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| Genie System:
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| 1. Getting the Genie You Want
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| First thing to do is get your Genie, right? To do this, you'll have to fight the lag at one of the main racial cities (Etherblade, City of the Lost, or City of the Plume), or in North or South Archosaur (in South Archosaur, the NPC is near the Apothecary...and I haven't seen the North NPC, though I've heard there is one). I believe the NPC is called Watcher of the Earth, and he's usually near the Elder of the city (in the 3 racial cities), and can be distinguished by a radial aura and a beam of light above his head.
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| Starting from level 1, he'll have a quest that's as simple as can be: accept the quest, get a random genie out of the four different types. If you don't like the one you got, you can acquire a new one (keeping the old one too) by selecting Summon Genie from his menu and trading 3 Mirage Celestones for the one you'd like to get.
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| Differences between the genie types are fairly minor and boil down to:
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| Initial stat distribution - Each of the four genie types has more points in a given stat to start with.
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| Appearance - Each of the four genie types has its own look/color.
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| Initial skill - Each of the four has its own unique skill to start with. These skills are one-shot only...no upgrading that I know of, and if you choose to Forget it at the genie NPC, you can't get it back that I'm aware of.
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| So, once you've reviewed your options and gotten the Genie you like the most...you're ready to start leveling it.
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| 2. Leveling Your Genie
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| These little guys are kinda treacherous when it comes to leveling them. They don't gain Experience on their own, but instead have their meters filled when you drain your OWN Experience or Spirit (or that of an Experience Cube, explained in a minute) into the Genie's experience meter. It's kinda tricky though...the larger the level gap between you and your Genie, the less efficiency you'll get for your funneled XP.
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| At lowest, you'll get 10% of the transfered Experience actually going to the Genie...this'll improve as the gap narrows and will reflect the relationship of your Genie's level to yours...for example, a level 40 character draining XP into a level 10 Genie will have 25% efficiency, which means for every 4 Experience points you give the Genie, only ONE will actually go to the Genie...rest is wasted and burned off.
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| As you can imagine, this is a really harsh way to level your little "buddy." There are two alternatives...EXP Cubes, and using your Spirit instead. Spirit will always have a LOT better efficiency than your EXP will...in fact while you have to work quite hard to get a 100%, 1:1 ratio for Experience transfer (which only happens when you and your Genie are the same level), you'll get 100% Spirit-to-Exp transfer rate pretty early on, and it'll just get better. I think my L40 Cleric gets a little over 200% efficiency with his L17 Genie...so every Spirit point I spend on its Experience will net it 2 experience points. (If you and your genie are at the same level, the Spirit-to-Exp transfer rate is at 500%.)
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| Following exerpt is snatched from the PWI forum:
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| A genie of level X needs 40% of the XP a character of level X would need to get to the next level.
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| So, if a genie is level 19, it will need 40% of what a level 19 character would need to get to level 20. In this case a level 19 character needs 22325 XP to level to 20, so a level 19 genie would only need to gain 40% of that amount or 8930 XP, and to level to 21 from 20 a genie would only need 40% of the amount a level 20 character would need to gain to level to 21 or 40% of 25000 which is 10000.
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| So:
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| Genie 19 -> 20 : 8930 XP (40% of 22325)
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| Genie 20 -> 21 : 10k XP (40% of 25k)
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| Cubes are easier on your own resources, but seem to be pretty rare. They're basically "players in a box, with a certain amount of experience." They serve as a little EXP pool you can drain instead of your own, and the level of the box is treated as the Player level when determining efficiency. To my knowledge, you only get EXP Cubes in two ways: by decomposing another Genie that has Experience at a Watcher of the Earth, or periodically you'll get a quest from the Watcher of the Earth that gives you a particular Exp Cube. For example, I know you get one at L20, and L50, and there's at least one above that point (probably L80).
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| Now you know how it works, here's the important part: how to actually drain your XP into these little buggers. First, equip your Genie in your standard inventory, and you'll get your Genie's own avatar (complete with Energy and Stamina bars) on the main display. Right-click your Genie's avatar to open the Genie menu. Then, click the EXP Infuse button. In the menu that comes up, you select the transfer mode (EXP, Cube EXP, or Spirit). If using a Cube, open your inventory and drag it to the empty spot near the top of the menu.
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| Then, click and hold the Infuse button to transfer EXP to the Genie. If the bar fills up, you can click Level Up and level the Genie...or you may just run out of Exp or Spirit to drain, and just click Level Up or Done to "lock in" your transfer. If you hit Cancel or exit the menu without doing so, it won't save the XP you transfered.
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| Note: on the Infuse EXP menu, you can see your current efficiency rating so you know just what kinda bang you get for your buck.
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| 3. Feeding Your Genie
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| Yes, you heard it right, gotta feed these little buggers. Not only do they have their own little mana bar (Energy) that has to recharge like your mana, but they also have a Stamina bar. Stamina is also used by your genie to cat spells, and different spells use different amounts of stamina. The most unfortunate part of this, the Stamina bar does not regenerate on it's own. You thought it was bad that the geenie was leeching from your Exp and Spirit? Now you gotta feed the silly thing something else too!
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| Fortunately, feeding Stamina to your Genie will not drain your Spirit or Exp. It can, however, drain your wallet. Genies eat Chi to regain Stamina. The genie starts out with a small amount of stamina, 20,000 to be exact. This may seem like a lot, I can assure you, it's not. The maximum stamina level of your genie is 999,999. To give you a bit more af a feel of what a hog your genie is, I can give you a personal example. I had 540 perfect chi stones. I used them to recharge my wings for speedy flights to rez faction members. I figured I would just drop the perfect chi stones on the genie and still have a bunch left over. I was WRONG! Big Time! Little bugger sucked it all up, all 540 stones. Gave the genie about 390k Stamina points. Oh yay, the bar was almost half full.
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| Here is a table I am still working on that helps a little with the amount of stamina you will recieve from different Chi Stones. You simply drag the stones from your inventory boxes to the genie nest to your rings to feed it.
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| Questions:
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| Character Related
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| How do I make a faction?
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| -If you're over level 20 and have 100,000 coins, you can talk to the Faction Manager in East Archosaur(north of the docks) to start a Faction.
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| What are the benefits of being in a faction?
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| -Factions are ways for people to get together. It helps you find a group to work with, and gives you people to talk to. Also, some factions choose to participate in Territory Wars, a PvP event where factions battle each other to gain territories (check the Territory map by pressing M, then the Territories button).
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| What's the highest possible level in this game?
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| -105. This may be increased in the future, as equipment of a higher level exists.
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| What are AGI/CON/INT?
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| -These are names from the Malaysian version of Perfect World. AGI = DEX, CON = VIT, INT = MAG. STR was called STR in the Malaysian version as well.
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| How do I switch between Clothes and Armor so other people can see them?
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| -In your inventory (press B), at the top, there are buttons to switch between equipment windows. Next to these buttons are circles you click on, these toggle the clothes/armor view.
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| How do I transfer items between characters on the same account?
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| -You could mail the items at a postbox, just enter the character's name. Or you could bring both characters to a remote place, drop the items, then relog and pick them back up on the other character. Note that Perfect World Entertainment is not responsible for any items lost in this fashion.
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| Also, you could ask someone you trust to trade the items to your other character.
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| Where are the Attack/Meditate buttons?
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| -They are in your emote window (press E).
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| How do I gain Attack/Defense levels?
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| -Currently, the only way is to imbue a lvl 12 soulgem into your armor/weapon. However, no one has obtained any of these so far.
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| What characters are allowed in a name?
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| -Currently, only uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, underscores ( _ ) and slashes ( / and ) are allowed.
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| What's Zhen or a Zhenning party?
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| -This is an AoE setup used in the later levels. Wizards and Archers have a continuous AoE attack that only stops when they choose to stop it or they run out of mana. Add some people to pull monsters into their range (Barbarians and Blademasters), a Cleric to keep everyone healed, some charms to automatically restore HP/MP, and you have a Zhen squad. These will get you exp a lot faster than regular grinding, but do take note the Charms will cost a lot. Also, remember that going away from your keyboard while your AoE is on isn't allowed and may result in a ban.
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| How can I level up fast?
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| -You can level up faster in many ways. Buy Hyper EXP Stones. The Hyper EXP Stones are making your experience grow faster for every kill you do, it depends on level of course. But, if you kill like wraiths what are two levels higher than you, I'm sure you will level up very easy. Another way, is very usual. Complete quests. When I'm saying ''Comple quests'', I dont mean just a normal quest. If you press the ''Q'' button wil your Quest Menu come up. Click on ''Find Quest'', then will you see a line which says ''Normal''. Click on the plus beside it, choose your quest and take that one you get most EXP from.
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| Skills and Spiritual Cultivation
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| How do I learn skills?
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| -You don't learn skills naturally by leveling up in this game, that just unlocks them. You still have to go the trainer of your class in town. The towns that have skill trainers for your class are the 6 big towns and some of the towns you visit before lvl 20. Note that Archosaur, Thousand Streams and Dreamweaver port have all trainers, not just one race.
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| To learn skills, you need money and spirit, and, sometimes, the required level of the previous skill. Also, some skills require you to level up your Cultivation level. To do this, finish the Spiritual Cultivation quests, they start with an automatic pop-up to send you to an NPC who starts the actual quest. They're the yellow-named quests, you can't really miss them. Finish one and your Cultivation will go up, allowing you to learn more skills.
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| How do I learn Pet Heal/Pet Revive/Tame Pet?
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| -These are taught by the Pet Skill Trainer. Talk to her and select "Tame Pet" to see the list of available skills. Note that you have to complete the lvl 3 quest "Your pet" to get Pet heal and Pet revive, and the lvl 7 quest "Sacred Beast" to unlock Tame Pet.
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| How do I teach my Pet skills?
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| -For land and air monsters, visit Mrs.Zoologist in Southeast Archosaur, she sells skill books and upgrade skill books for your pet. Use them at any Pet NPC by selecting "Learn Pet Skill". For water monsters, visit Mr.Zoologist, underwater in East Archosaur.
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| Can I rearrange Pet skills?
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| -No, sorry. You could remove them all, then add them again in the order you want them to be, but that's obviously quite costly.
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| How do I train my manufacturing skills?
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| -First off, make sure you've completed the lvl 5 quest for the skill you wish to learn. Talk to an Elder and select "Learn Manufacturing skill" to get level 1 in it using the book you've received (Lost books can be retrieved by talking to the Bookmerchant). To train your Manufacturing, visit the relevant NPC and select the Manufacture option. Select the item you wish to make to see the required materials and manufacturing level for it. When you have everything, you can make the item and receive 10% exp to your manufacturing skill. When you've reached 100%, talk to an Elder to level up your Manufacturing skill.
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| Note that to learn level 4 in any manufacturing skill, you have to complete the relevant quest at lvl 50.
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| What are Chi and Spark?
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| -Chi and Spark are required to use certain skills, as indicated in their description. If you finish the lvl 9 cultivation quest, you can start collecting Chi. Any action, like healing, buffing and attacking, will get you Chi. Chi is the yellow bar on your character name, as indicated here.
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| When you finish the lvl 29 Cultivation, your Chi capacity rises from 99 to 199. 1 Spark represents 100 Chi. Spark is used for some of the most powerful skills in the game, so use it wisely.
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| What are Demon/Sage or Heaven/Hell?
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| -While doing the lvl 89 Cultivation quest, you have to decide whether to walk the Demon path or the Sage path. When you're finished, your spiritual cultivation will rise to Celestial Demon/Sage depending on your choice. This has a few effects on you, most importantly, your skills will get an added effect, like a chance to restore some Chi, or added damage. Demon is usually more fit for attacking classes, whereas Sage is aimed more at defense.
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| How do I change to a Tiger or Fox?
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| -At lvl 9, after finishing the Spiritual Cultivation for that level, you can learn the morphing skills, assuming you're a Barbarian or Venomancer.
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| How do Combos/Macros work?
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| -In your skill window, there's a create button at the bottom. Press it to open the combo maker window. Drag skills or the attack button to the row there, then add the combo when you're done. You can then use that combo as a regular skill - press the button to initiate it.
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| Quests
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| How do I find more quests?
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| -First off, press Q to open your quest window. Now press the "Find Quest" button. Assuming you have quests to get, a pop'up will appear containing an NPC and coordinates. Now push the button shown here then enter the coordinates in there (make sure to use the format xxx yyy, with the space) and press enter. An arrow and a marker will appear indicating where to go.
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| I ran out of quests, what do I do now?
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| -At higher lvls (usually 35+), your quests won't suffice to get you to your next level. In that case, find monsters you can kill easily that give good exp, and kill those repeatedly for exp until you level. That's called grinding. Also, don't forget that water and air monsters give x1.5 exp compared to ground monsters.
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| When do the races get the same quests?
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| -Starting at lvl 20, all races get the same quests and move to Archosaur. There are a few exceptions, like Venomancers getting a quest no one else can get.
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| How do Dungeons/FB's/Call to Duties/Tabs work?
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| -Dungeons or FB's are instances in this game. This means only you and your squad can enter the one you're in, it's a private area. Every lvl that ends in 9 (excluding 9 and 49, there's one at 51 though), you get a quest to kill the bosses in a dungeon, and a Call to Duty or Tab along with that. Inside the dungeons are Pillars with boss names on them. Talk to them to use the Call to Duty and start a quest that will trigger for the entire squad. If you finish it, everyone will receive exp, spirit, reputation and a Blood item (The person with the tab doesn't get Blood though).
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| I didn't get anything when I finished my Call to Duty quest, how come?
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| -If your inventory is full, you won't get any reward. You may have noticed you need free inventory space when finishing a quest, Call to Duty works the same way. If your inventory is full, the quest can't finish. The quest will still attempt to finish though (because it has no ending NPC it attempts to autofinish), dropping your Blood on the floor, leaving you with no reward.
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| Item Related
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| How do I charge the Accelerate timer on my aerocraft?
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| -If you decompose gear at a Tailor/Blacksmith, you will obtain Chi stones. Drag these stones to your equipped aerocraft to charge it.
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| What are molds and how do I get them?
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| -Molds are used to create legendary gear. They drop from dungeon bosses sometimes, or very, very rarely from regular monsters. The forges to make Legendary gear are in Archosaur, Southwest district.
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| What are Mirage celestones are how does Refining work?
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| -Mirage Celestones can be obtained by trading 3 of each (human, earth, heaven) celestone or 25 celestone fragments at a Gem Merchant. They're used to refine your gear at an Elder, which will enhance its attributes, and even add new ones. Note that if the refining fails, you will lose the refining level the gear had (i.e. if you had +3 and you failed, it returns to +0). The Mirage Celestone is also lost, even though you failed.
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| How do Soulgems/Shards work?
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| -Shards may drop from monsters, you can get them from Lucky items (Lucky Note, Lucky Pack, etc), or you can buy them off Merchant NPC's. Also, you can use three soulgems to create one soulgem of the next level, at a Jewelcraftsman (Combine option). If you imbue these soulgems into armor/weapons, the effects will be added to it. Note that your item needs one open socket per soulgem, and the success rate is 100%. This is done at a Blacksmith or Tailor. | |
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| How does gear glow?
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| The following weapons glow:
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| -Three-star (purple name) : Blue glow. Obtained at lvl 20 from a quest, or rarely from weapon manufacturing. | |
| -Legendary (gold name) : Gold glow. Obtained by using materials and a mold (dropped from dungeon bosses) at a Legendary weapon forge in Archosaur.
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| -Twilight (green name) : Green glow. Obtained by using Twilight Temple materials at a Twilight Weapon forge in Archosaur. | |
| -All fists
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| Money, Trading and the Boutique
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| How do I set up a Cat Shop/Consignment shop?
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| -Press E to open your emote window, then look under trade. There should be a Consignment Shop button there to set one up.
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| Where do I find Inventory/Safe Extension stones and Cage?
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| -These are Cash shop items. Press 'O' to open the Boutique, then go to Items->Treasure to find these items. Note that you don't need Safe extension stones or Cages to perform the corresponding action - You can start a quest to collect ingame items to get the same effect. You need Dragon Quest items for the Safe extension, rare pet food to add Pet slots.
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| How does the Auctioneer and Gold Trading system work?
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| -Auctioneers can be found in the 6 major towns. Their first option, Auction House will open the Auction window. You can look around the pages using the arrows at the bottom. To look for a specific items, press the Filter button at the top, then select your item (note that the search function doesn't work right now). When you've found the item you'd like to buy, you can see the current bid to the right of its name (if the current bid is equal to the minimum bid, no one's put a bid on that item yet). There may also be a buy price. You can then place a bid or buy the item (if it has a buy price). After placing a bid, keep an eye on your mail. If someone else outbids you, your previous bid will appear in your postbox and you're free to bid again while there's still time. If you win the auction, the item will be in your postbox. Bought items will instantly be sent to your mail, no need to wait for the timer.
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| Also, bidding in the last 20 minutes of an auction will increase the auction's duration by 20 minutes. Auctions can last 8, 16 or 24 hours.
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| At the bottom of the auction window are buttons to check your current bids and sales. To sell an item, go to the Sales window, drag the item to the box, and specify the information (a buy price isn't necessary). When the auction ends, the bid that won will be sent to your postbox. If no one placed a bid, the item and half the fee will be refunded (also in your postbox).
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| Class Related
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| What's the best stat/skill build for <insert class>?
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| -Check the faction build guides
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| -Alternatively, you can check the stickies on the corresponding board at the official PWI Forum. The list of boards can be found here.
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| How do I get a pet?
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| -Venomancers can get pets that assist in combat. To do so, they have to learn the Tame Beast skill, learnable at level 7. If you're playing a Venomancer, you can click on a monster, then look next to its HP bar. If it has a little "tamable" icon, you can tame it, unless the icon is red, then your lvl is too low. It helps to lower the monster's health below 50% before attempting to tame it. When the taming is successful, they get an Egg of the monster. The Pet skill trainer or Pet manager can hatch that, placing the pet in your Pet Bag (press P).
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| If you're not a Veno, you can get all-class pets. These pets are made by combining various pet eggs at Mrs Zoologist in the southeast part of Archosaur. They can't assist you in combat, but they don't need feeding either.
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| Will my flying speed increase if I'm in tiger form or using Summer Sprint?
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| -No, it will not. These boosts apply to ground speed only.
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| Customization
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| Can I customize my character how I want?
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| - It is all in your hands. You can customize it, how you want. If you look at the media can you see a video there about it.
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| What if I change my mind about my customization?
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| - You can change it. But, your chance to change the customization will expire in three days.
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| - You can also get a ''Makeover Scroll.'' The scroll allows you to customize your character once. Then will it dissappear.
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| What about my armor? It dsn't match my customization!
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| - You can get Gold by paying with a few dollars to the PWE Staff. If you press the ''O'' key. Will a window appear. Known as the ''Boutique.'' The boutique is a store with fashion, mounts, flying stuff and more. If you click on fashion. Can you buy cool clothes. Choose the one you like, and then will you character look good.
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