Guide:New player guide/Rest

While in a town or a major city (such as ), zone icon near your mini-map will change into a chat bubble, indicating that you are resting. If you log off here, you will continue to rest while offline. When rested, your XP bar will turn blue, and a notch will appear indicating exactly how rested you are. You will earn double XP from killing monsters while rested until your XP bar fills to the notch.

Experience you gain from a quest has no effect on the amount of rest you have left over, and it will not double up if you are rested.

You can earn up to 10% of a level in rested XP. This XP will only diminish as you kill monsters, so turning in a quest will not get a boost in XP and will also not reduce your bonus XP left. Keep in mind that for characters level 16 and under can accumulate more than a character above level 16.

You earn XP incrementally every 30 minutes. The amount of rested XP you earn is .463% per 30 minutes of resting time.

When you are about 5th or 6th level, you will receive quests to go to another town area. This town is where the first rest area available to a new character is placed. Put another way, until you get your first 5 or 6 quests out of the way you will not happen across a town and so you will have to 'camp out' when you logout, unless someone shows you where it is so that you can go there before you receive such a quest.