Beginner's Guide

Hello and welcome to the beginner's guide.

Hopefully this is enough to get you started into this game. Also, by talking to other Perfect World players (both in game and in the forums) you can pick up a lot of knowledge, and you always seem to get a lot of help if you ask for it, so don't be afraid to ask.

Questing

Questing is where you speak to an NPC (Non-Player Character) to get a quest with a target/objective with a reward at the end of it.
Here is how to see what quests are available for you for you particular level.
If you Press alt Q or just Q you should get something like this:

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You want to click the circled area to see what quests are available for you at this moment and time:

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Doing that should bring this up:

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The red highlighted bits are showing that the writing for the quests isn't white, but a different color. These quest are generally important ones or hard ones, meaning you may need a team to complete them.

The yellow circle is what you click to show what quest you are currently doing.

That wraps up quests for now.

The User Screen

The user screen is where you get see everything that is going on around you and how to talk to friends, etc... Here is an example of what the user interface (UI) may look like:

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1. This is the class that your character is.

2. This is your exp bar, this shows how much exp you have gained so far for that level. Getting 100% exp means that you go up to the next level.

3. This is your mana bar, this shows you how much mana you have left. Once this is gone you will not be able to cast spells, but you can fill you mana back up again with mana potions or by waiting until you recover it naturally.

4. This is your health bar, showing you much health you have left before dying. Dying means that you will get sent to the closest town. Also, when you reach level 10, when you die you will loose a certain amount of exp.

5. The ! mark means that you have some wanting to trade with you, invite you to their faction/squad, to add you as a friend, and so on.

6. This is your minimap, which shows you where other players are (the green dots) and NPCs, such as weapon vendors (yellow dots and sometimes the orange ones) and the quest givers (the orange dots and sometimes purple ones).

7. This indicates the time of day in perfect world.

8. This is telling you where you currently are, and as you can see I'm in the West District.

9. These are your coordinates, telling you your exact position in Perfect World. This comes in handy when you are trying to find quest givers and possibly people selling things.

10. This shows you your character's current level.

11. If you click this it will bring up your Character Info Screen, looking like this:

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This tells you all you characters stats, defense, etc.. Also, when you level, this is were you go to spend your attribute points. (Shortcut Key: ALT+C or C)

12. This brings up your quest menu. (Shortcut Key: ALT+Q or Q)

13. This is an useful and important tool, clicking this will give you the option to:

Change Char

Edit Your Graphics

Exit The Game

Open Up Help

and Contact A GM

14. Public Relations: If you click this it will bring up links to your friends, the actions window, and all things to do with interacting with the rest of Perfect World.

15. This will bring up the skill list of all the spells that you currently have.

16. This will open your bag/inventory, showing you all the items that you have.

17. This is a skill bar were you would drag and drop spells. If I drag and drop a spell into slot 1, then if I press the "1" key that spell would now cast.

18. This is how you put smilies into your chat text.

19. This is your chat box, you use this to speak with users, party members, friends, factions and so on. You do this by pressing enter and typing what you want to say.

20. This is another skill bar, but instead of using 1 - 8 keys it uses F1 - F8 keys.

That wraps up the user screen.

Armor and Weapons

Armor: You can buy armor from NPCs with "Tailor" in their name. The more you level, the more armor you can wear. Also, as level you can get better armor.

Weapons: Weapons you can buy from NPCs with "Blacksmith" in their name. The same goes here, the more you level, the more weapons you can use with you character.

These NPC vendors can be found in any city or town/village.

Armor and weapons can sometime be acquired from monsters and quests, and some of these weapons may have sockets in them. A socket is a place were you can put shards/gems that you get throughout the game, from the "Merchant" NPCs, and from the Boutique/shop (more on that later) that will add a bonus to your armor and weapons, such as +5 Magic Attack.

Monsters

Monsters are placed all around Perfect World and have set levels and elements.

Elements:

Metal: Weak against fire

Wood: Weak against metal

Fire: Weak against water

Water: Weak against earth

Earth: Weak against wood

Non Elemental: Weak against nothing

Certain monsters will be harder to kill than others due to their rank. Some level 30 monsters may be easy to kill but some may be a lot harder, and you can see this because they will have a design around their name bar.

Shop/Boutique

The Shop/Boutique is where items are available to be bought with gold, which is either bought with real money from this link or bought from the Auctioneer (in all major cities) through Gold Trading, where players can buy gold for coins from other players, or sell their gold to other players for coins.

The Shop/Boutique contains rare and normal items, such as clothes which are used to make your character look different (read my male fashion or female fashion articles), ground mounts (see Ground), flying mounts (see Flying), and various other things that can make your game more fun or earn you some money.

See Also

Links to FAQs on other pages:

1. How do I move around the world? See Map Navigation.
2. How do I fly? See Flying.
3. What happens when I die? See Dying.
4. What is Aggro? See Aggro.