Chapter 9 - Equipment

A large part of your time will be dedicated to finding theperfect equipment. There is equipment for every need, at lowlevels you usually want equipment to boost your stats, to allowfor the maximum growth at each level. As you get higher level itgets more complicated and intense, you then have to think moreabout armor class, hitpoints, mana, saves, hitroll and damrollmodifiers on the equipment. Also, a lot of the better equipmenthas anti-alignment and anti-class flags. For anti-alignmentflags, you may put them on when your alignment correct for thatpiece of eq, then it may zap you and fall to the ground once youralignment changes. Anti-class flags simply prevents you fromwearing a piece of equipment not meant for your class. WARNING:If if you have equipment of a higher level than you, you can notwear it and it will drop to the ground when you log off.Following will show equipment slots, how to wear and removeequipment and about equipment damage and repair.

SLOTS - There are two equipment setups, one for those who havedual wield and one for those who do not. When you dual wield, youlose the ability to wear a shield and hold something in your handduring the time you are wielding a second weapon. To see what acomplete list of equipment position slots look like, type LOOKSETS.

INVENTORY - To see what you are carrying type"inventory" or "i". This shows you all theitems you have but are not currently wearing. Items are countedfrom bottom up, you wear things from the bottom first.

COMPARE - This command compares the armor class of two items.To use you wear one of the items and type "compare[item]" for the item in your inventory you want to compareto the one you are wearing.

WEAR - This is the command that allows you to take equipmentfrom your inventory and place it on your body. This can be doneone piece at a time by typing "wear [item]" or all yourequipment at once by typing "wear all". Wear all placesonly the first item type for each slot on you.

WIELD - This is the command to wield a weapon. Unlike wear,you must remove the weapon you are wielding before wieldinganother weapon. To use, type "wield [weapon]".

REMOVE - This is the command to remove weapons and equipmentfrom its wear position to your inventory. To use, type"remove [item]".

HOLD - This command makes you hold an item from yourinventory, this command may only be used when not dual wieldingand only for items that have a hold flag. To use, type "hold[item]".

EXAM - This command is used to look closely at an item, to seeif it has any damage. The examine command is used by typing"exam [item]".

REPAIR - This command is used to fix broken, but not scrapped,equipment. You may only repair at a blacksmiths and it is a goodidea to do so often. To use, remove item to inventory and type"repair [item]".