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Welcome to Pandora

Please also check the Newbie FAQ: NewbieFAQ

Setting up Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence: StatsSettingUpStrDexInt

General Info

Pandora is a No Skill Cap Server. This means you can train up EVERY Skill without any restrictions. You are able to play a
Dexxer, Tank, Mage all in one on one character.
If you don't want to play a Gargoyle as your Main Character you might want to create one as your second Character to get a bonus
on the skill "Imbuing". This is a skill to enhance your items with runes (see below). Read here: ImbuingGuide
Imbuing is a very important skill on Pandora and helps making your Character stronger!

There also almost no caps on other Stats and Properties on Pandora.
Check the Caps here: StatAndOtherCaps

Here you can find everything about the New Player Boss in Dungeon Shame Trammel: New Player Boss Trammel

Here you find a PvM Guide: PvM

Here is a Guide on Magery: MageryGuide

Here is a Guide on Spellweaving: SpellweavingGuide

Here is a Guide on Chivalry: ChivalryGuide

Here is a Guide on Necromancy: NecromancyGuide

While there is no restrictions and basically each Character is a "Hybrid" (Dexxer-Mage), there is also the option to play a
"Pure Mage".
These "classes" fully rely on Magic and their spells do more damage than Hybrid's spells:

The damage is not only higher due to immensely higher Spell Damage Increase but furthermore is boosted significantly by
your higher Intelligence, giving you an extra direct damage bonus of max. 15%. This works in PvM and PvP.
This extra damage is called "Spell Penetration" and depends on your Mage holding a Spellbook in his hand - you can find the info on
any Spellbook in your hand and by using the command [SpellP in the game.
Find everything about Pure Mages here: PureMageGuide

If you want to learn more about Weapon Abilities (Special Moves) read here: WeaponAbilities

If you want to learn more about Properties on Weapons read here: WeaponProperties

First Login

Character Status

Click STATUS on your Paperdoll and your Status will appear with useful informations!

Read about it here: MystatsAttributesOfYourCharacter

Items

There are several items that you begin with as a new player on Pandora: A Skill Codex for 3 Skills at 75, a Stat Ball, an Ethereal Horse Statuette, a Spells and Casting Bag, a Deed to a New Citizen House, a Pet Resource Bag, a Crafting Kit, New Citizen Gold.

Skill Codex
A book that will instantly give you any 3 skills at 75. We recommend choosing 2 of them for Imbuing and Animal Taming

Stat Ball
A ball that will allow you to adjust your Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, with an overall cap of 305.
You can obtain Stat Scrolls to raise that Cap up to 340. Check your current Cap on your Status.
You get these Stat Scrolls from The Harrower, using Champion Skulls to summon him.
Since your items will change over time you might want to wait using a Stat Ball.

Ethereal Horse Statuette
A statuette in backpack, blessed for the user, you double click to mount it
Then double click yourself to get off. The statuette will now be in your bag

Pet Resource Bag
A bag that contains a glass city kitsune idol, a pack llama idol, and a shrink potion, 20 uses
The two idols are pets, glass city kitsune will help you fight while the pack llama
will hold items for you in its pack. Both pets are bonded, and you can shrink them
with the shrink potion to make them idols in your backpack again.

Spells and Casting Bag
A bag that comes with all complete spellbooks, Spellbook, necromancer spellbook,
book of chivalry, book of bushido, book of ninjitsu, and necessary reagent bags,
bag of reagents, and bag of necro reagents

Deed to a New Citizen House
A deed that you double click then place a small house, be sure its where you
want it to be when you click, you can’t pick it back up

New Citizen Gold
You can spend this currency as if it were regular gold at all vendors and vendor stones,
only this gold is blessed which means the player won’t lose it, and this gold can’t be changed
into platinum, checks, banked or trade to another player, but the two stacks of 50,000gp have a
weight of one stone each.

Crafting Kit
Inside the chest you find a bag called "Imbuing Craft Kit":
You will have a portable Soul Forge with 250 uses, a Rune Chisel with 250 uses, an Inverter with 250 uses, 25 Rough Stones and 5 crystals of each type.
For more informations on Imbuing check this guide: Imbuing Guide

Insula, the Newbie Area

Training Combat Skills

When you login for the first time you are in the Newbie Area called Insula. This place can also be reached by using Moongates.
Here you find almost everything you need to train your Skills:
There are Training Monsters where you can skill all your Combat Skills. Don't worry, these Monsters won't fight back. You'll find
all kinds of Weapons on the floor to train your Skills.
You train your Combat Skills simply by taking the recommended Weapon (for example a Fencing Weapon like a Kryss to train Fencing) and
attacking one of the Training Monsters.

Training Other Skills

Also in Insula you find different locations and Setups to train other skills, such as Lockpicking, Animal Taming or Veterinary and many more!

Training Stats (Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence)

You train these Stats by using Skills that are connected to one or more of these Stats. Magery can raise Intelligence, Combat can raise Dexterity
and/or Strength and so on. In your Status you find arrows next to your Stats. You can set them up or down to raise or lower a Stat while training
another!

Future Sections of this Guide will refer to the three Stats as:
Strength = Str, Dexterity = Dex, Intelligence = Int

Stat Cap

While each individual Stat isn't capped and you can raise the Stats with Training, Imbuing and other means there is a total cap, with all three Stats
combined. You can raise this cap with Statscrolls (+10, +15, +20, +25, +30 and +35) obtainable from The Harrower (see below) and the Infested Harrower
(see Infestation) up to 340 total.
You can use Statballs to adjust your Stats to your needs:
Get a Statball (1 Pbuck if you already used yours), double-click it. With [mystats you can see your current Stats "naked" and with your gear.

Using a Statball right after Character Creation is not necessary! Keep your Statball until you have decided if you want to play a "Hybrid" or
a Pure Mage and until you have better items and some Imbues!

Raising and Lowering Stats

If you reached your current Stat Cap you can raise a Stat by lowering another. In your Character Status click an arrow next to a Stat to "Down" if
you want to lower this Stat and click the arrow on the Stat you want to raise to "Up".
You can check your current Cap also in the Character Status: It's the "book symbol".

Locking Stats

If you click an arrow again it will lock the Stat, so it won't be raised or lowered while training.

Training your Stats

Skills each have primary and secondary stats associated with them.
If both stats associated with a skill are set to raise on your character, the primary stat will increase 75% of the time,
while secondary stats will increase 25% of the time. If the primary stat associated with a skill is locked, however, the secondary stat will be chosen to raise.

To gain in a particular stat use the appropriate skill.

Stats and Associated Skills

While all the Skills are associated with two of the Stats not all Skills provide the fastest and most effective ways to raise one specific Stat.
For a list of all Skills and their associated Stats check here (external link): http://www.uoguide.com/Stats

The following ways are fast and effective, to train your Stats:

Strength
Swordsmanship, Mace Fighting, Wrestling, Lumberjacking, Resisting Spells, Tactics

Dexterity
Archery, Fencing, Throwing, Parrying, Musicianship

Intelligence
Magery, Healing, Inscription, Spirit Speak, Meditation, Arms Lore

Vote Tokens

Next to the Insula Bank you find a Vote Token Vendor and a Voting Stone. There you can purchase nice and useful stuff for your Vote Tokens.
You can vote for the Server every 24 hours and receive Vote Tokens by typing [vote ingame.

Newbie Dungeon

In the NE Area of Insula you can find a small white building. If you go downstairs and follow the corridors you can enter the Newbie Dungeon.

The Newbie Dungeon

The Newbie Dungeon is a good place to furthermore train your Skills,

Monsters and Loot

In the Newbie Dungeon are Monsters for you to fight to obtain Gold, Tokens and Imbuing Runes with lower intensities. These Imbuing Runes
can be applied to your current Gear and Weapons. Later on you will be able to Imbue yourself or ask trusted Players to imbue your stuff for
you with maximum intensities. Imbuing Runes come with helpful properties to enhance your gameplay!

With your first earnings you can buy Statballs (to adjust your basic stats) and Skillbooks to set skills on GM (100).

You can also obtain better armor sets with 100% LRC (Lower Reagent Cost, so you don't need Reagents to cast spells) and 100% Lower Tithing Cost.
These armor sets also give you 60 in each resist.
The Maximum Resists you can have is 70% each (Elves have 75% Energy Resist).

How long can I stay in the Newbie Dungeon?

You can enter the Newbie Dungeon for the first 21 days (account age).

Reminder: The 21 days refers to the ACCOUNT AGE. It does NOT refer to the age of your player character.

You cannot create another character to continue playing in the Newbie Dungeon.

The dungeon will help you grow and get stronger, so it's highly advised to spend atleast some time down there.

Newbie Champion

At the end of the Newbie Dungeon you find the Newbie Champion.

You have to kill the spawn to summon the Champion itself – kill it and get rewarded!

You can also team up with other Newbies to kill the spawn and champ.

But be fair: If someone did all the work and summoned the champ do not steal his loot!

Gold and Other Currencies on Pandora

Gold

Where is my Gold?

Pandora uses the latest expansion Time of Legends:

This means your gold is not lost – it's stored in your bank account.

You can check your gold by typing [mystats or type „balance“ close to a banker.

The gold is bound to your account, so any character on the same account can use this gold.

Trading Gold

If you click another player and click „Trade“ a secure trade window will open. Only if both parties accept a trade it becomes legit.

To transfer gold click the 0 on your side of the trade window and type in the amount you want to give to the other player.

Trading itself works the same: Move the stuff to trade into your part of the trade window.

You can buy stuff from NPC Vendors without having gold in your backpack. It will be taken out of your bank account directly.

Other Currencies

Pandora Coins

You obtain these by killing Pandora Coin Mobs. See below.

You can buy nice and useful things with Pandora Coins in the Pandora Coin Store. Go there via Moongate.

PandoraCoinMobs

Oceanic Coins

You buy stuff for Oceanic Coins at the Oceanic Docks. Read about Oceanic Coin Monsters here: OceanicCoinMobs

Vote Tokens

Type [vote ingame and vote for the Server every 24 hours. You receive Vote Tokens to spend at Vote Token Vendors and Stones.

Trash Tokens

If you use [grab in the game you will trash "trashy items" and receive Trash Tokens you can spend on the respective Vendors.

PvP Coins

You receive PvP Coins for killing other players in the field or winning Battles and the DailyPvP Tournament - these two PvP features
are completely safe, you don't lose anything.

Pandora Bucks (PBucks)

PBucks is the Donation Currency on Pandora. You can get PBucks by Donationg for the Server via Paypal. You will receive your Pbucks in a ratio
of 1:1 with a 10% bonus instantly. Follow the instructions here: http://www.pandorauo.com/portal/#donate
If you have any questions about Donations please contact King_Kon in a private message on our Discord. All questions will be handled in a discrete manner.
Remember Pandora is 100% free but Donations help the creators to pay for the dedicated Server and keep all Services and Maintenance on a 100% effective level!
Spend your Pbucks in the Donation Store. Get there by Moongate.

Imbuing and Imbuing Materials

Materials

Some Monsters in the Newbie Dungeon will also drop Materials that are called "Imbuing Materials". These are needed for Imbuing. You
will also find them all over Pandora, on Monsters and Bosses.
Imbuing Materials are basically the "Reagents for Imbuing". Much like Crafting, you need specific things to create an Imbuing Rune.

Imbuing

Imbuing is a Magical Crafting Skill to create Imbuing Runes that are enchanted with specific Properties to enhance your Equipment. It's a
time intensive Skill to learn but really worth it!
If you aren't fully skilled you might fail a lot - but don't worry: Items don't get destroyed or lost if this happens. You can also ask Players
to create Imbuing Runes for you. You can apply these by yourself, so there is no risk.

You can read on Imbuing here:
ImbuingGuide
BasicImbuing

Item Tiers and Equipment Rating

There are two separated systems in place. One is "Item Tiers": You are able to "level" your items to make them stronger.
The other is "Equipment Rating", which is more of cosmetic nature and helps you to determine the overall power of your Character
and other Player Characters considering the gear and equipment.

Item Tiers

Each item you are wearing (weapons, all gear, armor, clothing, jewels, talismans, quivers and so on) has a "Tier". You can check the
current Tier and XP of an item by hovering your mouse over it - the same goes for your Average Tier (all Tiers combined) and the Average Tier
of other Player Characters.

Tier and XP

The Tiers go from Tier 0 up to Tier 5. You reach a Tier once your item has collected a certain amount of XP (Experience Points). Each Tier gives
you one more Rune Slot, reserver for Properties you can apply on your stuff via the Imbuing Skill. Once an item has reached Tier 5 it will no
longer collect XP, which means the more items are Tier 5 the faster the other items will level up!

Collecting XP

You collect XP by killing Monsters. The stronger a creature is, the more XP you get. The most effective and fastest way to tier your items is doing
Champion Spawns (see below) with a Weapon that has the Whirlwind Special Move (Pure Mages will rely on the "Wither" Spell and "Wildfire" Spell).
Add Hit Area Effects via Imbuing on your Whirlwind weapon.

Equipment Rating

The Equipment Rating is the result of all imbued and existing Properties on the gear you are currently wearing. It is more of a cosmetic thing and gives
you no other advantages.
But this Rating can also give you an indicator how well equipped you are compared to other Player Characters!

Quests

General Info

There are two seperate Quest Systems. One you navigate through your Paperdoll Option "QUESTS", the other by one-clicking your Character.

"Talking to an NPC" most of the time means just going near him, or click or double-click him.

Different Quests

For some Rewards you can also do Escort Quests. There are also several other Quests you might want to do on your way, perhaps
the Solen Hive Quests to get Plant Seeds, the Human to Elf Quest in case you are Human but want to changeto an Elf, also you
will have to do the Spellweaving Spell at some point, in order to obtain the Spellweaving book.
You find all these Quests and several others in our Quest Guide.

Read here: QuestGuide

Other Places, Monsters, Trammel and Felucca

After or even while Training Stats and Skills and if your time in the Newbie Dungeon has come to an end, there are several
places you can check out next. Some are easier, others will be a bit harder for you. In all cases the following locations are
good ways to make some gold, collect Imbuing Materials and perhaps even your first few Artifacts.

The world of Pandora, equally to the official Ultima Online, is separated into "Trammel" and "Felucca":
On the Felucca Facet and all maps that work with the Felucca Ruleset nonconsensual PvP is allowed - this means Players can attack you. This
does not happen in Trammel and on Trammel Ruleset Maps.
But it is possible to attack Criminals (Grey or Red Players) in Trammel - of course then they are allowed to defend themselves.
See here: PvP

Tomb of Kings

You can go there via Moongate -> Ter Mur -> Tomb of Kings

Here you can fight the Monsters to get some Materials and Gold.

Note that Ter Mur is on the Felucca Facet. You can get killed by other Players here!

If you go all the way into the Tomb you will find a Pandora Coin Mob.
called "Sandcrab" - be careful, it can be a hard fight for a New Player. The Sandcrab will spawn Bats that will also fight you. Also
it will hide itself at some point. Use your Tracking Skill and search for Animals to locate the hidden Sandcrab, then cast the spell "Reveal"
and target the location the arrow is pointing at.
The Sandcrab will drop Pandora Coins, one of Pandora's Currencies.

Also nearby you find a Monster called "Swoop", a named Eagle. He can drop nice Talismans and other things.

In the cave area a Named Boss called "Niporailem" spawns. He can drop some minor Artifacts, Materials and Gold. With Niporailen some of his
minions also spawn. Niporailem himself will drop stacks of Gold on you, to raise your weight. This is no real Gold, it is in fact "Treasure Sand".
This is worthless, just throw it on the floor.

Solen Hive

There are different locations to enter the Solen Hive:

The Red Solen Hive is located in Trammel. The Black Solen Hive is locted in Felucca. They each have four primary entrances:

75-41 North 90-37 East
Directly SW of the Minoc Moongate, this is by far the easiest to locate. The North Eastern entrance.

71-1 North 27-54 East
North of Compassion, between the two mountain ranges.

102-7 South 25-56 East
Near Trinsic. The South Western entrance.

14-57 North 41-58 West
Near the entrance to Sanctuary. The North Western entrance.

Fight the Solen to get Gold and Gems. You can also do the Solen Hive Quests, please read here: QuestGuide

Be careful:
Some of the Solen will drop Acid on your before or when they die - this can kill you.

Creatures spawning in the Solen Hive are:

Solen Queen
Drop Balls of Pet Summoning and Bracelets of Binding on occasion and Zoogie Fungus.
(Pet Balls of Summoning and Bracelets of Binding can be recharged with powder of translocation, the items do not have a limited charge amount)

Solen Ants
Drop Zoogie Fungus, gems, some gold, and on occassion, picnic baskets.

Giant Beetles and Ant Lions
Giant Beetles are tamable, Ant Lions sometimes drop Bone Boxes.

Dread Spiders
In the SW area, a Strange Contraption can be found near by.

Ice Dungeon

In the Ice Dungeon (Trammel or Felucca) you can fight several Pandora Coin Monsters, Dragons, Spiders and other Creatures. Some drop
nice amounts of Gold, others Gems and other Materials. Also there is the chance to get a nice Deco Item from the "Artisan Chapter" collection!

Exodus Dungeon

At some point you will enter the Exodus Dungeon in Ilshenar (Moongate -> Ilshenar -> Exodus Dungeon).
Note that this is Felucca Ruleset.

You will enter the Dungeon for the Spellweaving Quest (see above) but it is also a good place to hunt.

Mini Champs

Mini Champions spawn in the Stygian Abyss and Ter Mur (both Felucca Ruleset). They are the best way to collect Imbuing Materials and
perhaps some Artifacts.

Read here: MiniChamps

Baracoon and other Champions

At some point you will be able to do Champion Spawns and kill your first "real Champion". Baracoon can be recommended because he is a bit
easier to handle (also the Spawn) than the other Champs.
By killing Champions you can get Powerscrolls to raise your Skill Caps. You can kill The Harrower to get Statscrolls to raise your Stat Cap!

The Baracoon Spawn is located in the Dungeon Despise in Felucca. It starts automatically after some time or you can activate it via the Altar.

Read here about Champions: Champions

Pandora Coin Mobs

Pandora Coin Mobs are specific monsters that drop Pandora Coins.

Find a Player Library, for example in Luna, for their locations and read about them here: PandoraCoinMobs

Oceanic Coin Mobs

Read about them here: OceanicCoinMobs

Eodon

You can go to Eodon via Moongate and kill the members of the different tribes to get gold and maybe get an Ancient Pandora Chest dropped. Buy
a Key in the Donation Store or get one from a Peerless or Named Boss to open the chest!

Void Pool and Infestation

Once you are geared up a bit you can try some of the other features on Pandora:

Void Pool: VoidPool
The Void pool is some kind of "Tower Defense" against incoming Monster Hordes, but the tower in this case is a pool you must protect.

Infestation: AgeOfTheInfested
By "infesting" a monster or a boss you make those stronger but also have the chance to get rare Artifacts. You can also infest Champions
to get 125's Power Scrolls and The Harrower to get a +35 Stat Scroll!

Peerless Bosses and Named Bosses

Peerless Bosses: PeerlessBosses
By killing Peerless Bosses you can get some of the best Artifacts in the game!

Named Bosses: NamedMonsters
By killing Named Monsters you can get some of the best Artifacts in the game!

Treasures of Tokuno

Treasures of Tokuno (ToT) include some very important and viable Artifacts. Once the Treasures of Tokuno (ToT) Event is
active you can go to the three Dungeons to collect "Minor" Treasures of Tokuno by killing the monsters there. The Minor ToTs drop
into your backpack. If you have 10, go to Zento and trade them in for a random Greater ToT.
(This works the same with Infested ToTs.)

Locations:
Fandancer Dojo (Tokuno)
Yomutsu Mines (Tokuno)
Ankh Dungeon (Ilshenar, Felucca)

You can reach all three locations via Moongate -> Treasures of Tokuno. This includes the area to turn in Minor ToTs.

Doom Gauntlet

In the Doom Gauntlet you can get some of the best Artifacts in the game. Go there by getting a Gold Skull (collect and turn in Demon Bones) in Doom,
then give it to the Ferryman (double-click the bell to summon him) and transport to the Gauntlet.
There you have to kill each Boss in his room, then the Dark Father in the center. Then you start over. At some point a Doom Artifact will drop into your
backpack, depending on your Luck and hidden Doom Points. This may take some time.
You can turn in Artifacts you don't want at the NPC in the AFK Zone to get a "doom point bonus".
Your points only reset after an Artifact dropped into your pack - besides that they don't reset, even when you leave the Gauntlet.

See here: DoomGauntlet

Other Helpful Infos

Artifacts: ArtifactLocations

Gardening: PlantGuide

Crafting: CompleteCraftingGuide

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