New to the game, here is a guide.
January 1, 2008 – 1:19 pm | by adminThe difficulty modes!
I want to explain this feature a little before I go into exactly what each one does. There are 4 modes of play. Easy, Normal, Hard and Ultimate.
There is good reasoning behind this. The casual player can come in and play easy mode, never play a harder difficulty and be perfectly happy with pvp in the 20-30 zone. There will likely be a whole group of people that do this. The stats and skills are exactly the same as in Normal mode.
On normal difficulty you need more exp to level but you can level all the way to lv 50. This mode will be the sweet spot for the gamer that wants the massive 1500 on 1500 pvp in the end game pvp map, but really doesn’t care about grinding out in a harder difficulty just for more stats. The hard mode is for the gamer that wants a more powerful char and doesn’t mind grinding a bit to get it. Ultimate difficulty is for the same gamers as hard because the exp is the same, the only difference is the goddess weapon usage and perma death. In ultimate if you die, you die permanently if you are not resurrected within 3 minutes. (Even in PVP, despite what the other guide says.) This mode will be for the same users that are playing Hard Mode, except these will be the guys making use of the item shop, since there is an item that allows you to NOT have perma death.
Easy - For the casual player. Lv cap is 30. Exp needed to level is super easy. Also for any player that just wants to test out a character to see if they like it. Since you level so easy you can get the skills faster and see if you will like the character.
Normal - For the gamer that wants lv 50. Also for those that eventually want to get to Hard mode. There will be a group that will stop at the lv cap here and not ever play Hard. Lv 50 here unlocks the ability to create a hard mode character.
Hard - For the character looking to get lv 60 and doesn’t mind a bit of grind. These are the gamers that want more power and more skills as Hard adds new skills to each class. People that don’t use the item shop will stop here as perma death in Ultimate is a deterrent for those that don’t want to buy the item. Lv 60 here unlocks the ability to create and ultimate mode character.
Ultimate - For the Hardcore gamer. This is where you’ll see people that use the item shop, because they will be buying the item that allows you not to lose your character. Ultimate has a cap of lv 60 and allows you to use Goddess Weapons. Exp needed to level is the same as Hard mode.
In the end, the different modes are for different kinds of players. Choose yours style and then shoot for it.
Questing
Yellow dots on your map are npc’s where you can find quests. Blue dots on your map are where you go to turn in quests.
If you’re having trouble finding a mob for a quest, there are a couple things you can do. You can look to one of the maps on the forums that show you where they all are. Or you can look at your quest window.
I know there are some quests that don’t say where they are but most of them do. You don’t need to read the whole quest text. There is a handy condensed version of what you need on the bottom left of the quest screen. Just scroll through that and it will usually tell you exactly what mob and how to find them. Usually says something like this: You need to kill Rough large boars. (Name of mob is in color). Then it will say: You can find Rough Large boars if you exit the camp to the east. Most people don’t know about the bottom left part of the quest screen or just don’t want to read it not realizing it gives you in a nutshell exactly what you need to do.
I have seen a lot of people ask if they should do the quests in this game or not. I would advise that you do complete the quests. The only ones I ever skipped are from the opposite starter town for the other race. My reasoning is that this will take you to the mobs you should be fighting. One of the most efficient ways to play this game is when a quest sends you to a green mob that you not only finish the quest, but you stay there and level on them. Later on in levels you will want to be fighting yellows but in the first map you will be fighting mostly greens.
At higher levels, you will only be getting 1 to 3 quests per level. You will want to do them because they will lessen your grind. For instance, you ding, you get new quests, and you go out and do those quests and end up with about 10% toward your next level. At higher levels that lessening the amount of mobs you must kill by about 150-200 kills. It really does help.
Mob Colors
Easiest to Hardest:
White (no exp), Light Blue, Blue, Green (even level), Yellow (slightly above you), Orange, Purple, Red, Grey.
Goddess Blessing
The Goddess Blessing, (the bar on the bottom right of your screen) is the perks we get for PvP. If you hold your mouse over it at any given time, you will see exactly what we are getting at that moment. This bar affects all users for your faction. It’s not independent per user. As your faction wins in PvP, (taking alters and getting kills) the bar rises. The further up it goes the more effects you get. From a faster Hp, Mp, and Sp regeneration rate all the way to better % success rate when adding lapis to your equipment.
When the bar reaches the top, we get the full Goddess blessing, this heightens and strengthens every affect you see on that bar when you hover your mouse over it. You will crit more, your Hp, MP, and Sp will feel almost infinite as you run to your next mob they will all regenerate very fast.
Now, the actual goddess blessing is not needed to receive affects, you get the affects listed when you hover the mouse over that bar, be it at 20% or 80%. Most people will find that they like it up past the 80% mark. It is at that point that you have very good regeneration and won’t be resting much or potting much at all. Once we get the goddess blessing it does heighten the affects and is much better but the bar then continuously drops until all the blessing is gone. At that point there is almost no regeneration for your character and you will be resting and using pots a whole lot more. This is why I find it to be perfect when the bar hits past the 80% mark and slows down. Either way, the blessing is good for all.
Lapis
In this game you can add Lapis to your equipment for various affects. The higher the lv lapis, the lower the % of success. In order to add lapis to your equipment that equipment must be slotted. You then take that equipment to a blacksmith, choose repair, then choose link lapis. You will then insert the item you want to get the lapis, the lapis you want to use and a linking hammer if you have one. It’s not needed but it adds more % to success rate.
Most people will wait for a goddess blessing in order to try to link their lapis because the blessing offers up a better % of success.
You can not lose your equipment when trying to link a lapis, but the lapis does break if you fail after a certain lv lapis.
Things to note:
Helms are at lv 30. You will get all your helms from quests. The first quest being at lv 29. The second will be at lv 36, and the third will be at lv 43. Higher than that I am unsure.
For the first helm quest you will need to have 30 spirit cores. SAVE them.
For the second helm quest you will need to have 30 Mare Core. SAVE them.
For the third helm quest you will need 30 Pint Core. SAVE them.
The first epic weapon quest is at lv 25. Found in starfumos.
Each class has a mob to kill for this quest. Go kill it and get your weapon. Simple.
This weapon glows and adds 20 to your classes’ main stat and 4 and 5 to all others.
YOU MUST DO THIS QUEST. I say that because the weapon is so good, you will not be able to replace it for many levels. I was still using mine at lv 41.
The second epic weapon quest is a bit tougher than the first quest. This will have you going around to multiple maps completing quests. These are mostly item gathering quests. One NPC will want a certain number of three things and the next will want a certain number of another three things.
I haven’t finished this quest line but HERE ARE THE FEW ITEMS THAT I DO KNOW YOU SHOULD NOT SELL.
(sorry if they are spelled wrong, but you get the idea)
Magic leather (15)
Spirit Core (30) yes that means you need a total of 60 of those eventually.
Adamars stone (15)
You will need silk, but I do not know what silk it is you need as I think it’s the next part.
Many of these items you will be able to buy from a vendor, but not the ones I listed so far.
Items from the vendor are things like, 99 gold abel.
I hope this guide helps some people. If you think I should add a section just let me know with a reply. If I made a mistake also please let me know.
~Jenn~
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