Hi all, i created this thread to begin the translation of the tutorial created by Sdrja and thus help spanish speakers players in Estiah.
In Spanish: Hola a todos, he creado este post para comenzar con la traduccion del tutorial creado por
Srdja y asi ayudar a los hermanos hispanoparlantes en Estiah.
Bienvenido al maravilloso mundo de Estiah! Este juego fue creado por Nipal y Lezard, y se puso en marcha el 17 de mayo de 2008. Durante el ultimo año ha sido el juego que mas me atrajo y es por eso que he decidido escribir este pequeño tutorial, para ayudar a los nuevos jugadores a descubrir este maravilloso juego.
Cuando entres por primera vez, veras la pantalla de tu personaje y aparecera un pequeño tutorial. Este tutorial es muy util y te sugiero que lo leas atentamente por completo. La pantalla de tu personaje puede parecer abrumadora la primera vez, pero es ahi donde este tutorial y el del juego mismo te ayudaran! La imagenes y el texto tienen un codigo de colores.

ATRIBUTOS Y LEVELEOLos personajes en Estiah tienen 4 stats principales (o atributos),
Poder (Pow),
Destreza (Dex),
Intelecto (Int) y
Constitucion (Con). A diferencia de otros juegos, subir tus
stats no te hara pegar mas fuerte, tampoco te hara absorber mas daño. Las stats determinan que CHARMS eres capas de usar. Las CHARMS son como las famosas "Cartas Magicas", justamente estan basadas en estas. Entonces, elevar el Intelecto no te hara provocar mas daño magico, pero te hara capas de usar Charms que requieren mayor Intelecto. Las Charms seran mejor explicadas en su propia seccion.
Next, you have your
Hit Points (HP) and Spirit (Spi). Hit Points determine how much damage you can take before you are knocked unconscious and lose. However, reducing the enemy's HP to zero is not the only way to win. Spirit represents how many charms you are able to use in a Gear (deck for people that played TCGs). You make your own gears by combining charms in your collection so you can defeat anything that stands on your path. When you engage an enemy in battle you take turns playing a charm from your gears at random. If you don't have any charms to play, you lose.
There's also the
What's new section where you can see the players that attacked you, Personal Messages you received, results from Coliseums, Pet tournaments and such.
Character advancement section shows you how much your character has evolved in each of the 4 ways.
Estiah's leveling system is quite different from other games. In other RPGs you get stats when you level up. In Estiah, you level up when you get enough stats. See the
progress bar over there? It represents how many stats you need to level up. There are three ways to gain stats:
1. Do the daily job
2. Level up a skill
3. Eat food (You can only eat food from level 20 and onward so this will not be covered in the tutorial)
There are two types of stats, normal and special. You can gain normal stats from doing the daily job and eating food. Special stats are gained from skills and Elixirs (a type of food). You have a limit of how many normal stat points you can gain for your character, that's what
Character Growth (x/900) represents. Special stats don't count in
Character Growth and there's no limit to how many you can gain.
SKILLSSkills are one of the most important aspects of Estiah and are your main source of attribute points. You can view the progress of your skills under the Character (L. X) menu -> view your skills They are divided into 4 categories:
1. Battle - these skills are gained from using certain types of Charms, or specific strategies during battles. For example, using a lot of charms with the Fire rune will level your Fire skill, while using a lot of charms that destroy Armor will level your Destruction skill.
2. Trade Skills - they are gained from Gathering, doing certain jobs and doing events.
3. Evolution - mostly by doing jobs, pet racing and fighting and PvPing.
4. Renown - you don't gain attribute points from them. Their usual reward is a title, but they can have other rewards as well. A title is a word that you can put in front or behind your name to signify that you accomplished something, for example there's a title for killing a lot of Golems called Golem Crusher. You would then be called Golem Crusher <name>.
Most skills have several ranks and you gain attributes only after you have Mastered them (filled the bar). Higher ranks of skills open up as you level up, Rank 2 of most basic Battle skills (Fire, Sword, etc.) open up every 10 levels. Your character will evolve as you play him, if you insist on using charms with the Fire rune you will level your Fire skill quickly and thus gain Power and Intellect.
CLASSESEstiah is a RPG at heart, and as all RPGs, has different
classes. The classes are divided into Tiers 1, 2 and 3 (T1, T2 and T3). Everyone starts off as an adventurer and can later specialize into a T1 class at level 20, T2 at level 30 and T3 at level 40. You can view the class hierarchy
here. There is also class-specialized board where you can check out individual strategies for each class. You can specialize into a class if you fulfill the requirements (stats and mastered skills for T1 and T2 with an addition of items for T3) by going to the Class Guild hall. You can check where each class's guild hall is by hovering over cities on the map.
You should play the game however you like and let the skills and your class come naturally. Are you an evil black mage that wants to light his opponents on fire? Use Fire and Shadow. Or are you a shining Paladin that wants to protect his allies but still be able to smite evil wherever it shows? Maces and Holy are your thing. There's no way to screw up your character before level 12-15 at all. Even if you think you're screwed at 30 you can probably still recover. Around level 10 you will no longer be able to use all the charms you get so you will have to prioritize stat points to be able to use the charms you want.
AP AND RESETSAlmost everything that you can do in Estiah requires Action Points (AP). You gain 20AP every 2 hours, so you have 240AP to use up each day. The maximum amount of AP you can store is 1200, but you gain AP slower the more you have over 360. It is most effective to use up all of your AP daily. Each Dungeon encounter uses 15AP, Events and Arena use 12AP and Gathering uses 10AP. Attacking a player of your own or lower level in Player vs. Player (PvP) combat uses 10AP while attacking a player higher level than you uses 1 less AP per each level he's higher than you.
A lot of stuff in Estiah happens on a clock:
You get 20 AP every 2 hours
Dungeons reset every 12 hours
Events reset 20 hours after you complete them
Job, travel and PvP diminishing returns reset every 24 hours
THE MENUBAR
Near the top of the screen, there's a menu bar that will help you navigate. Hovering over each of the sections of the menu bar makes a menu drop down.
Player (L. X) menu lets you:View you character - returns you to the main character screen
View your skills - shows the progress of your skills.
View your fights - gives you the list of all of your fights in the last 7 days. They are private. You can make them Public by pressing the corresponding button. Public fights are kept forever, but you only have space for 5 public fights.
View your charms - gives you an overview of your charm collection
View your private messages - this is your Private Message (PM) Inbox. You can Private Message other players by opening their character profile and selecting Messages.
Support the game - this section allows you to donate to help Estiah. The stuff you get for donating doesn't imbalance the game in any way, it is mostly for convenience. If you like the game, please consider donating.
Below all of this you have your gears. Clicking on the name of one brings you to the Gear builder that we will discuss later.
City X menuVisit city places - allows you to visit everything the city has to offer: dungeons, market, gathering, discovered sites, guild halls, etc.
Go to city market - let's you buy items and charms the city is selling. You can also craft charms here. In Estiah, players do not possess the knowledge to craft charms so you have to pay people that specialize in crafting to do it for you.
Auction House - items and charms are put up here by cities, so players can bid on them. Player's can't put up items or charms to auction off. It is very good for obtaining charms that need some hard to get materials to craft
Bounty Board - you can view the list of most wanted players here. Defeating them in PvP will bring you money and fame. IF you don't like someone, why don't you try putting a bounty on his head?
View world map - you can view the world map here. It allows you to check what dungeons and guild halls are in what cities and also lets you move around.
Market rates for the city you're currently in are also displayed here.
Action Xpts menuPlayer versus Player, Coliseum and Outlaw Hunt - all of this is explained in the Player versus Player section.
Arena - takes you to the arena to fight monsters for gold.
Gathering - go to the wilderness to gather some precious materials
Below all that are the dungeons available in the city.
Jobless/Job menuApply for a new job - takes you to the recruiter where you can apply for a job. You can do a job daily and you should do it every day so that your character advances at a steady rate. On the recruiter's screen you can see what you will get from doing a job; jobs can reward stats, gold, skills and items. Clicking on the name of a job shows exactly what it will reward. If the "skill" on the right of the job is yellow it means you still haven't mastered it. If it's gray it means you have. There are even special jobs that allow you to move to other cities. Try doing a job now. Choose a job you like and press "Apply". You still haven't worked though, pressing "Work" after you've pressed "Apply" will actually make you go to work and give you the rewards form the job. The list might seem small now, but as you level up more jobs will show up.
Pet racing and fighting, adopt a pet - takes you to those screens. Will be further explained in the pets section.
ITEMS AND INVENTORYItems are used for multitude of purposes and you can get them from almost anywhere. There are 6 colors of items in Estiah.
Grey - very common items, they are not used in crafts or anything else and are mostly safe to sell.
Green - They are used for crafts or have other purposes, they are common
Blue - special drops from dungeons mostly, used for crafting powerful charms and items
Brown - items that drop from players when you defeat them in PvP
Red - consumable items, mostly foods
Purple - special items

Inventory X/100 menu:
View your inventory - shows all the items in your Inventory and your Storage. Items you get from Dungeons and Events go into Storage first, which is unlimited, but they disappear after 7 days if you don't reclaim them into your inventory. Green clock by the items in Storage means you have more than 3 days to reclaim them, yellow means between 1 and 3 days and red means you have less than a day left. Items have different types which are displayed in the pop up you get when you hover over the item's name. Clicking on the buttons in the filter group allows you to view only items of a certain type. You can also sort them by using the sorting options on the upper right. You can manipulate the storage to let you keep your items for a long time. If there's only 1 day left on 1 Mithril Bar in your storage and you receive another that gets put into storage, the timer will be reset and you will have 7 days to reclaim your 2 Mithril Bars. Reclaiming an item from storage puts it into your inventory. You can also sell items from this screen. Item's selling price is determined by the current market rate of the items type in the city you are in. You can view the market rate in the city's market screen. The traders also take a 20% cut so the items you sell will be valued at 20% less than the market price.
Reclaim items in storage - puts all of your items that are currently in storage into your inventory.
View your achievements - for doing extraordinary deeds in the land of Estiah you can gain achievements that you can use to brag to other players.
View adventurer's diary - shows the story of all the dungeons you finished.
Gold - the main currency of Estiah. This shows you how much you have. Arena is one of the best places to gain gold if you're strapped for cash.
Honor Points - if you're in a guild you can get Guild Honor Points (GHP) with which you can buy charms from the guild's showcase.
Phoenix Feathers - you get them by donating. They are used for buying donation items.
CHARMSCharms are what you'll use instead of weapons in Estiah. Long ago, the Curse was brought upon the lands of Estiah disallowing the use of any kind of weapons, hoping to bring peace to the land. However, humans have found a way to capture the very essence of weapons and magic into things that we call Charms. Let's take a look at a simple charm:

First we have the
charm name, in this case Copper Sword. Next is the
charm effects section, in this case
9 Melee (20% P). This means that Copper Sword will do
9 Melee damage with 20% Penetration to the enemy. What is Penetration you ask? In Estiah,
Armor is used to defend against
Melee damage and
Ward is used to defend against
Magic damage. If the opponent has 20
Armor on himself and you play a charm with
9 Melee (0% P) you will do 9 damage to his
armor, lowering it to 11 but leaving his HP untouched. If you attack him with Copper Sword you will still do 9 damage to his
armor, but you will also do 9*0.2%=1.8 damage to his HP, rounded down, so he will also lose 1 HP.
Next section describes the
charm's requirements. In this case, Copper Sword requires you to be at least Level 5 and have at least 8
Dexterity and 7
Power. On the
lower left and the lower right of the charm are its Runes. Copper Sword only has one Rune, in the lower left, the Sword rune. Think of Runes as types, Copper Sword is obviously a sword so it has the Sword rune. Using charms with a specific Rune will raise the corresponding skill, in this case, Sword skill. There are game mechanics that take Runes into account, but they are only encountered at higher levels. There are 12 Basic weapon runes and 12 T3 classes; each T3 class corresponds to one Rune. If you want to find out more check out
Attributes, charms and class relationships. And finally,
squarely at the bottom sits a number that shows how many of that specific charm you have. The maximum you can have of one charm is 5.
There are 6 different rarities of charms:
Grey - vendor charms, you can buy them in cities, the weakest type of charms.
Green - treasure charms, drop from dungeons, you will have the most of these in your collection.
Blue - rare charms, drop from dungeon bosses, very powerful.
Yellow - craft charms, their power can vary widely.
Red - class charms, you can get them from your T1, T2 and T3 class guild halls. Specialized but powerful.
Purple - epic charms, they are extremely hard to get but also extremely powerful. Only a few of them are in the game.