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Playing with Others
SEARCHING FOR PLAYERS
Playing with others can make your
gaming experience more enjoyable. Also,
sometimes you need to team up with others.
You can find other players in several ways.
You can run around looking for them,
and then communicate when you see them.
Or, you can use the social tools in the game
to quickly search for a certain type of player.
Open up the Social window to search for players. Supply the needed criteria
for your search, then click the Search button. This produces a list of players whose
characters match your search criteria. All you need to do is contact them by sending
a direct message.
To make yourself visible for player search, click the appropriate button
in the Player Search window. To turn it off, click it again.
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Keep a list of friends! Target a player,
then right-click that player’s name above
your shortcut bar and select Make Friend.
To access your list of friends, click one
of the icons near the Social window button.
PLAYER GROUPS
Creating a group of players can be instrumental
in helping you succeed on various quests and in different
areas of the world.
Group benefits
J Shared rewards—Experience is shared within the group,
for instance when you kill enemies.
J Communication—Send messages that everyone in your group,
and only those players, can see.
J Instances—Some areas of the world are instanced, meaning that players
outside your group are not visible. Those areas create copies of themselves
for your group. (See page 46.)
J Keeping track—Group members are more easily spotted on the mini-map.
Forming a group
A group can have from two to six players. Every group needs a leader—the one
who first invites someone into the group, and the only one who can invite other
players to join after the group has been formed.
To form a group with someone, either target the player and right-click the player’s
name when it appears over your shortcut bar, or type /invite followed by the player’s
name. Once you’ve formed a group, a list of players in the group, including their
classes, displays in the top left corner of your screen.
To leave the group, right-click your name in the list and then click Leave.
PLAYER GUILDS
While player groups are easily formed and disbanded, guilds are more permanent.
A guild is a collection of players, with no limit to the number of players allowed.
Guild benefits
J Communication—The Chat Panel offers a guild channel that guild members can
use to communicate with each other.
J Organization—The guild leader and officers can establish rules that the members
have to follow, giving members different ranks.
J Privileges—Each rank has a certain set of privileges tied to it.
J Settlements—A guild can choose to build its own city, including battlekeeps.
Forming a guild
Creating a guild is free, but you must achieve at least level 20 to do so. Open
the Social window; from here you can form a guild. To join a guild, use the Social
window to search for potential guilds, then send a request to the guild officials.
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Player guilds are allowed to build entire cities
of their own! Walls, towers—everything!
They can even build battlekeeps and conquer
the battlekeeps of other guilds! For more
information, see Siege Battles on page 48.