Your First Hour in Game

Here's your first hour, minute by minute. You don't need to know anything in advance: everything Vela adds to Essence opens with buttons from a single window, the Vela menu. If you've played Essence before, just read the highlighted parts; the rest will be familiar.

0–5 minutes: your hero and first login#

1. Class. Your own class skills are free; skills from other classes cost SP and adena, so your starting class is the core of your build. Not sure? Go archer or mage: they're the easiest to farm solo. Details: Classes and Professions.
2. First login. A "Welcome to Vela!" window opens with the five key things about Vela. Your account immediately gets 3 days of premium: experience, SP and loot amount ×1.5.
3. Newbie chain. The first hero on an account plays through the Essence tutorial: it leads you across the zones and hands out gear. The second and later heroes can skip it: Newbie Chain and Skip.

5–15 minutes: buffs and your first hunt#

1. Buffs. .menu›Buff helper›Fighter set or Mage set: a free set for an hour. Works until your first rebirth. Details: Newbie Buffs.
2. Auto hunting. Use the native Essence auto-hunt button on your bar, plus Vela's rules in .menu›Comfort›Auto hunting: radius, auto loot, skill order. Up to 6 attack skills on auto.
3. Hunt. Kill monsters of your level in the starting zone. You start with no adena; your first money comes from monsters.

15–30 minutes: T1 gear#

Once you have 20–30 thousand adena:

1. .menu›Shop and premium (or Alt+B›Shop).
2. Aden weapons: 12 types at 20,000 adena each. Pick the one for your class.
3. Moon set: armor from 10,000 to 30,000 per piece; set bonus for 4 pieces.
4. Enchant scrolls: Aden weapons have their own scroll (200,000), D-grade armor scrolls cost 24,000. From +0 to +4 the enchant always succeeds; up to +10 a failure only costs the scroll. Items never break.

30–45 minutes: comfort features#

Five minutes of setup saves hours: Comfort in 5 Minutes

• Auto loot: drops go straight into your bag.
• Junk sale: junk sells itself when your bag is full.
• Auto supply: shots and potions restock themselves.
• My teleports: save a point next to your hunting spot.

45–60 minutes: level 20#

Several things happen at once at level 20:

Next up: the 20–40 zones (Ruins of Agony, Schuttgart Mines, Wasteland Ant Nest) and your first raid bosses for Raid Marks. The whole road ahead: Hero's Path.

Before you log out#

• Sayha's Grace refills by 25% every day, so tomorrow your experience will be ×3 again (Leveling, XP and Sayha).
• Offline hunting is available with premium: your hero keeps farming while you're away (Offline Hunting).
• Once the Telegram bot is switched on, link it: it'll message you if your hero dies (Telegram Notifications).

Common newbie mistakes#