User:Ctstew/Sandbox/War Avatar System

Quick Q and A
In essence, you collect cards through various means and Store or equip the cards in the War Avatar dialog box to gain stat bonuses such as
 * Q. What is the War Avatar system?

attack, defense, stat points, spirit etc. 
 * Q. How do you collect cards?
 * A. Currently known ways of collecting cards are:
 * 1) Yellow quest chain "Deja Vu" that starts with General Summer (521 629 in Archosaur) after you reawaken. Follow the quest chain to receive

packs that reward you with a random grade C card. The quest will also give you packs with a chance for a grade B card. A continuation of the

quest will appear upon reawakening a second time but unfortunately it's broken at some part.
 * 1) New daily quest "Assault on Sky Owl" inside Primal World (Sky Owl Stronghold area, NPC will teleport you there, (349 469) Resistance Force

Spy) available for RB level 50+.
 * 1) New instance inside Primal World, Flowsilver Palace. Exchange rewards for packs that contain a random card. NPC is located in Kirin

Town (Primal World) at 380 467. Requires level 100+ and to be reawakened.
 * 1) New event, Sunset Valley Bloody Battle. Runs on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 19:00-20:00 server time. Requires Lvl100+ and to be reborn.

This event does not seem to be working, NPC General Helian says something along the lines of "cross server maintenance in progress". 
 * 1) Boutique item, War Avatar Treasure Box. Costs 4 gold.


 * Q. Should I bother with it?
 * A. It's optional but the cards can improve your character a lot. If you get a good set of cards your defense/attack/spirit is boosted.

You'll probably be unable to compete with other people if you neglect it. 

You don't need to reawaken in order to use the War Avatar system. Your cards will not disappear if you reawaken. However, if you don't
 * Q. Do I need to reawaken in order to use the cards?

reawaken you won't have access to free card packs from dailies/chain quest. 


 * Q. Wait, what is reawakening?

(It works for both PvP and PvE but the damage increase in PvE is less than in PvP. It's PvP oriented.) 
 * Q. What is this "Spirit" attribute you're talking about?

if Attacker Spirit > Target Spirit pvp Damage = damage * ( 1 + Attacker Spirit / 1000) / (1 + Target Spirit/ 1000)

Every spirit the attacker has gives = 0.1% damage amp Every spirit the target has = 0.1% more effective HP, at low amounts this is 0.1% damage reduction but damage reduction drops off at higher

values (the marginal effect on actual survival is constant though)

For PVE you can use the same formula but divide your spirit by 4. Mobs have 0 spirit.

War Avatar Basics
In order to access the War Avatar window open your inventory and click on the "War Avatar" tab. Once you open the window you will see the window box without any cards.

In the War Avatar window you will see six empty slots. You can equip cards on those slots, one card per slot. Also, each slot offers different bonuses.   If you put your mouse over a card you will see an expanded view of the card's stats. If the type of card says "Type Battle" therefore you should equip it on the Battle slot in the War Avatar window box. You can equip the cards in any slot you wish but you won't receive the card's full bonus if you do so. You will receive the base stats of said slot but you won't get any additional bonuses (blue adds on the cards or leveled up bonuses). Each card type should be equipped to the corresponding slot for best results if possible. (See additional notes.)
 * Destroyer slot: Physical + Magical Attack (This slot is shown in the picture highlighted) 
 * Battle slot: Physical + Magical Attack 
 * Longevity slot: Health + Physical Defense 
 * Durability slot: Health + Magical Defense 
 * Soulprime slot: Spirit 
 * Lifeprime slot: Spirit 

If you equip a card, you can un-equip it. They work like gear pieces in your inventory. <BR>

The cards
There are currently over 200 available cards to play around with. In order to check them out, open your War Avatar window and click the bottom right button "War Avatar Book". You will see pictures of all the cards with the ability to sort them by Level (C,B,A,S ect.), and Type (Destroyer, Battle, Durability ect.), and Set bonuses, and the cards you have or do not have. <BR> <BR> The cards that you have in the slots or in the "War Avatar Bag" will be highlighted and you can check the stats of cards you have by hovering over with the mouse pointer. In order to look at the cards you have in storage, open the War Avatar window and click the bottom right button labeled "War Avatar Bag". Any cards that you receive will automatically be placed in this bag. You can drag and drop cards to and from the War Avatar Bag to slots in the War Avatar window or to your inventory but the cards can not be traded or put into your account stash. <BR> <BR><BR><BR>

Card levels
Cards come in grades. The currently known grades are C, B, A, S and S+ from weakest to strongest. (It is not known if S+ cards are available

in the game yet.) The cards have a secondary level which you can level up yourself. Leveling a card up will increase its base stats (attack or defense or

spirit) but it does not affect additional bonuses (displayed in blue letters).

Leveling Cards by Devouring

In order to level up a card you will have to make the card devour another card. The devour button is at the bottom center of your War Avatar

window. Select the card you want level up by simply clicking on the card in a slot or in the War Avatar Bag. Have your War Avatar Bag open

and click the Devour button. Once you do it, your cursor will change shape. Then simply select the cards that you wish to get devoured by

clicking on them. The devoured card will disappear. You cannot feed higher level cards to lower level cards. You can also choose to make a card devour a War Avatar Box (the box that contains a random card/s). (Currently there's an issue/bug with devouring S cards. More to come.)

Bonus Sets
Some cards have a "set bonus". Just like gear, collect all cards and equip them to get the set bonus. Unfortunately all the current known

methods of acquiring cards is random so you need luck to get all the cards of one set. Check this thread for a compilation of card set

bonuses. It's generally better to opt for sets. Card sets increase the (white) stats of the cards.

Other Card Info

 * When you are looking at the stats by a mouse hover, it will display your own class in the "Current class" stat on the card regardless of

which class is using the card, even when looking at another player's cards in their inventory.


 * Cards are bound to the character. They cannot be traded or account stashed. You can't drop or trade cards either.


 * Some card stat multipliers are affected by the class using it.

Reawakening cards
Cards can be reawakened. This can be done at the War Avatar Master NPC in Kirin Town, Primal World. When a card has reached max level you can consume another (of the same type) card to reawaken your max leveled card. Just like characters, a

reawakened card will go back to level 1 but its base stats and growth will be higher. If you want to reawaken a card for the second time,

you'll have to feed it a reawakened card. A card can be reawakened two times at most. The first reawakening will offer 130% of base stats and the second will offer 160% of base

stats.

Card Leadership
Each character starts with 10 base Leadership. Read Asterelle's post to know more about Leadership and how it affects card usage.

In general, the cards have a set amount of leadership required in order to be equipped. For example if you equip six C cards that all

require "Leadership 1" you will have to use 6 points out of 10 from your Leadership to equip them.

Higher grade cards will typically require higher leadership. The amount of leadership is not grade exclusive though and it may vary among

cards of the same grade and same type. The minimum leadership a card can have is 1 and the maximum leadership a card can have is 3. More

notes here.

Overall, the better cards you get, the more leadership you'll need so you'll have to eventually increase your leadership. To do this, you'll

have to buy War Avatar Catalysts from the boutique (currently the only way of acquiring them) and talk to the War Avatar Master NPC in

Kirin Town, Primal World.

Avatar Catalysts


 * The amount of Catalysts required to increase leadership depends on the current amount of your leadership.


 * Price of 1 Catalysts in the boutique is currently 40 silver (6-7-2014)


 * You need 10 (10 Catalysts = 4 Gold), to increase leadership to 11, you need 20 to increase it to 12, you need 30 to increase it to 13 and

so on.

The maximum amount of Leadership and how much leadership is on the card is indicated by (??/??) on the top left corner of the War Avatar

window.

C cards require 1 leadership. B cards require 1 or 2 leadership A cards require 1, 2, or 3 leadership S cards require 2 or 3 leadership


 * With regard to leadership, I found also that the same card can have random leadership... for example (specifically what I have in my

character's bag) Hauntery Queen, can have 1 leadership (I have 1 of these) or 2 leadership (I have 2 of these).


 * If I had to guess, based on everything I have read


 * C = 1 leadership.
 * B = 1 or 2 leadership (with a greater % chance to have 2)
 * A = 1, 2 or even 3 leadership (with a greater % chance to have 2 or 3)
 * S = 2 or 3 leadership (with a greater % chance to have 3)

You start off being able to do 10 max but you need to increase the max with catalyst if you get lots of S/A cards. 10 catalyst increases

leadership by 1 and I think the cost goes up from there.

Catalyst are also used to make the premium B~S card packs which are better than the ones bought from boutique. 10 catalyst (4 gold) + 10 PW

Flowsilver Coin (from new instance) = 1 B~S card pack. The B~S pack is roughly twice as good as the C~S pack.

C~S: http://www.pwdatabase.com/cn/items/42203 S 1.04% A 3.50% B 33.84% C 61.38%

The pack you make with Flowsilver is this one: B~S: http://www.pwdatabase.com/cn/items/42202 S 2.08% A 6.30% B 92.16% C 0.00%

The Nuema
If you open your War Avatar window you will notice on the left side a thing that is called "Nuema". <BR> The Nuema grants you additional bonuses. Nuema is not affected by the card, as far as we know, but each of the 6 different card slots will offer a different kinds of Nuema skill boost.

<BR> Nuema bonuses of attack, HP, defence and spirit are class based.
 * Destroyer slot: Physical + Magical Attack Nuema
 * Battle slot: Physical + Magical Attack Nuema
 * Longevity slot: Health + Physical Defense Nuema
 * Durability slot: Health + Magical Defense Nuema
 * Soulprime slot: Spirit Nuema
 * Lifeprime slot: Spirit Nuema

Nuema levels are called "Tiers". There are currently 5 Nuema Tiers and each one of them has a level requirement.

<BR> Each Nuema Tier will increase the bonus as seen here. In order to level up your Nuema Tier you will have to farm Nuema orbs.
 * Tier 1 - Lvl 1
 * Tier 2 - Lvl 20 (Red-Essence)
 * Tier 3 - Lvl 45 (Blue-Essence)
 * Tier 4 - Lvl 60
 * Tier 5 - Lvl 80

Nuema Orbs
You can absorb only up to 20 orbs per week. The limit resets every Friday-night/Saturday-morning (in other words Friday night at midnight server time). Access the Nuema Listing window to check your orb limit (at the top). Every day the server will select random bosses that will drop Nuema orbs. Open your War Avatar window and select the bottom right button Nuema Listings to access this window.

Each boss will drop an Origin Orb with a chance to drop an Essence Orb. However, it's not exactly a drop. Once you kill the boss a peculiar spirit will appear. Click on the spirit to select it and absorb the orb. The orb will automatically go into your inventory and it's bound.

Right click the orb and your Nuema will automatically receive EXP. Essence Orbs give triple the EXP of Origin Orbs. If you use high tier orbs on a low tier Nuema, the EXP will be nerfed (by half according to the PWI news). Each orb has a Nuema type but the orbs dropped are a random type therefore you cannot choose which Nuema to level up. Additionally you can only get one orb per boss kill so your best bet is to solo the bosses. If you kill a boss in a squad and all the squad members attempt to absorb the spirit for the orb, only one single member will receive the orb randomly.

A good strategy to farm Nuema for low level tiers (1,2 or 3), is to wait the day that Qingzi or a FB19 shows up on the nuema listing and spam the instance (use an alt to reset). Like wise, for example quick Nuema runs in FB51 for Fushma or Zimo in FB59 for other Nuema tiers (3 & 4).

BOSSES for Nuema

 * Thromb the Mighty - FB19 (Human), Fire Crag Grotto
 * Rend Razorjaw - FB19 (Untamed), Den of Rabid Wolves
 * Poison Tail Occultist - FB19 (Elven), Cave of the Vicious <BR>


 * Qingzi - FB29, Secret Passage <BR>


 * Farren Sereneti - BH39, Gate of Delirium
 * Calcid of the Flame - BH39, Gate of Delirium
 * Hercule Trioc - BH39, Gate of Delirium <BR>


 * Fushma - FB51, Secret Frostcover Grounds (Lv50)
 * Ranker - FB51, Secret Frostcover Grounds (Lv50)
 * Myriadtail Wyvern - FB51, Secret Frostcover Grounds (Lv50) <BR>


 * Zimo - FB59, Valley of Disaster
 * Qianji - FB59, Valley of Disaster
 * Raving Drake Brute - FB59, Valley of Disaster
 * Ofotis - FB59, Valley of Disaster
 * Gluttonix - FB59, Valley of Disaster <BR>


 * Resentful Pyrosteosis - FB69, Wrathgate
 * Damned Garunob - FB69, Wrathgate
 * Cenequus Polearm - FB69, Wraithgate <BR>

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 * Stygean Quartermaster - FB79, Hallucinatory Trench
 * Linus, the Woeful - FB79, Hallucinatory Trench
 * Brigand Transient - FB79, Hallucinatory Trench

Additional things to know
Inside Primal World, at Kirin Town you will find the War Avatar master. This NPC has 3 unique gifts for you.

If you collect 10 Level C cards, talk to the NPC to receive a free Level B card. The cards will not be consumed but they are required in order to

receive the free card. Likewise, you if you have 10 Level B cards you can receive a free Level A card. If you have 10 Level A cards you can receive a

free Level S card. This is a one-time only quest. According to this NPC you can also turn in an S grade card and transform it into an War Avatar Artifact that will mature into an Emperor Soul.

Could this be the way to make S+ cards?

Nuema Explaination

 * Nuema is an extra stat bonus mechanic inside the War Avatar system. Each card slot category has Nuema Tiers attached to it. As you level up your Nuema Tiers, you will gain stat bonuses that depend on the card slot category that Nuema Tier is for. The stat bonuses are not affected by the cards in the category itself, and generally can be seen as a type of end-game maximization to the War Avatar system. <BR>(PWI’s Explanation)<BR>

How do I get it / level it up?


 * Everyday the server will randomly select a list of bosses who drop Nuema Origin Orbs, which when used award Nuema experience for a specific War Avatar category. The orbs are named corresponding to the category they award Nuema experience for, and they cannot be dropped, traded, or account stashed. <BR>(PWI’s Explanation)<BR>


 * In addition to the Origin Orbs, monsters chosen for that day also have a chance at dropping Nuema Essence Orbs. They are the same as Origin Orbs in every way except that they give triple the amount of Nuema Experience. They are quite rare, so make sure to save yours for the right time! <BR>(PWI’s Explanation)<BR>


 * To collect a Neuma Origin Orb, you will need to kill a Boss on the Nuema Listings Window. Once it dies, it will leave behind a spirit that when absorbed, awards an orb. Up to 10 people can be attempting to absorb a Nuema Origin Orb from this spirit, but only one will be successful. <BR>(PWI’s Explanation)<BR>


 * Additionally, when more than one player is attempting to collect an orb, the channeling time is randomized between 10 to 20 seconds. It may be best if your team decides at the beginning who will get the orb, otherwise the winner will be the lucky one. <BR>(PWI’s Explanation)<BR>

Tools
War Avatar Calculator

Associated Pages
Primal World

Credits
Preview: War Avatar Part 2 - Nuema

War Avatar System source

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