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Planned IGN : Zhèngyì Jiàn (正义剑 -> justice sword (correct me if i m wrong plz))

The name sounds like Ekin Cheng, a veteran actor/singer from Hong Kong.

Sorry, Weaponsmith is blacksmith. Will you be able to replace Weaponsmith with tailor please? Thanks!

My main is still herbalist, so I will do a pass on items/recipes that other members require for their manufacturing. If there are spares, then I will roll on them for my alts.

Wow! Pleasantly surprised by the forum action when I came back from my holidays. I will be sniffing out Chinese webbies for AoW guides for now. Will translate them when I find any treasure.

Forum Name: Capriken
Planned IGN: WangCongYang (main)
School: Wudang
Manufacture: Herbalist
Culture: Go

Planned IGN: LinChaoYing
School: Wanderer
Manufacture: Cook
Culture: Music

Planned IGN: MeiJue
School: Emei
Manufacture: Goldsmith
Culture: na

Planned IGN: SunWuKong
School: Shaolin
Manufacture: Blacksmith
Culture: na

Planned IGN: LanFengHuang
School: Tangmen
Manufacture: Poisonmaker
Culture: na

Planned IGN: HuangYaoShi
School: Scholar
Manufacture: Weaponsmith
Culture: na

茅寒星 = Mohan Singh?

Wtf!? Did you use Google or something LOL. Chinese name turns into a.... I dunno, Sikh/Punjabi name.

LoL! Of course not, I used to irritate my wife by constantly translating Chinese names into English equivalents.

茅寒星 = Mohan Singh?

Simple explanation of the function of various guild buildings:

Treasury: Active members can withdraw a fixed amount of gold from this area.

Council Hall: Able to declare war or cease-fire.

Library: A place to upgrade life-skills of members. Able to purchase training manuals for life-skills.

Guild Warehouse: Stockpile of resources and materials for upgrading of buildings.

Main Hall: Required for dissemination of news for guild.

Training Hall: To learn guild formation and fighting skills.

Recruitment Hall: To recruit NPCs to defend the guild territory.

Meditation Chamber: To channel meridian and improve channeling. (Meridian system was not activated in CBT1)

Guild Vault: Storage of rare items.

Invention Room: To upgrade traps and mechanisms for use in guild wars.

Perhaps each person can focus on either mining or woodcutting, so the energy will be conserved into one particular area. Currently the figures are just a ballpark figure as I am not sure of the total number of actives in the guild. Similarly the escort missions can be done at 2 per day, with more at individual discretion.

TP disruption via PK is rampant in CN version, that is why they settle for city training or training within the medicine hall (respawn point). There is a table breakdown for the different environment bonus at http://forum.mmosite.com/thread/2/263/20120525/Introduction_to_Age_of_Wulin_Growing_Your_Character-4fbf60764d38d2e13-1.html.

It may be due to the patch the NA side is testing on. Nevertheless, we can keep to the higher number to be on the safe side.

It seems like Cave environment is the most suitable for different schools to train together. So far I have only seen Cave environment in Shaolin but never on Wudang (although it is claimed to be 590 130 in Wudang).

Has anyone come across Cave environment?

Perhaps we can come together for TP at GMT+8 7pm (GMT+1 12pm, PST 3am) everyday. To be fair, we can rotate schools for practice location as different places give different bonus.

As of now, gathering mats for the upgrade is not as important as getting to guild level 2 to purchase a territory. That will require 50 popularity points, which is tabulated by the total number of active hours of the members in the guild. For starters, the guild mats required for level 1 main hall is roughly 650 iron ingot, 320 copper ingots, 650 cedar wood, 320 cypress wood. Let us say that there are only 10 active members, so each member has to contribute 65 iron ingot (130 iron mine), 32 copper ingot (64 copper mine), 65 cedar wood, 32 cypress wood. Technically speaking it will take only 2 hours of farming to get that goal. Unbound silver will be not so much of a concern at the current level.

Next will be running escort missions in order to improve guild funds. It will be best to farm mats and run these escort missions early in the game as there are little or no offline patrols for spying and no 80k cult pts for TP. If each person runs 15 escort a day, we will easily hit the goal for escort daily too.

http://9yin.duowan.com/1110/182259478313.html

There are a total of 5 levels for Guild atm.

The initial cost for setting up of Guild is 5 Silver (not Silver Coins).

When 4 members successfully joins the Guild within 3 days after setting up, it will be an official guild. If not, it will be disbanded.

When guild popularity hits 50, and there is 20 Liang Silver in the guild funds, the Guild Leader must approach the Guild Administrator to upgrade the guild to level 2.

Guild popularity is the sum of all the number of active hours per character within the guild. Therefore, if there are 50 members in the guild, and each played for a full hour, the guild popularity will hit 50 in an hour.

I will follow-up with a post explaining about the function of the various buildings after I finish doing house chores.

All members must have the formation in order to activate it. 

Konoka, gaelyoh33, Mion and I (WangCongYang) went as a four-man team into the common mode instance yesterday evening.

The AI is really bugged for the first part, so you have to lure the hostile mobs to the side without delay. The villagers tend to over-estimate their abilities, so keep the hostile mobs out of their sight.

The first boss is really a pain in the ass as he will gain stackable buffs that will one-shot you if you use normal attacks while he blocks. If you see the yellow icon on his buff indicator area (which means he is blocking), you should use feint attacks to break defense instead. Everyone using feint attacks will result in a fast fight because feint attacks deal damage anyway. If everyone keeps activating his buff ability, it will result in tank getting one-shot many times. Other things to consider are like dodging when he shows an ability with a cast-bar, and not to drag him too far away from his original spawn point (because he will reset).

The second part that involved dousing the flames was a little cryptic at first but we manage to get it in the end. We took longer than a 6 man team as we only had 3 (Mion went afk lol). Thus we went in to fight the second boss with only 3 members.

Third part involved clearing the area of corrupted officials, and I think I was infected by the "Villagers' Syndrome" of overestimating my abilities. By this time Mion was back in action, but I trained too many mobs (15++) and was mauled to death. Apologies to Konoka and Mion as they perished in the sea of mobs after I went down. On the other hand, gael used his Wudang Yin-Yang sword skills to rush to our spawn point with 4 mobs hot on his heels.

We had to call it a day after we cleared those mobs as we all had stuff to do irl. Perhaps we should do it again today, hopefully with a 6 man team lol!

Some important information on Team Practice:

a. 100% fatigue means you cannot do TP for that day.

b. People may disrupt your training by attacking you. So a lot of people practice in the city area or revive points (Medicine Hall).


TP Locations:

Wudang:
a. Mountain: 418 75
b. Cave: 590 139

Emei:
a. Waterfall: 353 215 (Note: You have to jump down the cliff after the Medicine Hall, don't die!)

Beggar Sect:
a. Forest: 390 390

Not sure about the other schools, probably others can chip in.