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Priston Tale
PC Version
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Atalanta Specific Guide v1.0
by Rodrigo Ishizaka Ciarlini



This document is Copyright 2004 Rodrigo Ishizaka Ciarlini

This guide should not be altered in any form, nor it should be used for
anything other than private and personal use. It's free and should be
redistributed only with my express written permission.
Anyone interested in using this guide for anything other than just reading
should contact me, Rodrigo Ishizaka Ciarlini , by
e-mail.

Priston Tale is Copyright @ 2000-2004 TRIGLOW PICTURES Ltd. All rights Reserved



-= INDEX =-

UPDATE INFO.............................. 0.0

INTRODUCTION............................. 1.0

GAME BASICS.............................. 2.0
Creating an Atalanta Character...... 2.1
Game controls....................... 2.2
Mouse.......................... 2.2.1
Keyboard....................... 2.2.2
Chat commands.................. 2.2.3

ATALANTA CLASS........................... 3.0
Atalanta attribute points........... 3.1
Attributes explained........... 3.1.1
Spending attribute points...... 3.1.2

ATALANTA SKILLS.......................... 4.0
1st tier Skills..................... 4.1
Shield Strike.................. 4.1.1
Farina......................... 4.1.2
Throwing Mastery............... 4.1.3
Bigger Spear................... 4.1.4
2nd tier Skills..................... 4.2
Windy.......................... 4.2.1
Twist Javelin.................. 4.2.2
Soul Sucker.................... 4.2.3
Fire Javelin................... 4.2.4

ATALANTA STRATEGIES...................... 5.0
Ranged Combat....................... 5.1
Melee Combat........................ 5.2
Party Combat........................ 5.3

ATALANTA EQUIPMENT....................... 6.0
Equipment statistics........... 6.0.1
Specialized Itens (Spec.)...... 6.0.2
Weapons............................. 6.1
Javelins....................... 6.1.1
Protective Gear..................... 6.2
Armors......................... 6.2.1
Shields........................ 6.2.2
Gauntlets...................... 6.2.3
Boots.......................... 6.2.4
Armlets........................ 6.2.5
Extra gear.......................... 6.3
Rings.......................... 6.3.1
Amulets........................ 6.3.2
Sheltons....................... 6.3.3
Item Mixing......................... 6.4
Item Aging.......................... 6.5

EXTRAS................................... 7.0
Terminology Dictionary......... 7.1
Hints and tips................. 7.2
Links to useful sites.......... 7.3
Special Thanks................. 7.4



-= 0.0: UPDATE INFO =-

2004-03-16 v1.0 released.
????-??-?? v1.1 - I'll probably include how to handle mules, bridges and a lot
of changes due Age of Renaissance update.




-= 1.0: INTRODUCTION =-

Recently, I've been playing the open beta of this game quite a bit. The open
beta status means that the game is currently free to download and to play, but
that may change at any time to Pay to Play (p2p) status.
The game is made by a korean company called TriGlow Pictures and their main
effort so far is on the korean version of the game (it's at v2.9.0 while the
english one is still at 2.3.0), which is already p2p. But since I cannot
understand a thing in korean nor have the money to pay for those things (hey,
I'm still with a Matrox Millenium G400 here, a video card released before
nVIDIA's GeForce256 or Matrox's G450) I'll be writing based on my experiences
with the english 2.3.0 version, even tough some things are dated (comparing to
kPT) or simply not implemented.

The english game also suffer from a somewhat inconvenient problem: bad
translation. While the game is perfectly playable, somethings are misleading.
This affects both the game and the official site (http://eng.pristontale.com).
A good example of an inoffensive mistranslation is the "Matal Javelin", which
probably should be "Metal Javelin", but an example of a misleading one is the
"Willpower" requirement present in some weapons, which should be "Spirit" or
vice-versa.



-= 2.0: GAME BASICS =-

Altough the game can be played with just point'n clicking and understanding
of terms are not totally vital, you shouldn't neglect this, or you may just
have some trouble doing exactly what you want or take too long to use potions.
But I'll leave the installation steps and such to the discretion of the player
or to the official site.



2.1: Creating an Atalanta character

Once the game is good to go and you connect to one of the servers, it's far
easy to figure out how to create your first character, if not, the official
site has a step-by-step guide on doing this. What can be tricky is creating a
second character, since it won't have a billboard class "CREATE CHARACTER"
sticking on the screen, you should move the cursor to the symbols on the top of
the fountain behind your already created character(s).
When you finally enter the world of Priston, you'll be at Phillai. Since you
begin without any money, the best thing to do is head to south to teleport to
Road to the Wind to earn money and experience points.


2.2: Game controls

Using a ranged attack character will require that you use camera rotation
frequently. There's a in-game help, but it's incomplete. Anyway, be sure to
memorize at least the basic of these ones:


2.2.1: [Mouse]

Left-button - Basically do almost everything. Commands character to walk/run,
attack, follow a person, talk to NPCs, pick-up itens, use skill assigned to
left-button etc. It's worthy mention that you just need to hold the button to
keep attacking a monster.

Right-button - Use skill assigned to the right-button.

Wheel(scroll)- Change camera up/down angle. Won't work if camera is set to Zoom
Lock.

Wheel(press) - Change camera side angle and zoom in/out.


2.2.2: [Keyboard]

Esc - Close last opened window or display Help/Quit menu (if all windows are
already closed).

F1-F8 - Change currently selected skill. One of the most useful shortcuts in
the game if you ask me, since this allows to switch from Shield Strike to Windy
and then back very fast, which can be vital. To assign a skill to one of the Fn
keys is tricky, tough, and not properly explained in the game help. You need to
open the skill window, click and hold the mouse button you want to tie with the
skill you're clicking over then press the Fn key you want to assign. E.g., if
you want to assign Farina to the mouse's left-button with the F5 key, you need
to open the skill window, left-click and hold over Farina skill and press F6
key, then you may just release the left-button, after that, if you press F6,
the left-button will be changed to Farina. Don't forget that not every skill
can be assigned to the left-button (e.g. Shield Strike), but all can be
assigned to the right-button. Also, it's a good idea to assign a Fn key to
Default Attack if you choose to assign some skills to the left-button, since
you'll probably want to change it back to preserve mana/stamina (I do it so I
can use Shield Strike on an emergency).

1-3 - Quickly use itens at quick-item slots. You'll use it a lot with healing
potions.

Tab - Open/Close Map Window. You may want to close it when you're camping in
some spawn.

Q - Open/Close Quest Window. Not very useful, since you won't be on quest
often.

W - Toggle your equipment sets. You may have two equipment sets, that are
effectively weapon and shield slots. This may be useful if you want to keep
both melee and ranged sets. E.g., you could have a javelin and shield within a
set and a two-handed pike within other, so it's possible to quickly switch to a
heavy melee weapon once an enemy has closed.

E - Toggle your inventory screens. You have two, and this is useful when
one is without enough space to pick-up something or just keep thing organized.

R - Toggle Run/Walk. While walking, you recover some stamina, running waste
it. At any rate, you probably won't be using walk mode very much.

S - Open/Close Skill Window. If you're using Fn shortcuts, you probably
won't see this window frequently.

D - Open/Close Party/Friends window.

Z - Change camera modes. Can be set between Manual, Auto and Fixed.
Personally, I prefer Manual setting.

X - Open/Close System menu. You can get help or quit the game from here.

C - Open/Close Character Information window.

V - Open/Close Inventory window. If you pick-up something when this window
is open, you'll need to allocate the item, while it'll auto-allocate if closed
(but it won't automatically use the other inventory screen if the first is
already full and the item will be dropped back to the floor).

Space - Close Inventory/Character Information/Skill window.

Ctrl - Allow mouse buttons to be used on others characters. If you hold Ctrl
and left-click someone, you'll attack/use skill on that person. So far, since
player-killing is disabled, you won't hurt anyone by doing this.

Up - Camera zoom in

Down - Camera zoom out

Left - Camera pan left

Right - Camera pan right

Ctrl+Up - Camera tilt down

Ctrl+Down - Camera tilt up

Enter - Open Chat window enabled to type. Enter again without nothing typed
will leave the window opened but disabled to type. Be aware that you won't be
able to use any keyboard shortcuts while Chat window is enabled to type
(including those healing potions in quick-item slot).


2.2.3: [Chat Commands]

/:character_name - Display online status of character_name
/:character_name Message - Send Message to character_name
//party character_name - Request a party to character_name
Up/Down key - Repeat last commands (like /:character_name or
//party, but nothing after the first space, like Message in /:character_name