[PhoenixFire]

Marketing - 5/5: Buy low, sell high Guide by sk8er

Marketing is requires a lot of thinking, patience, luck, and of course money to start with. On a day that you log in, you should check the entire market at least once. You don't have to carry any money, or buy anything (but I would recommend carrying at least 5kk at all times in market), but by checking every stall in the market, you have a chance to find out the average price of a lot of items, and perhaps find an occasional good deal.

With the knowledge of what prices are, you'll be able to find which items are being sold extremely cheap, very expensive, etc. and be able to judge what a good price would be to buy/sell your own stuff to make profit. You can also try to buy something you think may increase in value later, although that's an example of a risky payoff, since you don't know for sure.

There are also things you may not even be prepared for, like how the Lottory skyrocketed DragonBall prices, how last Halloween's Metbox prize lowered Meteor prices (at least on my server), and how the socketing blacksmith and ToughDrills will lower the value of Sockets in the future.

Also be aware of mis-priced items. Missing, or adding too many 0's are the most common mistakes, so be careful of making these yourself. Look out for look-alike items as well, such as different quality Gems, Sockets, etc.

As you're legally able to open 2 CO Clients at once, many people choose to create a char just for marketing (a normal account, or a Merchant), that way, while that character sits in the market displaying their items for sale, the main account is free to do whatever. With the new Trade Partners and Item Lock features, you can trade between your main and marketer easier.

Mining - 1/5: A quest you can do while you're away...

A simple way of making money, all you need is a level 15 character and a PickAxe which you can buy for 1k from the TC ShopKeeper (or get a free Hoe from the Warden in Jail). Different mines gives different ores/gems, so choose where you mine according to what you want from here. Note that mining gem rates have dropped a lot ever since the Lotto/CP/Gems-from-Monsters Patch.

• TwinCity (Upper left) - Use for Iron (House) and Euxenite Ores (Quests/level 40 Archer promotion), also the only place to mine Fury and Tortoise Gems.
• PhoenixCastle (Lower-Right across bridge) Level 40 Required - Use mainly for CopperOres (House Upgrade) and gems (Kylin, Rainbow, Phoenix, and Dragon Gems). Also the mine used for the Blue Mouse Quest, so watch out for questers and other PKers.
• Ape Mountain (Lower-left all the way around) Level 70 Required - Mainly SilverOres here, but as it's location is very far, there may be less PKers there.
• DesertCity (Upper-Right) Level 70 Required - The money mine, GoldOres are mined more frequently than the others. Also good for Moon/Violet Gems.
• Jail Mine (Pay 1k Silver to Captain Li at (512, 351) TC, or go black and get killed by Player/Guard/Patrol) - As a PK-free map, and the place where Black-names get sent to jail, prepare to be killed...
• MetZone Mine - Extremely far away, and hard to get back to normal cities, not recommended to mine here.

Moonbox Quest - 4/5: Recommended for high leveled Trojans and/or Warriors Quest guide by XiaoChen

Rewards

• 3 Meteors
• Moonbox (Obviously the one you'd want) - Uses are:
  • Required item for level 110 promotion
  • Opening for a prize - Which may be:
    • 3 Meteors (Most Common)
    • Met with a Refined necklace/bag/ring/bracelet/boots
    • Unique necky/bag/ring/brace/boots
    • Elite necky/bag/ring/brace/boots
    • Refined socketed necky/bag/ring/brace/boots (Rare)

Recommended:

• High leveled Trojan/Warrior with high attack
• Medium Defense, extra (crappy) equipment, and/or a Disguise (Robot, NightDevil, WaterElf, etc.) (by Nega)
• Level 70+ spare account(s)

Summary
Find Fortuneteller at (340,720) (Mid-left edge TC), if you're level 70 or above and want to enter, he'll teleport you to the quest entrance. Talk to Maggie, and she'll teleport you to one of 7 Tactics randomly - Peace, Chaos, Deserted, Prosperous, Disturbed, Calmed, or Death. If you're teleported to one of the 1st 6, you won't be told which one you're in.You'll have to kill the monsters until one drops a CommandToken.Take the token to Guardian God (204,149) and he'll tell you the name of the tactic. To go back to where Maggie is, talk to Ghost (8,67). Do this until you collected all 6 tokens. Once you get all 6 Tokens and are teleported to Death Tactic, talk to Ghost and he'll make a SoulJade from them. With that, talk to Maggie and she'll teleport you to Life Tactic. Talk to Lonely Ghost, and agree to help him. If you don't, he'll steal the jade anyway and kick you out. When you do, choose the MoonBox as your prize.

If you don't have all 6 tokens and are teleported to Death, you'll be told so by the Guardian and Ghost. The only way to leave is to die, that's why you should either have medium defense, spare equips, and/or a disguise so you can kill yourself faster.
Nowadays, you can lock your items so you won't drop them when you unequip them to kill yourself. (by jimkiller4)

There are a couple ways to use spare accounts. One is to have each noob logged at the entrance to each tactic, so you know which one you're on. Another is having one just logged into Death Tactic with extra tokens. That way, if you ever go to Death early, you can still get out with a MoonBox without dying by trading the extras to/from him (by Arcturus1972).

MoonGem Quest - 4/5: (alacuard57)

Reward: Refined Moon Gem
Summary
A pretty long quest, requiring a lot of moving around, hunting, and talking to NPCs. The hardest to find are Rachel (209 183) of Bird Island, which is at portal number 21 in the BI Map (fastest way is portals 1, 10, 12, then 22), Emily, who spawns between 23:00 and 01:00 Server times at either (565,730), (455,460), (54,333), or (600,500) Ape Mountain, and Lonely Tyrant, who spawns at the lower left of PhoenixCastle (South of TC Portal). A high leveled archer, at least level 80+ is recommended as most of the quest items require a lot of hunting to find.

PKing (Player Killing) - ?/5: Difficulty varies

This depends on your level and equipments, as well as the other person's. When PKing, there are things to consider, other than the Basic PK Info:

• After killing a White-named person, you will flash blue for 2 minutes.
• After a person is revived, teleports, or logs in, there is an 8 second delay time from when you can hit them again, unless they move.
• When using a Reborn Guard or pet and hit someone, it'll lock onto them, which may make you flash when they stop flashing, or accidentally hit them when they come back. Make sure you re-summon if you're worried about your PK Points or flashing.
• Ever since Potency, the minimun damage you can hit/receive is around 6-18
• A Trojan's Cyclone will have you attacking around 2x faster, while a Warrior's Superman will make you do about 2x more damage.

When PKing to make money, you should aim for:

• Full gear red/black names - Pretty rare to find and catch, as many people will use potions, teleport, run to market/TG, or log off if they (accidentally) go red in full gear. But, if you have high attack, good aim, and are able to kill them quickly, they could drop something valuable from their main equipment.
• Market characters - Although most market chars are level 1 noob accounts (usually logged in TC, since PK is forbidden), you may stumble across one while on your PK spree. You can later make a note of that name so you can kill it again later.
• Archers - With low defense and health, but a very good ability to hunt, killing them may lead to ok drops (usually Mets).
• Miners - Not many people mine nowadays, but killing them can drop ores, and possibly gems.

PK Tickets - 1/5: (Drixt)

An easy quest to complete, you kill Pheasants just outside of TwinCity for PKTickets. When you acquire 6 tickets, you can bring them to David at (444, 290) Twin City, who'll give you 6k gold in exchange.

Guide continued here

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