Archive for September, 2011

Introduction to Armors in Silkroad onlineⅠ

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

Armor is the name of the heaviest type. In Silkroad online, there are 3 “armor types”. It offers the most physical defense and the least magical defense.

The first is the protector. The Protector, which is often known as leather, offers less protection then Armor in terms of physical defense but more magical defense. It is also lighter armor so can gain a light bonus in case you wear all Protector Pieces. You can mix and match Protector Pieces with Armor pieces but I would not recommend it. Go with or the other. The bonus you get from wearing all protectors is a 10% run speed increase as well as a reduction of 10% of the mana cost of all of your skills and spells. So if a skill would normally take twenty mana points to make use of it in lieu takes 18 mana points. Keep in mind ALL pieces must be Protector to make use of this bonus and you must have all slots that are obtainable to wear “armor” filled. In case you are missing your helmet piece then you do not get the bonus even in case you have Protector on every other spot.

Clothes cannot be worn with any other piece of armor. It cannot be mixed and matched with the other “armor types.” It offers the least physical resistance and the most magical resistance. It is also much lighter and thus gives a bigger bonus when all “armor slots” on your character are filled with Clothes. The bonus is a 20% run speed increase as well as a 20% mana reduction when using skills so a skill that takes twenty mana points will in lieu take 16.

Now the armor sets come in three tiers like weapons. It’s simpler to see since you only have weapon slot but 6 armor slots. Take a Bronz Bow for example. This is a level 8 bow as sold by the blacksmith in Jangan. The next level bow sold by the blacksmith is an Iron Bow for use by level 16. Does this mean you are stuck using a Bronz Bow from level 8 through 15? No. There’s multiple tiers to the Bronz Bow but the other tiers are dropped by monsters & not sold in shops. The other tiers of a Bronz Bow are Hunter Bronz Bow which is level ten & Archer Bronz Bow which is level 13. This gives players two stepping stones on the way to 16. Iron Bow has the same steps. Level 16 is sold by the shops, but level 18 & 21 is dropped.

Armor sets follow the same pattern as weapons in that they have tiers but since there is 6 armor slots: chest, legs, head, hands, shoulder, & feet; each slot is not the same level. Let us take Small Linen Clothes for example. This is roughly the level 8 armor sold by the NPC shop seller. However, not all slots are level 8. They are in the following increments: Small Linen Gloves are level 8, Small Linen Shoulders are level 9, Small Linen Feet are level ten, Small Linen hats or crowns (depending on in the event you require to see your head or not because you get a choice of which style headwear to make use of) is level 11, Small Linen Legs are 12, & Small Linen Chest pieces are 13.

That is the basics of armor for SRO in a nut shell. The more complex task is taking a look at the stats of each armor item you require to wear & determining whether you are putting on something exceptional or something ordinary. There are plenty of things to look at. The largest in my view & the least though of stat is the Parry rate. Each piece of armor in SRO has a parry rate listed on it. The higher armor sets have higher rates. What parry does in SRO is not like the parry rates of other games. It does not cease incoming assaults. In lieu, it deflects the destroy range of an incoming assault.

Like weapons there are also difference tiers of armor sets. For Linen for example it starts with Small Linen as sold by shops. The next tier is Half Linen, & the last tier is Complete Linen. Usually by the time you are wearing the Small Linen Chest piece you are wearing a few pieces of Half Linen on the lower level armor slots like the hands & shoulders. By the time you are wearing a Complete Linen Chest piece you can equip the beginning tier of the next higher armor set which is Sungyon Silk for the hands, shoulders, & feet.

Tips on Hunting in Silkroad online

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

There are 5 unique monsters in iSRO : Tiger girl (level 20), Uruchi (level 40), Isyutaru (level 60), Lord Yarkan (level 80), and Cerberus. This article is about tips on how to hunt those unique monsters.

Firstly, it is important to be in a share party. In share party, you can have 8 people in which means you can cover a bigger part of the map where the unique will spawn. The kill goes to the party with the biggest damage, and to the player, in that party with the biggest damage. The entire party member must be placed near a spawn point of the unique, if you want to have a chance to see it. When a unique spawns you’ll have to move from a spawn point to another. Unique are purple dots on your radar.

Maybe you’re same level as the unique you’re hunting, but it will spawn strong monsters! Many champions, some giants, and many “Elites” too. Elites only spawn with unique.

Get Pills! Tiger Girl can make you zombie. Uruchi’s spawns will poison you. Isyutaru will ice you and Yarkan can knockdown, knockback, and stun you. Ok for Yarkan pills won’t change anything but just be careful.

When do they spawn? They spawn randomly on a certain area. They all have their own area (Tiger Mounatin, Tarim Basin, Karakoram, Takla Makan). They spawn every 3/4 hours.

Tiger Girl seems to spawn more often in the stronghold, so you have more chances to see her inside.

If you find her alone, you should try to lure her off-road so you’re sure no higher levels can ks you.

Tiger Girl is the hardest unique to kill, because she is the weakest! Yeah, everyone wants to kill her, from level 20 to 80, so you have a lot less chance to see her, and kill her! Tiger Girl gives you zombie! Get pills!

Uruchi spawns pretty often in the black robbers den, and at the dead end thing, at north of tarim basin. He also spawns sometimes at south, and east of the Den. Uruchi doesnt give you any status, but his spawns (Black Robber Archer [LVL 36]) will give you poison! So be careful even if that status is not really bad, but can be dangerous if level 4x, and laggy :s

Isyutaru spawns really randomly…She is hard to find because there is only 2 ways of entering ice (north east and south west) so if you are at ishades or spiders, you’re pretty screwed…Also her spawn points are separated by a big distance, so you can miss her! She often get lured at: Spiders (north), Ishades (south east), or Yetis (south west) so you should check inside the forest!

Isyutaru and her spawns will give you frostbite and freeze. Really annoying so you better get a good stack of pills.

Introduction to botters and CCF’ers

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

A botter is an account which uses third party programs to auto attack monsters. Basically it is a program which plays the program for you. It might sound cool that you don’t have to kill all the monsters. But where’s the fun in a level 80 character that you haven’t even touched? A CCF’er is a credit card frauder. They buy silk using Paypal to obtain the valuable alchemy items in the item mall then when they have used these items they contact PayPal to chargeback the money, which cancels the payment but still gives the silk in game.

Here’s a quick guide to identifying a botter and knowing what a CCF’er is.

Basically they repeat the same thing over and over again. If you PM them they ignore you or just reply in a different language or say the same thing. If you freeze them they don’t attack you and they always do things really fast. Of course this isn’t a 100% sure fire way but these are basic signs.

What to do about a botter? You can take a video of him or try reporting to joymax but it will get you nowhere they only ban botters when they feel like it.

What to do about a CCF’er? Once they have these items they trade their good weapons etc, put the alchemy items on them then trade them back. Then this account gets banned but they have all the alchemy stuff for free. Now Joymax have implemented ways of preventing this, e.g. you have to be a certain level to buy an astral to use on the item. It is so high that players can’t use noob accounts to pimp up their gear.

Useful Tips on Builds and Leveling In Silkroad Online

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

There are many types of build. Pure Str, Pure Int and Hybrid are the 3 main types.

Pure Strength: These builds are mainly the more stronger builds being as though they have all points in str which gives goo physical damage and means a lot of HP. Pure str normally use glaive, blade or bow.

Glaive is the strongest of the 3 with a high physical damage and high criticals. The minus of the galive is that it has no block like the shield or range like the bow. Normally people would wear garments with glaive because their phy defence is already high enough to withstand attacks and the Mp bonus of the garment is a nice + while you don’t have much MP.

Blade is mainly the slowest build of them all. Not so high damage but very good at tanking. Tanking is where many things can attack it and they can withstand all the damage without dying. These are the builds who will fight on the frontline and draw all the fire towards them.

Bow is one of the least popular builds as it is not too strong and takes a long while to get a shot off and the no shield doesn’t have the ability of tanking. The bow is mainly used for PvE not PVP.

Pure Int: a very powerful build. These builds are called nukers, because of the lvl 30 and above nukes which they use to inflict massive damage from range. They are weak physically but excel in 1 hitting things. They normally wear armour for the added physical bonus.

Spear: The highest damage of the INT builds with the spears high mag attack it unleashes powerful nukes at people from far away. It lacks the ability of the sword and shield because the health is so low it can be killed easier. Normally spear users stay at the back of wars and use nukes to inflict damage on the pure STR who have hardly any mag defense.

Sword and Shield: The Sword and shield the 2nd most popular INT build. The high mag attack of the sword and the brilliant defense and block of the shield is a powerful adversary in PVP. It excels against other nukers because of the block ratio and the ability to tank more than a spear user. It does not inflict as much as a spear but it still is 1 of the best builds in the game.

Bow: The pure INT bow is normally used to lvl from 1-30 because it is the fastest. As soon has you get nukes at level 30 you no longer need a bow, you should switch to a spear or sword and shield. A pure INT bow has hardly any defense and a low mag damage. A bad build really.

Hybrids: The new craze in builds. A hybrid can be classed as Str or Int or Equal. This corresponds to how many INT and Str points they put at each level. Example is a 2:1 build INT. This means every level they put 2 points on INT and 1 on STR

Hybrid INT: This is a powerful build as it has the good damage of a nuker and the physical defense of a str. These normally use INT weapons (EG spear or sword and shield.)

STR Hybrid: This build I’m not too knowledgably in. It is less powerful than a pure str but has the magical defense needed sometime to beat pure INT’s in battle.

1:1 Hybrid: This build has equal points so every 2 levels they put 2 on str and 1 on int then next level 2 on int 1 on str etc… These builds are not Extremely powerful in any way and are to very common.

Leveling: Leveling favors pure INT’s the ability to do great damage from far away and 1 hit white monster is a good xp gainer. Pure STR have to run to their target put their ability to attack more than 1 monster at a time helps them gain more xp. Hybrids are the slowest levelers as they don’t excel in anyway.

Introduction to Jobs in Silkroad Online

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Jobs are a massive part in silkroad. Once you hit level 20 you will notice that you can wear a job suit. There are 3 different jobs: Trader, Hunter and Thief. This article will explain all the three.

Trader: As a trader it is your job to get special goods from 1 town to another without letting your transport die or you die. You can buy transports from the stable along with potions to heal your transport.

Once you have a transport you can summon it and exchange with the trade merchant. He will sell you special goods.

The amount of goods you buy can affect if a player thief can attack you! a 1 star trade cannot be attacked by a player thief, but a 2 star and above can. Once you have your goods transport and pots you have to walk from your town to the next town. Let’s say Jangan to Donwhang. Some good tips can be found on this forums as i am not a trader but the basic idea is to survive . Try and stay off of the main roads and when your using the ferry try and run the last 400 meters or so because your transport will automatically teleport with you. Every so often NPC thieves will appear, depending on your number of stars the amount of thieves will spawn. They will try and attack your transport and you. Try and kill them fast to get them out of your way. Once you’re in Donwhang you can sell your special goods to the trade shop for normally around 300-400% the profit.

Hunter: A hunters job is to export a trader from 1 town to another killing the thieves that try and kill the trader. As a hunter you can be attacked by thieves so WATCH OUT for high player thieves. Normally you get paid by the trader for protecting him or you just escort because he’s a friend or a guild member or you just want the Job experience. Hunter job is very simple kill thieves

Thieves: This is the job i like, the most exciting job thieving. As a player thief you need a few things, first you need a transport and some pots, and you NEED bandit den return scrolls. You can get these by going to Jangan and going behind the stable and speaking

to the girl. Your job is to kill traders or their transports in order to obtain their goods. You CANNOT attack a 1 star trader but their is a method known as 1 star popping.

This involves obtaining goods and using the thieves that spawn to kill your transport but making it so they attack the traders transport. Normally you have to be a higher level so that the trader cannot kill your thieves. Once you’ve collected the loot you activate your return scroll and go and hide from hunters while you wait for it to activate. Hunters can kill you as thieves and you can kill them, a vicious cycle

Silkroad online Tips on Transport and Pets

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Once you get at level 10 you will be able to ride a Red Horse, Transports like horses are good from moving from A – B, if your training and want to get there fast from your town it’s easier to ride on a horse. You get Red Horses at level 10 then Shadow Horses at level 30 and so on, each higher horse has more HP.

Trader transports are different to normal horses. They have an inventory where you can put special goods from the trade shop. There are camels and horses and Fire oxes. Horses are faster have the least HP but have a smaller Inventory, better for 1* trades. Camels are slower but have more HP and a bigger inventory, good for multi star trades. Fire oxes are slower have massive HP and massive inventory.

Pet’s are also a big part in Silkroad online. There are 2 types of pet: Wolfs and Inventory pets. Wolf’s you get from level 5 for 1 million gold from the stable, They start at level 1 and you can level them up just by fighting, they will fight automatically whatever you fight or if you order them to they will attack other things, they grow bigger as their levels increase and at level 40 they grow into a big wolf :p that looks really cool.

There are 2 types of wolf: White and grey, There is NO difference in their attack or HP, just appearance and that you have to buy white wolves using silk via Item Mall (See #6). Wolfs need healing when their hp goes low and when their hunger goes low you need to feed it using HGP pots. To revive a wolf it costs 50k.

Inventory pets are good pets to have. They have their own inventory and will pick up any items that monsters drop. This is better because it gives you more time to kill things instead of picking up your items that monsters drop. There are : Monkey, Rabbit, Squirrel and Bunny. They are all the same and last 1 month when you buy them via item mall. Every month they will pass away and you have to buy a resuscitation clock from the item mall to get another month of life. Wolfs can be killed but inventory pets cannot.

Silkroad online Tips on Party, Guild and Union

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Once you hit level 5 you will be able to form a party, a party is a big part of Silkroad online. A party with Exp Distrubution will give you 10% more Xp when full! A party with 8 players is good for trading and thieving as you can see each other on the map and chat with each other.

A Guild is also a massive part of Silkroad, You can create a guild at lvl 20 for a fee of 500k Gold. Once you’ve created your guild you can recruit your friends or people in the game to be your friends in the guild. Once you start training while in the guild you’ll notice for every 1 SP you get you’ll earn 1 GP for your guild.

You’ll notice if you press “U” there’s a bar with a % Once this bar is full you can go to the guild master in the town and level up your guild for a fee, It’s 3 million gold from lvl 1-2 9 million gold from 2-3 (Need help don’t know how much :p). Once your guild is lvl 2 you can invite another guild to be in a union.

A Union is a group of Guilds a maximum of 8 guilds that can chat to each other using the Union chat and also hold events together. Union guilds names will appear green to you.

Overall Parties, Guilds and Unions are the biggest part in Silkroad online because talking to friends makes the time go faster while grinding.

Silkroad online Tips on Quests

Friday, September 16th, 2011

Quests can be one of the biggest parts of Silkroad online. Maybe you feel that they have little fun, but they are definitely helpful to you while grinding. Here are some tips on quests.

The most basic quests are: Item Collection, Monster Killing and Transporting goods. The first quest you will do is part of the tutorial for which tell you to “hunt 30 mangyangs” So, if you kill 30 mangyangs, you will complete the quest. Item collection is the quest for which you kill monsters and collect small purple quest bags which drop randomly. These are your quest items. Transporting quests are the easiest quests. They require you to run from 1 town or place to another and deliver or speak to someone, and then to run back for your reward.

There are some tips and tricks for quests; nice little bugs that make the quests give free xp with little or no effort. Example: Big Win quest level 26: Collect 200 Gun Powder bombs. Go and collect the 200 bombs. Then, instead of finishing the quest, put the 200 bombs in your storage and go speak to Yeosun. She will congratulate you and give you the reward for the quest! Free xp! Now go back to your storage and take out the 200 bombs. Now use a return scroll and the quest will be completed again.

Silkroad online Guide to beginners

Friday, September 16th, 2011

If you’re a newbie to this game then you’ll probably be confused by all the writing, people talking and why you have a leaf next to your name the best thing to do is do the first quest. It will say “Speak to the General in front of the south gate, but actually he is at the west gate so head over to the west gate. Speak to him and read all of what he has to say and follow his instructions.

Take your time learning the controls movement and camera rotation etc.. Once you have almost finished that quest he will ask you to go hunt 30 Mangyangs. Mangyangs are the lowest level monster on the game and you will find them just outside nearly every gate. Once you have finished this quest you should have a better understanding of the game.

You’ll find that once you level up a little “+” sign comes up by your name, if you click this it will open a menu and you can put 3 points either into STR = Strength or INT = Intelligence

STR gives you more physical damage which is better for: Blade, glaive and bow’s. INT will give you more magical damage which is better for: Sword’s and spears. STR points raise your maximum HP and INT points raise your MP.

Your HP will decrease every time you are hit by a monster and MP will decrease every time you use a skill. You’ll notice a yellow bar above your EXP bar, these are Skill Points or SP. SP is a greatly needed thing in Silkroad. With SP you can learn new skills and upgrade the skills you have already. Example: At level 5 you can raise your mastery in let’s say fire. You have raised your Fire Force skill to 5 now a shaded box with a sword on fire should appear with a blue box underneath. When you click this box it will open a box saying the skill you want to learn and the amount of SP needed.

Masteries are the biggest part in silkroad, without them there would be no game. You’ll notice when you press “S” there is a new menu. Below the picture explains.

If you want to raise more than 2 skills you’ll need to SP farm (See #10). You’ll notice that you have to rest a lot when you don’t have herbs or potions, so i’d say sell all stuff that the monsters drop and try to buy as many herbs as you can of each MP and HP.

If you press “T” a menu will appear, this is the auto-pot feature. It will say HP recovery then a % then quick slot #. Let’s say you have 240 HP, an herb recovers 120 so you slide the bar to 50% so when your health drops to half it will heal you fully. The quick slot number is the bar at the bottom. So put your HP herb at number 9 select quick slot number 9 on the f1 belt and it should work.

Tips on Enhancing Items with Elixirs in Silkroad Online

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Here is a guide to how to use elixirs to improve your items based on previous posts.

Each time you wish to enhance an item, you need three major components.

1) The Item to Enhance. The item can be anything you wear on your character, provided you have the proper elixir.

2) The Proper Elixir. There are four kinds of elixirs including Intensify Elixir (Weapon) for enhancing melee and ranged weapon, Intensify Elixir (Protector) for enhancing armor, and armor pieces, Intensify Elixir (Accessory) for enhancing rings and jewelry, and Intensify Elixir (Shield) for shields of course.

3) Lucky Powder. It depends on the ‘degrees’ of the weapon.

Enhancing an item does not always work. It’s a luck chance. This is what the lucky powder is for. When the chance fails, you lose ALL previous enhancements you placed on the weapon! Each weapon has a ‘degrees’. This is the degree of the lucky powder you need to use.

Some items have special bonuses for alchemy. Most bonuses have charges. Each time you mix the weapon, it will use one of these charges. If it was Steady 3 times before the mix, it will be Steady 2 times after mixing.

Steady: If the enhancement fails, it has better chances not to lose the previous enhancements.

Luck: Same as the lucky powder. Adds a little more luck on an item and improves your chance of success.

Immortality: Increases the chances your weapon won’t break.

Let’s begin with the Mix.

In this guide I am going to enhance a chest protector. Not all items are worth enhancing! The cost you could pay for an elixir could well exceed the worth of the final item, especially if you have lower level items, and you’re going to toss them away soon. It’s probably NOT worth using an expensive elixir to enhance it.

First, put all three items into my inventory, and open the ‘Alchemy’ menu under ‘Actions’. There is a spot for each item on the Alchemy window. When everything is ready, we press ‘Joint’ and pray the enhancement is a success. Remember, it doesn’t always work. If it was successful, you will see this message in your chat window.

If the enhancement is a success, you will see additional bonuses on items. There is no fixed bonus. If we compare the result below with the original item, we have a little more physical and magic defense, and +1 to Intel. You don’t always get bonuses to your stats – so this is a lucky mix!