1. Tier Based Mastery System

1.1 What is a Tier Based Mastery System?

Silkroad employs a leveling system very similar to that of THQ's Titan Quest (even though Titan Quest came many years afterwards). Very simply explained, to gain the various skills in Silkroad you must level up your Mastery (ies) with skill points to "unlock" the skills. Once you have the appropriate level Mastery you may purchase skills once again with Skill Points. An excellent example is the first skill in the Fire Mastery, "River Fire Force Lv1". When you first begin the game press "s" to bring up your skill page. Select the "Force" tab and then the "Fire" tab. When you put your mouse over the first skill (it looks like a book until the mastery is at the appropriate level). It will say "River Fire Force Lv 1" Required Mastery Level 5. This means that your Fire Mastery must be Level 5 before you may gain the River Fire Force Skill. Additionally your Skill Masteries may not exceed your own level.

1.2 What are the Masteries?

There are four ??Force?? Masteries and three weapon Masteries. In this circumstance ??Force?? has been used as a bad translation for ??Magic?? The weapon masteries are ??Bicheon?? ??Heuksal?? and ??Pacheon??. The Bicheon masteries deal with sword, shield and blade (blade is a heavier sword with better physical damage than the sword but poorer magical damage), The Heuksal masteries have glaive and spear skills and the the Pacheon is the bow mastery.

The four Magical masteries are Fire, Lightning, Cold and again Force. Fire deals the most damage ideal for PvP, Lightning has area effect spells good for tanking mobs, Cold has party support spells like slow etc.. and in this circumstance Force is healing magic.

1.3 How do i use the Mastery System to the full advantage?

Firstly Silkroad has a Mastery cap of 300. What this means is that you may have the equivalent of 300 levels of a single Mastery, 150 levels of two Masteries, 100 levels of 3 Masteries etc.. or any other distribution that does not exceed the cap of 300. At the moment the level cap of Silkroad is 80 so this allows for 3 masteries maxed out at 80 (240) and a 4th mastery at level 60. However for the sake of prudence, should the level cap be extended to 100 which it surely will given time, this will only allow for 3 Masteries to be maxed out. There for it is advisable that you chose only 3 Masteries. Additionally keep in mind that you need not chose ALL the skills in the mastery. This is a waste of skill points. Only chose the skills that benefit the your character build.

2. Skill Points

2.1 Why are Skill Points important?

Without Skill points you cannot gain Skills. While the skills between level 1 ?C 20 are very cheap, let this not fool you. At higher levels skills are VERY expensive, so it is best to stockpile skill points and unlearn old skills.

2.2 How do i know if i have enough Skill Points?

There is a skill point calculator on MMO site which is EXCELLENT. Props to the creator, DeathZai. However should you be new to the game, you wont be know what skills to use, so that might require a bit of trial and error, and several ruined characters. However to give you the best shot at achieving a good character on your first attempt simply follow the guidelines below in regards to collecting skill points.

2.3 How do i best go about gaining Skill Points

To best gain skill points you will have to maintain a ??gap??. The term gap is used to define the distance between your actual level and the level of your highest mastery. For example a level 22 with a highest mastery of 15 has a gap of 7.

Simply put, the higher your gap the more skill points you will gain when killing monsters, but you will also gain much less normal xp. Also the smaller your gap the more xp but the less skill points gained. I have found that a gap of 7(Silkroad online gold) will give approximately even xp to skill points ratio. However i haven't met two single players that can agree on how many skill points are required to build a successful character, so don't stress if some one says that you've wrecked your character. It all depends on which skills you need.

2.4 What is "SP" farming?

SP (Skill Points) farming is the term given to people who concentrate solely on gaining SP at the extreme expense to the time taken to level. There is an excellent guide written on SP farming by Rampage. However in a nut shell SP farmers are people that seek to gain as many SP before they hit level 20 as possible, since as you require more xp to level, the higher up you go, so it is with skill points.

3. Classes

3.1 What are the Classes in Silkroad?

Simply put there are no classes in the strictest sense. There are several guides written on this site that refer to ??Builds??, recipes if you will that make a certain type of character. In the following section i will detain several builds that are similar to universal character classes, like fighter, mage, priest etc.

3.2 How do i achieve a particular "character build"

The Fighter:

Often referred to as a pure strength build a good build for a fighter is as follows:

Attributes: Pure strength (100% strength upgrades, no intelligence)
Amour: Garment. The pure strength gives you a high phys defense, and garment will give you a decent magical defense, making a well rounded character that can take a lot of damage of different types(Silkroad power leveling).
Weapon: Either a Glaive or a Blade and Shield. Personally i think that a Glaive is a better option, as the pure strength build gives lots of HP, so the shield isn't too important.
Masteries: Weapon (either glaive or blade), Fire (lots of damage) and lightning (other types of damage)
Skills: Only use weapon skills (shield skills if applicable) and buffs. Nukes are a waste of time for the warrior. Keep in mind that you will have limited MP as a fighter and chose spells wisely.

The Mage:
Often referred to as a pure intelligence build or a Nuker the mage is as follows:

Attributes: Pure Intelligence
Amour: Garment. Although this leaves the mage vulnerable to physical damage (¾ of the damage in Silkroad is physical), mages have always been slayed in close combat. Ergo, stay away from close combat.
Weapon: Sword and Shield. A shield is a *must* for mages, for the extra physical defense. Additionally even thought the sword does less damage than the spear, its not like the mage will be relying on his weapons.
Masteries: Fire and Lightning have the best Nukes (level 30 skills usually). However the freezing and slowing spells of the Cold mastery can be very useful for the mage. Therefore take the Bicheon mastery till level 30, and max out Fire, Lighting and Cold.
Skills: All buffs, a small amount of weapon skills for just in case, and nukes. Read the nukers guide by JOHN LUCZKOW for more details on what spells to take.

The Priest/Paladin:
This is a Hybrid build. Secondary spell caster and warrior

Attributes: 66% Strength, 33% Intelligence
Amour: Protector
Weapon: Either Blade and Shield or Glaive
Masteries: Weapon, Force and one other. Either Cold (Priest) or Fire (Paladin). The Cold mastery is a more supportive mastery, while the fire mastery makes excellent an contribution in close combat.
Skills: All buffs, Healing skills, resurrection etc. Weapon skills. Once again no nukes. To use Nukes requires a certain commitment ;)

The Hunter (or Ranger):
Bow wielding maniac. Excellent build for SP farming

Attributes: Pure Strength
Amour: Garment
Weapon: Bow
Masteries: Fire, Cold, Bow
Skills: All buffs, slowing spells, weapon spells, Bow mastery

Thief:
In Silkroad there is no thief build as such as any character may be a thief. However Fire mastery is a great idea, as it excels in PvP combat.

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dark alliance-
HellTooth Leader down from Aumeros Army Post
seaclad sealakel hunters and guards droped the most for me but got them from anything on the map north of aidion neckria on 2nd map

light alliance-
Rockshovel Goblin Leaders ,Diggers,and Bodyguard Locations
Swordtail Selakel Fighters, Shamans and Disorderlies
Blackbeards *Slaves, Deckhands, Sword Fighters

need 30 forquest for the level 30 helmet
another 30 for the epic lvl 45 quest. both sides

Rillan x99
vipers in the dusk swamp
can be bought at liquid medicine merchant
epic lvl 45 quest

Mare core need 30
Dark alliance-
The monsters near ruber chaos on the second map.nekisaw goblins on the 3rd map
seaclead sealakel looters
Dragon Dens mobs
Light alliance-
Mobs in the Frost Woods area *Killers, Looters, Golems
quest for level 37 helmet

Adamars stone 20 for the epic lvl 45 quest dark side.40 for light side

dark aliance-
Everything on the 3rd map so far
Aidion dungeon
Light alliance-
Can be found everyone 30+ on Light side Map 3 or Cloron's Lair
Maitreyain beholders

epic lvl 45 quest. both sides

Magic leather 25 dark side 20 light side for the epic lvl 45 quest.
Dark alliance -
arena stronghold laners on 3rd map south west of strong hold
corpsfield steel larva,Bison and Wolves in 1-60 pvp map

light alliance
1-60 PvP Zone north path, Bison and Wolves
Maitreyain beholders
epic level 45 quest dark side
epic lvl 45 quest. light side

Gold Abel Gold abel 90
1st map monsters around the cities you start the game in
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epic lvl 45 quest. light side
epic level 45 quest dark side

Gold powder 10
Dark alliance-
Getan mine from vipers,beholders, and Kobolds map 3
Light alliance-not needed

level 45 epic quest

pint cores 30
dark aliance-
everything on 3rd map south of Arena stronghold also
Hecate Elves and the Genetick Nightmares
Fantasmas lair
light alliance
30-40 Areas on Map 3
level 44 helmet

15 Dark Mages Stone
Northern part of map3
light and dark side
level 50 helmet quest

3 Endure Lapis LV3
light and dark side
level 50 helmet quest

5 hard hammers
light and dark side
level 50 helmet quest

hard mode

5 hard hammers
light:
Cloron Gladiators drop Hard Hammers.
zombies in cornwell zone in map 1

10 spirit essence

20 cactus flowers
dark side
Mutated arachne
mobs in argilla ruin
light:
zombies in cornwell zone in map 1
5 red crayfish is a HM quest for someone at the Yemetis temple on fury side

Silver scissors lv 40 ish HM quest

Magic Silk need 20

repeatable quests at elf npc's
near starfumost and arena stonghold in dark alliance
essence of witch
fury:Araky archanes
light:
Fedion Leopardess Butchers
Dwarves south of Haldeck
thin meats
fury:
keuarijen black leapord,antelope,bison
light:
Willieoseu Big Monkey
bears near the pirate port
Maelstorm Wyverns
dark mages stone
Northern part of map3
light and dark side
also for level 50 helmet quest
broken cores
fury:
Sealakels
light:
Sealakels

pint corealso for level 44 helmet quest
fury:
light:
lizard hunter and watchers at the start of map 3
golden scissors
All random drops on map npc for the quest is located

New Ep3 Repeatable Quest Items. 3 new NPCs in KEO and glitter.

light:
WHO: Sabina
WHAT:
Sparkling Powder 1
Stable Coar 1
REWARD: LVL3 Powerup (unkown)
WHERE: Stable Erde

WHO:Travous
WHAT:
Deadly Poisoned Essence 1
Desert Essence 1
REWARD: LVL3 Powerup (Unkown)
WHERE: Deep Desert 2

WHO: Vodro
WHAT:
Monster Poison Sting 1
Desert Crystal 1
REWARD: LVL3 Powerup (+12 STR/REC) 10 min
WHERE - Deep Desert 1

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