Getting Started

Installing

// Guide to install AAC

Installation FAQ

First Steps

// Explain good settings, levelling..

Settings

You'll want to get your settings in place before you start playing. It's recommended that all players take a few moments to set up their hotkeys/action bars, preferred functions etc. Once you do this, you will want to go to character select and then exit the game completely to ensure all of your settings are saved. If you forget this and crash, ArcheAge is notorious for resetting any changes you made but did not save by going to character select.

Here are some QOL setting changes:

• Game Settings
  • Name Info
    • Disable Friendly and Enemy Pet/Summon Names
    • Uncheck Display Nation Name
  • Game Info
    • Check Show Health Stats
    • Check Show Mana Stats
    • Check Close Tutorial (maybe not for brand new players!)
    • Check View Frame Rate
  • Functionality
    • Skill Deployment Location (This is a preference for many players, see what it does and decide if its for you)
    • Disable Camera Shake Effects
    • Disable Quest Dialogue Close-ups (Unless you're roleplaying/reading Lore)
    • Learn where the "Disable Travel Through Other Players' Portals" option is, you'll want to use it when fighting against players trying to grief you.
    • If your PC is slow, Show Default Player Appearances can be helpful for your gameplay experience.
    • Disable Chat Filter, the game's innate filter makes a lot of words censored for no reason and its more harm than good.

After that, set your Hotkeys how you like them, adjust your chat windows if you want. Then, go to character select and then exit the game (you will be glad you did).

Step 1: Leveling As Your Chosen Race

This server has modified the Main Story Questline (green quests as many players will call them) compared to other servers to give players a few boosts as needed to propel them more quickly towards the more interesting part of the game.

What you will want to do here is find your first GREEN quest for your chosen race and only do those. We've added everything you need as rewards to them so there's nothing to worry about in regards to missing something from the optional side quests ("Yellow Quests").

We've also added adventurer's growthstones to certain quest milestones to make sure your character can appropriately level out of the zone while skipping the yellow quests.

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Each race usually throws a small "gotcha" during the leveling process here, if you get stuck, feel free to ask in our community help section on discord, your friends, or read the quest flavor text as it usually has context on where you need to head next. Also, when talking to Recruiter NPC's for quests, the Crimson Omen's Quest will have to be accepted first before the Green Quests you need shows up.

Keep doing these quests until you've completed the "Heading to Halcyona" Quest!

• For Haranya, there is a Portal in Caernord (Ynystere) that will Teleport you to Halcyona
• Nuia races can just walk south to Halcyona as needed

Once you've Arrived in Solisa You should be looking similar to this

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Use all the Adventurer's Growthstones and open the last Equipment Gear Box of your choice before moving on!

Step 2: Finish the Main Story Quest Line

All of the quests here on forward are the same for every race and mostly a few quick "find this NPC" quest. You'll want to continue completing these Main Story Quests (Green Quests only) through Halcyona, Hellswamp and then Sandeep until you've completed the Quest: Across the Sea

WARNING: These Zones (especially Halcyona) may sometimes be randomly littered with PvP and the Halcyona War Event, so your safety is no longer promised in these zones going forward.

Once you complete this quest you'll be left staring out over the ocean here.

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Use the rest of the Growthstones provided by the quest completion now until you are at least Level 45.

Now you can use your Teleport Book to teleport straight Kroloal Cradle (Teleport Book -> Dungeons) for the next Green Quest!

The next quest will require you to zone into Kroloal Cradle and a quick interaction. You can zone in solo here no worries. Sprinkle the Petals on this fire place just inside the entrance and continue following the Green Quest Line along.

A later green quest, Arra's Ingriedients, has had the flowers requirement removed (aka Poppy Gate) Once completed there is a portal at the top of the Tower to Karkasse Ridgelands.

Use the new Growthstones given to you again now before moving on to the next step. Once you're done with that you should at least be Level 50 depending on what other activities you did while leveling.

Now you can move on to the next step!

Moving Forward

// Where to go with gear, making gold