Getting to Room 4 of the Cube for First Timers

I was unable to find a detailed guide for FIRST TIMERS to the cube and so I put together this to save others the frustration I went through.

A Step by Step Walkthrough and Newbie FAQ to the Cube with emphasis on how to get to Room 4 “Mice Bashing” a great place to level up land pets.


For a detailed guide to each room in the Cube see:
http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=157802

For a discussion of techniques to be used once inside Room 4 see
Vazil's Guide to Quick Pet Leveling
Please note: My preference is the Bow and Arrow technique outlined by Kytalia in post 11 of this Guide below. The Vazils technique is slower and ends up creating a huge repair bill unless you take off everything.
http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=263211


Some Basic Cube FAQ:

a) You must be level 40+. You can only go into the Cube (beyond Room 1) once a day. You cannot leave to go to the banker, buy Mirage Celestones or supplies, repair equipment etc, then come right back in. So do that before you start.

b) Once inside the Cube you CAN log out, disconnect, and log back in to the same room inside the Cube.

c) You do not lose XP or items if you die in the Cube, whether killed by mobs or PKers. Your Guardian Angels do not get used if you have them on you. PK enabled rooms: 11, 14, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 43, 44, 45, 47 & 48. These rooms are PK enabled no matter whether you are on a PVP or PVE server and even if you are Blue named.

d) The mobs you kill don't give you any XP or SP of significance but you get full Pet XP credit. ie. 15 Pet XP points (if loyalty above 500)

e) Other players will enter/leave the room you are in. Rm 4 can support about 2 Venos killing at top speed, 3 or more and the mob doesn't respawn fast enough so you will have to slow down or take a break. The challenge for room 4 is to kill 10 mob. So most other players are in and out within a minute. (Solandri indicates it can support up to 4 Venos but I have notexperienced that yet)

f) The penalty for failing the challenge in any room or getting killed is to be teleported back to Room 1. No XP or item loss.

g) Using the Cube to level your pet can be costly. Estimate anywhere from 1 to 8 Mirage Celestones.

h) It takes the same number of kills in the cube and outside the cube to level your pet. In cube Rm 4 the mob are one shot kills and quite close together. The disadvantage is there are no drops and no XP for yourself. Using the bow and arrow method I averaged about 1 kill per second over a 5 hr period.

Walkthrough
(I’m doing this from memory some steps and names may be inaccurate. Please feel free to point out any errors)

Step 1: Get Prepared - You cannot leave and re-enter the Cube freely, so get this done first.
a) Get plenty of Mirage Celestones, Dice tickets or coin. Each Mirage can be exchanged for 2 Dice Tickets, and on HT there were Catshops inside the starting RM of the cube selling Dice Tickets for between 15K and 20K. Every move requires one Dice Ticket. So if it takes you 8 tries to get a Dice roll of 3 (to get to room 4) it will take 8 Dice tickets or 4 Mirage Celestones. It is completely random so it may take you one try or 20 depending on how lucky you are.
b) Get pet food and loyalty increasing pet food. You want to always have loyalty above 500 to maximize leveling speed.
c) Buy 2 Bows and at least 2000+ arrows.
I recommend using a Bow to shoot arrows in Rm 4, I tried a few of the methods detailed in the other guides and the arrow method seemed to be the fastest. To level one pet from 20 to 57 it took about 1200 arrows and the bow broke by the end. To level more than that you will need a second bow and more arrows. The mob in room 4 have very low hp so even a basic lvl 3 bow will suffice. If you are not sure just bring them anywayso you have the option. The cost of the bow and arrows is small compared to getting into Rm 4 of the cube.
d) Make sure you have at least 4 or preferably more free inventory slots. you will need these for the Dice Tickets, Dice, Duty Badge, Puzzle Cubes and any other items you may decide to buy.
e) Repair your equipment
f) If you have a HP Charm equipped get Teleport Incense in case you end up in room 6. Not essential but recommended for convenience.
g) Last but not least don't forget to hatch the pet(s) you want to level

Step 2: Talk to the Khatru Pup (at any major City or in Archosaur) and get the Duty Badge. Then talk to him or the Adventure Assistant and enter the Cube. You will be teleported into a big room called Fates Beginning. (Room 1) You can enter this room without the Duty Badge but you cannot go any further in the Cube without it.

You will see a Herc NPC called "Room 1 Teleport Master" in the middle and a "Fates Forge" next to him. This Herc NPC takes your Duty Badge and begins the adventure. The "Fates Forge" next to him is used to trade your Mirage Celestones for dice tickets. It has multiple tabs once you click on it, choose the TRD tab to get the Mirage exchange option.

There are usually a bunch of Catshops in Rm 1. If you are short of Mirages, or the prices are good you might want to buy the Dice tickets from the shops instead.

Step 3: Once you have the Puzzle Cube and Dice Tickets (you can see it in your inventory) Talk to the Herc NPC again and start the adventure. You will get a dice with a number. If you are very lucky it will be a 3 and you can move forward 3 rms to room 4.

Step 4: No matter what number you roll, you must go to that room to continue. Right click on the Dice in your inventory and you will be teleported to that room.

If you did not get 3, go to the room you do get and fail the challenge. You get teleported back to room 1. You can fail Rooms 3,6 and 7 by simply running around and getting yourself killed. Fail room 5 by entering the wrong number of apple count. It is important that you fail the room. If you complete the challenge you will get another Dice which means you have used up another ~15K dice ticket.

Note for Rm 6: (Thanks to Daerys & Solandri) If you have a HP Charm you cannot die in Room 6 "Open Sesame" the boss kills you slower than the Charm heal. You must teleport out using Teleport Incense or Town Portal, or you can kill the Boss. (You can also use Foxform and leach as pointed out by Solandri to avoid burning your Charm while killing it). However, if you kill the Boss you will complete the challenge and therefore have used up another Dice Ticket.

Once back in room 1 talk to the NPC in the middle to get another dice hopefully 3. Keep repeating this sequence until you get to room 4.

In any room you can use your town portal spell or teleport incense to teleport back to room 1. If you happen to teleport back to room 1 with a Dice in your possession you must convert that back to a puzzle cube or the Teleport NPC will not roll another Dice for you. That is what the "Thown Dice 1-Dice 6 Exchange Forges" in Room 1 are for. Go to the forge corresponding to the dice number and click on it to convert the dice back to a puzzle cube.


Arriving at Room 4: Once you arrive at Room 4 the "Mice Bashing" room. You can simply summon your pet and start killing or talk to the NPC and he will tell you to kill 10 mob. You can in fact keep killing as many as you want. As long as you don't talk to the NPC again to tell him you have finished you get to stay in the room for hours or days.

You will see a bunch of Tombstones called Ancient Dooms Lvl (?). They don’t aggro until you attack them but have very low HP 10 or so they will die with one hit. That is the key to Pet leveling in this room, you can gain 15 pet XP per kill as fast as you can target and attack.


Leaving: when you are done you can leave the room by using the town portal teleport spell to get to Room 1. (Don't talk to the NPC in Rm 4 or you will use up another Dice ticket) Then go to the Exit Watcher NPC in Rm 1 (a Herc on one of the side walls) to leave.

You may also try to complete the Cube instead of teleporting back to Rm 1 immediately but be aware that you will need a bunch of Dice tickets to even stand a chance. If you only have a few Mirages, I suggest saving them for when you are much richer.


Hope this was helpful. Please comment if you did and I will continue updating it.