English Newbie Guide – Part 1

[Darth Shugar]

As of now, I assumed the game development is still progressing and updating. Its not a completed version. Thus, using Fist or Sword is still the best for the current version. After grinding and testing for more than 200 hours, these are my two cents.

Go for Hell mode. It’s not that difficult. It’s more fun. Plus, you get to have max 4 talents. At first, you can only choose max 3 and be able to lock 1 as you are rolling for it. But as you play the game, and more achievement made, you will unlock max 4 talents, and able to lock 2. Plus, you will unlock Yellow Grade talent as well. I managed to unlock:
自愈体质 – Self Healing Physique: Double the restoring effect from skills. (Forgot which achievement to unlock this)
圣贤传人 – Sage Successor: All your 6 Values (Benevolence, Righteousness, Wisdom, Courage, Loyalty, Credit) will be 100 from the start. (Unlock this talent when your previous game all these Values reached 100)
财大气粗 – Rich Power: Every g1000 you have, you dealt 1 extra damage. Up to 250. (Unlock this talent when your previous game collected total of g100,000)

And as you achieve more achievement, you get more attribute points to allocate.

I start of with these:
Attributes:
Strength: 6 (I go for 6 because you will gain 3 points extra by lumbering, mining, and fishing respectively, when you reach a certain level of these skills. And it’s achievable in early game as well). Now the total is 9. Then when you travel to ChuXiang City, and as you reach the wine tavern, a scenario will pop up. Either choosing to treat the guy with the specific wine (which you can buy it in LinAn City wine tavern for g1000) and receive a +10 Fist attribute item (only able to use when you reach 100 Fist) OR choose to pay for drinks together for g1000 (to get +1 Strength pill. I go for the pill, so my Strength is 10 and able to get the bonus stats.

Stamina: 10 (I go for 10 because all this while, there seems to be no other way for me to get Stamina points in the game).

Agility: 1 (I go for 1 because as you are running in the game, you will gain points. I managed to gain 3 points so far, so wonder it may up to 10 as I keeps on running while playing the game). Plus, there are talents and skill tree that can substitute my low Agility.

Intelligent: 10 (You will be able to learn martial arts way faster. And it affects your teammates too). If you go for Sword, and wanted to join the 琅琊剑阁 Langya Sword Pavilion sect, then you need high intelligent, because one of your seniors will only pass his Purple Grade sword art to you if your intelligent is more than 6 or 9, I forgot. The only downside of having Intelligent 10 I came across so far is that you’re not able to get the Yellow Grade Ultimate skill art from the Stone Pillar, in your starting newbie forest hunting ground, where the red boar is guarding. But you will be compensated with a Yellow Grade experience scroll. If you prefer to have this Ultimate skill, your Intelligent point set at 1. Other numbers I did not try, but Intelligent 1, you’ll be able to get this Ultimate skill just by touching the Stone Pillar.

Luck: 1 (Doesn’t need to add anything on this, you will be able to get it up to 10 easily in the game). Go to ChuXiang City and touch the Hero statue. First, is the kowtow scenario, make sure your stamina is 100, and your health is about 250. After nonstop kowtow for 100 times, you will get a Purple Grade sword. Then the second scenario is to pray at the statue, again make sure your stamina is 100 – 130 (finish 100, eat some fish for another 30), you will up your Luck attributes to 10.

Talents:
These are the talents I always roll for it. It’s useful.
Yellow Grade:
万里独行 – Lone Travel for Thousand Miles: every battle you’ll get extra +25 qi energy, with every member in the team will reduce -5. (This will make your actions faster; you’ll be able to hit enemies first and few more times)
天煞孤星 – Lone Star: Combat experience gained x 3 and your damage is doubled. (You can level up damn fast. You need it, because the higher level you are, the easier as you progress)
神行无忌 – Bravery: You gained +2 extra squares to move in battle. (Which is good where you can move farther) If you not yet unlock 自愈体质 – Self Healing Physique, I recommend getting this instead.

If you only can max 3 talents at the moment, then the last one I recommend getting this Purple talent instead. The best so far for me.
身如鬼魅 – Ghostly Body: +20 qi energy at all times. (You’ll be damn fast now together with your Lone Star).

Items:
You can select up to 3 items to start with. Select gifts instead on pills. You doesn’t need pills at all from the start. I recommend:
粗茶 – Rough Tea
大海碗 – Ocean Bowl
绮红小史 – Red Novel
Why? Because The Rough Tea is to gain favorability with the doctor to get Healing attribute. Choosing option 1 when you talk to the doctor will gain Healing attribute +5. If you choose option 2, you will only get a sickle. Up the favorability to 50 with the Rough Tea. Progress his scenario first, until you give him the Yellow Grade mushroom that you found in the forest, and subsequently he will join your team. Get him on board, so you can get his internal martial art, 调息法: Internal Healing. This internal martial art is damn useful for you from starting to mid game. Every battle action will regain internal energy up to 35. You will never run out of internal energy.

Then, you need the Ocean Bowl to increase favourability with the Hunter that you met in the forest to get the taming skill and the story line that leads to Yang family hero character. And you will need the Yellow Grade mushroom you found from the forest to heal his sickness as well. So, remember not to use that item on yourself. No worries, you can find 2 Yellow Grade mushroom in the forest. Since, you met him in the forest earlier, so give him all the Ocean Bowl to up favourability to 50 and get a quest to fix his bow. When you go to the village, visit the Blacksmith for this quest. You need to buy a dog meat from the Butcher guy for the Blacksmith to fix the bow. After fixing his bow, will lead to another scenario where he needs the Yellow Grade mushroom for his sickness. Your teammate with the doctor, will proceed on healing him. No need to recruit him, he already passes you his Blue Grade spear martial art. I haven’t come across future scenario that required him.

After this, he will have another scenario where he needs to have a Ground Wine to drink. Can buy it from SiLiang in the Tavern. This will lead to his Yang family line story telling. (Yang Hero is in the Granary Camp, ChuXiang City). You can proceed with this quest later, no need to buy the Ground Wine as of now. If you got the money, then go ahead. And you can leave your doctor teammate as well.

Now the Red Novel is for the Story Telling guy that stand in front of the Tavern. Give him all the Novel you had and proceed to his quest of getting SiLiang’s handkerchief. Buy 10 make ups item from the seller that carrying two buckets. Then proceed to the Tavern to meet SiLiang. But before that, make sure you have g500 on you to tigger a scenario at 12pm – 4pm as you enter the Tavern.

Note: You must be wondering where to get so much money? Sell your stuffs. You don’t need at all at this stage. Sell your meats to the Butcher, animal skins to the Hunter. When you have your tools and able to farm, then sell your tree branches to the Lumberjack, herbs and worms to the Doctor, and save last to sell your ores to the Blacksmith. Keep on selling your loots. You don’t need those loots at this stage.

So back to the g500 to enter the Tavern at 12pm – 4pm. You will trigger a scenario with the Ye family daughter. Treat her meals g500, and she will pass you a Purple Grade item. Which only can be identified as your Identification level is higher or from a certain NPC. Then proceed to SiLiang, up favourability to 50, and get her handkerchief. Pass to the Story Telling guy to complete the quest and can add him to teammate to get his Blue Grade Fist martial art. Leave him as of now and try to up the favourability until you get his Talking skill. This Talking skill is useful as not to insult the Prince in ChuXiang City when you first saw the Hero Statue.

You can proceed to trigger the World Event quest before you progress with the 3 days’ time limit quest in the Temple. About 8am – 4pm, on the map you can proceed to Northwest from the village. To open up an area and trigger a scenario with the Ye family daughter again and the World Event story telling guy. After the fight together with Ye family daughter, take the Northeast road, that leads to an R&R station that sells food and some wines. Here you will meet a mysterious guy, and you need to buy Wines to up his favorability.

After you complete your 3 days’ time limit quest from the Temple, come back here to up the favorability to 100. It will trigger a fight with a lot of enemies surrounding you and the mysterious guy. Do not let him die. After the battle is won, he will give you 3 maps. Each map is a location for treasure in 3 cities. Each treasure will have g10,000 + other goodies. So you will have lots of monies to move around.

If you wield sword, you can proceed to the village and complete the Blacksmith quest to bring him to Langya Sword Pavilion. And you will join the sect automatically. If you’re Fist, then you can proceed to ChuXiang city to trigger the tavern scenario as stated above. It will leads to scenario in LinAn city, and DaLiang city, and then you will be accepted into the 道玄踪 : Dao Temple. But first you must up your Benevolence Value to 80. You can gain it by getting more teammates favourability up or NPC favourability up in those cities. No worries, by the time you did that and reach DaLiang, you most probably already 80 in Benevolence.

[Zephyr]

To be more precise:

First of all, it's very important when you reach the Nameless Village by day to talk to Bao Dating and ask him multiple times about rumors. He has a pool of rumors which he will sadly, cycle through, some are very important as they unlock stuff, others are less important to downright useless. Among the almost mandatory ones:
-Bao will talk about, I think the name is, Laliang temple, a place where a man lives who does mediation between sects. The location is unlocked by listening to the rumor. As the rumor for it is VERY random it's very easy for new players to miss it as you can have to talk to him for 10 good minutes without getting the right rumor even if you know what you want. This temple is quite important because it has a chest which contain an XP scroll giving a lot of xp early on, speeding up the learning process of martial arts greatly, and boosting your level. You want both.
-He will talk about a Crossroad in the north west, opening a location. More on that in a bit.
-He will talk about a glowing text appearing in the dillapided temple. This text will only be accessible once the intro girl you chose to help is gone(after the 3 days duration and the combat of you helping her). It's a purple level fist martial art. Even if you don't use it yourself(as in, you don't use fists), your allies will benefit from it.
-Optionnal that you don't need, Bao will also reveal the bandit camp location. You don't want to go there until the "end" of your stay at the Nameless Village, more on that too

About the free stat point:
Going to the Crossroad during the day will trigger a scene where the story teller at this location is reading a story, and bandits attack the audience. It is important to note that this particular scene, and not an other, will play ONLY if you haven't wiped the bandits yet, so it's VERY important to not touch the bandits until you have gotten it. If you fail to trigger it because you were rushing your training with the Old Man and went to wipe the bandit camp as soon as he asks, it will play a different scene if you go there, and this one WON'T give you a stat point.

The scene you want will have you meet Ye Yinping, and you will feel a bit scared about the confrontation. You will have plenty of dialogue choices like "Looks intimidating", "Try to look innocent so they don't bother you", etc. Each one is assosciated to a stat, and you will get a stat point that matches your answer. If possible try the option to look scary/intimidating/brave for strength, but you can also go for others that give dex or con. Those are the 3 important stats in my opinion, but I would say strength is probably the most important.

About the treasure:
First you need to rescue the bandit in the lost forest, he will attack you, forcing you to beat him up, but he will reveal the rumor about the treasure. After that, right of the Elder house, there is a bunch of stacks of wood(not trees, stacks of wood). One has even a axe sitting on it. Going into combat, you can use techniques on them and break them. Behind is a chest which you need to crack or open with a key(if possible, ALWAYS crack chests, it trains machinery, and you want it maxed asap). This contains the treasure map. The spot marked on the map is at the left, a clearing with 4 boars in it, right next to where you met the brigand(there is also a chest under it, next to a tree you can cut wood from). It contains 1500 gold, which is useful for multiple reasons.

Gold routing and why you need plenty:
You are going to need a bunch of gold because you want to give gift to some people in order to recruit them or get good prices for them, and in general make the village love you for a reward. In no particular order you want:
-To recruit the Doctor, using tea
-To recruit the Hunter, using appliances(bowls)
-To recruit the Innkeeper, using cosmetics(Use the peony you find in the forest as an accessory to boost gift effects)
-To recruit Bao Dating, using romance books. But leave him at the village, he's the worst possible party member of the bunch.
-To get robbed by the beggar for 500 gold, to get a plaster from him, to beat him up, to forgive him, and then to recruit him with food. If you have at least basic cooking, you can also cook for him and will get the roasted potato recipe(but lower innskeeper's affection a bit)
-To follow the blacksmith quest until he asks you to pay his debt. His debt is a whopping 2000 gold! You want to make sure you have enough for that. Thankfully beating the crossroad brigands and completing the fight at the temple will give you a bunch, but you will need more. 1500 golds for the treasure at least will contribute 3/4 of that. Reason why you want to pay his debt, and not have the Innskeeper cancelling it for free, is because paying it will give you an accessory that gives increased lumberjacking XP when worn. Very important to make maxing lumberjacking less of a chore, and the accessory provides 120 attack and defence, which is quite good!
-Making enough people love you in the village, including the Elder, will make him give you a reward and tell you about the secret room under a jar in the left room of his house. He will also, more importantly, give you the key for the main treasure inside, which you absolutely want(those are in limited number in the whole game, Dragon Keys).

The bandit camp:
Having defeated the bandits at the crossroad, wait a bit until the Elder tells you Xiao was kidnapped. Then and only then, should you wipe the camp when the Old Man also tells you to. The battle will be harder there than if you just stormed the camp, as you are trapped inside in the middle of the enemies, but you will get a better reward, as rescuing the kid will raise the opinion of the whole village quite a bit. Also, don't forget to break the crate the boss is sitting on, it has a key in it.

The tree:
As mentioned, the thunder struct tree at the center of the village gives legendary wood when destroyed. If you are a new player, keep that piece of wood around, it will be important later to recruit the best healer in the game. It's not mandatory, but doing her quest prior to recruiting her will give her her best special skill. That wood is less important in future runs as you will have your Homestead maxed, and you can cut some in the mountain at the back of it, which is actually preferable.

The goose:
There is one goose which talks, I think you may need a certain level of Best Tamer to talk to it, but it will challenge you to a fight, and once beat, ask for 5 fishes of blue quality(it will tell you which one). Giving it the fishes gives you the goose feather accessory, boosting fishing xp. The feather also has good stat boosts, being purple level.

It's also worth nothing that maxing a skill is quite important during your first(s) runs as once a skill is maxed once, it will remain maxed in all subsequent playthroughs. This means you won't have to grind them again to max ever again, and get to enjoy the benefits.

[Sigvuld]

Originally posted by Zephyr:

To be more precise:

First of all, it's very important when you reach the Nameless Village by day to talk to Bao Dating and ask him multiple times about rumors. He has a pool of rumors which he will sadly, cycle through, some are very important as they unlock stuff, others are less important to downright useless. Among the almost mandatory ones:
-Bao will talk about, I think the name is, Laliang temple, a place where a man lives who does mediation between sects. The location is unlocked by listening to the rumor. As the rumor for it is VERY random it's very easy for new players to miss it as you can have to talk to him for 10 good minutes without getting the right rumor even if you know what you want. This temple is quite important because it has a chest which contain an XP scroll giving a lot of xp early on, speeding up the learning process of martial arts greatly, and boosting your level. You want both.
-He will talk about a Crossroad in the north west, opening a location. More on that in a bit.
-He will talk about a glowing text appearing in the dillapided temple. This text will only be accessible once the intro girl you chose to help is gone(after the 3 days duration and the combat of you helping her). It's a purple level fist martial art. Even if you don't use it yourself(as in, you don't use fists), your allies will benefit from it.
-Optionnal that you don't need, Bao will also reveal the bandit camp location. You don't want to go there until the "end" of your stay at the Nameless Village, more on that too

About the free stat point:
Going to the Crossroad during the day will trigger a scene where the story teller at this location is reading a story, and bandits attack the audience. It is important to note that this particular scene, and not an other, will play ONLY if you haven't wiped the bandits yet, so it's VERY important to not touch the bandits until you have gotten it. If you fail to trigger it because you were rushing your training with the Old Man and went to wipe the bandit camp as soon as he asks, it will play a different scene if you go there, and this one WON'T give you a stat point.

The scene you want will have you meet Ye Yinping, and you will feel a bit scared about the confrontation. You will have plenty of dialogue choices like "Looks intimidating", "Try to look innocent so they don't bother you", etc. Each one is assosciated to a stat, and you will get a stat point that matches your answer. If possible try the option to look scary/intimidating/brave for strength, but you can also go for others that give dex or con. Those are the 3 important stats in my opinion, but I would say strength is probably the most important.

About the treasure:
First you need to rescue the bandit in the lost forest, he will attack you, forcing you to beat him up, but he will reveal the rumor about the treasure. After that, right of the Elder house, there is a bunch of stacks of wood(not trees, stacks of wood). One has even a axe sitting on it. Going into combat, you can use techniques on them and break them. Behind is a chest which you need to crack or open with a key(if possible, ALWAYS crack chests, it trains machinery, and you want it maxed asap). This contains the treasure map. The spot marked on the map is at the left, a clearing with 4 boars in it, right next to where you met the brigand(there is also a chest under it, next to a tree you can cut wood from). It contains 1500 gold, which is useful for multiple reasons.

Gold routing and why you need plenty:
You are going to need a bunch of gold because you want to give gift to some people in order to recruit them or get good prices for them, and in general make the village love you for a reward. In no particular order you want:
-To recruit the Doctor, using tea
-To recruit the Hunter, using appliances(bowls)
-To recruit the Innkeeper, using cosmetics(Use the peony you find in the forest as an accessory to boost gift effects)
-To recruit Bao Dating, using romance books. But leave him at the village, he's the worst possible party member of the bunch.
-To get robbed by the beggar for 500 gold, to get a plaster from him, to beat him up, to forgive him, and then to recruit him with food. If you have at least basic cooking, you can also cook for him and will get the roasted potato recipe(but lower innskeeper's affection a bit)
-To follow the blacksmith quest until he asks you to pay his debt. His debt is a whopping 2000 gold! You want to make sure you have enough for that. Thankfully beating the crossroad brigands and completing the fight at the temple will give you a bunch, but you will need more. 1500 golds for the treasure at least will contribute 3/4 of that. Reason why you want to pay his debt, and not have the Innskeeper cancelling it for free, is because paying it will give you an accessory that gives increased lumberjacking XP when worn. Very important to make maxing lumberjacking less of a chore, and the accessory provides 120 attack and defence, which is quite good!
-Making enough people love you in the village, including the Elder, will make him give you a reward and tell you about the secret room under a jar in the left room of his house. He will also, more importantly, give you the key for the main treasure inside, which you absolutely want(those are in limited number in the whole game, Dragon Keys).

The bandit camp:
Having defeated the bandits at the crossroad, wait a bit until the Elder tells you Xiao was kidnapped. Then and only then, should you wipe the camp when the Old Man also tells you to. The battle will be harder there than if you just stormed the camp, as you are trapped inside in the middle of the enemies, but you will get a better reward, as rescuing the kid will raise the opinion of the whole village quite a bit. Also, don't forget to break the crate the boss is sitting on, it has a key in it.

The tree:
As mentioned, the thunder struct tree at the center of the village gives legendary wood when destroyed. If you are a new player, keep that piece of wood around, it will be important later to recruit the best healer in the game. It's not mandatory, but doing her quest prior to recruiting her will give her her best special skill. That wood is less important in future runs as you will have your Homestead maxed, and you can cut some in the mountain at the back of it, which is actually preferable.

The goose:
There is one goose which talks, I think you may need a certain level of Best Tamer to talk to it, but it will challenge you to a fight, and once beat, ask for 5 fishes of blue quality(it will tell you which one). Giving it the fishes gives you the goose feather accessory, boosting fishing xp. The feather also has good stat boosts, being purple level.

It's also worth nothing that maxing a skill is quite important during your first(s) runs as once a skill is maxed once, it will remain maxed in all subsequent playthroughs. This means you won't have to grind them again to max ever again, and get to enjoy the benefits.

WOW that was a good writeup, thank you so much!!! I'll keep a lot of this in mind as I play through - going to just roll with the punches for my very first, learn from mistakes and all that, but at the very least I can get some treasures and the like on my first playthrough which'll be really helpful. Especially because of how skills carry over when maxed!

Thank you again! This writeup is fantastic and I really appreciate the effort you put into it, genuinely

[RKAntonni]

tips for stick player? Do you have a stick martial school?

[RKAntonni]

Não tem escola marcial para Bastão? minha conta está lvl 50 porem to achando o bastão meio fraco, não tem como trocar de arma né ?