Advantages of dungeon runs

rena wrote: »

I see so main drop from dungeons are crafting materials. Is there alternate ways of obtaining these materials or are some items exclusive to dungeons ?

All the items are exclusive to the bosses that drop them. Only alternate method is to buy them from other players, which of course involve them having to be farmed from those bosses in the first place.

One thing I forgot to mention, starting from fb89, bosses also drop skill books for heaven/hell =]

senovit wrote: »

All the items are exclusive to the bosses that drop them. Only alternate method is to buy them from other players, which of course involve them having to be farmed from those bosses in the first place.

One thing I forgot to mention, starting from fb89, bosses also drop skill books for heaven/hell =]

what are the skill books good for?

rena wrote: »

How many total dungeons is in the original game ?

Um, it's hard to say. You have FB's 19-79, then 2 89's (one for heaven, one for hell), 2 99's (again, one for heaven, one for hell). There's also event areas that are technically classified as dungeons, like the horse race area, dragon palace event, or netherbeast city. There's also Holy Hall, which is comprised of 3 smaller dungeons that you can pick from once starting, each with 3 different difficulty levels. There's also a dungeon called Ghost realm which contains a few quests. Not sure what else I've missed.

FB's are a type of dungeon in which you get an Iron Blood Tablet. I'm just used to calling it that since that's what everyone calls them on the server I played before. They all have different bosses, and get harder the higher level they become available - for instance, fb70 is harder than fb59 which is harder than fb51, and so on and so forth. There are some exceptions though... like fb79 bosses being easier than fb69.

And yeah... it's a bit confusing but for the most part it's every 10 levels. In case you're interestd -
19, 29, 39, 51, 70(1/3 tabs gettable at 69, the other 2/3 at 70), 79(3/4 tabs gettable at level 77), 89, 99.

Depends on the tablets. Some of them just require you to be the certain level to get the quest, others require you to finish a cultivatoin in order to get the quest, still others have other conditions like clearing another normal quest first or killing 2 bosses in the dungeon before leaving, grabbing another tab and coming back.

shizo wrote: »

And there are vines, which decrease the amount of mobs inside the dungeon at around 85%. The vines work for fb19-99, for fb 109 there isn't a Vine yet.

I know you meant wines. I don't think the "Drunken Poets" would appreciate drinking vines. ^_~
There is a drunken poet in most dungeons that will clear most monsters (except for the bosses) from the dungeon if you give him incentive (a specific wine). I don't know if they will change drunken poet to "Sweet Tooth Poet" in Perfect World International, and change wine to "Candy" to comply with the ratings system in the states. (Just kidding. Though it would not bother me.)

The main part of the FB dungeons are that they are instanced, so that people don't need to compete for the same boss to rank up (though there are some mostly fast re-spawning bosses to complete outside of the dungeon that don't provide the special drops.) Another bonus, players don't have to compete with others to farm for special crafting materials in the instance dungeons.

rena wrote: »

Thank you for your help, The exclusivity makes me feel better, it be a big bummer is it wasnt but do wish there was a bit more variation of drops, maybe unique flying mounts or such. I know this is a bit off topic from what I originally asked but you only seemed to mention a few dungeons. How many total dungeons is in the original game ?

There are at least 29 dungeon instance areas that I know of offhand on the PW-China servers. I am not sure how many of those areas we will have at the beta, since many of them are for high level players. Maybe around half of them? I've also noticed on the server in China, they have sneak previews for new areas, so it's still an evolving game.

There are some quests that provide unique in game mounts (i.e. dragon quest), but these are really grueling quests, and some people ride around town on such a mount as prestige. (One example of an unique in game mount is the "white horse". I'm still waiting for my "Prince on a White Horse" T.T )

Forest ruins was open, but closed due to a bug they found that let players go through the walls/underground, and PW-Beijing has yet to fix it. This could be remedied simply by having an online GM active each time the event is up and patrolling the bugged area, but MY-EN doesn't do that S:

Most people knowing about gameplay are those (like me) that played the Malaysian "English" (commonly abreviated MY-EN) version of the game, which isn't IP blocked. The game itself has been around in China for nearly 2 years I think, and there's a few versions for Asian countries (most are IP-restricted).

yes there areb fb19/29/39 and so on..... its hard to get a mold, but when u got it, my friend got some mold lvl 49 and my equipment was lvl 54 with three star+1 and my eq still lose compare to him