PVE Accessory Stones

There are special stones that only go into your rings and necklace that you can make by buying the agents from Jane Morningstar.

Skycrystals offer extra heal affect


Chromoshards offer you slower wrath decrease (you will hold your wrath longer)



Stormstones offer extra PVE intensity


To make the stones, just have the gems in your bag and get the agent from Jane.

 Right-click the agent and you will get the stone. Pretty easy. These pve stones can be combined just like regular gems with the regular fusion agents.

The agents, no matter the level are 1g each (trade gold). I've done the math and it's cheaper to make level 3 pve stones and make them lv4 using the regular agents than it is making the lv4 gems and them turning them into the lv4 pve stones.

To make 4 lv4 gems costs 60g. to make these into a level 4 pve stone is 1 gold. Total of 61g.
To make 4 lv3 pve stones is 4g. Then to make them a lv4 pve stone is 15g. Total of 20g.
That's pretty big savings.
And to make those lv4 pve stones into a lv5 costs the agent you get from starlights - so pretty much free. Five lv4 pve stones at 20g is 1d, so each lv5 pve gem will cost you 1d if you make them into pve stones from your lv3 gems.

Advanced Nightmare Carnival Achievements

I just found an achievement for ANC I didn't know about so I thought I'd do a post about ANC achieves!

Here's the new one I found:

I noticed that I had all but the lv60 one. So I figured it was something I had done a few times, and guessed that it was probably talking about the ANC gifts that Porudock sells for the coins.
Yep!

Buy and open each of these gift to complete the achieve!

In the instance there are several achievements that you can get.

1st Room: Get the chess piece to the destination in the amount of moves that the npc calls out to get Chess Master/Precise Planning
2nd Room: Get -100 pts to receive Color Blind/Got the Blues
3rd Room: Kill 7 correct monsters in a row in a round to get Sharp Shooter/7 Kill, No Mistakes
4th Room: Make it to Oiram in 30 seconds or less to get Speed Jumper/Super Oiram

[for the lols, Oiram is Mario spelled backwards, so this is really Super Mario!]

LCS Achievements and Titles

Little known fact that Iruli, one of the npcs on the LCS Daybreaker, has a titles and achieves for learning the skills that she sells. There is a trick to it so make sure to follow the steps exactly.

As you battle on the LCS, you will get courage points for each mob and boss killed. The amount that you get depends partly on the points that the mobs reward, partly on how fast you kill the boss, and partly on how many deaths you have had (more deaths = less points, and all deaths in the party count). You can keep track of the courage that you earned via a meter that pops up on your screen when the instance starts.

Iruli is one of the three npcs on the ship. She has the shop for the skills.

She sells two sets of skills: Melodies and Grimoires. Melodies is the hardest achievement here to complete, so we'll start with the Grimoires.

The Grimoires take less courage to complete at a time, so these are good to do when you don't have the 4793 courage necessary to complete the Melodies.

You don't have to learn all the Grimoire sets in one instance, which also makes these easier than the Melodies. You can learn a row at a time and work on them each time you get an LCS.

You want to make sure that you have 3 spaces open in your bag. Buy the three skills of the grimoire that you want to learn. Make sure that they are in your bag in order! You must learn each of the skills in a set in the order they are (left to right) in the shop menu.

If the last boss is killed, it is very important that you get each of the three in your bag FIRST, make sure they are in order, and then click them to learn them IN ORDER as fast as you can click. Once the last boss is killed, the buff from each level only lasts less than a second, so if you don't learn the next one before the buff from the previous one is gone, you can't learn the next skill - it will tell you that you don't meet the requirements. You can avoid this by learning them while you are still battling things since the buff will remain until the boss is dead.

However, if you have not learned your melodies yet, and it's looking like you might reach the necessary 4793 courage to learn the melodies, you may want to wait to see.

The melodies consist of three sets: Attack, Defense, and Life. To get the achieve, you must learn all three sets in one instance run. Each of the sets costs a little different, but in total, you need 4793 courage to buy them all. (*9/14/18 uodate: Powdy says that you actually only need to buy the very last of each set and use them to get this achieve, so give it a try! -- I did try this and it does let you use the last one. The total points needed for those is 974 for attack, 584 for defense, and 389 for life - 1947 )

I highly recommend that you learn them a whole set at a time so that you don't lose track of what you've already learned and what you still need to learn. Just like the grimoires, if you learn them while the battle is still on, the previous buff remains - AND if you wait until the final boss is killed, you have less than a second to learn the next level of each set.

For both the grimoires and melodies, it doesn't matter which set you learn first, you just need to learn the skills in each set in order.

 

You can check your achievement progress here :

Inferno Kill Quests

mavip4n from Lionheart was kind enough to share this guide in the Forsaken World forum and develichious2 was kind enough to add the title information.

[Although I have it linked, I am copying it here to make it easier to find and in case anything happens to the original thread.]

Cowardice Ghost

This quest in the Order Highlands opens up a daily quest to tell the fairy a fairy tale for 4 war god coins (400 war god pts total).

The mobs in the dungeon hit hard, so use your soul force trinket. Going up and down the stairs to the dungeon is tricky, just remember there is a turn in the stairs. Some people were having trouble getting the "investigate" parts of the quest to clear. Sometimes just hanging out in the area for 30 secs does it, sometimes you have to move all over the place in the area it should complete to get the quest to complete. Hopefully this video will help!

BTW - once you complete this quest, she will have a daily quest starting the following day for the 400 war god :)

Investigate the Dungeon Entrance

This one gave me a bit of trouble. Here's how I got mine to complete, and this worked for some other people too.

Get the quest from the fairy outside the castle. Fly into the castle and look for the stairwell behind the throne. Fly down the stairwell (it turns to the right) and look for the entrance at the bottom. Fly your mount into the doorframe and wait 30-60 secs.

Also, they ask you to investigate the throne. The spot you need is right in front of the throne at floor level, not throne level. I believe you can stay in your flying mount for this.

TIP: When it asks you to kill the mobs in the dungeon, fly all the way to the back of the dungeon. Get extra soul force orbs ready. Land, run into the mobs, and hit your sf. Recharge your sf as fast as you can with the orbs, and sf again. This should give you the amount you need. Run to the back wall before they respawn. Get back in your flying mount and fly out.
You can use a double sf attack for the Undead Lieutenant as well.

Streamlined Guide for New Players

Once you make your character, you may get lost in the sea of things you can do in the game. This guide is to help you get to the core things that will make a difference based on my experience. It's geared more toward pve people who are non-cash shoppers; you may be able to skip/enhance some things via putting money into the game.

Get to the City
Do your quests in the starting area until you are lv20, then go to Nightfall Citadel. You don't really need to complete the starting quests in the starting area; you can come back when you have more time. This is actually an important tip for the entire game - there is a lot of extra stuff to distract you in the game, learn what you can ignore until later so that you have time to do the things that are really important to your character's growth.

Leveling
I used to not recommend speed leveling, but now I recommend speed leveling to at least 85. At 85 you can start pet control training and go to the raids that can win you hero 3 gear directly. Do not level past 100 until you are done with pet training since it breaks at 101. Do not level past 104 until you have all the champ points you need since the higher level challenges don't give champs.

Talent Tree
Once you turn 20 you will get your first talent tree point. All classes have three trees to choose from. You can read the skills in each tree to decide which tree to choose, or check out this chart. I recommend sticking to one tree. Once you know how your character works, you can use a talent compass to make changes to the tree.

Skills
You get some race/class skills automatically, but some you get from getting scrolls to learn them. Ayrshi's Mirage on the airship in the Citadel has all class skills except archer. Archer is lucky enough to have the skills available in their skill menu as they level. The scrolls at Ayrshi are only 10sg, so start opening!

Union Rank
There are three unions and each is for a different set of races. The reps have lots of items including the soulforce trinkets that you can get with enough rank and contribution. These npcs also give you entrance to the training ground where you can get exp by just standing around.


Soulforce Trinket
You get your first one when you pray for the second time (you get prompted to do this fairly shortly in the game - the first prayer gives you gear). This trinket gives you a powerful aoe that helps you wipe out mobs. Eventually when you upgrade this, it also gives you extra stats. You can get better trinkets at your race rep agent. At lv80 you can use Union level and war god pts to buy the upgradable trinket from your rep agent. This trinket can be upgraded via items also bought with war god and union rank at the rep agent. To see what item you need next to upgrade the trinket, bring the trinket to the armorer and place in the Identification tab.

Once you exhaust all the items that the race rep npc has, you will need to get upgrade items to keep upgrading your trinket: Windless Wind*, Earthless Earth and Fireless Fire. There is a quest from the lady in Freedom Harbor. You can see how many of the items you will need by talking to an armorer and using the Identification tab.

Tip:Don't upgrade the trinket past Windless Wind until you have the IDs you want, and don't upgrade it to Fireless Fire until you have the IDs you want - each level requires harder to get reID scrolls.

Gloop
You can also open up special skills in the trinket. Click the arrow next to the trinket in the C menu. This will open up the gloop menu. You get gloop from getting kills and wins in arena. Take the gloop and put them into the skills in the menu. You can level up all the skills, but can only use one at a time.

Tip: I recommend Unbending and Iron Skin to start with.

Armor
Really, don't worry about the LH badge gear or the wg gear. If you have the badges, go ahead and get the gear - it should serve you well enough until 80. At that point, you can usually get blue gear from Advanced gear instances, or people might give you gear. Get your hero gear from drops - don't waste your war god pts or champ points buying or upgrading the gear. Once you have lv4 hero, you can start upgrading to 5 using champs. You really can't run the instances that drop 5 without already having lv5 gear (FW irony). Once you have the lv5, run the instances that drop lv6 to get the gears directly if you can and use your champs for the ones you are having trouble getting as drops. Lv7 requires legendary points which requires you to do instances that are insane. And the lv7 gear is crap anyway, so don't worry about that gear.

Identification 
Gear, and some other items, can be identified for additional stats using an ID scroll. The stats are random and you rarely get what you need on the first try. You can reroll these IDs using a reID scroll. Although IDs are now both transferable on upgrade AND transfer, the stat you'd get on higher level gear has a higher range, so I wouldn't spend too many resources getting good IDs on gear you won't be in long.
You can get some reID items from checkin quest, Fort Khoaway weekly, and daily free rolls.


Reforging
You can increase certain stats on your gear by reforging. These increases can help a lot, and I do recommend reforging your gear; however, I would not reforge gear that you won't be in long because the reforges do not transfer - even on upgrades.

Fortifying
You will want to fortify your gear to get added stats on it and open up gem slots. I recommend fortifying low level grey gear and then transferring the fortification to higher level gear. Fortifying high level gear is less successful in my experience and far more expensive!

Note: fortifying is not very easy and can be frustrating - we've all been there.
Tip: using lower level gear and transferring allows you use less star crystals, which you will still need a lot of. Get star crystals running instances that give you rolls (pb invader and fate are two good ones). AND make sure to find Meid daily whenever the island opens up.

Augmentations
This adds reIDable stats to your gear. It can be expensive and take a long time to get them added, but it can really give you a boost. Here is a guide to hopefully help you get them more easily!

Tip: you can get extra fluxes from the Saturday Bloodbath on the xserver, and save your token of faiths! They come in really handy for getting easier augments.

Transmutations
This will add one extra stat to your gear. You actually get to pick the stat (not all stats are transmutable), which is nice. You can overwrite transmutations, so put them on, even if they are small, and overwrite when you get a better one. It's not too hard to do once you get the hang of it - here's a guide.
  
War God Points
You will get these points through various means. Klass in the Citadel has a shop where you can purchase a lot of really cool things with war god pts - including things to fortify and transfer your fortifications to new gear! Save your war god for those things and your trinket upgrades. Some of the things that Klass offers are really hard to get in the game through other means, so buy them from him instead.

Champ Points
You mostly use these for upgrading your gear, but you can also use these for purchasing a few things from the npc a few npcs right of Klass (his right). Check that out.  

Ode to Guardian Points
You will get these through various means. You can get a lot of very valuable, useful stuff with these points. Check out the gem lady next to Klass. I recommend using the points for upgrading your flying level which upgrades your speed in the flying mount which makes it a lot faster to get things done. Then use the points to get gems. I only use the points for rages, shatters, crystallines, twilights, and goldsparks. The rest of the gems aren't that great of a deal and you will get enough of them through regular play. Once you have the gems you need, get resistance tomes to upgrade your resistance!

Gems
For the most part, combining lv1 gems into lv2 gems is a waste of gold. Buy flare gem cards from AH. They will give you a lv3 gem each day. I only combine shatters, crystallines, twilights, and goldsparks. I also combine rages if I really, really need to. You can buy fusion agents from the npc next to Whitney. The lv5 fusion agent requires items that you can get as drops from exo and hr. Save them up! Use the gem guide to plan what gems you will work on.

Save your extra lv3 gems for making special gems for rings and necklaces. Whitney has the recipes. You can also take your extra gems to Christer (near the Molten Inferno npc). He can change them to a different gems with enough login credit and 1sd. He doesn't always change them to something different.

You can also use your extra gems to feed into your wings menu.

Wings
Your character will get visible wings when you get your gear chroma to 200. You get chroma pts by putting gems in your gear; not your weapon tho - that chroma only makes your weapon glow. Higher level gems are worth more chroma pts. These wings and weapon glow are completely aesthetic, so don't combine a bunch of easy to get gems just to get visible wings or a glowing weapon - work on the gems you actually need.

Wing Skills

Your wing icon also has a menu that you can start working on right away. Click the arrow next to the wings in the C menu. Put gems in the box for a chance to gain pts for this menu. As you level this menu you will open bubbles that contain skills and stats. You can have one bubble in each wing tier active at one time, but you can switch which bubble you have activated as you like.
Tip: use lv1 gems for the first wing tier, save your lv2 gems for the next tier. Save your lv3 for your third tier...and so on...
There are a lot of very valuable skills here, so start working on this as soon as you can. I feed all my level 1 azures, bloods, mists, solars, eagles, and rages (yes, even rages) into this.

Two easy ways to get gem boxes for this is by running anything with rolls and doing gbqs.

Anima
If you look in your C menu you will see at the bottom of the menu two spots for anima. You get your rage anima from the 5th floor of Hell Road (HR). You get your shelter anima from completing the main quests in the Polar Borderlands. It's a long quest - here's a guide. As you upgrade your anima, you will get extra stats and open up skills. Your anima gives your existing skills damage boosts too.

You can level up you anima using charms or gear. The green scaly things you get from instance rolls and daily roll can be traded in to the anima trainer for the charms. You can also trade WoTA tokens at the WoTA entrance npc for boxes that have a very good chance of giving you a lot of charms. Completing your daily challenge quest also gives you charms.
Tip: although you can get your shelter anima upgrade items using war god from Klass, I recommend doing WoTA on Fridays for the tokens and the achievements that will also give you the upgrade items. It can take a lot less time doing it this way, and you can use the war god for other things. Plus, you get soul leaves and ded for this!

Anima Trainer
Do this daily once you get your anima. The anima trainer gives you 10 free tries each day to add pts to the stats in your anima. He will give you the option to accept or deny what the try will give you. Only accept the try if you will gain pts (the number in the total field will be green). This can get frustrating sometimes because after 10 tries you may get nothing, but they are free tries, so it just costs you time. If you are particularly lucky, keep going with the 5sg tries until your luck runs out or you don't want to spend anymore sg.

Mastery and Resistance
This is one of the most important things that you can do for your character. Get pts from instance rolls and completing certain floors in HR. Once you reach certain levels in mastery and resistance, Dan (of Run Boy Run fame) will give you bonus pts.
  Mastery
This takes a long time to build without cash shopping so take all the opportunities for these points each week that you can get. Do your HR! To figure out what mastery to build up, look at the skills in the tree that you chose. You should see at least one skill that talks about a specific mastery - that's your mastery. It is recommended to build up your main mastery at least until 90 before you start building your other mastery(ies).
  Resistance
Choosing resistances to build up is really up to you. You can look at the attacks that are killing you the most and build up those - or you can take a very general approach and level them all up together. I recommend building up physical and dark to at least 60, then start building wind and fire to 60 while continuing to build phys and dark to 80 as you also start building water, light, and earth.Nice thing about resistance is that you can buy resistance pages with Ode to Guardian (otg) pts, so they are a bit easier to come by than mastery. But, you need a lot more of them.

Hell Road
Hell Road gives you free mastery and resistance points each week, so start doing hell road as soon as you can. Every mob you kill gives you items that you can right click which adds pts to your demon's rose menu for HR. You can use those points to add stats to your demon, once you get her on floor 5. Floor 5 is also where you get your rage anima token. Hand the token in to the Ayrshi Mirage - choose the anima wisely! There is more than one. Choose the one that supports the mastery for the skill tree you chose. If you accidentally choose the wrong one, don't fret,  eventually all the elements get activated.

Pets
During the shelter anima quest you will be sent to Rachel to get info on pets. Pets are fun, but, they are also pretty important to your overall power. Pets can become very powerful, can have skills that can help you, and can contain buffs that will make you more powerful. Pick a pet that supports your character - if you like the look of one that doesn't support you well, you can always morph onto one that does.
 Strengths and Weaknesses
Beware of leveling a pet too soon. Use rebirth scrolls until you have the strengths and weaknesses where you want them and be sure to meld as you level.
 Pet Skills
Your pet typically starts out with one skill, but you can open up new skill slots (a total of 8) by teaching it new skills. Don't put really valuable skills on your pet until you open enough skill slots to lock the valuable skill in place.
  Resistance Through Interaction
You can upgrade resistances by using interaction pts on your pet in their interaction menu. You can gain support stats by leveling up the pet control system. You can also send your pets out to do your dirty work via the journey menu. Have your pet out as much as possible to get those interaction pts but make sure to put them away when needed (they cause problems in some quests and instances).
  Pet Control Training
When you get to level 85 you can begin pet control training which increases stats of you and your pets. Do this as often as you can and be aware that currently, once you reach 101, you will no longer be able to do pet control training (it's a bug that happened during the last expansion and we're waiting for them to fix it).

Fusion Gems
Also during the anima shelter quest you are introduced to Whitney who will help you with your fusion gem system. Fusion gems are really important to make your character more durable - so if you find you are dying too much, get those fusion gems done! You'll want to keep up with them as they do take vigor to make and it takes a while to replenish that. You will also need to level your alchemy job since the gems are bound - meaning you are the only one who can make them for you and you need alchemy to make them. The mats are found in gear instances, so collect them as you run these instances.

Jobs
You will get job points as you complete main quests. You can only have as many jobs as you have points to take them, so choose wisely - unless you have a bunch of wisdom fruit to reset the points. I recommend taking alchemy (for making fusion gems), mining (for gathering fusion gem materials and making a little gold in AH), and botany (also for gathering fusion gem material and making a little AH gold). Henry also asks for botany and mining mats for his quests, and you need botany/mining/alchemy items for guild donations, so all those skills come in handy for many different purposes. The other pts use as you like - although fishing is also good to have since you can fish valuable items up in special spots around Forsaken World.

Ground and Flying Mount
You get your ground mount fairly quickly in the game, but the flying mount is not as obvious. Nadine in Nightfall Citadel has the quest for getting a flying mount once you turn 55. The flying mount is extremely helpful in getting around more efficiently and bypassing trigger-mobs that would wipe you out. Upgrade your flying by getting enough flying time in and completing the quest Nadine gives you at each flying level cap. Put your mounts in your mount bag - which is in your fashion bag.

Fashion
Another item that is fun but important is fashion. Fashion can help give your character more identity, but also gives you boosts in stats when you ID it. You can ID most fashion. If you get a good ID on a piece of fashion that you don't really care for, you can always cover it with a garderobed piece of fashion. Do not put fashion with good IDs in the garderobe - they will lose the ID. Get one set of fashion with good IDs to keep in your slots in the fashion portion of your character menu and put everything else that you can into your garderobe.

Extra: You get titles for matched sets of fashion. Check with Goethe in the Citadel. The fashion titles are just aesthetic.

Titles
Some titles actually do give you extra stats. You can get these titles from orbs/AH, completing vengeance ranks, and completing some other quests.

Vengeance Rank
You can get a lot of nice things for your character by completing your vengeance ranks. Check out the menu at the vengeance promoter near Henry. Ranking up gives you titles that will give you stat boosts too. Doing these quests also gives you lots of wg pts and helps you level up. You get access to the different vengeance maps by leveling - however, the Freedom Harbor (FH) map also requires that you complete the Retake Freedom Harbor instance (you must hit the final boss at least one) and talk to the vengeance promoter before it expires to get your portal to the FH vengeance area open.
Tip: since you can get badges completing Dusktown and Sanctuary vengeance quests, and these badges can be used to level up lower level vengeance areas, do Dusktown and Sanctuary as much as possible and use the badges to level up the other vengeances that you'd rather not do.

Rings and Necklace
You get two slots on your character for rings and one slot for a necklace. Fill them, even if it's only with low level items as they mean extra stats. Some are fortifiable and these are the kinds that you eventually want to get. You can get these from ranking up in vengeance and paying with trade gold - but they are worth it. However, if you run Frostgale Fjord and Ice and Fire on the xserver - you can get those fortifiable rings and necklaces for just battlefield points. I recommend getting battlefield double point cards to make this process go faster. AND if you do go the battlefield route - use your points to get the crit damage bonus accessories instead of the cheaper ones without. It will mean you will have to wait longer, but it will be worth it - you cannot upgrade from a non-crit to one with crit. The battlefield pts do have a low max, so you will need to buy the items as you go along and store them until you have enough to buy what you need.

Soul Power Tree
You get soul power pts from various means. They do max (20,000 is the max pts you can hold at a time), so it's good to use them as soon as you can. To use them in your soul power tree, which you should, you will need to complete the quest to open that up. You can also use your sp for pet training, giving to your god, and leveling up your astroplane system.
Open up both sides of the Soul Power tree to get even more stats! The skills that have 3 spots to level will transfer those stats from the side you're not using to the side that you are.
You can also open up rune slots in the sp tree that can boost your talent tree skills.

Runes
Runes give your skills boosts through rune quality pts leveling up your energy tree (the red, yellow, and blue columns at the side of your soul power tree). They also can give you extra pts to use in your talent tree. Each rune has a skill pt on it for a particular skill. Place runes with energy that supports your tree. You can check this by looking at your end skills in your talent tree and matching them up with the supported skills in the energy tree. Here is a guide on runes.

Divine Tokens
You will need these to level up your soul power skills. They are a very rare drop from GT2 (pet journey works), LCS, and Run Boy Run/Hanks (not from pet - you actually have to run it). An easy way to complete the Hanks quest is to park your char at the autoroute location when you go afk for a few hours. When Hanks passes your character, you will get credit as long as you are not in a flying mount. Just make sure you can hand in the quest before reset or you have to start all over again.

Elemental Relic
Another item to build up to get more stats. You get the quest to obtain this item from Hugh when you turn 90. It's another long quest, but not nearly as long as the one to get your shelter anima! There is a quest guide here. Even if you wait to get this item, go do the beggar quest every day to get the contented miracle pouches which contain the lv1 elemental relics that you will eventually use to level up the relic you work with. You could open a pouch and put that relic into the relic slot in your C menu. You won't be able to do anything with it until you complete the quest; because that quest gives you the skill to open up your elemental relic menu.
Quests to do each day to build this:

• Beggar : in Abyss - you can pay 1sd to complete it, or choose the last option to get your 1sd back. Gives you 3 relics.
• Man in the Waterfall: in the Twin Cities - you have to complete a kill quest. 2 relics.
• Flower Contest: in Order Highland (on the flying island) - pick the better flower. 3 relics.
• Treasure Chest: in Order Highland - grab the treasure chest from the thief. 3 relics.

Awakening Skills
During the elemental relic quest you will get introduced to the awakening system. You talk to two child demons that control the light and dark awakening powers. You will need to choose either the light or dark awakening, but you eventually can work in both parts of the book. This system will give you new skills that are pretty awesome. Collect kindness/evil points to buy the skills from the book in your skill menu. They are 10sd each and each level costs you more points. You can get these points from the expert gear instance, the guard quest in the twin cities (the light city gives kindness, the dark city gives evil), the dark contract daily quest (the top answer gives evil, the bottom answer gives kindness). You can only use kindness points in the light book and evil points in the dark book, so choose your quests accordingly.
Quests to do each day to build this:

• Dark Contract: Abyss - 500pt (type based on quest)
• Guard Search: Twin Cities - 800pts (type based on alignment)
• FF: xserver - 1100pts (type based on alignment)
• Expert: instance - 1100pts (type based on alignment)

Apotheosis System
Showing support to the gods can give you valuable stats! There are several gods to choose from, but leveling each one gives you another stat. Level them with badges from the King, badges from HR ranking reward, and with sp.

Astroplane System
A newly introduced way to add stats. You will get materials as you quest that you can use to level this system. Look at the four different constellations that you can build up by pulling the menu screen to the left. You will want to choose a constellation to upgrade. You access the other constellations for upgrading by leveling the overall system first. Here is a quick starting guide.

Diestone System
The Diestone system is another way to add stats. The warrior souls you need to make diestones are not easy to get and you need a lot of them. Most people do not worry about leveling this since it is so difficult to get enough of the materials. You can get these from rolls, Lost City, Blood Bath, and Dim Wars.

Lost City
This is a great place to go to get lots of exp and a little present each day (only available from 22:00-22:30). At higher levels you will need to win access via a random, but common, drop in FF; however, at lower levels you will have free access. It can be a very competitive and frustrating place, but you don't have to compete for the free exp or the chest - so go for those. If you have low frustration tolerance and there are lots of people there, leave the fog gathering for others.

Blood Bath
An xserver event, it is active every Saturday after 15:00. You get double battlefield pts if you are in FF from 15:00-16:30 -- wait to collect your daily FF chests until after 15:00. You need to get 3 FF wins to collect all the bonus chests which can be found in the tab next to the daily reward menu. I highly recommend this if you are trying to get the FF rings and necklaces, are interested in creating deistones, or want fluxes for augmenting.

Dimensional Wars
Dim wars is on the xserver every Sunday at 21:00. Although this gives tons of exp and great rewards, it too can be very frustrating due to griefers. And in order to get the rewards, you have to avoid the griefers in a very small, rather open area - not easy to do. Skip this if you have a low tolerance for frustration and not a lot of time to play - because in the end, you may get nothing.


Crucible
There are two quests you can get here. The seal quest gives you lots of sp. The petal quest gives you lots of exp. They can be done daily. You can get extra sp from the seal quest if you pick up the quest during the time that the seal bonus is activated by your guild. As you run around getting your seals quest done, you can also check to see if the ores scattered around the crucible are ready to pick. When you turn those in to the quest npc, you get a pretty big chunk of sp and exp!
Warning: gathering ores can be extremely frustrating as it is highly competitive. If you have a low frustration tolerance, check the ores when people are less likely to be on.

Artifacts
As you complete certain quests/instances, you have a chance at receiving an artifact. When you collect a whole set of artifacts (press L to view), you get a passive skill that increases stats like hp, pve intensity/tenacity and attack.

Horseshoe System 
The horseshoe system adds stats to your char. You get the items for upgrading this system through various daily quests in the Order Highlands.

Guild Base Skills
You can get some pretty neat skills from your guild base with enough merit and soul gold. The skills can be found on the upper ridge under the swamp crawler. I recommend the one that gives you bonus champs and the one that gives you soul power.

Shylia Market
This is the blue present in the upper right. You can get some useful freebies from the Experience tab as you level, so take a look early on. Save the talent compass for when you need it, since I think it is timed. You can also get free daily energy and vigor between 18:00-22:00 and free chests and keys (for extra rolls) between 19:00-23:00.

Dedication Rewards
You get dedication pts for completing various tasks/instances in the game. You can find a list of what gives ded in the dedication tab of Shylia Market, along with the rewards available. The more ded you have the better the rewards are. You can get free fusion gem catalogs from Whitney with 120/280 ded, so make sure you pick up those catalogs if you get enough - even if you're not planning to work on the gems right away. Make sure to take your ded rewards before weekly reset!

Odyssey Rewards
These can be found in the Odyssey tab in Shylia Market. As you complete the quests/instances tied to each reward, you fill the meter of the reward. Once the meter is filled, you can collect your reward. The rewards are valuable, so try to get these open.

Guild Freebies
Every week you can get an allowance of soul gold, faith tablets, and lionheart scrolls from the guild npcs by the lower pond, provided you have enough merit. You will need a lot of soul gold in the game, so pick up the soul gold every week. Pick up the others if you are running short.

Becoming a God

Note: this is a quick guide from what I remember as a god for a current guildie that is a god this week. I do have screenshots from my time as a god and will be adding them later and adjusting some of the information when I review the screenshots. Thanks!

The gods for each week are decided during the calculations each Monday. Most of the gods are decided randomly among the top point givers from the previous week - so give your points to the gods for your chance to become one.

When you are a god, you get a couple ways to give out gifts to everyone: projection and blessing buff.

Projections
The projection can be set up once a week. You can set it up any time you like during the week. Talk to the representative of your god at the temple to start the projection. It lasts 60 mins. You don't need to stay with the projection to keep it up - once it is activated, you can do what you like. It's best to announce in world chat ahead of time when you will be starting it so people can prepare. The projection can give an unlimited number of gifts within that time. The person wanting the gift takes the quest from the projection. Two of the projections have a one part quest where you only have to talk to them once: Conqueror and Retribution. The others have a two part quest where you have to talk to them twice; if you miss the second part, you will not receive the gift. You can be any level to receive the gift from all projections except Conqueror. Conqueror requires that you have completed your level 70 soul power gate.

• Luck: 5 lucky tops
• Flower: 10 mysterious dyes
• Conqueror: 250 champ points and a 24 hour buff for double champ pts (never tested if this works)
• Destruction: 1 gb quest shell (completes a whole envelope of gb quests for you! Give to the GB Manager)
• Storm: 5 arena badges
• Deceiver: HR resets
• Retribution: 1000 Winter Heights rep pts

Transfomation
The transformation allows you to actually play as the god. The button to activate the transformation is attached to the end of your lower skill bar. The transform menu has a meter. This meter is filled up via prayers and offerings to your god. So, if you want a lot of time to use the skills the god has, encourage people to pray to your god and give your god offerings!

You can stop the transformation after 20 seconds - so you can use it multiple times per week provided that you have enough in your meter to activate it. If you deplete the meter, you will have to wait until there is enough in the meter to activate it again. I didn't see any way to see how much time was in the meter without actually transforming, unfortunately.

Blessing Buff (for Luck god only)
The Luck god has a blessing skill that allows them to give people a blessing that allows them to collect a reward from the Luck god envoy. Activate the blessing buff via the Transform button. The blessed person has a limited amount of time to receive the gift (I think it is 10 mins). The blessing skill has a short cd, so you can't really spam it, but you can still bless quite a few people in a short amount of time. Get the people that you want to buff into a raid for easier targeting and faster blessing. You need to target the person and bless them - it's an individual buff. I would bless them then call their name to let them know that they now had the buff, target the next person, when the cd was done, repeat the process.

Astroplane Marking Starter Guide

 I got some materials from Dar Giugo near Henry in Nightfall, so I tried them out!

Then I opened up more stars:

You can level up your astroplane by using certain astroplane particles or by praying in the astroplane menu. But in order to add by prayer, you need to complete a main quest first.

You can switch star charts once you reach level 30 in your astroplane meter.

Mount Stat Items

I got an item while questing and decided to try it out. It apparently gives stats to your mount!

Exordium is HERE!!

Time to unpack the expansion and see what we got :))

We got some nice things:

• Archer class!
• New area
• New main quests
• New instances (although also see "And some not so nice things" below)
• Freedom Harbor is open! And some NPCs have moved back home
• You can now use both awakening books
• You can get all your level 88 gear with one quest! But the gear does not have the set bonus :(
• Extra skill pts!
• New location quests with announcements in wc
• Use champ points to get lv100 gear
• Titles for garderobe fashion not previously gotten! Go talk to Goethe
• Inheritors can use the other soul power side now!
• New mount system, add stats to your mounts (your license didn't disappear - click the arrow)
• New astroplane system
• 3-way bound contract for trading bound items between characters
• Marriage quests are fixed
• New places to fish for bonus items
• We still get king's gifts even though we're not maxed level
• We get EXTRA king's gifts! AND they can contain war god (900) and champ points (300)!!
• Added stats (everyone I have talked to said they have increased hp)
• New things in the pet menu - morphing pet looks like it got simplified :)
• More integrated quest guide menu (ex. you can send your pet directly from this menu.
• New odyssey rewards 
• New rewards in the flower garden 
• Marriage rings and temp wedding fashion can be obtained via a few wedding manager quests 
• New arena rewards NPC Quitos has lots of new awesome stuff - not gear!
• You can transfer your old stats to new gear - it costs a bunch of scrolls 
• New rift rewards - both the ones that the leader gets and the waiter gives everyone
• New things at the dumpling exchange
• New x-server guild wars rewards 
• Different dedication rewards 
• Raised max on awakening
• New titles with stats!
• They fixed the queue match-up! You can pug again :P
• Pet soul spirits can be exchanged for any/all blue pet(see Hicks)

And some not so nice things :

• ALL YOUR LEGENDARY PTS ARE WIPED!!   >: (

• King's gifts only give one thing it seems - something for the astroplane system 
• Once you reach 101 pet control training appears to be broken...(it says your level is too low)
• New instance mobs one-shot you  - the mobs! :S
• Exo only gives 1 ded per present now :(
• Guild lottery roll now tied to cash shop level  D:
• Some dedication rewards now tied to cash shop level  D:

Expansion coming TONIGHT!!

Maintenance will be occurring tonight at 23:00 PST.

Yesterday's postponed maintenance will be taking place tonight - this maintenance brings the Exordium expansion to Forsaken World!

We expect the maintenance to last longer than usual, approximately 5+ hours. The servers will be unavailable during this time.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience! ^_^

Falling Day Guide

Once you are lucky enough to get 6 Earthless Earth to upgrade your trinket, Allyiah will offer you the Fireless Fire quest. This quest asks you to complete the Falling Day instance. It's a solo instance that you can only access once you start getting the quest from Allyiah. Like the Windless Wind and the Earthless Earth before it, the Fireless Fire upgrades your trinket. 

Falling Day lets you re-live the day that Freedom Harbor was attacked, and gives you a chance to be the hero that saves the Freedom Harbor citizens that we know so well, and lov-, well, we know them anyway. It's a bit confusing when you get in. There are people running, telling you to run. And then you see people asking for help. You unfortunately can't help them all. Your task is to help four familiar NPCs escape the attack. Once they are safe, the Legion Leader arrives for you to battle.

Here is my second try of this instance (first try was me wandering around trying to figure out where everyone was running to):

You don't have to kill the mobs, you just have to tank them. In fact, tanking is better than killing since they just respawn soon after they die and then kill your objective (as happened to me in this video). They are ADD; so if you're tanking them, don't move too fast. If you are melee, escort the npc closely and carefully; if you are range, you are golden on this part!
If you find you bit off more than you can chew, they lose interest in you so fast, so you can just kite the extras off you.

Ferrie is the first you have to save. He spawns at the fountain. Charlie comes up from the seaside boat-tavern once Ferrie is almost to the safe point. When Charlie is about halfway to safety, Rio appears in the library doorway - and he's slow....You will have to watch Rio, because he's trying hard not to look phased by it all. After Rio is halfway to his destination, Norcharden comes from the Ninth District stairs; and because Rio is so slow, you need to watch both very carefully. When Norchardens is about halfway to his destination, Henry arrives at the top of the Ninth District stairs. Henry, being blind, and likely under the influence, is dragging his feet as well. By this time, Rio has likely reached safety, so you only need to protect Norchardens and Henry.

Once all four NPCs are safe, all the Legion Soldiers disappear and the Legion Leader appears in front of the library entrance.

Every 30% of his total hp you knock out of the Legion Leader, he tells you that if you don't run he's going to kill you. But, it's what he says at 20% that you have to really pay attention to. He will tell you, "You are annoying. If you don't escape, I'm going to kill you in 20 seconds." You now have 20 seconds to kill him or he will one-shot you. Sounds pretty daunting, but there is an item that you can use against him at this point. You can pick up a projectile near the library that will take a huge chunk off his health. This projectile is there from the beginning and is not timed, so pick it up while you're defending Rio, before you go defend Ferrie, or while Henry is making it safely down the stairs before the boss appears. I was able to pick it up while things were attacking me.

Use it at the 20% point to bring his health down to just a few percent. Then, provided you can hit hard enough, fast enough, you should be able to kill him.

Good luck!

BTW: the instance is unlimited entry but only open on Wednesdays, is only open that day from 00:00 to 23:30, and is only open to those 95+.

Here is my full run of Falling Day:

[I like how YouTube picked for the cover the part where the astroplane menu pops up as my dog ran across my keyboard]

 

Tips on beating him at the end:

• Get fully buffed for the instance - find an HR buffing party to get all the buffs you can
• Save any finishing skills for the last 20 seconds
• Make sure your pet is helping attack
• He stuns, and likes to stun as you go into the 20 second countdown, so be ready to break out of stuns. Check your skills for anything that will break stuns, silence, etc.
• Make sure that the projectile is handy on your quick bar
• Don't use the projectile until about 10 seconds into the 20 seconds to death
• Keep attacking as hard as you can after the projectile is used, unless of course he's dead - then just go dance on his corpse because you just beat Falling Day and got your Fireless Fire!!

Warrior's Heart

You get the quest from the Pious Man in the Waterfall. He has a quest that asks you to find the Warrior's Heart.

To start, talk to the pious man.

When you take the Warrior's Heart quest it gives the Freeman buff which allows a leader to quest partner with you.

Taking the second part of the Warrior's Heart quest removes your Freeman buff and makes you the leader. You will get a quest to find a particular class and partner up with them.


Leader finds the class they are asked to find. Form a party with the leader as lead. Have the partner take only the first part of the Warrior Heart quest so they get the partner Freeman buff.

If they take the second part of the quest, their Freeman buff will be gone. And, when the leader tries to take the "found a partner" part of the quest, they will get a message saying that they don't have the correct buff and they will have to find a new partner. The partner can take their quest back a step to get the buff back by using the Reversion crystal sold by the Pious Man for 88sg. The crystal can also be used by the lead to reset their quest and try for another class if they can't find someone from the class that they got (such as, couldn't find a mage, so reset and got an assassin!)

The leader talks to the Pious man again and is asked if they found the class they were looking for.


  Leader clicks the quest and each member will get an item in their bag - Warrior's Guidance. Each member right clicks the item to get a quest (which tends to be the same quest for both, but can be a different quest for each member).

Go complete the quest(s). There is a timer on this quest, but I have gotten it to complete for both members even when the timer runs out - not sure what the time is actually for...

Each member will get a Warrior's Belief once completing their quest.

The leader's belief will be bound, but the partner's will be tradeable. Trade the belief to the leader. The leader right clicks their belief to combine them into a Warrior's Heart. The bound belief is the only right-clickable belief, so you must have a bound and unbound belief to make the heart.

 

At this point, each member's quests will go green and they will be able to talk to the Pious Man to get their box (it is automatically placed in your bag by the npc when you hand in your quest).

 

Note: if you somehow screw up the quest and can't turn it in, but did get the beliefs - hang onto them - they don't time out and they will match up regardless if they were from your actual quest partner. You can partner with someone else and complete the quest with them - even if they didn't take part in the belief part of the quest as long as the leader has the warrior heart. SO, you can use alts to farm the tradeable beliefs xD. If you don't want your subsequent quest to complete the moment you take it (maybe you want to get more beliefs), make sure the held-over heart or belief is in your bank.

The boxes contain a variety of things. Some things I have gotten so far:

Spirit whistles x 10
soul diamonds x5
mastery pages x8
lv2 gem box
ancient warrior souls x8
resistance pages x10

 Here's a list of all the possible rewards and the rate at which they drop:

I got a few different quests from the characters that I have run so far:

Kill a frenzied demon
Pick a stone <-- easiest one
Kill a series of 3 different mobs, 20 mobs each: spiderladies, corrupted priests, rats

Note: We had some trouble with the frenzied demon quest. It doesn't like to clear if the person
doesn't kill it themselves. My priest had to be the only one to hit the demon in order to get credit. My mage just had to have the most hits on it to get credit. Each of them had aggro when the demon died (even the time that someone helped the priest kill she had aggro at the end, but her kill didn't count - it only cleared when she was the only one to hit the demon).

Also, adding another person to your party can make the quest fail - as Benniee mentioned in the comments. I added someone to help kill - the kills from the 3rd person did count and it didn't affect the quest, so this also seems hit and miss; BUT it tends to make the leader's quest fail. I had it fail on me twice and it was always the leader, and Benniee's failure was of the leader's quest too. I even tried removing the third person from the party before handing in the quest to the Pious Man, but it still failed. (Perhaps if the third person were removed before the kill quest was complete?)

Opening Up New Relic Spirit Slots

Once your relic is level 4 it can be promoted to the next stage. This next stage allows you to open slots on the relic to place relic spirits. These spirits add extra stats to your relic - and you!

Some slots open naturally when you upgrade your relic. But, to get a lot in a short period of time, you can try re-iding your relic. Each re-id gives your relic a random number of slots between what it naturally would have and the total a relic can have.

You can get the Wing Spirit Element (the items for re-iding) with Stone of Awakening (which you can purchase from second Otis using ToFs) from the Elemental Relic Guardian behind the Rose Queen.

Take all the current spirits out of your relic. Open your relic management skill. Put your relic in and click the Relic Transfer tab. Put the Wing Spirit Element into the other slot. Click the button to Confirm Relic Transfer. Each transfer also costs 2g40s.

As you can surmise, there seems to be room for 12 slots altogether. Through the re-iding process, this relic, which started with 2 slots, now has 7 open slots.

Each of these slots can receive a relic spirit. The slots are considered not activated until you put a spirit into them. Spirits are placed in the relic by placing the relic into the relic menu, clicking Relic Transfer tab, and placing a relic spirit that matches the shape of the slot directly into the slot. It costs nothing to put the spirits in, but will cost you trade gold to remove them.

Pet Rebirth

Pets can be re-id'd similar to gear using the dawn scroll. The scroll will give you a chance at new strengths and weaknesses for the pet, but bring the pet back to level 1. It also seems to remove all the interaction points and interaction levels that you have on the pet, so make sure that you transfer the unapplied points to pet journeys before you use the scroll.

All other upgrades are maintained; and, as you can see, you can also upgrade the pet's rating using the rebirth! I haven't checked to see if it allows you to meld if you missed the levels that you could do that, but will update here when I find that out!

You can get the dawn scroll from the boutique, randomly from daily check-in with Henry, randomly from the lucky charm boxes from Otis, randomly from Otis's pet box, randomly from completing Niachillo's quests, and randomly from shells you can fish. The shells are by far the easiest and cheapest way to get the scrolls. I put my char to fishing overnight and usually get a few from shells when I'm done.

Kentucky Derby Code

We didn't win the big prize, but they gave us bloodstone II and 10 dream drinks instead
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Scavenging - Gear lv 70-74 Location

left4war in the FW forum said that you can obtain this gear killing the assassin vines in the Sleeping Jungle. I tried this out - YES! You can!

Archer Class Coming?

An apparent announcement on the Chinese server includes this picture of what looks like a new class:

Could an archer class be coming with the next expansion? :D
(love those boots, btw)