Nostale UK

How to Avoid Being a NOOB on Nostale UK: Guide.

This guide will assist you in the ever-challenging aspect of resisting extreme noobiness so that you and others may enjoy the wonderful mmo, Nostale UK! After all, there are many ways to be branded such a term if you’re clueless on Nostale society, and the unspoken rules of this game. (There are quite a few).

As you know (or maybe don’t know, if you’re a beginner), there are many ways to call someone a ‘noob’ on Nostale!

I will list them (and similar terms used in this guide so that you’re not completely lost! :3 )

1. Noob – This is as plain as it gets. If you’re being one, someone will defiantly call you this (or if they’re being buttsore, they will call you this, and in turn that makes THEM the noob in question, but I’ll cover that later~). Basically, it means you’re being irritating on an MMO game…go figure. There are a lot of ways that you can be irritating on Nostale.

2. Nab – A sort of endearment for a nooby-friend who may be acting partially nooby for attention… it’s almost like saying “Hello, love/dear/hun.” But with a little bit of cheekiness thrown into the mix.

3. Nub – Another sort of endearment for a nooby-friend. I’m not sure what the difference between nab and nub are, but I’ll simply assert that nub is more playful than nab, in a sense – you would use it for your closest friends, especially when you’re trying to get on their nerves. Nab would be used on a stranger that you are attempting to familiarize and befriend.

4. Nublet/Nablet – Generally the same as ‘nub’, but targeted toward a younger player, or someone that you think is young because of their immature attitudes. To be honest, the term makes me think of chicken nuggets.

5. Newbie/Newb – If someone calls you this, they do not mean that you are a noob, simply that you are a beginning player.

6. Noobiness/Nooby – the process of… being a noob.



Alright, now that you know what names to avoid being called, it’s time to delve further and discuss HOW you can avoid being called the infamous term, ‘noob’.

First of all, never make a guide about how to avoid being a noob on any MMO forum. This automatically promotes your status of ‘noob’ to ‘king of noobs’. (Yep, that’s me. Don’t go challenging my title, yo!)

Now that we’ve gotten those formalities out of the way, here are some common Nostale situations, and what actions you need to avoid doing unless you want to be called a noob!


Raids (How to not noob them up!) :


Jelly Raid
levels 40-99: The key factors in not being a noob in this raid are as follows…

1. Do not hit the beehives when everyone is gathered outside of the boss’s door. Do. Not. Hit. The. Bee. Hives. No, hitting the beehives will NOT give you an R7 box. (Apparently that is the rumor that floats around.) IF you hit the beehives, someone will most likely die, and in a raid of 15 people, the chances of that person being the leader are 1/15. If there are not 15 people in the raid, the chances are even greater. Do you want to be remembered as the kid who ruined the entire raid just because he/she hit a hive and killed the leader? No, I didn’t think so. If you simply must attack them, wait until everyone has entered the boss room to go about your business, wear light resis and don’t die. Costing your teammates lives on the raid, considering if you die more than two times makes people think of you as a noob as well.

2. Don’t afk outside the boss door. It sounds odd, sure… but I believe that more cubies spawn inside the boss’s room when everyone is not inside at the same time.

3. STAY. OFF. THE. GRASS. NOOB.
If you’ve heard those five words in your life, and I know that you have ~ welcome to Nostale; how was your flight? (Those five words are the meaning of life, just so you know.). K Anywho, I don’t know if standing on the grass in the boss’s room makes more cubies spawn, but if you’re on the grass people will call you a noob anyway. So unless you’re a hulking level 80 archer who just wants to mess with the raiders’ heads and run around on the grass screaming “STAY OFF THE GRASS NUBLETS”, please… stay off the grass. It’s scientifically proven that if you stand far away from a huddled up group that is getting healed by the raid’s mages, you have a greater chance of being shanked by a mob of jellies and killed repeatedly. Don’t believe me? Try it yourself! Just not on my raid.

4. If your raid loses, do not blame the mages. I mention this for jelly raid because it happens most of the time in this raid. MOST OF THE TIME, the low levels that challenge jelly do not usually have very spectacular resis at this point in their newby, nostale lives. You can’t expect them to have 100% water resis unless they have a main of course. In the end, a lot of them will end up dying in the boss room, even with aura and a constant spam of the ‘group heal’ button. I’m not saying that all mages are innocent, but they are unfortunately blamed most of the time when a raid fails. If you don’t want to seem like a noob, check your own resis, level and raid level before you spout off to the poor mages who, pretty much have no attacks aside from healing and buffs (Holy SP card-wise). I promise, they’re not picking their noses instead of healing you.


Ginseng Raid,
levels 50-99 : The key factors in not being a noob in this raid are as follows…

1. Do not press any of the buttons unless you are the designated assassin/button pusher and KNOW what you’re doing. I understand… you felt special when you were allowed to press one of those jelly raid buttons, felt it lift your soul to the very heights of helpfulness, but trust me – you do not want to press any buttons in this raid. Let the button pusher help themselves, it’s his/her specific job to accomplish this task and theirs alone. There is one button that will transport anyone unlucky enough to the middle of the raid, and then you and whoever got caught in the teleportation will have to trek back through countless hordes of mandragoras in order to get back to the group or (if the entire group has been transported to the middle of the map) you will all have to go back anyway and kill the monsters that are needed to die in order to open the boss door. This process, as you can tell is quite annoying … so do yourself a favor – if you simply MUST help, push a button when no one is looking~ only then can you not be singled out and called a noob. Although I would avoid pressing what I’m not supposed to be pressing altogether; this common fact will make every raid you attend a lot easier… memorize it.

2. If you die, do not try to find your way back to the group, especially if they are very far away. “Why”, you may ask me, “why should I stay huddled up against the beginning wall when my fellow raiders are going to leave and get in the boss room without me and I won’t get a box if I’m not there, oh no I must run to them before they can leave me!” This seems to be a common mindset for most raiders that die in raids such as Ginseng and Dark Castra. Just relax, most teams trek back to escort those who have died back to the group. Some times you don’t even have to wait because the button pusher actually knows what they’re doing and didn’t summon hordes of monsters where characters spawn after they have died. I’m not saying don’t TRY to get back to your group, but if a particularly large mob stops and kills you as you’re trying… just wait until back up arrives instead of suiciding over and over again into the same crazy horde of monsters. If you die enough trying to get back to the group, you will certainly be branded a noob, not to mention get blacklisted from any other raids you wish to join in the future.

~Continued~

3. DON’T. AOE. THE. POTATOES. NOOB. These five words are quite similar to STAY OFF THE GRASS NUB, but unlike some simple problem that can be solved by moving your character into the group, this is rather difficult to combat simply because when a mob of monsters is rushing toward you, the key instinct is to… aoe the snot out of them. However, if you aoe potatoes in a Ginseng Raid and there are holies around, (preferably levels 50-59 without fancy wings and a ton of hp) they will EXPLODE. Yes, I’ve seen it before ~ five holies enter the room to heal everyone, somebody aoes the potatoes, and all five of them go down, dead. It’s quite a sad fate, but as a mage you should be cautious to these mage-killing potatoes and your possibly clueless raiders. While I don’t think you’re a noob if you get yourself killed by the potatoes, I do think caution is needed; stay outside the room and rush in to heal only when the potatoes have cleared. If you’re the ones killing the potatoes, and you know it is dangerous for mages but you do it anyway… well, it’s still rather noobish.

4. In the boss room, stay at the portal of the door. Yes, I know it sounds a bit funny since there’s a giant turnip or whatever sticking out of the ground and you absolutely MUST stab it a few times. Plus how are you going to kill a boss if you’re hovering around the door? Well, killing the monster from the doorway is the point of Ginseng raid. You want to go in and try the raid like a Jelly ? You go right ahead, Mr. Gung Ho, but keep in mind that if you’re not in the doorway, the boss is more than likely chasing you around the room along with a horde of its evil turnip buddies. The people in the doorway can’t kill the boss if you’re out and about distracting it. In this case, do yourself a favor and dive into the door like a scared little nub … at least you won’t ruin the raid by doing so.



Dark Castra Raid
levels 60-99: The key factors in not being a noob in this raid are as follows…

1. If you’re a Wild Keeper with horrible dark resis, don’t get your loincloth into a knot when you die and start blaming the ‘stupid holies’. Really, the most nooby thing one can accomplish in Nostale is blaming the people who, out of their good graces are accompanying you on your dinky little raid and healing you every five or so seconds with their fastest heal skill, and group healing/buffing whenever they can. If you’re too harsh on your holies in ANY raid, nothing is stopping them from simply leaving the raid all at once… and then what do you do? Guess it’s time to break out the pots, guys.

2. The main advice in this raid is: DON’T PUSH THE BUTTONS! Unlike silly teleportation, these buttons summon fearsome amounts of monsters that can kill plenty of raiders and ruin the raid.

3. Dust Kings – leave them alone and don’t lure them to the group. Use a pet to distract the crazy, purple, potato sacks and make a run for it while leaving the pet to die, otherwise it will lead them straight to you and the other raiders.


Sorry, Fluffy … I hardly knew ye.

4. Dark resis is the most important thing in this raid; if you have poor resis, prepare to use pots in the boss room, don’t just wait until your hp is red and then capslock HEAL a billion times before something ultimately kills you. I assure you that holies use mp pots on raids; they don’t just sit to recover mp while everyone is dying (unless they’re either afk, or noobs themselves.)


Spider Raid
levels 70-99: The key factors in not being a noob in this raid are as follows…

1. Stay with the group of course, don’t pull buttons (we’ve covered this, I know you killed a few brain cells sniffing sharpies, but try to pay attention, eh?) If you’re the designated button-pusher, make sure you do not pull the number 10 button when the raid team is nearby or will have to pass at sometime, otherwise you’ll dustking them to death as a mob of dustkings will appear, thirsty for raider blood.


~LOD~

Not only are these the basics of resisting noobiness in LOD, but it will also help you from being kicked from a family if your actions are less than desirable at lod time.

1. Do not loot everything. All right, Mr. Sticky Fingers, we realize that shiny things excite you, but please control yourself. Let other family members have their fair share of loot, don’t just grab up every ancient necklace and pot that drops! Deputies and Heads will notice these kinds of things, and will kick you before you can spam the x button one more time. If loot is lying around and no one has taken anything for quite a while or doesn’t show interest in taking anything, then help yourself.

2. Do not loot FOS (fountain of savior), unless of course your family does not mind. Pretty much every family I’m in, however, only allows Head, Deputies and Keepers to loot fos and then distribute them evenly before Darkhorn arrives. If you loot fos in a family such as this and do not return said fos, they will certainly be more inclined to kick you besides that horrible haircut you have.

3. The first time Darkhorn arrives and kills you (like we all knew he would), do not use a fos! Unlike any other time after Darkhorn, the first time he appears, you can still enter the LOD gate before he leaves. Do not waste fos, especially not in this manner; show people that you know what you’re doing in LOD and don’t come across as ‘that nooby fos waster’.

~Arena~

1. Bringing your main to go on a killing spree after somebody killed your noob. Let me just say, if somebody kills your low leveled character and you’re around the same level ~ what is killing the winner with your awesome supered up main gonna prove? That you, a level 90 character can beat a level 40 character with one blow? Yeah, I think we all knew that this was possible. Even if you’re not level 90, this action still has a flavor of noobiness to it, because in essence you are not fighting the battle which you started with your lower leveled character. The same goes for getting a higher leveled friend to come save you from the bad guys . Come on, we all do it, therefore we’re all noobs; good going.

2. Killing pets that are in the safe zone while the owner is not. I’ve noticed this quite recently actually; it is mainly one or two people, though I’m sure there are more who delight in owning somebody’s pets while they are protected from the pet owner’s attacks. This is pretty nooby in itself and will result in you being hunted to the ends of the Nostale world. Being a pet killer is a brand in itself, it gets you hunted and outted in IB as well, depending on if the victim feels the need to blast you in the head every time you show your face around them.

3. Waiting until someone has low hp, killing them quickly and then retreating into the safe zone. Hey, I won’t rain on your preferred killing-style’s parade, but the nature of it is rather cowardice and noob-like, so don’t expect a warm welcome if you choose to do this.

~KSING~

Otherwise known as “Kill Stealing”; basically it means that someone is about to kill a monster, mainly a large group that they worked their butts off gathering, and then some lower level comes along (typically one who does not speak engrish, or they pretend that they don’t speak engrish) and aoes the weakened mob, thus stealing the original player’s kill and experience.


Lookout! He’s about to KS YOU!!!1

Usually this type of behavior, if excessive, is done on purpose. However, if you don’t know why stealing a kill is bad, I have one thing to say to you…. It makes you look like a noob! So avoid doing so. Just because someone is in your pii grinding spot doesn’t mean you should waltz over and annoy them to death; chances are, by the time they finally decide to be the bigger player and leave, you will have wasted a lot of time getting half the experience you worked for, maybe less. So as they say, it doesn’t pay to KS… unless someone pays you to go bug pii grinders for their own amusement; hey … stuff happens.

~Taking quest items that don’t belong to you.~



“Stop right there, noob!” Yeah, I know you think the flower is pretty and you just want to PICK IT UP, because whoa – it might be a SUPER RARE ITEM THAT YOU CAN SELL FOR A LOT OF GOLD, RIGHT? Wrong! Items that have the ‘quest’ yellow text under them means that the item won’t even show up in your inventory. Therefore, only the person who has the quest will benefit from picking the item up, as it will go toward their total count of ‘collect 100 of these’ quest. So next time you think about picking up a quest item that will not benefit you whatsoever like a noob would do, just remember … when you pull your hand back, all your fingers might be gone! Nah, but really … try your best to not anger people on Nostale and you won’t be branded a noob; think about it… stealing their super-hard-to-get quest items is not going to get you in their good book.

~Continued~

~Asking for Stuff/Gold/Training~

Like the woman who cried out against her lazy boyfriend that wanted her to ‘maek him a sammich’, “GET IT YOURSELF.” Okay, so I do spare a few crappy items now and then to beggars (sorry, I just can’t resist those cute lil adventurers that think they have something special and it’s only some cheap material like a wolf mane), but if you are asking for things just keep in mind that other people play this game to get their own stuff… not give it all to charity, (Bill Gates plays Nostale Global, I’m afraid.). So the next time you call somebody a ‘noob’ because they won’t spare a bit of pocket change or train you while you go water your cat, hold up a mirror and take a good long look at yourself … that, my friend ~ is the image of a noob.



As it’s natural for newbies to ask for nice things, I won’t brand their actions as noobiness; however, if they resort to spamming from party requests, to whispers, or trading requests then yeah, their actions are considered nooby.


~Don’t shout HEAL.~

In any situation. Just don’t.

If you want someone to heal you while you’re running for your life, attributed with 1 hp with a huge mob of act 5 behind you, type: “Please heal me, I am about to die, thank you!” Okay, so maybe that’s a bit stingy… typically in healing situations (raids mainly) you do not have to spam ‘heal’ a million times. It is very annoying for a mage and anyone else to have to endure this eye bleeding spam, also – did you know that there is a bar to the right of the screen in a raid? It shows everyone’s hp, so mages WILL know when you need a heal.
Bottom line, if you scream heal at a mage, usually reverse psychology rears its ugly head; therefore, you say heal, and I say sit and eat your snacks, you lazy son of a mandra.


~Don’t make a family name that sounds very similar to another family’s name~

Especially if it is well known. Usually when this happens, the original fam will hunt yours into oblivion until you’re either forced to disband from all the negative attention, or go into exile on channels two through five… considering all the action takes place in channel 1 arena. Not only that, but think! Who wants to join a fam that has a bad reputation and gets hunted every time they try to go to the arena? Well… if you’re up for a challenge, go for it!


~Don’t make excuses!~

We’ve all done it… I can personally say that I have, and DRACO HAS TOO ; seriously, we have all gone to the arena at level 70+ and got our rear ends (for lack of a better term on a children’s forum) handed to us by a level 20 assassin with a HUGE fairy and no wings at all… (seriously, what’s more embarrassing than that!? Okay, you’re right… make it a level 10 assassin). While amazed spectators gape at this spectacle, then proceed to call you all the names in the book, (generally ‘YOU LITTLE NUBLET’) we complain and say that we lagged.
“Oh rly? You’re what, level 90 and you couldn’t beat a level 10 nab…?”
“ ………… It was a BIG lag! D: “
Yeah right.


~Dun typ3 lik diz~

This is Nostale UK correct? Yeah, so speak English and not some odd little … lazy form of it. Also, I realize the chat box only allows you so many words, but it’s especially annoying if you type a message word per word, pressing enter after each word.
This enter
Is enter
Cool enter
Come enter
To enter
My enter
Mini enter
!!!!!!!!!!!!! enter
If you’re not annoyed by the above, kudos to you and your patient attitude; however, if you’re typing like a cavemen, not very many people will trust you on an mmo, or think you very mature. So if you’re seeking to make a good impression and acquire friends, type nice sentences and save the gorilla keyboard bashing for later, when you’ve made a good enough impression that everyone knows you are joking when you type: I huntz u nablut buh frs /.i. d0 watr battl ques.

Also, you get competence points for actually spelling somebody’s name right as you try to address them.


~Calling somebody else a noob ~

Be careful with this, because if you wrongfully classify somebody as a noob and keep insisting on it, you end up looking like a noob yourself because you’re too busy bawing about how unfair your pvp was or all that whining about people potting against you in FC or IB. Sometimes it just gets excessive, yo; so when you resort to spamming ‘noob’, make sure you wave to the nice GM before he/she mutes you.

• This issue is a part of the noob-calling issue stated above: ~Potting~ Too much of a controversial issue to touch up on; I’m just gonna say that if you pot, that’s your right… but if the person you are fighting starts potting back, you really have no grounds on calling them a noob, as it makes you look like one as well. So enjoy your pot fight insult free, mmkay?
  

I believe those are the basics; actually ~ if you want something easier, just read the rules. If you break any of them, I can guarantee that you’ve willingly or unwillingly, crossed over to the noob-side of life … only rule-breaking noobs can be banned instead of mercilessly hunted and shunned.

Goodluck future citizens of Nostale. =)