First off, Welcome to FF and welcome to Fiesta
Kingdom Quests - A bunch of players like you get together and try to achieve a certain goal. Each class has it's own duty in the Quest.
Fighters: They get a skill called Snearing Kick, and later on, a skill called Mock, both which divert the monster(s)'s attention to the one it's used by. Since fighters are the ones with the highest HP and defence, they can take the beating that these monsters dish out. The fighter's duty is to make sure the more fragile mages and archers aren't hit by the monsters.
Clerics: Heal. The cleric's duty is to heal the fighters who are diligently taking hits from the monsters, as well as anyone else who is injured. As their damage is minimal, they are best off doing this.
Archers: Shoot. Pretty simple isn't it?
Mages: Attack, holding nothing back. Also simple
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Parties are pretty much essential in Kingdom Quests for 2 reasons:
1. Getting the kills you need for quests.
2. The oh-so helpful party buffs that clerics have, whose effectiveness increases with the increase in number of party members.
Parties outside of KQs are pretty much your choice. It depends on your style of play. Like soloing? Don't party. Very social? Go ahead and party. If you have a good party in which each member knows what to do, it'll get you a lot more exp than you can dream of on your own.
Fastest ways of leveling:
In my opinion, finish all your quests first(whether you do this party or solo is up to you), then find a nice party with which you can go to higher lvled areas and get more exp, to easily get the remaining exp.
Both, the riding skill and the Mining skill are oddly placed..both are under the "Alchemy" tab with Skill Master Ruby, or any other skill master.
You can only use axes from lvl 20 onwards. Till then it's only 1 handed swords. At level 20, you'll have the option of continuing with the 1 handed sword, or choosing 2 handed sword, or the axe (all of them have their pros and cons).
Another note on riding skills: Make sure you buy floatation stones from the Item Merchant and also the mover.
whew...
+rep pls :3