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Advanced Strategies

The purpose of this article is to gather a collection of advanced topics concerning Eternal Lands. There's only so much that is really obvious, the really good tricks are discovered when people play and invest time in a game: they come up with really neat strategies and best practices. If you have anything you think belongs in here, add it. (LMB - Left mouse button, RMB - Right mouse button).

• Use magic immunity in invasions and PK to avoid being hit by creature special effects like mana burn/cooldown. It hurts when 30 brown bears are thrown at you during an invasion, destroying your ability to cast anything.

• Use ctrl-RMB to do a "forced walk"; you can walk anywhere without the danger of attacking/harvesting by accident. This is very useful if you have lots of summons around, or want to avoid attacking monsters/players.

• You can use alt-LMB to attack something (the cursor will automatically change to the "attack" icon). This does not work when using a window manager like windowmaker (it uses keyboard shortcuts with the alt key for it's own purposes).

• Use the minimap while training fighting (alt-M), it makes finding your spawn much easier. You can also "auto-flee" if you activate the map-walking by clicking somewhere on the minimap. If this is more efficient than manually clicking, I am not sure.

• According to Entropy, fleeing by pressing the Home key is "not the right way to do it". Clicking on different ground tiles nearby seems to work better, too.

• By using the negative effect of True Sight Potions (they temporarily lower a/d by 10), you can adjust your a/d to match your PvP partner, to get more experience out of your monster training, or to fight in level-restricted arenas you were normally not allowed to. Control your a/d by controlling the food level, the a/d will only recover while you have a positive food level. Use various food types to your advantage.

Make the most of #days

Special days can have very special benefits, which might not be that obvious at first glance ...

• Peace day: No combat allowed. This means you can either do safe hydro ore runs without being pestered by PKers or Fluffies. Or you can use the 0 cooldown feature of the old-school PK maps (currently Tahraji Desert). Additional good spots are the Nordcarn north cave (usually PK, a good spot for iron ore). But beware: peace day does not affect landmines, and fighters/PKers tend to get bored on this day.

• Recycling day: great for using your most valuable resources. Make high level crafting, manuing, alchemy stuff (plate armors, CoLs, Hydro bars).

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