This is a short (relatively speaking) video, prepared by Portalarium’s Chris Spears, that should hopefully help step players into the eighth pre-alpha test release — Release 8, as it is known — of Shroud of the Avatar. The combat and skill system have been overhauled somewhat with the addition of PvP combat; this video should address at least some of those changes.

Scott “Lum” Jennings also took time out of his busy schedule (by which I mean killing his co-workers in PvP matches) to prepare a short guide to building out a combat card deck in Release 8. That might be worth checking out as well.