Age of Wushu is a free-to-play 3D martial arts action MMORPG, developed by Chinese company Snail. The game revolves around the Wuxia-inspired lore surrounding martial arts and adventures in Ming Dynasty China. The European version, Age of Wulin, which had been published by Webzen, closed in July 2017, with players being given the option of. Age of Wushu will be growing on January 14th with the arrival of the Transcendence expansion. Along with a new location, quests, gear and more, players will have access to.

Age of Wushu New Player’s Comprehensive Guide by HieprSA

Table of Contents

Your First Day
Story
Controls
Quests
Tutorials
Advanced Questing
Kung Fu
Yet More Story
A Word About Mobs
Almost Done With Story
Picking a School, Finally
Welcome to School
What the Hell is a Jianghu?
Real Kung Fu
Back Home
Life Skills
Martial Instances
MORE Story
About Hotkeys
Game Systems
Experience and Cultivation
Flying Skills
PvP
Arrays
Money
Life Skills
Equipment
Internal Skills
Spying
Maps

Your first day

I’m going to walk you through the first session of play, all the way through choosing your martial arts school and finishing off your starting story. These steps would, in any other game, be the tutorial, and you’d finish it knowing how to play. In AoW, you’ll finish it just as baffled as you started, if not more so. So I’ll try to make things as clear as I can, so that when you reach the point where the game actually starts, you’ll hopefully want to keep playing.
Story

Your first choice when you launch the game is typical AoW: there’s no real indication as to what you’re choosing or why. There are four starting stories, each of which starts you in a different town, and each of which has slightly different rewards. If you don’t care one way or another, pick Nameless Sword; it has a unique and totally useless skill as a reward that’s occasionally fun to use. Otherwise, choose the one that sounds most interesting to you. Fair warning: A Scholar’s Legend will dump you in Chengdu, the busiest town in the game.

Story

Controls

When you enter the game, you’ll be offered a choice between ‘traditional’ and ‘special’ controls. Do yourself a favor and pick ‘special’. Mobility is extremely important in PvP in this game, and the traditional controls are slow and will get you killed. If you’re a veteran of other MMOs, it may take a bit to get used to the controls, but you’ll be a better and more effective player for having done so.

By the way, you’ll probably notice lots of text that ends with an ellipsis. This is because Chinese is a very compact written language, and English isn’t. They didn’t change the UI much at all when they localized, so long English strings are trying to cram into spaces that are only big enough for two characters of Chinese. You can sometimes mouse over the label to get a pop-up with the full text, but sometimes you can’t. Get used to it.

A piece of UI will now appear, labeled ‘Experience Guide’. Feel free to read it, if you like, but I’m going to cover everything that’s in it, and I’ll do it in English instead of Google-translated English. Close it and move on.

You’ve got some other configuration to do, as well. Press ESC to bring up the main menu, and click the Interface Options button. On the left side, select the Mouse button. At the top, change Left-Click to the second option, Control Camera. You’re thinking, ‘But I use the right button to do that!’ Not in this game you don’t. You’ll be using the right button for something else. Trust me.

Next, click the Battle button on the left side. In the lower right corner is a button that says ‘Advance’. Click it for the advanced battle settings. I’ll quickly run through the ones you should set.

Switch the unlabeled radio button from Manual Mode to Auto Mode. This will make you automatically parry when attacked. This is not always a good thing, and in PvP it’s very dangerous, but as a new player you’ll find it comes in handy (Note: If you suffer from High Ping you may want to keep it on). You can turn it off later when you start to see its limitations.

Next, turn off Super Skill Movie Effects. This makes a cinematic moment out of using your Rage skill — more on those later. The thing is, you’re going to use the Rage skills a lot, and you will get sick of the cinematic really quickly. If you want to play with it on, go ahead, but remember where this setting is for later when you’ve had enough.

Next turn on the option that begins with ‘Under Non-Fighting State…’. This lets you block when you’re not in combat. You will want to be able to do this, for a variety of reasons.

Finally, turn on Practice Quickly. This makes your ground-targeted AOE skills execute as soon as you release the button, instead of requiring you to click again. It’s amazing how much faster this makes you, and in PvP you will need to be fast.

Don’t forget to click Apply when you’re done, and then Confirm and Apply your way out of these menus.

Quests

Ok, on to the game. In the upper right, just under your minimap, you’ll see the quest guide. Notice that there’s a green name there. That’s clickable, and when you click it you will start walking to that person automatically. Get comfortable with autopathing; you will use it constantly in this game, and it’s by far the simplest way to navigate the tangled mess that is their quest system. Click the name now to start your story quest.

(The game suggests using F9 to hide players. Remember this as it can come in handy later, but you probably don’t need to do it now.)

When you get to the target you’ll automatically start talking to him (assuming you autopathed there; if you didn’t, click on him to talk to him). When you talk to NPCs, the little scroll icon means ‘start or continue a quest’, and the door means ‘leave the dialogue’. Make your way through the NPC’s conversation.

You’ll get a quest rewards screen in the upper left. All the rewards you get are important, but for now just ignore it and continue; the rewards are automatically given to you so don’t worry about missing anything. Occasionally you’ll need to make a choice of one of a set of items for the reward; do that by clicking the icon of the thing you want, and then continue the conversation.

Tutorials

The game’s tutorials are sometimes helpful and sometimes baffling. Generally they start with a popup like this one: a mouse and an icon. Click the icon to continue the tutorial. This first tutorial is totally useless: it tries to teach you just how amazing it is to give them money. It is amazing, but you won’t realize that for a day or two at least. Eventually, in any tutorial, a button that says ‘Skip Guide’ will appear. Skip this one.

You’re looking at the Experience and Cultivation UI now. It looks like a space station. I’ll explain how experience works later, after the walkthrough; you really, really don’t need to know it yet. Close this UI. Don’t try to make sense of it.

Advanced Questing

Use the quest guide in the upper right to autopath your way to the next NPC — it might be the same one, or it might be someone different. Generally, if the guide isn’t telling you who to talk to next, talk to the last guy again. This is a good rule of thumb when doing quests: exhaust an NPC’s conversation options by talking to them again and again, because many quests require three or more interactions with the same guy to complete.

At this point you’re probably wandering across town and you’re seeing a lot of characters. There are three types of people you’ll see.

NPCs have green names and can sometimes be talked to.

Online players have white names and a symbol next to their name. The symbol tells whether they’re a jerk or not, but don’t rely on it. Like so many of the game’s morality systems, the symbol is totally gameable. One use for the morality system is how it interacts with the Random Encounter system.

Offline players have white names and no symbol. They also act like NPCs, and have boring titles like ‘Waiter’ and ‘Courtesan’. When you’re offline in AoW, your character might take a job and earn you some money. That’s what those

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