Academy
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The Guardian System is a system for existing high level players (guardian) to help beginners (apprentice). Guardians can pass on their gaming experiences to the beginners (apprentice) so the beginners can get better insight to the game. Under the guardian system, beginners (apprentice) will be able to adapt themselves to the gaming environment more easily, and the guardian who has made the contribution will be honored, and awarded.
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Establishing an Academy
An academy can contain a maximum of 8 members. The person who established the academy becomes the 'guardian'.
- Guardian - A 60+ level player who created the academy
- Guardian assistants - Players between 40-59 level. Maximum: 2 players
- Apprentices - Players between 1-39 level. Maximum: 5 players
You can establish an academy by talking to the storage NPC located in each town.
- Constantinople: Sikeulro
- Donwhang: Irina / Paedo
- Hotan: Auisan
- Jangan: Sansan / Wangu
- Samarkand: Saesa
Requirements and restrictions:
- level 60 or higher in order to establish an academy
- 100,000 gold is required to establish an academy
- Guardian cannot establish more than 1 academy
- maximum of 5 apprentices (below level 39)
- maximum of 2 guardian assistants (between level 40~59)
Disbandment
Only the guardian can disband the academy and disbandment is possible after 7 days of establishment. Every member of the academy will be seceded automatically when the academy is disbanded. There is no secede penalty for apprentices. Cumulated Buff, Accumulated Buff, Academy Chat Window and Honor Rank will disappear. You can not reestablish an academy for 7 days after the disbanding and honor rank and points will be renewed.
Academy Registration
Academy registration can be done by using academy UI (hotkey L) and the Guardian Matching System. You must be at least level 60 in order to be able to start an academy and you are not allowed to have more than one academy. Once you register to an academy, you will see the names of your guardian and apprentices in the academy UI (hotkey L. Guardians and apprentices are indicated as red dots on the map. An academy chat window also will appear. This can be moved and made transparent using the slider bar in the upper right corner.
Titles are given to guardians and apprentices according to level.
- 01-10: Junior apprentices
- 11-20: Apprentices
- 21-30: Intermediate apprentices
- 31-39: Senior apprentices
- 40-49: Junior guardians
- 50-59: Intermediate guardians
TIP: Only apprentices under lvl 31 will give a guardian honor points at graduation!!!
Joining an Academy
Only the guardian can invite/recruit members into the academy. In the academy window (L by default) there are 2 buttons: Invite and Matching. By pressing the "Matching" button, the guardian matching window will appear. If you wish to search for members for your academy, press the "Registration" button. A window will then appear and you will be asked for the type of members, Apprentices or Guardian Assistants, you need and also for a title for you academy that will show in the guardian matching window.
If a player is interested in joining your academy, his request will be sent to you and you can decide if you want to add him or not.
Academy Buffs
Cumulated Buff
When an apprentice starts hunting, a cumulated buff icon will appear on the top left corner of the screen. A fixed rate of experience points through hunting will be cumulated, which means, you get a point for every mob you kill. When a cumulated buff has passed 24 hours, more points will not be added. Points will be cumulated again after being passed to your Guardian. After 1 hour has passed since the cumulated buff has been restarted, you can transfer its points again. The academy guardian must be logged in for the transfer to take place. To transfer the points, you left-click on the cumulated buff icon.
Accumulated Buff
When an apprentice transfers points to the guardian, both get an accumulated buff. After the transfer, an accumulated buff icon will appear. This accumulated buff will contain 80% of the points transfered for the apprentice. The other 20% is transfered to the guardian and an accumulated buff icon will appear. Guardian can receive an accumulate buff from all of his apprentices and his buff will contain all the points he has recieved. Once accumulate buff is activated, 10 points are taken out per monster and an additional 10% experience points are gained. The accumulate buff will disappear when you use all of the accumulate buff points.
Leaving an Academy
There are several ways to leave an Academy.
Graduation
Apprentices can graduate from the academy once the character reaches level 40 (Guardian Assistants graduate at level 60), through the academy UI (hotkey L). The graduate button only becomes visible next to the apprentice's name in the academy UI when a character reaches the graduation level. To graduate, click the graduate button. Guardian evaluation window will pop up at this time.
When the graduate button is clicked on, an evaluation window will pop up for the apprentice to evaluate the guardian (if it is canceled, or if the window is closed, then 'satisfied' will be the default). Cumulated buff, accumulated buff, and Academy chat window will all disappear when the apprentice graduates. The apprentices will automatically be seceded from the academy once graduated, and no penalty will be given. Also, he/she will receive 50% of the experience points of level 40 (2,000,000 experience points) as a reward.
As an award for the apprentice's graduation, guardians can receive honor points and evaluation points. Special items can be purchased with honor points. Guardian Assistants will receive 10% of guardian's honor points when an apprentice within the same academy graduates.
Exceptions:
- Guardians will be awarded honor points only if the registration level of the apprentice was below level 30.
- If the registration level of the apprentice was above level 31, then the guardian 's graduation count only will increase.
- Guardian Assistant will not be recognized as an academy graduate.
- If an apprentice reaches Level 41 without pressing the graduate button, the guardian can force graduation by Guardian UI. (Graduate button is activated on Guardian UI) After forced graduation, guardian and guardian assistant will receive award but apprentice will not.
Quitting before Graduation
An apprentice or a guardian assistant can only leave the academy after 24 hours have passed since joining. To leave an Academy, a player presses the "Leave" button that is beside his name in the academy window. During the time penalty lasts, Guardian Assistants or Apprentices are not allowed to rejoin either the same nor any other academy.
The penalties for leaving an academy are:
- For guardian assistants: 72 hours (3 days) time penalty and loss of 10 honor points.
- For apprentices: 24 hours time penalty.
Guardian Banishment
A guardian can banish an apprentice 24 hours after he joins the academy. The Guardian will get a penalty of not being able to join any apprentices for 24 hours after banishing. There is no penalty for banishing a guardian assistant. You cannot banish any apprentices while your academy is registered in the matching system.
Honor System
As an award for the apprentice's graduation, guardians can receive evaluation points. Honor Grade is rewarded for 1st~50th rank on recent evaluation points and time and rank information of 1st~50th can be checked from the storage NPC. Ranks will be reviewed every day at 00:00, server standard time and in case of the same points, rank will be decided by earliest collected points. Additional experience points are awarded by renewed honor grade. You must receive minimum of 10 points to be ranked on honor rank and even if you were ranked on honor rank before, you will be eliminated from the rank if you have less than 10 points because of a negative evaluation. Additional experience point award is displayed as buff icon and will stack with similar item and skill.
Honor Points
Honor points are accumulated in calculation of apprentice's first joined level. (For example, apprentice who graduated at Level 40 joins an academy of Level 5, then honor points will be 35. (40 - 5 = 35), You can check the honor points at the character window by clicking C. If you have an academy, then honor points will be displayed but if you are not in an academy, then "not joined" will be displayed. Guardians can purchase honor items with accumulated honor points through the storage NPC. Honor points will be deducted when purchase occurs.
Honor Buffs
The 50 guardians that are included in the honor rank gain honor buffs according to their ranking. One or more different types of honor buffs can be active at the same time.
| Honor Buffs | |||
| Icon | Name | Description/Function | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Honor Buff (King) | Chance of obtaining berserk gage 20% increase | 1 - 5 |
| Honor Buff (Gold) | Physical & magical damage 5% absorption
Physical & magical damage 5% increase | 1 - 15 |
| Honor Buff (Silver) | Moving speed 20% increase | 1 - 30 |
| Honor Buff (Bronze) | Attack rating 10% increase | 1 - 50 |
Honor items
Only guardians can purchase honor items and can purchase only when you have enough honor points and gold at the same time. Honor items can not be destroyed, traded, dropped, or exchanged (selling to NPC is permitted). Equipment items have 'Available Number of Repair (magic option)' on them, and when this number reaches 0 one will not be able to repair the item any more. The 'Available Number of Repair' can be increased through the use of 'Magic Stone of Honor' purchased at the storage NPC.
| Honor Weapons | ||||||
| d8 SOS | d8 SOM | d8 SOSUN | d9 SOS | d9 SOM | d9 SOSUN | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level | 62 | 66 | 70 | 74 | 78 | 83 |
| Gold | 2.7m | 3.6m | 4.6m | 5.8m | 7.6m | 9.5m |
| Honor points | 1000 | 1500 | 2500 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 |
| Honor stone | 10 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
