New PW Expansion (PWCN: Rise of Dynasty)

Announcing the 1.4.6 expansion for Perfect World:







1. Our version is NOT getting the server v server part of Nation

Wars.

Please read the admin post on this.

2. Our version of r9 third recast will be different than what's on

here.


3. The new pet system is NOT IMPLEMENTED YET.

That section is there to show off the new pets that will be

available one day.



Table of Contents:

1. Release Dates
2. Overview
3. News Posts
4. PWI forum links
5. Trailers
6. Features
7. The Emperors & New Lands
8. Changelog
9. Credits

Disclaimer:
While I try to add in as much accurate info as possible, remember that wanmei can always cut a feature or two for our version only and that I am not perfect at interpreting engrish.

Be sure to check when I last updated this page (at the very bottom), I may have changed something while you read this!


1. Release Dates:


PWCN: September 6th

PWI: November 14th


2. Overview


What this expansion will have:

New map
New territories to conquer
4 emperors to fight for while conquering new lands
Nation Wars: new pvp system!
New r9 recast (will not work with those that already have 3rd recast)
New weps, tomes
Skill rebalancing


What this expansion will not have:

New classes/races
Rank 10
New skills (needs confirmation)
Any graphical revamp to old lands / major changes in engine


PWI Patch Notes

Official

Unofficial

3. News Posts:

Now... Time for those new posts from PWCN, brought to you by the magic of google derpalate:

Just note the translations are very much engrish and derplated so you won't be able to really figure out much.

Fyi, the numbers of the news posts are not official order or anything, i prefer to organize them like this.

Click here to view the news posts from pwcn (long list!)

Posts from PWE:

Teaser Page

News post

PWE post on Nation Wars

PWE Post on Launch of SoW


4. PWI forum links:

My post:
New loading screen pics, vid

Asterelle:
Patch Notes for Test Server
Tour of New Gear Vid
New tomes + r9 recast
Pics of new weps
More info on new r9 recast
Information on r9 recast, autopotting, 3rd recast stats
You can add defense charms into autopotting

Rerum:
Skill revamp translations (old skills getting changed on all classes)
Official Wanmei Thread on Skill changes (Google Derpalate on Wanmei thread)
More info on new r9 recast

Sashagray:
Warsoul revamp

ChuuBR:
Video of SvS battle in action (chinese video link)
Video of SvS battle in action (youtube link)

5. Trailers:

Perfect World China Rise of Dynasty CG Trailer Millennium Masterpieces of War
Perfect World China Rise of Dynasty CG Trailer The Four Emperors
Perfect World China Rise of Dynasty Server v Server Wars Trailer

6. Features:

Loading Screens!

Like usual, wanmei had made new loading screens for the expansion.

You can view them here.

I have put in two sets of loading screens, a set that was first released for the test server, and a second set that was edited for final release.
There isn't that much of a difference, the second set has more bloom (bright) effects on them.
You can tell the difference by looking in the url, a pic with (2).jpg at the end means it was editted.

Included are the sets for 16:9, 1024, 1280.

New aerogear and mount

You can view them here.


Ecatomb has updated his website with the new fash and aerogear.

Mounts
Aerogear
Fash

Nation Wars: New PvP system

Requirement of lvl 60

PWE post on Nation Wars

"Every Friday and Sunday, from 8:20pm to 10:20pm server time, players Lv60+ will have the opportunity to enter the Nation Wars. Across the entire server, players can enter simultaneously, offering one of the most incredible grand scale battle systems imaginable.

As players sign up to fight in the Nation Wars, Overseer Aeban will assign them to one of the four nations: Frost, Flame, Light, or Darkness. The Overseer, being the crafty demon that he is, will do his best to assign players to create armies for each nation as balanced as possible, taking into account a number of different factors. The Warriors of Perfect World may attempt to circumvent the randomness of entry by entering a squad first - the Overseer will assign a squad to a single nation."

Nations:

4 regions in total: north, south, east, west
North = Frost
South = Flame
East = Dark
West = Light
Players are randomly assigned to each nation.
Each nation has a capital that you start out in.

Each nation will start off with 20 territories, 4 regions x 20 = total of 80.

Press M while in a nation to bring up the NW battle map.
The map will show you how many players for each nation are currently participating, what the current credit for each nation is, and what the total reward is.
The map will also show you the territories for each nation (color coded), and blue nations (a nation that was recently conquered or recovered).

Battle:

Before each battle, you have to receive a quest from a military governor in North Arch by the new forges in order to receive a ticket that will allow you to get to the capital.
You can go solo or team up.
The governor will appear at 20:15, the battle will start 5 minutes later, so better be prepared before applying!
Rewards are sent out before 24:00.

To enter a battle, simply open up the map to view the territories.
You can choose any territory that has a combat symbol over it that's within or nearby your nation's borders.
A combat symbol over your nation's colors means someone is attacking it, combat in a territory adjacent to your nation's border means your nation is attacking it.
Blue spaces means that areas was recently attacked and will be peaceful until it turns into a nation's color.
When you pick a territory to enter, you won't simply teleport in like in tw. You will see a pathline going through your nation's territories lead to the one you picked, you will have to wait anywhere from 30 seconds to a couple minutes depending on far you have to go.
If the territory you choose has ended combat, then you will be sent back to base.

When you enter battle you will enter a generic battle map like in tw.
Each territory will have up to 20 v 20 battles
The battles will last for 25 minutes or whoever gets 20 points first.
The first nation to take 2 Flags for their respective area wins the battle.
Each flag gives 10 points, or 20 points needed to win.

If you die, upon respawn you will have 12 seconds of invincibility
You can die only 5 times before being booted from that battle.

There are two types of attacks on a territory; offense and defense.
Offense is your nation attacking a territory that belongs to another nation,
Defense is your nation defending a territory that belongs to your nation.
Entering a territory as offense means you are the red team (with red name), defense is blue team with blue name.

The final score is calculated by the sum of all the scores of each nation, being calculated by Score Territory (Collection of flags) + score of each player (player's performance on the battlefield + collection flags)
Players who carry the flags earn more endpoints.

Afterward, the region cannot be attacked again for 3 minutes.
The region will turn into a campsite during that brief period in which you can either leave NW or proceed to another territory in conflict.

Tips:

Choose areas that have less people.
If you see 17 of your nation vs 5> of the other nation, don't bother. The amount of points you will get will be minimal because not only will you not do anything (unless you compete with your comrades for the flag) but the amount of points that is sent out will be mostly equally distributed. If 17 players are in a field, you'll probably get around 50-70 doing nothing.
Likewise, don't choose an area that is swarmed with the enemy unless you know you can bring enough people for back up!

Choose the closest territories
As mentioned above, the further the territory is from your current location, the farther you have to travel and the longer you have to wait to get there. If you pick a really far away territory, not only will you arrive late and end up doing nothing, you'll also risk getting sent back to base if that fight finishes.

Map:

Map of territories

Map of battlefield

Key-

Blue = Defense
Red= Offense
Green Boxes: 3 areas where flag will spawn in randomly, known as east, center, west
After a flag has spawn in one of those three areas, someone has to "mine" the flag and go to their respective checkpoint.
Blue team has to go far south (to their blue point) and Red team has to go far north (to their red point)
Red area (far north): Checkpoint for the offense team to capture the flag
Red area (below the center box): Red team spawn point
Blue area (far south): Checkpoint for the defense team to capture the flag
Red area (above the center box): Blue team spawn point

Screenshot of the Capitals

Campsite for Nation Wars

Battlefield for Nation Wars

Reward:

If you have enough contribution points, you will receive supply tokens.
I think the cut off for rewards is 2k contrib, like with any other event.

You can view the recipes for the supply tokens here

The forges for the supply tokens are in north arch.

New r9 recast gear

You can view pics of the new gears and materials here.

Page is in BR.

Two materials are needed that can be redeemed with medal-looking items that are probably rewards from svs wars.

Material 1 needs 500 medals.
Material 2 needs 1000 medals.

There isn't any word on how many medals you get from svs wars.

For the r9 recast itself, you need:

Weapons: 36 (Mat 1) 578 (Mat 2) 90,000,000 (Coins)
Armors: 1 (Mat 1) 80 (Mat 2) 20,000,000 (Coins)
Accessories: 6 (Mat 1) 117 (Mat 2) 50,000,000 (Coins)

You can view a complete set of gear and weapon pics here.

The database now has these items listed.

Medal

Material 1

Material 2

Skill Upgrades

A lot of the skills from the old classes have been updated!
Skills for the newer classes were changed as well.
Go check it out here.

Quests, Leveling, and Meditation

Leveling for 30-70 has been given a buff, the quests have apparently been changed like the culti in descent; the number of mobs to kill have been reduced. Exp, sp has been buffed accordingly. New quests may have been added as well. Not sure if dailies were affected.

New quests for 50-80, apparently involves "creative passion". Cannot tell if new questline or new daily.
These quests are apparently ranked 1 star, 2 star, up to 5 star. apparently autumn related.

Deep meditation has been enabled, you will need to be a squirrelfish stone in order to use it.
This item is of course obtained from the cash shop.

Reduced HP and Attack of mobs of in Pheonix Valley, 75 +

Auto potting

For those of you that are familiar with jd or fw, you can now auto use your pots.
Might require a special item before use.

Screenshot of auto pot feature

Veno pet system

According to a couple of news posts from wanmei, the veno pet system is going to be changed.

This hasn't happened yet, so don't expect it in our expansion at launch.

They did, however, release some pics of two new pets:

Harpy

Monkey King

Crazy Stone Updates

Crazy stone has been updated for levels 90+

The updated exp and sp are as follows:

Lvl - Before (Exp & SP) → After (Exp & SP)
91 = 267,900 & 53,600 → 401,850 & 80,400
92 = 283,700 & 56,700 → 425,550 & 85,050
93 = 299,000 & 59,800 → 448,500 & 89,700
94 = 313,600 & 62,700 → 470,400 & 94,050
95 = 327,200 & 65,400 → 490,800 & 98,100
96 = 328,200 & 65,600 → 492,300 & 98,400
97 = 338,800 & 67,800 → 508,200 & 101,700
98 = 347,700 & 69,500 → 521,550 & 104,250
99 = 354,300 & 70,900 → 531,450 & 106,350
100+ = 480,000 & 108,480 → 600,000 & 135,600

In addition, level 100+ cs quests have been further tweaked:

a) Players may choose to deliver Jades Level 4 or Level 5 Jades ;
b) Jades Level 4: You will receive the same reward (EXP: 600000 - SP: 135600)
c) Jades Level 5: EXP gain increased to 820,000; Chance of getting an extra reward of between 100,000 to 10,000,000 EXP.

Credit to PWBR for figuring this out.

The item you can get from the 100 cs quest is elemental essential. Activating item will net one of three possible exp rewards.

Elemental Essential

Three possible outcomes:

90% = 100k exp

9% = 1 mill exp

1% = 10 mill exp

7. The Emperors & Their Nations

"Now that the forces of the Dark Lord, Jian'Rin, have spilled into Perfect World, the world has been set ablaze. Lines have been drawn and forces have mobilized to determine supremacy in this new age.

Amidst the chaos, four nations have emerged with the intent of wresting control for dominance. The nations of Frost, Flame, Light, and Darkness are stuck in deadlock and will require the aid of warriors such as yourself to push forward with their plans.

Do you have what it takes to survive?"

I'm going to assume until further info is released that:
Green = Darkness
Red = Flame
White = Light
Black = Frost

It looks like instead of colors like on the pwcn version, pwi is going with more generic titles.

I know it seems counter intuitive for the black emperor (who lives in the cold north) to be frost and not darkness, but I can't see why the green emperor (who lives in the swashbuckling seas of the east) would be frost.

There are 4 emperors and four new lands on one new map.

The four emperors are:

The Darkness Emperor: Lorelei, Lady of the Depths, a leader of pirates on a really big boat in the east.

The Flame Emperor: Astrid, the Dragonborne, a dragon girl of flames in a city that is in a molten crater in south.

The Frost Emperor: Kestra, Storm of the Tundra, a barbarian-like axe wielding woman of a city in the north (nordic, perhaps?).

The Light Emperor: Althea, the Celestial Blade, a commander of knights in a city of european style in the west.

Pictures:

Darkness:

Darkness Emperor Concept

Dragon King Ship

Lorelei, Lady of the Depths

"There is no darkness like that of the frigid depths of the sea. The others write us off as brigands and ruffians with no sense of tactics, but they are wrong. Let us unleash our true power and toss our enemies' corpses into the ocean's briny depths."

Gallery: In Game Shots of The East Nation

Frost

Frost Emperor Concept

Black Castle

Kestra, Storm of the Tundra

"We may not have a fancy castle or gargantuan ship, but we have the warrior spirit. They think us nothing more than primitive barbarians, but we are so much more. Let them feel the icy sting of defeat as we decimate their forces!"

Gallery: In Game Shots of The North Nation

Light:

Light Emperor Concept

Whitehead City

Althea, the Celestial Blade

"While my face is fair and my countenance regal, the others underestimate me. Within me beats a heart that seeks glory... and glory I shall have. Warriors, let us fight in the name of all that illuminates. We battle for the honor of the light!"

Gallery: In Game Shots of The West Nation

Flame:

Flame Emperor Concept

Fire Crater

Astrid, the Dragonborne

"The fools! They have awakened the dragon and they shall be burned! I shall see to it that our adversaires are little more than scorched husks at the war's end. Come, let us put those dogs in their place."

Gallery: In Game Shots of The South Nation

8. Changelog:

9/08 -
Added main post
9/09 -
Added in pictures from PWBRchannel, revised some information based on their interperations
Includes changes to:
r9 recast section
svs wars section
new territories
autopotting
PWI forum links (reorganized by poster name)
9/10 -
Added video post to pwi forum links
9/13 -
Fixed order of news posts
Added in 28 and 29
added youtube link for svs war video under pwi forum links
added new aerogear and mount section under features
9/17 -
added two posts under asterelle
added note that ecatomb updated his site with new fash/mount/aero
10/3 -
Added in 3 trailers (my advice: just watch second one)
11/8 -
Updated the page with localizations from pwe & few tweaks here and there
Added in a section about crazy stone updates
Added in in game shots for the 4 nations
11/9 -
Tweaked the Nation Wars section in regards to the pwe post on it
Revised info, like for example it's a lvl req of 60, not 100 for nation wars
11/17 -
updated nw section so it reflects changes made in our version and can be used as an actual guide

9. Credits:

Wanmei
PWBRchannel for confirming pretty much everything I have found, plus some pictures
All forumgoers I linked to in PWI forum links sections