Fanloa Getting Started Guide
Here's the order to follow when you first start. Sign up or enter as a guest, learn the controls in Combat Training, then take on your first raid. Choose a mode: Vanilla, where you grow your character, or Boss Rush, where you fight with a fixed setup.
1. Create an Account
Sign up on the homepage and log in, or just pick a nickname and start as a guest. To keep playing as a guest, your login info must remain in the same browser. If you plan to keep playing, convert to a member account and create an ID and password.
2. Basic Controls
On PC, move with the right mouse button and basic attack with the left button. Space is dodge. Skill hotkeys such as Q, W, E, R, A, S, D and F are shown in the skill slots on screen. The skills you can use depend on your class and what's unlocked.
3. Combat Training and Classes
In Combat Training, you learn attack areas and dodge timing. Read the Warrior and Yusan skill descriptions at this point too. It helps to practice telling apart when a boss warning ends and when the actual attack lands.
4. Your First Raid
Choose a boss and difficulty you can enter from the raid list. Check the recommended Combat Power, entry requirements and rewards, and prepare your skills and battle items. At first, focus on surviving while learning the patterns; once you're used to them, spend more time attacking.
5. Growth in Vanilla Mode
Use the currencies earned from battles and missions to raise honing, skill upgrades, jewels and engravings. As you progress, bracelets and the Ark Grid open up too. Rather than raising everything at once, it's better to raise what you need for the next raid's entry requirements first.
6. Friends and Co-op
For 2-player co-op raids, you form a party and enter together. The entry method differs from solo content, and not all solo dungeons become co-op. Details are in the 2-player co-op guide.