cRPG is fun, but the going is rough.

[Knute]

How do I make headway in this new world.  I know some tactics from M&B, but they seem to be useless here.  I went with the Shielder build I found on these forums and I feel like I would be better off without the shield sometimes.  It feels that useless.  There has to be something that I'm not understanding.

I'd say follow the mobs and focus on hitting people in the back while they're fighting someone else. 

Also you can make a level 30 skip the fun character and respec their points every week to try out different classes and builds (strength build, agility build etc).  Playing every class helps you learn their strengths and weaknesses.

[Falka]

Don't play battle, play siege, duel or DTV, battle will not learn you anything when you don't have basic combat skills. Getting killed by archers, cav or being ganked won't learn you anything, there's also too much waiting, too little fighting. Go back to battle when you will become better.

[Grumbs]

Its worth learning some basics before you play battle, but you won't learn to play battle unless you play that game mode

[Tojo]

pick up a heavy crossbow and some steel bolts, wait till the enemy is lined up for a shot, launch your xbow bolt into their face... reload rinse and repeat.

with xbow you can have some fun while avoid being gang banged by enemy melee

[Uther Pendragon]

Also you can make a level 30 skip the fun character and respec their points every week to try out different classes and builds (strength build, agility build etc).  Playing every class helps you learn their strengths and weaknesses.

You can respecc STF's all the time no, no cooldown on it.
Play siege, its best for begginers if you need experience and some combat training, play DTV for experience and learning how to attack and time your attack (on a good map with a good team you can earn almost as much as on a strat battle - A LOT). Battle is good if you'll learn how to survive long enough to have some impact

[rufio]

dtv is the pussys way out thow, only broken people play it!

[Ronin]

Every gamemode is good in it's own way. They are there to provide you options. I play in all gamemodes myself.

[Gurnisson]

dtv is the pussys way out thow, only broken people play it!

Fun-fact, it's harder to kill bots with a pike in DtV, than players on eu 1 or strat battles.

[rufio]

pve scrubs gonna scrub

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[Zomg]

As melee, learn how to block. As ranged, learn how to shoot.

I am pretty new around here. Can't play melee as I suck at it and know nearly nothing about. I prefer Archery. From long distant, ability to run away, kill peasants with one shot and give good damage to armored and stun them during their fight.

Though, one way or an another, the best way for you to improve yourself is to join a proper clan. I was couple days old in CRPG when I first joined Fallen Brigade and they thought me the basics of archery, gave me info about builds and how to play (and how to leg, when you need to). So, IMO, you should find a good, active and helpful clan. That is all you need.

[Warcat]

Well, as the #1 NA shielder, I can just tell you that being good is a matter of skill.

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13 skill to be exact

[Ronin]

pve scrubs gonna scrub

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Just so you know, archery is much more fun at DTV than it is in siege or battle. DTV is a magnet to many archers, so there are less archers in eu1. All in all you must be thankful to DTV.

[Malaclypse]

13 skill to be exact

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[Rico]

Breidr, another hint I can give you is to play as what you like. Sounds obvious, but some beginners forget about it. They listen to experienced players who give different opinions:
- Play as a shielder, it is easy for beginners.
- Play as 2h or polearm, you will learn how to manually block.
- Play cavalry, because that's what you probably practised the most in Native singleplayer.
- Play ranged, or you will get in the way and die too often.

All of this is sort of correct, but as you see, you can't play every class at the same time. Don't try to find out what is easiest or best to learn, but just play and do your favorite thing. I played my first generations with arbalest (the strongest xbow) or as an archer, and both was a pain in the ass. The arbalest is super-expensive and I played hours until I could afford it, running around in peasant gear all the time. Archery, on the other hand, requires a lot of good movement and positioning. My combat awareness sucked and I got backstabbed a lot.

Talking to others, I realized that the beginning is always a pain in the ass, no matter which class you play as. I failed hard when I came to cRPG, but I kept practicing, and now I am going for my end build as melee/xbow hybrid. I really enjoy this game and I hope you will do the same!

Just do not make weird hybrids in the beginning, these are too hard to play

[rufio]

play from 3rd person, and learn to use the pan arround button: default on ~ , pan arround every time you get a chance, this will hugely increase your battle awareness, making you survive way better.