New Hero Guide (Welcome to level 21)
Guide to New Heros
This guide written and published by p(Baca/Endo)
“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
Gandalf, JRRT, The Fellowship of the Ring
At level 21 you are now considered a "Hero". You get access to several options in the game you do not get at lower levels. This guide is here to help under stand levels and access to some of the games features.
A majority of this information applies to the Free Peoples, only some of it also applies to Sauron's minions. For example orcs cannot become a Maia or make a focus, but they get titles.
Many parts of this guild reference to the MUME help pages which can be found at: https://mume.org/help/help_index
Bold words can be looked up in the games help files. Like help hero.
Contents
Level Ranges and Who Command
Levels of the game are placed into different ranges. Using the who command you can see players listed that are currently playing by their level.
newcomer newbie - level 1 to level 12 You will show up under who new. You will have hints turned on in the game. It is somewhat easier for Rangers to assist you. To remove yourself from the newcomer list use the command change newcomer.
novices - level 1 to level 12 You will show up under who novice. You can choose to be a novice or newcomer with the change newcomer command.
champion - level 13 to level 20 you will show up under who champion.
hero - level 21 to level 25 you will show up under who hero
legend - level 26 to level 100 you will show up under who legend
At level 21, the Hero level, you gain access to more features and options.
Change Title
At level 21 you can now change your title. You can change your title whenever you want as long as it falls in line with the games rules. Try not to share restricted information in your title.
Please read:
help change title
rules title
change title I'm The Best Elf
Elfplayer I'm the Best Elf
Join the Ranks of the Rangers
After level 21 you can choose to participate in the group of MUME volunteers that help new players, returning players, novices, and newbies. These are the Rangers of MUME. Players that are offering to help other players. You will show up on who ranger. So if you enjoy helping others in the game, this might be a good option for you.
Rangers get some benefits to help make their job easier.
They can see what newcomers (lvl 1-12) are carrying to help them with their gear, how to use shops, and what to wear, remove, or sell.
You also get a message if any one has made a new character, or if a newbie has logged back into the game.
Continuing to Level
After level 21 you can just keep leveling up! For levels 21 to 25 you continue to level up as you have for the last 21 levels. You will get full pracs for the next 4 levels. After you hit Legend you get much restricted pracs, about one per level or so, but not always. The level scaling power after Legend level drops significantly.
There is NOT 10 levels of raw power difference between a level 30 and a level 40. It's more like about a 1.1 level difference.
So a level 31 in very good gear vs a level 40 in poor gear, the odds will favor the level 31.
You will gain achievements for reaching level 21 and 26.
The level cap of the game is level 100.
Legend Homes
After you reach level 30 you get the option to build a legend home if you choose too. Most legend homes are in town areas in the game such as Blue Mountains, Grey Havens, Fornost, Bree, Rivendell, and scattered about the Shire. If you've gotten lost in an area of a town and found many locked doors around you, you were probably in a legend home neighborhood.
Legend homes are VERY EXPENSIVE and you've got to earn alot of gold to make one. You get to pick the town you want it in, and the general location for your legend home to be in that town, but you cannot place them in places where it could give some players some game advantage. Most cities have legend home 'neighborhoods' or areas where they can be built.
One of the benefits of legend homes is it can offer somewhat lower rent the other inns, and you get option to upgrade them and write the descriptions in them.
Please read the following:
help legend homes
help legend home prices
help legend home locations
help legend home instructions
If interested go out and gain some levels and A LOT OF GOLD (100's of gold needed). Some cities are some what racists as to who can build there.
There are legend home offices in: Grey Havens, Rivendell, Shire MD, Bree, Blue Mountains, and Fornost.
Access to Immortal Maia Quest
At level 21 you gain the option to attempt the quest to become an Istari and later a Maia. Being an Metamorph or Istari is a 5 level long quest, to eventually become a Maia. As a Maia you gain access to features of the game like other boards to read and a chance to "peer behind the curtain" at some of the management of the game.
As a Maia you can choose to get involved in the building and writing of the game.
You'll want to read up on the following help files:
help istari quest
help metamorphs
help istari
help maiar
view wizlist
help building
You are never required to participate in the Istari/Maia quest at anytime. You can choose to participate in it after level 21 if you want to.
You can immediately log into the game as your Maia after playing any characters. There is no wait time.
But there is a 30 minute wait time to log in after you have been on as a Maia. This helps prevent some cross-war communications and knowledge.
Legend Focus
Crafting powerful magical items is spread out across many of Tolkien's works. In MUME one option of it is opened up at level 21. You can now craft a legend focus item. This guide will cover some of the basics here. You can only have ONE focus item per character at a time. If you make another one, your old focus no longer works. If you drop below level 21, you have to level back up for your focus to work properly again.
There are several different types of focus items to make.
staff - a great item for casters of any type. You can hold it like Gandalf did in the movies and use it somewhat like a shield, or wield it two handed and use it as a smiting weapon. But it's greatest gifts are in casting spells more efficiently. It is also a permanent light source.
You can also enhance staves by embedding precious metals and gems in to them to improve them or give them more abilities. The precious metals improve the PB of the staff if used as a staff or held as a shield. They also improve the OB if wielded as a weapon. See help embed.
sapphire rings - these are a variety of rings that can provide a boost to OB, DB, or both. There is also an option to slightly improve spell power and spell defense. Many warriors in the game use these rings, as do some archers, scouts, and thieves.
helmet - an ancient helm can be made into a foci helmet, it provides some of the benefits that legend staves do, but frees up your hands so you can still wield what you want, hold a shield of your choice, and bash. Some combo characters like this foci. You can also embed one gem in a helmet.
pale blue stone - this legend focus can give you a special type of heal once per MUME day. It refreshes your hit points, mana, and movement points. Somewhat like a really really good cure serious spell... but on every thing. It is worn in a necklace slot. There is also a weaker pale blue stone that is a magical item, but not a focus item. It also cures hits, mana, and moves, but not nearly as well as the focus version of the pale blue stone.
phial - there are 3 types of this focus item. They all are worn as a necklace, are a permanent light source, give you benefits resisting spells, and a permanent protection from evil spell. They also come with an additional ability depending on which type of phial you choose to make, when you use it.
In order to make any of the focus items, you need to visit Grey Havens to ask Cirdan for access to the white ship that sails to Valinor. Valinor is where you will perform the "create focus" ritual. You must have all of the items and ingredients to make the focus and those must be blessed by the bless spell; anyone can cast it on them for you. Every focus requires a blue crystal from the supermob Willow in the Old Forest near the Shire. They also require other materials you'll need to collect, depending on the focus you want to make.
Please read up on the following files:
help focus
help staff
help create focus
help embed
One feature that ALL of the legend focus items can do is they can call a Great Eagle too you.
Sauron's forces do not get access to making a legend focus and instead can corrupt different items in the game and turn them to their own evil uses. See help corrupt.
Great Eagles and Fell beasts
Great Eagles are based off Tolkiens eagles in the books, that give Gandalf a ride a few times and even help out others like dwarves and hobbits on a quest. Fell Beasts are based off of the mounts of the flying Nazgum or Nine Black Riders.
After level 21, you might be able to make a focus item that allows you to call a Great Eagle. Great Eagles can fly you over many zones, like from GH to Bree, or Fornost to Tharbad in one fairly fast flight. Flight time is less then a couple of minutes and the flight itself takes no moves.
But here's a few things to keep in mind if you are lucky enough to be able to call a Great Eagle. You must have a legend focus item to call an eagle. You cannot call them if you are below lvl 21 OR do not have a focus item, crafted in Valinor. Any focus item will work, staves, helmets, phials, rings, or stones.
Calling eagles takes alot of moves, so be well rested before you try it. It will likely take over 70% of your moves to attempt it. Don't try it twice, the second call will autofail. Basically your moves act like mana to call the eagle, similar to a spell. Also it has a short delay while trying to call out to the skies. Also, do not leave the room. The room you call from is where the eagle will show up to help you.
If there is a minion of Sauron in the room, they will probably try to kill your Great Eagle, which will auto fly away from you. Bye bye eagle.
You cannot call eagles in cities, caves, mines, tunnels, buildings, a few heavy dense forests, inside protected areas, like Rivendell and Lorien, or NO-PORT rooms. Please make sure you are outside of a town, in a nice open plain, field, hills, or light forest area. It can take easily up to 2 minutes for the eagle to get there. This time is called "eagle anxiety". Because calling an eagle is sometimes NOT 100% successful. Also there is an eagle calling cooldown. If you wait an hour between calls, you should be fine to try again. If you call an eagle too soon, it will fail. Moves wasted.
Great Eagles can carry up to 2 riders. The second rider does NOT have to be over level 21, so you can fly a lower level friend with you on the eagle. If 2 members in your group have a legend focus, you can fly a group of 4 somewhere, etc...
Eagle flying distance is based off of zones. They can only fly so many zones at a time. Sinda elves get a few bonus zones for eagle range, and can fly further. If you'd like to check where an eagle can fly, when it lands try this:
Whisper eagle assdkfsdlkfj.
That will cause the eagle to tell you the locations it can currently fly to and reach from where you have called it.
A Great Eagle says 'I can take you to the Tower Hills, Isengard, Fangorn, Lórien, Dunland, the Last Bridge, Rivendell, Ost-in-Edhil, Eregion, the Old Forest, Shire, Weathertop, Moria, Greenway, Tharbad, Fornost, or Bree.'
To get the eagle to take you where you want to go, whisper eagle <location>:
whisper eagle bree, whisper eagle fangorn, whisper eagle weathertop, whisper eagle fornost
The eagles will never drop you off in town, but will drop you off a few rooms outside, in a random open plains area.
Here is a list of some (not all) of the locations in MUME that Great Eagle can fly too:
Tower Hills, Isengard, Fangorn, Lórien, Dunland, the Last Bridge, Rivendell, Ost-in-Edhil, Eregion, the Old Forest, Shire, Weathertop, Moria, Greenway, Tharbad, Fornost, Bree, Dol Guldur, Carrock, Lórien
Fell Beasts pretty much operate the same way as Great Eagles. To call a fell beast you
must have a black amulet, which is made by corrupting a red amulet. Fell Beasts are only for
Tarkhnarb orcs and Morruhk orcs and Black Númenóreans.
Fell beasts mostly fly to locations somewhat nearish the Misty
Mountains, and other areas where the forces of Sauron often hold sway.
Black Númenóreans get a few bonus zones to their flying distance.
Link back to the wiki guides:
