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5 Game Play
In this section you will learn everything you need to know about Tibia's game play. This includes detailed information on characters, on the world and creatures of Tibia, and on major game features such as magic, quests, guilds and houses.5.1 Characters
Player avatars in Tibia are called characters. They are of crucial importance, because it is not possible to play the game without them. Also, you will find that the training and general improvement of your characters makes up a large part of the fun of Tibia. Characters are determined by a number of characteristics. Some of these characteristics such as name, gender or game world are defined during character creation and cannot be modified later on, while others will change in the course of the game.5.1.1 Experience Points and Levels
The level of a character is perhaps the single most important characteristic. As a rule, characters grow in power whenever their level increases, so the level is a good indicator of a character's overall strength. To advance in level characters must collect experience points. Whenever they have amassed enough points they will advance to the next level automatically. The progress to the next level advancement is indicated by a little bar. Experience points are gained by killing creatures. Note that characters under level 50 receive an experience bonus for killing creatures. The bonus they receive decreases with every level they gain. Finally, killing other characters will not yield any experience.
In addition to the increase in power there is another good reason why you should try to level up your character. Many quests can only be completed by characters that have reached a certain level.
Here is a list of all characteristics that improve whenever characters advance in level:
- Hit Points and Mana
Both his maximum hit points and maximum mana increase whenever a character advances in level. Note, however, that while the net increase of hit points and mana is initially the same for all characters this will change once they have reached level 8. After level 8, the amount by which hit points and mana increase is determined by a character's vocation: fighter classes such as knights gain more hit points than mana, while spell casters such as druids will receive more mana and fewer hit points with each level. - Capacity
A character's capacity to carry items will increase each time he advances a level. Again, a character's vocation is a crucial factor here, because some character classes tend to be stronger than others. - Movement
A character's walking speed will increase with every level. Note that this does not influence combat speed, i.e. a character will not be able to attack or defend faster if he advances in level. - Magical Power
The damage a character causes when using harmful magic will increase with every level. Also, any healing spells a player uses will become more effective.
Hit points and mana represent your character's health and magical energy. The maximum levels of hit points and mana are determined by a character's level and vocation. If characters have their hit points reduced to zero, they die, whereas characters that have no mana are unable to cast any spells. Hit points and mana can be restored by feeding characters. Both values will steadily regenerate as long as a character has had enough to eat. Healing spells or health potions can also be used to restore hit points quickly, while mana potions can boost a character's mana. However, it is not possible to raise a character's mana and hit points beyond the maximum of his respective level by any means. Also, please note that hit points and mana will not regenerate if a player is standing in a protection zone such as a depot or a house.
5.1.3 Soul Points and Stamina
Soul points and stamina are the only characteristics that will not increase while levelling up your character.
In addition to mana your character needs soul points to cast rune spells or certain other spells which are used to magically generate items such as ammunition or food. The maximum of soul points is 100 for normal characters, and 200 for promoted ones. If you gain experience points that equal at least your character's level for one kill, you obtain soul points for a while. For example, if you are a level 10 character, you would need to kill a monster that gives you at least 10 experience points, e.g. a snake you have killed alone. From that kill on, your soul points will be restored for 4 minutes. Normal characters will regain 1 soul point every 2 minutes, promoted characters will restore 1 soul point every 15 seconds. Characters also obtain one soul point for every 15 minutes they are sleeping in a bed.
The counter for your stamina indicates the time that is left until a character is too tired to gain experience while hunting. Characters can hunt for up to 42 hours before they no longer gain experience points. In the first three hours, so up to hour 39, Premium players gain 50% more experience points for every monster killed. During the final 14 hours defeated creatures will only yield half the experience. Furthermore, if the character that has dealt the most damage to a monster has only 14 or less hours of stamina left, the defeated monster will not contain any loot.
Stamina regenerates while characters are logged out. For every 3 minutes you are logged off, your character will gain 1 minute added to its stamina up to hour 39. For the last three hours, your character needs to be logged off for 6 minutes to regain 1 minute of its stamina. Please note, however, that stamina only starts to regenerate after you have been logged off for 10 minutes.
Premium players can also regnerate stamina and soul points in a resting area if they have reached a certain daily reward streak.
5.1.4 Skills
Skills determine a character's ability to perform vital actions such as attacking with a weapon, blocking blows with shields etc. Unlike hit points or mana, skills do not improve when a character advances in level. Instead, skill levels mainly increase through use, i.e. a character will train sword fighting when using an edged weapon, while his club fighting skill will gradually improve if he uses a blunt weapon. However, there is a second and very convenient way to train your character's skills: simply let your character train his skills while you are offline! All you need to do is to log out your character next to the training statue of your choice or, if your character is lucky enough to have a bed of his own, to select the desired skill from the menu when you put your character to sleep.
Once a skill has been used often enough to advance, a white message will be displayed in the game window, and the skill level will automatically increase by one. The progress to the next skill level is indicated by a little bar underneath each skill.
There are 8 different skills in Tibia. Most of them are related to the use of weapons:
- Fist Fighting
This skill determines your character's ability to fight with bare hands. Needless to say, characters do not cause much damage when fighting unarmed, even if they have a considerable fist fighting skill. - Club Fighting
This is a weapon skill. It covers blunt weapons such as clubs, maces, staves and hammers. - Sword Fighting
Another weapon skill. This skill is needed to use any kind of edged weapons, from puny knives to mighty giant swords. - Axe Fighting
Similar to other weapon skills, your character will need the corresponding skill to successfully wield any kind of axe, from hatchets to the legendary Stonecutter Axe. Also, this skill covers pole weapons such as halberds and lances. - Distance Fighting
This weapon skill covers all distance weapons. This includes thrown weapons such as stones and spears as well as bows and crossbows. - Shielding
Shielding is the ability to successfully block enemy attacks with a shield. Of course, characters need to hold shields in their hands in order to use this skill. Note that it is not possible to block more than 2 opponents at a time. - Fishing
Fishing differs from other skills in that you must actively use it every single time you try to catch a fish. To use this skill characters need a fishing rod and some worms in their inventory. Worms can be found in some monsters or can be bought at shops that also sell fishing rods. Equipped with the fishing gear, you will have to find a place close to a river or some other body of water that contains fish. Once you have found a suitable place all you need to do is to use the fishing rod on the water. Do not worry if you do not catch a fish immediately - your chance to catch one will increase with your fishing skill. However, please note that not all bodies of water contain fish, so if you have tried many times without success, it is probably a good idea to try your luck somewhere else. A worm will vanish from your inventory every time you actually catch a fish, so make sure you always have enough baits left. - Magic Level
The magic level is similar to regular weapon skills in that it directly influences the power of a character's spells. Thus, a druid with a high magic level will restore more hit points when casting a healing spell than a druid of comparable experience who has a lower magic level. This way it is even possible for a low-level spellcaster to cast spells that are more powerful than those of some high-level characters. Please see the manual section on magic for details.
Each vocation has an elite rank which is achieved by getting promoted. A promotion will give several advantages to your character:
- Cool Title: Characters receive an official title which depends on their vocation. Thus, paladins will be promoted to "royal paladins", while sorcerers will be appointed "master sorcerers" etc.
- Improved Regeneration: The regeneration speed of a character's hit points and mana will increase. More precisely, druids and sorcerers will regenerate mana at an increased rate, while knights take less time to heal their wounds. Promoted paladins, on the other hand, have both their mana and their hit point regeneration speed increased.
- More Soul Points: Promoted characters have 200 soul points instead of 100. Also the regeneration speed of soul points is increased. A promoted character will regain 1 soul point every 15 seconds.
- Reduced Loss when Dying: Your character will lose fewer experience points and skills when dying.
- Special Spell: Each vocation will be able to learn one extra spell.
- Level: They must have reached at least level 20.
- Payment: They must pay a one-time fee of 20,000 gold pieces.
- Premium account: Only Premium players can promote their characters.
5.1.6 Wheel of Destiny
From level 51 onward, all promoted characters on Premium accounts receive one promotion point with each level. These points can be spend in the Wheel of Destiny to increase their mana, hit points or capacity. Higher levels can use promotion points to learn new spells or to enhance already known ones.Promotion points can be spend anytime and anywhere while your character is online. However, if you like to remove promotion points or reset your Wheel of Destiny, your character needs to be in a temple.
The Wheel of Destiny is divided into four domains. Each domain contains 9 slices. So in total, there are 36 slices, containing the perks, which you can fill with promotion points to improve your character. There are 3 degrees of perks:
- Dedication Perks: They have small effects and gradually increase existing characteristics, e.g. your hit points or your mana. Every promotion point invested into a Dedication Perk raises the bonus in question a bit till you have assigned the maximum number of points possible for this slice.
- Conviction Perks: They have medium to large effects. They augment existing spells, grant vocation-specific passive abilities or generally useful bonuses, e.g. elemental resistance. You unlock a Conviction Perk once you have filled the respective slice to the max. Most Conviction Perks can be found more than once within the Wheel of Destiny. When they are unlocked, their effects add up.
- Revelation Perks: They have powerful effects. They grant new spells or strong passive effects with considerable impact. There are four Revelation Perks and each of them is assigned to one of the four domains of the wheel. You unlock a Revelation Perk once you have spent enough promotion points in the respective domain. Spending more points in the same domain will unlock the more powerful stages 2 and 3 of this Revelation Perk.
Gem Atelier
When you open the Wheel of Destiny, you see two tabs at the top: Wheel of Destiny and Gem Atelier. Clicking on the Gem Atelier will open a new window where you can enhance your character even further by placing gems in the Wheel of Destiny.
- Where to find gems? Gems are dropped with a certain chance by fiendish creatures and selected bosses.
- Reveal gems: The gems you find are rough jewels, which must be revealed to unlock their inherent powers. They come in three sizes: Lesser, Regular and Greater. Additionally, each gem is linked to one of the four vocations: Guardian gems for knights, Marksman gems for paladins, Sage gems for sorcerers and Mystic gems for druids. Characters can only reveal gems of their own vocation. Gems belonging to other vocations can be sold or passed to other characters. Note that once gems are revealed, they can no longer be traded or given to other characters.
The cost of revealing gems varies, with greater gems requiring more gold for revealing than lesser ones. A revealed gem will possess one (lesser), two (regular), or three (greater) mods, which are assigned randomly. - Domains: The wheel of destiny consists of four domains. When a gem is revealed, it not only gains mods but also a colour representing its domain, for instance, red for the top right domain. If you reveal a gem with great stats but for the wrong domain, you can change it. This is done by selecting the gem, ensuring it's unlocked, and clicking "Switch Domain." There is a fee for this action, which changes the gem's colour to the next domain in a clockwise direction. This can be repeated until the desired domain is reached.
- Placing gems: Gems are placed in vessels by selecting "Place in Vessel." To replace a gem, use "Remove from Vessel." The activation of a gem's mods depends on how many "Vessel Resonance" perks you have completed in the Wheel of Destiny. Each domain has three such perks. Completing one perk activates one mod, two perks activate two mods, and all three perks fully activate a greater gem's mods. If a gem is used in a domain with less "Vessel Resonance" perks than mods on the gem, only as many mods will be active as perks have been unlocked.
- Lock/Unlock gems: Gems can be locked or unlocked by clicking on the small lock icon located at the top left corner of the gem. When a gem is locked, you can't change its domain or destroy it. This is handy for keeping important gems safe.
- Destroy gems: If you've got a gem you don't need anymore, you can get rid of it. Do this by clicking "Destroy Gem." But remember, you cannot destroy a gem if it's locked, if it's in a vessel, or if it's the last one you have of a particular domain/colour.
For more convenience, players can use and create presets for the Wheel of Destiny. Presets allow you to seamlessly switch between various Wheel of Destiny setups while you are in the temple. This way players can swiftly adapt to various situations and enhance their strategic potential and maximise their preparation efficiency. Presets can easily be imported and exported. This means you can also share your setups with friends or transfer them to a different character.
To create a new preset, click on the button "Manage Preset"
and then click on "New". Enter a name for your new preset in the opened window. You can now select whether you like to use an empty Wheel of Destiny, copy the currently selected preset or import a preset using an export code or a URL generated in the Wheel of Destiny Planner. Click on "Ok" to create the preset. The "Points" column shows the number of available promotion points for this preset, allowing you to keep track of your remaining points easily.Wheel of Destiny Planner
Finally, players can use the Wheel of Destiny Planner on the Tibia website to test various settings. This tool allows you to select a vocation and to freely distribute points to experiment with specific configurations. It also displays the number of promotion points required for your chosen specialisation and offers the option to import and export setups.
Important: Please note that all benefits you receive from the Wheel of Destiny will be suspended if your Premium Time ends until you upgrade your account to a Premium account again.
5.1.7 Equipment: Imbuing, Fusion and Tier Transfer
Not only skills make your character stronger. Very important for a successful fight is also good equipment. You can loot it from monsters, find it in chests or receive it as quest reward. Some equipment even adds bonuses to your skills or provides your character with special resistances. Best of all, Tibia offers several possibilities to even enhance your favourite gear:
a) Imbuing
Those who have proven themselves as worthy may enhance their equipment by imbuing it with a temporary bonus. Items can have up to three slots which can be used for different imbuements. To imbue an item, you need to go to an imbuing shrine. House owners can also purchase such a shrine in the Store and place it in their own home.
To open up the imbuing dialog, use the imbuing shrine on the item you like to imbue. Note that you can only imbue items when they are not equipped. There are several imbuements a player can choose from. Premium players can further select from 3 different levels of imbuement.
Every imbuement requires a certain amount of money as well as certain astral sources which you need to have in your backpack or your supply stash. The required astral sources will be used up whether the imbuement is successful or not. Unless you use gold to purchase a protection charm, every imbuement has a certain chance to fail. In this case you will lose the spent astral sources and the gold.
An imbuement lasts for 20 hours. The time will only decrease when the item is equipped while you are hunting. In case your needs have changed before these 20 hours are over, you can clear the imbuement from your item for a fee.
b) Fusion and Tier Transfer
Depending on its classification, several weapons, armors and helmets can be improved up to tier 1, 2, 3 or 10. Items with a tier grant unique bonuses. The bonus granted by a tier depends on the item's function. Weapons grant a chance to deal more damage, armors grant a chance to fully mitigate the damage of an attack and helmets grant a chance to reduce all of your cooldowns during combat. Finally, legs give your character a chance to transform into the avatar of their vocation for 7 seconds whenever they use a weapon, offensive rune or offensive spell - the avatar grants a damage reduction and makes all your attacks critical hits with additional critical damage. The higher the tier, the higher the chance to trigger these effects.
In order to gain a tier, items can be fused. It is also possible to transfer a tier from one item to another. Such a fusion or tier transfer requires gold and additional resources, which characters with Premium status can find when killing special monsters. Such monsters can be found by using the Find Fiend spell.
To fuse items or to transfer a tier, characters need to visit the Exaltation Forge north of the Adventurers' Guild.
Fusion: The aim of a fusion is to increase the tier of an item. Two items can be fused in order to increase the tier of one of them. The two items need to have the same name as well as the same tier and may not be imbued. In addition, further ingredients are needed. If a fusion attempt fails, one of the items remains unchanged. The tier of the second item will be reduced by one. If the item had no tier, it will be consumed. If a fusion attempt is successful, the tier of one of the items increases, while the second item will be consumed.
If two items are fused, you can spend up to two exaltation cores. One to increase your chance of a successful fusion and/or one to grant you a chance to keep the tier of the second item.
Convergence Fusion: For items of classification 4, you have the option to fuse several items belonging to the same body slot, as lomg as they are of the same tier. This process costs significantly more than a normal fusion, offers a guaranteed result, but cannot trigger any bonus effects. Tier Transfer: To transfer a tier to another item, you need two items of the same classification, exalted dust and an exalted core. Note that imbued items cannot be used for a transfer. One of the two items needs to have at least tier 2. This item will be consumed during the transfer along with the required resources. The other item needs to have tier 0 and will receive the tier of the consumed item reduced by one. Convergence Transfer: This option eliminates the tier loss during the transfer, but comes at a significantly higher gold price. This feature is only available for items of classification 4.
5.1.8 Vocations
Characters in Tibia divide into vocations, i.e. character professions. A character's vocation determines his characteristics in many ways. For instance, a knight will quickly surpass any spellcaster in his fighting skills, while magic users such as sorcerers or druids can advance their magic levels further than any paladin or knight can ever hope to reach. There are 4 vocations players can choose from once their character has made level 8:
a) Druids
Druids are pure magic users. Like sorcerers, they are of weak build, and their weapon skills are rather limited. But then, what do you need weapons for when you can bring down your enemies with a well-aimed blast of magic? Druids have a good number of offensive spells at their disposals, and an experienced druid with a reasonable magic level can take out enemies as well as any other vocation in Tibia. As the masters of earth and ice spells, druids are especially feared by creatures that make fire and energy damage.However, even though druids can be fearsome opponents, their magic focuses on different aspects. Being friends of nature and of everything that lives, druids concentrate on the creative and benevolent side of magic. Druids are Tibia's best healers, and their ability to cure others makes them very popular with all other vocations. Only they know how to create "Ultimate Healing" runes. Experienced druids are never short of cash because players of other vocations will be happy to pay them good money in exchange for all kinds of useful runes. Furthermore, players of all vocations appreciate to have a druid around as a life-saver, so druids have an advantage when it comes to making friends.
If you prefer using powerful magic instead of brute force, and if you are also a team player who likes to cooperate with others, you should choose a druid.
b) Knights
Knights are the toughest warriors in Tibia. They are strong, resilient, and they know how to wield any melee weapon with fearsome efficiency. In combat, they are always found in the front line, engaging the mightiest opponents in vicious hand-to-hand fighting. When they are travelling with others it is usually the knights who charge enemies in order to protect their companions. Because of their incredible resilience and their skilled use of shields experienced knights are almost impossible to overcome, and even if a battle is lost, it is usually the knights who are the last to fall.However, for all their prowess in combat knights do have a weakness: knights are comparatively weak when it comes to using magic. Even though they know how to cast a few spells, their magic is rather basic. For this reason knights rely on healing potions or more magically gifted characters to heal the wounds they receive in battle. However, this does not really pose a problem as knights are the best blockers in Tibia and are therefore welcome in every hunting party.
Furthermore, their ability to amass large amounts of gold is legendary. Strong as they are, knights can carry immense amounts of items which they can sell for good money in any city, so knights never leave a dungeon with empty hands.
If you are looking for a vocation that is easy to play and to level up, the knight is what you are looking for.
c) Paladins
Paladins, too, are gifted melee fighters. Their ability to train melee skills is second only to that of knights. Also, they know how to handle shields very well, and experienced paladins can block most enemies even though they are not as resilient as knights. The paladins' true strength, however, is their ability to fight at a distance. Paladins are Tibia's best archers. From throwing simple stones to firing crossbows, paladins can learn to handle any distance weapon with deadly accuracy. A paladin that manages to keep away from his opponents in battle can bring down any enemy.But there is more to paladins. They are also magic users of considerable skill who have an impressive range of spells at their disposal. Even though their magic skill cannot be compared to that of pure magic users such as druids or sorcerers, paladins have access to many additional spells because they can use a large number of runes. Furthermore, paladins are the only vocation that can use holy spells so they have an immense advantage when fighting undead creatures.
Paladins are the best all-rounders in Tibia. If you are looking for a good fighter who can also handle magic rather well, the paladin should be your choice.
d) Sorcerers
Like druids, sorcerers focus on magic use. Similar to their more peaceful brethren, sorcerers require skill and patience to rise in power because their weapon skills are very limited, and just like druids sorcerers are of weak constitution. However, sorcerers have great potential. In fact, due to the offensive nature of their spells sorcerers are perhaps the most deadly of all vocations. Unlike druids who focus on the creative and benevolent side of magic, sorcerers concentrate on its dark, destructive side, and their spells can become truly devastating in higher levels. They are especially skilled in mastering energy and fire spells. Additionally, only sorcerers can create the notorious "Sudden Death" runes, and only they can learn how to cast the apocalyptic "Hell's Core" spell. An experienced sorcerer can bring down the mightiest enemies with a wink of his eye, and because of this, sorcerers are a welcome addition to any hunting party.If it is sheer magic fire and energy power you are looking for, you should go for a sorcerer.
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Note that characters up to level 8 get a smaller hit and mana point gain for each level advance.
5.1.9 Special Conditions
Characters can suffer from special conditions which can have diverse effects. They have one thing in common, however - all special conditions are temporary, and given time they will eventually disappear.
Poisoned: This condition of the damage type earth can be caused by spells or by certain monsters. Poisons can vary greatly in the total damage done, but any poisoning can easily be removed by using the "Cure Poison" spell or the "Cure Poison Rune".
Burning: This is a harmful effect of the damage type fire which will cause your character to lose hit points for an extended period of time. Until it has ended a searing flame will appear on your character at regular intervals. The damage done by the fire depends on its cause. Druids have the magical power to cure any burning.
Electrified: An effect of the damage type energy, electrification, leads to protracted hit point loss similar to the damage caused by fire. A flash of electrical energy will appear on your character at regular intervals, causing loss of hit points each time it appears. Similar to the condition of burning, only druids have the power to end this unpleasant condition with the "Cure Electrification" spell.
Drowning: Tibia has a special underwater area. Since nobody can survive without breathing fresh air, characters take damage if they walk underwater without wearing the right equipment. The only chance to survive is to quickly leave the water or to put on your life-saving diving helmet.
Freezing: This condition of the damage type ice is caused by the freezing breath of certain monsters. For an extended period of time, this condition causes your character to lose hit points at regular intervals. There is no medicine to cure this condition, but if you are near a priest, you can ask him to heal you.
Dazzled: If your character is marked as dazzled, a holy light has just struck you with pitiless strength. Similar to being electrified, your character loses a decreasing amount of hit points a few times. Also for this condition, caused by the damage type holy, exists no remedy and therefore all you can do is wait or to find a priest that can heal you.
Cursed: Have your health potions and healing spells ready, whenever a creature curses you. If your character is under this special condition of the damage type death, a black cloud is literally hanging over its head. For a considerable time, it will lose an increasing number of hit points at regular intervals. Only paladins as masters of holy magic are able to cure a character of a curse.
Feared: Feared is a condition which certain monsters cast on you. If you are feared, you lose shortly control about your character. During this time, your character will run away from the creature that feared you. In addition you can neither cast spells nor use any items.
Rooted: If a monster casts this powerful spell on your character, you are unable to move for a few seconds. It is not possible to remove this effect.
Goshnar's Taint: Depending on the number of bosses they have killed in Goshnar's lair, characters will suffer from one to five penalties: 1. There is a certain chance that a monster teleports near you. 2. There is a small chance that a new creature spawns near you if you hit another creature. 3. Your received damage increases. 4. There is a moderate chance that a creature will fully heal itself instead of dying. 5. You lose 10% of your hit points and your mana every 5 seconds.
Hexed: Particularly some boss monsters are able to yield powerful magic which allows them to hex their opponents. Hexes can either be lesser, intense or greater. If a character is affected by a lesser hex, the healing this character receives is reduced. Characters who suffer from an intense hex also have their healing reduced, but also deal less damage. Finally, characters who are under a greater hex have reduced hit points, in addition to the effects of lesser and intense hex.
Bleeding: Sometimes creatures inflict heavy wounds on your character which are bleeding for a certain period of time. While losing blood, your character becomes weaker and weaker and with that also loses health points. Lucky are those that know the "Cure Bleeding" spell and are so able to force the gaping wound to close immediately.
Drunk: The taverns on Tibia are popular places, and many adventurers enjoy relaxing from their wearisome travels over a pint of cool beer. However, Tibian beer is pretty strong, so don't be surprised if your character has problems with walking in a straight line for a while.
Slowed: Some creatures or spells may slow your character down. Until the effect has ended or until it has been dispelled by using healing magic your character will walk much slower than usual. Note, however, that all other actions such as casting spells can be carried out normally.
Haste: This condition is the direct opposite of the "Slow" effect. As long as it lasts your character will move much faster, although any other character effects such as hit point regeneration or attack rate will not be sped up. Needless to say, this is a desirable effect. Characters can be hasted by spells or by special magical items.
Magic Shield: Another positive spell effect. Magic shields protect characters from hit point loss while they last, reducing their mana instead. However, note that if a character's mana is reduced to zero, any further damage will be deducted from his hit points normally.
Strengthened: This condition is caused by various spells. Whenever such a spell is cast, one or several skills of the character have been raised for a certain time period. This condition can be found in most parties where characters, depending on their vocation, are able to raise the magic level, the regeneration of hit points, the weapon skills, or the shielding of party members.
Protection Zone: Whenever your character is standing in a protection zone, it will be indicated by this little symbol. When being in a protection zone, characters cannot perform any aggressive actions, however, it also means that characters are safe here as they cannot be attacked by creatures or other characters. For details please see the manual section on protection zones.
Resting Area: Certain protection areas, such as houses, temples or depots, are also resting areas. If a character is in a resting area, one of these little symbols will be active. Just like in a protection zone, characters cannot perform any aggressive actions, however, it also means that characters are safe here as they cannot be attacked by creatures or other characters. Characters which are marked with the second symbol have reached at least daily reward streak 2 and will benefit from a resting bonus, e.g. mana or hit point regeneration, in such an area.
Logout Block: Although it is perhaps the most common condition, the logout block icon is special. Whenever your characters are involved in violence they will be barred from logging out. For details please see the manual section on logout block.
Protection Zone Block: A protection zone block is always accompanied also by a logout block. Whenever your character has attacked another character first, he will not only be unable to log out, but can also not enter any protection zones. However, there is no protection zone block if you attack a member of your party.
Hungry: Characters that are hungry do not regenerate any mana or health. To fill up your character's stomach look for something edible like an apple, bread or ham. There are numerous things in Tibia that your character can eat. Check out stores, bushes, bake your own bread or cake, or kill some creatures to find some delicacies.
Each character has a limited amount of hit points. Whenever characters take damage through weapon attacks, poison or other harmful effects they lose hit points. Characters whose hit points drop to zero die. However, in Tibia, death is not the end. Characters that have died will always be returned to the temple of their home city safe and sound, so even though it is possible for characters to die they are in fact immortal. However, this does not mean that dying does not matter at all in the game, nor is death desirable. A character that dies will suffer the following penalties:
- Experience Loss
Characters that die lose a certain amount of their experience points. Characters up to level 23 lose 10% of their total experience points. Starting at level 24, the total percentage that is lost is declining and is easier explained by the number of levels that are lost. Every 50 levels, a character loses half a level more, starting with losing 1 level for a character at level 50. A character at level 100 will lose 1,5 level upon death, at level 150 2 levels, at level 180 character 2,3 levels, at level 200 2,5 levels etc.
If a character is promoted, the total amount of lost experience points is lowered by 30%. Furthermore, your character can also collect blessings in the game which will further reduce the loss of experience points. Each blessing will reduce the loss by 8% (on Retro Hardcore PvP game worlds only by 6.31%), so promoted characters that have received all 7 blessings will lower their total experience point loss by 86% (74.17% on Retro Hardcore PvP). - Skill Loss
In addition to the loss of experience points, a character's skills will also be reduced on dying. However, this does not necessarily mean that your character will lose levels in every skill because of the way skill level advancements are calculated. If your character was close to an advancement in a given skill when he died, he may actually not lose a skill level at all, although he will take much longer to advance in that skill again. Similar to experience loss, skill loss will be reduced if a character is promoted or if he has received one or more blessings. - Item Loss and Blessings
Finally, characters that have a vocation and die have a chance of dropping items. This chance is 10% per equipped item, however, containers such as bags or backpacks will always be dropped along with their contents. By buying blessings, characters reduce their chance to lose equipment and their containers by the following percentages:- 1 blessing = 30%
- 2 blessings = 55%
- 3 blessings = 75%
- 4 blessings = 90%
- 5 or more blessings = 100%
Blessings can be purchased ingame or via the Store.
PvP Blessing: In addition to regular blessings, players can also buy a PvP blessing to protect their regular blessings. If a character dies in a PvP fight (at least 5% of the damage dealt within the last 5 minutes was PvP damage OR the last fatal strike has been made by a character or its summon), it will lose items, skills etc. depending on the regular blessing it owns. The equipment of a character that has at least 5 blessings will be fully protected also in a PvP fight. Characters that own a PvP blessing, however, will not lose any of their regular blessings or a possible "Amulet of Loss", but only the PvP blessing. If a character has a PvP blessing and dies in a PvP fight but does not have any regular blessings or an "Amulet of Loss", it will not lose the PvP blessing. PvP blessings do not work for red or black skulled characters, however, such characters will not lose their PvP blessings upon death. PvP blessings can be bought at every temple for the price of one regular blessing for players up to level 120. Unlike the price for regular blessings, the price for the PvP blessing continues to rise up to level 270.
Adventurer's Blessing: Characters on open PvP game worlds up to level 20 are automatically protected by the Adventurer's Blessing. You can easily see if your character is protected by this blessing by the little ankh shown in your inventory. Further, your character's inventory will be displayed in yellow. If your character dies in a PvP fight being protected by this blessing, your character will not lose any items, experience and skill points. But beware! As soon as your character attacks another character first or reaches level 21 for the first time, the blessing will be lost for good.
Any items lost upon death will remain with the body of the deceased character and can be looted by any player who happens to find it. In case a character has lost its bag or backpack after death, it will receive an empty bag in the container slot.
Characters up to level 8 will never lose items upon death.
Death Redemption: In case your character is not protected by all available regular blessings at the time of death, you have the option to purchase the blessing Death Redemption in the Store. Death Redemption will restore all skill and experience points you would not have lost if you had been protected by all available regular blessings. Death Redemption can only be purchased within the next 24 hours after death and only for the most recent death. However, Death Redemption is not available on Retro Hardcore game worlds.
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