Uber noobs with noob questions

1. Crafting
A. If you want to craft the items that are displayed at the blacksmith, tailer, etc. you will need only the materials. You will not need a base weapon to craft those. (If you click on the item you want to craft, it will show you all the materials you will need.) On the other hand, you can acquire molds that can be crafted into better weapons and armor. These will require both the mold itself and the materials. You forge molds at the forges in South Archosaur.

2. Cupboards/inventory/banking etc quests
A. You can do both quests to expand inventory and safe, but you can only expand the bank through the in-game material gathering quests. You can expand your bank slots twice, adding 8 slots each time. These quests aren't available for inventory. If you want to expand your bank further and your inventory, you'll need stones from the cash shop. (Personally, I expanded my bank with the 2 quests first before expanidng my inventory and bank further. I don't know if the order matters, but you should be able to do both.)
A.b. As far as I know, you can't expand your cupboard without a stone. You need stones to both activate the feature and expand it.

3. Reputation points
A. Reputation is required for rank equipment. At lvl 30, you will be eligible to acquire rank 1 equipment if you have the necessary amount of rank. At lvl 40, you can get rank 2 (given you have the right amouth of rep.) and so on. The amount of reputation becomes increasingly hard to get for each lvl of rank, and at rank 8 I think you need a total of 200k of rep. I think most players have agreed that rank equipment isn't really worth it until you get to rank 4 or 5+.

4. Marriage
A. Marriage will require bride and groom packs no matter what. There is not a quest that will allow you to marry without them.

5. Genies
A. You can have more than 1 genie per toon, but you can't equip more than one genie at the same time. You can't change genies midway through a fight either, while you're in attack mode.
A.b. Genies are initially in a non-tradeable state. While in this state, they can't be sold, traded, auctioned, neither can they gain experience. To switch it into a tradeable state, you need to hit the option "Switch Trade State". It will take seven days to switch it to the tradeable state.
A.c. When you decompose a genie into an experience cube, you will recieve penalties for that switch. Thus, a lvl 19 genie will not turn into a cube with the cumulative amount of experience of a lvl 19 genie. If you level a genie with a cube lvl lower than that of a genie, you will also recieve experience penalties. (Same with your character, you only have a certain infusion ration based on the levels of the genie and character).
A.d. Every genie starts with 50 growth points. As far as I know, this does not have any impact on the number of lucky points a genie gets every 10 lvls. I have seen all four stages of genies, and all of them have 50 growth points. Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this :P.

6. Armor/Weapons
A. I can't really answer this question with certainty. It really depends on you as a player. This is just my personal experience. I leveled fairly quickly through lvls 1-50, so investing in good gear wasn't worth it since I outleveled it quickly. There are quests that will give you fairly decent gear throughout those levels, and I mainly relied on those. Once I hit mid 50s, I started investing in better 3* gear and mold equipment when I had the coin. Pretty much, the slower I think I will level through any 10 lvls, the more willing I am to spend more on good gear.
A.b. Twilight Temple (TT) gear is considered pretty good. You can start getting TT weapons and lvl 60 and armor at lvl 70. Some mold gears are better than TT, but my knowledge is limited to Light Armor. Weapon wise, you can also get Frostcovered City weapons at lvl 85 and Lunar Glade weapons at 95. Again, my knowledge is limited to bows, xbows, and slingshots but a lot prefer these weapons over the TT weapons. As to when to refine, I would say generally the same thing about investing in good gear. I would definitely try your weapons and higher lvls (60+). Both refining and adding socket stones can get expensive. Generally, it seems to me that refining is prefered over adding socket stones to a weapon, then adding a soulstone.

7. Death
A. You can only lose items if your name is redish. Shades range from light pink to dark red and the redder your name (meaning the more people you have pked), the higher the chance you have of dropping items. Players on both PvP and PvE servers go or can go pk starting at lvl 30. There is a "safe lock" apparently on the PvP servers, but I don't know too much about that. (Thread about it in the forums somehwere, just search :P)
A.b. Items are only lost during PvP. You will not drop items if you're killed by a mob. (I'm not quite sure what you mean by aoe in this context, since this refers to attacks like Barrage of Arrows or Dragon's Breath.)
A.c. You can buy Guardian Scrolls to prevent item loss, but this might be much more expensive in the long run since Guardians Scrolls are expendable items. Each time you die, one scroll will be used (regardless if you were killed by a player or a mob).

Please keep in mind that some of these questions were rather subjective, and I've answered based on my own experiences. If anyone else have anything to add, please do. ^^

Really...oO. Didn't know that, thanks for the fix XD.

If you find that you have more questions, this thread here might have some of the answers you'd need:

http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=168582

It is quite comprehensive b:laugh

Lemuria - Harshlands wrote: »

Little correction here. Blue names have a ZERO percent chance to drop inventory items when they die. From reading a post, apparently there was an issue with it before but it has since been corrected.

White named players however (those over level 30) have the 1% drop chance for inventory items if they're not safety-locked or carrying guardian scrolls.

http://pwi.perfectworld.com/guide/pvp

Scrol down to the table, and than check 'killed by monster' under 'blue name' b:bye

Welcome to the game.

sitnspin wrote: »

Lvl 1 & 2 crafting are pretty straight forward, my question is, beyond those when i craft say at lvl 4 a weapon, will i need to have a base weapon along with the mats or just mats in order to create the required item for skill upgrade ect? Please if u can post an example of an item crafted from a-z (so to speak) would be greatly appreciated.

Crafting:
1. Go to the vendor - tailor, blacksmith or craftsman, depending on what you want to make. You need to choose the right LEVEL of vendor, too - the starter cities make 1-3 stuff, arch makes 4-6 etc.
3. Choose 'manufacture' conversation option, to get to a page with all the stuff you can craft. Choose the one(s) you like the look of, and look at what they require to make.
4. Collect the materials you need.
5. At the vendor, crank up the number of the item you want to make and hit manufacture.
6. Wait for the mats to be used and the items to appear in your inventory.
7. The items may have zero,1,2 or even three stars. They may or may not have sockets, or magical bonuses. Keep crafting till you get the items you want.

sitnspin wrote: »

Cupboards/inventory/banking ect quests

You can have one of these quests active at a time. The inventory and cupboard use cash-shop items, trash those quests unless you have bought the items. The bank quest can give two free rows from in game items ('collect the materials') and everything else is cash shop.

sitnspin wrote: »

3. Reputation points

You need a few rep points to unlock certain quests (50 rep for the FB19 quest) - mainly they are for certain items of gear. A decent ring is your first reward. the very best gear is available through reputation - but the amount you need is prohibitive.

sitnspin wrote: »

Marriage: Is this a zen only purchase?

Yes.

sitnspin wrote: »

Genies

Genies are complicated, please see the various genie guides.

6. Armor/Weapons

The first 'named' gear is available at level 60. most people advise not using shards, or worrying too much about legendary stuff before then.

The really good stuff starts becoming available, uh... 80? 90? 99? It all pretty much ramps up as your character does.

I'm still using plenty of random drops that are level 66 that out-do the named 80 stuff.

If you want a number - there's a BIG jump between the TT80 and TT90 gear.

7. Death

http://pwi-wiki.perfectworld.com/index.php?title=Dying

Some gear comes with the attribute 'does not drop on death', and there's also messing around with the safety lock.

i don't know really but when i was lvl 35 or something i died and lost my weap

Equipped items can't be dropped unless you're in redname mode (ie, you've attacked and killed a white named player). Pink name players have a fair chance to drop items from their inventory (so if your sword wasn't equipped, you can lose it).

And yes, I misread the info on blue name players (was still looking at PK info, not PvE info) so the 1% droprate stands on inventory items. That being said, you will only drop a single item, never a stack. So if you lose, for example, grease from a stack of 12 you will still have 11 left. Pink named players will lose a stack of items up to a certain amount (im sure someone can clarify this better or correct me if im wrong).