The Basics - Movement and Interaction
--- Movement---
Hopefully you know how to move already - if you've cleared the training sequence, you've figured it out. You may not know all the methods of movement available to you however. There are three in total.
1)
Point and click! This one's easy, just move your mouse to somewhere on your screen and click. Your avatar will move to the location you clicked. To move off a screen, simply point at the edge of the screen you wish to move off of - when your cursor changes shape, click and you'll go.
To enter some areas, called Instances, you must use the point-and-click method. If you're on your own, or the leader of your Crew, you may need to select a difficulty for the area. If you had to select a difficulty, clicking again will let you in once it's been selected. (More information on crews later)
2)
Keyboard control. Most of you should be familiar with your keyboard's arrow keys. If you don't want to use your mouse to move around, you can just use the regular left, right, up, and down buttons. When controlling yourself this way, simply walk through the edge of the screen to change locations. The WASD keys can also be used for this purpose - W for up, A for left, S for down, D for right.
You can not enter most instances with keyboard control, but you can change areas.
3)
Stalker mode. If you have already targeted another player or an enemy, and wish to move straight to their location, pressing the G button will move you right to them. This saves time and can be a lot of fun if you're messing around. It's intended for use when you're fighting a large mob of enemies, and aren't exactly certain which one you have targeted - the G button will let you move into melee range of them despite the confusion.
Be aware that you can't follow a target off-screen like this - if your target leaves, you'll just keep moving.
--- Interaction ---
Sometimes you'll want to interact with your environment. There are chests to be opened, there are NPCs to be talked to, there are players to contact. The question then becomes - "how"?
Chests - before a chest can be opened, you'll need to defeat any animated found near the chest. Once this is done, one of two things will happen - either the chest will pop open on it's own, or you'll need to manually open it.
If it opens on it's own, everyone who fought the animated get their prize. Otherwise simply click on the chest to reap your reward. This reward is shared with your Crew if they are on-screen, so do be nice and wait for them. Be aware that you can't open a chest if you're at the wrong CL for the area you're in - more on CL's later.
NPCs - Interacting with an NPC is similarly simple. Simply move near the NPC and click on them. Be aware that you can-not talk to all NPCs - they should have a speech-bubble or similar indication over them if you can talk to them.
--- Other players ---
This is your chat-box, you can use it to talk to other players. Using the view button will allow you to limit the messages you receive to certain channels. Pressing enter or clicking in the text box will let you type your message. Pressing enter again will send your message to whatever 'channel' you are currently talking in. There are five channels.
1) Talk - this channel sends your message to everyone on the same screen. Talk text will appear white in the text area - people on the same screen will also see a speech bubble.
2) Shout - this channel sends your message to everyone in the same area. Shouted text will appear red in the text area - people on the same screen will also see a speech bubble.
3) Crew - this channel sends your message to people in your crew, no matter where in the game they are. Crew text appears blue in your chat box.
4) Clan - this channel sends your message to anyone in your clan, no matter what server they are on.....or at least, that's the idea. Unfortunately Clan chat is highly buggy, do
not rely on it to work properly. When it does work, Clan chat appears gold in your chat box.
5) Whisper - used to send a message to one specific person, anywhere on GIM. If they're logged onto GIM, this can even contact people outside of the game!
You can change your channel semi-permanently from this drop down menu.
Alternately, if you want to send only one message to that channel, you can use a special chat command.
/t this message will be a Talk message
/s this message will be a Shout message
/c this message will be a Crew message
/cl this message will be a Clan message - if it works
/w Username This is a special command - it sends a whispered message to whichever username you put in, if they're on GIM. PLEASE NOTE - the username can't have spaces in it. Replace any spaces with a +, - or _
/r this message is special, it's a reply to whoever whispered you last.
You can also automatically answer a whisper by pressing backspace, so long as you haven't selected the chat field.
--- Soulbinding ---
Any ring that you received in the game is soulbound. Any ring that has been equipped in the game is soulbound. You can't sell it. You can't desoulbound it. Really. We swear.