Why and How to select a Guild to join?
Going Solo or going in Team better?

A quote from PlaneShift main website - " Guilds are a critical part of gameplay in PlaneShift. You cannot miss to be part of one!
Guild: An association of persons of the same trade or pursuits, formed to protect mutual interests and maintain standards.
Guilds allow you to know more people, to team up for completion of larger and more complex tasks, to choose your side and outline better the identity of your character."

So the Big Question -- Going Solo or going in Team better? The following summerizes some of the points of why going in a team is better :-
1> Items sharing - It often happens, that either you don't know where to get a specific item, especially the crafted ones. In guild, there may be other members of the guild who can craft those for you. And not only that, you get those exotic crafted items absolutely Free among the guild members.
2> Need for Huge quantity of a specific item from fishing, mining or harvesting - In a guild you get more than 1 pair of hands to get items from those just mentioned gathering skill, when the guild members work in a team to achieve that quantity of materials. Imagine 10 people gathering a specific item and each gathers 10 x 65 stack of that material, so it will be 10 x10 = 100 x stack of 65 of that material. Won't it will be awesome to start carafting/ working with those materials rather than worrying about getting them.
3> Combat help - For combat, help is always welcome!! imagine if you are a new to the world of Yliakum and have very low combat skills, you wud definitely love more hands during your combat mission/expenditure/adventure. And sharing the loot or collecting all the loots for your own purpose, which the other members of the guild/team will share with you all for Free, Free, Free!! doesn't it sound awesome??!!
4> Guild House - All experienced and reputed guilds normally have a guild House of there Own, which is just not the case when you go solo. Going Solo, you don't have any house and hall which you can personally use. You have to be in guild to have the advantage of using a Guild House. Guild House are best to store extra Items which you NPC storage doesnot have space for. and maybe share the other items with other guild members even when you are not logged in at the same time as your Guild member. Doesn't this feature/point sound awesome to join a guild rather than going solo??
5> Free goodies - you are normally entiteled to get some huge bunch of Free Goodies from experienced guild members or players on the guild. Have a look at the previous posts about "What You Get as a Iron Claw?", and you get an idea of Free goodies you can get.

Now decide for yourself... going solo or join a guild?

Now the most important part -- Why and How to select a Guild to join?

to know why to select a guild is because, you should have decided what kind of character you want to be? There are guildes which has a reputation of being a good guild aiding the government, also there are guilds which are a kind of evil guild, their guild members has a reputaion of being evil using dark way or whatever evil ways. Then you should check, how active is the guild you selected? Does the guild leader login often? do you get to see your guild leader often and get help as and when needed? As an Iron Claw acting guild leader, by now you must have seen, i login almost everyday. i'm almost available 24 x 7, Compared to other Guilds wouldn't it be a good idea to join Iron Claw Guild and be a good guild helping the Government? Have a look at this website page from the PlaneShift main website, --> https://www.planeshift.it/guilds  you will see Iron Claw is normally the No.1 active guild. And it also has a good reputaion and experience members.

After saying all these, i guess, there is no doubt that Joining Iron Claw Guild wud be the best choice you have made in Yliakum. experiened Guild members, Skilled guild members, Reputed guild and the guild leader is almost always available. To join Iron Claw guild Contact Captain Mohonin in Iron Claw Guild, and even if you don't wanna join now, take a information booklet titled "Introduction to Iron Claw" from Mohonin or almost anybody in the Iron Claw guild. And take your time to make the major decision.

All the best wishes for your endevour in Yliakum. Hope to see you as Iron Claw One day. Thank you,

A Guide to Ranged Combat as per Iron Claw Experience

1st Know the different between Bows and Cross Bows and their ammo. There are 2 types of ammo, Bolts and Iron Arrow. Bolts are used with Crossbows and Iron Arrows are used with Bows.

2nd Know the Different Types of Bows :-
1- Hunter Bow -- is the basic bow, not much useful for expert/experienced rangers
2- Short Bow -- is better than Basic hunter bow. Main feature, the next arrow loading time is less, so you fire more quicker. But the Range is short.
3- Long Bow -- Again is better than Basic Hunter Bow, but the features is such that its based upon your requirement between Short bow or long bow, cant say which is better. The main feature of Longbow is its range is very high. You can fire to long distance target, but a drawback, its next arrow loading time is long.
4- Composite Bow -- is supposed to be the best Bow. Its has both the features of Short and Long Bow.

-- Now How to attack and use Ranged weapon --
See the earlier post about combat in PSU. Now 1st thing, the bow or crossbow always equips in the lefthand of the character. and the Arrow or Bolts in the Righthand of the character. Now when you get the crosshair and has the target in it, click left mouse button to fire arrow or bolt. Each Left click fires only 1 arrow or bolt. so you have to keep clicking left mouse button. A word of caution... its a bug or my low computer system, i found after a stack of 65 ammo is finished then to equip next 65 ammo in hand i had to relog.

--And the most important note :- Beware of moving targets. You should be expert with your mouse to keep the crosshair on the target and keep clicking. Maybe lower mouse sensivity seeting will help.

This Ends the Guide. Go and Have Fun with ranged weapon!! All the best!! Enjoy!! :-)) 

Again Some Strategies from Experience of Iron Claw to take on bosses and nauts

1- Black Root
This is easy if you are a mage/warlock. You have to use just two spells, One is the 'Tire' spell, use it repeatedly, don't give it a rest. And the next is any attack spell like 'Blades of chaos' or 'Energy Arrow'. And third, not mentioned above, you may use 'Relaxing Sleep' or Mana Potion to continiously replenish your mana.
I know ICly some people hate dark way, but 'Tire' spell is the only way.
In legacy I used to take it down with direct fight with sword and shield with damage about 1000 or more with lots of magic buffs as protection. Now these buffs are not required and also can't do so much damage with sword. All the best!!

2- Zlatac
first thing with this is settle down on the pond floor to be able to walk cuz while swimming it hard to focus the crosshair and face the target to attack him, if you use direct fight with weapons. Then Activate HoT by food (for more info on this contact Captain Mohonin in Iron Claw in Yliakum or ask here), and keep a regular eye on your health, use health potion regularly. Now most important, Zlatac is most effected by red way, so use Red Way Spells to attack him. last but not the least, looting him is quite annoying, see if you can manage it. All the best!!

3- One-claw and Nauts
They are easy with weapon and shield, mind you the shield, just 1 weapons 1 in each hand is dangerous. Hampers your defence. One-claw takes a bit of time but can be taken. Again use HoT by food and health potion is required. Last but not the least they are evry mych effected by Brown Way, you may use it from a safe distance and take them down. All the Best!!

Note :- At the moment in PSU, devs have not implemented much AI into the creatures, they are normally not much aggressive and attack you, So should be easy to take them down.
Oh!! and you may also have other strategies, the above are experience of Iron claw, Please feel free to share your strategy in this forum topic.

Thank you, and All the best for the fight, may you all Win!!

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I agree to most of things you have described here. But there are certain things I don't agree like Quotation "Sacks are not quite large enough for harvesting nor realistic for carrying foraged materials." pardon me but what are foraged materials?
I always use sack to fill up my inventory slots but not carry harvested materials. Like if 19 out of 20 slots in inventory are full with stacks of 65 and the 20th slot has 8 harvested material and i harvest more 8 materials, it does not fit in the 20th slot unless i have a slot empty like sacks.
Another point, quote "Players want harvesting to be more involved than going to the same placed item every time, but they don't want it to be so involved that it becomes a mini-game." What do you mean by mini-game. I always like gathering like mining , fishing and harvesting.
This i have never seen and wonder if the devs will implement it "These areas are visually represented by a non-interactable model of wild plants spanning several meters in diameter."
I fully agree to all the other things you mentioned in this forum post. I only wonder when this harvesting will be implemeneted, as the case i see, theres no chance of implementing it in next realese.
Anyway, with great regards, i bow to your ideas, and i'm really getting anxious for harvesting to be normal like in lagacy or if Your ideas are impleneted in PSU, its Woo!!Hoo!!

Iron Claw as its policy of sharing the information about combat with the creatures of invasion, like to add the following info about combat in PlaneShift Unreal version :-

To combat/fight with any creature or mob, just selecting them and..er.. there is no attack button and magic spells CAN'T be used to defeat target. Follow the following steps for combat :-
1- Equip weapons and shield(if there is daylight and you don't have to carry a torch)
2- Then click mouse and with WASD movement keys, face the target.
3- After that select the target, but still your attack or magic won't work.
4- So to attack, press TAB key once and you will get a crosshair.
5- Aim the crosshair on the target with mouse, click the mouse and then move the crosshair to target.
6- Only Now you can use attacking magic spell, or...
7- if you wish to attack with weapons or melee, the keep clicking the mouse till the target dies.

This is how you do combat in PlaneShift Unreal. To take the loot, i haven't checked it yet as i already have overflowing animal parts in my storage inventory.

Oh.. last but not the least, try combat with easy creatures or mobs to get the hang of it before going for stronger creatures or mobs.

ALL the Best with combat!!
From Captain Mohonin in Iron Claw!!

Conspiracy Against Iron Claw Guild
It has come to the notice of Iron Claw Guild admin, from the Iron Claw Army Intelligence, that there is a conspiracy going on against the Iron Claw Guild for Recruitment of new members to the Guild. We have been accused of doing aggressive recruitment. But thats not the reality, No. 1 fact is *if you know about army in real Life, they are always under constant recruitment* This is for the welfare of the society, welfare of the citizens. So the constant recruitment by Iron Claw is a must and is in lore with Planeshift.
The conspirators don't know what happens after recruitment to the Iron Claw army. let me sum it up what happens, first the new member is introduced to the guild and other members.Then, the new member is given better gear like Armour, shield and weapons.After that the new member is introduced to the Iron Claw training. Theres also a conspiracy here, we have been accused of Iron Claw member only practices with Training dummies, which is not the truth. There are many training which require Iron Claw member to fight with a living creature or person like gladiators.
Now about a fact from the planeshift team, quote from PS main website " Guilds are a critical part of gameplay in
PlaneShift. You cannot miss to be part of one!" refer to planeshift.it/guilds"... So it gives the message that one should be a member of any guild of his/her/kras choice.And don't just go solo playing this game rather play with
other players and enjoy the game,Iron Claw during recruitment drive we only tell about about what is Iron Claw is and what it offers. In my opinion, theres nothing wrong in it, isn't it? And Planeshift wants the players to be part of a guild.
Also, to be honest, there was a GM complain about junior members of Iron Claw harassing people for recruitment.After this complain, all recruitment activity has been put on hold. But now that we know about the conspiracy we will again start our recruitment drive, and hope so GM will take action against these conspirators.

Hey Everyone!!!

Come One Come All and attend Mohonin's Captainship party. The party will involve autobiographic speech by Mohonin on how he became Captain of Iron Claw Guild, as it was a really hard and complex task. Will be very interesting to hear about it. There will be Drinks and Snacks to go with it. If Musicians attending the party then there will also be music and dance. And At the end there will be exciting gift [ event reward ], one is a very good shield for combat and the other a very special pair of gloves for crafting, as combat and crafting, the combat support, both are important to Iron Claw. So Cheers!! attend and enjoy the party!!

Event on 16-01-2021 and time is on general GM event time. Still check out the event calender on website.

Thank you,
Mohonin Ditin,
captain of Iron Claw Guild