JOMSVIKING GUILD HELP
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Well-trained Jomsvikings are pure killing machines.  They are highly
skilled in the use of weapons, and their brute strength allows them to
deliver punishing blows.  They abandon their own safety with full-force
attacks and trust in their dedication to keep them alive. Though many
observers attribute their fury and fierceness to sheer barbarism, those
that understand the Jomsvikings know that they fight with religious
devotion. Jomsvikings are trained in the art of rune carving and have
access to many powerful magics through this ancient practice.  By appeasing
Armagg-odhin with their many kills and invoking the power of their Runes,
the Jomsvikings use more than just pure physical strength.  It is this
power that makes them so feared and nearly unstoppable.
 
 
JOMSVIKING SKILLS/SPELLS (Up to level 14)
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Attack: This is the fundamental skill of attacking.  The higher you train
in it, the more often you will hit things.
 
Axe: This is your proficiency with an axe.  Jomsvikings learn a few
specialattacks that utilize this weapon, so it is recomended to be highly
trained in its use.
 
Find Chip: This allows you to create a chip, which you can carve into a
rune while you are outdoors.  You will be using this often(You cannot
obtain runes without it!).
 
Carve Aett: The second part of the formula involving finding a chip.  This
allows you to carve one of 24 runes into a blank chip.  You will need a
knife.  you will need to carve all 24 runes, and don't forget to thread the
runes to you. 
 
Bludgeon: This is your proficiency with a bludgeon.  Though Jomsvikings
main focus is the axe, bludgeons are large, blunt objects that crush your
foes. So might as well swing one too!
 
Carve rune of dusk/ carve rune of dawn: These allows you to carve your
armor/weapon with a rune that will absorb/Glows with Light.  Depending on
your races vision and regen you can emit or absorb light.  You need a
knife.
 
Crude Weaponsmithing: You can obtain a few useful items this way, but it is
mainly used to obtain a knife for rune carving.
 
Three Rune Cast:  This basic spell will tell you the alignment of the
target, but not much else. 
 
Hallow Slain: This is used to offer the corpses of the slain in return for
jomsviking dues.  You will use this skill over and over, so train it high.
 
Broad Blade: Jomsvikings get no special attacks with broad blades, and they
are not as devastating as bludgeons or axes.  But these weapons seem
abundant in supply, so the Jomsviking trains with them just in case.
 
Carve Strength Rune: This allows you to carve a belt with a rune that will
increase your strength.  The belt must be on the ground and you'll need a
knife.
 
Brew Mead: We can brew our own mead, have a cook pot that you can buy in
general store and start brewing in Bottles.. or better yet.. read the next
one!
 
Kegging: That is correct we can now purchuse Kegs in the guild Shop, it is
Castle furnature, can be threaded, and can be filled with Beer or Mead.
 
Flyting: Another Mead skill, except now you piss off friend or Npc, and
make them spit in your Mead or keg, making it more potent
 
Cleave:  Them: Hey, there's a wooden door in the way! You: Look at my big,
sharp axe....
 
Carve Shield Rune: This allows you to carve a rune into your armor/weapon
that will increase its protection value.  The armor must be bulky enough to
accept a rune, and you will need a knife.
 
Slash: A special attack with an axe.  Just pretend you're cutting off a
tree limb.
 
Second Sight: Utilizing the runes power, you will be able to see hidden,
invisible, and trapped things and also see in the dark better.
 
Headbutt: You need a head or brow for this one.  Slight chance of stunning
your foe.
 
Carve Speed Rune: This allows you to carve a pair of boots with a rune that
will increase your Dex.  They must be boots and bulky enough to accept the
rune, you will need a knife.
 
Blotting: Like to drink? You've joined the right guild.  The Jomsviking can
use alcohol to restore his endurance as well as get a nice buzz. The more
powerful the booze, the more endurance points it restores
 
Axe Grinding: Axes get damaged the more you use them.  This allows you to
repair some of that damage(Note: weapons don't damage until after level 15
- read help newbie advantages)
 
Two kings curse: this is a passive escape death, the help fill for this
skill tells how it came about.
 
Hamfarir: Utilizing the power of rune Magic, you can transform yourself
into certain beasts.  You transform back using the command normalform.
Great if you are too large to fit in certain places.
 
Ambidexterity: Allows you to attack with weapons in your left hand.
 
Double Hit: Allows you to attack more than once with your weapons.
 
Carve Door Rune: This allows you to carve a rune into a door.  By entering
that door, you can return to the guild.  Heimdal watches this entrance, so
don't go in wielding or with anyone who isn't a jomsviking.  You must carve
it into a real, physical door in the room.
 
Carve Triumph Rune: This allows you to carve a rune into a number of
weapons that will add a random damage type.  Ask on the jomsviking channel
to find out what damage each rune does. (It is also posted on the guild
board)
 
Axe Sweep: A special attack with an axe.  You sweep the room and damage
everyone around you (except your party members).
 
Bash: A special attack in combat, mainly for use with a shield.
 
Intimidation: Gives a little extra charisma.
 
Melee Endurance: Fighting is tiring, but not as tiring if you are trained. 
After level 15 you will lose eps(endurance points) as you fight.  This
helps reduce the fatigue.
 
Battle-Rage: Utilizing the power of Rune Magic, you will be granted
strength of will.  This has a chance of preventing stuns for its entire
duration.  This will probably become your most-used spell.
 
Whirling Death-Chop: If you are fortunate enough to wield axes without
something attacking you, you can begin combat by trying to take off their
head.  Deals good damage, and can only be used to initiate combat.
 
Fire Building: Resting by a fire restores you more quickly.  A tinderbox
helps you build one more easily.
 
Weatherize: Will add fire and cold resistance to a piece of armor.  It can
be applied to any piece of armor, though it requires an animal corpse each
time.
 
Thunderbolt: Utilizing the power of a rune magic, you can call a
thunderbolt on to your enemy doing both Electric and Sonic damage. 
 
Battle Cry: This increases your strength for a short period of time.
 
Reddening: You can increase the charges in a rune with your own blood.
 
Nidstang: Utilizing the power of Rune Magic, you can lower the strength of
will of your opponent.
 
galdra gol:runic Quick chant, cuts casting time in half for all runic
spells.
 
Howling rage: the Berserker is able to cause his battle yell to change into
a piercing howl that harms his enemies. There is a chance that this
evocation of pure rage can cause an opponent to lose concentration, or
become stunned from fright.
 
runic strike: By releasing the power of a rune, you call on the elemental
forces to damage your enemies (ask on channel or read the Guild board for
damage types)
 
leysigaldr: By calling on the ancient rune, you can gain free action, to
protect you and so that killing your enemies underwater do not slow you
down
 
mending galdr: By calling on the runes of healing, you are able to heal
yourself.  
 
JOMSVIKING SKILLS/SPELLS (after level 14)
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Weapon Parry: Okay, sometimes the Jomsviking needs to worry about defense. 
By parrying with your weapons, you can defend yourself while remaining in
full combat mode.
 
Riposte: allows you to do damage when you susefully weapon parry a blow.
 
Gormeng: This skill allows the Jomsviking to load and fasten a spell to his
rune, invoking its power without the need to physically seize and cast it.
It helps reduce or even negate the penalties incurred by wielding while
invoking somatic runic category spells.
 
Establish mead hall: By calling upon Rune Magic, you are able to create a
temporary mead hall, that grants bonuses, and keeps out unwanted enemies,
this is one of the best shelters in the game but requires you to be in a
party of more than one person to use
 
Summon Sleipner: Utilizing the power of Rune Magic, you can call for
Amragg-odhin's steed.  If your call is answered, Sleipner will carry you
and other items for a short period of time(Sleipner can fly).
 
Galdralag: Cursing at your opponent will frighten them and may cause them
to miss some attacks.
 
Strong Grip: Sometimes you clash weapons so forcefully that you may drop it
due to the vibration.  This allows you the chance to hold onto it instead.
 
Shield Biting: Most people train with shield for defense.  Jomsvikings
attack with everything they have.  This special ability will give you a few
extra attacks.
 
Enhance Criticals: After training and battling often, you will begin to
learn your opponents' weaknesses.  This allows you to score more
devestating blows when you score critical hits.
 
Alfreka: Utilizing the power of Rune Magic, you can destroy any fields in
the surrounding area(and the room you are in).
 
Blood Eagle: Utilizing the power of Rune Magic, you can unleash a
devestating attack on your opponent.  
 
Armageddon: Utilizing the power of Rune Magic, you can unleash a
devestating attack on the area.
 
Stun: Increases the chance of stunning your foe in combat.
 
Hack: A special attack with an axe. Similiar to slash but you hit a LOT
harder.
 
Carve Iron-Cant-Bite Rune: The ultimate power of runes, you carve a
temporary tattoo on your self or another, gaining resistance to physical
and Armor protection. it dosen't leave a scar but is stackable with other
physical resistance spells.
 
Tattooing: Using a knife, you can tattoo components or decorations on
yourself and others.  Read the help file on this one.  
 
Battle Fury:  This is the pride of the jomsvikings, and the reason they are
greatly respected.  With this skill you whip yourself into a fury, gaining
many more hit points and reducing your wimpy to 0.
 
Carve Kenning: This allows you to carve a rune into a bladed weapon that
will add magical damage, hit and damage bonuses, and give it a name.  This
is the only rune skill that can be stacked with another beneficial rune.
 
Stunned Maneuvers: This skill helps break you out of a nasty stun.  High
constitution and a bit of luck can help with this
 
whirlwind attack: extra chance at a hit with right hand
 
Determination:This skill allows you to attempt to keep your concentration
instead of being interrupted
  
JOMSVIKING STARTING TIPS AND SUGGESTIONS:
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As you should have noticed from the skill helps, you will need a knife to
do any type of rune carving.  Fortunately, the knife is easy to obtain with
crude weaponsmithing.  Rune carving is a very important aspect of being a
Jomsviking.  It is what seperates this guild from any of the other
melee-oriented guilds (ie: fighters or fallens).  By taking the time to
carve up your equipment, as well as store runes used for our spells, you
will fare much better in battle.  You may find that you cannot train your
rune carving as high as most other skills, or maybe you can train them
higher.  This is because they are religious skills, and the maximum level
of training is based on your spiritual skill max.  This is why it is
important to choose a race with a fairly high (60%+) spiritual max.  Also
note that Jomsviking is a bulk 3 spiritual guild.  This means that any
armor you are wearing that is over bulk 3 will reduce your spiritual skills
and spells by 4% per slot.  If you have bulk 4 armor, it is best to remove
it before using the carving skills.
 
Jomsviking spells are powerful.  We do not get many, but each one we can
learn is useful.  Jomsviking spells are different from any other spells in
the way that they require a specific rune.  Every time you "invoke" a spell
(you invoke spiritual spells, and cast hermetic spells) you will use a
charge of the mentioned runes (read the specific spell's help file).  Until
you can train the reddening skill, you will need to carve multiple chips
with the same rune. Tattooing a component will take up an armor slot,
however. 
 
 
JOMSVIKING RACE SUGGESTIONS:
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You will definitely need a high skill max and a fairly high spiritual spell
max.  Good Strength and Constitution is highly recommended.  Dexterity will
help with rune carving skills.  The Jomsviking guild is not aligned, so
racial alignment is not a factor.
  
NEWBIE KILLING AREAS:
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To Kill Evil Monsters:
 
(crypt) haelis' manor and graveyard, wumpus, abandoned outpost, Kobolds
(under level 20): east of Igneous city 
(perdow) bandit camp. 
(welstar) muridans in barrow downs, plus skeletons if human size or
smaller, goblins in the saplings area (treant grove), uruks in besieged
castle. necro camp in charthur
(wysoom) red trimers up to level 15, bandits in the area hidden under the
casino, croshmok (careful though, stunny)
(perdow) Warlock tower (levels 15-25) Lower levels
 
To Kill Good Monsters:
 
(crypt) utopia, gnomevale, boelir camp. 
(perdow) danowyr outpost, but carefully. 
(raji) elysium, circle of wagons. 
(sosel) kanku tree up to 16, kuns in the deep valley. 
(welstar) treants in saplings (treant grove), tsoda pools (beware the
keystone slayer! also the toothaches and stuff are evil actually), castle
people in the besieged castle. (wysoom) blue rimers up to 15, tidepools,
philosophers (careful, stun and flame arrow).
 
And there is always neutral monsters, that any can kill..
 
(perdow) chessboard in the chaos plains, 
(raji) nomadic encampment, boarding school. 
(sosel) tigers in the "near a house" place, ancient fortress (though
slightly evil-aligned there I think). 
(welstar)azalin, hostel. 
(wysoom) retreat (slightly evil), yellow trimers up to 15, gromkin warrens
up to 15
(crypt) autognome factory
 
Always ask your newbie guide about newbie areas.  This may show you a new 
place to kill, but will at least give you a new place to explore.  There
are different newbie areas on each planet, and sometimes multiple areas on
the same planet.  Be sure to familiarize yourself with your newbie guide!
(help guide)
 
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Be sure to ask any questions on the Jomsviking channel.  Look at your rune
pouch and type 'jomsviking help' to learn more about communicating with
your
guild.  
Now go and Kill 'Em All!