Fiesta Walkthrough – Clues for the Newbie

There are a lot of things in Fiesta that aren’t covered in the FAQs, that aren’t discussed among the forums (at least in a manner that is easy to search for), and are very practical things to know when starting to play in the “free” MMORPG. Before getting into those things, let me make three disclaimers:

1. My playing experience may not match yours. I had a computer that was comparatively slow, forcing certain patterns of attacks, limitations on Kingdom quests, etc.
2. While I have tried all 4 types of characters, most of my play has been as a Fighter who is only up to level 47. I have a Cleric and a Mage at even lower levels. While certain things seem to me to be sort of “universal”, you may find it doesn’t work for you.
3. Fiesta and the people at Outspark had NOTHING to do with this walkthrough. It is a compilation of MY experiences that I thought might be helpful to others. I still have lots of questions – some of which are listed in the walkthrough, and which I would love answers to if you find it out.

Setting up accounts: Getting started.

1. You can play multiple characters in this game in three ways. One is to pay for a second character under the same account on different servers. The second way is to have create another character on the same server under the same account. (There are some ups and downs to this – see here.) The third is to have a second email account, and sign up again under that one as well. If doing so, I caution you in one way: Don’t have Norton or any anti-virus type software running when you install Fiesta. It makes logs of everything, and whichever account was the last one installed will be the only one that works. If you do it without that tracking being done, then you can switch back and forth between characters. Make certain to turn on your antivirus software afterwards. To find out how to turn your Anti-virus off and on, click here.
2. Choose your name carefully. Whatever name you choose for your Fiesta account will also be your main character’s name. I made the mistake of initially naming my account “Turtle_09”. Thus, was Cleric Turtle_09 born. Not very impressive sounding.
3. Once the game is full installed, you can use “Add/Remove” programs in the control panels to get rid of btDNA. If you don’t, it will slow your system significantly at other times, and it isn’t necessary. The game engine itself is HUGE – over 2Gb. Make certain you have room.
4. The game may be free to start and play, but everything else isn’t. Be prepared to spend some “real” money, eventually, to buy Outspark Cash for a fuller gaming experience. How much is up to you. I will share some of the things I felt worth purchasing in the course of the walkthrough.

So you have an account; what now?

Let’s get set to play!

1. It’s time to make a character. Choose your gender and class. Gender makes no difference in the stats. It’s all about looks – and your different looks are very limited initially, though you have a few choices of hair style, hair length, and color. The style of drawing is Manga, though understated for the women compared to a lot of what is out there. I liked it.
2. Choose a server. A note to the wise: There are 5 servers with essentially the same worlds on them. However, in typical human fashion, most choose the first one in line. The population on that server has never been less than “medium” in my experience. Fine if you want a lot of interactions with others; poor if you want to just go and kill things, or if you have a slower computer or internet access. Like most, I chose number one initially (Bijou); but for my fighter I chose the second server (Epith). It has a fairly low population. I have only seen it “High” once. However, I have noted one pain in the ass – it always, 100% of the time, disconnects me from the server the first time I try to get on. Then you have to start all over with the Fiesta load, pick your server and your character, etc. This problem is one of those things I wasn’t able to find an answer to. (EDIT: This problem has continued intermittently even with a new, high end gaming computer) The other two servers are “Apoline” and “Teva”. The newest one is Cyprion.
3. Character Stuff: I’m not going to cover the basic stats in detail; they do a good job of that elsewhere. What I am going to do, though, is make a few observations about the traits and skills, though.
   1. Traits: STR, DEX, END, INT, and SPIRIT are all covered pretty well in the info on the Outspark site. There is one thing of note that many might miss if new, though. Spirit determines your chance of a critical hit. Looking at the Fighter character info will point out the need for STR for damage and END for defense/HP. However, a balanced fighter (rather than a “tank”) or one focused on offence needs to have a higher Spirit. Use your bonus stat points gained as you go up levels to raise that, and some DEX (for increased accuracy/evasion).

   2. Skills: There are three kinds of skills: active, passive, and production/alchemal. I’m going to speak primarily of production/alchemal skills here, but I do have one thing to say about active skills. The best skill improvement to make (IMHO) is to reduce “cool time”. “Cool Time” is the time you have to wait after using a skill, spell, or item once before you can use it again. The shorter that interval, the more often you can use really potent attacks to take down the more nasty creatures. This is crucial when you get ganged up on. As a fighter, my favorite pattern was a) concussive charge (stuns 5 sec), followed by b) bone breaker (slows their attack rate and reduces their damage), c) fatal slash (lowers their defense significantly and raises your critical hit chance), and then d) “slice and dice” (2X-3X damage). I would do normal attacks or heal while waiting for these specials to “recharge”.

      Production Skills: There are 4 main production skills. You only get to access 2. Thus you need to be careful what you choose. It depends mostly on your approach to the game. I know that I initially chose potion and stone creation, leaving out scroll production and material composition/decomposition. Since I later chose to buy the magic potions from the Fiesta Store, it largely made one of my skills irrelevant. I suspect material composition/decomposition is a highly under-rated and underpicked skill. With it you can increase or decrease the quality of various scroll, potion, and magic stone ingredients. Since high quality items are rarer, and needed to create higher tier items, this can be very effective as you progress. One note though; because of loss, you never gain extra money by either composition or decomposition. The amount of T1 materials it takes to make one T2 item would actually give you more money if sold. Likewise, decomposing a T2 item to multiple T1 items gives less money than the value of the single T2 item.Thus, it is not a fast way to make money from NPCs. (Vending could make it different...)

Let’s Play!

You now enter the town of Roumen. The first person you need to see is Remi. She will give you some info, and get you started on your first quest. Follow it carefully; the initial quests all link, introducing you to a number of NPCs who can buy things, sell things, give quests, give rewards, etc. One of these may be the first source of your spending RL money. Vietree has a beauty salon. In there, you can customize your face, your hair length, and your hair style – for a price. The changes are permanent, so I hope you like what you get. You need to go out to the Fiesta Store to purchase a Beauty Salon coupon – either basic or premium -- with your Outspark cash. The major difference in the two is the number of choices you have for each trait. To find out about purchasing special items, click here.

Go to the salon, and she will sense you have a coupon. Enter the salon, activate your coupon (it gives you a choice), and start picking and choosing. My characters looks like this:

I used a Premium Coupon for this	My secondary character is a Cleric, who looks like this:

Here is another example of using a Premium Coupon:

Before	After

Start moving around the town, picking up on the first few quests BEFORE going out to kill things. Trust me, it’s worth it. You can pick up almost a full level in experience before actually fighting! Whenever you complete a quest, no matter how trivial to you, you gain XP, Fame, money, and occasionally items (usually return scrolls). You do gain class specific armor as rewards for the first few quests that will gear you up by level 10, and money for items (which you don’t start out with) and healing stones (if you choose that path). Below, let’s take a quick look at buying, selling, and equipping items.

Equipping items: Equipping items is accomplished by right clicking on an item in your inventory. It pops into the correct place on your figure. You can do a fast switch of weapons this way, as you register titles for various ones. For consumables, right clicking on it uses it once (almost all consumable items stack in either 10s or 50s). For skills or various consumables, you can left click on the icon, and then drag it to the hot key tool bar. This is great for healing potions, various special attacks, spells, etc.

Purchasing items: When buying an item, right click on it ONCE in the store. Be Careful! It may not go directly to where you can see it in your inventory. You can accidently buy multiples and drain all your cash.

Selling items: To sell an item, right click on it in your inventory. It will ask you if you want to sell it; so you can’t sell it by accident.

NOTES: There are many people who set up as vendors (you can too!). If you take the time to go through them carefully, you can get some good deals. Some purchase things, some sell things. Most, however, are ludicrous IMHO. Make certain to compare to costs for items from the NPCs, and sale prices (see the item table here). An example of a good deal: I saw a steel axe that had been enhanced through Grade 2 level (+6) for 5 SP. Buying a non-enhanced axe from the blacksmith in Eldarine is 6 SP. A good deal. Another one: Someone buying tough meat, and paying 15 CP per. NPCs only pay 4CP; but charge 60 CP. You both profit. An example of a neutral deal: Someone buying Summoned Beast leather (low quality) for 4CP. You get that selling to NPCs; essentially, the vendor is trying to skim and collect needed ingredients on the cheap. However, you don’t get hurt… Now a bad deal: Vendors are selling Return Scrolls to Eldarine for 1-4 SP each. Don’t buy them. You get enough from filling quests to keep you in stock. Just be patient. Another bad one: Someone tried to sell a Roumen Storm Sword (8th level or higher to use) that has been enhanced any amount – 5 SP. It only costs 500 CP to buy, and you can enhance it yourself. Stones cost if you don’t have the production skill; but not 5 SP worth. 10 Elrue (T1) costs 2 Silver, 700CP. You probably won’t need them all to be successful. The bonuses to character stats are minimal. Nice, but not worth another 2-3 Silver in cost. A lucky Elrue can sometimes add them as well when you are enhancing, so even get that yourself!

For myself, as I collect items for other classes that I can’t use, I enhance them to +3 if possible, and then sell them for ~60% - 80% the NPC cost of a new one. It cost me nothing but the time to collect the ingredients need to create an Elrue/Lix/Xir (I have stone production skill with my fighter character), and the time to refine it. It is pure profit. I do the same for items I have bought. I add 10% per level of enhancement (Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3) Yes, I lose money from one perspective; but considering that NPCs will only pay 1/10th of cost or so for resale back to them, you still make money. When I need to buy ingredients, I offer ~3X NPC resale cost. If you get 3CP from them, I offer 10CP; if 5CP, I offer 15CP, if 50 - 60CP, I offer 120CP. They profit, and I save lots of money as well. Maybe it makes me a bad merchant; but I think it is fairer. Just look for “Bab’s big discount store”!

ENHANCING ITEMS:

1. Enhancement above +6 does cost money – real money. You can’t succeed without buying enhancement aids from the Fiesta store. Buy red mile so it won’t break, and gold to enhance success rates. That’s if you want to enhance items.
2. I have noticed that it isn’t worth the costs to enhance greatly, IMHO. At least up to +8 (the highest I have gotten with the lower level items), it get progressively more difficult to succeed at the enhancement, and does not even raise the damage or bonus over the base level of the next item up until after +6. Since you go up levels fairly quickly for the first 20 or so, it makes no sense to pay to enhance them above +6. I wouldn’t even enhance them above +3, unless it was a special item that raised stats – and I would be tempted to use the Red eye then to make sure it didn’t break. Raise as many items to +3 as you can to gain the experience you need for later – especially if you have stones.
3. I know this isn’t going to be popular, since a lot of kids play on the game; but people are way out of line with their pricing of any item – but especially enhanced items. I saw one person trying to sell a +9 Roumen Sword (lvl 20 to use) for 800 SP! Problem is, the base cost is only 6 SP, and the next level weapon (bridge sword) only 17 SP at level 30. Even an unenhanced Roumen Axe (still 6 SP!) does as much damage as a +9 Roumen Sword. The only advantage to the sword is you get to use a shield. Only idiots or really wealthy people who buy gold from secondary sites (a TOS violation, but it happens all the time) can afford these kind of prices. I have even seen folks selling T1 Elrue not 50 feet away from the NPC vendor for almost 2X what the vendor charges. Why would you pay it? Cheaper, yes. But more expensive? Bah! Stupidity!
4. There are a few super rare items (Conquest Armor set, Diminish Armor set, etc.) that may warrant extra high costing; and super high level items may be worth it when you are going to keep a weapon or armor for a fairly long time because of how long it takes to get to the next level; but not low level stuff. Just be aware.

BASIC CONTROLS: Almost all actions are customizable to hot-keys; however, there are several that are given you to start with that are used frequently.

Let me explain here about the Fiesta Store, and purchasing special items. You buy SparkCash with a credit card or Paypal. If you get a gift card from Best Buy or other sources, you can punch in the id numbers on the card and it credits you with however much is on it. In my experience, $25 USD = 17,500 Fiesta dollars (SparkCash). Once you have the SparkCash, you can make purchases from the Fiesta Store. Please note that this is different than in-game money, which is also earned and used to buy things in-game.

BUYER BEWARE! Most things are TRANSIENT. That means they go away after a certain number of days real time, whether you are on and playing or not. So if you get an enhancement that is 7 days, it is not 7 days worth of playing time in the game; it is 7 days real time. Because I cannot play every day, I have had a tendency to not buy certain things (like Mini-houses) directly. There are a few really sweet items, though, that I consider necessities for starters, and a couple others I intend to get later on.

1. Magic HP potions. These are different than the ones in game. They have either 100k or 200k worth of hitpoints they heal. However, they only heal what you have lost (compared to the in-game versions I will describe in the items section), and – most importantly – there is NO “cool time” before reuse! It will stick around until all HP are used up. This is great for fighters who can’t heal themselves or buff themselves on the fly, etc.
2. “Blessing of Teva” Cards: They are for 7 days, or 30 days (I get 30 day cards). These are great if you are impatient like me, and die a lot – like me. They prevent Experience Point (Hereafter referred to as XP) loss when you die. And you lose XP every time you die once you pass level 5. It’s not a huge amount; but you will have to kill another 5-10 monsters to make up those XP. That means also spending in-game money on potions, healing stones, etc. It’s a pain in the rear, so I avoid it.
3. Storage: Get a Steel Case as soon as you can. It is expensive, but permanent – and adds two pages of inventory storage to your character. Since encumbrance is not an issue in this game, it isn’t a problem. This becomes really important if you have multiple characters on the same server (free).
4. Accessories: There are outfits and accessories that enhance the chances of a critical hit. I waited until some were offered on a special deal as permanents to buy mine. You can buy them earlier if you wish, but you will essentially be renting them. You have to pay with Outspark Cash on a weekly or monthly basis. Critical hits are crucial to success.
5. Mini-houses: I have not purchased these directly, but they are useful. Higher models heal your HP and SP quicker. This can literally be life-saving when you get hit by a disease spell from a Ratman fighter, and are losing 25pts/2 seconds for the next 4 minutes. You go into “Rest mode” (Click here) and wait it out. I have earned my house upgrades by quest, and through REMI’s Rare Finds. This is a grab bag for 1500 Fiesta Dollars. So far, I have only gained one item I turned back in for Credit. This grab bag can be fun, but it can also suck down your Fiesta dollars – be careful.
6. Beauty salon coupons: There are two, Basic and Premium. Basic increases your choices for face shape and eyes, hair color, and hair style, from the original three to about five. Premium gives ten choices of face/eyes, ten choices of hair style, and a palette of at least sixteen different hair colors. I chose the Premium. I really liked the hair styles and the hair colors.
7. Mounts: There are permanent and non-permanent mounts. You can get two in-game and power them with floatation stones;but they move barely faster than your own running pace. So it depends on your patience. Getting a mount with SparkCash guarantees a faster mount (rentals are faster than permanents); but initial cost plus the costs of rations to make it move costs real money (the rations do last longer than the floatation stones, but still it costs real money).

OK. So you made your purchase. How does it get into the game? Easy. At the store, move your purchase into your character backpack. Then go back into the game (this could have been accomplished while the game was live, or outside it, which I like). Go into your inventory, and open the last box on the right (you should start out with four – two are active collection, one “gift box” is rewards for quests and gifts from others, and the last is your purchases). Right click on it with the mouse. POOF! It goes into your main inventory – but is still not activated until you right click on it again from its new spot.

NPCs and what they do

As noted earlier, the NPCs buy things, sell things, and are sources of Quests. For most of them I not going to give a name – just a trade. This is because in various towns I have visited (Roumen, Eldarine, and the camp at Sand Hill) they all have folks with these trades, and they all have similar functions – just different level items.

Healer:

They sell stones. The only two I have had active thus far (though 4 are shown) are HP (red) and SP (blue). They heal 125 pts each, and have a substantial “cool time” before you can use more of them. NOTE: *Using one type knocks out both types.* (EDIT: The amount healed increases at higher levels. At lvl 33, my fighter’s stones heal ~500HP.)

Blacksmith:

He sells weapons, Armor, and necklace accessories. He also is the place for enhancing your weapons (they call it “Refinement”). Certain items can only be purchased after you reach a certain experience level. This is only indirectly related to the item tier, which determines base bonuses, and what you need to use to refine it. Be careful again. All vendors buy back at about 1/10 the price they sell at, in the best case. Usually it’s much worse than that. They also give no increases in buy back prices for the enhancements you have made, or the titles you have bestowed on the weapons.

Item merchant:

He or she sells miscellaneous items. In Eldarine, there are two. One sells Mini-houses, primarily. The other sells item ingredients. NOTE: Be certain to click on the right arrows on the bottom of the window! There are frequently multiple pages of products!

Weapons Registrar:

You can take licenses you have gotten as booty, or buy some from him, and register them for your weapon – 3 per weapon. Doing this gives a bonus to damage with that weapon. It increases from 15% up to 30% bonus max, depending on how many of that creature you have killed. The licenses are VERY specific. Eg.: A “Boogy Killer” license will NOT enhance damage with a “Speedy Boogy”, and visa versa. It only works with Boogies.

Skills Merchant:

They sell scrolls that give active and passive skills for all four classes. Some skills have minimum levels to be able to use, so don’t get purchase happy and start buying everything you can.

Storage Keeper:

This is a place to store your stuff, so that you can go out and get more stuff. I use it mostly for ingredients, and occasional Quest items. NOTE: Don’t throw things away just because you can’t use it now! Flower petals, for instance, don’t come into play until a quest at Level 21! Since it is repeatable, you can rack up a lot of XP, fame, and return scrolls quickly if you have saved them (the money is minimal). The quest is no longer available once you hit Level 23, so after that you can sell them for a few copper. ADVANCED PLAYER NOTE: If you have multiple characters created on a single server, they share the same storage area. This can be good for trading items between, but bad for overall space. You need to buy a steel case (see Fiesta Store)

Town leader:

In Roumen, it is an elected leader. In Eldarine, it is a military guy. In either case, these are the source for Kingdom Quests. Kingdom Quests are important quests for gaining fame and XP.

Guild Master:

Using him, you can enroll in the academy of someone else's guild. Most give bonuses during play; some offer rewards for progressing levels. Most graduate at level 40. At that point, you join the guild. You can start your own guild, and gain storage, but it takes 1 Gold Piece - a lot of cash.

QUESTS

1. There are four types of quests, as I classify them. There is “normal”, “event”, “epic”, and Kingdom Quests. Below, I will go into some of the unique aspects of each one.
2. Most quests are expandable. That is, you finish a first part, and there is a second part. Sometimes, there is more. This is important because of factoid number 3.
3. ALL quests (except event quests) are level delimited. That is, you don’t see them until you pass a certain level, and you can’t finish anything beyond your current point after a certain level. There have been a number of quests where I get the info for a “new” aspect of the quest, and suddenly it blips without giving me the chance to accept or refuse that next step.
4. Always check your map when you enter a new area – particularly cities. It shows you who has an available quest, who has an active quest with you, and who you have completed a quest for.
5. You can have up to 20 quests total running at one time. It would seem that is a lot; but trust me, they can add up.
6. My understanding is that Guilds can also have quests; but since the guild I joined doesn't have such,I don’t know for certain.
7. Dropped items from bosses depends on who made the kill, and their level. If a really high level character is helping you, and they make the kill, there is no drop of item. When you get really high, let them make the kill if you are helping.

Event Quests

These are quests that are brought up by the administration for various reasons. Some I have understood (like the various Valentine’s Day quests); others I haven’t (like the current one called “Let there be Cake!”). There are a couple of notes I want to share about these.

1. IMHO, these are almost more of a pain in the ass than they are worth. The reason is that the items are bound to you. You can’t store them, and you always need to get multiples of multiple items. This takes up precious space in your backpack. Sometimes the rewards (like in “Let there be cake”) are not stackable either, so every single item takes up a space! The only way to get them out of your backpack is to try to drop them – which destroys them.
2. They are almost all repeatable. You can do them again and again while the event lasts. So it pays to keep going if you happen to have more than the minimum needed – should you choose to do the quest.
3. They don’t tell you when the event is almost over. I was collecting for one of the Valentine event quests, and suddenly I couldn’t get anymore of the “Isya blossoms”; going to the NPC with what I had, I couldn’t get rid of them for the reward. It still showed up in my quest list, but it wasn’t active. In the end I had to “give up” the quest to clear it out (more on that below). I AM keeping these blossoms in my backpack in the hopes that the Valentine’s Day quests will be the same next year, and I can get rid of them. We will see.

Normal Quests

These quests are found with NPCs. 95% of NPCs are in cities in my experience. These are your main sources of money if you don’t buy and sell stuff. They are also your only sources of fame (which plays a role in getting certain higher level teaching scrolls, etc.), and a great source of XP.

1. They are usually multipart, but not always. You don’t know which is which until you have finished the first part.
2. Many of them are repeatable. You can do them again and again (within the level limits). It’s a great way to build up return scrolls, XP, etc. I mean, if you are going to kill several hundred Boogys anyways in order to maximize that title you gave your sword, you might as well keep taking the quest from Ruby and gaining extra money, XP, and fame.
3. They are limited by level. Check the quest list regularly. Most of them show the level limits. If you pass the cap, you can finish your current quest, and then it disappears. This goes for repeatable as well as multipart quests.

Epic Quests

These are large, multipart single player quests. You almost always have to kill a challenging number of minions, followed by a boss monster. This boss monster may or may not be part of a kingdom quest as well. If they are in both, they are NOT THE SAME. An example is Pirate Mara. There is an epic quest from Grandpa Robin to kill Mara. She walks around part of the peninsula of the “Sea of Greed” field. There is also a kingdom quest “Rage of Mara” that has a second part that includes killing Marlone and Mara. They are waaaay different than the bosses of the individual epic quests! The kingdom quest bosses are made to handle multiple opponents at once.

1. I don’t remember if they have the level limits of normal quests.
2. You usually get a significant set of rewards for completing them.
3. It can be a good idea to party with someone(s) to finish the later levels of these. If nothing else, your party member can help keep off the summoned minions while you finish off the boss – and everyone gets credit for all of them! A Cleric can keep you healed and buffed. It’s a great way for less offence-oriented characters to succeed at these epic quests.

These are given out by town leaders. They are multiplayer quests, and are timed. You usually have 20 minutes to complete the quest. There are usually several goals in any given quest. Finally, almost all of them are multipart. That is, you finish one set of goals, and a second kingdom quest is given after giving you the rewards for what you did complete. A couple of notes:

1. You can keep doing them until you finish getting your kills, collecting your items, etc. So don’t worry if you die 3 times and are out the first time you try it. You can go back. They run in bunches every 2 hours or so.
2. Running these with a slower computer is a ROYAL pain. I have had as much as a 2 second delay. In one quest, I intentionally went on one by myself just so I could kill the monsters. EDIT: Even with a faster computer (Yay, I got a really sweet one!), it sometimes pays to go by yourself.
3. Watch your level limits! If you go beyond the level cap for the quest, it doesn’t disappear from your list. However, you cannot participate in it anymore. Looking at the active Kingdom quest lists never shows the quest anymore. The only way to move beyond it with the leader is to “give up”, which loses you fame. Level limits are listed in the Quest screen.
4. IMPORTANT! You don’t need to win the quest to succeed in your goals. That is, you don’t need to kill the boss in order to succeed in your personal quest – at least at the lower levels. Eventually, you will have to try to kill the boss. On the flip side, if you do help kill the boss, you get some sweet rewards, lots of fame, and lots of XP.
5. Party if you can. It will help you complete your goals earlier. You can have up to 5 people in a party That means 3 parties in a full KQ. Partying is crucial with the last level of any Kingdom Quest. I tried 4 times in the King Slime Counter Attack KQ to kill the bosses as ordered, and never got credit before going up too high in level. Neither myself (nor apparently anyone in my party) put in the killing blow -- even though I got in the first ones. Bummer.
6. Also, hang around the town leader after being recruited, and don’t be afraid to ask for a buff. There is usually a cleric or two willing to buff you for the kingdom quests. Just don’t whine. They are doing it for free, and out of the goodness of their hearts. They don’t have to do it. Be appreciative.Also, buffing HP and SP takes a level 47+ cleric; so if they are lower than that they really cannot help you. Don't get pissed if they don't respond.

Miscellaneous Other Stuff

1. If you decide to join a guild, take the time to pick a good one. The one I belong to doesn’t have a huge number of members, and isn’t a “warring” guild (don’t give rewards for PvP or go to war with another guild). However, the guildmaster (mistress, in this case) is online a lot, is very generous and helpful to you, and the members are willing to party (PT) and share. Almost more like a “clan” than a “guild”. (IMHO) The Guild Mistress is a Lvl 75 Cleric named “Contessa”.
2. Some guilds have “membership drives”, and give rewards to whoever gets the most in a given period of time. This creates a really annoying situation (IMHO) where you have people running around begging you to join – but there is no follow-up, and they don’t give a damn about you as a player. Not usually very helpful, either.
3. Some players are guild jumpers, joining a guild and getting the fastest rewards (usually early in tenure), and then quitting and moving to another one. If you find a guild you like, try to make certain you don’t end up inviting carpetbaggers.
4. The primary purpose of a guild should be to gather like-minded folks to help each other and provide a resource. As such, a commonality of interest or mythology is important. Think about what you want before looking.
5. Starting your own guild is very expensive (see Guild Master), but has some really sweet benefits if you can afford it. Increased storage space, guildmaster powers, (like the ability to warp anywhere any of your members are), and others I don’t know – even though I own a guild (I have done nothing with it yet beyond storage use -- not enough cash). This info here is from questioning and watching; they tell you nothing in game.

1. Marriage is an expensive prospect in Isya. You have to spend RL money to get the wedding license from the Fiesta Store; then the one proposing has to buy the ring for 200 SP as well. You get invitations to give out (I never did get any of mine to anyone; Evald beat me to all who were interested in attending). These invitations are good for gifts to the attendee should they make it there.
2. Marriage has two really nice benefits: 1) you gain 5% increase to all stats (10% when in the presence of your spouse). 2) The ability to summon your spouse from anywhere to your side if they are online.
3. Divorce is even more expensive, so think twice before getting married! (just like RL, LOL). There are no pre-nups!