Levelling Up Strategy Part 3 - Take Part in AFK Parties

Taking part in a party where you damage the mobs and share the loots is not always possible. You could if you can form a party and agree to share the work. But when your friends or guildmates are not available, instead of grinding alone, you can join an AFK (away from keyboard) party, where you won't often be expected to do much work.

The idea is to join a party with a healer and a damage dealer, click on the Seg or DD, and leave it at that. You need only to check back from time to time to see if you died, so you can inform the Seg you can be resurrected. After resurrection, click on follow again.

If you check back and you're the only one left in the party, that only means everyone else left. Quit the party. If you're in an area where a party with a Seg often passes by, you can wait to be resurrected. Or you can respawn and come back to a spot where you can again join another AFK party. Rinse and repeat.

Often a Segnale leads an AFK party. Although a Seg can do this alone - both kill the mobs and heal the party members - it would be faster if a damage dealer helped out. The usual scenarios include a Seg and her friend (a damage dealer), or a person logged into two accounts (dual client) where one is a Seg and another is a damage dealer. Triple clients are also possible, if the player's computer graphics and Internet bandwidth can handle it.

If you play at home and spend enough idle time, you can probably join AFK parties often. The same holds true if you are allowed to play at work. If you play in Internet shops, you can probably spend an hour or two in an AFK party while you surf, update your blog, play Plants and Zombies, or keep updated on who said what about who in your FaceBook account.

The usual rules that apply are, when you join an AFK party, is that you don't pick up the items the monsters drop; and that you do nothing more than follow the lead Segnale or damage dealer. If you happen to accidentally press Spacebar and pick up an item, you are expected to drop it, or trade it with the lead members of the party. You get kicked out if you don't do this. It's customary to adhere to the rules.

Should the party members other than the Seg gets killed, although it's not expected, it's more convenient for the lead members if you help out in clearing the mobs so the dead can be brought back to life.

Levelling Up Strategy Part 2 - Go it alone

Since grinding alone costs in terms of Dil (you have to keep buying health and mana potions), if you want to press on in levelling up alone, you should consider buying health and mana packages from the Dekaron store. Otherwise, you Dil will get depleted, leaving you to beg from strangers in Loa or Braiken Castle. Or from your friends.

If you buy enough pots from the Dekaron store, you should be able to free up your two (standard issue) bags (inventory) from being filled up with pots you'd normally buy from the nearest NPC (Non Playable Character, who are often vendors). This allows you to stash more items you find during your grinding sessions, letting you sell them later. Over time, you get to save up Dil to buy the items you need.

Naturally, you'll be spending cash, not Dil, when you do this. But then you gain the solace you might not get when you party with others. Now all you have to worry about is other people trying to kill you while you go it alone. It's a small world after all.

Levelling Up Strategy Part 1 - Join the Party

Once you log in your account, you can tour the surrounding world around either Loa or Braiken Castle. Killing mobs will be easy at first, but once you level up, you notice your consumption of health (red) and mana (blue) pots. Try joining a party to share both the responsibility of damaging the mobs and in sharing the loots and experience points (xp). You'll notice you consume fewer red and blue pots.

Yes, you'll get a lower dil and xp compared to doing it solo, but you gain friends and get more xp over time. It's not a bad deal. Unless you can't stand people, and you want your xp, dil, and loots all to yourself.

Choosing Your Character, Part 5 - Wiki It

Listening to your friends' recommendation, watching YouTube videos, and borrowing characters won't be enough until you've read about the character/s of your choice. The write ups (found in forums and resource sites) might give some info that would make you abandon an early choice, and go with something else. A Bagi Warrior, for example, can be difficult to level up, since it's not often seen as a priority (players prefer damage dealers and healers) in Dead Front and Instance Dungeon parties. Later on, however, a Bagi is annoyingly hard to kill, since it can tank a lot of damage, a good choice when you love to PK.

Another curious bit: a Mage (Incar Magician) or a Staff VS (a Vicious Summoner using Staff instead of Twin Blade) are good choices if you prefer to grind alone; and when your Internet connection is so bad you get disconnected during events (Dead Fronts and Instance Dungeons). Both have enough Area of Attack (AOE) skills that are enough to dispose of mobs twice of thrice the amount you can lure on your own.

Two recommended sites for reading up are 2moons.wiki.org and 2moons.mmosite.com. Please note that the version of Dekaron discussed on those sites is far ahead of the version that is currently Dekaron SEA. So there are character skills, items, and maps discussed there that are not yet available to Dekaron SEA players.

Choosing Your Character, Part 4 - Level up Several Characters, Alternately

If you can't borrow someone else's character, for a test drive, you can test drive your own, although it will be at starter level. Simply register at the Dekaron site to create an account. After you log in, you can make several characters under the same account, and you can try out each one.

Naturally, there will be a gap, between what you may have seen on videos and what your newly minted characters can do. If you persevere for a bit you can make it several levels enough to be granted new skills to try out. The moment one or two characters seem to appeal to you, you can ask your friends to help you level up.

So create several characters and see how this turns out for you.

Choosing Your Character, Part 3 - Borrow Your Friend's Character

Since, in all likelihood, a friend pulled you into Dekaron SEA, you might as well ask if you can borrow his account for a while, to take his character for a spin. If you like it, you can say, you'll make one yourself. There's no better way to see if you'll immediately like a character unless you take it for a test drive.

Your friend might try to talk to you about 'handling,' and what his character is primarily about. Listen, to some extent, but since you likely don't have his experience in handling his character, you're better off with a naive test drive, to see if you'll have fun at what you do.

Just make sure your friend allows you to use his account, and that you don't sell or steal his items, or transfer them. Because you certainly don't want that done to unto you. Also, please have the courtesy to admit to other players, when you 'pilot' your friend's character, that you are not the owner.

Choosing Your Character, Part 2 - Watch YouTube Videos

One way to decide which character you'll go with is to see that character in action. Although there are many videos on the Dekaron SEA website, you're better off with combing through the videos players captured and uploaded themselves. If you want to see, for example, how powerful a Mage (Incar Magician) can be, simply search that term in YouTube.

You'll find anything from skills demonstrations and duels (PvP's), to wars, raids, and Dead Front scenes. These clips might be the thing to nail your decision. The ability of a high-level Mage to drop mobs with a single Aqua Circle remains a jaw-dropping scene for some new players. Want to walk around with an impressive summon with two-giant hammers? Choose a Vicious Summoner, then.

Simply go to YouTube, type in the character class in the search bar, and enjoy the videos.

Choosing Your Character, Part 1 - Listen to Your Friends

If you're not too engrossed with online games, but just got pulled into Dekaron SEA by your friends, you might as well ask them what character they recommend. This makes your choice easier. They would usually tell you, straight away, what their characters are, implying you take on the same one. Or they'd sound off a list of traits many of the Dekaron SEA characters are known for.

Would you like a close-quarters, high damage-dealing, high-speed attacking character? Why not an Azure Knight (AK)? How about a ranged magician that wipes out mobs in seconds? That would be an Incar Magician (mage). Do you want to be always needed? Go with a healer, a Segnale (Seg). Want a brawler-tank that only gets powerful late in the game? A Bagi Warrior (Bagi) it is, then. How about some impunity? Then go with a Segita Hunter (Hunter), with its long-ranged attacks and evasion tactics. A Vicious Summoner (VS), despite the name, isn't really that vicious, though its summons can draw an extra lure, allowing it to be sought-after in grinding parties. Maybe you want that.

Your friends might recommend you go with a character that makes their levelling lives easier. Like a Seg. Or a Mage to help them farm and at the same time defend from PK. Whatever the case, rest assured that no matter how well or how badly your choice turns out, you can always blame your friends.