The Tutorial :
The very first time you enter zOMG! you'll be standing outside, with a train in the background. The first thing you should take note of is the chest sitting there telling you to open it. Well, there is a small amount of things you should know about the game, before opening that chest.
0.) YOUR SCREEN :
There are so many windows and things you can click on. It can feel a bit overwhelming but I'll be going over every window and button in this guide. To start off though I'll walk you through what you really need to know.
A.) Your Ring Tray : You're only allowed to 'wear' eight rings at a time. These are your weapons.
B.) Your Inventory : This is how you open your inventory to view other rings, loot, recipes, and power-ups you have. I'll go into more detail about that window later.
C.) Your Power-Ups Tray : These arrows will show your power-ups tray or hide it. Again, you're only allowed to have on eight at a time.
D.) Swapping Your Trays : This blue arrow will put your power ups where your rings are. Simply click it again to put your rings back.
E.) Your Health : This shows you how much health you have. The less health you have, the less full your heart will be on the screen.
F.) Your Stamina : Stamina is what you use to attack. This shows you how much stamina you have. The less you have the more empty your battery becomes.
G.) Your Ghi : Ghi helps your attacks become stronger. This shows you how much Ghi you have. The more you have, the more green there will be.
H.) Your Rage : Rage is used to make attacks more powerful. We'll talk about how to rage later on.
I.) Your Menu : The menu opens up a lot of options for you. We'll go into more detail about that later on as well.
J.) Your Screen : This is where you play the game.
K.) Your Area : This tells you where in the game you are, as well as what sever you're on. This comes in handy when wanting to meet up with friends.
L.) Your Gold : This shows you how much gold you have, so you can see how much you earn while playing.
M.) Your Gaia Cash : This shows you how much Gaia Cash you have.
N.) Your Shadow Orbs : These orbs you don't have to worry about till you get VERY far into the game. This shows you your shadow orb count.
O.) Your Charge Orbs: These help your rings and yourself level up. This shows you how many orbs you have.
P.) Your Level : This shows you what level you are.
Q.) Crew Pane : Clicking this will show or hide your crew pane.
R.) Chat Pane : Clicking this will show or hide your chat window.
S.) PDA : Clicking this will show or hide your map window.
T.) Kneeling : Clicking this will make you sit down or stand up.
1.) MOVING :
There are two different ways to move around in the game :
- The first one is of course, point and click. Just select an area on the screen that you want to move to and click it. Note that there are usually obstacles you have to go around and areas you can't click on. For areas you can't click on you will most likely see your cursor turn into a red NO sign.
- The second common way to move it with your arrow keys. Obviously up will make you move up, ect. You can hold the up key and the left key to make a diagonal. As well as any other of those combinations. With the standard settings in the game, first starting out you can also use the WASD keys to move like the arrow keys. W moves up, A for left, S for down and D for right.
2.) INTERACTIONS :
For this part, you can only use the mouse to see these.
There are four types of interactions in the game :
- There is the
GEARS interactions, which is shown when you hover over chests that can open, NPCs (or non-playing characters), enemies and null chambers. Once the gears command shows up when you scroll over something you can click it. Keep in mind, it's much easier if you're very close to the thing you're about to click.
- Then there is the
ARROW command, which if you're using the arrow keys to move around the map, you most likely won't see these. They show up whenever you're about the leave the screen you're currently in to move over to the next one. It's pretty simple really.
- There is then the
NINJA STAR interaction, which shows you that you're about to move into a different area completely. It lets you know that you have reached the edge of the map and that you are about to discover a whole new map!
- Then, the most important for fighting, the
RETICLE interaction, or basically a fancy way of saying you can target it. Clicking on anything that has that symbol over them will make that your target for whatever ring you want to use.
Now that you know that, you're ready to go ahead and click on that chest that's basically taunting you to open in. Just hover your cursor over it and click. You have now received your first ring! There are actually a total of 45 rings that you're able to have in this game, but only 40 of them actually drop in the game. We talk about rings in a different part of this guide. Now, to learn about your ring and how to defeat your enemies. Move over to the next screen.
Once you move over to the next screen you'll see your first NPC, Leon. He seemed to have left his rings behind and is now being circled by strange creatures, called OMGs. He needs your help! But before you can help him, you need to know how.
3.) TARGETING :
Before you can start killing things you need to know how to target.
There are three different ways to do this :
- Again, point and click. Hover over the enemy and your cursor should turn into a red circle. Click and a target pane should pop up as well as the enemy should now have a red circle under it. The red bar under the enemy is the health bar.
- You can also used you `~ key on your keyboard to target enemies. This is usual for when you get more comfortable with the game. Using that key usual targets the monster closest to you, but it can be glitchy, so you have to make sure you pay attention to the target pane if you do that.
- Now, you can also target yourself, very easily. All you have to do is press the space bar and you're instantly targeted and able to heal or buff yourself.
Note : STALKER MODE : When you have something targeted you can become a stalker. Hit the 'G' button on your key board to instantly walk right on top of the target. A lot of friends use this just for fun, but it can be very helpful when you get into a mess with a lot of enemies.
Note : You can target other players as well. You do this in order to heal them or buff them. (Which we'll talk about later.) BUT the only way to target people is the point and click method.
4.) USING RINGS :
Once you have something targeted you can use a ring on it. Depending on what you have targeted only certain rings will work on them. (Like, buffs/healing rings won't work on your enemies, just as attacks won't work on other players.) There are again, three different ways to use your rings.
First you can hover your mouse over the ring you would like you use and simply click it.
Second, this is easier for animated you can defeat with one hit. Make sure your ring is selected, (To tell if a ring is selected you have to look for a small yellow outline around the ring box) and double click the animated you want to hit.
Third you can use your number keys. 1-8 is for your rings. Ring slot one would be number 1 and so on.
You'll notice that once you use a ring, it becomes dark and it will become colorful again with a certain amount of time. That's a cool down period. You can't use your ring again until it has cooled down. Also, different rings use different amounts of stamina. You NEED stamina to attack.
4A.) RAGE :
When you use a ring you gain a little piece of rage. When your rage bar gets fully red you're able to use your whole rage in one ring which makes it very strong.
How to use your rage? Well, all you have to do is hold down your mouse, or key until your rage bar lights up a brighter red. Release your mouse/key and you now have used your rage.
Rage ranks (or R/RR as people will call it.) are how much rage you used for a ring. There's R1, R2, R3 and R4 is full rage. People will usually tell you to R4 a buff for it's full effect. Do not be afraid to use your rage!
5.) SITTING :
You can sit in the game. Sitting helps you regain your stamina quicker then standing around, but the catch is you can't sit when enemies are attacking you. If a monster attacks you when you're sitting, it triples the damage to your health and can kill you very quickly. To sit, hit the 'K' button on your keyboard or click the kneeling button.
Now that you know that, you're able to attack those mean OMGs circling Leon. Take them out, one at a time and Leon will thank you. But the thanks is said too soon. A bigger OMG will appear and start flying around. Take care of that one the same way. Leon will then walk away and you are to follow him, into Village Greens.
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