Sunday, January 23, 2011

Character Promotion

Character Promotion is the system by which characters level up beyond level 100. You cannot gain experience beyond level 100 without first promoting your characters.
Each stage of promotion requires an appropriate Scroll from the Cash Shop (NOTE: Veteran Promotion scroll can now be purchased in the Feso shop); Promotion Scroll: Veteran to level up to Veteran, Promotion Scroll: Expert to promote to Expert, etc. To promote yourself, speak to a Master in the Master Room of any major City with the Promotion Scroll in your inventory. Allocate your stat points using the little arrows on your character menu alt+E (see Points at Vet and Expert for what to spend your points on). If you want to change your point allocation later you will have to use a Cash Shop item, Memoirs: Veteran, to reallocate.


After promotion, your Experience bar changes to show more detail. Every 100% on your Experience Bar corresponds to one Level, which is 10% of the way to your next promotion. However, the Levels displayed on your exp bar are a little confusing.
"Veteran Lv. 1" means you are Level 100. "Veteran Lv. 7" means you are level 106. "Veteran Lv. 9" means you are level 108. And "Veteran Lv. 10" means you are level 109. You need to get to 100% Veteran Lv. 10 to promote to Expert. The same idea will go for Expert and Master levels.

Veteran:
Promotion Bonus +1AR, +1 DR, 10 stat points
Veteran LevelRangeCharacter Level
10%~99.9%100
20%~99.9%101
30%~99.9%102
40%~99.9%103
50%~99.9%104
60%~99.9%105
70%~99.9%106
80%~99.9%107
90%~99.9%108
100%~99.9%109
10100.0%110

Expert: Promotion Bonus +2AR, +2 DR, 10 stat points
Expert LevelRangeCharacter Level
10%~99.9%110
20%~99.9%111
30%~99.9%112
40%~99.9%113
50%~99.9%114
60%~99.9%115
70%~99.9%116
80%~99.9%117
90%~99.9%118
100%~99.9%119
10100.0%120

Master: Promotion Bonus +?AR, +?DR, 10 stat points
Master LevelRangeCharacter Level
10%~99.9%120
20%~99.9%121
30%~99.9%122
40%~99.9%123
50%~99.9%124
60%~99.9%125
70%~99.9%126
80%~99.9%127
90%~99.9%128
100%~99.9%129
10100.0%130

High Master - Level 130 to 140
Grand Master - Level 140 to 150

Your first step after allocating your Vet Points could be obtaining Veteran Stances; you can get those if you take the necessary items to the "Master NPC's" in any of the cities Master Room.

Here's the list of the required items for some of the vet stances:

  • Sidewinder - 50 mega aidanium + rare book of combat
  • Avant Garde - 50 mega etretanium + rare book of combat
  • The Defender - 50 mega ionium + rare book of combat
  • Stave Guard - 50 mega ionium + rare book of combat
  • Incantation - 50 mega ionium + rare book of magic
  • Anathema - 50 mega aidanium + rare book of magic
  • Close Encounters - 50 mega aidanium + rare book of gunshot
  • Domination Fire - 50 mega ionium + rare book of magic
  • Domination Ice - 50 mega aidanium + rare book of magic
  • Domination Lightning - 50 mega etretanium + rare book of magic
Other Vet stances can be bought in Bahamar, New Opoluto for 25 Mysterious Powders. For Experts, there are Expert Stances available from Emilia in Port of Coimbra after conclusion of the Errac questline.

Other perks of promotion include being able to wear gear that is exclusive to your promotion level.