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[badna0]

As most guides are now outdated in the Revolution Patches (describe quests that no longer exist, places to level that are now impractical due to increased level mobs, etc.)

This is meant to be a comprehensive, general guide to people very new to trickster, or those looking for questing summaries in the new (Revolution Patch).

Thanks to the Wiki for all it's information and the pictures!

The last time I have updated this guide is... 1/6/2007

Table of Contents:
1. Choosing a Character
2. Choosing a Build, and Putting Stats
3. Useful Commands
4. Quests
i. Grinding Tips
a. Level 1-15, Coral Beach
b. Level 15-25, Desert Beach
c. Level 25-35, Poppuri Dungeon
d. Level 35-45, Path to Caballa Relics,
e. Level 45-55, Caballa Relics
f. Level 60-70, Oops Wharf
g. Level 70-80, Mermaid Palace
5. Vending your Items

1. Choosing a Character

Welcome to Trickster! I'm sure you're excited after downloading the program,
and itching to get started. The first question that most people should ask in
MMORPG's, is what character should I be? Trickster is no exception, and it's
worth it to note that the character you pick is the character you must stay
with - there's no changing across types in Trickster.

So let's start with the basics:
There are 4 types of character, and each type has two animals (classes):

Power types are your melee damagers, and these classes have good
melee attack skills. Worth noting is that a Trickster Power Class has excellent
debuffs, and often doubles as a good tank, depending on your build.
There are two Power type animals:


The Buffalo is your male power type, they specialize in AoE (Area of Effect) melee damage, but can also deal loads of 1v1 damage through their skill Berserk.
The Bunny is your female power type; they are more focused towards 1v1 combat and have lots of combo skills.

Magic types are your spell casters; only these classes in Trickster deal magic
damage. Magic classes are also extremely good PvPers, due to a number of skills they get at high levels.


The Dragon is your male magic type (though they do look like girls),
they specialize Light/Dark magic. The Dark Dragon is one of the biggest powerhouses in PvP.
The Sheep is your female magic type; they are more focused towards elements and can be very versatile depending on which elements you pick.

Sense types are your craftsmen, and can be very good damage dealers; Sense classes are very versatile types, and virtually the only types that will be any good at drilling.


The Lion is your male sense type; he is a gunner and a ranged damage dealer, and also one of the best pvpers.
The Fox is the female sense type; they excel in digging, and have excellent damage in the early levels. At higher levels they will learn landmine skills and become great item compounders.

Charm types are your tanks, and at higher levels, they can transform into different creatures. There's no stopping a charm type that has transformed, given the proper builds.


The Raccoon is the male charm type, and they are excellent at dealing damage, once they level up enough. The Raccoon can transform into a werewolf at higher levels, gaining amazing amounts of Evade.
The Cat is the female charm type, and they have terrific attack skills as well; the Cat can transform into... a cat... at higher levels, gaining large amounts of attack power.

Sounds overwhelming, huh?
If you're new to the game, I would recommend a power type (as they are easy to level) or a fox (my first character, they excel in digging, an important thing to do for a lot of quests). Of course, that doesn't mean that you can't pick the other classes, it just may be easier with those choices.

1. Choosing a Build, and Putting Stats
There are 12 stats in trickster, and they're grouped according to the character types above:
Power Type stats
AP (Attack Power), is the stat that determines melee attack strength
AC (Accuracy) determines melee attack accuracy and gun attack power.
DX (Dexterity) determines melee attack rate/speed.
(thanks Kuyabob for the AC/DX corrections)

Magic Type Stats
MP (Magic Points) is the user's mana pool, which gives skill and spell.
MA (Magic Attack) determines the damage of magic-type skills
MD
MD (Magic Defense) determines the defense against magic-type skills
Sense Type Stats
WT (Weight) determines the amount of items a player can carry
DA (Detect Ability) gives the % that a player will successfully detect an item when drilling (:bulb: and :inf:). It also increases the damage of your criticals. (thanks Petro)
LK (Luck) increases critical rates, and determines gun and spell accuracy.
Charm Type Stats
HP (Hit Points) gives a player more health
DP (Defense Points) gives a player resistance to physical attacks
HV (Evade) gives a player likelihood to evade melee attacks, and increases gun defense.

It's also worth noting that many skills increase in damage off of different stats. So a character with no attack isn't necessarily screwed, because you can use a skill (which uses a non-AP stat to calculate damage) to deal damage.

So you've chosen your build, how do we put stats? Each character in
Trickster has what we call a build, and this is comprised of 4 numbers.
The 4 numbers add up to 10 and they represent the amount of each attribute a character will have.
Moreover, each character has their type (power, charm, etc.) locked in at 4.
We customarily list the builds as four numbers, like

1441, 4141, 1432, etc.

Each digit represents a type, power/magic/sense/charm, respectively, and when you level up, Trickster will automatically put that many stat points into the three stats of that type.
So a Buffalo that has a 4114 build will get 4 stat points into all 3 Power (and all three Charm) stats, and 1 point into the Magic and Sense stats.
Moreover, every character will get 4 stat points on level up, that you can distribute into whichever stat(or stats) you want.

For every 4 stat points that an attribute receives, it levels up!

A sample build (which is in my signature): 1144 Fox, Pure DA

means that my character gets one point in AP, AC, DX, MP, MA, MD and 4 points into WT, DA, LK, HP, DP, HV. Moreover, each level I put 4 points into DA.

So each time my character levels up, WT/LK/HP/DP/HV will level up once, and DA will level up twice. The other stats will level once for every 4 levels I gain.

3. Useful Commands (Caps Sensitive) :
/Register # [message] macros a message so you can say that message by pressing (Ctrl + #)
/Depth tells you the digging depth of a field.

4. Quests
So you've arrived in Caballa Island!
Let's get started!

I will first list the amount of items you need TOTAL for each area, then list the quests for you to do (with the NPCs) afterwards.

The first thing you need to do is get off the ship. But before you talk to Cap'n Stan
I'd go to the bottom-left of the screen and find Mr. Monkey T
and pick up Thiefmon's Bad Check, you can sell it for some money (100 galders, not much at all.)

Then do the tutorial:
Quick run-through
Talk through NPC 1 on the left (just keep clicking, your mouse will be on the correct answer), collect rookie equips...
Talk through NPC 2, buy a tangerine from NPC 5 (on the right) collect rookie equips...
It's not a bad idea to buy extra tangerines, either... they restore 20 hp and are "free"... Do note you shouldn't buy TOO many, as they do take up WT (the % under your mp bar), and too many (> 90%) will make you run slower.
This is the direct quote from ZombieKiller:

you should 'buy' as many Tangerines as you can hold. They're free and they cure 20hp

Talk through NPC 3, equip rookie equipment (hit 'I' for inventory, go to the equip tab and double click everything there) then learn your n00b skill (hit 'C' for cards, go to the skill tab and double click) and put it in your hotbar (hit 'S', drag the skill icon to your hotbar). Kill the enemy that appears, and pick up his drop (a mini-carrot)... Talk to the NPC 3 again, then warp out.

Then you'll be in

a. Level 1-15 Coral Beach

Items to dig (0)
Items to pick up from monsters...
1 x Entry Application (Torobbie, lvl 1)
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1 x Pen (Bad Fury, lvl 4)
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5 x 10 Galder Coupon (Tottochi, lvl 5)
1 x Luxury Socks (Tottochi, lvl 5)
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5 x 50 Galder Coupon (Little Cora, lvl 8)
1 x Cool Ice (Blue Penguin, lvl 11)
1 x Cool Spring Water (Blue Penguin, lvl 11)


Pictures: Torrobie/Bad Fury/Tottochi/Little Cora/Blue Penguin


You can do this two ways... The slow way is to talk to Esther (the NPC right next to you when you enter)
after doing each quest and following her instructions. I prefer just to collect
all the items, then do them in one go... So I'd collect the items above (just kill the monsters listed in order of level till you get all the stuff), then
go to Esther... You can click through the stuff, and you'll get lots of quests (and exp) all at the same time enguin:

Coral Beach is linear, so you shouldn't need help on which way to go - just
follow your minimap and look for the blue arrows telling you where the next
map is.

You'll probably grind to level 7-8 (Penguins may be hard, its okay if you die,
you'll warp back to town and you can turn in the quests you got so far), and
get 2-3 more levels from the quests.

At any rate, when you've collected all the items, go back to town, talk
to Esther and turn all of them in. You should have finished 5 quests, 3 with
Esther, 1 with Bunny Maid, and 1 with Dorothy.

I'm assuming that you've now hit lvl 10-11!

(PS I'd suggest selling your wings in the shop, they're heavy, don't do much
and give you a tidy 1.5k each. also, equip the items you get)

At this point, depending on which build you're following, if you haven't yet,
and your guide says to, consider going to the Coral Beach Skill Shrine, and
purchasing a skill for your class. Make sure your level meets the requirement!
To learn a skill, just hit 'C', go to the skill tab, and double click the skill.

Getting to 15

NOTE:music: : I wouldn't recommend partying at this point, as most people won't be
killing that fast and your experience will be diluted, even with the exp. bonus.
I find I level much faster by myself.

Items to dig (0)
Items to pick up from monsters...
9 x Duck Mole Paws (Real Golden Mole, lvl 20)


1. First, talk to lifeguard Been on the right side of Coral Beach Town. He's next to the water slide. He'll give you Bean's Present.
2. Go to Coral Beach 3, and find Tinnie in the upper-left hand corner... she'll give you experience as a reward for finishing this EZ quest!

Now we have to grind (kill monsters for EXP). I'd go to Coral Beach 4, and
talk to NPC Hunter Yuri next to the cave Entrance... She'll give you a quest to hunt Bustshells...

It's not too hard, and they're right there. Do the quest, 3-4 times till you hit level 12-14 ish, then head into the cave.

Here you'll be hunting the moles for their Duck Mole Paws, you need 9 to give to the NPC Lifeguard Dean in Coral Beach 3. Also, pick up any Aprons that may drop from Addax...
After turning in Lifeguard Dean's quest (Duck Mole Paws x 3, you can do it 3 times), you should be level 15 by now, tune in for the next chapter of this guide!

But first:
Why would we return to Coral Beach?
Coral Beach only has a couple things worth returning for:
1. Clione Cards (rare drop from Clione, lvl 15) are used in several 1st job masteries... You'll need 2.
2. Digging - Rusty Chains (level 30 AC comp) drop in Coral Beach Maps - you might need these if you plan to compound Pharoah equipment BUT be forwarned, you'll need a lot (13 per slot[!])

My image space is limited per post, so I'll put the remainder of the guide in the next few messages...

[badna0]

b. Level 15-25 Desert Beach

After going through the Coral Beach Cave (2 screens), you'll get to Gate of Desert Beach.

Gate of Desert Beach
If you're level 15, there's a couple things you can do here:

Items to Dig:
2 x Tanning Oil
1 x Oasis Water
1 x Empty Potion Bottle (can also be purchased from shop in Gate)
Items to Pick up from Monsters... (0)

1. Hit 'Y' and access your MyShop inventory, you'll have a lvl 15 gift box.
(along with other gift boxes, if you haven't withdrawn them at lvl 5/10
respectively). Double Click it to withdraw it to your regular inventory.
It will be a Lotus Leaf Hat - put that on right away, it gives some decent
stats for a beginner.

2. Find Driller Marky , he'll give you your first drill! We need to drill the items I listed above. But
first, a mini tutorial (I put it in a quote box so you can easily skip past if if
you know how to drill)

Drilling
is not hard. All you have to do is hit "D" and click where you want to drill.
If you want to drill efficiently, though, here's a couple of tips:

1. You should only drill on the edges of the map, edges of objects (trees, bushes, huts), and near npcs. There really isn't any reason to be drilling elsewhere (unless you know items are there, eg. basic detection), as most items are found in these locations.

2. When you are looking for a good place to drill, drill in many different places once (from a tree->edge of map->hut). What we're trying to do first is detect an "item pool", which is essentially a densely clustered group of items (this happens a lot). Keep drilling in different places till you find an item, and the places nearby have items also

3. Once you find an item pool (you pull up 3-4 items close to each other), that's when you condense your drilling. You want to move your character as little as possible along an edge, or a little outside the edge, and get as many drills in as you can. You will pick up items rapidly this way.

4. If you think you have used up a whole item pool, see step 2. Lather, rinse, repeat.

5. Another tip: If you're doing a quest that requires multiple items to be drilled (eg. the letters quest in the next section), often certain items have higher drop rates in different fields. I'll recommend the fields to you when I know, but for the most part, you'll have to experiment and see what works for you.

3. Turn in your quests to Driller Marky and Don Giuvanni.


Now we're off to Paradise (it's a city, don't get too excited)!

Paradise
All the items I have listed here are for lvl 15/20 required quests. Don't fret if someone won't let you start a quest, just wait till level 20 and we'll turn it in then.
Items to Dig:
For Level 15 Quests: (yes, I know, it's a lot)
7 x Bronze Gemstone (Crystal Copper Mine No.1, Go SW out of paradise and go to the mine hut symbol on your minimap)
5 x Letter of Fortune (Dig, any desert beach map)
5 x Letter of Misfortune (Dig, any desert beach map)
5 x Love Letter (Dig, any desert beach map)
5 x Confession Letter (Dig, any desert beach map)
5 x Farewell Letter (Dig, any desert beach map)
10 x Soap (Dig, any desert beach map)
10 x Shampoo (Dig, any desert beach map)
10 x Bathing Sponge (Dig, any desert beach map)
15 x Sun Cream (Dig, any desert beach map, fairly rare)
For Level 20 Quests:
5 x Salt (Dig, desert beach) OR FOX ONLY 10 x Ground Earthworm (Golden Mole, lvl 20)
1 x Jenny's Picture B (Dig, Desert Beach) OR CAT ONLY 1 x Cooling Fan (Fan Lizard, lvl 26) and 5 x Clam Meat (Shell Trap, lvl 19)
2 x Swimming Suit (Dig, Desert Beach) OR RACCOON ONLY 2 x Pen (Bad Fury, lvl 4 or Cannon Shell, lvl 33), 2 x Paper (buy from shop)
2 x Limestone (Dig, any desert beach map)
1 x Garden Trowel (Dig, any desert beach map)
1 x Oasis Water (Dig, any desert beach map)
1 x Glyph Cornerstone (Dig, Pyramid Dungeon 1 or 5 suggested, fairly rare)*

*also consider purchasing a Glyph Cornerstone
from a player shop for 40k-ish.

Items to Pick up from Monsters...
For Level 15 Quests:
15 x Flower Necklace (Hula Octopus, lvl 25)
15 x Octopus Legs (Hula Octopus, lvl 25)
15 x Pine Bong Bong Mask (Pineapple, lvl 24)
For Level 20 Quests:
5 x Bouquet (Hula Octopus, lvl 25) OR BUNNY ONLY 10 x Red Lipstick (Hula Octopus, lvl 25)
10 x Duck Mole's Feather (Golden Mole, lvl 20) OR SHEEP ONLY 1 x Magic Sealed Letter (DIG, Desert Beach)
3 x Illegal CD (Grumpy Octopus, lvl 29) OR BUFFALO ONLY 3 x Illegal CD (???, needs to be verified by wiki)
1 x Colouring Set (Fanta Fish, lvl 21), and 1 x Paper (buy from shop) (DRAGON quest is the same)
10 x Scorpion Meat Jerky (Sea Scorpion, lvl 22) OR LION ONLY 6 x Noctilucent Star (Fanta Slime, lvl 18)
5 x Sand Grains (Sand Demon, lvl 28)
1 x Sandglass (Sand Demon, lvl 28)
1 x Legendary Recipe (Sand Demon, lvl 28)


Fanta Slime/Shell Trap/Golden Mole/Fanta Fish/Sea Scorpion/Pineapple/Hula Octopus(Grumpy Octopus)/Fan Lizard/Sand Demon/Cannon Shell

Basically, check the wiki for the locations of all of these quests...
You WILL gain a lot of levels doing these quests, and you will get some
decent gear too.

But to start you out...

1. Find Robert in Paradise, and finish his quests (like 3 of them, you only need the Bronze Gemstones.

2. Then talk to Andrew and finish his Welcome Seal quests

3. Finally, talk to Sandman and finish the Key Quest for Desert Beach. You'll
get a lot of good equipment by doing this quest completely, but if you're
short on time (or patience), you only need to get 5 stickers to finish the Key
Quest.

You can use your Weapon Ticket A and exchange it for a weapon with Mint,
in the Desert Beach Shop. You can preview the items by right-clicking them
in the menu.

Congratulations on reaching Level 25!

Why would we return to Desert Beach?
-Mastery Cards
-Digging for Tanning Oil (lvl 30 HV comp), 14 x required
-Go Bossing at Tutankhamen (lvl 50 recommended, lvl 70 for soloing) and get a tut set
-Do the "Tut set" quests for 3m exp (!) and lots of TM exp, too
-Compounding and Refinement NPCs are conveniently located
-Get rid of junky items by dropping them in the shop and giving them to n00bs (haha, lots of people try to friend you if you do this)

[badna0]

b. Level 25-30 Questing and Grinding

Plan Ahead:
- When you reach level 50/TM 41, you can change to your 2nd
Job. One of the requirements you'll need is a 1 Million Galder
Check, which you get from Andrew in
Megalopolis bank.
Andrew
Just a heads up so you can start to save up money now. I'll
walk you through the job change when we get there.

Now we have a few options for things to do. The net result is
we want to hit level 30 so we can start questing in Poppuri Dungeon.

OPTION 1:
Blacksmith Marx Mining Quest (LVL 25+)
The quest is to drill up 3 x High Quality Tins and 3 x Crystals of Amethyst.
You can do it 5 times, for a decent bit of experience, but overall nothing
to impressive.
Pros:
- You'll get lots of refining gemstones (keep the gemstones of all types,
and bank them, they're very useful for refining, you need lots).
It's not really worth it to save stones above pieces/low quality (I ignore
everything but gemstones), because you'll rarely get to that point in
refining.

- One of the random quest rewards is a tornado stone, which is a
very good element comping stone (30-40% range, lvl 1 requirement,
1 needed to compound). Estimated selling price would be about 1M,
or you can keep it for when you need to element compound a weapon
for air.

Cons:

-The experience isn't that great.
-Lots of drilling.

Pick up the quest from Blacksmith Marx in the Ghost Blue Mine.

OPTION 2:

Grind on Pochis (lvl 35 mob).
This is highly recommended.
Pros:
- Pochis drop Multi-Vitamins. At level 30, you can turn in 25 of these
babies to Vagabond Eloy (SE forest) for 5 quick quest repetitions.
Vagabond Eloy
- You get TM exp.
- For a small amount of TM exp, talk to Hunter Robin in SW forest
to start a pochi-killing monster quest.

Cons:

- You'll probably need to take this option at some point.

Get there by walking through Desert Beach to the Path to Desert Beach.
Pochis are located here and in the next screen (SE forest).

OPTION 3:
Poppuri Dungeon (see next section).
You'll eventually have to go in, why not get a head start?
Also highly recommended.

b. Level 30 Poppuri Dungeon
Theres a lot of quests to do here.
Drilling:

Killing:

Gar. I had finished this section but hit the "back" button on my browser. Will redo it later.

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Changelog:
12/14/07 Added Desert Beach section, also added "Why would I return"
section to give people an idea of why they would backtrack in Trickstah.
1/6/07 Made a few changes to the stats section... thanks to KuyaBob and Petro for their astute proofreading and suggestions!

[Senike]

Well made, great work :wink: .

[badna0]

^^ Hopefully, this will fill a much needed gap in the forums for guides in the new patches. Thanks!

[thexkiller01]

great work
good for beginners

[Hanayumi]

Nice work. Keep it up!
I can refer this guide to my brother! :3

Mmm, this is a good guide, keep working hard on it. ^O^ (bonus points for using wiki pictures, lol)

[hInAiChIgO]

This Guide Is Really Useful To My Cat~^.^

[Microbasic]

Just a little tip: if you're impatient, and if you have a higler-leveled friend who isn't serious about card-battling, you can get him/her to give you a few 3/4/12/13 cards that make up a combo (luxury madam works wonders here) and have that person purposefully play a reversed hand and lose every single hand to you. You'll end up getting 3-5k per round if you manage 45+ points, and after 12 rounds or so, you'll easily level to 15 AND have a bunch of boxes/elixirs in your inventory as a starting gift :P.

[badna0]

Thanks Microbasic! I'm going to add pwr leveling strats for funded characters hopefully near the end, and I'll put that tip in and credit you, if you don't mind :P