[Guide] Farming Medals

[capriken]

Source: http://tw.meetgee.com/MiniSite/Topic/View.aspx?ID=2047257&GameID=7832

Medals are considered to be the staple currency besides silver. They are required for access to weekly school tournaments, second and beyond inner skills, and school-specific legendary skills.

There are mainly six ways of obtaining medals (descending order based on cost-effectiveness):
1. Spying: For both main and alts.
2. School War: Only suitable for main characters and not alts.
3. Script Stealing Event (Stealing or Defending): Only suitable for main characters and not alts.
4. Patrolling: Only suitable for main characters and not alts.
5. Forbidden Instances: It seems like only during holidays there are medals as bonus.
6. Gift Pack (from Cash Shop): Exchange 7 medals for 2 gift packs. Only open one gift pack a day. Save the other for the next day. Doing this on a daily basis allows you to have surplus packs to open without the need for exchange.

So in the end, Spying is the most cost-effective in earning medals. If a person does his daily spying quest of completing 5 spying missions, he will earn 140 medals by the end of the week (which will be valid for the exchange of second inner skill entry-level manual). If a person has multiple accounts, he will have more medals as he can pass all medals to his main.

It is critical for characters to have the dashing, wall-climbing and double/triple jumping movement skills to make spying easier.

Below is the 7 step process to optimize the use of the weekly 20 Spying Tally given by the Grandmaster of the school:
1. Accept spying mission from Grandmaster, use the Spying Tally and be teleported to School A Spying NPC. Set your teleport point at School A Spying NPC.
2. Accept the spying quest from the NPC, complete the spying mission, then Break own meridians to get back to School Medicine Hall. Hand-in the mission.
3. Teleport to the School A Spying NPC, accept and complete the mission, then suicide by jumping or drowning to get back to School Medicine Hall. Hand-in the mission. (Break meridians on CD)
4. Use Spying Tally to teleport to NPC, accept and complete the mission, then suicide by jumping or drowning to get back to School Medicine Hall. Hand-in the mission. (Break meridians on CD, Teleport on CD)
5. Use Spying Tally to teleport to NPC, accept and complete the mission, then suicide by jumping or drowning to get back to School Medicine Hall. Hand-in the mission. (Break meridians on CD, Teleport on CD)
6. Teleport to the School A Spying NPC, accept and complete the mission, then Break own meridians to get back to School Medicine Hall. Hand-in the mission.
7. Rinse and repeat the next day for another school.

Some people might question the basis of spying the same school 5 times in a day as the weekly task only requires 4 times of the same school. The advantage here is that this is a fixed and stable routine that uses only 3 Spying Tally to complete the daily task of completing 5 spying missions. Furthermore the 20 Spying Tally can last all the way to the end of the week before reset.

So how to suicide when Break own meridians is on CD?
Being killed by mobs and players will have a silver penalty, so the best way is to jump off cliffs or drown.
The following are the optimized ways of suicide based on location:
1. Wudang: Jumping off the cliff.
2. Shaolin: Jumping off the cliff.
3. Emei: Jumping off the cliff, but must aim for ground as there are too many bodies of water. Drown if not possible to hit the ground.
4. Tangmen: Jumping off the cliff, but must aim for ground as there are too many bodies of water. Drown if not possible to hit the ground.
5. Wanderer: Jumping into the fiery chasm is the best choice.
6. Royal Guard: Without wall climbing skill, suicide is not easy here.
7. Scholar: Finding a building to jump off is going to be challenging.
8. Beggar: Terrain is too flat. Get the help of mob to die will be best.

Note on exchanging medals for inner skill scripts:
There is a Jianghu Influence requirement besides having the required amount of medals.
Second Inner: Minimum 30'000 Jianghu Influence.
Third Inner: Minimum 70'000 Jianghu Influence.

For Alts, just following the main story will net you 10'000 Jianghu Influence.

The cost-effective way of getting influence is by farming Twilight Village as each completion yields around 3'000 influence.

Another cheapo way to gain influence is to apprehend wanted criminals through multi-clienting. Let alt kidnap and main apprehend.

[phyllisgal]

Thanks for sharing the usage of Spying Tallys was finding to find the web through the chinese forums but cannot find hehe

[Mion]

Try not to use suicide skill or suicide when someone is chasing you. As long as they land the final hit while in patrol mode, they will get your intelligence.