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Wow... a character screenshot thread. Haven't seen anything like this for a while... like... eh... 10 minutes or so. Sorry, no cash clothing. I do have an anniversary mount, but I'm still baffled how she rides on it with that dress... and I don't usually screenshot chars on a mount.

Phew... sounds too good to be true :-) Unlike the other "early 60s" character at the beginning of the thread, I have almost NO skills at all, and when I recently checked the skills and available spirit... well, lets just say I'm not at all confident about getting anything up. I have rarely added levels anywhere, and I…

Isn't renaming a cash shop thing? As for feeding: just buy water (other food exists, but it has no advantages). Feed (by using the water like a skill or potion; I have it on a shortcut key) the pet when the indicator turns green; it will be slightly wasteful, but with one water at just 52 gold that doesn't really matter;…

Whether it's "all class" or "rare" or whatever, you can't farm it. These things have respawn times of (IIRC) 12 hours, and even if you find out when that 12 hour thing is happening, you'll be competing with hundreds of bots and a few real players for the same spawn. It's the same in all games, I don't see why Perfect World…

Potions. They are comparatively rare drops, though, so you might want to avoid them. Don't know whether they can be bought at NPCs (I'm a Venomancer, so I have no use for potions), but they would probably be expensive anyway. A healer might be able to heal himself as well; some classes also have "one shot" spells for…

F2P MMO"RP"Gs in general seem to "not like" my money. They tend to be too boring (Perfect Worlds definitely fits in there), and/or they add stupid timers on their cash items, and/or make them not tradeable to other chars, and/or make them very expensive, and/or they add roadblocks into the game. In a way, almost every…

It seems to be a somewhat common "feature" to limit the active quests... no idea why, though. Still, 20 quests is still better than the 5 quests I got on another game... that was a really major annoyance. Maybe they planned to sell a quest extension item but forgot to add it, or something like that. In PW, I have maybe…

Archosaur just is too heavily loaded, pets or not. I don't even notice pets in terms of annoyance, I'm more annoyed by people sitting and flying on their huge mounts around the banker, making it difficult to click on him. Or people opening shops or just being AFK "on top of" any NPC. Luckily, Archosaur is completely…

People do that? Or did you just play too much Darkstone back in the old days?

I recently stopped playing Cabal because of that: I couldn't get my quests done because the monsters were 24/7-ed by bots exploiting a bug that let them do very large AoEs... (the higher level char was roadblocked by their PK system, leaving the game to lower levels... and that lower level was roadblocked by the bots). If…

It's just a matter of whether you want to pay or not. There is a reason why the quests take you around the whole world map all the time... and why teleports are prohibitively expensive. On short distances the ground mounts can save a lot of time --- judging from the speed they race around with these things. Just walking…

The guide should mention whether you can level with just making lvl 1 stuff, or whether you need to make things based on your crafting level. Still trying to figure that out without wasting a material (the monster drop materials take forever to get). Unfonrtinately, the guide only tells the obvious stuff :-( And yes, I…

This is from another newbie... I started with my fly quite late as well, might even have been early 30s like you did. Currently lvl 43, almost 44, so not that much ahead. No particular reason for the fly, except that back then everyone was recommending it as "the" air pet. Maybe it's similar to the golem/herc thing ---…

Well, he does fill in the gap left by the departure of the Termporarily disabled NPC.

Not me. And there's a lot of questions about basic game mechanics and content, which would not happen if "everyone" is from PW-MY.

Depends on how you look at it. I did NOT get my blue weapon from killing the 8+8 monsters; I got it after I killed the boss (without the tablet quest). It's one of those "kill 8 of these and 8 of those", and I after I did it the quest changed to "kill the boss". So you need to kill the boss, but you do not need the tablet.

Collect Celestones and Fragments. "Gem Merchant"s trade them into Mirage Stones, which are used to upgrade equipment. Never done it, though. Another cash shop thing, since you can buy materials there. Obviously nobody would buy them if they just dropped all the time :-) But as you said, it's possible to collect them.…

Look here.

Same happened to me --- I just dumped everything I got and didn't wear on the NPCs. It's really bad game design, but the monsters reduce their drop rate as the level difference grows. So levelling alchemy now means I have to farm for materials forever :-( Add the super-annoying harvesting (been flying around forever…

And while we're at it, don't leave your pet out when you're not fighting anything. It will just need feeding without being of any use.

You have to stick to what the quest says. When it starts, the quest tells you to get the sprite from some monsters. Go kill those monsters until you get the sprite --- this can take a while, so make sure you're killing the correct type. After you got the sprite as a monster quest drop, the quest will change and tell you to…

Welcome to the world of F2P quests :-) And don't worry, those quests will start to look really great once you get to the dragon quests. Sometimes you'll also be offered "One Man Army" quests for the same monsters --- I always check the available OMA quests after getting new quests for any matches. There's also the classic…

Well, "thoughts on races"? They are all standard MMO"RP"G, except maybe for Venomancers --- so far, not a lot of games I've played had a summoner of some sort. And summoners generally have a disadvantage when it comes to parties --- they are designed as solo classes. PW added the pulling stunt, though. In addition, for…

What kind of answer do you expect on something that's the official Perfect World International forum? And considering that it's free2play, you can just download it for free, make an account for free, and play it as much as you want for free. If you don't like it, just leave and go back to WoW.

Yeah, I'm not exactly sure where it comes from, but Perfect World seems to cause the impression for quite a few people that new skills just pop out of nowhere. You actually have to buy them from the class trainer. You also need to buy the upgrades. Skills cost money and spirit, with spirit being another type of "exp" that…

I don't know :-) I'm levelling all of it for a bit (not very far yet), but started with Apothecary. Stuff needs an insane amount of materials though, so the original hope of having "unlimited" mana... no can do. So right now, nothing looks really attractive. Cage = Cash shop Hay: look here No, they don't keep that. You…

It seems that the base stats are fixed, but when I was levelling from 1 to 2 I got both one and two star items (not on the tailor though, but currently I attribute this to bad luck) --- the two stars being better. There's also a chance for items getting magic properties. So, there's luck involved :-) And you can probably…

This might be a stupid question, but did you try repairing the item? Items found off monsters start with 50% durability.

Yeah, 19 is the technical requirement, but it only works if you team up with a high level and stick to his instructions. IF he lets you help --- I just tell people to only attack when and what I do if they want to, or to stay passive. If you want to make a party of people around your level and work your way through it,…

If "grotto" is the FB19 instance dungeon, then those higher levels were actually acting as a team (I've been able to solo these FB19 things for a whie now, so there's obviously no need to go in with a group of high levels). Think about it: with the distribution set on random (which does not affect the drops itself, it just…