat or flame
  • earth or death creatures take more damage from fire
  • water or fire creatures take less damage from fire
• Holy Damage
  • ignores armor
  • deals double damage to undead creatures like minions
  • is neither physical nor elemental damage
  • Necromancer Tormentor's Armor and Necrotic Armor have weakness against holy damage
• Light Damage
  • deals double damage to undead creatures
  • does not ignore armor
• Lightning damage
  • caused by most Air Magic skills, air staves, and air wands
• Physical Damage
  • caused by Axes, Hammers, Swords, Arrows, Bone Horrors, Bone Fiends, Bone Minons
• Piercing Damage
  • is physical damage
  • caused by Bows/Arrows
• Shadow damage
  • caused by a number of necromancer skills
  • ignores armor
  • there is no protection of any kind available
• Slashing damage
  • caused by melee weapons

• When you die, you get temporarily weakened by a death penalty (DP) of 15%, which lowers your health and energy by that percentage.
• If you die when you already have a DP, you will receive an additional 15% DP.
• The highest DP you can receive is 60%.
• In PvE, you slowly recover from a DP by killing monsters.
• Every 75 xp received will remove 1% of your current DP.
• Killing a boss will instantly recover 2% DP.
• If you receive a 60% DP while in the Tombs of Primeval Kings or a GvG match, you will be prevented from resurrecting automatically every 2 minutes.

• The arrows to the right of the max energy number symbolize energy regeneration.
• Each arrow on the energy bar represents .33 energy regained per second.
• If your energy falls below 0 you will slowly lose energy at the rate of 3 per second for each arrow to the left of the number on your energy bar.

• Fame and Rank are account-based, so you will have the same values for all your characters.
• You gain Fame by winning consecutive matches in the Tomb of Primeval Kings tournament.
• Your rank increases based on your fame.
• If you have rank 3 or higher, you can use the /fame or /rank command, to bring up an animal hologram to indicate your fame or rank.

• You and your party can receive morale boosts (MB) for completing parts of some quests or missions, or by killing a boss monster.
• You will receive extra health and energy equal to the amount of the MB.
• The maximum MB you can receive is 10%.
• If you receive a MB while you have a DP, the DP value will be reduced by the amount of the MB.

• You can leave a party by logging off or by map-travel.
• You can target party members with spells by clicking on his/her name in the party list and cast the spell.
• You can follow a party member by clicking on their name in the party list and then hit Space, or by double-clicking on their name in the party list.
• If your character is dead, you can click on any member (dead or alive) in the party list to see what they are seeing.
• If a member's bar is pink, they are suffering health degeneration from a hex.
• If a member's bar is slighty grey, they are bleeding.
• If a member's bar is yellowish green, they are poisoned/diseased.
• If a member's bar has an arrow pointing up, they have a positive effect on them, usually, an enchantment.
• If a member's bar has an arrow pointing down, they have a negative effect on them which could be a hex (pink arrow) or a condition (grey arrow).
• If a member's bar on the list becomes silver (after it was red), it means he/she was disconnected or has left the party.

• You can only have one stance or preparation active at a time, if you try using a new stance or preparation with another one is still active, the first one will end.
• Elementalist's Glyphs only affect the next spell that is cast, and none of the Glyphs are tied to an attribute, so they will work with all elemental spells.
• Ranger Nature Rituals will summon a spirit at your current position that will have a specific effect on everything and everyone in its range, including enemies for a specific length of time. Any ritual can be instantly ended by killing the spirit.
• Ranger Traps will place a "trap" at your current position. Traps are AoE skills and once placed will be invisible until it is triggered by an enemy coming into range.