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Straight to the point.

I ll give you some basic information you need to know before you start playing perfect world, or if you re going to continue playing it.

Before i start i want to clarify the word "pro". It just mean i'm a very high level, and stopped playing the game few months ago. If i kept going i would be around lvl 100 now.I had a lvl 82 cleric on a PvP server.  I spent many months playing night and day, spent around 200$ on the cash shop etc.

Alright here we go. All i m gonna give you is the facts of this game, you decide yourself if you like it or not.

-Has a very big and helpful community, yes. And the forums are so crowded of helpful people. Unfortunately the PvP servers turn out to have more kids,flamers and generaly offensive people that bring competitivity to another level. There are always people that are going to help you with everything. Even if they dont have intentions to help you cause they re "good", they HAVE to help you on times, cause thats how the game is. I ll explain this. There are dungeon people call them FB's, that you have to do them every 10 levels, starting from lvl 19. Those dungeons can only be done with a squad of MUCH higher lvl players. For example , FB19 requires a squad of 40+ or maybe 50+ players to finish it without a risk. (or could get a 70+ or 80+ to solo it). So , what do those players gain and why should a help a noob like you even if they dont know you? Easy. They get XP. Each player gets the quest item for the FB only once, and that quest item gives the whole squad XP when they finish all the bosses of the instance. So my point is. You WILL get help. At least till lvl 59. After that it s getting harder.

-You may have to stick to the same 2 skills for 30 or 40 levels. All you can do is upgrading them. That is, IF you have the money to upgrade them. It turns out skills are starting to cost TOO much. Just a single upgrade of the skill "Wield thunder" might cost 1.000.000 coins.

-The game is TOO hard to level up. The ammount of XP you need to LvL up from lvl 75+ gets ridicilus . But it is pretty easy to get to 60. You re not going to go on after that if you re not a hardcore player and dont have like infinity free time. Lvling up from 85 to 86, might take 1 week+ for an average player, providing that you ve done everyday both of the daily quests, with one of them costing around 200k, from lvl 80+ , and the other one needing around 1.30 hour to do it if you dont have bought fast flying gear.

-In this game you can die very easily and you lose XP. When you die after lvl 80+ you may lose 3-4 hours of gaming just cause you died from mobs. You may drop items when someone PKs you. Even when you dont fight back and your name is white, you still have a small chance to drop something. And yes, anything in your inventory might drop. Even the 30$ wings you bought from the cash shop, or your HH80 weapon that you refined to +6 and added a flawless shard and took you 1 month to aquire...

-...but hey! you can do something so you wont drop your precious items! Have you guessed already? yes! you can use the cash shop! The cash shop, on which everything costs a reasonable amount of money(yea right). So you got paid today and want to use a bit of money to this CHEAP cash shop? alright lets do this! Lets buy the best wings for 50$, and lets buy some guardian angels so you wont drop anything if you die. Hmmm... maybe we should buy a marriage pack too? There is this venomancer i ve fallen in love with and... you know. Oh wait, how much does the marriage pack costs? 30$... oh wait again... Thats 30$ EACH.. My point is.. This game is 100% cash shop based, and its a money trap. I admit it i was a victim too. as i mentionted before , i spent around 200$ on the cash shop. Just think about this. You want to get a mount, some average flying gear, some guardian angels, and a Gold HP charm (Those are the things that auto heal you when your HP drops under 50%. And they're consumed VERY fast. Also, its almost essential that you NEED to have a charm. Not only for grinding, but especialy for instances. Noone gets you on party if you dont have HP or MP charm( depending on your class)). The cheapest mount is 10$(Without ugrading items), average flying gear is around 20$. another 5$ for a guardian angels pack, and 4$ for a single gold charm. Thats a sum of 39$. Now you should feel satisfied... or not ? Either way, few weeks later you ll find out they released new mounts, and new wings, so your items now are so "noobish". Oh, and you just realised your HP charm is almost out. You have to buy a new one yet again for 4$ or 400.000 ingame coins from a player. Oh and lets talk about refining items.... it is IMPOSSIBLE to upgrade something above +2 or +3  without  using the cash shop refine items. As the lvl of the item goes up, the price of the refining items you need to use gets ridiculously high. When i left the game, only 3 people had over +10 equipment. And they spent over 3000$ to have it.

-Classes are very imbalanced. Barbarians over lvl 70 need a squad of people to bring them down. and above lvl 80 you just cant kill them. You might tick their charm, but no, you wont kill them. Venomancers are overpowered too. Since Perfect world released the phoenix(Which costs around 250$), venos are unbeatable. You might be a lvl 80 players and PvP with a lvl 60 venomancer with a phoenix. Dont bother try that. she going to bring you down in seconds. Well, not her actualy, but her phoenix. Also, venos can solo almost every instance if they have a hercules pet (cash shop item too)

Edit: Forgot about this, dont let the countless quests at low levels trick you. Yes you can lvl up only by questing, but thats only till your 40s

Well thats about it.. nothing else comes in mind right now, i ll probably update it as i get new thoughts. thanks for reading this, and if you re going to play the game enjoy it as much as you can, and dont spend money you re going to regret on the cash shop. Also, i have to wish you good luck and patience if you re aiming to go above lvl 70

wow, obscured, you were in a bad mood when you wrote this.

I've seen you rate this game much better and i know you played enough to have a fair opinion on it. Well, you pretty much trashed it with this post, lol.

Some are simple exagerations, some are simply put into a very dark light, making them grotesque. I can do that too, even if i actualy kind of like the game. (I only love Heroes III game anything else is ... for fun)

I will not take point by point and trash back, because I think you don't deserve that:) I will however advise any people that read this post in hope of getting a clear idea of what this game possibilities are to read other posts and replies made by me regarding this game. I only bring facts from it, I don't customize them. I NEVER BOUGHT ANY ITEMS WITH REAL MONEY in this game and whoa... do I have some nice molded items and TT weapons(4 weapons) simply by using Auction House. Man that's so ... "DUH!". Also... I PLAY 2-4 HOURS MAXIMUM ALMOST EVERY DAY  and i am not a hardcore bad-arse addicted player. At the moment i play mostly Demigod in my free time, if i'm not taking care of my bee trailer(now That's time consuming) - yes i love honey and sell it for nice cash.

Anyway... I would love to see a "patch" of your post in which you take a look on this game from the bright perspective too:). I'd hate to see you persevere in this darkness.

Have fun PWI players^^. Why? Because with this game... you can! .... erm... WE can!

aw aw aw... forgot (this a later edit): I kicked lvl 81 barbarian arse when i was lvl 70, as an inauguration of my acalanatha wand, in like 10 duels or so. A lvl 77 blademaster used to kick my arse previous to 70, but i also upgraded my fox skills so i froze him and nuked magic on his botox. So the game IS balanced but depends ALOT on player style and skills, HOW IT SHOULD BE. Man did i have fun with that barbarian, just outside Frostcovered Grounds FB, he was like... "you are an overpowered clas!!!" i killed him with my Snow Hare, Golem, Sawly(rulz) and Eldergoth Marksman. He thought he was invincible too:) I remember him saying: "stay here and fight like a man" Duh, im a mage class, why would i stay let him hit me!?!? Besides, all venomancers are female characters, how can i fight like a "man". It was fun, trust me, im still smiling remembering that time:)

My advice for PW is do not play it.  Massive timesink, runs very slow and clunky, mobs have no AI at all, no group content at all.

Originally posted by ZoeMcCloskey

My advice for PW is do not play it.  Massive timesink, runs very slow and clunky, mobs have no AI at all, no group content at all.

Wth are you talking about?

Group Content? You mean like Territory Wars, FBs, the monthly and weekly Races, Various Special Dungeons, the ongoing NPC Raids, and as an extra  "Zen Parties"? If you look deep you would see that PWI is based around helping people which is grouping because its the biggest way to level. If you got past the "training levels" which are 1-30 you would've experienced a few of these things. I remember you posting somewhere else that you didn't like raids which is group content, yet you complain that there is no group content when you avoid raids? Kind of pointless to complain about something you don't like you think?

Runs very slow and clunky? PW is one of those games like WoW that's known to run smooth and be easy on graphics cards. I suggest you update your computer or check and see whats hogging all your processes.

How smart do you expect mobs to be other than "Attack back when hit and use various skills" or "Aggro unto people" the AI is typical of any MMORPG. Some monsters even run away when their health gets low.

Name any MMORPG other than WoW thats not a timesink or has any elements in it thats a timesink.

hehehe, guess I hit a nerve :)

I don't like raids if they are to sit around hours to get even better gear, I am not motivated by gear other than fluff.  I do like raids if they are PvP based or group situations that are running a fun instance.  No I haven't done PW's version of PvP, thus I won't judge it good/bad.

My character on PWI is in the 60's, high enough to see much of what you listed, thanks but no thanks.

My computer is more than up to date my GTX 260 runs everything on high just fine.  PW runs very clunky, it isn't my system it is the game.  It is very slow casting, slow action, I could fall asleep from boredom playing it.

I put the post up above when I was in a bad mood, usually I am not so grrrrrrrrr, so sorry if that bothered you.  A lot of people love PW, more power to them, I wish them nothing but happiness with their chosen game.  I just got in a bad mood and posted up something stupid, still I really don't like PW.  I am sure we will all run along now and find games we do like :)