Jade Dynasty Walkthrough

Jade Dynasty FAQ.
1. Beginner's Guide
2. Classes
3. Crafting
4. Refining
5. Espers
6. Pets
7. Honor
8. Events
9. Quests
10. Clans and Alliances
11. Battlegrounds
12. Tier 4
Alright, welcome to Jade Dynasty. I decided to write this FAQ as there were no
others available and I had a ton of questions that I had wanted to be compiled
into one easy to use file, rather then randomly ssearching for each individual
thing, sifting and lurking, from forum to forum. Insert legal info here, I own
this, tis my property and everyone can freely use this except for profit.
(Unless of course I reap benefits)
Currently I have finished the beginner's section, and will continue working on
the classes and their respective quests as I go. I'm trying to just fill in
info for the other sections as well, and will update them as more info becomes
available. I just want something on GameFAQ's now so that people have hope. I'm
writing this at work so I get a good amount done each day lately. My e-mail is
rt_rulz@hotmail.com but I don't check it regularly and even if you send me a
message I may not reply, I'll read it and try to make adjustments as per your
request or additions etc, but depending on the amount of people e-mailing me I
may not reply to all. Honestly, I have never e-mailed a FAQ writer before so I
anticipate the e-mails to be low at best.Also, I know the format I have it
explained in right now is not the best, I'll be refining the look of the FAQ as
I go.
Credits where credit is due, mostly all extra credit goes to a man named Sirk
who does most of the experimenting and uses his hard earned gold to test things
like the bloodsmelting. Other then that, open debate on forums, but no one in
particular gave me the info. I end up figuring out what I can using the age old
skill called trial by fire. New Credits to Alliandra for info on BG's and
Tier 4, that info for now is right from his exerpts on our guild forum.
1. Beginner's Guide.
Beginning of the game, time to make a character. Although gender is not life
determining for your characters stats or development, there are some perks to
both sides. Being male allows you to invite females onto your mounts and you
must also be the leader of the group for any romance quests, whilst females
must be the opposite. This can make at times your sex more desirable at times.
especially depending on the rarity on the realm. Generally speaking male and
female characters are about equal on the server. Sexist as it may be, tis the
way of the romance novel inspired game. Also note that females cannot date
females nor males other males.
Ok, so once you have your character's appearance figured out and are ready to
enter the game. At the beginning you will be in front of Tanis Ka and there are
some tutorials which you should read. Then go get your quests from Tanis Ka; he
has a few as I write this, which is of the time in the beta version of the game
"Future Heroes" - This quest is a daily which allows you to obtain starter gear
for whichever class you wish to be, unless you are already sure of which class
you want to be and have ample bag space, there is no need to do this right away
but you could use the gear to practice refining them on your way up to have
some pretty good gear at those levels. If this is your first character though
it is more then likely unaffordable to refine and thus of no use currently.
"God's Blessing" - This quest is of EXTREME importance. For one, it doubles
your grinding experience for 2 hours and he also gives you two gem like items
which increase your attack and defence by a great deal when used. These last
for 8 hours and the buffs are also daily, which means you should always do them
before heading out in the world.
"LunarShade Stone" - This quest gives you a stone which restores energy for
espers, as of right now energy restoration is almost completely unneccessary
until level 45 if you have a skysword and level  90 if you want to use esper
invigorate.
Tanis Ka  has another quest which you should get, note the color of this quest
is different then the others and is more of a golden color, this is a
"mandatory quest". Now I use the word mandatoy as the game does, but as far as
I can tell it isn't actually mandatory for any particular purpose although it
may become so later on. The quest will send you to the blacksmith.
Now this is more of a skill / side note. When you receive a quest you can
access the quest info by pressing the "Q" button or by clicking on the fourth
icon on your options bar. It will list all quests you are currently on as well
as you can track the quest so it show up on your main screen (HUD). But that's
not all, clicking on the quest details you will see the person to return the
quest to and, if any, the monsters to kill. They will also be written in green
font. This font stands for auto-routing, which means basically, when you click
on the NPC's name you will auto-walk to wherever he is. Very handy, and a great
thing to implement in any game I think, especially if you can't find the NPC.
Alright so now you make it to the blacksmith, either by auto-routing or finding
him on your own (he's not very far). Now for multiple interactions. This guy is
a vendor which of course means he sells things, generally poor quality things
you can get anywhere, and also you can sell him things. But you want to talk to
him about the quest since you have no money. So when you talk to him there will
be multiple options, "Weapons" and "Quest Related." Picking quest related
allows you to complete quests. Once complete he will let you choose a weapon,
sword or staff. Pick whatever you want, although it won't really matter just
yet. Also note that the staff is actually a ranged weapon so think of it more
like a bow or stick that's shooting magic.
After that, he will give you a quest to go talk to the tailor. Repeat and get
your armor. Now there are a lot of people with quests round here but try to do
the mandatory ones. Eventually you will get your esper quest while most will
send you to meet the locals. In this game, an esper is not what you may think
it is. I thought an esper was going to be a huge creature of magic wielding
abilities. In this it's more like a mystical item/lifeform, which can cast a
spell but more importantly control your character while you are busy doing
something else.
Chi Beast Quest. You'll get a couple quests to kill these. Now this quest is
kind of difficult at times mostly because auto-routing won't exactly work but
using your eyes won't really help either. You need to kill a chi beast, to
capture it's soul or something to that effect and return. Use auto-routing to
go where the chi beast is supposed to be. Now if you are lucky it will be there
but usually this is not the case. Stay put and wait for a huge guy called
Enlighenment Guru. He will eventually summon chi -beasts.
"Esper Tutorial"
Alright so now you have an esper, it's skills and stats suck but it's better
then nothing and that's not the true value of having an esper. Equip the esper
and bind it to you, don't worry too much or think you can't sell it to someone;
anyone can buy this esper among many others for a small fee, as a beginner
though, a free esper beats saving 10 silver for one. Now you will have some new
action bars and more buttons to push. Let's look at the bottom action bar. It
consists of a sword to the left that will light up once your espers energy is
half full, simply having your esper equipped will slowly accumulate energy.
This sword represents a skill called "Invigorate" which every esper has.
Invigorate causes your esper to control your characters actions and lower brain
functions. It can fight, heal, and loot for you, as of right now I don't see
many other things that can be done with invigorate as the command options are
minimal. However, this also means that's it is extremely easy to bot in the
game. In fact it's promoted, to allow casual gamers a chance to level up and
keep up with friends even if they don't always have time to play.
Invigorate is a bit more complex then that though. It's not simply click here
and you start doing all that. Esper settings is below and to the right of the
sword to get to esper settings and this allows you to pick which monsters to
target. Another thing about this bar is the slots that say HP SP and EN. place
your healing items in here and your esper will use them at set intervals and
situations. This is initally setup at 50%. I usually at lower levels turn the
esper attack off and leave healing on, that way I will auto-potion when
necessary but only fight when I decide too.
The blue action bar has a hand to the right which is clickable and allows you
to adjust the TIME the esper will try casting that spell. This means every "x"
amount of seconds you are invigorating the esper will try and cast that spell.
To get more spells in here move your skills into the blue action bar but not
into the settings spots as it won't go in. Later on, Energy becomes important
as it is drained as invigorate is used but initially you can sell your
lunarshade stones as they waste space. The auto-loot can also be customized to
decide what to pick up, or what not to pick up as well.
"End Tutorial"
Ok, Weapons, check. Esper, check. Pet.. wait what. That's right, Everyone of
every class can have pets, note the plural. You can have multiple pets, well 2
initially but it is possible to expand upon this up to 32 pets. Ironically just
continue the mandatory quests and it will send you to kill a chi beast to
complete the quest to get your first pet. This pet will always be either a
Woody Pig or a Dryadling, however his skills and personality will be different
every time. This is also one of the "immortal" pets. Which basically means it
talks and is better then your average pet.
Once you have the pet item in your bag go talk to the pet master beside Tommo
and tame your pet, after that equip the pet and you can now summon and later on
do other things with them. Pet options are available under the "P" button so be
sure to review them. Also be sure to notice belly and age. While most stats the
pet have are similar to yours these ones are special. Belly is hunger,
basically the pet needs to be fed in order to keep it happy, and if your pet
age reaches max the pet dies, but not like needs revival, more like cannot be
revived unless you have items to reduce age or reincarnate the pet...yes
immortal pets can be reincarnated, hence immortal.
You're just about done in Sunstream. There are tons of quests here you can try
to do but many quests will be for higher levels or require items from the cash
shop. It may feel when first seeing this city that the game requires a lot of
real money to play but once you leave this city and get to the next you won't
really see these quests around anywhere else. Just quest around a bit keep
trying to do mandatories until you reach level 9.
At Level 9, you can do a craftsman's quest which will allow you to make your
own gear. The quest requires a meager 5 copper blocks which by this time I had
already aquired and was saving for unknown reasons. (It said crafting material,
I ain't going to just vend it.) However if you don't have enough they drop off
everything that has it's name written in white, pink or red.  Things with names
that are green or grey have an extremely low drop rate and give less
experience. Complete the quest and now you can craft by pressing the "O"
button. You can get recipes and supplemental crafting mats from the Craftsman,
the rest will have to be collected from monsters or players.
"Skill points"
Every time you have gotten a level you have also gotten a skill point which can
be added into the tree, however at this level should no longer spend any points
into initiate skills if you already used them. At maximum use 9 skill points
in the initiate tree, otherwise these points will be wasted because they can
actually be used in higher trees if saved up!
Other types of quests. There are tons of quests and they all have a different
use. Romance quests are aquired from getting tonni tokens from Tonni next to
Tanis Ka, then a male invites a female to his group and talks to the Elder
Matchmaker. Career quests are generally about crafting, pets, equipment and
other forms of gear/item like quests. I generally do most of these. Voyage
quests are about going places and usually some jumping which will require some
skill to know how to get around town and make the jumps to the spots. These get
easier as you get speed increasing abilities like charge, or a skysword.
Classic quests are completely random as far as difficulty, most quests
available to you are level based but a lot of classics aren't well positioned,
I'm not sure why they are classic, mayhaps it has something o do with the novel
but as of right now I don't know. Allright do these basic quests, or if you
find it hard to find them now, look for the Dispatcher. He has repeatable
"Trial quests" which generally involve killing a set amount of a monster, then
go talk to someone, which helps earn enough experience to hopefully get to
level 15.
Level 15, just about the end of the beginner's section. Once you reach level 15
and have done most of your mandatory quests you should get a choosing your
faction quest. This will determine which "faction" also known as a class in
common gaming language and will determine all your future skills and gear
selection. Each class has a specific trial which you will have to overcome.
"Fast Travel"
Once you are a certain level can you speak to the skylord of any town and ask
them to teleport you to any other town for a nominal fee, the choices are
dependent on your level but it beats walking to all the new provinces
everytime, since it's instantaneous.
2. Classes
So it's time to pick a class, and the 5 choices aren't exactly well explained
in the name. Mage, Warrior, etc. classes like that are easily identifiable. But
what's a Modo, Jadeon, Skysong, Lupin, and Vim? We'll start with a small
overview of each class which will include it's trial quest which is needed to
become said class.
"Jadeon"
The Jadeon represent the good and just people, and all of them use swords
because the founder used swords. However this doesn't make them knight or
warriors at all, in fact they are probably the most offensive magic class in
the game or at least on par with modo. So they are more like a blade mage. They
have low health and are a apparently a tough starter class especially since you
want to save all the skill points for the bigger badder aoes and get the small
passive skills from the lower tiers. This makes levelling a Jadeon difficult
for a while but since you can auto-grind the lower levels and aoe is very nice
higher levels Jadeon will eventually be one of the faster levelers. The jury is
still out on whether they are the worst or the best. Some say they are ungodly
PvP and good PvE, others say they get raped in PvP but are the highest dps'ers
in PvE. My assumption is of course that it may be build related as this can
effect your character greatly.
"Jadeon Quests"
Tier 1. The first Jadeon quest is very easy, simply head over to the Jadeon
province ad talk to the locals in the main city, they will send you out to
kill some ebony monkeys which happen to be right outside the city, and return.
Huzzah you are a Jadeon, enjoy the sword.
Tier 2. The second Jadeon quest becomes available at level 45. You will be sent
to Sunstream to talk to Tanis Ka. He will send you out to get enlightenment;
similar to the south park montage of killing boars. Kill 250 in 20 minutes. I
recommend turning invigorate on and choosing quest mobs only in esper settings
then turning off all your skills for esper casting and let your character do
his auto-attack non stop. I find they can target faster then me since it's a
robot. Or you could find someone who has aoe and have them go level a couple
fields of boars at a time.
Tier 3. Tier 3 is extremely easy. Just do a run around through Sunstream and
kill 50 level 1 wolves. Not much to it at all. Congrats, Tier 3.
"Modo"
The Modo represent the evil in purest form I guess, since Good and Evil are
fighting side by side. Modo are a Druid, Warlock combo with some warrior
attributes as well. They can change forms into more melee and magical specific
as well as cast certain skills in certain forms. Modo are commonly discussed as
of course the most versatile class, and the possibility lying in the player to
be the best. A good Modo can dominate all aspects of the game. They are pretty
much average everything with no true weakness, but the skills allow them to
change the stats around to create weakness' for strengths. I might also add
that they are very cool looking.
"Modo Quests"
Tier 1. The first Modo quest is HARD, or at least it can be depending on luck
and available people on site. You will be sent to Doom Bog to meet a Modo named
Mr. Gho, he is just outside the local city to the west and you can generally
make it to the town by following the road or casting town portal once in Doom
Bog, but there are 2 mobs very close by that almost always aggro when someone
level 15 walks by to Mr. Gho. Either watch the path and talk to him when the
ghosts are as far away as possible or have someone protect you. You could also
send your pet towards one of the monsters as they come at you.
"Skysong"
The Skysong are another faction for good, and represent the healers of the game
but also have some massive attacks skills. Skysong are commonly referred to as
the most valuable class due to healing and also one of the easiest classes to
level as your first character, mostly due to the fact that you can set-up your
esper to cast the healing spell on you at a fairly common rate and you will
never die, and barely spend money on pots. The less you spend on pots the more
you make and the better things in life you can afford.
"Lupin"
The Lupin are the assassin, ninja, Xena type class. They have an awesome
looking, massive bladed circular object called a glaive in this game which once
you see it will be obvious that it is not a glaive, more like a chakram with a
handle; which you throw and then miraculously catch. Lupin focus on high
damage, critical, good mobility, and spirit draining techniques. They are close
range fighters mostly even though they throw the glaive it is very short range.
A good class and although it seems limited in styles, tomes and tier skills
will allow you to have the caracter meet your specifications.
"Vim"
The Vim are the other evil faction. They are the Tank, Necromancer type class.
which is always a good combo, I will note that they are not near as broken as
the death knights in World of Warcraft, despite the similarites in that
sentence above. These are in my opinion second place for your first character
and are surely not a bad choice. They have the highest defense rating of all
the classes which means they get hit for the least damage, meaning less potion
usage. Not as great as the SP-HP conversion of a Skysong, but still very good.
Vim are known for being one of the far better PvP classes early on but like any
melee class in late game, ranged seems to always have more benefits.
3. Crafting
Remember back in the basics how we talked about learning to craft and doing the
quest? Hopefully so because I'm not going over that part again. So it's time to
craft and you want to make some Celestial gear. Early on crafting doesn't make
much sense since you could buy the item from a vendor or get it free from Tanis
Ka at higher levels, but eventually you are going to wish you had crafting.
Which means you should level it as you level, otherwise accumulating the mats
to improve your crafting will become near impossible to gather.
"Laws of Loot"
By near impossible to gather I really mean it. Once you get above a certain
level enemies names start turning green and then grey, once they are dark green
or grey they almost never drop loot for you which means you never get items.
Now consider the first crafting items are dropped by level 1-20 monsters, you
can get yourself locked out of crafting pretty easily unless you want to make
an alternate character for farming, or buy them from the Shady Vendor for 10
silver a piece.
Basically, materials come in 4 or so general types.
Crafting Materials - These drop regularily off mobs and usually say "Used in
crafting" They have 4 types as well, ore, yarns, cloths, and hides.
Class Materials - These drop in a rarer quantity off mobs and say the same
thing as above but also "Used in making (class name) gear" you usually only
need one of these to make a piece of gear but as space may become an issue you
may want to only collect your personal factions gear.
Supplemental Materials - These mats are bought from the crafting store guy but
can very rarely drop from monsters.
Rare items - Some recipes will require very rare items usually aquired through
quests. Although most of these are for much higher level items and currently
many of there locations are unknown to me, but I may make a list later.
Alright so you got a couple stacks of mats and it's time to make something out
of yourself. But first you must know how to make the item. Recipes randomly
drop from all monsters but at a generally low rate, but don't worry as almost
all the low level crafting recipes can be bought for next to nothing from the
craftsman. Once you have a recipe right click to learn it, and then you simply
press "O" and pick the ones you want to craft.
There are special recipes from different places as well that can be aquired.
Some drop randomly from monsters, some can be bought from different vendors
like the Dreamland Vendor who walks around in Sunstream usually. She sells
Recipes for powerful charms but those charms need materials from another quest,
which is aquired from beads from another quest.
Also, pets have crafting as well. Learning the pet recipes seemingly require
you to have a set amount of crafting skill as well the pet has to have a
certain amount of aptitude which can't be increased, except with civility
titles but it's only for crafting. I'll get more into the pet stats later for
now we focus on the crafting aspect. You will get a set of recipes when you get
a pet to level 60 as they can now actually start crafting. The pet master will
give you some start off materials as well and you simply need to gather the
materials you can to match the required mats to make the material by sending
the pet out to forage. Pet crafting works the same way, gather the mats, get
the recipe and make the item, the only difference is pets need certain
aptitudes to make certain equipment.
4. Refining
Crafting gear is good but there are only a few pieces of gear anyone can make
per level. In order to increase your crafting level you are going to have to
make like 20 extra weapons anyways. Now you may find someone willing to buy
these clean weapons and they will go do the refining more then likely OR, you
could refine them yourself. If you  kept your special mats for your class then
you should be able to refine some gear for yourself of a reasonable quality at
a reasonable price.
In order to refine/imbue you are going to need some talismans, a piece of gear
you want to make stronger, and a small amount of cash. Talismans drop off
monsters at a very common rate, the only ones really worth keeping are the
refinery ones and the stats you are looking for in particular so pick a couple
stats and stick with it. I usually pick Attack, Defense and Evasion, but this
is all personal preference and will also depend on your character.
Refining is a dangerous process which will make a piece of gear better, to an
extent, but at the risk of breaking it. When you refine a helmet it gives
additional Spirit, and the bonus is on an exponential scale, which means that
refine +3 is almost twice as good as refine + 2, and refine +4 is almost twice
as good as refine +3. Boots follow the same principle but with health. However
no matter how well refined these pieces become the main stats, defense never
increase.
The chest armor increases the defense attribute, it's not at such a grand
scale, but defense is better in my personal opinion. Considering the amount of
health potions you will ingest in an 8 hour overnight grind, we'll say 600 for
this example, you are going to receive about 216000 points of damage. the
health bonus is good but unless you get a percent bonus for having these extra
health points to another stat like attack or defense (Modo's have some skills
relative to this for example) then the additional health is not as effective as
say getting hit for 10 points less damage every hit. 10 defense extra while
getting hit for say 50 damage over night is a 20% save on potions.
Weapon refinement is the other piece where refining is important. I won't go in
to the math but it's of a similar philosophy. The more damage ou do the less
time the monster lives and the less damage it does to you, but also the more
monsters you can kill in a smaller period of a time which means more xp and
loot.
I try to refine my Armor and Weapon to Refine +4 and the boots and helm can be
anything doesn't matter to me. Basically the common process of elimination can
be used to refine gear.. Craft 10 swords or however many you can, then grab
some talismans and go to the enchanter. and try and refine them up to +1, then
move to +2 and continue until you only have one weapon left. That's the one you
use. For future atempts just try refining the new piece to match the old ones
refine + level. Then try and refine one of them again usually the new one since
the old one probably will have imbuements, and if it works you have a new piece
to work with. If not, well you still have your good piece without risking it.
Imbuing works exactly the same as refining except that failing doesn't cause
the piece to break so do imbuements after you are done refining something, also
you can pick which stats to imbue and they require a specific talisman (Don't
worry though they are everywhere) If the imbue fails all imbue is removed so
you have to restart the imbue from scratch but that's not a huge set-back. You
should easily get the imbue to match the refine, and I usually imbue my helm
and boots more then the refinery, since the stat boosts I can imbue are
superior to the health & spirit boost of refinery for those pieces.
Espers
We went over the main advantages of an esper in the beginner's guide but there
is more to making an esper strong and powering it up. We'll go over a basic
explanation of what I know the esper mystic can do for you and your esper.
"Upgrading"
Each esper has a specific skill which can be used to increase it's proficiency,
which is basically esper experience points. However, an esper does not level
automaticaly it has to be unequipped and take to the esper mystic in the local
town and upgraded for a petty fee. At which point the esper will gain a level
and it's stats will increase slightly. Your esper can level up at the rate of
(Your level/5 + 2) The esper cannot be higher level then this and the
proficiency will not go up until you reach an appropriate level. It is
important to level your esper as much as possible, although I wouldn't worry
too much about the tigram, but when you get the level 15 esper from your
faction quest you will want to be using that esper as much as possible.
Upgrading can also be used on a few other things such as your skysword which
has a direct tie to the Espers, you can't ride a skysword without a full energy
esper and as you fly the espers energy is drained. Every 30 seconds to 1
minute, the skysword will gain 5 proficiency and when it is full you can
upgrade the same way you upgrade an esper. Once it has been upgraded a certain
amount of times the grade will increase, making it slightly faster. The second
grade is about 13000, and I hear the third grade is above 65000, though this
is unconfirmed.
"Catalyzing"
Eventually you are going to want to try different espers available and before
you know it after around 75, you may find yourself in need of levelling more
then one esper, but it takes a long time to level an esper. Well there is a way
around that. Some items in the game can be catalyzed with espers to instantly
increase proficiency. As of right now, the only place I have seen or heard of
the items existing in game are from the cash shop. Buying experience seems
cheap but as long as you are maintaining your espers level it is really
unneccessary. I'm at the point now where I have to go about 3 levels where the
esper can't actually level at all since it's 1 level for esper for every 5 I
get.
"Bloodsmelting"
Doesn't that sound lovely? Well for one, you get experience points of some
sort for doing it, unlike refinery, though it would be nice if people got
better at refinery. I'm not sure what the experience points for Bloodsmelting
really do but it's a nice bonus and you get titles from it so why not.
You are probably caring more about what bloodsmelting actually is though, and
wo