[Guide] How to pick the correct sects for your meridien

[bladehamster]

1)如何开通经脉：
　　学习坐忘功之后可开通所有九条经脉，每条经脉可以修炼至9周天（目前只能开通三条经脉。）
　　2)如何激活经脉：
　　开通的经脉需要激活才能生效(类似内功需要运功)，每个角色最多可同时激活3条经脉，完成掌门任务后(二内开启的服务器才可接取)可以增加至4条(最多可同时激活4条，让4条经脉的属性对自己的属性加成)
　　3)如何提高经脉上限：
　　门派1内修炼至25层时，会开通一个穴位，此穴位开通后可使对应一条经脉的可修炼上限提升至36周天(1内练到25层，这条经脉就可以练到36层)。在修炼至2内20层、3内20层时会分别开通第2，3个穴位，使对应经脉的可修炼上限提升至72，108周天(2内练到20层，这条经脉就可以练到72层。。3内练到20层，这条经脉就可以练到108层)
　　4)什么是武技：
　　开通指定穴位后可获得武技点，消耗武技点可解锁武技槽，用于放置被动武技。目前共开放24个武技，武技可以取消2个技能之间的公共CD(比如：太祖长拳翻天劈地后接进步冲锤，消耗武技点开启后，使用翻天劈地之后进步冲锤不需要读公共CD，接近于两个技能同时使用，使招式与招式之间更加流畅。)
　　首先，大家每个角色都有9条经脉：



　　大家可以看到，除了江湖经脉，其他8条门派经脉，都有加气血和内力，其他属性有所不同
　　而江湖经脉的大部分属性，是8条门派经脉没有的(招架耐力、招架耐力回复、气血回复、内力回复)
　　那么如何选择适合自身的经脉呢?
　　那就要看你是用什么样的套路。
　　比如：
　　1. 使用君子堂逍遥腿法，逍遥腿法为内功伤害、内功命中。这时就可以选择激活极乐谷经脉、君子堂经脉、丐帮经脉、江湖经脉或武当经脉。这4条经脉都是对内功伤害进行加成!
　　2. 使用唐门金蛇刺，金蛇刺为外功伤害、外功命中。这时就可以选择激活唐门经脉、锦衣卫经脉、少林经脉、峨眉经脉或江湖经脉。这4条经脉都是对外功伤害进行加成!

　　选择经脉的唯一原则就是，你使用什么样的套路，就选择什么样的经脉!
　　目前已知获得真气最快的方法是：
　　1. 打战场
　　2. 做刺探
　　貌似打战场赢一场都是几万几万的真气。

Will be translated later

[bladehamster]

1） How to initiate Meridien
Once you already learnt Self-Recollection Internal skill, you already fulfill the requirement to open all 9 jingmai
Every jingmai can trained to 9 cycles. (Currently only 3 meridiens opened)

2) How to activate 1 meridian
The meridien has to be activated, currently only 3 can be activated at one time. (Similar to neigong, which only 1 can be activated). Once 2nd neigong is opened to public, completing the sect quests enables the activation of 4 meridiens at one time.

3) How to train the meridien
Sect 1NG 25lvl, opens a acupoint
When it is opened, u can train the meridien to 36 cycles
Sect 2NG 20lvl, opens a acupoint again,
When it is opened, u can train the meridien to 72 cycles
Sect 3NG 20lvl, opens a acupoint again,
When it is opened, u can train the meridien to 108 cycles

4） What is meridien skill
When you open acupoint, you get wugong points, when u consume these points, you unlock the special skills bar for meridian. These skill slots allow you to put active skills.
A total of 24 skills are opened currently.
Because the activation of these skills have no cool-down, this is where the advantage is.

[bladehamster]

From the chart in the 1st post, other than the jianghu meridian, all the sects' meridien
adds to life/energy. In addition, Jianghu meridian has things which all sects don't have, like parry effectiveness, parry endurance recovery, HP regen, mana regen)

So how to you choose what sect meridien you are going to practice?
It depends on your skills, e.g.

1) If you are scholar, and love to use the leg, since the skill uses internal damage, depends on internal accuracy, so you can choose WV, Scholar, Gaibang, Jianghu OR wudang as your meridiens. In this way
your neigong damage will increase by alot, since all these sects meridiens add to neigong damage.

2) If you are tangmen, and use dagger, which depends on external damage, and external accuracy.
So you choose Tangmen, RG, Shaolin, Emei OR Jianghu meridien.
These sects' meridiens increase external damage by alot.

Basically, what skills you love, check their type of damage, then choose the meridien accordingly.

Currently, to increase the power of your meridien, the best way is:
　　1. Enter battlefield
　　2. Do spy missions

Currently winning battlefield gets tens of thousands of meridien points

[capriken]

Translated the table provided by Zhan.Zhao

[LilCabbage]

Here's a good place to read up on Meridian system in English.

http://forum.mmosite.com/thread/2/263/20120819/Introduction_to_Meridian_System-5031d06e521f6d013-1.html

It shows the stats for all sects 108 cycles meridian as well
To make things easier, I'm gonna copy and paste the 108 cycles over here for each sect.

Shaolin Meridian 108 Cycle
Physical Hit Rate + 38
Crit Resist + 43
Vitality + 17
Rou Def + 114
HP + 775
MP + 129
Received Crit Damage Reduction + 4%

Scholar Meridian 108 Cycle
Inner Crit Rate + 29
Inner Hit Rate + 38
Ignore Inner Defence + 95
Yin Def + 114
HP + 754
MP + 144
Ignore Inner Dissolution + 4

Tangmen Meridian 108 Cycle
Physical Crit Rate + 29
Evasion + 76
Agility + 11
Yang Def + 114
HP + 727
MP + 162
Physical Crit Damage + 7%

Wudang Meridian 108 Cycle
Phyical Crit Rate + 29
Inner Crit Rate +29
Inner Strength +17
Sturdiness + 17
HP +749
MP +147
Inner Dissolution +4

Emei Meridian 108 Cycle
Physical Hit Rate + 57
Evasion + 57
Inner Defence + 24
Ignore Inner Defence + 72
HP + 714
MP + 170
MP Recovery Interval Reduction+4%

Royal Guard Meridian 108 Cycle
Physical Crit Rate + 29
Physical Hit Rate + 38
HP Recovery + 23
Gang Defence + 114
HP + 775
MP + 129
HP Recovery Interval Reduction + 4%

Beggar Meridian 108 Cycle
Inner Hit Rate + 76
Inner Crit Rate + 29
Arm Strength + 6
Inner Dissolution + 9
HP + 738
MP + 154
Received Crit Damage Reduction + 4%

Blissful Valley Meridian 108 Cycle
Crit Resist + 43
Inner Hit Rate + 19
Ignore Inner Def + 72
Ignore Inner Dissolution + 9
HP + 692
MP + 185
Inner Crit Damage + 7%

No credits go to me but the original author of the original post.

[LilCabbage]

This post is written by myself based on my understanding and it might be wrong.

To find out which sect's inner you should focus on first:

1. Find out if the skill set you're using the most / plan to use as main belongs to external or inner dmg. To do that, move your mouse cursor over the skills in the skill set and read the description. Usually it will read "deals xxx external damage or deals xxx yin/yang/hard/softness damage (either one of the four)".

Needless to say, external damage means that skill is external, whereas any of the four elements would mean inner. Some skill sets (Wudang's Taiji Sword for example) have a combination of both external and inner skills within one skill set. You've to determine which skills are more important and frequently used and work in the direction (either inner or external).

2. Once you've decided on going external or inner, refer to my previous post and select the corresponding sect's inner skills to match your choice.

3. If you've two skillsets which you want to use, one external, the other inner, it is also possible to learn 2 inner and 2 external meridian. Similarly, if you're using a skillset with both external and inner damage, you can also choose 2 inner and 2 external meridian.

4. All in all, the option is yours since it's your character and there's no definite fixed way of playing it. One might even choose Jianghu meridian for the unique hp/mp recovery rate which is absent in all other sects meridian.

Once again, the above is based purely on my understanding, which could be terribly wrong since I DO NOT play in CN servers. Heed at your own risk 

[capriken]

Hey guys, just wanted to point out that you only need 1ng25 of the particular school to activate its respective meridian. Thereafter it becomes 2ng20, 3ng20, so on and so forth.

So don't over-train if all you want is to activate a meridian.

Furthermore, internal damage will become more and more important due to the fact that everyone has high external defence when they reach 3NG

[capriken]

Updated the table in Reply#3 of the thread with the value of effects.

NB: Currently Jianghu meridian is only up to 36 cycles while the School meridians are up to 108 cycles.

[phyllisgal]

meaning it is recommended to learn other school NG now so when the function unlocked we can have more buff to stats immediately?

[Mion]

meaning it is recommended to learn other school NG now so when the function unlocked we can have more buff to stats immediately?

More like recommended to learn other school NG now so that you can immediately start training cycles in the Meridians you chose when this function is unlocked. Also, another reason to learn other school's NG now is that other school's NG market price will skyrocket when Meridian is activated.

[capriken]

It will become so bad that you cannot find Basic (Level 1 - 9) internal skill books in the market that is of reasonable price....and as a result, the advanced and intermediate books become slightly cheaper.

[capriken]

As of January 2013, AoW in China has updated the meridian system to be able to activate 8 meridians at once.

What does that mean?

Getting the NG of all schools will be the ultimate goal besides uber skills and equipment.