Anyone else feel overwhelmed when starting out?

xueicidujel wrote: »

Thank you for the advice.

It's my first mmorpg.

Which server do you play in?

Sandclaw - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Highlight their avatar, double-click, and their icon with their name, faction, and class should appear at the top of your screen. Right click the picture of their head, select the 'Invite' option, and they may choose to help you out with the quest. Group questing is alot easier.

That really annoys me when people do that. I make an effort to talk to people and ask them if they want to squad before inviting them - it's only polite. Perhaps I'm showing my age on that one b:surrender

Brucutu - Dreamweaver wrote: »

I honestly think PWI devs could learn a thing or two from WoW as far as interface design goes.

It depends on what MMO's you play.. Or played. I actually played PWI before trying out WoW, and I realized I had gotten used to PWI's interface and controls. After the trial, I just decided that I would stick with PWI, considering I've played the International version for a a couple of months now, and had the Chinese version before hand.

I guess you're just used to WoW, because considering PWI was one of my first MMO's, I got used to it quickly.


(My client is taking SOOOOO long to update PWI.... b:surrender )

Lets see if my avatar changes...

Expanding on Dyskrasia's idea you should also notice a "find quest" option at the bottom of the quest screen.

When auto-pathing, if there are a lot of obstacles, be sure to start auto-pathing. Then stop and check the map. There will be 1-? amount of flags on your map. (If you are auto-pathing to monsters there is usually a few locations for them) This will greatly help you plan the most efficient path.

One of the biggest aides I can offer is when you reach LvL 5. When you reach this LvL you should automatically receive a quest "Learn a Manufacturing skill". There are for options: Blacksmith, Tailor, Crafting and Apocrathy. To make these items you will need to go to the NPC (non-player character) that corresponds with the skills you want to learn. (If you want tailor go to any tailor and there should be a "manufacture armor" option when you talk to her)

Now you will probably find that doing all of these at once is quite a task. All of these skills will require materials as well so here is a list of some of the materials you will need as a beginner.

Pig iron, sandstone, coal and various herbs. are commonly needed but you can mine those at anytime so you don't necessarily have to stock up on these. Monster(mobs) drops are what you want to collect. So they will be mentioned next to each skill. All items (not potions) will need "jades" as well you can purchase these at a merchant but they are a common drop. The first two you will rely on are the first two in the merchants trade screen.

Blacksmith: Grease is essential and can be primarily found from the LvL 2/3 beetles that you should find close to any starting city.

Tailor: Animal fur and cotton thread* are essential to tailor. Animal furs will drop from many of the beginning "hairy" creatures (wolves and lynx primarily). Now I have heard a lot about cotton thread but it is semi-rare so you diffidently want to stock up on this.

Crafting: Cotton thread is often needed. I am not sure what else.

Apocrathy: All herbs will be used for this. My recommendation at LvL 1 apoc is nectar and golden herb. At LvL 1 these can make "Life powder" which increases your health regeneration by 50/sec! for ten minutes. This will keep you alive through thick and thin and is faster regeneration than meditating. Also, both nectar and golden herb are used in the next LvL of Apoc.

This may be a lot to take in so my best advice is to go to the NPC's that you want to learn about and choose there manufacturing option. Click on the items you would want to make and it will show you what exact resources you'll need. For tailor, blacksmith and crafting the order of items from top to bottom is warrior, archer, and magician based. This means if you were a warrior you would likely want to focus on the top row of items you can manufacture. When you click on the item you want to manufacture in the manufacturing screen at the bottom of the screen it will show you the LvL of that skill you need as well as the resources. If you move your cursor over the resources it will give you the exact name of that item. I hope this helps you and my last piece of advice is this. Once you find out what resources you need don't sell them. This is another reason that doing all skills at once will be difficult. The reason for this, however, is because the lower LvL mobs drop the resources you will need in a LvL 1 skill. Yet, when you get higher the drop rate of lower mobs dramatically decrease. It starts to drop at 4 or more LvLs under you. This can also be true in reverse. Harder mobs will drop more stuff and give exp bonuses. I am not sure at what LvL higher they do this though. I really hope this helps and isn't too confusing. If you have any questions at all you can go to a postbox. When you open up the postbox you will have two options. "Check mail" and "quest related" choose check mail. At the bottom of that screen will be "Write Mail" button. Simply send any question you might have to Lady_Satsue and I will be more than happy to help you out or clarify all the things I have said.

Ophida - Dreamweaver wrote: »

That really annoys me when people do that. I make an effort to talk to people and ask them if they want to squad before inviting them - it's only polite. Perhaps I'm showing my age on that one b:surrender

Sorry if I seemed rude there b:surrender

Though normally I don't even invite people. They invite me. I should go by your approach. b:embarrass Though normally I never do random people. My faction, is of course, my best friend. xD

But I was really only explaining how to make a squad to Xueicidujel. (Really, sorry for sounding rude.)

Now this is purely my opinion but I believe that it is best to turn item pick up on "free" in a squad. I have met a lot of frustration when I am doing the most killing and not getting any of the valuable drops at all. It is also good for when you are doing your FB to ensure that you get all your drops.

A mob is a monster. It is a pretty general term. Here is a term you might here in game and it's translation.

I have been grinding mobs for hours.

I have been fighting monsters for hours. =P

Okay not much of a translation but there it is.

thanks for posting that guide