• Read help newhelp.

• Make sure you have compression turned on. type compress to check. If it is not turned on, read help mccp.

• Use the newbie channel. e.g. newbie [message] to ask questions until you no longer have access to the newbie channel. Then you should use the question/answer channels.

• You will want to visit Lowlands Paradise '96 area before levelling past level 5. Use noexp to prevent yourself from levelling past level 5. You can gain exp again by simply typing noexp again-- it is a toggle command. The important items that can be found in this area is the garbage can, a portal that takes you back to recall, as well as a graduation weapon. You will want to use the keep command for the garbage can to prevent yourself from accidentally dropping it. Note that keep and unkeep flags (help keep) are different from keepflagged (help keepflag).

• A common question is how do you use the garbage can (or any other held portal)? In the case of the garbage can you would type wear can followed by enter NOT enter can. A good help file to read is help enter.

• Spam. If you are encountering a lot of spam you will want to read help spamreduce. Important ones are nospam and battlespam.

• Aard rules and policies. Make sure you read help rules, help conduct, help policies1, help policies2, ..., help policies8.

• Help. There is virtually a help file for almost anything you may want to know. If you are uncertain how to use the help system, type help help. index is also a useful help tool.

• Make sure you're using the correct channel. If you are looking for a group, make sure you ask on the wangrp channel. If no one responds to your request, asking on a different channel will not get you any responses aside from "Ask on wangrp channel." There is also a barter channel for communicating buying or selling of items between players. Type channel to see all your available channels.

• Item level restrictions. Certain items will never save with your character. Those items include items of type key, items with the nosave flag, and items that are more than 10 levels of your current level. Exceptions occur if you are a tier (a more advanced player), the item is keepflagged, if you have the keepall wish (see help wish), or if the item in question is a container. Containers save regardless of level.

• Notes. Learn to use notes. Important announcements are made by the immortals regarding new areas, system changes, etc. via notes. See help notes.

• Popular levelling areas can be found using the mobdeaths command. See help mobdeaths. A recommendation for newbies is to use a level range of +5 to +15 of your current level and opposite your current alignment.

• Casting Spells can be done in 2 ways. One method is to use single quotes to surround the spell name. The other method is to use the spell number. An example using the magic missle spell is as follows: cast 'magic missile' [target] OR cast 62 [target]. To find the spell number you can either use the spell command and look at the number inside the ()'s. An alternative is to use the showskill [skill/spell name] command. You will also want to experiment with aliasing commands to shorten your typing time. e.g. alias cf cast 'faerie fire'. From this example you would simply need to type cf [target] to cast faerie fire on your target. Unfortunately if you want to stack multiple commands you will have to write a client side alias since Aard will not parse command stacking delimeters .

• quaff potions, eat pills, recite scrolls, zap wands, and brandish staves.

• Identify items at Hester's Whoswhatzit by typing 'runto identify' from recall if you do not have any of the item identification skills/spells. A trick that you can use if you do not want to spend the gold to identify newly encountered items is to look them up in an eq database (such as one found on iwuvaard.org), sell to a shop and appraise, or auction and bid.

• Speedwalks and Maps will be your friend however you will be missing a lot if you do not explore. Speedwalks for newly added areas can not be made publicly available until after 2 weeks from the day it was put in. Maps for newly added areas can not be made publicly available until 1 month after it has been put in. That being said, you can find speedwalks ingame by typing runto <area> at recall, or at many websites such as iwuvaard.org and emerald clan's website. Maps can be found at emerald clan's website and light clan's website
  

• Do not forget to gain quest points through questing, global quests, and campaigns. You will need at least 800 quest points to superhero, and you must superhero before you can remort. Plus, quest points allows you to buy powerful items. See help quest, help gquest, help campaign. There are other ways of getting quest points such as donating money to support Aard, aard scrabble, aard poker, etc. but those are not steady sources of quest points.

• You shouldn't spend your quest points at trains. When you remort, you loose all your trained stats and waste all quest points, invested in trains.

• Have Fun!

1. Scan. Sometimes there are stationary mobs at the other end of the maze area. Scan for these mobs and move in the direction indicated. Sometimes you will also notice doors that you can open. These may lead you out of the maze area. Note: Some mobs and doors will not show up on scan.
2. Exit. The exit command will show you the room names of the unobstructed adjacent rooms. Look for rooms that are different from the maze room names. If there is a closed door between rooms you will not see the room name and it will not show as an exit option even if you have passdoor.
3. Hunt. If you are trying to leave the maze, hunt for a mob on the other side of the maze. Note: not all mobs are hunt-able.
4. Recall or use a Portal. These will get you out of the maze unless the room that you are in is marked as prison, norecall, or noportal. Prison rooms are basically norecall + noportal. If the room that you are in is only norecall, then use a portal (such as the amulet of aardwolf, portal spell, nexus, ...). If the room that you are in is only noportal, then you can use recall to leave.
5. Pets and other room markers. Buy a pet or use a spell to obtain one. Place your pet at the entrance to the maze (using heel and then order all rest or order all sleep)and use scan to look for your pet when you need to get out. If you are trying to explore the maze area you can drop coins, lights, etc. to mark explored rooms. You should also look for Graffiti denoted by a (G) at the end of the room name. Players may spend a few of their trivia points to mark one room from the maze exit room with a graffiti. You should read graffiti and use the exits commands to find the exit.
6. Wander aimlessly. You're bound to encounter the exit room unless you are extremely unlucky.