Hi all,

I am a couple of hours from earning my tenth level. I've been hunting lesser orcs and leapers now for at least 4 or 5 levels. They still give me plenty of exp and loot, so perhaps I should just keep at them, but I was wondering if I should be moving on to a more lucrative area yet? I'm a two handed warrior with an offensive AS of about 150 and a defensive DS of about 95 or 100. I went down into the underground and fought crocodiles, but altogether after just a few minutes down there the swarms of mobs are too much to handle.

Also, at about what level does it become safe to travel outside of Icemule? I've been thinking about going to explore some of the other towns, but I understand the roads are not safe for young travelers. I'm not courageous enough to discover the answer to this on my own :D

Thanks!

I'm using a rowan-hafted gornar-studded maul and some brigandine armor. Both items were found in the pawnshop. I don't think they're +20. Pretty sure the maul is +5 because my AS is always 5 less when I use my warsword. I totally forgot about hunting in other stances, that's a good idea! But you think I should keep trying crocodiles and the crabs as the next step up from lesser orcs?

Is the travel guide a one way ticket? I don't want to go anywhere and get stuck. I like it in Icemule :)

You can use the travel guides until you get to level 20, which is high enough to travel to and fro any other town. Its pretty easy to get killed on the Icemule trail at level 20, unless you travel off-peak and run through an empty glacier before any critter has a chance to gen.

Look at the notice in the travel agency to see the cost, but its pretty cheap, 500 to the next town or 3000 to the elves is the range. It takes a really long time if you decide to visit the elves though.

You should do fine with the dogs, guardians and sentries over the next few levels, but the cellar is really pretty hard. Urchins and their friends are best avoided unless you go mob handed. Outside, spectres are really easy, then silverbacks. The silverbacks carry some ready blessed weapons, but if you can kill a silverback the spectres are really too easy. Wraiths will be dodgy for a THW user but shouldn't be beyond you if you get blues as well as a bless. You'll be fine with ogres and the Abbey when you get there.

4x gear does make a big difference if you haven't been stepping up thought mithril, glaes etc and just been using starting equipment. Get vultite or equivalent the moment you hit level 10. Look through player shops now to see what they have in the way of affordable 4x gear. If what you like the look of is in a shop in a different town, then that's your excuse to travel.

You can do it the old fashion way and find them on a map and look in each shop trying to find what you want, or you can do the lazy preferred way and use the following site

http://pshops.lichproject.org