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I just posted a small starting guide in this thread. I am also on Faydark, just look me up sometime and I will help you get started, hands on.

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You need to find a "trade instance" to do artisan skills. Look for 'trap doors' in the basic towns, like baubleshire. Hail the npc standing by the trap door. If he says "i can't let u join" then move on, keep looking until one of htem lets u join. That's the one u want to be in.

Go in and find the merchant, not hte broker. Hit P and see your art. lvl. Buy all recipe books u need (hit B, hit edit, scroll down to see if u own any books - "unknown" refers to the recipes we all start w/, tin bar and tin spike).

You may wanna go into Forest Ruins and harvest a little tin from rocks, er that's mining, not harvesting. Anyway, buy a coal and a shaped fossil temper per tin cluster - turn em into tin bars. To do this go to the third little room on the bottom lvl (Q config - FP config is diff) and find the forges. Just click on one - and what u can make will pop up in a window - it's very intuitive and easy to figure out. Then w/ a coal and a sft per bar - turn em into spikes. That should lvl u at least to 4 if not 5. Buy new recipe book. Look around for stuff to combine.

Hit K and then the tradeskills button. Study these buffs/bad-effects-removers. You just have to read them and practice them to get what they do. Note that while making stuff if u see an icon appear, u must "counter" it w/ one of these effects removers -- AND -- they also work as buffs, so u can spam em to make faster progress.

At lvl 9 u must go to Q Harbor and seek an NPC who looks like George Lucas (I'm not joking) - Alfred Ironforge - and pick what you want to be from lvl 10 to 19. Scholar (make spells, jewels, and alchemistry stuff), Craftsman (wood and food), or Provider (metal and leather). GL

Behind the First building on your left as you enter hobbiton from the mariner's bell is a trapdoor.

Failing that bring up your map (The M key) and remove the Fog. Large yellow symbols will be zone exits, small ones are societies and the Down Below.

These may not show up if you have not been near them, I'm not sure. But if you've searched as hard as you say you have then there can't be much fog left on your map anyway.

Of course if you do the quest for Assistant Dreak on the IoR you get a list of places.

What you are looking for is "The Deductive Directory". That is your wholesaler society in your zone.

Oh, and I usually play from about 7pm - 12am Eastern Standard Time, forgot to mention that heh.