Note: This guide was created for people without any experience with Lineage 2 at all by gamesavor!

First of all let’s start up your game (I expect you already went through registration.). Now, once it's loaded use your login information (Username, Password). It should come up with a server select screen. If you have friends playing, then select the server they play on because you can't change to another available server. Once you have selected an appropriate server for you, select it and double click. You should now be in a "character selection screen". Except, there is one major problem! You have no characters! Well, that's easy to fix. Just click create character at the bottom right of the screen. Now, the screen should change to the "human" race. We will change this by clicking the right arrow beside race. Click on it until it appears to say Elves (because this guide is for Elvin Mystics). Now under class, select mystic, however I am not exactly sure it might say "mage". In Lineage 2, you get to select two classes at first, warrior or mage. Once you reach level 20, these character classes branch off into more classes, and then at 40, branch into even more classes. There are some cool classes to choose from at level 40. But, we have to grind our way up to that level! So, pick a name for your character yet? Good. Now, change his hair and facial features a little bit.

Well, now that the character is in the world, its time to learn the game. It's good to always follow the tips that the game is giving you if you are new. I recommend that you do. But, in this guide I will be going into more detail about how exactly to do these things the guide is telling you to do. First of all, the first thing we want to learn is the menus which become vitally important that you know. As a mage, wearing robes make u cast twice as fast, this is why they are limited to wearing robes. Now, our character right now is naked. No weapon, no equipment whatsoever. However, we do have equipment in our inventory. Select at the bottom right of the screen, Inventory (HotKey alt+v or tab, I use tab to access my inventory.) Now, get familiar with this window as it is important that you do. Right click on the gear in the inventory, and it should be equipped. Equip everything you can. Now, we look slightly better, but still, not that cool.

Ok, whatever, time to kill something. Wait! Don't kill anything yet! I'm not finished. We now need to learn how we "bind" our magic to the f1-f10 slots. Sound complicated? Not at all, have you looked at the right of your screen yet at the box with numbers 1 to 10 on it? Well, that's were our magic will be going. Open up your status menu (Button at bottom left of the screen just before inventory.). The first menu that appears is your status obviously, your skill points, level, damage, defense, etc is all displayed here. You will be checking your skill points often to see how many you have. Now, at the top of the menu you should have "tabs" to select. Select the actions tab first. We will be equipping simple actions that every race, character gets. In this menu there should be a lot of little squares, each time you click on one of these it does the appropriate action. We only want two for now in this menu. Hold down on the pickup action, and try dragging it until it reaches the black slot on the right that says "1" on it. There, now whenever we press f1, our character will try and pickup anything nearby. Now, drag sit/stand to the f10 key. Well, my young pad wan, I believe it is time to teach you how to put magic on the f1-10 keys. At the top of the status window, there should be a third one that says magic. There should be all your available magic in there, at the moment it is only 2 skills we can use. Don't worry, mages get an incredibly strong skill for their level at first. The magic skills we have are called self heal and wind strike. Drag self heal to the slot numbered 5 so that whenever we want to heal we can press f5. Drag the wind strike button over to "2" slot so that f2 makes us fire a bolt of wind at the enemy. If at any time you feel confused by these steps, you can always check back and read this again.

Now, we are familiar with the menus, time to run around, I suppose you needn't worry in a place like this, but always keep your watchful eye on other players, because the player killing system is rather loose and you can die almost anywhere, remember, people who kill you without you fighting back go red and have a much higher chance of loosing their gear. Some people feel that poking is all the fun in the game; others just want to kill monsters. It's your choice, but of course, you need to kill monsters to level up: P.

Well, its time to do that. Walk out from wherever you are towards the bridge that goes into town, but before you go up the bridge go towards the giant tree, and then you should see a weird looking figure named Nerupa, well, don't visit it, speak with one of it's guards. The guard will tell you to kill a certain amount of wolves in the area and collect fangs, this quest will give you a map which is very important. The species of wolves you must kill to collect these fangs should appear in yellow on the radar at the top right of the screen. Now, go east towards the trees instead of heading to town, and there should be some wolves to kill, get ready! It's your first kill! Press f2 like we said when you have targeted the monster, and you should see your character start casting a ball of wind at your opponent. The blue bar represents the length of time the skill is taking. You should kill your target in one hit, however you may not. If it has a very low amount of hp left, don't bother trying to cast your wind strike again, instead just click on it again to attack it with your weapon, and it should die fairly easy. This saves you that precious mp it costs to cast wind strike. Now, keep killing these guys until you collect 4 fangs, whenever you collect a fang a bell should ring telling you that you have collected another fang (It will make a different sound when you have collected 4 fangs). Note that the wolves in this area are known as keltir, they differentiate in the villages for each race. Now, by now you should have killed enough keltir to hear the special bell sound which indicates you have all 4 fangs. To double check, click on inventory again, and click "quest" tab and click on the fang. A number in brackets tells you how many you have collected. If it says 4, return to the guard that you started this quest from. Once you reach this guard, he will tell you to give a certain item to Nerupa (I can't remember the item exactly). This is easy since Nerupa is right there, and you can see it as a yellow dot on radar. When you give it the item, it will give you a world map which displays your location on the world.
So, you've reached lvl 20 and would like to know how to become a wizard. You've come to the right guide my friend....

First off you need to find the NPC to give you the quest for your first class advance from Mystic to Wizard. You would think one of your trainers in your home town of the Elven village would give it to you. Well, you'd be wrong. For some reason it's a random NPC named Rosella. She is in your home town though....One other thing, this guide will be using specific locations of NPC's and spots to find things that way everything is as precise as possible. If you don't know how to use a location just type "/loc" in your chatbox and it will tell you your current location. In some situations map coordinates and a location is given.

Steps
1. Rosella can be found in the Elven Village in the middle ring and by herself in a little square building at /loc 43675, 49696, -3048.

2. Rosella tells you to go speak with Magister Greenis. He can be found in the room with all your trainers.

3. Magister Greenis asks you to kill Pincer Spiders until you collect 5 Red Down. Pincer Spiders can be found heading directly west from the Elven Village on the roadway. You'll see them near some ruins where the road turns at /loc 10746, 54927, -3480 (47 vertical, 46 horizontal).

4. Once you collect 5 Red Downs use a scroll of escape to get to town and talk to Magister Greenis. Magister Greenis will give you a Ruby.

5. Return to Rosella and get the water quest. She will ask you to bring an apple to Thalia the tree goddess at Iris Lake for info on the Aquamarine of water.

6. Open up your map and find Iris Lake, just south of the Elven Village. If you follow the road south and on the left side of Iris Lake you will see a giant gazebo with Thalia inside it. Real easy to find at /loc 51230, 82493, -3280.

7. Speak to Thalia and ask her about "quest". She will ask you to kill Dryad Elders and return with 5 Golden Leaves.

8. I couldnt find Dryad Elders anywhere around there so I just Used a scroll to town and headed to the exact spot where I fought Pincer spiders at earlier in step 3. You will remember right on top of the Pincer Spider's spawn are Dryad Elders. After about 20 kills I got all the leaves I needed.

9. Use a scroll to get to town again and head SE on the road from the Elven Village all the way back to Thalia. You can find her loc in step 6.

10. Speak to Thalia and she will give you the Aquamarine for the Golden Leaves. Use a scroll of escape again.

11. Once your in town speak with Rosella again. She will ask you to give a book to a fellow named Northwind who is at the entrance to the Underground Fortress.

12. To find the Elven Fortress look in the 47-48x, 47-48Y square on your world map. If you follow the southern road it will run you smack into Northwind the NPC. Northwinds /loc 28910, 74245, -3776.

13. Northwind wants you to kill Sukar Wererat Leaders inside the dungeon until you get two regular amethysts. They are REALLY deep down in the dungeon and you will use up alot of mana and blessed spirit shots if you are doing this alone. The Sukars /loc 15020,79904, -4160.

14. After killing a couple you will get the two amethysts you need. I found it easier to just use an escape scroll to town and run back to Northwind rather than taking 30 mins of soloing mobs just to get back to the beginning of the dungeon.

15. Once talking to Northwind he will give you what you need to return to Rosella.

16. Speak with Rosella and she will turn all your elements into an Eternity Diamond and tell you to speak with a High Priest in Gludio. Travel to Gludio and find the high priest inside the church.

17. Change occupations and VOILA!

You are now an Elven Wizard!